YOUR LIFE WITH A SENSUAL LIBERATION RETREAT
Together with a selected group of conscious placeholders, who accompany you in this journey to oneness, you will be placed in tantric settings in the most picturesque locations.
The world's most misunderstood spiritual tradition — from Sanskrit roots and Kundalini awakening to Kashmir Shaivism, sacred sexuality, and the living tantric lineages.
We guide you through transformative experiences that awaken your authentic self. Through carefully crafted tantric practices, breathwork, and conscious connection, you'll discover new dimensions of presence, pleasure, and personal power in sacred settings around the world.
At forbidden yoga, we replaced the fundamental element of the Freudian psychoanalytic setting, the couch, with your nude body.
Instead of a counseling room, we place each client into a dream-scape setting to facilitate their journey to total transformation.
Accompanied by 1 to 12 (or more) placeholders actors, the client dives into ancient tantric practices, rituals and games.
Invest in yourself now with a Sensual Liberation Retreat (SLR),
Awaken the magic of your life.
A unique opportunity to open yourself up to a vortex of infinite creativity and daring selfexpression.
* TANTRA MASTER
& LINEAGE HOLDER
GUARDIAN OF VANISHING LEFT-HANDED TANTRIC HERITAGE
Michael Wogenburg carries a rare Indian Shakta tantric lineage - one of the few recognized Western masters preserving authentic left-handed traditions nearly lost to history. Over 25 years, he has reconstructed extinct consciousness practices that scholars cannot trace. His bespoke retreats in Bali and Nosara Costa Rica serve high-net-worth individuals from New York, Los Angeles, and beyond seeking transformational mastery beyond conventional spirituality: sexual energy work, trauma dissolution, and high-performance consciousness training. Complete privacy. Uncompromising depth. Available for exclusive private instruction worldwide.
A carefully selected group of conscious placeholders will accompany you in the daily practices and rituals
Our team carefully profiles you for a month to provide you with the most suited and unique setting for your personalized retreat
Based on your profile we carefully choose the most beautiful and spiritually powerful location for your one of a kind experience: Bali, Nosara, Mongolia, and other sacred destinations worldwide
An initiation to transformative tantric techniques and night rituals you have never heard of or experienced before
Forbidden Yoga offers private luxury tantra retreats designed for individuals and couples seeking genuine spiritual transformation. Unlike commercial tantra workshops, every Forbidden Yoga experience is fully bespoke — crafted around your unique needs after a month-long profiling process, and led by Michael Wogenburg, one of the few recognized Western lineage holders in authentic Indian left-handed Shakta Tantra (Vamachara).
Our tantra retreats integrate ancient practices that have been transmitted through unbroken guru-disciple lineages for over a thousand years: Kundalini yoga, tantric meditation, pranayama breathwork, mantra recitation, yantra visualization, and sacred embodiment rituals. These are not the diluted "neo-tantra" techniques found at mainstream wellness resorts. This is the real tradition — rooted in the Kashmir Shaivism of Abhinavagupta, the Shakta worship of the Mahavidyas, and the living oral transmissions of the Andhakaara path.
Every retreat is held in a carefully selected private location — from Bali beachfront villas and Costa Rica jungle sanctuaries to Mongolia's vast steppes and urban penthouses in world capitals. We never run group retreats. Each experience is a one-on-one or couples-only intensive, with handpicked conscious practitioners who accompany the journey when appropriate.
Our approach to tantric healing addresses the whole person: body, energy, emotions, and consciousness. For couples, we specialize in relationship therapy that goes far beyond talk therapy — working directly with the energetic and somatic patterns that create disconnection, through practices like partner breathwork, tantric touch, and sacred sexuality. For individuals, we offer profound Kundalini awakening work, sexual energy mastery, shadow integration, and consciousness expansion practices drawn from both Hindu and Buddhist tantric lineages.
The name "Forbidden Yoga" reflects a core truth about authentic Tantra: it was always a forbidden, transgressive tradition. The real tantric practices were never meant for the masses. They were guarded by initiatory lineages, transmitted mouth-to-ear, practiced in cremation grounds and secret circles. Our work honors this tradition while making it accessible to serious seekers who are ready for genuine transformation.
We draw from multiple streams of tantric knowledge: the ten Mahavidyas of Shakta worship — Kali, Tara, Tripura Sundari, and the other great wisdom goddesses; the Chakra system as a living map of consciousness, not the simplified seven-chakra model popular in Western yoga; the practices of Kundalini and sexual energy transmutation; and the non-dual philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism that recognizes all of reality — including desire, pleasure, and the body itself — as expressions of divine consciousness.
Our clients include high-net-worth individuals, executives, public figures, and couples who require total confidentiality. Every aspect of a Forbidden Yoga retreat is designed around absolute discretion: private villas, NDAs when requested, no social media documentation, and direct communication exclusively through secure channels. Your transformation is your own. Learn what to expect when booking a Forbidden Yoga experience.
Bali · Costa Rica · Mongolia · New York · São Paulo · Berlin · and wherever your journey takes you
