28 Day 200-Hour Tantra Yoga Arts Shamanism Teacher Training in Quito, Ecuador

Before diving into this unique program:

Durga's Tiger School for Tantra Yoga Shamanism is deeply affected by the current news regarding the situation in Ecuador. The reports about armed conflicts, especially in the coastal regions and near the borders with Colombia, are causing concern for many people abroad – they completely understand that. As long-term residents of this wonderful country, they would like to send you a personal and reassuring message.

Here, in Tumbaco and the Andes region, the situation is very different.

They are lucky that their school is located in between the Airport and Quito, in a calm and rural environment. They have lived here for over thirty years and know this area like the back of their hand.

They want to assure you: Their home and their school are not located in a conflict zone.

The peace and positive energy that define our work here in Tumbaco remain unchanged. The safety and well-being of their guests are always their highest priority.

With this certainty in their hearts, they continue to invite you with a clear conscience to be part of the Durgas Tiger experience. They look forward to welcoming you to their oasis of calm, to practice, laugh, and grow together.

Are you ready to walk the tantric, yogic, shamanic, and artistic path to become your own guru? Join Durga's Tiger School in the majestic Andes of Ecuador.

• Become a certified Yoga Alliance & Yoga Alliance International Yoga Teacher
• Connect with your sexual energy and channel it into heart-centered intimacy and spiritual connection
• Experience powerful Tantric and Shamanic rituals for personal transformation, and self-empowerment
• Feel held in a safe, supportive community where all emotions are honored and welcomed
• Explore the sacred in everyday life and rediscover the bliss available in the present moment.
• Work with your Kundalini Energy in tantric and yogic practices
• Embrace life as art, and yourself as the conscious creator of your inner and outer reality

This training is a joyful transformation to become a creative and powerful yoga teacher.

This experience-based Yoga Teacher Training is rooted in Tantra, Yoga, Arts & Shamanism.

It’s designed to guide you through a journey of self-discovery, embodiment, and conscious living as a future yoga teacher or just for somebody who wants to immerse in a transformational experience.

In a world spinning faster every day, you create a path that connects old wisdom with your everyday life to be the vibrant humans you are meant to be. 

The traditional roots awaken in your inherent cell memory. You don't need a specific previous experience to come to this course. The Kaula Tantra Yoga is a practice that can be afforded from the point where you are now, and it allows you to dive into yoga, becoming aware of your limits and possibilities and working with them respectfully. Whether you're just beginning or deepening your practice, you'll be supported every step of the way.

As a future teacher, you learn how to bring people into awareness during the yoga practice and in real life.

Applied Yogic-Tantric wisdom, arts, and shamanism are use to dive into the theoretical part which they firmly believe that needs to be backed up on your own experience to become inner wisdom. Durga's Tiger School for Tantra Yoga Shamanism's vision is to support people to step into their personal power. We see them coming from different countries, social backgrounds and ages, enjoying that they walk together, share and create a very special field of wisdom. You spiral lightful energy into a chaotic world, to create abundant islands where you do not have to function, but where the dignity to be a human can be lived. A world held alive for future generations where you are part of the solution.

Saying YES to Durga’s Tiger School is a jump into trusting the flow of existence… are you in?

Certification

Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).

The Facilitators: International Experts in Tantra, Yoga, Arts, Shamanism & Healing Practices

At Durga’s Tiger School, you are proud to be supported by a vibrant and diverse international team of over 20 passionate facilitators, each bringing a unique background and specialization in various disciplines of Tantra, Yoga, Arts & Shamanism and healing practices.

Their team is carefully prepared to support the holistic and experiential approach of the Tantra Yoga Teacher Training programs.

• Dynamic Teaching Rotation:

To keep the energy vibrant and responsive throughout the year, the teacher's schedule is flexible and non-static. This rotating model ensures that every course benefits from fresh energy and aligned guidance.

Course Choreography

Durga’s Tiger School is where Ancient Tantric teachings meet Neo-Tantric practices; combined they lead you into a new way of relating with the world around you. You will learn concrete tools that you can easily integrate daily. Through experiential learning you will subtly break open the basics of Yoga Philosophy, yamas, niyamas and the eight-limb path in such a way that you will understand where they arise in your life and practice. 

Subjects You’ll Explore

All the subjects in the Teacher Training Course support the understanding of the four pillars of Durga's Tiger School–Tantra, Yoga, Arts & Shamanism and unravel the underlying connection between them in very unique ways. -The subjects are:

• Kaula Tantra Yoga
• Applied Tantric wisdom
• Nature spirit connection
• Artistic expression & clowning
• Intuitive Anatomy
• Psychology of chakras
• Durga’s tiger dance or ecstatic dance
• Hatha Yoga or Partner Yoga
• Meditation, pranayama & mantra chanting
• Talking stick circles
• Ayurvedic walking massage (in the final 200 hours of 500-hour courses)

Kaula Tantra Yoga: The Core Practice of The Training

This ancient yoga system has been passed down through a living lineage for over 5,000 years. The unique Kaula Tantra Yoga sequence they offer is transmitted directly from Bhagavan Shanmuka Anantha Natha in India.

They work with asanas, bandhas, pranayama, mudras and mantras. Different to other practices this series is practiced in a slow and flowing manner to build patience and awareness. Each asana is held gently for a period of time to allow students to relax into the posture. This way, each individual finds their own unique way of expressing the asanas without pressure and judgment.

Over time students learn to meditate in the postures to connect with the Divine. This yoga specifically cultures the diaphragms and thus balances every area of life, including sexuality.

Please note that classes do not involve nudity or sexual contact. In the advanced stages, deeper Pranayama practice, Bandhas, and Mantra practices are incorporated to culture Kundalini Energy.

During their time at Durga’s Tiger School, students will explore Tantra yogic lifestyle, philosophy, and arts that support and complemet the Kaula Tantra Yoga teachings.

From the end of the second week they introduce the methodology of Kaula Tantra Yoga and start the practice teaching classes. Students will have the opportunity to teach in little groups or in pars and of course with the presence of a teacher. All the practice teaching classes include a sharing circle to give and receive constructive feedback.

Applied Tantric Wisdom: A Path into Sacred Intimacy

At Durga's Tiger School, Applied Tantric Wisdom is a unique and transformational journey into embodied Tantra — a grounded and sacred path of self-discovery, spiritual connection, and personal empowerment.

Held in a safe, respectful, and clothed environment, this immersive class offers authentic Tantric practices focused on deep connection and personal growth, without involving sexual intercourse. It's an invitation to explore Tantra not as a performance or technique, but as a living experience of presence, energy, and inner truth.

Deepening your connection to your body and senses as sacred portals you will explore intimacy beyond sexual context — rooted in trust and presence, learn to express desire and set boundaries through honest, heart-centered communication, honor your emotional experience and cultivate and channel Kundalini energy to access vitality, creativity, and spiritual depth.

Hatha Yoga & Partner Yoga –

Active and Shared Complements to Kaula Tantra Yoga (as part of the 200-hour trainings, students experience either Hatha Yoga or Partner Yoga, depending on teacher availability).

At Durga’s Tiger School, Hatha Yoga and Partner Yoga are valuable practices that complement the experience of Kaula Tantra Yoga, offering different entry points into embodied awareness, balancing mind, body and soul.

• Hatha Yoga serves as an active complement to Kaula tantra Yoga, helping to move stagnant energy and build physical and mental strength through asana, pranayama, meditation, and yogic philosophy. It provides a grounding, structured approach that supports and enhances your understanding of yogic traditions alongside Kaula Tantra Yoga.
• Partner Yoga acts as a shared complement to Kaula Tantra Yoga, focusing on connection, trust, and presence with another. Using asanas from the Kaula Tantra Yoga series, you’ll explore the tantric principles of body communication, sensitivity, and energetic exchange, co-creating the dance of Shiva and Shakti.

Meditation, Chakra Dance, Pranayama & Mantra Chanting: Discover Stillness and Aliveness Through Different Techniques

Explore meditation in different forms to awaken inner quiet and vibrant connection.

These classes invite you to experience stillness, presence, and inner clarity through a variety of accessible practices.

You will practice and learn about pranayama (breathwork), mantra chanting, dynamic meditation, silent meditation and discover how breath, sound, and movement can lead to deep states of presence

Nature Spirit Connection: A Journey into the Discovery of your Inner Shaman

Your journey into shamanism begins with a powerful Community Temazcal Ceremony; a traditional sweat lodge ritual for energetic cleansing and spiritual rebirth. In some training they also work with Cacao rituals.

Rooted in indigenous shamanic traditions, this immersive class guides you into a space of inner wisdom through guided rituals and hands-on practices, like the connection with your power animals, work with plant allies, learning shamanic energy cleansing techniques for holistic well-being, exploration of the four elements and understanding of the sacred-sexuality.

Intuitive Anatomy: Listening to the Body’s Inner Wisdom

Awaken sensitivity, clarity, and embodied presence through conscious self-inquiry.

Intuitive Anatomy is a subtle yet powerful class that explores the deep relationship between the physical body, emotions, and the mind. Developed through years of experiential learning, this class invites you to slow down, listen inward, and connect with your body as a wise and sensitive guide.

They will approach the vision and methodology of the Kaula Tantra yoga practice. They will develop a connection with you inner body intelligence, learn how to read it better and act according to its current needs, exploring the patterns that shape the body and mind,

As a future teacher you will learn how to observe and guide people in the class without forcing them and giving emphasis to

Psychology of Chakras: Explore Your Story and Potential Through the Subtle Body

Discover how your life story is reflected in your chakras and learn to transform it. This is a deeply reflective class that blends chakra theory with psychological insight and embodied experience. Chakras are consciousness centers, they hold the emotional imprints, belief systems, and inner patterns formed across your life. Each chakra represents a developmental stage that they all move through as human beings: from grounding in the family system, through navigating relationships to finding personal truth.

As part of the Yoga Teacher Training program, this class guides you through a structured and experiential exploration of your subtle body, helping you uncover the emotional and psychological themes stored within each consciousness center.

Artistic Expression & Clowning: Step into Your Power as a Teacher Through Creative Transformation

Awaken your joy, spontaneity, and self-awareness as a yoga teacher through theater and sacred play.

At Durga’s Tiger School, Artistic Expression & Clowning is a unique and transformative class that fuses theater arts, and emotional healing.

As part of this Yoga Teacher Training program, this artistic experience offers a safe and playful space for self-exploration. You'll reconnect with your inner child, embrace authentic self-expression, explore emotions and access your power as a yoga teacher.

Durga’s Tiger Dance & Ecstatic Dance

Embodied healing through breath, sound, and movement. As part of the 200-hour trainings, students experience either Durga’s Tiger Dance or Ecstatic Dance, depending on teacher availability.

both Durga’s Tiger Dance and Ecstatic Dance offer transformative, body-based practices rooted in tantric principles, designed to awaken creativity, release stored emotion, and cultivate deeper inner connection. Each dance approach explores the power of breath, sound, and movement used in Tantra as tools for personal transformation and embodied wisdom.

Ayurvedic Walking Massage:

Awaken the body through ancient touch and energetic alignment (offered in 200-hour trainings which take place during the final 200 hours of 500-Hour trainings).

Experience the grounding power of this meditative, partner-based massage rooted in Ayurvedic tradition.

Ayurvedic Walking Massage is an ancient practice passed down through Ayurvedic wisdom, traditionally used to prepare warriors for battle and yogis for deep practice. Performed with the feet, awakens the physical body and balances the energetic system to prepare for the yoga practice.

This practice is done in partnership, offering a powerful way to give and receive while cultivating presence and connection. The rhythmic pressure stimulates vital Marma Points, softens the muscles, and enhances the flow of energy throughout the body.

Karma Yoga

is part of the learning process of community life. You will help each other to maintain a common space, which by focusing energy in the collective, comes together to maintain a high vibrational space. Through karma yoga, you will keep in contact with the Earth (Pachamama) and her fruits while contributing to the well-being of the collective environment.

Talking Stick Circle – Speak from the Heart in Conscious Community

At Durga’s Tiger School, the Talking Stick Circle is a sacred group practice rooted in indigenous wisdom and inspired by the ZEGG Community Forum in Germany. This space invites honest, heart-centered sharing and deep listening in a supportive, non-judgmental community.

Extras & Weekend Experiences

• To complement your inner journey, you can go out in week ends or participate to healing opportunities, including:
• Day trips to hot springs, sacred mountains, lakes, rivers and forests or the famous Otavalo Market
• Shamanic experiences, such as guided power plant journey

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