Sandrine Bettinelli
Tantra Teacher
& Sacred Intimacy Mentor
I guide intelligent, sensitive, high-functioning people
into deeper intimacy
with their body, their desire, and their truth.
Grounded in neuroscience.
Rooted in Tantra.
Who I Am
A bridge between worlds
I’m a certified Tantra Teacher trained in the Tantra Essence lineage and a certified VITA Coach in Love, Sex & Relationship and Tantric Sexuality.
For two decades, I built a career as a high-tech executive. I hold an engineering degree and a prestigious MBA, and I understand ambition, pressure, and performance from the inside.
I am the co-founder of London Tantra and the Corfu Tantra Festival.
I am also a wife and a mother of two — a woman who lives tantra in real life, not only retreat centres.
My work bridges the sacred and the rational, devotion and discernment, embodiment and intellect.
I do not teach escape from life. I teach intimacy within it.
The architecture behind my work
How I See the World
My brain is wired for structure. I love patterns, coherence, underlying systems. I care about how things actually work. And I am equally drawn to what seems beyond comprehension — rituals, beauty, the deeper layers of experience.
For me they are not opposites. Precision and mystery can work together. Tantra holds both: intellectual freedom and depth in sensations, discernment and devotion.
I am Parisian at heart — brought up with art, ideas, long debates, and an appetite for complexity.
I am introverted by nature. My sensitivity is not a show; it is how I perceive the subtle world.
This is the lens I bring to my work.
Training & Lineage
The transmission I stand in
I was trained within Ma Ananda Sarita’s lineage and received direct transmission through years of committed practice and apprenticeship. My work is rooted in the non-dual teachings of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra and informed by embodied neo-tantric practice.
I later certified as a VITA coach in Love, Sex & Relationship and Tantric Sexuality, integrating coaching methodology, neuroscience, and deep tantric and taoist knowledge.
This shapes the Tantra I teach: classical, embodied, non-dual, and grounded in love and meditation. Lineage matters. It brings discernment, depth, ethics, and integrity to the work
My Tantra Path
Everything worked — until it didn't
“I could hardly leave my bed. All I felt was a dense numbness and an excruciating, inexplicable pain.”
From the outside, I had received everything I had ever wanted. I was newly married, pregnant, living in the Upper West Side, building a serious career, surrounded by more than I could event dream of. And I felt completely dead inside. I woke up one morning, unable to get up from bed, in constant and unbearable inner pain.
I began to sit in meditation because I did not know what else to do. In the silence, one inconvenient sentence kept coming with unsettling clarity: teach Tantra. I resisted it with all I had, it made no sense to me. It didn't leave, so I turned toward it with the same intensity — the same acharnement — that I bring to everything that matters in my life.
What followed was a decade of initiation that restructured my entire life. I changed countries, left a career I had built for twenty years, rebuilt my relationship with my body, my sexuality, shifted my relationships and my sense of purpose.
My inner life opened in ways I could not have imagined, and my outer life just aligned in incredible ways. It is the most radical transformation I ever went through, and it felt like coming home.
And from the beginning, one thought was always there: this is not only for me. These ancient, powerful, life changing teachings are so needed today.
My calling is to share them and make them accessible to everyone who hears that call too.
