Tantra Immersion:
Self-Compassion Module
Weekly Online Spiritual Growth Classes
Upcoming Course:
June 4 — July 30, 2026 (Tentative dates)
Meets 1 Time per Week - Online
Thursdays (Morning or Evening Cohort) - Connection, Teaching & Practice
9:30am-12pm PST or 6:00-8:30pm PST
Applications now open!
“We can only be truly compassionate to others when we are compassionate with ourselves. If it does not include yourself, the compassion is incomplete.”
— Buddha
Compassion is an Essential Step on Your Spiritual Journey
Compassion is a deeply revered attitude and life practice in the liberation traditions, including Buddhism, Sufism, Taoism and Tantric Yoga. An entire spiritual path can focus on cultivating and practicing compassion, such as the Buddhist meditation method of Tonglen, meaning Giving and Receiving Compassion.
But what is compassion?
How do we cultivate it?
And how do we live with compassion in our daily lives?
Where do we even start?
Tantra Immersion School’s orientation to compassion is that cultivating it inward, toward our self, is the only way to sustainably practice it in the world—and apply it as we strive for personal growth on the spiritual journey of life. Often, when we try to “be compassionate” outwardly, we’re masking our inner experience behind self-critique, judgement and harmful self-talk.
This is why we devote this entire 8-week module to understanding and applying self-compassion and how it is essential for our spiritual growth.
The Details
Weekly Online Spiritual Growth Classes
Our class meets Thursdays, either from 9:30am-12pm PST (morning cohort) or 6:00pm-8:30pm PST (evening cohort).
Office Hours/Mentorship
Our weekly classes will include time to connect with one another and share questions that arise.
Grace, your facilitator, is also offering a discounted spiritual mentorship session during the Karma Yoga Module for those who would like 1:1 support to discuss any questions on their path to spiritual growth.
Class Recordings
Our weekly classes will be recorded so you can listen/watch the teachings if you need to miss class.
Course Materials
A digital coursebook will be offered for each module, as well as audio versions of the coursebook. Each class will be recorded for students who need to miss a class.
How to Apply
If you’re ready to apply, click Apply Here and we’ll save your spot for our upcoming module! Our Tantra Immersion team will be in touch within 5 days of receiving an application with further information about registering and to answer any questions.
No deposit is required, payments will begin when the course begins (see Course Cost below).
“There is no greater work than the work of self-love because it lies at the heart of our liberation from ignorance. I show up because I love. I am present because of love. I am alive because of love. I thrive because I am loved. Radical presence is born out of love.”
— Lama Rod Owens
Weekly Self-Compassion class topics include:
Living with an Open Heart
The courage to be compassionate
Physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual boundaries
Why inner compassion is necessary for outer compassion
Sustainability, resilience and capacity in our daily practice and daily lives
Compassion fatigue and empathy fatigue
The fundamental difference between self-care and Self-Love
Self-Compassion practices:
Heart-focused meditation
Cultivating Self-Love
Boundary setting as a self-compassion practice
HeartMath daily practices for coherence and resilience
Tonglen – Giving and Receiving Compassion
Gratitude practice
Sublimation – conscious channeling of inner and outer energy
Curriculum
We define compassion as a willingness to not only witness discomfort, suffering, and pain with presence and nonattachment, but to act in response to this suffering from a place of Love and Awareness.
Self-compassion, therefore, applies these attitudes from within towards ourselves: to witness discomfort, suffering and pain in ourselves with presence and nonattachment, and to act in response to our own suffering from a place of Love and Awareness.
Our weekly practices and teachings will center around sustainably cultivating compassionate thoughts, words, actions and intentions toward ourselves, rooted in Self-Love and a connection to Source.
This digital world can leave us feeling isolated and unsupported on our life-quests. Tantra Immersion School is here to bring back a feeling of community, accountability, reliability and connection. We can’t wait to practice with you!
Course Cost
This module is offered on a sliding scale. You are at choice what amount, either one-time at the beginning of the course or monthly for 2 installments, you contribute. Please feel into this cost based on your own current relationship with finances. Scholarships and other payment plans are available. Let’s chat about how we can be in right relationship with the teachings, money, time and valuing one another.
One-time Payment: $350-$600
or
Monthly Payment Plan: $175-$300 per month
Bonus Mentorship Support
Grace, your facilitator and Tantra Immersion School founder, is offering one discounted 1-hour personal and spiritual mentorship sessions for $125. You will meet with Grace virtually during the Self-Compassion Module.
This Bonus Mentorship Support can be paid One-time at the beginning of the module or in Monthly Installments.
Please Note
Accessibility
The practices in this class are accessible for all bodies and abilities. Our focus is on what’s happening inside us, so the only requirements are that you are willing to look inward to cultivate self-compassion, and get curious how your outer actions align with a self-compassionate attitude.
Tantra Immersion Facilitators are also happy to offer individual modifications as we are able. Please contact us if you would like to discuss physical or other accessibility needs.
Sexuality
This course is nonsexual. There are no intimate or sexual teachings in the Self-Compassion Module. We do talk about individual sexual energy in some of our Tantra Immersion courses as a means to become more empowered and liberated in our own being.
All sexual orientations, expressions and genders are welcome.
Cultural Honoring
Tantra Yoga is a tradition that comes from the Indian subcontinent and is at least 1000 years old, with roots 3000+ years old. While the teachings of Tantra Immersion are as close to traditional as possible, there have been many interpretations of these teachings throughout the years which have often leaned more toward appropriating than honoring Tantra. There has also been a capitalistic and patriarchal tint to the teachings which underlies how they have been translated and handed down.
As a committed anti-racist and queer person, Grace, the founder and lead facilitator of Tantra Immersion, has spent the last 18 years through study and immersive personal experience sifting through what’s been handed down in their lineages and finding the deepest basis of “Truth” they can access. This path is what they offer in their teachings: a path that both honors the traditional teachings and is aware of the oppressive ways they have been inaccessible beyond white-bodied, spiritual circles for the last 100 years.
Tantra Immersion facilitators are always open to questions and critique about their interpretations and are actively working to update these teachings to be more aware of oppressive narratives, underlying patriarchal interpretations, and societal bias. This is a work in progress and will be for a long time to come. Your participation helps to keep shaping the teachings for the 21st century and beyond.
Scholarships for BIPOC/PGM students and future participants
The container for Tantra Immersion is open to all people. And, there is a loud cry from People of the Global Majority (BIPOC/PGM) to have containers that are not white majority. This has been hard to find in Western spiritual classes and communities.
The Tantra Immersion has an ongoing scholarship fund to support members of our community, prioritizing People of the Global Majority. All current registration fees include a 5% offering to this scholarship fund.
In addition, you are welcome to offer donations to this directly fund by contacting us.
“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it’s pity. When your love touches someone’s pain, that’s compassion.”
— Steven Levine
FAQs
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Yes, but we don’t do any ‘on-the-mat’ yoga in this Module.
Primarily, ‘yoga’ in this sense means a liberatory practice which brings us closer and closer to the essence of who we are, our True Self. As such, all of our yoga practices interiorize us within the body, breath, heart and mind.
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No, there is no sexual touch or nudity. The Self-Compassion Module is a nonsexual course which teaches a breadth and depth of Tantra practices including how to relate to our own holistic energies.
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This module will be most accessible for those who have participated in previous teachings with Tantra Immersion, Hridaya Northwest or Hridaya Yoga.
Our teachings will lean into the foundations from the Tantra Immersion Yearlong Course (TIYC) and Hridaya Northwest Silent Meditation Retreats. If you’ve taken any previous modules or retreats with either Hridaya Yoga, Tantra Immersion, Hridaya Northwest, or another international Hridaya Yoga teacher, you will be well-prepared for this module.
Contact us if you’re unsure if this course is a good fit for you.
The Tantra Immersion Yearlong Cohort is the best place to start your teaching and practice journey with us, we highly recommend aspiring practitioners to start here.
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For online classes, have a quiet place you can focus and meditate, and your course book, which will be sent in PDF format. We suggest to print your PDF so you can read between classes and refer to the teachings during class.
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Weekly classes will be recorded and you’ll have access to them throughout our module and after the module finishes.
We currently use Google Drive to store and share our recordings.
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Simply fill out the Application form linked on this site. The Tantra Immersion team will be in touch within 5 days of receiving your application. If you don't hear back from us, please contact us.
No deposit is required, payments begin when the course begins.
Contact Us
Have questions about Tantra Immersion School? Please use this form to get in touch and we’ll be happy to address your questions or set up a time to connect and talk further.