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Coming Home with Dawn Cartwright
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"We all carry the potential to realize, in real time, that the vibrant energy we experience
when we feel truly loved, seen and met, is who we actually are." Dawn Cartwright
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June 26th - 28th . Commune Topanga
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Coming Home . NeoTantra Retreat For Singles & Couples
I'm creating something very special — my very first completely immersive retreat in years. I can't wait to see you there. The doors are open with an early bird rate of $1,997. Pricing rises to $2,497 after May 1st. The best time to say yes is now.
At the heart of NeoTantra there is a promise as old as the Vedas and as new as the latest neuroscience — our bodies are designed to be vessels of the sacred. Reachable through breath, touch, and the living warmth of genuine human contact.
Yet stress accumulates. Familiarity sets in. Our bodies learn to manage rather than feel, and intimacy — moments of being truly present with another person — quietly narrows into routine.
Coming Home is a weekend retreat designed to find the way back in. Inhabiting our ordinary lives so completely that access to the extraordinary becomes available again.
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Here's What We'll Explore . . .
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Coming Home . June 26th - 28th . NeoTantra Retreat For Singles & Couples
From Friday’s first meal together to Sunday’s closing ceremony, this is an immersive experience. Not a workshop we attend — a homecoming we become.
NeoTantra Breathing Practices
We live in a world that has forgotten how to exhale. Somewhere between the notifications and the never-ending to-do lists, our breath became shallow — and so did our pleasure. In this practice, we'll rediscover breath as the original erotic force, the current that carries sensation from the edges of the body all the way to its depths. What begins as a simple inhale becomes a wave — expanding, awakening, overflowing.
Giving and Receiving
So many of us have become experts at doing — at giving, managing, holding everything together. True intimacy lives in the pause, in the willingness to be met. Here, we'll explore the exquisite tension between offering and opening, between presence and surrender. We'll discover that receiving is not passive — it's one of the most courageous acts of love.
Sexual Persona
Every message we've ever received about desire — spoken or unspoken — lives somewhere in our body. The careful silences. The inherited shame. The relationships that left their fingerprints. This is where we gently set those down. Not to erase our story, but to write the next chapter from a freer, more radiant place.
The Pelvis
Modern life is lived from the neck up. We think, we scroll, we strategize — while the deep intelligence of the body waits, patient and untapped. The pelvis is your center of gravity, your wellspring of creative and erotic force. Waking it up doesn't just transform our sex lives — it transforms the way we move through the world.
The Pelvic Floor
Beneath the surface of our daily lives, a quiet vitality waits to be reclaimed. The pelvic floor is the cradle of sensation, the foundation of pleasure, the place where aliveness is stored. Through ancient practices made newly relevant, we'll unlock a fullness we may have forgotten was possible — or perhaps never knew existed.
Cultivating Sexual Pleasure
Genital orgasm is a doorway — not a destination. We were designed for something far more expansive — pleasure that doesn't peak and crash, but builds and blooms and fills us completely. In the NeoTantra tradition, this is the whole-body awakening the mystics wrote about. Here, we'll find our own path to it — and begin to carry it into every part of our lives.
Opening to a Partner
This is where the inner journey becomes a shared one. When two people who have each touched their own aliveness turn toward each other — something extraordinary becomes possible. Not the performance of connection, but the real thing — two currents meeting, weaving, amplifying each other. This is the NeoTantra that the poets describe.
Letting Go
Stress doesn't just live in the mind — it settles into muscle and bone, into the very tissues of our longing. Many of us have forgotten what it feels like to truly release. In this practice, our bodies remember. We'll be guided into a deep unwinding — the kind that opens the door to what Osho called the valley orgasm: not a peak, but a depth. Not a moment, but a state of being.
Who Are You as a Sexual Being?
In the rush of loving others — of being a good partner, a devoted parent, a reliable friend — it's easy to lose the thread back to ourselves. This is an invitation to pick it up again. To ask, perhaps for the first time: What do I desire? What lights me up? Who am I, as a lover? The answers are more surprising, and more beautiful, than we might expect.
Celebrate Pleasure
We end where all good journeys end — in gratitude, in the senses, in the sheer improbable gift of being here. In this final ritual, we don't just talk about aliveness. We taste it. The world you step back into will look the same. Yet we'll be changed forever.
Coming Home is a prerequisite for the Fragrance of the Lotus Year-Long Advanced Training 2028.
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The Schedule . . .
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Coming Home . June 26th - 28th . NeoTantra Retreat For Singles & Couples
The flow of the sessions may change over the course of the weekend - we ask, in advance, for your flexibility and understanding.
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FRIDAY EVENING — ARRIVAL & OPENING
3:00pm – 5:00pm · Check In
Settle in · Meet your fellow travelers · Begin to exhale
6:00pm – 7:00pm · Dinner
7:30pm – 9:30pm · Opening Session
Welcome to NeoTantra · Arriving · NeoTantra Breathing Practices
9:30pm onwards · Free Time
Stargazing, sauna, hot tub, and plunge pool available
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SATURDAY — AWAKENING
7:00am – 7:30am · Fruit, Tea, Coffee
7:30am – 8:30am · Morning Movement · Meditation
8:30am – 9:30am · Breakfast
10:00am – 1:00pm · Morning Session
Sexual Breathing & the Inner Flute · Giving & Receiving · Heart Salutation · Melting Hug · Soul Gazing · Sharing Circle
1:00pm – 2:00pm · Lunch
2:00pm – 4:00pm · Free Time
Hike, Sauna, Plunge Pool, Nap · Fresh Bread & Snack Spread
4:00pm – 6:00pm · Afternoon Session
The Pelvis & Pelvic Floor Awakening · Sexual Persona · Women's Circle & Men's Circle
6:00pm – 7:00pm · Dinner
8:00pm – 9:00pm · Evening Ceremony
A ceremonial evening of surrender, connection & the awakening of simple pleasures
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SUNDAY — RECOGNITION & HOMECOMING
7:00am – 7:30am · Fruit, Tea, Coffee
8:00am – 11:00am · Morning Session
Cultivating Sexual Pleasure · Opening to a Partner · Letting Go · Who Are You as a Sexual Being? · Sharing Circle
11:00am – 12:00pm · Sunday Brunch
12:00pm – 1:30pm · Pancha Upacharas Closing Celebration
The five sacred moments of access to the divine within · Aarti · Closing Circle
Depart at 1:30 pm. Topanga is full of epic hikes and cool little local shops, and the beach is just 20 minutes away. Ask us for recommendations.
All practices are taught fully clothed. There is no nudity and no sexual contact between participants. Every practice may be engaged solo or with a partner. No prior experience required.
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The Venue . . .
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Coming Home . June 26th - 28th . NeoTantra Retreat For Singles & Couples
Commune Topanga sits on ten acres of meandering paths, oak trees, and organic gardens at the end of a road in a remote valley of the Santa Monica Mountains — less than an hour from the heart of Los Angeles, and another world entirely.
Guests sleep on organic mattresses and linens in charming A-frame glamping cabins, private tea house rooms, and intimate guest quarters — each space thoughtfully designed for two. Bathrooms are shared among kindred spirits, inviting the kind of unhurried morning encounters that remind us we are part of something larger than ourselves.
Every meal is home-cooked from the bounty of LA's finest local farmers, shared together at a common table. Sauna, hot tub, and plunge pool are yours during free time — along with the trails, gardens, and quiet corners that seem to hold their breath and wait for you.
Songwriter Neil Young lived on this land for many years and said it inspired some of his best work. I know it will inspire the best in us as well.
Directions and parking details sent with your registration confirmation.
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Our Facilitator . . .
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Coming Home . June 26th - 28th . NeoTantra Retreat For Singles & Couples
Dawn Cartwright has been teaching NeoTantra for thirty years. Certified in SkyDancing Tantra by Margo Anand in 1994, she is the founder of the Chandra Bindu Tantra Institute in Los Angeles, creator of the Fragrance of the Lotus Year-Long Teacher Certification Program, and host of the Be Fully Alive podcast.
Her teaching draws on classical and Neo-Tantric lineages, contemporary neuroscience, somatic practice, and three decades of direct experience.
An Aquarius with her moon in Leo, Dawn has a natural love for community. Coming Home is Dawn's official re-entry into the world after years of deep private client work. Truly a dream come true.
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Investment & Registration
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Coming Home . June 26th - 28th . NeoTantra Retreat For Singles & Couples
Come as you are and leave the logistics to us. This is a fully residential experience — shared rooms, shared baths, and every meal from Friday dinner through Sunday brunch included. All you need to bring is yourself.
WELCOME IN — YOUR INVESTMENT
Early Bird · $1,997 per person
Register by May 1, 2026
General Registration · $2,497 per person
Register by June 19, 2026
Solo occupancy · $400
Private single room, shared bath
COMING HOME . JUNE 26TH - 28TH . REGISTER NOW
All sales are final. No refunds or transfers. In the event of extraordinary circumstances, credits toward a future event may be offered at the sole discretion of Dawn.
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From Those Who Have Experienced My Work
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Coming Home . June 26th - 28th . NeoTantra Retreat For Singles & Couples
While Coming Home is a brand new immersive experience, I've been passionate about NeoTantra for years. A few voices from those who have joined me so far.
Before this work, I was aware of my own energy but not really. After working with Dawn, not only was I able to understand my energy but I was able to work with it. Through this process I also began to identify blocks within myself that were sabotaging my own energetic flow. Dawn thoughtfully walks her students through processes that allow them to rise to their truest potential — allowing a greater connection not only with themselves but with their partners and the world around them. — Jessica
I have worked with Dawn more than once and each time I learn something new. She has a way of getting you to open up, clear out and make space for whatever it is you need. Her intuitive approach works for everyone. I have seen participants from all walks of life respond to her work. If you're looking to connect deeper with your partner or yourself, Dawn will show you the way. — Steven
I was so in awe after my experience. I literally was a different person afterward. I learned about my energy that was — and is — always present within me. This is an amazing weekend, very fun, sacred and awakening. I felt overflowing with life, love and joy for the present moment. — Karen
I left feeling energized and hopeful — not just about sex, but about new, more connected and embodied ways of relating in general. — Brendan
Your story is waiting to be written. I'd love for you to join us.
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Chandra Bindu Tantra Institute
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www.chandrabindutantrainstitute.com
310.592.1293
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