Durga's Tiger School®

Beyond the
Myths of Tantra

A Path to Wholeness

Alone or as Couples

A Living Immersion for Seekers

Yoga Teacher Training

200 · 300 · 500 hrs · Yoga Alliance Certified

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What tantra actually is

Most people think tantra is only about physical pleasure.

It is about life.

Life force flows through everything — your creativity, your relationships, your courage, your capacity to love. In this school, we learn to move that energy consciously, so it feeds every dimension of who you are.

Tantra is the ancient art of becoming fully alive — of meeting reality without flinching, without numbing, without pretending. It is a practice of wholeness. Of learning to inhabit your body, your relationships, and your existence with presence and intention.

This is what Iris has been teaching for over 30 years. Not theory. Not performance. A lived path.

Woman dancing freely — tantra as aliveness

For the solo seeker

You feel the call.Something in you is ready.

You've explored yoga, meditation, or plant medicine — and you know there is more.
You're in a moment of transition and want to meet it consciously, not just survive it.
You want to understand your own energy — how it moves, where it gets stuck, how to free it.
You want to learn to teach — and carry something real into the world.
You want to belong to a community of people who take this path seriously.

For couples

You love each other.Something is ready to deepen.

You love each other deeply, but somewhere along the way something between you grew quiet.
You want to grow as individuals — without growing apart.
You want to learn heartful communication — to speak and listen from a deeper place.
You're curious about tantra but want a safe, grounded, genuine path into it.
You want to reconnect with your aliveness, your body, and your shared joy.

Tiger Riders

Truth seekers from around the world, here to learn to embrace a tantric lifestyle.

In stillness, you meet yourself

Every seeker walks their own path

Rest is also practice

Joshua & Madlin — Tiger Riders

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A word from our founder · Iris Disse

Our techniques move life energy — so that couples begin to rediscover themselves as individuals within the relationship. It rejuvenates love. You learn heartful communication, how to recreate the feeling of love — becoming master of your own energy movement.

Blockages can melt. Patterns can be identified with love, so that you can let them go. Freedom and love become two poles, dancing with each other.

Iris Disse · Founder, Durga's Tiger School®

The path is not always serious

Laughter is alsopart of the practice.

The tantric path at Durga's Tiger School is deep — but it is not heavy. Alongside the inner work, the ritual, and the transformation, there is something equally important: joy. Playfulness. The freedom to be ridiculous, surprising, and fully alive.

You will find yourself laughing in postures you never expected to try. Discovering new sides of yourself — and of each other. Seeing your partner, or your fellow seekers, with completely fresh eyes.

This is what the tantric path does. It does not just deepen love — it lightens it. It makes room for the child inside you to come out and play again.

What you will live

Not a retreat you attend.A life you inhabit.

Every day is woven from practice, ritual, community, and reflection. You will not just learn about tantra — you will live it, in your body, in community, in the land.

Kaula Tantra Yoga — daily

A slow, flowing, meditative practice rooted in ancient lineage. Each session is a moving meditation — 2 to 3 hours — that reunites body, mind, and energy. No pressure. No performance. Your body finds its own truth.

Heartful communication

Through the Talking Stick circle and applied tantric philosophy, you learn to speak and listen from the heart — not the ego. For couples and solo seekers alike, this practice can change everything.

Massage & partner work

You learn to give and receive — consciously, lovingly, without pressure. Partner yoga and the Yogic Walking Massage teach you to hold sacred space for another's body and energy.

Shamanic ritual & ceremony

Temazcal sweat lodge, cacao ceremonies, ritual and nature connection practices drawn from Andean and Tibetan traditions. These are doorways into altered states and expanded awareness — practical shamanism you carry into your art and your life.

Art, dance & expression

Durga's Tiger Dance, mantra chanting, shamanic clown, voice liberation. Through movement and sound you deepen creativity and intuition — and learn to see life from a completely new perspective. Your inner child, your wildness, your joy.

Community living

You share meals, practice, and life with an international group of up to 30 people. In this sangha you are not alone in your growth — you are held, witnessed, and celebrated.

In their own words

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To come here is a great experience for us as a couple. I take so many powerful moments and fun moments… There is a lot of great energy and beauty in the place, in the other students, in the teachers — it is very inspirational.

Javier

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It is a very safe space. I dive deep into my heart and the heart of my partner. I take the ability to express how I am and how I feel with my partner. And that I am ok as I am.

Franciska

★★★★★

I was simply looking for a yoga retreat — a place to decompress and meet like-minded people. When I spotted a Kaula Tantra, Art and Shamanism path at Durga's Tiger School, I jumped at the chance.

There's such great energy here — you can feel it in the air, across the landscape, in the yoga shala, and between the group. The teachers build and maintain a safe space and sense of trust needed to heal, to peel back some layers, let go, let loose, and allow our seeds to grow.

I loved the heady mix of classes — the majority of learning done in an experiential, hands-on, caring and sharing way. Exactly what my yoga and spiritual awakening journey desperately needed.

I'll definitely be coming back to complete the 500 YTT.

Craig · Solo seeker · Latin America travels

This path is for everyone

Love does not comein one shape.

At Durga's Tiger School, the tantric path belongs to every person who feels called to it — regardless of who you love, how you identify, or what your relationship looks like.

What matters is the intention you arrive with: the willingness to be honest, to grow, to open. Every seeker who walks through these doors is received with the same warmth, the same depth, and the same freedom to be exactly who they are.

Come as you are. You are welcome here.

Why this is different

So much more than justa yoga teacher training.

Most trainings give you techniques and send you home. Here you live the practice — every day, in community, in nature, in ritual — until it becomes part of who you are.

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You become your own authority
The tantric path teaches you to evaluate theory from your own experience. You become less easily manipulated, more deeply yourself.
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Tantra is grounded and embodied
No abstraction. No performance. The tantra here is lived through breath, movement, sound, and conscious touch — in a safe, respectful, boundary-clear environment.
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You are held by community
You grow alongside others — not in isolation. The sangha of international Tiger Riders creates a field of trust and shared transformation that amplifies everything.
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The land is part of the teaching
Casa Kiliku sits at the edge of the Ilaló natural reserve. The mountain, the river valley, the forest — they hold the space for inner work in a way no urban retreat can replicate.
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You leave as a certified yoga teacher
Internationally recognized by Yoga Alliance. You don't just transform personally — you gain the tools and certification to guide others on this path too.

Choose your depth

2026 Immersion Programs

Open to solo seekers and couples. Choose based on how deep you are ready to go — you can always return for more.

Group sharing circle at Durga's Tiger School

Internationally recognized

Your certificate opens doors —
everywhere in the world.

Durga's Tiger School is registered with Yoga Alliance International — the world's largest nonprofit association for yoga. This means your 200, 300, or 500-hour certificate is recognized globally, allowing you to teach professionally anywhere in the world and join the international registry of certified yoga teachers.

Foundation

200 hrs

28 days · Ecuador

Jul 19 – Aug 15 2026
Oct 11 – Nov 7 2026
Nov 15 – Dec 12 2026

Deepening

300 hrs

42 days · Ecuador

Oct 11 – Nov 21 2026
Nov 1 – Dec 12 2026

Full Immersion

500 hrs

63 days · Ecuador

Oct 11 – Dec 13 2026

Pricing depends on the program you choose and the length of your training — 200, 300, or 500 hours. Available on request. Reach out and we'll share everything. We believe in conversation before transaction.

Casa Kiliku · Ilaló · Andes

The Andes have been holding people like you for a very long time.This land remembers what modern life has forgotten.

Casa Kiliku sits at the edge of the Ilaló natural reserve, in a river valley near Tumbaco, Quito. The mountains surround you. The air is clean. The silence is alive.

Nature is part of the curriculum. The mountain, the forest, the river — they hold the space for inner work in a way no urban retreat can replicate.

Edge of the Ilaló natural reserve, Ecuador
Tumbaco — 30 minutes from Quito
Safe, peaceful, community neighborhood
3 vegetarian meals per day, shared together
Temazcal sweat lodge on site
Weekend excursions to Ecuador highlights
Maximum 30 students per group
Power plant ceremonies available (optional)

Iris in her own words

Meet your guide

MeetIris Disse

Founder · Energetic Choreographer · Director

Iris is a composer, writer, radio producer, and filmmaker — and the living creative force behind everything Durga's Tiger School does. She has been on the tantric path for over 30 years, and in a tantric relationship with her partner David for 34 of them.

She did not found this school from theory. She founded it from lived experience — from the transformations tantra, shamanism, yoga, and art brought into her own life, her love, and her creative work. She teaches what she lives.

In each training you have the opportunity to work directly with Iris — to be guided, witnessed, and challenged by someone who has walked every step of this path herself.

Getting here

How tofind us.

Getting to Casa Kiliku is easier than you might think. Ecuador is well connected internationally, and our location just outside Quito makes arrival straightforward and stress-free.

✈️The training location is approximately 30 minutes from Quito International Airport — easily accessible by taxi or arranged transport.
📍We are located in Tumbaco, a calm and peaceful area just outside Quito, in the lush Andean valley.
📋You will receive detailed arrival instructions after booking — including transport options and what to bring.
🤝The team at Durga's Tiger School is always happy to assist with travel coordination. Just reach out — we are here to make your arrival as smooth as possible.

About Ecuador

You may have heard things about Ecuador.Here is what our students actually felt.

Ecuador has had challenging press coverage in recent years. We understand this may give you pause. But we want you to hear it directly from people who came — who moved through Quito, lived in Tumbaco, and experienced the country with open eyes. Casa Kiliku is a safe, peaceful sanctuary. Ecuador, approached with awareness, is a deeply beautiful country to be in.

Tomas & Amelie share their experience of safety in Ecuador

Take the next step

Ready toride the tiger?

Reach out and tell us about yourself — alone or as a couple. No pressure, no sales process — just a real conversation about whether this path is right for you, right now.

Or speak to us directly

Some people prefer to write. Others prefer to talk. Either way, we are here — and we respond personally.

💬 WhatsApp — +39 349 781 3230

📧 info@durgas-tiger-school.com

📱 WhatsApp / Telegram: +39 349 78 13 230

📱 Phone: +593 99-280-5875

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Beyond theMyths of Tantra

It is about life.

You feel the call.Something in you is ready.

You love each other.Something is ready to deepen.

Laughter is alsopart of the practice.

Not a retreat you attend.A life you inhabit.

Real voices. Real transformation.

Love does not comein one shape.

So much more than justa yoga teacher training.

You become your own authority

Tantra is grounded and embodied

You are held by community

The land is part of the teaching

You leave as a certified yoga teacher