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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.

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SAMA Solo
online
SAMA Solo

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

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November 20-29, 2026

Monte California Nature Sanctuary, Portugal

Tuition 6200 €  By application only

SAMA COUPLES

SAMA SEASONS

Online & residential

SAMA SEASONS

SAMA SEASONS is a year-long initiatory journey designed for practitioners, facilitators, and individuals already familiar with meditation, emotional awareness, and Tantric practices.

Rooted in my lifelong personally and professionally experience, this program offers a structured yet organic exploration of transmutational processes.

Integrating Body, Heart, Soul, Spirit, guided by Ayurveda, Classical Tantra, and Kashmiri Shaivism, we explore how to live in harmony with the cycles of nature, deepen our capacity for presence and relationship, and transform the way we meet change.

 

Classical Tantra and Kashmiri Shaivism, are 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.​

Four seasons. Four retreats. One living practice of remembrance.

SAMA SUMMER

AUG 28- SEPT​ 4, 2026

  Village Anima & Benessere 

SARDINIA, ITALY

 

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With Komala Lyra & Dez Nichols

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NEW CYCLE STARTS 

SAMA WINTER 

​Feb 6-20, 2027

SOUTH OF FRANCE

 

With Komala Lyra & Karam Dunc Minh

SAMA SEASONS 

AN EXPLORATION GROUNDED IN THE PRACTICES OF

AYURVEDA, CLASSIC TANTRA, KASHMEER SHAIVISM, ORGASMIC TOUCH

MOVING WITH LIFE INSTEAD OF AGAINST IT

RECOGNIZING THE INTELLIGENCE OF EACH SEASON WITHIN US
MEETING CHANGES WITH PRESENCE, SENSITIVITY & TRUST

Life moves in cycles.

There are times to bloom and times to release.

Times to act boldly and times to become still.

Times when desire burns through us like summer fire, and times when silence asks us to rest in the unknown.

 

Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn... Different cycles bring reflections, opportunities & challenges.

However, we often miss what is alive, trying to hold on to gifts and avoid changes.

Most of our challenges comes from resisting when life invites releasing, rushing forward when wisdom calls for patience, seeking certainty where mystery is asking to be trusted.

SAMA SEASONS invites remembering what is behind our resistances, nourishing the core qualities of our being through the changes of inner and outers seasons. 

 

One year-long journey with four immersive retreats and an ongoing field of practice, exploring the wisdom of the seasons, inspired by the living traditions of Ayurveda, Classic Tantra, Kashmeer Shaivism, and Orgasmic Touch. 

These are practices that inhabit the body more fully, cultivate our capacity to listen deeper to the intelligence moving within and around us, open the heart through vulnerability and honesty, allow the soul to express its unique unfolding, and invite rest in the spaciousness of spirit.

Remembering how to meet change while maintaining awareness at the center.

Remembering the harmony that becomes available when we align ourselves with the rhythms of nature.

Body. Heart. Soul. Spirit.

Four seasons. Four retreats.

One continuous journey into an embodied, authentic, and connected way of being.

 

SAMA SEASONS unfolds through a combination of online materials and four immersive, in-person retreats, one for each season, held in inspirational locations.

  1. Online Program

    • 8 hours of Videos and audios featuring Komala Lyra sharing with participants through storytelling and the symbology of each season. 

    • Meditations & practical explorations related to the season’s theme.

    • Live Interaction: One Zoom call per season to provide additional guidance and engagement.

  2. Residential Retreats

    • Held quarterly over the course of a year. Next cycle starts in Winter 2027. 

    • Presented by Komala Lyra and guests of honor - Karam Duc Minh, Dez Nichols, Sebastien Recotillon, enriching the presentations and the participants' developmental journeys.

    • In addition, we are gifted with inspired alive music offered by Keren Dun and Tamuz.

    • Dedicated to a consistent group limited to 36 people, fostering deep connection and shared growth.

  3. Certification

    • Commitment to the year-long process and completion of explorations introduced for each season.

  4. Sliding Scale payment option, ensuring accessibility while maintaining financial sustainability.

   TUITION each season offers a special sliding scale, check the information

 

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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

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 program

8 hours of videos 

5 audios introducing each section

​SAMA COMMUNITY digital book

Link to resources' list

​Interviews with guests from a 

from a variety of backgrounds ​

Priority for participation on

21 days experiential residence 2027

Launch December 9, 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  880 € . Online Program/per person                     

                     1350 € . Online Program/groups of 8 maximum                     

                     3680 € . 21-day Residence/per person

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