Recovering your Instincts and Inner knowing for a more Pleasurable and Happy Life...

Join us on a transformational weekend women’s retreat in the beautiful Jervis Bay region, inviting you back to a deeper connection with your inner knowing and instincts.

Our instincts are our inbuilt guidance system that is designed to not only keep us safe, but support us to thrive as healthy, happy women and lead pleasurable, fulfilling and vibrant lives. Our instincts are an intricate communication system governed by our empathic attunement to others and the world around us through our nervous system. However many of the habits of modern day living actually deny and dull down our instinctual inner knowing rather than encouraging it.

Although technology provides us with wonderful supports in life, its constant presence actually negatively affects our nervous system and changes our brain chemistry in ways that negatively effect our ability to connect with our instincts and trust our inner knowing.

Being connected to our instincts is an inner felt experience, rather than something we think. We can restore this connection through slowing down, tuning into our senses and remembering our interconnectedness with Nature and Life beyond just our immediate experiences and relationships.

This retreat will provide you an opportunity to take time away from the business of life, slow down and deeply listen to what your body and instinctual intelligence is telling you. When we are connected to our instincts, we can align better with our needs, our hearts desires and experience greater courage and creativity to make life choices that align with our inner knowing.

Like a river gently etching its pathway through rock, when we take time through ritualistic experiences, to honour our interconnectedness with Nature and Life all around us, it empathically and energetically deepens these connections even more deeply within us. This then supports us to have easier access to these connections in day-to-day life, which can support us to feel more connected, grounded, trusting and vitally alive.

With 5 Biodanza sessions over the weekend, interwoven with powerful Shamanic Nature based meditations and creativities practices, you can slow down into a deeper inner connection... to better sense and feel your connection to yourself and to Life all around you, to support you to make choices in life that take you towards a more pleasurable and fulfilling life and relationships.

Over the weekend, Swaha Devi will also share some powerful shamanic energy connection practices to support you to more deeply remember your connection to Nature, including opening your receptivity to messages from the plant and animal world that can support you to stay connected to your inner instincts and knowing. Swaha Devi has over 20 years experience as a student of shamanic healing, with 12 years in private practice using these tools with clients, and training others in shamanic energy healing and meditation practices.

BOOK NOW - register here via Eventbrite to book your free exploration and information call before receiving your application form and payment details.

Investment

The early bird for this retreat is $620 (finishes 26 May) second release earlybird for this retreat is $650 (ends 30 June). The full fee is $700 from 1 July 2024.

You will also be allocated a few ingredients to contribute to the meals.

INCLUSIONS

Simple shared waterfront accommodation with your own bed.

All meals (vegetarian gluten free with vegan options if specified).

Retreat tuition and resources.

2 hour post retreat online group connect and integration session.

Access to 1 x discounted 1:1 Spiritual Healing and Coaching session with Swaha Devi to support integration from the weekend if you wish.

How would it feel...

…To feel more connected to your body and your deep inner knowing, and have the courage to follow your inner knowing in your life choices?

…To have space to slow down and remember your deep inner connection, to both your WILD human nature and instincts, and the deep spaciousness and wisdom of your Cosmic Nature?

…To feel powerfully connected to what TURNS YOU ON in life, and when to say YES and when to say NO. To reclaim who YOU ARE, authentically, unapologetically, and humbly?

What is Biodanza…

Biodanza offers an invitation to Dance with Life, reawaken your Joy of Living and land in the present moment. Through music, dance and group experiences your body can reawaken to its natural rhythms and cycles. The clever design of a Biodanza session regulates stress and restores your innate potential for living a more pleasurable, happy and creatively inspired life. Biodanza is suitable for all women, regardless of age or ability. Classes are a wonderful combination of more upbeat invitations to movement that invite vitality and freedom and slower movement more akin to tai chi or Qigong which allows you to slow down and connect with your inner knowing.

Is this retreat suitable for me?

I welcome you to come and celebrate and be celebrated for all it is to be a woman. All my programs open a gentle, sacred and safe container for all women, of all ages, abilities, sexualities, faiths and beliefs and cultures. It is an invitation to join together to remember our similarities as women, to release anything that is holding you back, and rediscover more of your authentic nature and self expression. This is a perfect retreat for you if you wouls like to explore your sexuality and womanhood on a deeper level.

Trauma informed

This is a theraputically held and trauma informed retreat, designed to give you freedom to choose and explore in a way that feels right for you.

Everything in this weekend is an invitation. The offerings are carefully designed to support you to explore yourself, your relationship to others, to your creativity and to life. If there are any experiences you do not wish to take part in, I will work with you to either support you to be involved in a way that feels good for you, and the group, or to find a different offering that feels nurturing for you in its place.

This retreat is accessible regardless of your physical ability. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss this.

Weekend’s Offerings

We will journey together through a number of powerful body based Life Centred processes:

- Biodanza (conscious dance and movement)

- integrative art practices

- nature based meditations

- guided shamanic nature connection practices

We understand that having an idea of a weekend schedule can create ease for some in booking in for an event. Please note that the below schedule acts as a guide only. Because Swaha Devi works intuitively, in empathic connection to the group, the weekends offerings sometimes flow and change as needed to support the needs of the group and the unfolding of the groups journey over the weekend.

Friday

CHECK IN - 1200-1230pm

Settle into your riverfront cottage before a communal welcome lunch.

WELCOME LUNCH - 1230-130pm

Opening circle and Biodanza session - 2-5pm

FIRESIDE DINNER - 530-7pm

Temple session (optional) - Nature focused sensual embodiment meditation - 7-8PM

SATURDAY

Guided Shamanic nature connection sunrise beach meditation 7-8am

SELF SERVE BREAKFAST - 8-10am

Biodanza session - 10-12pm

LUNCH AND FREE TIME - 12-230pm

Sharing circle and Nature based creativity activity - 230-430pm

Biodanza session - 5-7pm

FIRESIDE DINNER AND FREE TIME - 7pm

SUNDAY

SELF SERVICE BREAKFAST - 7-830am

Biodanza session - 830-1030am - Nature based Biodanza session

Sharing circle and integrative nature meditation - 11am-1230pm

LUNCH - 1230-130pm

Biodanza session and closing circle - 130-330pm

DEPARTURE by 5pm (unless staying another night)

BOOK NOW - register here via Eventbrite to book your free exploration and information call before receiving your registration form and payment details.

Investment

The early bird for this retreat is $620 (finishes 26 May) second release earlybird for this retreat is $650 (ends 30 June). The full fee is $700 from 1 July 2024.

You will also be allocated a few ingredients to contribute to the meals.

INCLUSIONS

Simple shared waterfront accommodation with your own bed.

All meals (vegetarian gluten free with vegan options if specified).

Retreat tuition and resources.

2 hour post retreat online group integration session.

Access to 1 discounted 1:1 Spiritual Healing and Coaching session with Swaha Devi to support integration from the weekend.

MEALS

All meals over the weekend are gluten free vegetarian, with vegan options. Please let us know if you have any dietary allergies/ requirements.

BREAKFASTS: self-service breakfast bar provided.

LUNCHES: wraps, salads and sandwiches (gluten free vegan options)

DINNERS: hot simple nourishing dinners are provided.

SNACKS: please bring you own snacks if you wish to eat between meals.

The cost of this retreat is kept down by a team of volunteers preparing meals for retreat. So you will be asked to bring a few ingredients to contribute towards the weekends meals. Our retreat staff will prepare dinners and you will be invited to support preparation for 1 lunch over the weekend. Preparing and sharing meals is another wonderful opportunity for connection and bonding.

The Spirit of She Community

I believe that being a part of a strong and supportive community of women is a powerful foundation on the journey of self-discovery. Sharing stories, being seen and heard, witnessed, and witnessing other women’s journeys, validates who we are, and can give us strength on our journeys in the weird, wonderful and diverse experience that is Life.

The Spirit of She community offers weekly opportunities, and three monthly Retreats to connect with other women through meaningful and uplifting experiences, and social connection and community. When women come together as a group with a supportive intention, magic happens. Our community includes women from all walks of life. The diversity offers a rich tapestry of our humanity and womanhood, to celebrate, and learn more about ourselves as women. We look forward to welcoming you into our circle.

~ Swaha Devi

BOOK NOW - register here via Eventbrite to book your free exploration and information call before receiving your application form and payment details.

Investment

The early bird for this retreat is $620 (finishes 26 May) second release earlybird for this retreat is $650 (ends 30 June). The full fee is $700 from 1 July 2024.

You will also be allocated a few ingredients to contribute to the meals.

INCLUSIONS

Simple shared waterfront accommodation with your own bed.

All meals (vegetarian gluten free with vegan options if specified).

Retreat tuition and resources.

2 hour post retreat online group integration session.

Access to 1 discounted 1:1 Spiritual Healing and Coaching session with Swaha Devi to support integration from the weekend.

YOUR ACCOMMODATION

Waterfront cottages are 2m from the waters edge, on the confluence of the Crookhaven and Shoalhaven Rivers in Greenwell Point, in the Jervis Bay Region. Just 12 minutes from the exquiste beaches of Jervis Bay. We will have exclusive access to this private property with four cottages, beautiful gardens and outdoor spaces for our outdoor activities.

You will be sharing rooms with other women during the retreat. If you wish for a private space, glamping options can be provided at an additional cost.

Greenwell Point is located 2.5-3 hours from Canberra CBD

About your Host

Swaha Devi is the founder of Spirit of She Sacred Women's Gatherings, a sacred womens Mystery School. A modern day mystic, Lifelong student, and teacher of Tantra and other Eastern and Western spiritual and human devlopment practices, Swaha is passionate about sharing empowerment tools to support women to lead more wholesome and present lives.

Swaha Devi has been supporting 1-1 clients and groups through conscious connected Breathwork, shamanic healing, sensual embodiment, Tantric coaching and bodywork and transformational retreats in Canberra and Internationally for over 18 years. She is also a birth and end of life Doula, passionate about bringing deep love, presence and connection to families during poignant life transitions.

Swaha is a registered practitioner with the Australian Breathwork Association and International Institute of Complimentary Therapists, and a Biodanza facilitator.

BOOK NOW - registrer here via eventbrite to book your free exploration call. These are a requirement before registering for this retreat.