Tantra and yoga teacher, psychologist, co-founder of Mahasiddha Yoga, Chiang Mai
Uriel Yariv is an Israeli Tantra and yoga teacher and psychologist who co-founded Mahasiddha Yoga and its ashram, Amrita Integral Yoga Centre, in Chiang Mai, Thailand.[1][2] He has given twenty years to the Tantra-yoga path, more than two of them in silent retreat.[1]
He holds a master's degree in clinical psychology and has written many articles on spirituality and psychology.[1] With Blandine Wegener, his co-teacher and fellow co-founder, he wrote the school's four core programmes: the Tantra Immersion Course, the Emotional Healing Course, the Path to Purpose programme and the Lucid Dreaming Course.[1]
He also teaches on the school's Amorous Erotic Continence Course and its 7 Chakras Retreat.[3][4] In 2018 he set out the origins of Tantra, the neo-Tantra movement and the dangers of Tantra on Zachary Stockill's podcast Humans in Love.[2]
Uriel has spent twenty years on the path of Tantra-yoga, more than two of those years in silent retreat, practising meditation and yoga.[1]
He has taught and studied yoga, Tantra and meditation in many parts of the world, living in spiritual communities and retreat centres along the way.[2]
He co-founded Mahasiddha Yoga and Amrita Integral Yoga Centre with Blandine Wegener more than ten years ago.[1][3] The school still runs from the ashram in Chiang Mai.[1]
Uriel has a master's degree in clinical psychology and has written many articles on spirituality and psychology.[1] Zachary Stockill introduced him in 2018 as "an Israeli Tantra yoga teacher, and psychologist."[2]
Alongside the Tantra Immersion Course, he and Blandine built an Emotional Healing Course and a Path to Purpose programme.[1]
With Blandine Wegener, Uriel co-wrote the Tantra Immersion Course, the Emotional Healing Course, the Path to Purpose programme and the Lucid Dreaming Course.[1]
He is one of five teachers on the Amorous Erotic Continence Course, with Iris Smeets, Radu Nichitescu, Peter Dalpe and Szabolcs Szajp. Aimed mainly at men, the course teaches "sublimation, energy control, awareness, stages of love-making, and more," drawing on "the real-life experience of several facilitators with decades of practice." It has run since 2022, across 51 recorded sessions. Women can watch the recordings but do not join the live sessions.[3]
With Iris Smeets and Deshna Di he teaches the 7 Chakras Retreat, a seven-day programme built on the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Shat Chakra Nirodha, Shiva Samhita and Mahanirvana Tantra. The school has run it for more than ten years.[4]
On 18 September 2018 Uriel was the guest on episode 14 of Zachary Stockill's podcast Humans in Love, "What is Tantra? An Attempt at Demystification." It was recorded at the school in Chiang Mai.[2]
The conversation covered where Tantra comes from, the neo-Tantra movement, the Tantric principle of masculine and feminine polarity, and the dangers of Tantra.[2]
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