Integrating Body, Mind, & Sex
The Institute is an anti-racist organization committed to the liberation of humanity through the healing and integration of body, mind, spirit, and sexuality. We are passionate about dismantling internalized racial oppression within ourselves and our communities through the sacred medicine of Tibetan 5 Element Tantra and The 4 Pillars of Healing.
Discover the ancient wisdom of the 5 elements and reclaim your birthright to bliss, equanimity, openness, clarity, and joy with our FREE Intro to Tibetan 5 Element Tantra 👇🏽
Tantra is a heart-to-heart transmission!
"Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion." ~ bell hooks
Our ancestors show us that healing is not something we do alone. True, authentic, sustainable healing and transformation happen when we are seen, held, and supported in community.
The path of Tibetan 5 Element Tantra is one of love and remembrance....Remembering our place in the web of life through relationship—with ourselves, each other, our ancestors, and the Earth.Â
Tibetan 5 Element Tantra provides the methods and tools for restoration of right relationship—to self, body, ancestors, community, and Earth.
Tantra offers the transmission. Practice creates the embodiment. Community makes the transformation sustainable.
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Tantra Videos
Bring the wisdom of Authentic Tantra® into your daily life. Our online programs offer a practical path for embodying the teachings of Tibetan Five Element Tantra through Meditation, Movement, Connection, and Pleasure as Medicine—helping you remember your wholeness, deepen your relationships, and awaken the healing wisdom of your body.
Tantra Retreats
Our Tantra Immersion Retreats invite you into a living relationship with the natural world, where the jungle, the ocean and the elements become teachers in your healing journey. Rooted in the Four Pillars of Healing-meditation, movement, connection, and pleasure-these retreats offer a deeply embodied experience of tantra as a heart-to-heart transmission. Learn more about our public and private Tantra Immersion Retreats.
AASECT CED Courses
Support your professional growth with continuing education that honors the inseparable relationship between sexuality, embodiment, and spiritual well-being. Our AASECT-approved courses integrate Authentic Tantra®, Tibetan Five Element Tantra, and Holistic Sexology to help practitioners cultivate more compassionate, inclusive, and embodied approaches to healing through a trauma-informed and anti-racist lens.
Tantra Mentorship
Our Tantra Mentorship Programs are designed as supportive containers where healing unfolds through community, guided practice, and the medicine of genuine connection. Rooted in Tibetan 5 Element Tantra and The Four Pillars of Healing, you'll deepen your relationship with your elemental nature, ancestral wisdom, and the innate intelligence of your body—awakening greater freedom, intimacy, and wholeness. Individual and group mentorship programs are available
A Path of Remembrance...
Tantra teaches us that our path of healing and liberation is not about adding skills, methods, and techniques in hopes of becoming some new and improved version of ourselves.
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The path of authentic, lineage-based Tantra is about dissolving the limiting beliefs that have kept us disconnected, and reclaiming the wholeness of who we have always been.
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Through Tibetan Five Element Tantra and the Four Pillars of Healing—movement, meditation, connection, and pleasure as medicine—we remember our wholeness, embody our truth, and return to love.
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"The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression." ~ bell hooks
Restoring Embodied Wisdom with The 4 Pillars of HealingÂ
MEDITATION
Cultivates inner peace, presence, and POWER.
MOVEMENT
Awakens the body's innate intelligence.
CONNECTION
Restores our relationship to life.
PLEASURE
Activates our birthright to joy, vitality, and aliveness.
Beneath the layers of trauma, shame, internalized oppression, and cultural conditioning lives your essential nature—whole, wise, ancient, and deeply connected to all of life. The practices of Tibetan Five Element Tantra and The Four Pillars of Healing—Meditation, Movement, Connection, and Pleasure as Medicine—dissolve the internal barriers that keep us from experiencing our innate wholeness and union with ALL OF LIFE.
In the Tibetan tantric tradition, spiritual practice is undertaken not only for our own liberation, but for the benefit of all beings. Because all of life is interconnected, as we awaken to our own true nature, we naturally become more present, compassionate, and capable of contributing to the healing and well-being of our families, our communities, and our planet.
Tibetan Five Element Tantra honors this timeless intention while embracing sexuality as a sacred expression of our life force. Rather than separating sexuality from spirituality, we recognize them as inseparable aspects of our humanity. Sexual energy is not something to suppress or control—it is a creative, healing force that, when approached with mindfulness, integrity, and love, becomes a powerful catalyst for transformation.
The wisdom of the Five Elements teaches us that we are not separate from nature but expressions of it. As we cultivate balance within Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space, we restore harmony within ourselves. Through embodied practice and spiritual devotion, we remember our place in the web of life and reclaim pleasure, connection, and love as pathways to healing and collective liberation.
Begin your journey of healing and liberation with our FREE Introduction to Tibetan 5 Element Tantra Video Course 👇🏽
WE ARE....
TRAUMA-INFORMED
We approach Tantra with the understanding that “the body is Buddha”, and that all knowledge, wisdom, and power are contained within the human form. The tantric methods we offer work directly with the autonomic nervous system to address, heal and repair the root causes of suffering while restoring the inherent wisdom of the body.
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AN ANTI-RACIST ORGANIZATION
Tantra was created by the People of the Global Majority. We are committed to creating curricula, programs, and policies that reflect our deeply held values of anti-racism and social justice.
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LINEAGE-BASED, BACKED BY SCIENCE
True, authentic tantric teachings will result in better health and wellness of body, mind, spirit, AND sex. Healthy, balanced sexual expression is an integral aspect of being a healthy, whole, and liberated human being!
The Institute of Holistic Sexology is an anti-racist organization committed to the liberation of human consciousness as it relates to our bodies, our sexuality, and our relationship to each other and the environment.
We are dedicated to providing training and resources that help humanity reconnect with their sexuality as a vibrant, precious, and vital resource for healing, personal growth, and spiritual evolution.
Stories of Transformation...
For centuries, the wisdom of Tantra has been passed from heart to heart, life to life, through authentic relationship and shared practice.
The stories below are more than testimonials. They are reflections of what becomes possible when people gather in community, reconnect with the wisdom of their bodies, and embrace healing as a path of love, embodiment, and liberation.
We are honored to share their voices with you.
I experienced immense growth, healing and transformation
"I would rate my experience as a student with the Institute of Authentic Tantra Education as an A++! During my 2 years as a student I experienced immense growth, healing and transformation by applying these ancient technologies to myself. As I studied to become a practitioner, I gained an immense deepening of the practices thanks to a cadre of talented, dedicated, compassionate and ethical teachers. I’ll forever be grateful to the Institute for providing access to these potent teachings and sharing them with such immense love and care. I feel inspired and prepared to do the same as a Practitioner!"
Stacie Steinbock
Certified Authentic Tantra Practitioner
You are literally being guided by the elements themselves
"When I returned to the United States from Costa Rica, post Graduation, the border control cameras at customs didn’t (couldn’t) recognize me… That’s how powerful this medicine is, it changes you at a cellular level! These practices take you by the hand, you are literally being guided by the elements themselves, trusting and resting into their medicine. This incredibly magical medicine encourages you to allow your OWN wisdom to arise and inform you… Tibetan Buddhist Five Element Tantra is a pathway (brightly lit) back to your infinite self.♾️"
Piper Crawford
Certified Authentic Tantra Practitioner
It wasn't easy, but it was such a valuable experience.
"I think I got out of the superficial life that stayed only in my head and started a sensuous life that I experienced directly with my body through the Authentic Tantra program. It wasn't easy, but it was such a valuable experience. I'm looking forward to a daily life full of the sense of being alive."
Sehee Lee
Certified Authentic Tantra Practitioner
I would recommend Authentic Tantra to anybody, this is a deeper healing!
"For anyone that wants to dig deeper and really become fully and truly embodied and heal you gotta go through this course because it really is medicine!"
Tyomi Morgan
Certified Authentic Tantra Practitioner
I wake up each day feeling happy, joyous, and free
"It is no exaggeration to say that my training at IATE has not only healed me but has also empowered me to guide others in their healing journeys with authenticity and compassion. Today, my life is filled with a deep sense of gratitude and vitality. Through my work as a Tibetan Five Element Tantra Practitioner, I get to teach others the self-healing practices that have worked so beautifully in my own life. I wake up each day feeling happy, joyous, and free—alive with the knowledge that this path of healing is available to everyone willing to take it. IATE gave me not only the tools for healing but also the confidence to share these teachings with others, helping them find liberation and fulfillment."
Celeste Whittaker
Certified Authentic Tantra Practitioner
This is a bliss-filled way of life that transforms you!
“When I think about a transformative sexually healing and educational experience rooted in Spirit/Divine unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, I think about my beloved Authentic Tantra family. This is more than a program, this is a bliss-filled way of life that transforms you/me/we/us and offers healing for a lifetime! Trust the process and take the leap, your best life will catch you!”
Ahmane’ Glover
Certified Authentic Tantra Practitioner
These teachings have influenced my life in a really positive and beautiful way.
"I feel more deeply connected to myself, to spirit and my sexuality. I feel like my ability to give has expanded exponentially. I am so excited for the rest of this journey...I feel like I've just begun."
Rosie Bitts
Certified Authentic Tantra Practitioner
I am so grateful to be apart of IATE!
"The space created in this program for inclusivity and safety for me to unpack and heal has been the medicine my soul needed to take my sexual energy to the next level of empowerment. The retreat was a game-changer in teaching me to embody the practice of Authentic Tantra. I am excited and honored to share this practice."
Baljit Rayat
Authentic Tantra Certification Student
Life changing and life affirming!
“IATE and the Authentic Tantra® Healing modality have been life changing and life affirming for me. Phase 1 of the training gave me the Tools, Support, and Resources to Authentically become my own healer. Phase 2 of the program gave me the Confidence, Methodology, and Guidance to become a Practitioner and know that I am able to integrally support my clients along their own Health and Wellness journey."
Ceborah Smith
Authentic Tantra Certification Student
I knew this was the training I was meant to pursue...
“I was introduced to Devi and IATE early 2020 and I was absolutely drawn to her deeply embodied wisdom and passion about sexual healing and Tantra. I had been searching for a lineage-based Tantra tradition for over two years and upon meeting with Devi for entering Phase 1 I knew this was the training I was meant to pursue. Diving into the modality of Authentic Tantra helped initiate my process of moving out of the wounded healer archetype and drop deeply into the wisdom of my body after experiencing dissociation for most of my life."
Alexandra Paretta
Certified Authentic Tantra Practitioner
The most extraordinary experience of my life.
"The wisdom and growth this program gifts to you is not only life changing, but is forever. I have learned to be more present, aware, and empowered throughout life, from the simplest day-to-day activities to the deepest sexual and emotional experiences with both myself and others."
Hailey Fromkin
Certified Authentic Tantra Practitioner
This medicine works!
“The extensive training is absolutely rewarding and detailed with such clarity and understanding. An understanding of being able to incorporate powerful life changing practices into my own life and then take this modality and share with others so they have a chance of honoring themselves with love, awareness, and the ability to feel empowered by their Sexuality and embrace it."
Lucia Vasquez
Certified Authentic Tantra Practitioner
Far more than I could have ever imagined
“On this journey, I have found peace, support, family, friendship, sisterhood, mentorship, health, and a much deeper purpose. I wish I could rewind and do all 6 days of retreat over again because I have never experienced anything like what I experienced during our embodiment retreat in any other program. My heart is so full and open. What a medicine."
Clarissa Vann
Authentic Tantra Certification Student
I looked at a lot of different Tantra programs...
In this program from Day One I felt connected to my primary instructor and I felt so connected to each and every individiual in the group sessions. I don't think that I have ever received an education and a feeling of family from any other program that I've ever tried.
PollyAnna Burton
Certified Authentic Tantra Practitioner
Simply put, this program works!
“It healed somatic wounds. It resolved lifelong chronic pain. It helped me communicate and connect more deeply in my intimate relationship with my girlfriend. I learned what it means to connect to my own sexuality in order to engage more deeply with others. I was able to implement and expand the pleasures in my own life including and beyond the bedroom. Through the ancient practice of semen retention I gained more energy, focus, and drive. Work is better! And my play life is AWESOME!"
Kenny Beaupre
Certified Authentic Tantra Practitioner
Integrating Body,

Mind, Spirit & Sex
"To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination."~ bell hooks
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