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7 Day 50-Hour Shamanism, Art and Kaula Tantra Yoga Teacher Training in Tumbaco, Quito
Rumihuaico Alto, lote 169, segunda acequia, Tumbaco. 170910 Quito, Ecuador
Ecuador 50-Hour Yoga Continuing Education
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Engage in a personal and transformative process in a beautiful and intimate learning environment. You are welcome to join a week of international teacher training to get your 50-hour continuing education certificate.
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Highlights
- Energetical-choreographed continuing education training
- Experience-oriented teacher training
- Undergo the self-transformation process in a safe, beautiful, and intimate environment
- Certificate of completion
- 6 nights accommodation
- Enjoy 3 healthy meals per day
Styles
7 days with instruction
Accommodation
Facilities
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Terrace
- Yoga shala
- Yoga studio
Durga's Tiger School has shared rooms (double or triple), single rooms with shared bathrooms, and single rooms with private bathrooms.
Program
Certifications
The course/hours count as Continuing Education hours for Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®) only.
Energetical choreography
The beautiful thing about each training and retreat is that it follows a very elaborate and proven energy choreography to accompany and guide you in your beautiful but challenging process of personal exploration and experience.
An experience-oriented teacher training
- Learn to include an intuitive, restorative, and deeply meditative approach into your yoga practice.
- Unify body, mind, and spirit and learn how to integrate yoga and tantra into your daily life.
- Immerse yourself in a transformative process in a beautiful, safe, and intimate learning environment.
- Enjoy the opportunity to get in contact with shamanistic cosmovision and see its similarities with the spiritual Indian culture.
- Celebrate life through ceremonies and rituals as well as mindful presence and connection
Main Practices
Kaula Tantra yoga
- Asanas
- Pranayama
- Mudras
- Mantras
- Different morning meditations
With the rising popularity of yoga in the recent past, many different styles and teachings have established themselves. So what does the Kaula Tantra yoga practice offer you?
The sequence taught at Durga's comes straight from an ancient lineage and is based on the teachings of Bhagavan Shanmuka Anantha Natha. It works with asanas, bandhas, pranayama, mudras and mantras. Different from other practices, this series is practiced in a slow and flowing manner to build patience and awareness. Each asana is held gently for some time to allow students to relax into the posture. This way, each individual finds their own unique way of expressing the asanas without the pressure of competing or ‘performing perfectly.’
Tantra yoga facilitators approach students as whole human beings and discourage ‘isolating’ or forcing muscles. Their priority is to hold a space of acceptance and love, with only a little guidance where necessary.
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 into the culture of Kundalini energy.
Yogi heart-to-heart communication
In the Talking Stick circle, a space will be opened for the heart-to-heart expression of all the students present in the group. In the forum developed in the ZEGG community, heart-to-heart communication is deepened through consciously-used theatrical means.
A social field will be created to help students be opened to the impulse of life. The school shares from the heart and explores new possibilities in life. Any topic that emerges like emotions, personal development, love, community living, body symptoms can be shared and explored within the group that works as a spiritual community (Sangha). This process helps to self-knowledge, development, and transformation.
Nature spirit connection/Shamanism
Since Ecuador has a huge indigenous population, students also have the opportunity to learn about the Andean culture, its cosmovision, and its similarities with the eastern culture. During the course, shamanistic energy concepts are explored together with the Tibetan tantric tradition. There are parallels in how these two different traditions understand energy, astrology, subtle anatomy, and physiology. Durga's very proud to work together with different wonderful shamans from Ecuador.
Mantra chant
Mantras, the science of sound, in Tantra, represent a powerful tool of liberation of the mind and connection with higher states of consciousness. Students will explore different mantras during the meditation practices, mantra chanting circles, and yoga practice.
Mantras and sacred songs of indigenous cultures will be used to connect with the spirits of nature and the mystery of creation.
This teacher training also involves chanting of spiritual “come together” songs from different cultures.
Students will explore the vibration that the sound creates within themselves and, at the same time, they will learn about the use of the voice as a tool to guide people into yoga practice.
Psychology of chakras
Chakras are centers of consciousness located in the subtle bodies. They store information about the different stages of development including strengths and blocks. In this training, the chakras will be experienced through dance, yoga, breath, and meditation. Another approach is to deal with the psychological component of the chakras.
They represent developmental issues that humans have to face step by step, e.g. anchoring in the family, detachment, growing in the field of tension with the opposite, and finding one's very own path. Students will learn to recognize archetypal patterns in the chakras and explore them through their own biographical history.
Art
This work is a fusion of tools and experiences that can be used in art and life. Get in touch with your inner child and intuition, develop the right side of the brain and lateral thinking, release patterns and blockings, open your ears and eyes to the present moment, work in a group in more effective and loving ways, and increase your creativity and artistic skills by looking at things from a completely new perspective.
Ritual sweat lodge
The temazcal is a place where students can connect with mother nature and the four elements: earth, water, fire, and air. It is a half-round space that can be made out of different materials like wood and blankets or even earth (clay). In the center, there is a hole where the hot stones come in bringing the heat into the temazcal. These stones are warmed up by the fire before being transported into the temazcal.
Inside of the temascal, different herbs are being put, copal on the stones and pour water on them so that the water can evaporate and create heat inside. When the ritual starts, people chant Drum, rattle, and pray to the great spirit of nature. In this way, the temazcal is seen as a particular type of sweat lodge that is considered to be a symbol for the womb of mother Earth as it is dark, hot, and wet inside just like in the belly of a mother.
Durga’s Tiger School temazcal intends to allow healing, energetical cleansing, and last but not least, to allow the TTC Groups to connect as a spiritual community. This is why it is a community Temazcal.
Applied tantric wisdom classes
These classes are a powerful opportunity of self-discovery. As the course is based on experience, students will experience active and participative classes where they will work on some of the main aspects of Tantra.
Students will understand the three tantric keys and what eros, love, and sexuality have to do with breath, energy work, and Kaula Tantra Yoga.
Example daily schedule
- 06:30 - 7:30 Meditation
- Breakfast
- 09:30 - 13:00 Morning classes
- Lunch
- 16:00 - 19:00 Afternoon class
- Dinner
- 20:15 - 22:00 Night class (only twice or three times per week)
Instructors
Iris Disse
2 Certificates
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Iris Disse is the founder of Durga’s Tiger School. During her yoga teacher training, techniques from yoga, Tantra, shamanism, and art come together and create transformative processes. She is a master yoga teacher and has been teaching for 17 years, talking about topics such as love, spirituality, and sexuality at workshops, festivals, and the Andina University in Quito. Her Durga’s Tiger School is an internationally acclaimed institution for yoga teacher training. She is an author, actress, lecturer, and prize-winning producer of audio plays and documentaries in Europe and Latin America.
Wind Malin Disse
1 Certificate
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Wind Malin Disse was born in Berlin, Germany. He has been living in Ecuador with an exception. Wind's path as an anthropologist, artist, and certified YA and YAI yoga teacher, leads him to be seen as a cultural mediator, a bridge between worlds. He has been teaching traditional Tantra yoga in many workshops after having completed his 200-hour teacher training in January 2016 and finished his 500-hour in 2018. Since 2009, Wind has been learning about the shamanic tradition of the Cofán-A’i and ended up being accepted as an apprentice by the shaman Don Avelino Quenama.
Jhoselyn Escobar
1 Certificate
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Jhoss is Ecuadorian. She lived in New York for many years where she obtained her Bachelor’s degrees in International Business and Studies as well as in French. Jhocelyn has worked with different NGOs being part of some projects with Unicef and the United Nations in New York. She did a Master’s degree in Rural Development in New Zealand. Here studied Reiki and earn some traditional Maori healing techniques. In early 2021 she became a 500-hour certified yoga teacher.
Merve Biçer
1 Certificate
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Merve is an aeronautical engineer. In 2017, she decided to dive into the question of “Who am I?” which took her on a journey through psychotherapy, breath work, meditation, Buddhism, yoga, energy work, and Tantra. After leaving her home and career, she went to Nepal to learn traditional Tantra yoga and since then she’s been living a nomadic life. She has completed 900 hours of yoga teacher training. (Hatha and Tantra yoga) - 500 hours were in Durga's Tiger School. She is also a breath work facilitator, meditation guide, Usui Reiki and Cosmic Energy practitioner.
Location
Durga's Tiger School transforms your experience into an authentic retreat for the soul. A calm and unique space at the edge of the Ilaló Natural Park, you can walk to the Ilaló Natural Park and enjoy the beauty of the Andean landscapes from school.
Distances
- Tumbaco Village, 4 kilometers
- Mariscal Sucre Quito International Airport - 40 minutes' drive
- Quito City - 40 minutes' drive)
Features
General
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Terrace
- Yoga shala
- Yoga studio
Food
Three meals will be served every day.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Lactose Free
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- Complete CE training approved by Yoga Alliance
- Certificate of completion
- 6 nights accommodation in a shared room
- 3 meals per day
What's not included
- Flights
- Airport transfers
- Expenses outside the inclusions
- Travel Insurance
How to get there
Recommended Airports
UIO
Mariscal Sucre International Airport
13 km
Transfer not provided
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Mariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO). You can take a 40-minute taxi ride going to the school. Please send an inquiry to Durga's for a taxi reservation with an additional cost of 20 USD.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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