Tantric Yin
& SOMATIC Meditation

50hr Teacher Training and Practitioner Retreat

Ubud, Bali ~ January 27 - February 1, 2026

A holding space to explore the full-spectrum of sensory and psychological symptoms that can arise in our practice ~ the sublime as well as the ugly ~ in order to savour the full human experience: body, mind and spirit, as alive, open and integrated.

Learn to rest in naturalness and to befriend yourself on levels previously maybe never thought possible…

Join International yoga & meditation teacher and transpersonal therapist Lara Zilibowitz, accompanied by ceremonial musician Benny Holloway, for a week-long teacher training and practitioner retreat exploring the nature of healing and awakening through the doorways of Tantric yin yoga and embodied meditation.

This is a loving invitation for all facilitators and passionate students wanting to cultivate a truly compassionate inner refuge in their yoga and meditation practice, through rich philosophy, methodology and embodiment exercises that once integrated can be offered up in service to the holding of humanity and your community.

The premise of this training is an untangling of the trance of disembodiment and self-abandonment which is arguably the ultimate pandemic of our times. A return from disconnect and dissociation, a return to the wisdom of SOMA.

Please know all of you is welcome. The raw, the ravaged and the real.

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An inspired approach to soul tending and yoga teaching awaits. Deposit $500 today*

UBUD, BALI, JAN 27 - FEB 1, 2026

Immerse in a week-long yin and meditation practitioner retreat and teacher training, cradled in the healing womb of mama Bali

Come home to yourself, care for yourself and get to know yourself on levels never thought possible…
And learn how to facilitate from this truly devotional place of compassion and relentness kindness.

Through inspired practice and theory across wisdom traditions, depth psychology, and somatics, we will realise our yoga and meditation practice as a welcoming and a returning to the tender, open, vulnerable places within, where we allow our senses to open, where we’re not trying to get anywhere, but allowing experience at deeper and deeper levels to be exactly as it is.

Together we will learn to shine our empathic presence into our cells to truly hold space for whatever is arising. To cut through the millions of previous moments of disembodiment and to begin to encode new circuitry of trust, courage, compassion and self-care into our bodies, brains and hearts.

This approach is the antidote.

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  • A rich exploration of ‘yin yoga’ ~ or we could say the ‘lunar arts’ via the Tantric yoga traditions. Understanding its place and difference to the solar vinyasa practice, and the gift that yin yoga offers to train our awareness to hold space for strong energy in the body, in preparation for seated meditation.

  • Learning the physical and subtle anatomy of yin yoga poses, including the map of the chakras and the role of the koshas *please be aware there will be no TCM theory in this training, the focus of this training has a Tantric orientation*

  • Detailed exploration of the Nervous System, the map of the psyche, exploring shifting states of consciousness and understanding Trauma Theory, and the role that yin yoga and meditation can play in the healing journey.

  • Learning the ‘bottom-up’ approach to seated meditation ~ i.e. meditation anchored in the body through the lenses of Tantra Yoga and Buddhist teachings, as well as borrowing from modern body-based trauma healing modalities such as Somatic Experiencing (SE), and somatics (within the fields of bodywork and movement studies).

  • Exploring mindfulness as ‘a mind full of now-ness’ and playing with the notion of bodyfullness (or body fullness).

  • Examining Shamanic Trance States and cross-cultural approaches to ‘meditation.

  • The deeper invitation in this training is to explore the role of spirituality on the healing path as a way of remembering our inherent wholeness.

  • You will receive a comprehensive manual to support all of the teachings and practices.

  • You do not need to be a yoga teacher to join us, however prior some experience in seated meditation and a baseline understanding of yin yoga is neccesary.

Extra Layers

  • Daily sound therapy and music medicine to accompany your practices by Benny Holloway

  • Ritual dance and enlivening free-movement practices to balance the lunar with igniting solar fire

  • Guided bodywork & yoga assists

  • Kirtan and ceremonial song circles

  • Art therapy integration processes

  • More magic to be revealed…

    Question or query? Click to message me…

Sample Daily Schedule

8-10am Morning Practice
10:00am Breakfast
11:30-2pm Training/Lecture/Workshop
2pm lunch & break
(time for massages and treatments or relaxing by the pool)
4-6:30pm Training/Lecture/Workshop/Practice
7pm Dinner 

We will commence at 4pm on Tuesday 27th January and complete by 11am on Sunday 1st February, allowing time for flights and transfers

Who is this training for?

Open to dedicated students who are called to immerse themselves in genuine self study and inquiry; and excited about the depth and potential of embodied meditation and the lunar arts; as well as those who are interested in teaching yin yoga and meditation in a truly embodied and trauma-informed way. 

Each day on the training will be specifically curated to offer you rich experiences, personal insight and empowering take home techniques to open to embodiment, infusing your pure presence into every moment as practitioner and/or teacher.


pledge to no longer abandon yourself

Embark on this deeply healing and nourishing training with a $500 deposit* today

Location

Cocooned among the magnificent beauty and abundance of Ubud, Bali, our retreat venue and practice space is a deeply healing and holding cocoon

Just outside the beating heart of Ubud, our retreat venue is a hidden away oasis of solace, wrapped in rice paddies and vibrant jungle.

The medicine of this land is palpable from the moment you arrive… Ubud is known for its healing energy, where pilgrims come from all across the world magnetised to its magic.

The land is dripping in splendour, and the most fertile field for this work… where direct transmissions of Grace and aliveness through the beauty in nature and the devotion of the local culture help us drop into spontaneous meditation and prayer.

Our hosts and the accomodation weaves together Hindu design and rituals from both Bali and India. The venue has an onsite Ayurvedic clinic where you can also receive daily massages and spa treatments at very affordable prices.

The meals are lovingly prepared by our local chefs aligned with Ayurvedic and healing principles, and the flavours borrowed from across Asia are simply divine. All food is vegetarian and all dietaries can be catered for.

Your home away from home

ACCOMODATION OPTIONS

The rooms are stunning and spacious modern Balinese designed, all with ensuite indoor-outdoor bathrooms, gorgeous furnishings, king beds (or king single beds if twin share) with cotton-draped mosquito netting, filtered water, fridge and air conditioning. There is a huge pool on site for in between session swims and coconut breaks.

Deluxe suite twin share ~ US$2,250
Bungalow solo ~ US$2,450
Deluxe suite solo ~ US$2,650

SPECIAL EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT OF $100 OFF IF BOOKED BEFORE SEPTEMBER 30, 2025

Elegant and spacious rooms with lush jungle or rice paddy views. Boasting colourful interiors and stunning Balinese design.

  • King bed (or split into twin king singles)

  • Comfortable high-quality mattresses​ with toppers

  • Stunning indoor/outdoor ensuite bathroom

  • Air-conditioning

  • Cotton mosquito nets

  • Ceiling fan

  • Mini fridge & tea facilities

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BUNGALOW images

The on-site bungalows have rustic elegance. Built from 100% recycled Javanese wood with stylish design elements. Each bungalow has a private garden lined with lush greenery and wild flowers. Perfect for solo participants craving some privacy and a taste of authentic architecture.

INCLUSIONS IN COST

  • 3 nourishing meals per day

  • All teachings and practices

  • All extra activities and local ceremonies

  • Training manual

  • Help arranging airport transfers

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    Join the training with a US$500 retreat deposit* today.

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*By booking, you agree to the terms & conditions, available here. Non-refundable deposit of US$500 required to confirm each place. Remainder balance due 6 weeks before training (December 15)

This training is accredited as 50-hrs Yoga Alliance Continued Education Points

 
 
The week with Lara and Benny was filled with layer upon layer of deep uncovering, heart awakening and full-bodied awareness.

What Lara offers in training is a transmission of fully experiencing life along with practical tools on how to bring this experience to form.

She holds a compassionate and loving container that is deeply healing and connecting, allowing each of us to individually dive deep into places we hold in the dark, and to bring it forward into light to be witnessed by ourselves and by our sisters.

The greatest gift I received is an activation of a fully connected experience of body, mind and spirit that continues to permeate through all layers of my being. Over the week of training, I feel like I learnt a new language – one that converses between my emotions, my body, the unhealed parts of myself, the healed parts of myself, and the love, compassion and peace that arises from within. I move forward from the training feeling grounded, alive and ready to move forward through the waves of pain, ecstasy and everything in between.

Deep gratitude and love to Lara and Benny for this gift and profound offering.

~ Sheena Wong 

Lara’s Tantric Yin and Somatic Mindfulness training was life changing as a teacher. My teaching has completely evolved since coming back home. 

I have never met a teacher so embodied in their own work. You can tell she lives and breathes what she preaches and is so authentically passionate to share her gift with anyone that crosses her path. 

Her creation of “Body Poetry” has really helped me to understand the role of poetic language in helping students to access their body in ways that bypass the analytical mind. In her classes I truly feel like I am able to experience my self in ways that I have never before. She creates such a safe holding space that allows her students to uncover such profound internal depth. From this depth of experience, her students are able to go out into the world not just with intellectual understanding but embodied experience. 

Her attention to detail in the curation of experience speaks to all walks of life. I love the way she is able to share such profound truths, knowledge, wisdom and insights that resonate no matter where her students are at on their journey. She is a true master at speaking to both the highs and lows of human experience in ways that are really digestible. 

I would highly recommend this training to anyone who wants to dive deep into the world of somatics and tantric philosophy.

~ Ashley Brown 

Lara has curated a Yin and Meditation training like no other I have seen and the teachings are a testament to her own journey in learning, healing and embodiment to deliver such an in depth, grounded and transformative training. 

She creates a teaching container where you really get to feel and experience the teachings firsthand rather then reading them from a book, the depth of learning and embodied awareness is so important to be able to then share from. I felt like all the ideas and concepts I had been trying to put the right words to for years had been pulled into a true understanding and whole. 

To learn from the base up of profound Tantric Philosophy and Somatic Mindfulness brought a whole new level of depth and although, this is not traditional Chinese Medicine, it felt extremely fundamental and integral to what these practices are and I feel so grateful to digest and learn to teach from this lens because I can’t imagine practicing in any other way. 

On a personal level, I feel so extremely liberated by the power of what has downloaded for me. Lara’s ability to hold space is supreme in love, the safety that is held for you to unfold back into your own experience with yourself. This training gifted me… the greatest friendship I have ever felt within myself, I have never felt more seen, more heard and connected to me…. I have resigned a fear of my body and developed instead a great trust, to be able to hold a new perspective and see my emotions, thoughts and sensations as my aliveness and as my being human, has reconnected and anchored me down into my physical body for the first time without the want for escape, distraction or disconnection. I was also able to let go of my mind in a way that I’ve never experienced before, to not have the need to intellectualise and diagnose the sensations and instead realising the grand map of our bodies and its history, there was never a need for a meaning…only feeling. These insights are completely life changing for me as a human, this is something I will carry and share for the rest of my time. 

My favourite part of the training was that Lara also provided other tools rather than Yin and Meditation for being able to express, release and feel into your feelings. The art process sessions were extremely impactful, like an unveiling of hidden potent messages from your inner world and to hear the group shares only strengthened the interconnectedness and totality of our experience together. The Sahaja dance sessions really ask you to let go of yourself and any idea of who you should be so you can lean into exactly who you are and let it move through you, both incredible non-verbal tools for expression that made me feel as though my spirit had been unwound and set free.

I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to complete this training with Lara as my teacher and also to experience and be taken further into my journey with the medicine and sounds from Benny. So much life has been illuminated for me during this time and I am only excited to see how the ripples continue to flow down my line. 

~ Summer Russell

I have done many trainings across the world but the main ingredient that differentiates Lara’s from others is her heart and soul. She is so deeply aligned with her dharma and her heart is so full of unconditional love. This not only attracts like minded students, creating an incredibly safe and inspiring container but it also creates an atmosphere of deep, vulnerable and insightful contribution from everyone in the space.

Everything is welcome in Lara’s spaces, she sees no hierarchy between emotions or sensations, allowing us to feel and express what before we’d even hidden from ourselves. In this way, when you enter her portal, not only are you getting an incredible qualification / training but also a deeply transformative personal experience.

It feels like a process of metamorphosis - at times sticky and uncomfortable but deeply healing and expansive. I have unveiled, excavated and unravelled many deeper layers to myself thanks to the poetic and profound guidance of Lara.

In some of Lara’s practices I’ve felt like I’ve met my innermost bliss body, which being someone who struggles from complex PTSD had previously felt untouchable to me. Once you’ve experienced this level of embodied ecstasy and what is possible in this human form it leaves a mark on you in the best possible way - a glamor of hope that you trust you can one day return to and a gilding light on this long sadhana back to yourself.

Thank you Lara, I am forever grateful for the teacher & human you are.

~ Sienna Speke


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