

Presenters
Ascensia Tantra Festival 2027
Meet your guides for this 4-day festival. Learn more about what workshops, classes, performances and wellness sessions you will be able to explore while in the jungles of the Riviera Maya.

Kanixa Satori
Presenter & Performer
Kanixa is a devoted Tantrika and compassionate Energy Healer who has been walking the path of sacred service since 2015. As an Apprentice Teacher with IPSALU Tantra , Usui Reiki Master, Somatica Relationship Coach and a Licensed Intuitive Tantra Practitioner & Trainer, Kanixa brings a wealth of wisdom and grounded presence into every space she holds. Her offerings are known for feeling both safe and expansive—skillfully crafted containers where participants can truly relax, open, and transform.
Each offering is curated with intention and care, weaving potent Tantra Kriya Yoga practices honed over the past decade that cultivate heart-to-heart and soul-nourishing connections among participants.

Phoenix Amara
Presenter
Phoenix Amara is a Sacred Sexuality Guide trained in Somatic Sexology & Neo-Tantra, ritual artist, best-selling author, and founder of the Temple Arts Alchemy Mystery School. She trains facilitators and leads sensual, soul-stirring retreats around the globe, guiding people to reclaim their pleasure, power, and purpose through erotic ritual, archetypal embodiment, and deep somatic alchemy. Her work is a portal to wild liberation and embodied love. Discover her world at www.phoenixamara.com

Olya Shekinah
Presenter
Olya Shekinah, CPC, ACC, is a Certified Feminine Leadership & Embodiment Coach, who supports high-capacity women in receiving their next level of personal and professional leadership, amplifying their unique soul gifts, and creating sustainable values-aligned success and impact. As part of her global mission to share the sacred feminine codes, Olya founded the Temple of the Goddess, and has facilitated feminine leadership and embodiment circles across Eastern Europe, North, Central, and South America, Canada, and India.At the core of her teachings lie the temple healing arts, helping women activate their full power and unique soul gifts by reconnecting with their own life force energy..

Susana Gutierrez
Presenter
Susana is a passionate teacher of interpersonal intimacy skills and conscious communication. She is the author of the Love Rules Consent Pledge, co-creator of the Conscious Dating Games (a dating retreat) and has studied with some of the world’s most renowned mentors, including Dr. Joe Dispenza, Dr. Ava Cadell, Allison Armstrong, Amara Karuna, Amma Sophia Rose, Philippe Lewis, Francesca Gentille, Dolphin Kasper and others. She's studied sexuality, relationships, consciousness and health since 2001.

John Transcend
Curator of Conscious Events
ohn Transcend is a DJ, movement facilitator, yoga teacher, conscious connection guide, and creator of conscious festivals and transformational experiences.
Whether behind the decks or guiding the room, John Transcend invites people beyond simply dancing beside one another and into a shared journey of presence, play, expression, intimacy, and connection.
For this festival, John will open the dance floor with an embodied connection journey, weaving guided movement and relational practices into ecstatic dance before carrying the room deeper through music.
www.beacons,ai/John.transcend

Christopher Zulauf
Presenter
Chris Shanto is a somatic awareness coach, facilitator and Psychotherapist with more than a decade of experience supporting people in personal growth, embodiment and authentic connection. His work integrates meditation, bodywork, somatic psychotherapy and energy practices, drawing on extensive training and personal experience within traditions including OSHO and Ipsalu Tantra Kriya Yoga. Alongside his background in business and transformation, Chris creates workshops and spaces for deep self-exploration, presence and meaningful connection throughout Europe, bridging inner transformation with everyday life.

Julia Akacia
Presenter
Julia is a tantric practitioner, facilitator, therapist and coach, initiated into the Sri Vidya lineage of classical Tantra. Her offerings weave together Somatic Nervous System Healing, Breathwork and Tantra Yoga, activating life force energy and allowing it to flow freely and integrate harmoniously. Her rarest and most powerful offering is the mystical and sensual ritual Kalavahana, which can powerfully activate Shakti energy — the awakened Kundalini life force — and initiate profound healing on physical, emotional and energetic levels. She has shared this sacred ritual at numerous international festivals. Based in Mexico and Guatemala, Julia teaches worldwide and online.

Sikandra
Presenter
Reverend Sultan is High Priest of Earth Temple, an interfaith minister, attorney, counselor, and Tantra teacher devoted to helping others cultivate Love, Purpose, and Will. Drawing from traditional Tantra, neo-Tantra, shamanic ceremony, and contemplative practice, he creates experiences that awaken embodied presence, authentic connection, and spiritual transformation. As an elder law and guardianship attorney, he serves vulnerable families with compassion while mentoring youth impacted by violence to pursue mission-driven lives of service. Whether in ceremony, the courtroom, or community, Reverend Sultan invites others to embody the sacred and live with courage, compassion, and intention.

Mahala Nirvano
Presenter & Healer Team
Mahala is Tantra and somatic embodiment guide known for creating spaces that feel electric, welcoming, and deeply expansive. Blending sacred sexuality, nervous system wisdom, and playful transformational experiences, she invites people into greater intimacy, aliveness, and the remembering of their truth. Her work is raw, grounded, and unforgettable, awakening desire, connection, and liberation through mind, body, spirit and heart.

Nayano
Ipsalu Tantra Senior Teacher
Nayano is the senior teacher and lineage holder of Ipsalu Tantra International.
For almost 30 years, Nayano has followed the call of her heart, in service to the greater vision of a loving and conscious humanity. Her empathic, intuitive nature makes her a clear guide, supporting participants in their deep emotional healing and awakening process.
Nayano creates a warm, loving and safe environment for groups, inspiring the courage to explore the dark and light aspects of their beings, and to remember that life is meant to be celebrated in all its many expressions, not only the easy times.

Aurora Casey Ann
Presenter
Aurora Casey Ann is a Sacred Intimacy & Relationship Coach, Tantra Guide, and Soul Embodiment Facilitator devoted to helping individuals and couples awaken to deeper love, to their divinity in their sexuality, authentic connection & expression, and embodied soulful presence. Through sacred sexuality, conscious relationship practices, breath, sound, somatic healing, and heart-centered intimacy, she creates safe, powerful, transformative spaces where people can release shame, reconnect with their life force, and remember the wisdom of life their bodies. Her work is an invitation to return home to yourself, your heart, and the sacred essence of all that you are.

Illup Gravengaard
Lotus Alchemist
Illup Gravengaard, founding award-winning herbalist of Metamorflotus, has been working sharing the medicine of plants for the last 20 years being featured on The Travel Channel, Vogue Magazine, The New York Times, Women's Health, and more. Illup educates on the most crucial herbs for the current time, and right now that is the sacred lotus flower. Growing up with the wild Yellow Lotus of the Great Lakes in Ohio, Illup was meant to share this medicine (all colors/species of lotus) and has had the joy to present this profound flower empowerment on stages & circles around the world in dozens of countries and hundreds of festivals!

Spaceship Earth
Live Musician + DJ
Spaceship Earth aka Ashton Robertson, infuses psychedelic electronic bass music with live electric guitar and inspirational messages. Inspired by nature, the cosmos and beyond. Ashton uses a blend of genres from across the globe including world music instrumentation, rock, reggae, drum n’ bass, psytrance and modern bass music. A balance between Earth & Extraterrestrial dimensions, masculine & feminine, and chill & intense.

Destiny Marie Love
Presenter
Destiny Marie Love is an author, singer-songwriter, somatic voice facilitator, and founder of Embodied Voice Healing. Since 2009, she has guided thousands in awakening the healing intelligence of the body through voice, movement, breath, and sound. Her work is inspired by Tantric and Taoist wisdom, Nada Yoga—the Yoga of Sound—and somatic practices that support nervous system regulation, authentic expression, energy cultivation, and embodied awakening. She is the author of "Womb Codes for Spiritual Intimacy" and supports couples in deepening authentic connection. She loves co-creating immersive experiences that awaken presence and connection through voice, movement, and body wisdom.

Hailey Linnea
Presenter & Performer
Hailey Linnea is a multidisciplinary dance artist known for her hypnotic bellydance, sensual burlesque, and high-energy twerk performances. Blending mythical archetypes with modern storytelling. She has toured internationally, A founding co-director of Mahari Dance Company and creative director of MYTHOS Dance Collective, Hailey is devoted to cultivating community, education, and artistic growth. Inspired by emotion, nature, and cross-cultural symbolism, she moves fluidly between choreography and improvisation, always surrendering to the music as her soul leads the way.

