Matt Sturm is a guide for transformational experiences and an author. He works with people to slow down, to come into their bodies, and to connect to their innate inner wisdom. Matt holds a strong, clear container for healing, intimacy, and spiritual awakening within a variety of contexts. These include psychotherapy, psychedelic-assisted therapy, sacred sexuality, breathwork journeys, and men’s retreats. He runs the Living Kosmos integral mystery school, focusing on the evolution of consciousness at the intersection of science and spirituality. His first book, The Organic Masculine, is an integral and archetypal workbook on masculinity.
My Story
I hold a BA in Math and an MBA. I’ve lived and worked in Paris, Ghana, the Philippines, India, and Haiti. I had a successful career working on climate change and solar financing, and then I found my real calling: shepherding transformation.
In order to offer this work, I’ve had to transform my life again and again and again. I had a religious upbringing that conditioned me with shame and sexual repression. I was a nerdy nice-guy who was disconnected from his body and emotions. I’ve been a co-dependent caretaker in relationships.
In 2013, I attended a neo-tantra retreat at Agama Yoga in Thailand. It was here that I first encountered ideas like sexuality is sacred, the body is your temple, and women can be spiritual teachers. I discovered my passion for yoga, retrained my sexuality, and began my awakening journey in earnest. In 2014, I began sharing these teachings with my friends in the Bay Area. As the popularity of these workshop grew, I co-founded Ritual Tantra to host workshops, retreats, and events. Along the way, I trained at Source Tantra, got my yoga teacher certification, began meditating with Dharma Ocean, enrolled in Hakomi somatic psychotherapy, and trained to become a psychedelic guide. In 2018, I co-founded Embodied Erotic to continue offering sex-positive workshops and retreats in the Bay Area. I also began leading men’s retreats around this time, having joined my first men’s group in 2012.
In 2020, I moved to Kaua’i and founded Living Kosmos. This new body of work emerged after undertaking my initiation into the Western Mystery tradition as well as becoming obsessed with integral theory. Through Living Kosmos, I began offering initiations into the Hermetic Kabbalah and the tarot, as well as courses on the evolution of consciousness.
In 2024, I published my first book, returned to the Bay Area, and continue to create transformational spaces while pursuing my passion for writing.
Teachers and Modalities
Since 2015, I’ve been working with Adam Gainsburg. His Open Heart Experience is a space to be honest and feel, which informs my Human Heart group work. I utilize the Hakomi method of body-centered psychotherapy when holding space. I’m trained in psychedelic-assisted therapy and earth-based rituals for expanded states of consciousness. I’m an alignment-based Hatha yoga teacher through Body Temple Yoga. I practice somatic meditation, following the teachings of Reggie Ray. I’ve studied Neo-Tantra and Hatha yoga with Source Tantra and at Agama Yoga. I’m a Reiki teacher through Asha Eden Rose. And I’ve undertaken my initiations into Qabalistic Tarot with Pamela Eakins. I’m a facilitator of kundalini awakening through Source Embodiment and also guide breathwork journeys. I’ve been active with men’s work since 2012 through the Rhythm Society, Mankind Project, Boys to Men, and others.
