AWAKEN NEW TASTE BUDS FOR THE PRESENT MOMENT
YOU ARE THE TONGUE TASTING LIFE!
OUR MENU OF TRANSFORMATIONAL EXPERIENCES
DISCOVER WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU STOP RESISTING AND LET VITALITY POUR THROUGH.
- Embodiment, Empowerment, Vitality Training: Learn what it takes to generate and sustain full participation in your life. Cultivate and communicate boundaries, harness the wisdom in your body, and become actively the author of your story.
- Tantra: Wake up to the fullness of life, love, and presence through practices strengthening awareness, trust, energy, passion, and play.
- Sacred Kink: Explore conscious sensuality, power, and fantasy in a safe, judgment-free space.
- Embodied Touch & Massage: Learn the art of giving and/or receiving mindful, attuned and impactful touch.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Quantum Light Breath (QLB) Facilitator Training
Quantum Light Breath (QLB) Facilitator Training
Quantum Light Breath (QLB) Facilitator Training
Residential and Non-Residential,
Thursday 7/3/25 - Monday 7/7/25
Tasting Aliveness - Intro to Tantra
Quantum Light Breath (QLB) Facilitator Training
Quantum Light Breath (QLB) Facilitator Training
Residential Retreat for Individuals and Couples,
Friday 7/11/25 - Sunday 7/13/25
Flavors of Desire: Level 1 Kinkshop
Quantum Light Breath (QLB) Facilitator Training
Embodiment, Vitality, Empowerment Retreat
Residential Retreat for Individuals and Couples,
Friday 8/15/25 - Sunday 8/17/25
Embodiment, Vitality, Empowerment Retreat
Quantum Light Breath (QLB) Facilitator Training
Embodiment, Vitality, Empowerment Retreat
Residential Retreat for Women in the Healing Professions,
Thursday 8/28/25 - Monday 9/1/25
WHO WE ARE
Ilana Grace, LMT, ABS
Ilana is a Certified Sexologist with the American Board of Sexologists and a Licensed Massage Therapist offering embodiment, empowerment and sex coaching to individuals and couples. She is a certified SkyDancing Tantra Presenter and is trained in the Somatica® Method. She brings to her work a diverse background in communication and embodiment modalities.
My passion lies in empowering individuals to live life more fully and authentically, expanding their range and capacity for pleasure and intimacy.
Annette Ephroni, PMHNP, ABS
Annette studied Women's Studies as an undergraduate and earned her master's degree from Yale School of Nursing. She is a psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner, a psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist, an intimacy and embodiment coach trained in the Somatica® Method, and an ABS Certified Sexologist Diplomate. She has studied with EntheoCare, LLC, and is in teacher training with SkyDancing Tantra.
My passion is working through obstacles that keep us from the wonder, awe, gratitude, and praise that I believe are our most natural response to the shimmering web of Life.
OUR STORY
OUR FOUNDATION
OUR FOUNDATION
OUR FOUNDATION
We believe each of us is a filament in the web that reflects the unity and connectedness of all of existence. We call this web the Divine. We encourage and support people having a personal and highly individual experience of the Divine, believing it is an essential and irreplaceable aspect of a human life.
Entering ecstatic non-ordinary states is the doorway to this experience of the Divine.
It can also be the catalyst to emotional, spiritual and psychological change. It can allow us to experience ourselves in new and unimagined ways both internally and in relation to others, thus paving the way for change and growth.
Tasting life is an assertion of humanity. It's an act of empowerment, freedom, communion, potentially even an act of resistance. It is our Yes to life. it's remembering the mysterious, intricate, singular beings we are, and reconnecting to the sacred flow of life that’s always been available to us all.
OUR JOURNEY
OUR FOUNDATION
OUR FOUNDATION
Ilana's backdrop of Pagan and Earth-based spirituality found unexpected resonance with Annette's Pentecostal Christian upbringing when we met studying SkyDancing Tantra. In the Tantric temple, we both found an exquisite spiritual path that was embodied, ecstatic, collective, and deeply immanent.
Meanwhile, Annette's two decades as a psychotherapist and Ilana's massage therapy practice began to weave together in surprising ways. We chose to study the Somatica® Method to learn practical tools as sex, intimacy, and relationship coaches. We found ourselves leading ceremonial work with ketamine and teaching embodiment classes to therapy clients, many of whom felt they had plateaued in their growth in talk therapy. These experiences affirmed the radical truth that had brought us together: that profound experiences, especially with others, stretch us in ways we never would have known to stretch, and enliven us in ways we could not have imagined.
Tasting Life Temple is born of the desire to live and serve in The Temple in which we share this path and help others awaken to vitality through their own transformative encounters.
OUR MISSION
OUR FOUNDATION
OUR MISSION
With a sense of deep reverence, we bring our expertise in Tantra, psychotherapy, breathwork, physical and energetic touch, ritual and ceremony, and sacred medicines to sculpt transformational journeys. We hope to evoke non-ordinary states of consciousness which may shake loose rigid ways of being.
We invite catharsis and its capacity to undo calcified patterns. Just as strongly, we facilitate integration, the work of metabolizing raw emotional experience into meaning, where newfound openness becomes freedom - earned, claimed, and carried forward, every day.
We hold with reverence practices of radical creativity, sacred mischief, and florid curiosity, as we create the space and offer some tools for you to find your singular encounter with the feast of life - your life, all life. We trust the Divine to kindle each person's internal flame when given sacred space and invitation to burn.
VALUES STATEMENT
WE CANNOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH: TASTING LIFE IS FOR EVERYONE
We honor the spectrum of human experience, embracing life not as something to transcend, but as a sacred laboratory for self-discovery. We deeply respect authentic expression, and challenge conditioning by engaging diverse perspectives, embodying many positions, and expanding beyond limitations—trusting the path of fully living, not escaping our humanity.
We welcome people of all ages, genders and non-genders, sexual orientations or asexuals, family and relationship constellations, ethnic identities, spiritual paths, and levels of experience.
CONTACT US
PLEASE REACH OUT WITH ANY QUESTIONS OR TO REGISTER. WE'D LOVE TO CONNECT.
We're happy to schedule a free 15-minute call to explore what you're looking for and to see if our offerings at Tasting Life Temple are a good fit for you. We look forward to hearing from you.
