Join us for the Level 1 Cobra Breath Intensive in the Rainforest of Costa Rica
Ipsalu Tantra Kriya Yoga is a sacred invitation to descend—into the body, into sensation, into the living intelligence of eros—as the ground of your awakening. This is a path that honors erotic life-force not as mere pleasure, but as a current of sacred energy waiting to be reclaimed for healing, creativity, and profound inner connection.
We invite you to become intimate with your contradictions, to metabolize shame into compassion, and to discover the Divinity within your Humanness. This practice weaves somatic insight into daily life, asking you to move through the world with both discipline and devotion, meeting your shadowed parts with tenderness.
This immersion is an invitation to:
Reclaim your erotic energy as a form of trauma healing and energetic sovereignty.
Cultivate embodied witnessing—the capacity to feel without collapse.
Experience heart-centered relating rooted in presence and mutual recognition.
Awaken consciousness through the soma, where breath, body, and awareness become one instrument.
Manifest your heart’s longing from a place of aligned, authentic power.
THE JOURNEY: ANCIENT PRACTICE, MODERN EMBODIMENT
This four-day intensive is rooted in ancient yogic traditions, offering a safe, step-by-step container to reconnect with your body, deepen awareness, and build intentional relationships. Through a balance of structure and exploration, we guide you toward reclaiming your hidden magnificence.
At the heart is the Cosmic Cobra Breath, a once-secret Kriya Yoga technique that prepares the body for the safe movement of Kundalini energy. This breath works with life-force to foster mental clarity, emotional resilience, and an expansion into more joyful, blissful states of being.
WHAT WILL YOU GAIN?
As you progress, you will grow physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This practice supports you in becoming:
More sensitive, intuitive, and creatively authentic.
More loving, compassionate, and connected.
More joyful and free from the bondage of past programming.
Capable of intimate relationships in a dimension you may not have imagined.
THE IPSALU FORMULA: A PATH TO BLISS
We teach a unique method for attuning to Bliss in any circumstance. It can be summed up in the powerful acronym ASATE:
Activate energy in the body.
Still the mind.
Arouse life-force energy.
Transmute that energy.
Enjoy the expanded state of TantraBliss.
This work is immersive and transformative—joyful, embodied, and deeply respectful. You'll be supported through movement, music, and mindful interaction. While erotic energy is consciously explored, there is no explicit sexual activity in the shared space. This is a container of integrity, care, and deep listening.
IN A WORLD that conditions us to numb our sensations and distrust our bodies, these are practices of remembrance. They help us reweave the threads between mind, body, and spirit, restoring our capacity to feel, to choose, and to love from a place of blissful clarity.
Meet your facilitators
This course is co-facilitated by Nayano and Aly Khan
Nayano
Nayano is certified to teach Levels 1-4 and Modules 1-3 Teacher Training
I am Nayano, one of the senior Ipsalu teachers. I began my Ipsalu practice in early 2000 when Bodhi came to South Florida to facilitate a Level 1. I was a massage therapist and Reiki master at that time and had been looking for a Tantric path. However the other Tantras did not feel balanced to me, nor did I feel the sense of well-being and integrity my soul was longing for. After the course I felt “home” and this was the science that would help me heal.
After years of practice, I now teach Courses in several different countries including US, Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia and France. More destinations are opening up throughout the world. It is an exciting time, as more of humanity is prepared to take on this practice of self-mastery and awakening.
Aly Khan Ladha
My name is Aly Khan and I am a co-founder of Brave Earth, a Center for Applied Cultural Transition. This includes a healing center, community, and regenerative farm located in the RainForest of Costa Rica.
I spent over a decade in the finance industry and was disillusioned by the neoliberal capitalist system. I have reprioritized my life energy to focus on being in solidarity to Gaia and contributing to systems of change. This includes helping humanity remember how to connect to themselves, others and source.
Over the last nine years at Brave Earth, I have led many functions including build and finance, and co-led operations, programming and permaculture. In the past decade, I have done extensive training with the Peruvian Shipibo lineage, Reiki, Ayurveda, and Authentic Relating.
After nearly 10 years of apprenticing and practicing IPSALU Tantra Kriya Yoga, I am now an Ipsalu Level 1 Cobra Breath teacher. I am deeply honored and excited to guide this course and share ancient wisdom that has helped me grow and connect.
NOURISHMENT
We will be nourishing with organic, plant-based, locally-sourced foods that come from our regenerative farm or other local farms.
Tierra Valiente
Tierra Valiente (Brave Earth), Center for Applied Cultural Transition, is a living laboratory rooted in principles of regeneration, resiliency and reciprocity. We provide immersive experiences in the Nature that share alternative ways of living and being that are suitable for modernity and contextually relevant for the rapidly changing world we live in.
Immerse yourself in the majesty and mystery of the rainforest. Brave Earth is located between San Ramon and La Fortuna, nestled in between Arenal Volcano and the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, the largest reserve of protected wildlife in Costa Rica.
As a living lab, we have experimented with different building modalities using AirCrete and materials sourced on the land including bamboo and adobe. We have implemented biophilic design, closed-loop systems and permaculture design principles. Ornamental, food, and medicinal gardens surround the center as well as hiking trials to a nearby river, and a natural swimming pond.
Shared spaces are where we communally gather and are designed to feel symbiotic with the environment in which we are embedded.
CONTRIBUTION
Includes: Lodging at Brave Earth, Daily nourishment and Tuition
Contribution ranges from $1,270 to $1,700 per person depending on accommodation type and number of guests sharing a space.
Register by Aug 1 with discount code “COBRABREATH” to receive $100 off early bird pricing.
For those living in country that wish to arrive on Tuesday September 23 by 1PM and go right into the first session, that is available. We will reduce the room and food on departure. Simply email here and let us know.
Rooms are assigned on a first come first serve basis. For accommodation varieties, please click here.
For Costa Rican nationals that would like financial support, please email here
Tenative SCHEDULE
Sept 22 (ARRIVAL DAY)
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm ~ Arrival
6:30 pm ~ Welcome Dinner
Sept 23
9:00am - 11:00am - Morning plant walk and Property Tour
3:00pm-6:00pm ~ First Session
Sept 24-25
9:00am- 1:00pm ~ Morning Session
3:00pm-6:00pm ~ Afternoon Session
7:30-10:00pm ~ Evening Session
Sept 26 (DEPARTURE DAY)
9:00am-10:30am ~ Morning Meditation & Closing Session
11:00 Checkout
POLARITY BALANCE
We are seeking polarity and gender balance for this course. We all embody the divine masculine (known as Shiva) aspects as well as the divine feminine (known as Shakti). Both Shiva and Shakti are alive in both men and women. In union, Shiva and Shakti live in harmony. The image of Babaji, a beloved androgynous avatar, shows the union of masculine and feminine aspects of our being, which brings about a mystical wholeness within.
Typically, we have participants who identify as women (Shakti energy) enroll first and need to create a waitlist as we sign up participants who identify as men (Shiva energy) . To help with our inquiry, we will ask you to identify your gender preference at the time of registration.
If you have any questions or are in a same sex partnership and have preference in a certain polarity, please do not hesitate to email us here so we are aware of your inquiry.