23 Day 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training in Saint Pierre de Frugie - France

n the heart of the Périgord-Limousin Regional Natural Park, the Ferme du Breuilh offers an exceptional natural setting. Meanwhile, Autumn is conducive to introspection and transformation. Halfway between the equinox and Samhain, come dive with us into a gentle and profound journey, in this very sacred land of prehistorical times.

Awaken your creativity with movement, singing, playing. Come deepen your connection with the Living Being around you through the Nature Spirit Connection course. Learn how to listen to others and yourself by training your senses with tantric wisdom and experience.

The back and forth between the personal and the collective will be constant, nourishing and balancing all dimensions of your being. The experience of group life and the presence of others, as reflections, mirrors, and amplifiers of your own dynamics, will be a support and allies in this journey.

This 200-hour Kaula Tantra Yoga training is a unique opportunity to both obtain a yoga teaching diploma and experience a true immersion, a timeless interlude to return to the essentials and reconnect with yourself. Much more than a technical apprenticeship, it is an emotional, physical, and spiritual experience.

Throughout the training, we will develop the skills necessary to teach Yoga with confidence and accuracy: anatomy, philosophy, postures, alignment, and pedagogy. The practice of clowning and shamanism will complement the learning with harmony and richness. This is the uniqueness of Durga’s Tiger School: blending physical practice with artistic practice, creativity, and spirituality.

This training is aimed at those who wish to share Yoga as well as those who feel the call of an inner path. You will emerge transformed, more grounded, clearer, with a new vision of yourself and the world.

This training will be held in English and French

CERTIFICATION
Students who complete the training are eligible to register with Yoga Alliance as Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®).
OVERVIEW
This transformational program is based on experience.
Durga's Tiger School for Tantra Yoga Shamanism discovered how to live together healthily, forming a community that accepts not only the beautiful parts of each individual but also the anger, sadness, and fear. You find that by being held in a safe community, you are also able to access more freedom to be your unique self.
You will explore the roots of Tantra and Shamanism understanding how different lineages reflect the same Cosmovision. You will leave with the confidence to lead a Kaula Tantra yoga class. A practice that channels a 5,000-year-old series preparing the body for deep meditation.
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. An in-depth examination of the holistic yoga path, focusing on all aspects of how to live a life as a tantric and a yogi. The course content is focused on Kaula Tantra yoga.

THIS IS AN EXPERIENCE-ORIENTED TEACHER TRAINING
*Learn to teach an intuitive, restorative, and deeply meditative 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 shamanism and see its similarities with the spiritual Indian culture
*Celebrate life through ceremonies and rituals as well as mindful presence

MAIN PRACTICES
*Kaula Tantra Yoga
*Meditation
*Pranayama
*Partner yoga
*Applied Tantric Wisdom
*Yogui heart-to-heart communication
*Nature spirit connection (Shamanism)
*Mantras / sacred songs / chanting circles
*Psychology of Chakras
*Intuitive anatomy
*Breathwork
*Durga’s Tiger Dance
*Arts
*Community building and Karma yoga

-KAULA TANTRA YOGA: THE CORE PRACTICE OF OUR TRAINING
At Durga’s Tiger School, Kaula Tantra Yoga is the foundation of our experience-based 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training.
This ancient yoga system has been passed down through a living lineage for over 5,000 years. The unique Kaula Tantra Yoga sequence we offer is transmitted directly from Bhagavan Shanmuka Anantha Natha at Shri Kali Ashram in India.
Kaula Tantra Yoga is an embodied, meditative and still yet powerful practice that invites you into deep relaxation and pleasure. Students are guided to flow into each asana with softness and self-care, allowing the body to express itself without pressure or judgment, allowing the practictioner to hold poses in a relaxed way, strenghtening muscles and tendons at the same time that mind, power of will and spirit.
Through a daily practice of Kaula Tantra Yoga, you will:
• Cultivate patience, self-care and self-empowerment
• Experience asana as a personal, expressive ritual rooted in the acceptance and enjoyment of your true self
• Feel held in a space of love and compassion
• Explore & balance your divine masculine and feminine energy
Kaula Tantra Yoga is more than a practice — it’s a gateway to the Tantric yogic lifestyle. On and off the mat, it encourages you to embrace life fully with the simple enjoyment of being present.

APPLIED TANTRIC WISDOM
These classes are a powerful opportunity for self-discovery through dynamic group and partner work. Note that there is no nudity or sexual contact.
You will come together to open to life; learning to embrace the dual nature of reality, dancing between beauty, chaos, magic, intensity, and intimacy — you will begin to make a clear connection between yoga, sacred sexuality, and art.
How can you integrate the liveliness of new experiences into your everyday life and relations?

INTUITIVE ANTOMY AND PHISIOLOGY
You will approach the vision and methodology of the Kaula Tantra yoga practice in these classes. You will develop a connection with the inner body intelligence, learn how to read it better and act according to its current needs. It’s about the combined powers of the mind and the physical body and the effect of being totally in harmony with the messages you perceive from your body in each moment.
You will learn the main principles of tantra philosophy, the Ayurvedic knowledge, alignment, and pranayama to understand the traditional yoga practice and its benefit on the whole human being in all its levels- physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

MANTRA CHANT AND SACRED SONGS
Mantras, the science of sound, represent in the tantric tradition a powerful tool for the liberation of the mind and connection with higher states of consciousness. You will explore different mantras during the meditation practices, mantra chanting circles, and yoga practice.
You will use mantras and sacred songs of indigenous cultures to connect with the spirits of nature and the mystery of creation. The teacher training also involves chanting sacred songs from different cultures. Students explore the vibration that the sound creates within you and at the same time they learn about the use of the voice as a tool to guide people into yoga practice.

PARTNER YOGA
You will discover the joy and the importance of support and be supported, through this experiencing the delight of giving and receiving. The challenge is, how do you cultivate and care for your sacred space, but also nurture your partner’s needs and desires?
In these classes you will continue to work with the asanas of the Kaula Tantra series; through the tantric wisdom approach, you will cultivate focus in presence, senses, connection, and body communication. Through these functions, you will enter into the dance of Shiva and Shakti.

DURGA'S TIGER DANCE
Durga’s Tiger Dance is a form of movement developed by Iris Disse based on tantric energy work and techniques of “liberation of the voice”. When you turn on to feel, you will allow things to move within you, old patterns become visible to be dissolved, fears are slowly disempowered, and there is a bang! and the inner potential unleashed. They invite you not to judge the feelings that arise but to allow your inner witness to guide your experience.

ARTS
Is an energetic fusion of techniques such as improvisation, clowning, dancing, musical/rhythm work, meditation, and practical shamanism. Through these exercises, you can integrate the foundations of ART into life.
Some themes you work on are connecting with the inner child, connecting with intuition, developing the right brain activity to enhance lateral thinking, releasing old patterns and blockages, opening senses to the present moment, and group work that fosters loving, compassionate ways of relating. With these skills, you begin to increase your creativity and may open to a new perspective completely.

KARMA YOGA IS PART OF THE LEARNING COMMUNITY PROCESS
You will help each other to maintain a common space, and by focusing energy in the collective, you will come together to maintain a high vibrational space. Through Karma yoga, you will keep in contact with the Earth (Pachamama) and her fruits while you contribute to the well-being of the collective environment.
Living in the ashram enables students to focus intensively on their training, away from everyday tasks and distractions; allowing them to fully immerse themselves in a process of learning and self-discovery. An energetic group environment is created, enabling students to share their experiences and learning processes; in turn, collectively deepening their understanding of tantra and yogic practices.

SHAMANISM
Yoga and Tantric knowledge has the same spiritual background than shamanism worldwide : nature is alive, part of us and we are all connected together with animals, stones, trees and Spirit.
In this training, in the wild French Dordogne, we will explore shamanic knowledge and energy through rituals, learnings and experiments coming from the ancestral Celtic tradition but also the neo-paganism and its social and political links nowadays. This class aims to offer to students the possibility to connect to their inner power and to really feel and embody this deep connection to Nature and the Universe.

BREATHWORK CEREMONY
A breathwork ceremony will mark the midpoint of the training. This is a space to explore what is alive in you – the body, the energy, your emotions, and your thoughts. Guided by the breath, you will step beyond your everyday state of consciousness, diving deep within. Through the use of conscious connected breath, movement, sound, and touch, you facilitate your body’s natural process of releasing mental, emotional, and physical blockages stored within – paving the way for feelings of aliveness, self-love, and deep relaxation.

SAMPLE DAILY SCHEDULE
*06:30 Meditation
*Breakfast
*09:00 - 13:00 Morning classes
*Lunch
*16:00 - 19:00 Afternoon classes
*Dinner
*20:00 - 22:00 Night labs (only twice or three times per week)