Ayurveda meets Tantra – Wenn Heilkunst auf Lebenslust Trifft (D)
Lara Schäffer
Lara Schäffer is the embodiment of joie de vivre and follows her joy. The trained biologist, artist, and entrepreneur became known through the German TV show Die Höhle der Löwen (the equivalent of Dragon’s Den). Despite her success on the show, Lara chose freedom: she continued to travel and pursue her vision of not only building an Ayurvedic food business but also creating her own unique path for training yoga teachers: a journey back into one’s true power, called MOON SUN FIRE. Today, Lara teaches in the lineage of traditional Tantra Hatha Yoga, leads the company she founded in 2020, and offers seminars and retreats in her core passions: Ayurveda, Tantra, joy of life, and female leadership. She has published two books and hosts a podcast that carries her life’s motto. The essence behind everything she does:
"...Because you are love."
Was wäre, wenn jeder Atemzug dich nährt, jede Berührung ein Geschenk ist und Gesundheit sich wie ein sinnliches Abenteuer anfühlt?
In Ayurveda meets Tantra verweben sich die älteste Heilkunst der Welt und die Kunst gelebter Lebendigkeit zu einem Weg, der dich in Balance, Strahlkraft und Sinnlichkeit führt. Du erfährst, wie du Ayurveda nicht nur kennst, sondern verkörperst! Wie Tantra deine Energie entfesselt, deine Sinne schärft und dich tief ins Jetzt bringt. Ayurveda schenkt dir die Wurzeln, Tantra öffnet dir die Flügel…für einen Alltag, der dich nährt, beflügelt und von innen heraus zum Leuchten bringt. Sinnlich, greifbar, transformierend.
"I see you. I feel you. Thank you. I forgive you. You are enough and you are valuable and worthy of all of the love in the world. I love you and I forgive you."
Summary
- Guided organ reset using hand movements and breathing to balance and recharge organs emotionally and physically. - Specific focus on releasing grief, anger, resentment, desire, fear, overthinking, and speaking truth. - Emphasis on aligning heart and brain coherence for emotional and mental harmony. - Partner exercise promoting connection, forgiveness, self-worth, and mutual appreciation. - Encouragement to self-heal using Ayurveda and Human Garage techniques for accelerated manifestation and wellbeing.
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When ancient healing meets embodied wisdom: a journey through organs and emotions
Lara Schäffer guides participants through integrative practice blending ayurvedic principles with tantric philosophy
At the Heal Play Love Festival in Kemptthal, Switzerland, participants gathered for an unusual healing workshop that promised to bridge two ancient traditions. Lara Schäffer, biologist-turned-spiritual teacher and founder of MOON SUN FIRE, led a session that would take attendees on an intimate journey through their own bodies, using nothing more than their hands, breath, and intention.
The workshop, titled "When Ayurveda meets Tantra," represented more than just a fusion of healing modalities. It embodied Schäffer's broader philosophy of self-empowerment and joy—the same principles that led her to walk away from mainstream success on German television's Die Höhle der Löwen to pursue her vision of authentic healing and teaching.
The electrical body as healing instrument
The premise was deceptively simple: the human body is electrical, and we can use our own hands as antennas to recharge and balance our organs. Schäffer instructed participants to rub their hands together with intention, creating heat and friction, then to clap and feel the energy between their palms.
"Just feel that energy or light between your hands," she guided. "In this bubble that you're feeling, you can bring to your organs any message, any intention. It's not about perfection, but about what you want for your body."
What followed was a systematic journey through the body's major organs, each associated with specific emotions according to traditional Chinese medicine and ayurvedic principles. The practice, known as an organ reset, combined precise hand placements with coordinated breathing and spoken affirmations.
Releasing what no longer serves
The first stop was the ileocecal valve, the gateway between the small and large intestines, associated with grief. Participants placed their left hand behind their neck and their right hand between belly button and hip, pressing and turning while breathing deeply.
"Hello, grief. I'm ready to let you go," they repeated in unison.
The practice moved through the gallbladder and liver—seats of anger and resentment. "Thank you, anger and resentment. I'm letting you go now, and I'm forgiving anybody that has hurt me," participants affirmed, their hands pressed under the right rib cage.
For the stomach, associated with desire and self-belief, the affirmation shifted to empowerment: "I follow my desires, the desire of my heart. I believe in myself. I believe in my capacity. I believe in my dreams."
Addressing modern ailments
The workshop tackled concerns particularly relevant to contemporary life. For the intestines, linked to overthinking, participants pressed their hands lower on the left side while affirming: "I don't need to overthink to feel safe. It's okay to not know. I trust."
The bladder, associated with fear, received special attention. "Thank you, fear, for bringing me all the way here. But from today forward, I replace you with courage," participants declared, their hands pressed to their lower abdomen in a gesture both vulnerable and powerful.
After each organ reset, Schäffer encouraged movement and recalibration. The practice included hip rotations—"Give me your Latin vibes," she called out—acknowledging how modern sedentary lifestyles compress and restrict the body's natural flow.
The heart-brain connection
The practice culminated in addressing what Schäffer presented as the essential relationship: the coherence between heart and brain. Participants placed one hand on top of their head, the other over their heart, feeling for synchronicity between these two centres of intelligence.
"Can you get them to beat at the same time?" Schäffer asked. "Is there coherence between what you think, feel, say, and do?"
The affirmation that followed represented a profound shift in authority within the self: "Heart, you're in charge now. I trust you. This is your moment and I'm ready to move forward. You can take the lead. Brain, you are the co-pilot. Now you're going to trust the heart and help him to get us where we want."
This reordering—placing heart before mind—reflects core tantric philosophy, which emphasises direct embodied experience over intellectual understanding.
Connection as healing
The workshop concluded with a partner exercise that transformed the personal healing work into interpersonal connection. Participants paired up with whoever stood nearest, placing their right hands on each other's hearts simultaneously while maintaining eye contact.
"I see you. I feel you. Thank you. I forgive you," they repeated to one another. "You are enough, and you are valuable and worthy of all the love in the world. I love you and I forgive you. Thank you."
For many, looking a stranger in the eye while speaking words of unconditional acceptance proved more challenging than the physical practices that preceded it. Yet this vulnerability—this willingness to be seen while seeing another—formed the essential bridge between self-healing and collective healing.
Self-empowerment in accelerating times
In her closing remarks, Schäffer addressed what many participants had been sensing: the acceleration of time and manifestation. "Time is speeding up. Manifestations are speeding up," she observed. "In order to manage the speed we're now going at, we need to feel better in our bodies. If we take care of our body, then our manifestations become a reflection of that."
This framing positioned bodywork not as an end in itself, but as essential infrastructure for navigating an increasingly rapid world. The message aligned with Schäffer's broader teaching philosophy: that individuals can learn to heal themselves without dependence on external authorities or practitioners.
"You no longer need somebody else to take care of you," she emphasised, pointing to both ayurvedic medicine and the Human Garage method as frameworks for self-directed healing.
Ancient wisdom for modern bodies
The workshop's integration of ayurveda and tantra represented more than eclectic borrowing from different traditions. Both systems share fundamental assumptions: that body, mind, and spirit form an inseparable whole; that energy flows through specific pathways and centres; and that healing requires active participation rather than passive reception.
What Schäffer offered was a practical synthesis—a way to access these ancient frameworks through contemporary bodies carrying contemporary stresses. The organ reset practice acknowledged both traditional energetic anatomy and modern scientific understanding of the body as an electrical system.
By the session's end, participants reported feeling more grounded, more energised, and more connected—to their own bodies, to each other, and to the possibility of self-directed transformation. The practice had delivered on its promise: a meeting place where healing wisdom and life force converge, where ancient knowledge becomes immediately applicable experience.
In this, the workshop embodied Schäffer's own journey—from conventional success to unconventional freedom, from external validation to internal authority. Her life motto, which shapes all her teaching, had found practical expression: "Because you are love."
Part of Heal Play Love Festival