Easter Retreat
17 - 21 April 2025
Schloss Glarisegg, at Lake Constance, Switzerland
A Journey with Tantra Yoga,
Breathwork and Nature
This is not your usual yoga retreat. Take a break from everyday life and join us for this journey deep within yourself. Inviting aliveness and celebrating the spring awakening. Together, we are creating a choreography where intensity and expression alternate with silence and stillness, where the doing and the not doing dance together effortlessly.
Find the power of deep relaxation and the magic of your own energy in Kaula Tantra Yoga. And let our powerful breathwork practices guide you into feeling and transforming what is alive in you. These core practices are accompanied by meditation, singing, dancing, nature connection, and communication tools. All weaved together, leading you into a deep connection to yourself and existence.
A collaboration between Fully Alive and Durga’s Tiger School. Led by Carmen Iten and Christian Marti.
15% Early Bird Discount on the course price until 21 February (exkl. accommodation).
Kaula Tantra Yoga
The retreat is built around our core practice: Kaula Tantra Yoga. This is a 2.5-hour, yoga sequence that comes from an ancient lineage and is based on the teachings of Bhagavan Shanmuka Anantha Natha. Different to other styles of yoga, this series is practiced in a slow and flowing manner to build patience and awareness. Each asana is held gently for a period of time to allow you to relax into the posture. This way, you can find your own unique way of expressing the asanas without pressure of competing or ‘performing perfectly’.
Tantra Yoga facilitators approach students as whole human beings and discourage ‘isolating’ or forcing muscles. Their priority is to hold a space of acceptance and love, with only little guidance where necessary.
Our yoga practice is gentle and accessible for everybody – no prior yoga experience required. At the same time, this practice might open a new dimension of yoga for you, even if you have years of experience. And even if the length of the series might intimidate you: The practice is open for all level of fitness.
Breathwork
In this retreat, we will place a special focus on working with our breath – and we will breathe together every day. While shorter practices may contain breath meditations, pranayama, and relaxation and resourcing exercises, two longer sessions are based on the Biodynamic Breathwork and Trauma Release System (BBTRS).
During a BBTRS session, we will guide you into an experience of deep connection to your body and exploration of your feelings by using conscious connected breath, movement, sound, and touch. The intention is to support your body’s natural process for releasing mental, emotional, and physical blockages stored in the body – opening the way for feelings of aliveness, self love, and deep relaxation. Throughout the session, you are invited and supported to stay present and connected to your body and felt sense. Through this embodiment, emotional charge can lose its intensity, empowering you to consciously feel what is alive in you, with love and acceptance. Through this, we access our innate power for healing and transformation.
Inner Freedom
What is Inner Freedom? For us, it is the freedom to choose how we act, from a place of awareness, the freedom to co-create our reality rather than just reacting to it, the freedom to feel and live our true nature. In this retreat, we offer you access points to this freedom through a diverse range of practices that help you become aware of what is happening inside. In your body, your emotions, your mind, your energy. Practices that support you in expanding your capacity for feeling, that resource you , that widen the window of tolerance of your nervous system. Practices that melt away the armor, the blocks, and the patterns that do not serve you any longer – step by step, with love and care.
Connection and Community
The foundation of everything we do is a deep connection to ourselves. We guide you to connect to your core, your essence, and to explore what is there when you drop the stories, the “shoulds” and “musts”. And through this, deepen the trust in your inner wisdom.
It is from there that we connect to the group. To share from our heart, to be seen as who we truly are, to witness others doing the same, holds deep power. Together, we will explore this connection to the group heart in many ways, creating a space of trust built on authenticity and vulnerability. A space where everything is welcome.
Come onto a deep journey within yourself.
Forum and Talking Stick: We will use these communication tools where suitable to support the group process - allowing us to show ourselves fully, with everything that is alive in the present moment.
Nature Connection: Nature is our ultimate teacher, and it is always around us, in us; it is in connection with nature that we experience the magic of life in a very tangible way.
Singing Circle: By sharing songs in a circle, we invite joy, we celebrate life, and we connect to our inner vibration. We will explore songs and mantras from different traditions.
Dance: We love to dance. It is one of the best ways we know to connect to our aliveness. Be it to warm up before yoga, or to celebrate life together. No worries if you “cannot dance” – this is simply about intuitively moving your body in any way that feels good.
Partner Yoga: In this practice, we will support each other to dive deeper into relaxation during parts of the Kaula Tantra Yoga series – by assisting deep stretches and holding space. This is a playful, fun space, and at the same time might be one of the most relaxing experiences you ever had.
Programm
Breathwork and Kaula Tantra Yoga will be complemented with the following practices:
Meditation: We practice active meditations, using movement, our voice and/or visualization to dive deep into a meditative state.
Cacao Ceremony: In this ritual space, we will connect to the medicine of raw cacao. Cacao has a heart-opening quality and thus supports us in connecting more deeply to ourselves and the group. When we dive into dance, breathwork, or nature immersion from that space, we can fully explore the magic of the moment.
We will flow with the weather and the group to define exactly when each part of the retreat happens. A typical daily flow may look like this:
07:00 – 08:00: Morning Practice
8:00 - 9:30 Breakfast & Break
9:30 - 12:30: Morning Session
13:00 – 15:00: Lunch & Nature Connection
15:00 – 18:00: Afternoon Session
18:30 – 20:00: Dinner & Break
20:00 – 21:00: Evening Session
At any point you have the opportunity to skip parts of the program if you need more time to yourself.
The Venue
This retreat takes place at Seminarcenter Schloss Glarisegg, a beautiful place dedicated to healing and transformation. The venue is embedded between Lake Constance, meadows, a river, the forest, and a vibrant permaculture community garden. Beyond the course program, the location offers beautiful nature spots, including a small waterfall hidden in the forest and a private beach on Lake Constance.
In addition to being a seminar center, this is home to a community of 55 adults and children. Since December, we’ve been part of this inspiring community project, living here with our toddler and calling this unique place our home.
Venue address: Schloss Glarisegg, 8266 Steckborn
Getting there by public transport: Wherever you are coming from, your destination station is Steckborn station (Thurgau). From the Steckborn train station you can reach the Glarisegg seminar center on foot (2.3 km). Follow the cycle and hiking path in the direction of Mammern, which leads directly past the Glarisegg seminar center.
Getting there by car: There is a parking on site available at the cost of 5 CHF per day.
Food
All food will be organic, vegetarian, saisonal and prepared with love. Vegan or allergy friendly options are available for an extra charge of 5 CHF per day.
Dates and Time
Start: Thursday, April 17, 2025, at 18:30 with dinner (check-in is possible until 18:00).
End: Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, after lunch (at around 14:00)
We start together with dinner on Thursday, followed by an opening circle. On Monday we will have a closing circle and a good-bye lunch before departure. Please make sure that you arrive at the venue with enough time to settle in, so that you can fully participate from the start. And we ask you to be part of the closing circle, ending this journey together as a group.
The first meal will be dinner on Thursday, the last meal lunch on Monday.
Language
The retreat will be guided in English. German translation on the side is possible, please talk to us about this if you feel the need.
A space where all of you is welcome.
Investment
We want to make the course accessible to everyone and therefore offer different options for the course price and different types of accommodations.
Course price:
Standart rate: 530 CHF
Financial challenge: 430 CHF
Supporter: 630 CHF
15% Early Bird Discount on the course price (excl. accommodation) until 21 February.
Talk to us if this price keeps you from participating. We will find a way together.
Accommodation & food:
The price includes the accommodation you choose and three meals per day.
Camping (if you are ok with the spring weather): 100 CHF per night = 400 CHF total
Caravan: 110 CHF per night = 440 CHF total
Triple to quadruple room (shared bathroom): 125 CHF per night = 500 CHF total
Double room (shared bathroom): upon request
Single room (shared bathroom): upon request
You will book the accommodation and food directly with the venue. After booking with us, you will receive the necessary information.
External accommodation: We would like to create a community feeling and therefore don’t recommend to book an accommodation outside of Schloss Glarisegg. If for some reason you still prefer to book an external accommodation, you will still have to book the food at the seminar center and pay a seminar fee. You can find more details about the price here if this is your choice.
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About your guides
We are guides on a journey, and you may choose to travel with us for a while. But ultimately, only you know what is right for you, what feels good in your body, what you need. At any moment, we will support you in your sovereignty.
We are Carmen and Christian, part of the worldwide team of Durga’s Tiger School teachers and holding point for activities in Switzerland. Together, we co-founded and taught at Kaula Tantra Yoga Zürich.We hold space for joyful transformation through soft power – inviting gentleness and self-love into the process of diving deep into our inner worlds, our shadows, and our light. We act from a place of loving kindness, with authenticity and vulnerability. Our core mission is to support you to find your own truth, and to live that truth in your actions. We follow our curiosity for what makes us and others come alive, and how to truly nourish body and soul.
Carmen
Carmen has a passion for challenging herself and others to move beyond their comfort zone, letting curiosity and love guide the way. In this retreat she brings together her experiences in Yoga, Tantra, intentional communities and art as well as her own deep connection to nature. She received her teacher training at Durga’s Tiger School® in Ecuador, Switzerland and Germany and is a certified YA RYT-500 teacher. She also co-founded a conscious community near Zürich, integrating personal development into daily co-living.
Christian
Christian creates experiences that connect people to their inner wisdom, their magic, and their personal power – based on his own journey in Tantra, Yoga, breathwork, music, dance, bodywork, and writing. He received his YA RYT-500 certification from Durga’s Tiger School® in Ecuador and is part of the school faculty both in Ecuador and Europe. Christian is a co-organizer of the Wild Love festival in Switzerland, a bodyworker and a breathwork facilitator.
What to Bring
Yoga mat
Blindfold
Comfortable clothes for yoga and movement (make sure to pack layers, it may be cool at night; bring a warm pair of socks)
Outdoor clothes (according to weather forecast)
Toiletries
Water bottle
Bed sheets and Towels are provided by the venue (unless you are staying at the camping).
A Word on Tantra
We teach Kaula Tantra Yoga and in the west, the word Tantra is strongly associated with sex. So we want to create clarity around that topic: We celebrate sexual energy as life force and we strive to express ourselves and be in the world as who we really are – and we are sexual beings. However, during this retreat, our focus is not on sexuality. Classes do not involve nudity or sexual contact.
Let’s celebrate life together.
Cancellation Policy
Course Price: You secure your spot with an upfront payment of the full course price. In case of cancellation by us, you will receive a full refund. In case you have to cancel your participation, this policy applies to the course price.
Cancellation more than 60 days before the start of the event: You will receive a refund of 80% of what you paid.
Cancellation more than 30 and less than 60 days before the start of the event: You will receive a refund of 50% of what you paid.
Cancellation more than 7 and less than 30 days before the start of the event: You will receive a refund of 30% of what you paid.
Cancellation less than 7 days before the start of the event: You will not receive a refund.
If you can provide a replacement, i.e. someone who is willing to take your spot for the same conditions, you will receive a full refund irrespective of timing.
Accommodation & Food: Please check out the cancellation conditions of the seminar centre Schloss Glarisegg here.
We recommend a cancellation insurance (“Seminar-Rücktrittsversicherung”). Please note our disclaimer with contraindications; if any of them apply to you, please get in touch with us.