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India Retreat 2024
A transformational retreat for people that want to dive into the magic of India
India Retreat 2024
A transformational retreat for people that want to dive into the magic of India
If you love to explore the Indian culture with a group of like-minded people, while also having time for yourself, then join us for this magical transformational yoga retreat in Kerala, where you’ll do lots of yoga and meditation and discover the beauty of magical India.
Seated comfortably in a quiet corner near the Pyramid of the Moon, you welcome the warmth of the sun as you watch a black butterfly dancing and sailing on the wind. The Avenue of the Dead stretches more than a half mile in front of you.
On your left towers the massive Pyramid of the Sun, on your right the ornate Palace of the Jaguars. Your whole body hums with gratitude and anticipation as you take it all in.
In the next moment, you close your eyes, and the lively notes of a nearby flute transport you back to the congenial Dreaming House, the place you call home during this magical adventure.
You smile inwardly as you remember the warm greetings from your Mexican hosts, your colorful living quarters, and your exciting encounters with your fellow travelers. You delight as you dream of the delicious, home-cooked meals, the explorations and discoveries, the laughter and love.
But most of all, you delight in the shift. How and when it happened you’re not quite sure, but so much has changed during the last two days. In less than 48 hours, you’ve dropped the heavy baggage of the past. You’ve loosened and lightened up.
Your mind has emptied and expanded. You feel clearer and more confident, more awake and alive. You’ve surrendered to the magic of Teotihuacan. You’ve buried your limitations and left them behind.
As you stand up and start back to the Dreaming House for a late afternoon lunch, you’re astonished at how liberated you feel. After all these years of hesitation and self-doubt, there’s a celebration going on inside. You’ve finally found yourself. In fact, you feel reborn. And this is only the beginning!
Welcome to the magic of Kerala!
And what is possible for you here?
For starters, how empowering would it feel to…
- Embrace traditional business strategies while staying true to yourself and being of service in this self-centered, competitive world?
- Push past paralysis and take wise action, even when you’re weighed down with work?
- Have the clarity and confidence you need to know exactly what to do next in your business?
- No longer feel anxious or overwhelmed by the constant demands of running a business?
- Kick all sense of struggle and discouragement to the curb as you watch your business finally take off?
Is this you? You…
- Have done some work on yourself and are now ready to surrender the old for the new
- Have navigated or are navigating menopause and are ready for the next phase of life to be juicy, alive, and meaningful
- Are in a transitional phase in life where you are asking – what about me now?
- Want to feel confident and capable, while flowing from your deep feminine wisdom
- Can often glimpse your power, but sometimes feel doubt and uncertainty
- Could do with a boost to finally let go of what holds you back in life
- Want to see more clearly your gifts, your desires, and how you can best serve others
- Seek support, inspiration, and wisdom from other like-minded wise women
- Want a deep rest from your day-to-day and to feel nourished, held and fulfilled
- Seek to create a lasting transformation that allows you to step fully into being your authentic, expressed, natural self
These are only some of the hidden abilities you will uncover as ancient, alchemical processes harness the power of Teotihuacan to peel away the layers of resistance and illusion inside you.
In days, you’ll find yourself more able to…
- Integrate areas of conflict within so that you can wholeheartedly be of service through your business;
- Feel progressively calmer and more at peace so that you can effectively respond to even the most demanding work situations;
- Transcend old patterns of limitation, dropping inner resistance and revealing the qualities you need most to make your business a success;
- Access your own ocean of inner wisdom, leaving you with a more reliable inner guidance system to navigate your business and life;
- Become immersed in intense presence, so that you can respond to the moment even under heavy pressure.
Wouldn’t that be enough to join us?
Feel what is wild and natural
Feel what is wild and natural
Re-wild yourself with the healing power of nature and connect with your body. Do yoga while you gaze at the endless sky, smell the scent of flowers, and hear the sound of birds. Move, Dance, Sing. Relax and rest your body, open your heart, and start to feel whole again. Remember you are part of nature and belong to Mother Earth. Simply be.Take pleasure in the sweetness of life
Take pleasure in the sweetness of life
Enjoy your body, and nurture yourself with pleasure, treats, and pampering. Eat amazing, satisfying local and seasonal food. Learn how to care for your body as a temple with wild woman practices and sensual secrets that help you experience your health, vitality, and radiance. Create soul nourishing rituals and ceremonies to connect you to your spiritual Source. Feel and look beautiful.Make space for healing and empowerment
Make space for healing and empowerment
Co-create a safe space to move on from painful patterns of the past. Learn who you truly are to Let go of what you are not. Honor ancestors, acknowledge death, and connect deeply with Spirit; embrace and expand with these powerful energies. Heal. Connect with and offer your unique gifts, discover your creativity and inspiration; explore how you can effortlessly express your magic in the world. Be seen, held and appreciated. Express yourself.Meet Your Hosts
Your host are all Wise Women who through their own life journeys have deepened their knowledge and understanding of wise and wild ways that serve women. They are all experienced teachers and facilitators.
Each has navigated heartbreak and loss; rising through the ashes to reconnect with the Divine Feminine. Each has honed her unique magic and now desires to nourish, serve and empower you to find your own.
We believe the most helpful thing we can do for the world right now is to support Wise Women to fully step into their heart and soul power and be their true and unique gifts.
The intuitive gifts of the Wise Woman are needed, now more than ever.
You are needed.
Julia Bull
Julia is an Artist, Chef, and Entrepreneur who helps women take pleasure in the light,
sweet stuff of life; to fully embrace and enjoy their feminine essence.
Julia Bull is the Co-creator of the Hidden Paradise retreat center and author of Love Food. Hidden Paradise is a Body, Mind, and Soul Centre created to help people discover the paradise within. Julia feels passionately about what we put into and onto our precious bodies and how this can affect our wellbeing.
Julia brings you a wealth of goodies. She can share a multitude of ways to step up your health, give you some high vibe cookery skills or just enjoy the sweetness of life. It is her pleasure to share cool ways that you can cut costs, plastic waste and instead eat nutritionally packed food that gives you more vitality. She also facilitates community work in the kitchen and garden using permaculture techniques.
Julia sees how our unconscious consumption is something that can lurk in the shadows, and that cravings and addictions are actually unmet needs and squashed repressed emotions, so she supports women to bring what’s unseen into the light. She encourages women to connect with their bodies, creativity and desires and to discover the joy of devotional practice.
Julia has also been a contributing member of the Lux Collective and Eat Prunes for over 20 years – a local community of Soul Sisters who create, sing and perform.
Julia has over twenty five years practical experience of hosting, holding and participating in women’s circles.
Tara Kleij
Tara is a Yoga and Meditation Teacher with 35 years of experience who helps women to feel
what is wild and natural; through embodiment she enables women to be still and deeply connect with themselves
As a small girl Tara grew up in a spiritual community called ‘Auroville’ in South India where Yoga and meditation were a part of life and since then this has been her guiding light.
Later her journey led her to travel and study with many great yogis and spiritual masters and she has spent half her life in the east, always furthering her yoga studies as well as learning natural healing techniques.
In 2006 she created Sunfood Yoga where she offers Transformational Retreats with her partner and two sons in Spain and India.
Tara has taught yoga and meditation for over 35 years and created her own unique style where she combines the Spiritual with grounding, flowing, feminine ways; adding mantras, mudras, and pranayama to each class she gives.
Empowering and supporting women as they enter the second phase of their life to age with grace and grit is her passion. Through her yoga and practices, she helps women to heal and awaken the wise women in themselves; getting back to wholeness and living an awakened life.
“Thank you for creating this safe space. This feminine space, where women can blossom like flowers in the spring; nourished, loved, taken care of.
Agnieszka Szelejak, Kundalini & Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher
Elizabeth Lovius
Elizabeth is a Feminine Leadership Mentor who helps women make space for their own healing, wholeness and empowerment; letting their own natural wisdom lead
Elizabeth Lovius is a Changemaker; a Leadership Coach, Mentor and Social Entrepreneur specialising in giving leaders – especially women – the headspace to let their wisdom lead. She is an international speaker, author and award winning trainer and facilitator.
When leaders think and feel better, they do better and lead better. Working with Elizabeth, in addition to many years of corporate experience, you get a real human being; a warm connection and a lightness of heart. It is in this space of relaxation, enjoyment and ease – where the magic really happens and women discover what they have been looking for has been there all along: Who they truly are at Core.
Elizabeth is Founder of Kindred Spirit Consultancy one of the first 100 Bcorps in the UK where the focus is on business as a force for good – ensuring that business balances the need to create profit with caring for the Planet and the People. Clients include: IBM, itsu, ITV, Pret A Manger, Cook, M&S, Sky, Samsung, Very
Elizabeth has:
- over 25 years of experience in all sectors (extensive experience in the Hospitality, Food, Media and Retail Sectors)
- worked with over 100 organisations on their culture
- trained, coached and mentored over 10,000 individuals
- specialised in the unique challenges and opportunities that leaders, especially women leaders face
‘It’s just about seeing, opening your eyes again. Waking up again. I would recommend working with Elizabeth to anyone. It’s life-changing. I can honestly say it’s been like scales dropping from my eyes.’
– Nicki Fisher Head of the Pret Foundation –
‘Gentle, vulnerable, loving and raw. We are more than we could ever imagine.’
Holding each other in the beautiful Hidden Paradise, a place made sacred by our love for each other and just being together. So many beautiful souls sharing tears and laughter, joy and pain.
‘I felt heard, nourished, powerful, held, safe and loved.’
– Fellow Wise Women who have attended our events. –
Where will we be?
Imagine yourself…in a Hidden Paradise.
In the foothills of the Alpujarra mountains, feasting on mulberries. fresh figs and grapes straight from the vines and trees.
Soak in the sun and swim in the natural pools, deeply connect with other inspiring women, and return to your natural inner rhythm and flow.
Wake up to the sound of birds, starting your day singing mantras while the sun rises behind the majestic mountain peaks.
Feel the sun on your face, the breeze in your hair, and smell the fresh, clean air.
Dive deep into your natural, wild wisdom through connecting with Heart and Mind, Body and Soul.
Imagine breathing deeply and thanking yourself as you gaze up at the vast sky full of stars that you gave this precious gift to yourself!
“My experience at Hidden Paradise has been nothing but love.
The people, the sharing, the food made with love..
all the love in every detail of every building”
– Jestine, Marie Manucheri.U.S.A.. –
The Cuisine
Our experienced chefs take pride in creating delicious, healthy meals using home-grown and where possible organic and always locally sourced ingredients, to prepare nutritious raw, vegan, and vegetarian dishes.
Julia Bull, our chef will show you how to give yourself what you are craving, without giving in to unhealthy habits, for example, sharing delicious raw cake recipes and healthy raw chocolate and probiotic foods.
We are happy to accommodate the needs of guests with allergies to particular foods and often prepare gluten and dairy-free meals – all served with love!
We can see this retreat as a wonderfully gentle way to cleanse the mind, body, and spirit, your body will be renewed in several ways.
Please write to us if you have any special needs, so that our chefs can take care of them.
Thank you for creating this safe space, this feminine space, Where women can blossom like flowers in the spring: nourished, loved, taken care of.
Agnieszka Szelejak, Kundalini & Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher
What will the retreat be like?
On the retreat, we will circle together in an intimate setting as numbers are limited to Thirteen. This ensures we have a safe space to go deep together.
- We will take care to consciously open and close our circle and sacred container
- We will deeply explore one theme each day and on your final day integrate what you have seen
- Every morning and evening there will be practical activities that allow us to connect and deepen with the feminine and theme for that day
- These activities may be rituals, yoga, meditation, singing, chanting, dancing, sensual experiences or reflections
- Sprinkled through the week are workshops, masterclasses and personalised coaching on each theme to deepen your own growth, development and insight
- In sacred sharing circles, you will find voice and wisdom, helping you to both learn from yourself and from others
- There will be plenty of space each day to follow your own flow and be with yourself. Perhaps to rest, reflect, be in nature, connect with others receive pampering
- You will create something beautiful to take home that embodies the week as an offering for your own temple to the Divine Feminine/Spirit.
- We will also make room for the spontaneous magic to happen through us all staying open to our intuitive wisdom.
Our Themes and Daily Schedule
We are a unique expression of Mind, Body, Heart and Soul so we wish to nourish you in all these domains – additionally we want to facilitate a deeper connection with Spirit and All that is.
Most of all, we aim to connect you with your innate intuitive Wisdom to truly know how to recognise it and deeply trust how it can guide you in all aspects of life.
DAY 1 – ARRIVAL MONDAY 30th October – SACRED SAFE CONTAINER
- Afternoon:
– Settling in and Connecting – Creating a sacred, safe space- agreements
– Setting intentions and Focus - Evening: Welcome Ceremony
DAY 2 – TUESDAY 31st October – SPIRIT: THE ETERNAL
- Morning:
– Teaching: Accessing your Innate Intuitive Wisdom, aligning with The Eternal
– Workshop: Acknowledging Death and The Ancestors - Afternoon: Self-Work: Creating your sacred space
- Evening: Samhain Ceremony
DAY 3 – WEDNESDAY 1st November – MIND: OUR STORIES
- Morning:
– Teaching: Universal Mind and Personal Mind – how we create our experience
– Workshop: Wounded parts – letting go of what no longer serves - Afternoon: Free time/Treatments
DAY 4 – THURSDAY 2nd November – BODY: NOURISHMENT
- Morning:
– Teaching: Treating the body as a temple
– Masterclasses on:- Re-wilding with Nature
- Food – Health – Nutrition – Mood Food
- Sensuous Secrets – Skincare
- Afternoon: Free Time/Treatments/Practising Masterclass content
DAY 5 – FRIDAY 3rd November – HEART: OPENING TO LOVE
- Morning:
– Teaching: Ways to open the Heart and Be Heart Led
– Sister Circle: Wise Woman sharing and support
– Masterclass: Self-Love and Sexual energy - Afternoon Free time/Treatments/Practising masterclass content
- Evening: Heart opening ceremony – Cacao
DAY 6 – SATURDAY 4th November – SOUL: SELF-EXPRESSION
- Morning:
– Masterclass: Expressing your unique magic and medicine – Archetypes
– Workshop: Style Council and Dressing our Archetypes - Afternoon: Free time/Treatments/Preparation
- Evening: Party – Dance – Celebration
DAY 7 – SUNDAY 4th November – INTEGRATION: LIVING INTO YOUR NATURAL MAGIC
- Morning:
– Sharing Circle: Completing the journey: What is your Wisdom? What are your Keys?
– Workshop: Setting up healthy happy habits - Afternoon: Free time/Treatments/Reflection
- Evening: Integration ceremony
DAY 8 – MONDAY – Closing
- Morning:
– Sharing Circle: Final Sister Circle – Wise Woman sharing
– Completion ceremony
What will you receive?
For just €2,500 you will receive:
*for a twin shared room rates are €1,950,- per person.
- A personal one-to-one session with one of our hosts to help uncover your personal desires
- A pre-retreat online circle to ground and connect with the group
- Three experienced wise women practitioners who will hold and support you
- An experience of rustic eco-luxury in your own private room and re-wilding in the stunning nature of the Alpujarra mountains in Granada, Spain
- A 7-day retreat held in Hidden Paradise – includes stunning mountain views, a rustic wood-fired sauna and a swimming pool
- Three beautiful meals daily – chef prepared from local and organic ingredients.
- Complementary fruits, herbal tea and spring water available through the day.
- Daily yoga in our temple
- A variety of workshops designed to help you reconnect to yourself, your wisdom and the Divine
- The simple pleasures of rest and space to be
- A powerful Samhain ceremony connecting us with the spiritual energy of what is eternal
- Celebration ceremony to honour who you are and what you bring
- Creating an offering to the Divine Feminine to take home and ground you in your practice
- A wise woman toolkit of rituals, tools, practices, and nourishment of all kinds to discover, build and nurture your inner wisdom and resources.
- Transfer Shuttle Bus to and from Malaga Airport (see times in PDF)
PLUS you will also receive as our gift to you:
- A 60-minute Pampering or Healing Treatment choose a full body massage, relaxing reflexology or a luxurious facial
- A professional photoshoot that celebrates you and your unique essence
- A bag of nourishing handpicked treats designed to support your inner journey.
AND It does not end there…
We meet together monthly online for 9 months
for Sacred Sharing Circles
We offer a profound ongoing journey that deepens and integrates all you have learned.
After our immersion to support each other and embody our wise woman in our daily lives…
We will gather to:
- Check in on and support each other in our practices
- Go deeper into our own self-understanding and topics of interest
- Allow our transformation to take root
- Witness and celebrate our own and our Sisters’ growth
Come home to yourself and take with you:
- Self-acceptance and appreciation for you who are and what you bring
- Clarity on your unique gifts and medicine
- Inspiration and focus for where you are going
- Reconnection with your wild woman soul
- Rejuvenation in mind and body, heart and soul
- Increased confidence, openness, creativity, joy and love
- Community and support from fellow wise women
- Coming home to your own intuitive Wisdom.
PLACES ARE LIMITED, BOOK YOUR SPOT NOW!
We are limiting the retreat to a maximum of 13 people in order to create a deep connection with everyone, so book your spot before it’s gone!
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