200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Portugal

Held in Marvão, Portugal, this 200-hour Tantra Yoga, Art and Shamanism training offers a deeply immersive journey into practice, presence, and self-discovery.

In a world that moves ever faster, this program invites you to reconnect with timeless wisdom and bring it into daily life in a grounded, meaningful way. You do not need prior experience to join. Kaula Tantra Yoga meets you where you are, supporting you to explore your limits and potential with respect, awareness, and care.

As a future teacher, you will learn how to guide others into awareness both on the mat and beyond it. The training is designed to unify body, mind, and spirit while helping you integrate yoga and tantra into everyday living. Through yogic and tantric wisdom, arts, and shamanism, theory becomes something lived, felt, and experienced.

This is also a path of personal growth, healing, and transformation. In an intimate group of like-minded participants, you will have space to build community, celebrate life through ceremonies and rituals, and connect with shamanic cosmovision as well as spiritual Indian culture.

Location

The training takes place at Serra Vida – Playground of Presence, set in a beautiful valley with the Sever River flowing through 8 hectares of untouched nature in Portugal’s Serra de São Mamede National Park. It is about a 2.5-hour drive inland from Lisbon, close to the Spanish border and the medieval castle town of Marvão.

Serra Vida is more than a retreat center. It is an immersive community space that brings together movement, meditation, creative expression, art, and nature. Facilities shared on the land include the river, saltwater pool, yoga deck with a view, natural amphitheatre, ceremonial yurt, ice baths, walking trails, wood-fired stone oven, and outdoor dining area.

Training focus

• Kaula Tantra Yoga
• Meditation
• Yogic Walking Massage
• Hatha and Partner Yoga
• Pranayama and breathwork
• Mantras and sacred songs
• Shamanism
• Applied Tantric Wisdom
• Arts
• Durga’s Tiger Dance
• Psychology of chakras
• Intuitive anatomy
• Forum and Talking Stick communication

The curriculum follows a carefully structured energetic choreography, guiding participants through a challenging and beautiful process of exploration. You will study the roots of Tantra and Shamanism, explore Yoga philosophy, and gain a clearer understanding of the yamas, niyamas, and eight-limbed path in a way that connects directly to your practice and life.

Kaula Tantra Yoga is taught as a slow, flowing, and mindful sequence rooted in an ancient lineage. The practice includes asanas, bandhas, pranayama, mudras, and mantras, with an emphasis on patience, awareness, and non-competitive self-expression. In advanced stages, deeper pranayama, bandhas, and mantra practices are introduced to cultivate Kundalini energy. Please note that the classes do not involve nudity or sexual contact.

Teachers

Iris Disse, founder of Durga’s Tiger School and lead teacher, will be present for half of the training. The core teaching team also includes Bettina Steinle-Vossbeck, Daniela de Girolamo, and Shona Lisa Pratt.

Certificate

Upon completion, you will receive a YA Yoga Alliance and YAI Yoga Alliance International certificate, recognized worldwide and allowing you to teach beyond Tantra Yoga alone.

Sample schedule

• 6:30 morning meditation
• 9:00 / 9:30 – 13:00 morning classes
• 15:30 / 16:00 – 18:30 / 19:00 afternoon class
• 20:15 – 22:00 night lab, three nights per week

Pricing

200-hour YTT: €1500 early bird until December 2024, or €1600 from January 2025.

A discount of €110 per person applies for two or more people booking together.

Accommodation and meals are not included in the training fee. For 22 nights/days, the available options are:

• Shared 4-person room with 3 vegetarian meals per day: €1496
• Single room with shared bathroom and 3 vegetarian meals per day: €2611 or €3076, depending on room size
• Single room with private bathroom and 3 vegetarian meals per day: €3546
• Double room with shared bathroom and 3 vegetarian meals per day: €1669 or €1901, depending on room size
• Double room with private bathroom and 3 vegetarian meals per day: €2136

Dates for 2026 will be announced soon.