The Tantric🌹Awakening™ Fellowship
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit spiritual organization
Founded in 2016 - celebrating 10 years of service!
Ancient wisdom
for the world that needs it most
For millennia, humanity carried a body of wisdom that understood the human being as whole - body, psyche, and spirit in communion rather than in conflict.
That wisdom was systematically removed.
We exist to restore it.
Restoring
what civilization has forgotten it lost
Who We Are
Temple retreat ceremony
Something has been broken in the spiritual life of the modern world - and the evidence is not subtle. Rates of anxiety, loneliness, and disconnection have reached levels that public health officials now describe as epidemic.
Generations of shame-based religious conditioning, the erosion of trusted institutions, and the relentless stimulation of modern media have left millions profoundly disconnected - from their bodies, from themselves, and from each other.
Clinical frameworks trained to treat these symptoms rarely reach the source. Because the source is not chemical. It is cultural.
Tantra is not what popular culture has made of it. It is one of humanity's oldest and most continuously practiced wisdom traditions - a rigorous body of knowledge spanning over 7,000 years concerned with the full human being: the body, the psyche, human relating, and the nature of energy itself. Its principles appear across Buddhism, Taoism, Gnostic philosophy, and the cosmology of ancient Egypt.
Modern neuroscience and somatic psychology are now arriving at conclusions these traditions reached millennia ago.
The Fellowship is steered by a female co-director and a board that is two-thirds female - because what was removed from women's authority can only be recovered through women's leadership. This is not wellness programming. It is restoration.
We envision a world in which the ancient understanding of human wholeness - that body, mind, and spirit are not in conflict but in communion - is no longer countercultural.
A world in which the dominant culture stops pathologizing the body, stops weaponizing shame, and stops treating disconnection as an inevitable cost of modern life.
A world in which every person, regardless of background, has access to the tools, the community, and the permission to come home to themselves.
7,000+ years of human wholeness
Our Reach
Our mission: changing lives
Who We Serve
We serve individuals, couples, leaders, and public figures through education, spiritual guidance, and community - reaching more than 95,000 people monthly across our podcast and social platforms.
Many of the people we serve come from religious backgrounds that framed the body as obstacle and desire as danger - frameworks research increasingly links to chronic shame, relational dysfunction, and loss of a coherent sense of self.
Many are women reclaiming a relationship with their own inner life after years inside purity culture - and finding, often for the first time, the confidence and grounded authority that makes genuine leadership possible.
Some are couples who love each other and have lost the capacity for genuine connection. This has a direct impact on their children.
Some are business and political leaders who have achieved every outward measure of success yet find themselves empty at the center of it.
Some are cultural figures in entertainment and media whose platforms amplify The Fellowship's reach far beyond its direct community - bringing these ideas into contact with millions of people who have never heard of The Fellowship but are living with exactly what it addresses.
What connects them is not pathology. It is a specific absence - of what healthy embodiment traditions once provided across every stage of human life, including rites of passage that every indigenous traditional culture has practiced for millennia, and whose disappearance from modern life research links directly to rising rates of youth disconnection, violence, and despair. What the dominant culture removed, it has not replaced.
The oldest medicine
reclaimed for the modern age
Our Programs
Eye gazing - a central Tantric practice
Virtual Temple at TantricAwakening.net
The Fellowship's dedicated online spiritual community - a purpose-built platform designed to extend the work of embodiment, connection, and healing beyond any single event, retreat, or podcast episode. Built for the growing global community ready for ongoing practice, accountability, and genuine belonging.
The Tantric Awakening Podcast
The Tantric Awakening Podcast is The Fellowship's primary public education platform - a weekly long-form conversation exploring embodiment, personal transformation, ancient wisdom traditions, and the reclamation of wholeness in modern life. With 63,000 monthly downloads, 32,000 unique monthly listeners, and a top 10 chart ranking in 8 countries, the podcast serves as the Fellowship's most far-reaching point of contact with people who have not yet found language for what they are carrying. It is, for many listeners, the first place they have ever heard their experience named without shame.
The Ritualist
The Ritualist is The Fellowship's monthly publication and practice guide - a resource for anyone ready to move from inspiration into integration. Each issue offers practical, accessible guidance for making daily life a sacred ritual: grounded techniques, contemplative practices, and embodiment tools drawn from the world's oldest wisdom traditions and translated for the demands of modern living. For readers who want more than content, The Ritualist also offers an optional group support community - a space for shared practice, accountability, and the kind of ongoing human connection that transforms reading into living. Where the podcast opens the door, The Ritualist helps people cross the threshold.
Personal Alchemy
Personal Alchemy is The Fellowship's core spiritual guidance and embodiment education program for adults - individuals and couples navigating shame recovery, relational healing, identity reclamation, and reconnection with a coherent inner life. Drawing from somatic, contemplative, and relational frameworks rooted in more than 7,000 years of embodiment tradition, the program meets people where conventional therapy stops: at the body, at the story the nervous system is still holding, and at the specific gap left by religious conditioning that framed desire and the inner life as problems to be managed rather than wisdom to be lived.
"One session has helped me more than 5 years of therapy at the VA medical center for mental health."
Bryan M. | U.S. Combat Marine
Veteran of multiple tours in Iraq & Afghanistan
Ajna Research
Ajna Research provides bespoke embodiment education and spiritual guidance to business executives, political leaders, and organizational decision-makers worldwide. Drawing from the world's oldest wisdom traditions, the program addresses the gap between outward achievement and inner coherence - equipping leaders with the self-awareness, presence, and clarity that conventional leadership development does not reach. Participants report measurable improvements in decision-making, relational intelligence, and sustained performance. Ajna Research operates as a program of The Tantric Awakening Fellowship, extending the Fellowship's mission into the highest levels of institutional influence.
Be Iconic
Be Iconic is an age-appropriate youth embodiment program led by a specialist in movement-based nervous system education. Through dance, somatic awareness, and guided self-expression, the program builds confidence, a healthy sense of identity, and genuine belonging in young people - providing the kind of meaningful rite of passage that every traditional culture has offered its youth, and that modern Western culture has largely abandoned. Currently active in Southern California schools and community settings, the program is designed to expand nationally and internationally as additional teachers are trained in the Be Iconic methodology.
Temple Nights & Retreats
Temple Nights are The Fellowship's local community events - accessible, one-night gatherings held across major U.S. cities that offer a first, grounded experience of embodiment practice and spiritual community without the commitment of travel. For those ready to go deeper, The Fellowship's international retreat program provides immersive multi-day containers for personal transformation, relational healing, and lived embodiment practice. More than a dozen Temple Nights have been held across both coasts, alongside 2 international retreats to date. Together they form a single continuum: an open door for the curious, and a deeper room for those ready to enter.
Reclaiming the wisdom
that was never meant to disappear
Recognition
Best Tantric Education Resource, Non-Profit Organisation Awards 2026
The Tantric Awakening Fellowship was deeply honored to be named the Best Tantric Education Resource by the Non-Profit Organization Awards.
The Fellowship is an active supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, providing ongoing monthly contributions to both organizations. A spiritual nonprofit that actively funds church-state separation advocacy reflects the Fellowship's foundational conviction that bodily autonomy and freedom of spiritual practice are inseparable rights.
The Fellowship also supports female leadership and early STEM education through active volunteer collaborations including the Roddenberry Foundation and San Diego Comic-Con.
The Fellowship is protected under Cloudflare's Project Galileo program, which provides infrastructure support to organizations working on behalf of vulnerable communities under conditions of elevated risk.
Our Leadership
Andrei Romanov Knight
Co-Director & Founder
Andrei Romanov Knight has spent more than 30 years at the intersection of science and spirituality - raised by two scientists, trained in martial arts, meditation, energy work, hypnotherapy, and Jungian psychology, and ordained as a Knight of the Hereditary Knights Templar of Britannia in 2010. He founded The Tantric Awakening Fellowship on a single conviction: that the epidemic of shame, disconnection, and spiritual emptiness so visible in modern life is not a personal failing but a cultural wound - and that the wisdom traditions capable of healing it were not lost, but deliberately suppressed. For Andrei, this work is not innovation. It is restoration. He leads The Fellowship as Head Minister and serves the people most urgently in need of what institutional religion removed: a path back to themselves.
Kendall Victoria Aragon Rose
Co-Director & High Priestess
Kendall Victoria Aragon Rose grew up inside the very institution The Fellowship exists to address. Raised in the Evangelical church, she experienced firsthand what happens when spiritual authority is located outside the self - and chose, at significant personal cost, to leave, to speak honestly about what she witnessed, and to face family estrangement rather than trade truth for belonging. What she survived became what she teaches. A psychosomatic spiritual coach, ordained clergy, podcast co-host, and the feminine co-anchor of The Fellowship's leadership, Kendall holds space for the women, couples, and young people navigating the same terrain she has already mapped. She leads the Fellowship's youth embodiment program, bringing age-appropriate confidence and belonging to young people through movement and nervous system education. She is not a supporting presence. She is the other half of the Teaching.