Rihards Azens

For over a decade, Rihards has worked with the body through touch, heat, breath, and presence — training in the ancient Latvian pirts tradition and guiding people back into themselves when life has pulled them too far out.

Pirts opened him first. It cracked him open, taught him to trust what he feels, and led him to tantra — to touch, vulnerability, and being truly seen. He guides others through the same door.
Pirts is not a sauna. It is a ceremony — built on steam, herbs, rhythm, and the quiet intelligence of the body. In a world that asks people to perform constantly, Rihards creates a space where none of that is required.

At the Ängsbacka Tantra Festival, he brings the full Latvian pirts experience: grounded, deliberate, and held with complete presence.