Tygress: A fierce, independent and potentially dangerous woman, capable of both passionate loving and compassionate ruthlessness.

There is something in a woman that calls from within - a knowing dissatisfaction, agitation, sense of resentment, even remorse. It nags through deep belly yearnings and strange fantasies; grips her in vivid dreams and desperate desires.

A mysterious, silhouetted twin lives in the depths of every woman's psyche, whispering through the events of her life, asking to be seen, touched, and known. Without connection to her, we loop endlessly, bored, buffered, and worn thin. Dried out, we reach toward careers, relationships, children, food, substances, trends - seeking what might sustain us, though none of it truly satisfies.

Only when we make the necessary sacrifice - laying down the mask of who we think we should be - do we meet this wild one on her own terms. Through this encounter, we begin awakening to the mysterious forces dreaming us into being.

This is an invitation to come home: to a place where you become permeable again, where you feel love, perceive beauty, and allow yourself to be undone by it. We return from this experience quietly and irrevocably changed - radiant, alert, divinely bound to our soul's fate. With this grounding, we discover the capacity to risk intensity and meet the world in its immediacy.

And so, we bring you Moon Tygress 2026, offering the opportunity to shed the habituated versions of yourself and open to the raw, instinctual, wild feminine who is waiting for you.

This series is guided by women trained in archetypal psychology, who know the ruthless kindness required for soul-making. Through art, movement, theatrical play, personal reflection, imaginative lectures, and poetic discussion, we tend to the work of transformation.

???? The Sapphire Gate. March 20-22. Cape Town. Non-residential.
???? The Ruby Gate. May 15-17. Cape Town. Non-residential.
???? The Onyx Gate. August 28-30. Cape Town. Non-residential.
???? The Emerald Gate. November 17-22. Knysna. Residential.

Reply to tygress@tamboo.co.za for more information or to book. For more information about the academy, visit The Tamboo website.

Image inspired by Emma Barthere's Pieds Nus.