Our Tantra Yoga, Art and Shamanism Program is a 200-hour YTT held in Marvao, Portugal. The course will show you how to teach an intuitive and meditative program that integrates art and shamanic practices into your yoga classes. Learn about the history of Tantra, discover creative ways to teach yoga, and deepen your personal meditation practice.
Unify body, mind, and spirit and learn how to integrate yoga and tantra into your daily life.
Durga’s tiger school is a unique opportunity for personal growth, self discovery and healing.
It will be a transformative experience in a beautiful environment with an intimate group of people who are equally committed to the teachings.
You will enjoy the opportunity to make new friends, 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.
Where?
In Serra Vida – Playground of Presence
We are Located in a beautiful valley with the Sever river flowing through 8 hectares of untouched, raw nature in Portugal’s lush Serra de SoÃo Mamede National Park. It is located a 2.5h drive inland from Lisbon, close to the Spanish border and the medieval castle town of Marvåo.
We are more than a retreat centre. We are an immersive experience and community hub that invites you into presence through movement & meditation, creative expression, art and nature.
We dream of a magical place where all who visit can develop a stronger heart connection to the self, to nature, and to others, as an alternative to ways of living life led by the mind. By sharing this place and intention with you, we hope to plant seeds to create more love and compassion in the world. What makes the Lost Valley a Playground of Presence are the practices we offer, which help you to come out of your mind and into the moment.
The facilities on the land to be shared and enjoyed: The River Sever, Salt water pool, view and yoga deck, natural amphitheatre, ceremonial yurt, ice baths, natural walking trails, wood fired stone oven and outside dining area.
Energetical Choreography
All of the Tantra Yoga Teacher Training courses follow a very elaborate and proven energy choeography to guide and accompany you through a beautiful and challenging process of personal exploration and experience.
Discover new life styles with Durga’s Tiger School and experience the power of tantra yoga.
We are celebrating a new path in your life.
Let your inner tiger roar while you learn the art of yoga in Portugal.
Pricing: €1500
Yoga Teachers in this training
Daniela de Girolamo
Daniela was born and raised in Italy. After some years traveling as a tour guide, she decided to change her life and dive into the arts of well being and ancestral knowledge.
Bettina Steinle -Vossbeck
Bettina spent her childhood between the city and countryside, close to nature and the heartbeat of Mother Earth.
Shona Lisa Pratt
My name is Shona Lisa, I am a firm believer that we are all artists of this canvas called life, creating the contribution we alone can make.
Victoria Boels
Dates and pricing
6th April – 28th April 2024
200 hours YTT: 1500€
Discount of 110 euros per person for 2 or more people who reserve together.
Cost for lodge and meals for 22 nights/days:
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 our school comes straight from an ancient lineage and is based on the teachings of Bhagavan Shanmuka Anantha Natha. We 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 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 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 to culture Kundalini Energy.
Victoria Boels
Shona Lisa Pratt
I facilitate conscious dances, meditation, tantric yoga as well as creative expression workshops and conscious dining experiences. These practices are not only my personal medicine, they bring me closer to the life-artist within myself. And sharing this perspective with others is my passion in life.
My professional foundation was set during a 10 year career in the creative side of the fashion industry. I specialised in developing sprouts of inspiration into physical manifestations during my job as global production and collection manager for multinational fashion brands. The love for nurturing ideas into reality has its roots here and still fuels me with passion and life force.
Together with my partner I am bringing a ‘playground of presence’ to life, a retreat centre called ‘The Lost Valley’ in Portugal. Where the realms of movement, meditation and creative expression come together in celebration of life, love and nature.
