Hi! I’m Atena Akrami, Tantra Teacher and Embodiment Coach
I didn't find Tantra. Tantra found me at the exact moment I was brave enough to let my old life go.
I am here to guide you to reconnect with your inner wisdom, your body, awaken your sensual life force, and embrace presence, pleasure, and playfulness as pathways to liberation. To return to embodied authenticity, where intimacy becomes a spiritual practice and every moment becomes an opportunity to meet life more fully.
I was honoured to be Featured in The Daily Telegraph, June 2026 issue for transforming a couple’s relationship through Tantra!
“Meet the tantra teacher who transformed our sex life”
After the honeymoon phase ended, we turned to the ancient art of tantra to reignite intimacy in our relationship by 1:1 sessions with Atena Akrami.
Featured in The Daily Telegraph: Transforming a Couple’s Sex Life Through My Tantra Coaching
If you feel called to deepen your intimacy, awaken your desire, expand your capacity or reconnect with your body, I would love to support your journey. Discover my offerings and take your next step.
Send me an email and let’s connect!
My Journey
I was born in Iran. When I was six years old, my parents made a decision that would shape the rest of my life. They smuggled our family across the border, through nights of fear and real danger, to reach Sweden and the possibility of freedom and citizenship. Their courage is something I carry with me every day.
Growing up in Sweden as an immigrant child, I learned resilience early. I moved through the world with determination, thrived in sport and movement, and eventually became a lawyer. From the outside, everything looked stable: a career, a long relationship, a life that made sense.
But inside, something was missing. I was living entirely from my head, shaped by the expectations of society, family, and culture. I was disconnected from my body, my truth, my purpose, and any sense of real aliveness.
At 30, I reached a point of no return. I left my job, ended an 11-year relationship, left Sweden and set off without a clear plan on a journey of self-discovery and spiritual exploration.
Bali was the first door. There, I discovered yoga and for the first time, I felt present in my own body. Peaceful. Alive. Free in a way I hadn't known was possible.
What followed were years of deep immersion in self-development and training:
Vipassana meditation retreats at a monastery in Nepal
Sacred shamanic ceremonies with indigenous communities in the Amazon
Initiation into the Sri Vidya lineage of Classical Tantra
Kriya Yoga initiation and in-person training with Yogiraj Siddhanath Gurunath in India
Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya with Sadhguru
Certification as a Trauma-Informed Tantra Facilitator with the London School of Tantra
Multiple yoga teacher trainings in India
It was the slow, beautiful unravelling of everything I'd been told I was supposed to be.
It's funny how life comes full circle. The first time I arrived in Bali, I was a lawyer who had just quit her job, standing at the edge of an unknown future. Fourteen years later, I returned as a Tantra teacher, beginning a two-year Tantra Teacher Training with Master Ma Ananda Sarita, one of the world's most respected teachers of Classical Tantra and a direct disciple of Osho.
Coming back to Bali felt like a homecoming. Not because I was returning to the same person I once was, but because I could recognize how far the journey had brought me. I came to deepen my embodiment, refine my understanding of Tantra, and continue learning from a living lineage that has profoundly shaped my path. What I receive through this training is woven directly into the work I share with my clients, supporting them in living with greater awareness, connection, and aliveness.
Tantra met me at my deepest layer. It offered a path to the sacred that includes the body, the senses, pleasure, and sexuality rather than transcending them. For the first time, I didn't have to choose between spirit and flesh, or between discipline and desire.
I don't teach from theory alone. I guide from embodied experience. My path of embodiment and Tantra has been deeply shaped by trauma, healing, the search for identity and belonging, and the loss of the life I once imagined. It has also been shaped by the discovery of the life that was truly mine, and by reclaiming freedom in my body, my desires, and my purpose.
As an Iranian woman walking this path, I find this work carries profound personal and collective meaning. It has meant moving through layers of cultural conditioning and inherited shame around the body and sexuality that were never mine to hold.
I know I am breaking a taboo. An Iranian woman teaching Tantra is rare, and at this very moment, women in Iran do not have the freedom to choose what to do with their own bodies and lives. When I speak, I feel I am also lending my voice to them. My freedom is not only mine. It carries the longing of every woman who is still waiting for hers.
What I offer is not just technique, but a homecoming: a space of deep presence where you are gently invited to meet yourself fully, held and supported in the process.
Today, sharing Tantra is an act of reclamation. It is personal, and it is also part of a wider movement toward freedom, especially for women who have not yet had the space to access it.
Training, Certification & Lineage
• 2 year Tantra Teacher Training with Ma Ananda Sarita, at Tantra Essence, Bali
• Kriyayoga Initiation & Training, Yogiraj Siddanath Gurunath Ashram, India
• Sri Vidya Classical Tantra Initiation, Umma Amma, India
• 10-month Trauma-Informed Tantra Facilitator Training, London School of Tantra
• Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya, Sadhguru / Isha Foundation
• Vipassana Silent Meditation Retreats (10-day, 100-hour each) Nepal
• Amazonian & Peruvian Shamanic Ceremony Experiences
• Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training, 200hours India
• Restorative Yoga Teacher Training, London (Anna Ashby), UK
• 4BEAT Yoga Teacher Training (Marcus Veda), UK
• Criminal Psychology, Sweden
• Master of Law, Sweden