IGNITE: DURGA! A Tantric Empowering Retreat for Women

IGNITE: BRAZIL! — IGNITE DURGA! for Women
June 6 – 12, 2027 · Maravilha Retreat · Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

🌺 Early bird upgrades available until February 28, 2027.

Rediscover the pleasure of loving who you really are.

DaddyGuru has teamed up with Brazilian shaman and healer Mara Miranda and Maravilha Retreat, a hilltop sanctuary with 180° ocean views above the beaches of Búzios, to offer a unique, one-of-a-kind awakening retreat for women.

IGNITE DURGA! is the women’s edition of DaddyGuru’s transformational IGNITE retreat series. It’s taught through DaddyGuru’s own path, Neoteric Tantra, which combines White Tantra, Right-Hand Tantra and Neo Tantra, and is held hand in hand with Mara’s feminine, shamanic wisdom. The week explores life-force energy, sensuality and erotic awareness as a path of presence, vitality and personal transformation. Through meditation, Kundalini practice, embodiment, conscious connection exercises and evening temple rituals, participants awaken sensual awareness and the power of the Divine Feminine within a supportive sisterhood of women and a safe, respectful container.

DaddyGuru leads the teachings, practices and temples, with Mara co-leading the touch work as a grounding feminine presence. Her Brazilian shamanic rituals, sound and healing root the week in the earth, the ocean and the healing traditions of Brazil. As a gay man, DaddyGuru offers women a space free of any sexual agenda, where touch is only ever shared with consent.

Women are invited to deepen their connection to their bodies, release limiting beliefs and shame around sexuality and pleasure, and reclaim their voice, their boundaries and their desire. The retreat also celebrates the power of sisterhood: a space for connection, trust and shared growth.

Durga, the radiant warrior goddess, is our icon for this week. Riding her lion, she represents fierce compassion, protection, courage and the freedom to stand fully in your power.

Program of Practices
Daily experiences may include:
– Morning meditation, Kundalini yoga, pranayama and mantra
– Breathwork with DaddyGuru and Mara
– Shamanic ritual and sound healing with Mara
– Tantric philosophy and mindfulness teachings
– Sensual and erotic energy awareness
– Conscious intimacy and connection exercises with DaddyGuru and Mara
– Embodiment and movement practices
– Shadow and inner-child integration work
– Eros & Shadow Activation: meeting desire and shadow with honesty and presence
– Erotic Maturity & Field Awareness: DaddyGuru’s teachings on presence, desire and conscious connection
– Authentic sharing circles and integration
-Temple and Ceremony Experiences

Evening temples offer deeper energetic exploration and transformation, co-led by DaddyGuru and Mara. They may include:
– Multi-Hand Energy Exchange Ritual
– Body Painting Ritual: a sensual, creative exploration of trust and expression
– The Animal Within Ritual: a primal embodiment of instinctual feminine power, Shakti unleashed, held by Mara
– Tantric Energy & Bodywork Practice: conscious touch and energetic awareness

The week builds to its peak. On the eve of the ceremony, you’ll rewrite your inner story and offer the old one to the flames in the Phoenix Ritual, “Rising Into Your New Story,” a night fire ceremony with Mara under the moon. The next morning, the Higher Self Integration Ceremony, a sacred cacao ceremony with earth medicine held by Mara, carries that intention deeper. Afterwards, we share lunch in downtown Búzios, enjoy a free afternoon to integrate, and close the night with a sharing circle and ecstatic dance around the fire.

All temple experiences are guided with a strong emphasis on consent, awareness and personal boundaries. Participants are always encouraged to explore at their own pace.

The Setting

Maravilha Retreat sits on an acre of hilltop overlooking the Atlantic, a ten-minute walk from the beaches of Geribá, Ferradurinha and Amores. Early June is Búzios’s quiet, dry season, with warm days around 24°C / 75°F, calm water and very few crowds. At night, downtown Búzios, with its famous Rua das Pedras and Orla Bardot waterfront, comes alive with restaurants, bars and music.

What’s Included:
– 7 days / 6 nights at Maravilha Retreat
– Breakfast and dinner from the on-site chef, with healthy snacks available throughout the day
– All tantra sessions and evening temples
– Shamanic ritual, sound healing and a cacao ceremony with earth medicine with Mara
– Personal welcome and intention interviews with Mara and DaddyGuru
– A beach picnic afternoon
– A group lunch in downtown Búzios
– One private integration video call with DaddyGuru after the retreat
– Optional private healing sessions with Mara or DaddyGuru are available during the week (extra cost)

Only 14 spots!

The Goal of IGNITE Retreats

The goal of Tantra is to recognize your innate sexual and creative energy, to heal through practices that embrace both shadow and light, to stand in the power of your vulnerability, and to become the observer and manifestor of your own life journey.

Tantra is a process. The energy must first be realized within before it can be shared. Through the awareness practices of Neoteric Tantra (White, Right-Hand and Neo Tantra), IGNITE offers a conscious pathway to explore sensuality and erotic energy with presence and integrity, starting with your own relationship to that energy.

A Conscious and Respectful Environment

IGNITE retreats are held within a container of respect, consent and personal responsibility. All guided practices focus on awareness, embodiment and conscious exploration. Participants honor their own boundaries and the boundaries of others at all times. Any touch involving DaddyGuru, including demonstrations, happens only with a participant’s clear, freely given consent.

Nudity & Detachment

Many IGNITE practices, including the morning yoga and inner workout, are done nude and are recommended nude. Nudity is a practice of detachment: letting go of shame, judgment and the stories we carry about our bodies, so we can meet ourselves and each other as we truly are.

Nudity is always optional. If you’re not comfortable being nude, simply wear a sarong (also called a pareo, or a canga in Brazil). Please bring your own if you can. If you forget, we’ll happily supply one. Either way, you are fully welcome in every practice.

Maravilha Retreat is not a clothing-optional property, so nudity is part of our practice spaces and sessions only. Outside of the practices, please wear a sarong or regular clothing.

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DaddyGuru Tantra Retreats and Programs pull you “out of your head” and into your heart, with deep dives into tantric philosophy, connection, flow, surrender and intimacy practices that stimulate the kundalini, open your vortex, resonate your inner truth, and guide you into “rediscovering the pleasure of loving who you really are.”

🌺 Early bird upgrades available until February 28, 2027.