About Us
Ecstatic Womanhood Institute offers you the possibility to delight yourself by the esoteric knowledge and long term spiritual experience of two wonderful women.The founders of Ecstatic Womanhood Institute are:
Dhumavatiananda - CEO of Institute for Personal Development; internationally certified Yoga and Tantra teacher. Dhumavatiananda is certified journalist and foreign language teacher, Bucharest, Romania. She also has a master degree in computer science and work science/sociology from Blekinge Institute of Technology in Ronneby, Sweden. Dhumavatiananda began practicing yoga 1989, she became a yoga teacher in 1993 and Tantra teacher in 1994, after a special training for teachers. Since then she has been teaching yoga and tantra in Romania, Denmark, France, India, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Germany, Russia, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. She won the 1st prize in the National Yoga Competition 1994, and the 3rd prize in 1995. She is the founder of the TANTRA FOR WOMEN courses and SHAKTI GROUPS - and lectured on “Tantra for Women” and “Shakti Groups” in over 40 cities in 12 countries, for more than 20 years.
She became a certified yoga and Tantra teacher by “Yoga and Parapsychology Association” (SYP) in Romania, 1993. In 1996 she received her yoga and tantra teacher diploma from “Nordic School of Tantra and Hatha yoga” in Denmark, after having completed a specific training and examination.
In 2000 she received her yoga and Tantra teacher diploma from “Yoga Organisation for God and self-realization” (YOGA) in India. She is also an internationally certified as yoga and Tantra teacher by ATMAN - The World Federation of Yoga and Meditation since 2009, after a 2-years yoga teacher training.
After moving to Karlskrona, Sweden in 1997, she started a non-profit yoga association, Natha Yogacenter and began teaching yoga and tantra on a regular basis in Karlskrona, Malmö, Kalmar, Stockholm and Copenhagen. She has written a number of yoga and tantra articles in specialized journals in Romania, USA and Sweden. She has also written two books, one about the link between women and karmic astrology (“Women and the Planets – an insight into karmic astrology”, Editura George Cosbuc, 1995), and one on tantric sacred sexuality (“Sacred Sexuality – the erotic amorous level and the spiritual evolution”, Editura Stiinta si Constiinta, 2012). Several interviews and reportage have been published about her activity in the different magazines: Må Bra, Hälsa, Sydöstran, BLT, Commersen (Sweden) and in Yoga Magazin (Romania). Also a number of radio interviews with her have been broadcast on the local and national Swedish radio stations, and she was a guest on the Swedish national television show “Brain Storm”, which was about the states of ecstasy. She is one of the yoga experts who wrote in Om Yoga Om Journal.
Now she leads yoga, meditation and Tantra classes; as well as “Tantra for women” course in Sweden and in several countries in Europe. She created and has been teaching “the International Training Course for Shakti Group Coordinators” – for women from all over the world who wish to become certified tantra for women teachers.
Her dream is to assist in women’s awakening all over the world, and build an international sisterhood of enlightened, ecstatic, spiritualized women who regained their innate divine power.
Flore Nicolas – CEO of Absolute Ayurveda.
She is a qualified and experienced Ayurvedic practitioner and therapist. Flore graduated in Ayurvedic medicine from Thames Valley University, London, and followed her medical internship in a renowned Ayurvedic hospital, Arya Vaidya Chikitsalayam, in South India. She is a full member of the two leading associations of recognised Ayurvedic practitioners in England: APA (Association of Ayurvedic Practitioners) and BAAAP (British Association of Accredited Ayurvedic Practitioners). She moved to Iceland following her internship and founded Absolute Ayurveda, with the goals to promote Ayurvedic living and help awaken people to their highest potential. Flore is also a Reiki master, aromatherapist and reflexology practitioner and instructor. She has been practicing health counselling for more than 15 years in Europe, Africa and India. It is Flore’s strong belief that Ayurveda offers concrete tools with which the world can be transformed, starting from the self. Through a way of life tuned in with one’s own and nature’s cycles, we gain deeper physical, mental, emotional and social balance. In turn, we begin to gain a more profound respect for all life, and for the earth itself. Her dream is to build and hold a community aspiring to lasting health and deep contentment of the self and of the world.