Tantra Yoga School

Medicine Retreat on the Sacred Mountain Ilalo

16 – 20 March 2025

Medicine Intensive/ Neo Shamanism Retreat on the Sacred Mountain Ilalo

This shamanic retreat combines shamanic rituals with the use of different power plants like, Tobacco, San Pedro & Yage/ Ayahuasca for the purpose of healing and transformation. We are connecting with our path of the hearth (red road) through personal experience in a group setting.
This retreat allows us to connect with a visionary state of consciousness that can be reached through the different spiritual practices that we are offering.

We are connecting the mind (Eagle) and the hearth (Condor) so that they can fly together in the same direction, in their own space. In this way we are manifesting the shamanic prophecy that has been shared with us to create a better life in which we can live in harmony with nature and the great Spirit.

Where?

We will be in our Durga’s Tiger School in Tumbaco.

Program

Day 1
Intro into Shamanism: 10am-1pm
Opening Ceremony: 3-4pm

Day 2
Temazcal: 3- 7pm

Day 3
Yage Ceremony 1: 8pm until next day 7am

Day 4
Yage Ceremony 2: 8pm until next day 7am

Day 5
Integration Circle: 10am to 1pm
Closing Ceremony: 3pm to 4pm

Meals
Breakfast: 7 to 8am
Lunch 1 to 2pm
Dinner 7-8pm (No dinner on the days of Yage Ceremony)

Details of the program

Day One 
 
Introduction into Shamanism & Opening Ceremony
 
The Introduction into shamanism will take place on the first day of the Reatrea. We will be sharing a global perspective about shamanism to have a strong foundation that allows us to stay deeply rooted in ourselves for the upcoming days where we will raise the energy together with the participants of the retreat. You will learn about the shamanic path and the use of shamanic rituals with and without power plants. We will speak about the programm of the retreat. We will practice a shamanic opening ritual for the beginning of our mystical journey together. 
 
Day Two
 
Temazcal: 
 
In our community temazcal (Sweat lodge) we will be working with the sacred medicines of the Tobacco and a microdose of San Pedro. The temazcal is an ancient tradition that comes from North America from the Lakota tradition. It has become popular all around the world as it is a ritual that connects us deeply with the four elements and with the community spirit.  
 
Day Three 
 
Ayahuasca/ Yage Ceremony #1:
 
The Ayahuasca/ Yage ceremonies will connect us deeper with the A’I/ Cofan tradition. Wind Disse learned from this tradition through his master Shaman Don Avelino Quenama for over 16 years. His ceremonies for healing and transformation use the energy design of this shamanic tradition with a touch of the andine shamanic tradition that he learned throughout the years from different shamans in the andean region.   
 
Day Four
 
Ayahuasca/ Yage Ceremony #2
 
The second ceremony will allow us to go deeper into the work with the sacred medicine of the Ayahuasca/ Yage so that we can experience its benefits on a deeper level. Usually the first ceremony is more about physical cleansing. In the second ceremony we are opening deeper towards our spiritual Vision. 
 
Day Five
 
Integration Circle & Closing Ceremony
 
The last day we will be working on a proper integration of the retreat. There will be a sharing Circle where we can share our experience and harvest the fruits of the retreat. There is space to share open questions, commentaries & feedback.
The second part of the day we will do the shamanic closing ceremony of the retreat. People Are free to leave after the closing ceremony.
 

Facilitators of this Retreat

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Lead: 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 few years in Switzerland. He graduated in 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 at festivals.

Wind´s path as an anthropologist, 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 and teacher trainings after receiving his 500hrs certification with Durga’s Tiger School. In 2020 he joined a 200hrs teacher training in the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in south India successfully. 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. In Durga’s Tiger School ® he teaches Applied Tantra Wisdom, Meditation and Psychology of Chakras beside Kaula Tantra Yoga and Shamanism

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.

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”.

5 days Medicine retreat in Tumbaco

Costs and inscription

  • Program, lodge and meals included : 800USD
  • Price for local ecuadorians: 500USD