10 days Retreat in Varanasi, India

logo

Overview

10 days Retreat in Varanasi, India
Benarés, India
Feb 19 - 28, 2027
Group size: 8 - 25
Iris Disse image
Iris Disse
$1,650
Deposit: $1,155

About this trip

Let´s dive into the mysteries of life, death, and sacred power:


Join us on a transformative 10-day journey to Varanasi, the sacred city on the Ganges!


When: Friday 19th – Sunday 28th of February

Who: With Iris Disse and Jhoselyn Escobar


Our intention for this journey is to guide you back into trust. 

Trust that you are connected to everything. That you can tap into a collective knowledge you have never been taught. That ancient wisdom is not lost. When we open the channel, when we surrender, when we ask the Great Mystery and move with trust into the unknown, it reveals itself.


In Varanasi, you can directly experience what the Buddha meant: We don't have to become something new. We only have to awaken.


*Are you ready to:*

- Learn the mystery of life and how the world speaks to you?

- Tap into your sacred power and remember a knowledge you never learned?

- Be brave enough to meet your death and make it your friend?

- Experience the world as a sacred, magical place that answers you?

- Feel yourself as part of the great web of life?



In the first 3 days we enter the sacred city together. We greet the sunrise in a small boat on the Ganges, visit secret temples, connect with sacred cows, meditate on the ghats, and meet the wild goddess Ganga. At night we sit close to the burning ghats, where bodies are given to fire and souls are set free.


These first days we create a field of trust and safety. We nourish ourselves through collective presence, so you can dare to open.


On days 4 and 5 you go out in pairs to explore. For the next 5 days you follow the call of the mystery – alone or together.


This is the practice: You ask the Mystery a question. You open the channel. You surrender your need to know. And you move with trust into the unknown.


Every morning we share breakfast. Each day has its own theme and ritual. There is meditation and yoga practice, and you receive mystical tools to go out and discover your own miracles. You will not be learning something new – you will be remembering. You will meet realities you cannot even imagine now. The world will start to dance with you and speak to you.


Every evening we meet for dinner and a talking stick – a sharing from the heart. What did the city whisper to you? What old knowing came through your body? You learn to trust your intuitive wisdom and the collective field we all belong to.


At night you can go out again, alone or together. Rituals grow out of your everyday experiences.


What you need is an adventurous spirit, self-responsibility, and the longing to step out of fixed patterns. When you open all your senses, the mystery can reach you. You laugh with goddess Lalita – “She who plays”. And from that openness a quiet joy arises – the joy of being alive, awake, on this planet – now.


Included

  • 9 nights accommodation

  • Breakfast + dinner / or specified meals

  • Your two facilitators

  • Daily practices

  • Rituals

  • Guided exploration of Varanasi

  • Boat experience

  • Temple visits

  • Mystery tools / practices

  • Evening integration circles

  • Local transportation during programmed activities

Not included

  • International flights

  • Indian visa

  • Travel insurance

  • Personal purchases

  • Some lunches

  • Optional activities

  • Airport transfers, if you want participants to arrange those independently

Choose your contribution

We offer this journey on a sliding scale, inviting you to choose the level of contribution that feels both honest for your circumstances and supportive of the work we are creating.

Shared room: $1,650–$1,950
Private room: $1,850–$2,150

Come join Durga's Tiger Mystery School in Varanasi.

Come to remember what was never lost

What's included

9 nights accommodation

Breakfast + dinner

Lunch only when it's part of an activity

Daily practices

Yoga, rituals, talking stick circles

Guided exploration

In the city of Varanasi

Boat experience

Temple visit

Mystery tools / practice

Local transportation

During programmed activities

What's not included

International flights

Visa

Travel Insurance

Personal purchases

Some lunches

Optional activities

Airport transfers

Map of the trip locations

A. Benarés, India

Benarés, India

About your organizer

ID
Iris Disse
A film, radio and theatre maker, Iris teaches the Tantra Yoga classes, Durga´s Tiger Dance and “Applied Tantra Philosophy” Iris Disse is a Master Yoga Teacher, the catalyser of Durga´s Tiger School in Ecuador, choreographer of this transforming energy composition of Yoga, Tantra, Arts and Shamanism. She has taught tantra and yoga for over 22 years in Festivals, Universitites and Workshops.

Reviews

Photo gallery

Image 0
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
Image 4
Image 5
Image 6
Image 7
Image 8
Image 9
Image 10
Image 11
Image 12
Image 13
Image 14
Image 15
Image 16
Image 17
Image 18
Image 19
Image 20
Image 21
Image 22
© 2026 Iris Disse