
SAMA
Sensuous Aliveness Meditative Awareness
SAMA MEANS remembrance of source, that which cannot be forgotten, infinite space beyond understanding. This word has a wide range of translations: it refers to vastness, calmness, melody, all expressions of art, Sufi whirling, gathering pleasure, floating with life...
SAMA offers online & residential presentations for individuals, couples and groups.

SAMA Solo
online
If you are longing to... * Deepen connection with your inner guidance * Discover how to use your own resources in creative and effective ways * Develop your capacity to integrate physical, emotional and energetic levels in fluidity * Integrate meaningful experiences and insights, that were however unsustainable in your daily life * Remember true spontaneity that arises from sensitivity, presence, and totality * Further gain sustainable, practical, and intuitive skills, at a personal and professional level Then, SAMA SOLO IS FOR YOU... A long term unfolding, that will bring out many inner jewels and discoveries, enhancing your creative power Sessions involve open conversations centred on each weekly theme, deep inquiry, and practices to support the unfolding of sensuous aliveness grounded in meditative awareness. SAMA SOLO offers a solid foundation for individuals who are already offering events, groups and/or retreats, and would like to further develop their own facilitation skills; as well as, to those who are interested in following up with SAMA COMMUNITY program. A series of 12 online meetings offered with a flexible schedule, completed with a 8-day residential retreat 1. INTENTION Evaluating this present moment and possibilities arising in your life. Gathering information to align the unfolding of sessions and contents to best address your present needs and potential. Where am I? 2. ESSENTIAL QUALITIES OF BEING We start with an Astrological Vedic reading of your natal chart identifying your essential qualities, potential of creative power in specific areas and how you may utilize your gifts integrating body-heart-soul.Touching the core. Recognizing your uniqueness, looking at the essential of your being in this incarnation. Who am I? 3. NOW Astrological Vedic reading of your current astral influences bringing understanding to situations and events revealed under this light. Your life as a star within the infinite sky. What is real now? 4. CREATIVE FLOW Exploring ways in which you may align your creative expression with your unique essential qualities, in easiness, depth and joy. Recognizing the strategies you use to control and contain your life force. The connection between Eros and creativity and how they are related inside your physical, emotional, mental bodies in your daily life and in your relationships. What ignites, nourishes, and maintains your creative flow? 5. EROTIC VIBRANCY Feeling deeper into the erotic body as the core manifestation of your life force. Recognizing revelations through Eros. What does Eros mean for me? What holds me back to live in blasting aliveness? 6. INTEGRITY An inquiry into what does it mean to live in deep alignment of body-heart-soul-spirit. What are my challenges and how do I find inner grounding? 7. RELATING Key points to choose and nourish relationships with discernment honoring your body-heart-soul yet open to mystery of spirit. Investigating the habits and misalignment that may have been present in your timeline and/or karmic design. Inviting love and freedom to bathe all aspects of life. What am I waiting for? 8. RELEASING Daring to open and release layers of identification that create contradiction and keep trying to maintain control over the vastness of Life. What are my strategic anchors? 9. ABBUNDANCE Inquiry into nature of abundance and fluidity in your life. 80 questions inviting self-reflection around your relationship with money and currency flow. What is abbundance? 10. OVERFLOWING Identifying areas/themes that create contraction, self-doubt, and self-judgments and inviting natural overflow. How do I waste my overflow? 11. RECEPTIVITY When the river reaches the ocean… How do I compromise to get love, appreciation, and protection? Am I ready to receive bounty? 12. PRESENCE From chaos to form. Recognizing mechanisms of survival. Connection with spirit guidance, trusting and surrendering. Retuning to source. When do I cope out? How do I nurture silence? Am I ready to live the fullness of my being without excuses? INTEGRATION Open to questions and reflections. What maintains polarization? Is it possible to avoid projections? Sessions last between 1 to 2 hours, in an open format following the themes described above, yet responding to personal and timely needs. Dates: Scheduling is individual and flexible, but appointments are set once a week or once every other week, so completion of this program lasts minimum 3 to maximum 9 months. You can start anytime, before April 15 Tuition : 2240 €
SAMA Couples Retreat
This program invites couples who are committed to nourish remembrance of love, totality, freedom, self-responsibility, and the power of sexuality as a portal to deeper states of consciousness.
Do you feel your love can deepen, inviting body-heart-soul to dance with greater aliveness? Do you sense there are inner spaces that have not yet been revealed? Are you ready to receive practical tools to anchor grounded presence in daily life?
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A 8-day residential retreats, opening to...
* Practices from Classical Vigyan Bhairav Tantra
& Kashmeer Shaivism
* Emotional Intelligence & Erotic Vibrancy
* Clear Communication
* Listening from the Heart
* Freedom & Self-responsibility
* Alignment Body-Heart-Soul-Spirit
* Ayurvedic Spa treatments, sauna, hot tub
* Darkness meditation
* Realness Temple nights.
* Includes accommodation & gourmet vegetarian meals.
Limited to 4 couples.
with Komala Lyra & Sebastien Recotillon

November 20-29, 2026
Monte California Nature Sanctuary, Portugal
Tuition 6200 € By application only
SAMA SEASONS
Online & residential
A JOURNEY OF TRANSMUTATION A year-long initiatory journey designed for practitioners, facilitators, and individuals already familiar with meditation, emotional awareness, and the Tantric path.
Rooted in my lifelong experience and daily embodiment of Ayurveda, Yoga, and Tantra, this program offers a structured yet organic exploration of transmutational processes, at a personal, relational, and professional levels.
It centers on Classical Tantra and Kashmiri Shaivism, approached as experiential lineages that inform presence, perception, and relational intelligence. Ayurvedic principles ground daily practices, rhythms, and seasonal menus, offering an energetic framework for understanding how inner and outer cycles shape physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing, creativity, and relational dynamics.
The seasons as reflected in nature, mirror our inner transformations: cyclical and essential for life’s renewal. They remind us of the unchanging essence beneath all transitions: pure life force. This invitation is shaped by the rhythm of the seasons, each one revealing a different quality of presence, truth, and intimacy.
Together, we explore the natural phases of transformation through the rhythm of the seasons, weaving intuition with ways of integrating these practices into daily life, at a personal and professional level.
We enter an in-depth exploration of Classical Tantra and Kashmiri Shaivism, moving and touching, enhancing embodied listening, surrendering to the constant unfolding of life force within, honoring by our unique sensitivity and core response, creating spaciousness to rediscover inner balance, stillness, and a lived sense of union with all life.
Waiting for what is authentically alive at each moment, relaxing with no expectations of outcome, releasing tensions that hold back spontaneity, being surprised with our responses, expanding our orgasmic capacity.
How do you celebrate your creative power as spring bursts? Do you run after summers? Do you embrace and feel nurtured by the silence of winters? How do your release holding on when letting go is unavoidable?
Start observing where there is fluidity in your life and where there is resistance...
SAMA SEASONS unfolds through a combination of online materials and four immersive, in-person retreats, one for each season, held in four inspirational locations.
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Online Program
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8 hours of Videos and audios featuring Komala Lyra sharing with participants through storytelling and the symbology of each season.
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Meditations & practical explorations related to the season’s theme.
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Live Interaction: One Zoom call per season to provide additional guidance and engagement.
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Residential Retreats
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Held quarterly over the course of a year.
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Komala will share the facilitation with one guest of honor for each retreat, adding expertise aligned with the seasons and the participants' developmental journeys, inspired by alive music.
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Dedicated to a consistent group limited to 36 people, fostering deep connection and shared growth.
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Certification
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Commitment to the year-long process and completion of explorations introduced for each season.
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Sliding Scale payment option, ensuring accessibility while maintaining financial sustainability.
TUITION 2150 - 2996€/per season - 8000€/full program








SAMA TEAM KOMALA LYRA . All Seasons is the author of the course content, facilitator, and central coordinator for this journey. She brings over four decades of personal practices in Ayurveda-Yoga-Tantra as a language of Life. She serves as the guiding presence and educator throughout the SAMA journey. Throughout the seasons, Komala shares her life’s work to inspire recognition of each one own's essential qualities and soul expression. All is embraced in this journey: each energetic landscape invites a deeper inner gaze, with playfulness, easy, and clarity; yet, facing the challenges on the path that we usually disregard. KARAM SATYAM DUC MINH . Autumn born in France, half French, half Vietnamese, his gift lies in ability to listen and support people to recognise their unique potential beyond past limitations. He brings awareness, compassion, and an understanding of self-responsibility that delicately encourages people to grow in love, inner freedom, and core contentment. He was introduced to the world of Osho and meditation while living in India in 1988. There, he has been trained in a wide range of psychotherapies and energy-bodywork, further following his education in Switzerland, Italy, and France, integrating his already developed skills with Classical Tantra. Later in 2008, he was invited to move to Pachamama Community, Costa Rica, in 2008, and since then has been living there as part of the facilitators' team for various programs. He has been faculty at ISTA since 2012. AKHAIL NISHANT MATTHEWS . Winter has trained thousands of people worldwide in counseling skills, meditation, and healing for over 40 years. His specialty is the awakening of Presence as a foundation for exploring all the journeys that life has to offer. He combines the analytic skills of classical psychology with the insight approach of Buddhist meditation and shamanism. He says: "“it is time to give it everything you have now”. SEBASTIEN RECOTILLON . Spring brings a rich life experience both personally, as an adventurer, traveler around the world, deeply inquiring about life and death; as well as, professionally as a facilitator with a background that ranges from Tantra Yoga , Shamanism from the jungles of Peru, Steiner school training, computer science and more as a talented music, writer, and artist. His gaze is sharp and uncompromising, his ability to embrace paradox and truth perceiving the wholeness of all situations points to the realness of each moment with clarity and sensitivity. And he loves making the fire! DEZ NICHOLS . Summer is a Internationally renowned speaker and teacher, Daka, author, singer-songwriter, and transformational guide who is known for his contribution in the Healing Arts and evolving human consciousness. He is a global networker and seeder of loving freedom who teaches the Sacred Temple Arts to share, inspire, and support others in the activation and integration of life force as inner power. He is the founder of the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA) and Annual Sexuality and Consciousness Festivals and Conferences around the world, he was lead faculty from ISTA's inception to 2019. KEREN DUN & TAMUZ . All Seasons are the musicians bringing magic to each one of the retreats, with music improvised to support the different seasons. They are international musicians, originally from Israel, who offer concerts around the world. Voice and a variety of instruments compose a rich tapestry of soundscapes. From deep meditation to vibrant tones, their inspiration is beyond words. HARRISON FISHER . All Seasons amazing support, organizer, improviser, co-creator, and more. His presence in this experiment has been core to its manifestation and grounding. ISHKA MICHOCKA . All Seasons is co-director, producer, and visual artist. She leads the project’s visual storytelling, conceptualizing and producing materials that embody the aesthetic essence of SAMA Seasons. Her creative oversight bridges art and spirituality, crafting an engaging and immersive experience.

SAMA Community
A foundational program to empower collaboration related to land development, interactions within community projects, events, innovative gatherings, artistic co-creations, business start-ups, festivals, personal relationships within a group, and any kind of endeavor involving cooperation.
SAMA COMMUNITY offers a profound initiation into living alone-together as radiant human beings, collaborating to enhance clarity and maturity in daily life. It can be booked by groups already formed or individuals willing to create future alliances.

Online & residential program
8 hours of videos
5 audios introducing each section
SAMA COMMUNITY digital book
Link to resources' list
20 interviews with guests from a
from a variety of backgrounds
21 days experiential residence 2027
Starting September 21, 2026
The first four modules are presented online, each centered on one of the Elements: Space, Air, Fire, Water, with co-related themes, followed by interviews, questions and answers.
The last Earth module is offered as an experiential 21-day residence. Dates to be announced 2027.

SPACE

AIR

FIRE

WATER

EARTH
Deep Listening & Spacial Communication
Opening to Source, Love & Meditative Awareness
Silent Presence & Sensuous Awakening
Shamanic Breath
Tandava
The Energy Body
Building a Labyrinth
Spirit Guidance
Celebration Concert
Touching Body, Heart & Soul
Yoga Flow is Life Flow
Tantric Touch
Voice & the Shaman’s Drums
Chakra Sensitivity
Hidden Secrets
Body-Heart-Soul Alignment
Totality, Power & Authority
Inquiring into Reality
Envisioning Possibilities
Group Dynamics & Field Coherence
Mandala Power
The Friend Within
Ayurveda Lifestyle in Community
Supporting Purpose, Flow & Overflow
Being Creative, Creative Being
Ancient-Future Kabbalah
The fire of Soul expression
Emotional Clarity
Yin Yoga
Presence
Emotional Fluidity
Daring to Live in Spontaneity & Synergy
Integrity & Core Exression
Emotional Dances
Aliveness Now
Live before you Leave
The Erotic Body: Sensuality & Sexuality
The Community Experience: Now What?
Roots & Wings
Earth Love: Devotion to Land
Honoring the Ground & Sustainability
Principles and Applications of Permaculture
Principles & Applications of Syntropic Florest
Creating a Mandala Garden
The Soul of Business
Financial Grounding & Creative Freedom
Harvesting the Heart's Abundance
Grounding Soul Expression
Quantum Leap - What if there are no limitations?
With Komala Lyra & a team of master facilitators with longtime experience in community creation, development, maintenance, and artful living.A list of unique resources adds extra depth to this rich program.
TUITION 1 1 1 5€ . Online Program/per person
4220€ . Online Program/groups of 8 maximum
3680€ . 21-day Residence/per person
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