5 Day Coastal Jungle Ayahuasca and Yoga Retreat in Rio Verde
Chontaduro, Ecuador
Up to 15 in group
December 16 - 20, 2024
Retreat Highlights
- Benefit from the healing power of Yagé and Yoga
- Engage in a personal and transformative process in a beautiful and intimate environment
- Get in contact with the culture of South America
- Discover your personal light and shadows through a range of experience based on shamanism and yoga / meditation
- Discover the importance of the ritual
- Enjoy 3 delicious, healthy, vegetarian meals per day
About this Retreat
Wind Malin Disse was born in Berlin, Germany. From the age of 3 years old he has been living in Ecuador with exception of a view years in Switzerland. He graduated as an Anthropology in Ecuador, and went to Germany for advanced studies as a Migration Manager. Besides Wind loves extreme sports and to play music as a DJ on festivals.
Wind´s path as an anthropologist, artist and Yoga Teacher leads him to be seen as a cultural mediator, a bridge between worlds. He has been teaching the traditional Kaula Tantra Yoga in many workshops. In 2020 he joined a teacher training in the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in the south India. In Durga’s Tiger School ® he teaches Applied Tantra Wisdom, Meditation and Psychology of Chakras beside Kaula Tantra Yoga and Shamanism. He is a certified Yoga Alliance and Yoga Alliance International Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 500) and one of the lead teachers of the Durga’s Tiger School ® Yoga Teacher Training.
Due to his deep interest in shamanism, he has contacted many shamans of the Amazon and Andean region of Ecuador, and worked with them to understand their traditions. From 2009 Wind has been invited to learn more about the shamanic tradition of the Cofán- A’i socio-culture and ended up being accepted as apprentice by the shaman Don Avelino Quenama.
Wind´s thesis as Anthropologist was about the theme: Orality, practices and symbols of the A´i shamanism, including the relation with visionary plants. Don Avelino gave him the authorization to do his own ceremonies with the yage medicine and share his knowledge.
Since then, Wind Malin Disse has attended and guided many shamanic ceremonies in order to keep on learning and help others to enter into a shamanic state of consciousness that allows shamanic healing.
Kitchen & Permaculture
Andrea studied Permaculture, and works with us since we started. She created and tends our permaculture garden, so we have to buy very few fruits and vegetables. She knows a lot about medicinal herbs and chocolate making. She is a wonderful cook, making our workshop participants happy. She lives with her husband, a beekeeper, and two sons on the other side of the river.
DTL Ranch administrator & guide.
24 years old Javier lives with us and is the team leader of our local workers. He realizes with the team all the works on the farm including planting, building and animal care. He gives us advice about the neighborhood and the new world of a lonely farm in tropical surrounding. He is a college graduate and wants to study forestry. He is participating in our workshop as an assistant when we explore the land.
Roberto Calderón was born in Quito, Ecuador. Roberto has always been looking for the all world´s ancient techniques of self-realization. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana Meditation, Hatha Yoga, Feng Shui, Reiky and Acupuncture since a very young age. His later studies included: Mesoamerican calendars, I Ching (Geomancy), and Classical Philosophy.
Roberto has done 3 Vision Quests so far in the “Camino Rojo” (Red Path); it is a shamanic tradition that arrived from North America over than 20 years ago to our country and it has an alternative design that mixes both South and North American ceremonies and sacred medicines. During the 7 years in which Roberto walked this shamanic path, he learned about the simplest but also most natural ways to prepare chocolate starting from the raw cocoa seeds.
In January of 2015 Roberto joined the CEIT the “Traditional Yogas` Studies Center”. This School has very ancient roots in the Tantric Yoga Traditions of southern India and was brought to us by European teachers who have more than 40 years of experience educating and giving yoga teacher´s degrees all around Europe based from their direct experience with Gurudji Thabovan and in coordination with the “Traditional Yogas` Federation in France”. This teachers´ formation lasts 3 years so Roberto is ready to share the original practice of this unstopped line of masters that can be traced back to Patanjali and his gift to the world: “The Yoga Sutras”.
Details of this retreat
Work with masterplants – Learn to connect tantra yoga and meditation with your deepest visions – Explore a breathing river in the coastal jungle – Learn about “good living” in community.
This unique Shamanism and Yoga Retreat will open your eyes to life in community of the Durga’s Tiger Land, close to Rio Verde, not as a turist but as a guest. Our coomunity is located at the ecuadorian coast. We are close to beautiful beaches and a clean river to swim in the middle of a coastal jungle.
In this way, our retreat will be focused on connecting shamanism, tantra yoga and meditation to create a sacred space for healing and transformation. There will be an introduction into shamanism and the work with powerplants like Yage/ Ayahuasca. There will be an introduction into the tantra yoga and meditation practice.
As part of our Shamanism & Yoga retreat we offer the opportunity to explore the healing powers of the sacred Yage medicine in two ceremonies in a safe set and setting for this beautiful, visionary and healing experience. After the powerplant ceremonies there will be space for integration and talking circles to round up the process.
Listen for the call of the plant spirits to awaken your heart: yage is a visionary drink created with the combination of two plants. the yage vine & the yage uku leave. Yage has been used by the shamanic socio-cultures in the amazon for healing and transformation since they remember.
On Durga’s Tiger Land the spirits of the earth, the plants and the animals are still incredibly alive. The jungle symphony in the night, the sound of the river and the wind in the trees, all that makes it a sacred place. You are invited to connect with the sacred medicine Yage in its own habitat. This retreat is led by Malin Wind Disse together with his heart team. He is Neo Shaman, Tantric, Yogi, Anthropologist and actual leader of the Durga’s Tiger School 200hrs, 300hrs and 500hrs Teacher Trainings (Yoga Alliance and Yoga Alliance International certified) in Ecuador.
Imagine: The gentle breathing “Green River” with his warm water cleanses and awakens my inner child. A sacred grove of old “Saman” trees invites you to meditate and connect with the birds and elemental spirits.
In our powerplant ceremonies, we will be working with the tradition of the A’í or Cofán Socio-culture, coming from the Ecuadorian Amazon. This is the tradition where Wind has been learning as an apprentice since more than 15 years with the master shaman Don Avelino Quenama. Wind has received the permission to do his own master plant ceremonies and invite others into this sacred tradition. Since then he has been guiding ceremonies with the medicine of the yage/ ayahuasca holding space for healing and for transformation.
The lifestyle of the Durga’s Tger Land community is aligned with the principles of “buen vivir” or the “good living”, exemplified by living the simple life, one that is not defined by things to possess; but emphasizes the connection from within to the Great Spirit. A connection that can be found living close with Pachamama; and honoring this Earth as a living being.
TRAVEL SCHEDULE
The Daily activities can vary depending on the energy level of the group.
Day 1
13:00* Lunch in DTL Rio Verde.
14:00* Arrive and settle in DTL
Opening Ritual
Day 2
7:00 Breakfast
8:30 – 10:30 Meditation & Tantra Yoga
10:30 Time for reflection, jungle walk and explore community (Visit old Saman Trees)
(there is a beautiful river to bathe in and several beaches nearby)
13:00 Light lunch, prepare for ceremony
16:00 Introduction to Shamanism led by Wind Disse, Anthropologist.
18:00 Sacred Tobacco Ceremony & Intention setting
20:00 Begin first Yage/ Ayahuasca ceremony with Shaman Malin Wind Disse
Day 3
7:30** Breakfast
10:00 – 12:00 Meditation & Tantra Yoga
Sacred Walk to the waterfall or work with plants of DTL
12:00 Group sharing of experience in ceremony
20:00 Chanting Circle around the Fire & Rest
Day 4
7:00 Breakfast
8:30 – 10:30 Meditation & Tantra Yoga
10:30 Time for reflection, jungle or Beach walk and explore community
13:00 lunch
15:00 Group sharing of experience in second ceremony
15:00 Intro. how Ayahuasca is made – led by Wind
18:00 Sacred Tobacco Ceremony & Intention setting
20:00 Begin second Yage/ Ayahuasca ceremony with Malin Wind Disse
Day 5
7:00 Breakfast
10:00 Group sharing of experience in ceremony & Integration Circle
13:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Closing Ceremony & Goodbye
This unique Shamanism and Yoga Retreat will open your eyes to life in community of the Durga’s Tiger Land, close to Rio Verde, not as a turist but as a guest. Our coomunity is located at the ecuadorian coast. We are close to beautiful beaches and a clean river to swim in the middle of a coastal jungle.
In this way, our retreat will be focused on connecting shamanism, tantra yoga and meditation to create a sacred space for healing and transformation. There will be an introduction into shamanism and the work with powerplants like Yage/ Ayahuasca. There will be an introduction into the tantra yoga and meditation practice.
As part of our Shamanism & Yoga retreat we offer the opportunity to explore the healing powers of the sacred Yage medicine in two ceremonies in a safe set and setting for this beautiful, visionary and healing experience. After the powerplant ceremonies there will be space for integration and talking circles to round up the process.
Listen for the call of the plant spirits to awaken your heart: yage is a visionary drink created with the combination of two plants. the yage vine & the yage uku leave. Yage has been used by the shamanic socio-cultures in the amazon for healing and transformation since they remember.
On Durga’s Tiger Land the spirits of the earth, the plants and the animals are still incredibly alive. The jungle symphony in the night, the sound of the river and the wind in the trees, all that makes it a sacred place. You are invited to connect with the sacred medicine Yage in its own habitat. This retreat is led by Malin Wind Disse together with his heart team. He is Neo Shaman, Tantric, Yogi, Anthropologist and actual leader of the Durga’s Tiger School 200hrs, 300hrs and 500hrs Teacher Trainings (Yoga Alliance and Yoga Alliance International certified) in Ecuador.
Imagine: The gentle breathing “Green River” with his warm water cleanses and awakens my inner child. A sacred grove of old “Saman” trees invites you to meditate and connect with the birds and elemental spirits.
In our powerplant ceremonies, we will be working with the tradition of the A’í or Cofán Socio-culture, coming from the Ecuadorian Amazon. This is the tradition where Wind has been learning as an apprentice since more than 15 years with the master shaman Don Avelino Quenama. Wind has received the permission to do his own master plant ceremonies and invite others into this sacred tradition. Since then he has been guiding ceremonies with the medicine of the yage/ ayahuasca holding space for healing and for transformation.
The lifestyle of the Durga’s Tger Land community is aligned with the principles of “buen vivir” or the “good living”, exemplified by living the simple life, one that is not defined by things to possess; but emphasizes the connection from within to the Great Spirit. A connection that can be found living close with Pachamama; and honoring this Earth as a living being.
TRAVEL SCHEDULE
The Daily activities can vary depending on the energy level of the group.
Day 1
13:00* Lunch in DTL Rio Verde.
14:00* Arrive and settle in DTL
Opening Ritual
Day 2
7:00 Breakfast
8:30 – 10:30 Meditation & Tantra Yoga
10:30 Time for reflection, jungle walk and explore community (Visit old Saman Trees)
(there is a beautiful river to bathe in and several beaches nearby)
13:00 Light lunch, prepare for ceremony
16:00 Introduction to Shamanism led by Wind Disse, Anthropologist.
18:00 Sacred Tobacco Ceremony & Intention setting
20:00 Begin first Yage/ Ayahuasca ceremony with Shaman Malin Wind Disse
Day 3
7:30** Breakfast
10:00 – 12:00 Meditation & Tantra Yoga
Sacred Walk to the waterfall or work with plants of DTL
12:00 Group sharing of experience in ceremony
20:00 Chanting Circle around the Fire & Rest
Day 4
7:00 Breakfast
8:30 – 10:30 Meditation & Tantra Yoga
10:30 Time for reflection, jungle or Beach walk and explore community
13:00 lunch
15:00 Group sharing of experience in second ceremony
15:00 Intro. how Ayahuasca is made – led by Wind
18:00 Sacred Tobacco Ceremony & Intention setting
20:00 Begin second Yage/ Ayahuasca ceremony with Malin Wind Disse
Day 5
7:00 Breakfast
10:00 Group sharing of experience in ceremony & Integration Circle
13:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Closing Ceremony & Goodbye
Schedule
7:00 Breakfast
8:30 – 10:30 Meditation & Tantra Yoga
10:30 Time for reflection, jungle or Beach walk and explore community
13:00 lunch
15:00 Group sharing
15:00 Intro about Ayahuasca
18:00 Sacred Tobacco Ceremony & Intention setting
20:00 Yage/ Ayahuasca ceremony
8:30 – 10:30 Meditation & Tantra Yoga
10:30 Time for reflection, jungle or Beach walk and explore community
13:00 lunch
15:00 Group sharing
15:00 Intro about Ayahuasca
18:00 Sacred Tobacco Ceremony & Intention setting
20:00 Yage/ Ayahuasca ceremony
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
Durga's Tiger School for Tantra Yoga Shamanism, Chontaduro, Ecuador
Directions
From Quito airport you can take a bus to Quitumbe station.
From Quitumbe you can take a bus going to Esmeraldas / Chontaduro.
The organization will help you to get to the place with a confidence person.
From Quitumbe you can take a bus going to Esmeraldas / Chontaduro.
The organization will help you to get to the place with a confidence person.
Accommodation
Guests will stay in formitories where you can have a bunk bed or ut your own tent OR they can bring the tent and have a platform to put it
Bunk beds, amaca or tent available
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
Chontaduro, Rio Verde, Esmeraldas, Ecuador – Durga’s Tiger Land Community
The vision of the Durga’s Tiger Land is to create a healing and educational center. A Healing space for people, plants and animals through sumak kawsay living and permaculture. The idea is to combine western, eastern and indigenous medicines together to raise our consciousness about healing. In our holistic retreats and practitioner trainings, you will find tantric wisdom, Ayurveda, plant medicines
The vision of the Durga’s Tiger Land is to create a healing and educational center. A Healing space for people, plants and animals through sumak kawsay living and permaculture. The idea is to combine western, eastern and indigenous medicines together to raise our consciousness about healing. In our holistic retreats and practitioner trainings, you will find tantric wisdom, Ayurveda, plant medicines
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
All meals are prepared with a lot of love mixing the tradition with healthy and conscious recipes. Fresh fruits and vegetables are also available.
What's Included
- accommodation
- 3 vegetarian meals per day
- 2 yagé ceremonies
- 2 sacred tobacco ceremonies
- 1 chanting circle
- 3 yga and meditation sessions
- Sacred Walk to the waterfall or work with plants of DTL
What's Not Included
- your personal laundry
- transfer from / to the airport
- cleansing of rooms (being part of Karma Yoga)
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