The Creative Body Tantra for Women Artists
A 4-Week Embodied Lab for Women Artists. An intimate exploration of desire, presence, and creative expression through the body.
About the Lab
A focused, embodied process for women artists ready to deepen their connection to the body, desire, and emotional expression. Drawing on tantric tools, we explore how sexual energy becomes a source of creativity, presence, and authentic performance. This is not therapy, and not a traditional tantra workshop.
Participation
$450 (pilot rate, not offered again)
Group size: 8–15
Location: Williamsburg, NYC
Dates: May 7,14,21,28 | 6:30-9:30pm
Who This Is For
Women artists, performers, and creators. Artists drawn to exploring the body as a source of creative power. Participants open to physical, emotional, and energetic exploration.
Important to Know
This is not a space for dating or sexual interaction. There is no nudity or explicit sexual practice. We work with sensuality, energy, and connection in a structured, respectful, and consent-based way.
What We Explore
The relationship between sexuality and creativity — desire, sensuality, shame, pleasure, and the body as a map for emotional and creative work.
The Process
Week 1 — Ground & Safety
Week 2 — Desire & Creative Energy
Week 3 — Power & Expression
Week 4 — Intimacy & Connection
Each session includes breathwork, movement, partner exercises, and creative integration.
About the Facilitators
TalyaDayan is a theater director and creative producer based in New York. Her work sits at the intersection of performance, intimacy, and emotional truth. She has studied yoga, tantra, and Buddhism since 2013 — including with traditional teachers in India and Southeast Asia — and completed a Yoga Alliance–recognized teacher training in 2021. Her practice translates Eastern principles into grounded, creatively relevant experiences for artists in New York.
Rachel Heinkel is a NYC-based dancer, choreographer, and yoga teacher whose work lives at the intersection of movement, breath, and the body’s inner life. A graduate of Marymount Manhattan College (BFA in Dance) and certified yoga teacher, she has performed and presented work at The Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, The McKittrick Hotel, and New York Live Arts. Her teaching is rooted in deep listening — to breath, to sensation, to the creative impulse — and she brings that same presence into every space she holds.
A short application is required. Book a free consultation.
Spots are limited. Built slowly, with intention.
FAQ
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No. There is no sexual interaction, nudity, or explicit sexual practice.
The work is structured, respectful, and consent-based.
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Working within a female group creates a specific kind of environment — one that often allows for more safety, softness, and honesty.
It can support a deeper connection to the body, desire, and expression, without the pressure of performance or external gaze.
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Each session includes guided breathwork, movement, partner-based exercises, and creative integration.
The process is grounded, structured, and clearly facilitated.
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That is part of the process.
We don’t try to push past it, but to gently notice what is there — including resistance, numbness, or hesitation — and work with it at your own pace.
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You are always in control.
Everything in the space is based on consent, and you are never required to do anything that doesn’t feel right for you.
