Your facilitator
Founder, India Tantra Festival
Sunday · August 23 · Jamaica Plain, MA
A sacred circle of heart, voice & divine flow.
Reserve your seat $35 early bird · $45 at the door
Something in you already knows how to do this. Not the technique — the willingness. To sit in a circle of people you have not met, hold a warm cup in both hands, and let your voice out of the place where you keep it.
Cacao does not take you anywhere. It brings you back. The heart opens a few degrees, the armor loosens, and what has been waiting underneath gets a few hours of air. We drink together first. Then we sing. Then we let the body move the way it has been asking to move. Then we sit with what came, and we bless the ones who came before us.
You do not need experience. You do not need a partner. You do not need to be able to sing, or dance, or sit still. Come as you are, in white if you have it, and let the evening do its work.
— Luba
A heart-opening offering shared together before the rest of the evening begins. Prepared and served as medicine, not as a drink.
Live music and chant — the voice given back its place as a sacred instrument. No skill required, and no one is listening for wrong notes.
Simple, guided practice to bring the breath and the body into the same room — the ground everything else in the evening stands on.
An opening of the senses. Taste, touch, scent and sound woken one at a time, until the world comes back in at full volume.
Movement open to every body and every level. Beauty you become part of, rather than something you watch.
Words from the great lovers and mystics, read aloud into a room that has already been opened — and heard differently because of it.
A closing rite for the lines you carry — honouring what came before you, and what you hand forward.
White is the colour of the circle. Wear something comfortable enough to sit on the floor in and to move in freely.
Cacao lands best on a light stomach. Eat something small a few hours before, and bring water.
No partner and no experience needed. Everything is invitational — you choose your own level of participation, always.
Luba is the founder of the India Tantra Festival and the Galiana Meditation Retreat in New Lebanon, NY — an internationally known tantra teacher, lecturer and recognized expert on enlightened intimacy and tantric sensuality. She has led more than 350 in-person events and ceremonies, and taught thousands of students to come into their own highest, most ecstatic potential.
I am here to help restore the ability to feel and to love — to rejuvenate, to heal, to shift into a whole new dimension of possibilities. Life is sacred. Every moment of it is priceless.
She is the author of Anyone Can Meditate and Healing the Broken Heart, and has studied within Raja Yoga, Ipsalu Tantra Kriya Yoga, Shanti Tantra Yoga, Amazonian Shamanism and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, at the Osho Ashram in India and the Paititi Institute in Peru.
"The observer is the observed. Everything is connected, and everything is one."
— Saraswati (Luba Evans), Tantric Manifesto
"Sacred is about the fire in the heart, and the smoke that is going up to the gods. Once the nothingness becomes less scary, the living immediately become more ecstatic."
"I loved the energy, I loved the people. Everyone was really nice, and the whole time I had a smile on my face."
— Eric"I feel really safe coming into this space. We hold people in a way where they can really be themselves — that's the most sacred way to be."
— Ella"Luba is an amazing teacher. She takes you on a journey, with great exercises and insights along the way. There isn't anything like it."
— Michelle L."I enjoyed the dancing, the music, and the connection with people was exciting. I really recommend you come."
— Carla Tara"Everyone here was really open and friendly. It was really enlightening — first time at an event like this, and I had a great time."
— Daniel"Her energy is so delightful, and it opens up divinity in you."
— RaitaEarly bird $35 · $45 at the door
Space in the circle is limited.