American Tantra is a journal for people who want more aliveness in the life they already have: more depth in relationship, more precision in desire, more courage in the everyday.
WISDOM
Timeless teachings brought into direct contact with contemporary life.
PRACTICE
Attention, meditation and practices for the life we’re actually living.
RELATIONSHIPS
Desire, intimacy, honesty and the difficult art of meeting another person.
CULTURE
Work, technology, creativity and the strange conditions of modern American life.
LIFE
Family, beauty, loss, pleasure and the ordinary world as the path itself.
Latest Essays
VOL. 01 — 2026
PRACTICE
The Discipline of Staying
Why attention is less about being calm than remaining available to what is real.
RELATIONSHIPS
Desire Has a Vocabulary
Intimacy begins where our rehearsed answers end and honest language starts.
LIFE
Against the Cult of Optimization
A fuller life is not a better-managed life. It is a more vividly inhabited one.
WISDOM
What a Ritual Can Hold
Small forms of devotion can give a day its shape without shrinking its mystery.
— AMERICAN TANTRA
A WEEKLY NOTE ON PRACTICE, CULTURE & THE ART OF BEING HERE
No noise. Just one considered letter each week.