DIVINE UNION w/ Elana Stern & Matthew
Step into Divine Union, an immersive tantric journey into sacred connection, embodied love, and authentic intimacy. Guided by Elana Stern of Tantra Collective and her beloved partner Matthew, this heart-opening experience invites you into both inner union and meaningful connection with others through breath, embodiment, meditative touch, and devotional ritual.
More than a workshop, Divine Union is a living ceremony exploring sacred polarity and the dance of Shiva and Shakti within and between us. Guided through embodiment practices, meditative touch, intimacy rituals, and devotional ceremony, we’ll explore how the merging of presence and love becomes a portal to the highest realms of self-realization, ecstatic bliss, and communion with the Divine. In sacred partnership, Divine Union becomes the alchemical dance through which reverent connection catalyzes self-actualization and opens the heart to the embodied presence of the Divine.
You’ll be guided through practices designed to deepen presence, awaken life-force energy, soften emotional armor, and expand your capacity to give and receive love in a grounded, consensual, and reverent space. Each practice is offered as an invitation, held with clear boundaries and deep reverence. Whether you come with a beloved, a partner, an intimate friend, or as a solo participant, the journey becomes a pathway to wholeness, ecstatic love, and the living truth of connection. This experience offers a powerful opportunity to slow down, open your heart, and reconnect with what truly matters. You’ll leave feeling emotionally nourished, energized, deeply connected, and more alive in your body and spirit.
Amid the excitement of the festival, Divine Union becomes a sanctuary for authentic connection - where intimacy transforms into a pathway for healing, awakening, and embodied communion with the Divine.
Prep: Wear comfortable or ritual white attire that feels sacred, arrive fresh and clean with hands washed, and please avoid perfume, cologne, or strong scents. Bring a water bottle and an open heart.
A note about possible nudity:
There will be no explicit nude practices and no instruction to be unclothed. However, this will be a safe, well-held, and welcoming container where participants are invited to drop deeply into their authentic embodiment. If, in that authenticity, someone feels most natural partially or fully unclothed, they are welcome to choose that for themselves, always within the bounds of respect, consent, and personal comfort.
Elana Stern is a devoted guide in Tantra Yoga, walking the path of love and supporting individuals, couples, and groups in cultivating sacred connection, embodied presence, and lasting transformation. She was drawn to meditation as a teenager, studied Eastern Philosophy and Religion academically, trained with celebrity fitness icons in NYC, and earned Yoga Teacher certifications in both Vinyasa Yoga (Cindy Lee lineage) and Restorative Yoga. Her foundation is further enriched by training in Tibetan Buddhist, Transcendental, Vipassana, Mindfulness, and Sonic Meditation modalities, as well as Pranayama breathwork and Reiki techniques. Her journey expanded through advanced certification with Yoga Chitta - a Black-owned yoga school serving the BIPOC community - where she mentors yoga teacher trainees. After a life-altering kundalini awakening opened a portal into deeper energetic and tantric realms, she became a certified facilitator of Tao Tantra Arts (Mantak Chia and Osho lineages), with additional certification in trauma-awareness, and is a graduate of the International School of Temple Arts (ISTA).
With a vision for evolving consciousness, Elana founded the Tantra Collective—producing curated offerings for embodied spiritual connection—and ONE LOVE HUB, Philadelphia’s co-created community for conscious events. With decades of practice in movement, meditation, and energy healing, Elana's teaching bridges the physical and the spiritual. She invites you into a deeper relationship with your body, your breath, your heart, and each other—where love becomes the path home to your divine nature.