Work with Powerplants:
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
Where: Chontaduro, Rio Verde, Ecuador - Durga’s Tiger Land Community
When: From the 16th to the 20th of July 2023
Cost: $598 (food & accommodation included)
Who: Lead & Teacher: Malin Wind Disse - Neo Shaman, Tantric, Yogi and socio-cultural Anthropologist
Assistant & Teacher: Roberto Calderon - Neo Shaman & Yogi
Cook & Permaculture Teacher: Andrea Arara Cevall
DTL Admin Ranch & Guide: Javier Bone
5 day Retreat Introduction:
This unique Shamanism and Yoga Retreat will open your eyes to the life in the community of Durga’s Tiger Land, close to Rio Verde (Esmeraldas, Ecuador), not as a tourist but as a guest. Our Community is located at the Ecuadorian Coast. We are close to beautiful beaches and a clean River to swim in middle of the coastal jungle.
In this way, our retreat will be focused on connecting Shamanism, Tantra Yoga & 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 & 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 he’s 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 & awakens my inner child. A sacred grove of old “Saman” trees invites you to meditate and connect with the birds & 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 Power 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 DTL 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.
Accommodation will be provided by DTL. You can book shared dormitory or Camping. There is space to hang our hammocks if you choose to bring one.
The food will be vegetarian and it will be prepared with love directly by the DTL cooking team.
DTS Working Team: holistic healer, Neo Shaman, Tantra Yogi and Anthropologist Malin Wind Disse who is leading the retreat together with his heart team.
Travel Schedule
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 lunch15:00 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
*If you would like to stay at DTL on this night, accommodation and Dinner can be arranged. Please speak to the reception when you arrive, the price is $15.
* The Daily activities can vary depending on the energy level of the group.
About our Team:
Lead & Teacher - Malin Wind Disse
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 and Germany. He graduated as an Anthropologist in Ecuador, and went to Germany for advanced studies as a Migration & Integration Manager. Besides Wind loves extreme sports, Art and to play music as a DJ on festivals.
Wind´s path as an anthropologist, holistic healer, artist and Tantra, 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 Durga’s Tiger School ® he teaches Applied Tantra Wisdom, Meditation, Psychology of Chakras, beside Kaula Tantra Yoga and Nature Spirit Connection. 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. He is the manager of Durga’s Tiger School in Ecuador.
In 2020 he joined a traditional Hatha Yoga teacher training at Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in south India which he finished successfully in 2023.
Besides that, he has been part of the Skydancing Tantra Institute Love & Ecstasy Training in California USA 2022 to obtain more wisdom.
Wind has been learning and doing different rites of passage in the Shamanic path of the Deer Tribe or Twisted Hairs & Sweet Sundance Medicine Path that connect shamanic wisdom from different socio-cultures all around the world.
Due to his deep interest in shamanism, he has contacted and learned from many shamans of the Amazon and Andean region of Ecuador, and worked with them to understand their traditions. From 2009 he has been invited to learn more about the shamanic tradition of the Cofán- A’í socio-culture and ended up being accepted as an apprentice by the shaman Don Avelino Quenama. Don Avelino created the A’í- Cofán Community Pisurí Canque. He is most known for his power as a healer. He is one of the Elders of the A’í- Cofán socio-culture, holding the Shamanic tradition with he’s rituals and spiritual teachings in Ecuador and Colombia. His lineage as an A’í- Cofán community member goes back countless generation. Not only is he a leader of the community as healer, but also as a political and spiritual leader. He was invited to many different countries such as Colombia, Brazil, Peru and to share his wisdom about the medicine and the shamanic path.
Wind´s thesis as Anthropologist was about the theme: Orality, practices and symbols of the A’í 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.
Assistant & Teacher: Roberto Calderon
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”.
Kitchen & Permaculture: Andrea Arara Cevall
Kitchen and Permakulture:
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 daministrator & Guide: Javier Bone
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.
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