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.


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 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, catalyzing emotional, spiritual and psychological change.
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.

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.

For the body, healing is the transition from dysfunction to function. Healing the psyche, however, is different. We define it as an expansion of one’s range of choices—especially in moments of activation. There is no single "right" way for the psyche to respond to life, but there are states of greater and lesser internal freedom. The more freedom we have, the more agency we possess.
Responsibility = the ability to respond.
We see it as our responsibility to cultivate this ability—to expand our capacity to choose how we respond to life, rather than react without our own conscious participation. The broader our range, the more adaptable we become.
We envision a world in which people have the internal freedom and structure to responsibly engage with life in ways that fulfill them and serve the world.
Tasting Life Temple
Rough and Ready, California 95975, United States
Copyright 2025