Barbara Bürscher

A practice you feel,
not perform.

Barbara sitting on the branch of a banyan tree, holding a singing bowl.
Portrait of Barbara outdoors, looking up and smiling.

I teach practices from yoga and from the Taoist and Tantric traditions, in groups and one to one. I take them seriously. You don’t have to take my word for them. Try them.

Based in South Goa · Online and in person

Explore the practices For studios and venues

Barbara sitting cross-legged in the middle of an empty road, snow-covered mountains ahead.
New Zealand, 2019.

I tend to try things first and read about them afterwards. Most of what I teach started that way.

What I teach

View past a student’s shoulder to the teacher, seated cross-legged in an open-air hall among palm trees.
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Yoga

Classes and workshops, in a group

Regular classes where you move properly, rest properly and learn what each practice is for. Nobody expects you to look like a yogi.

Explore Yoga

Barbara adjusting a student’s arm position during a seated posture.
02

Embodiment

One to one, in person or online

For people who live a lot in their head, and mostly it works. When something keeps coming back that thinking won’t sort out, we look at it through the body instead.

Explore Embodiment

Barbara sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of a draped altar, smiling, a singing bowl in front of her.
03

Tao Tantric Arts

Workshops and circles

The most specialised part of my work: traditional practices from Taoism and Tantra, done with breath, sound and slow movement. For women, and my women’s practice belongs here.

Explore Tao Tantric Arts

Why I teach this way

Respect doesn’t mean switching off your questions.

I was a journalist before I taught yoga. That’s where the habit started: find out where a practice comes from and what is known about it, then explain it plainly.

Barbara sitting on the grass in white, holding out her open hand while a man in white Balinese dress guides it.
Bali.

Where to find me

Canacona, South Goa
Yoga classes and workshops, women’s circles and one-to-one sessions.
Online
One-to-one sessions.
In retreats
Sessions within retreats, in English or German.

Ask where I’m teaching now

Running a studio or retreat centre? What I offer venues

From the journal

What happens in a class or a circle, step by step, so you know what you’re walking into.

All entries
Marigolds on the polished wooden floor of an open-air hall, a woman sitting in the blurred background.
21 September 2026

How a Chakra Kriya class is built

One chakra per class, three stages, and a week to go through all seven. What happens in the class, step by step.