Winter Solstice Online Retreat

Winter Solstice Online Retreat

WINTER SOLSTICE INTENSIVE LIVE ON ZOOM

This winter we bring back the Virtual experience of a retreat.

Shaktipat transmissions will be given in combination with specific talks on various phenomenon and topics related to the awakening process, and practices from tantra yoga, as well as live Kirtan and chanting circles.

Live sessions will be held through Zoom and you can tune in through your phone app or computer. You will be supported to dive deep into this immersive experience from your own home. In case you require any assistance throughout the process our experienced team will be there to answer your questions, offer support and provide direct pointers during the Q & A section at the end of the live Satsang.

Why do we immerse ourselves in the practice during Winter Solstice?

It’s fascinating to notice how the mind expects life to be linear when all of nature is cyclical. Trees shed their leaves in the winter, to grow new in the spring, seeds grow according to the moon phases, bears come out of slumber after the winter months. We, the bodies, are also in and of nature. The function and evolution (kundalini) of our bodies should be expected to be cyclical. During winter solstice we experience energetic integration, which makes it a very special time of the year to immerse ourselves in the practice.

What is Kundalini?

Kundalini is what unfolds one’s capability to experience expanded states of consciousness, clear psychological & physiological blockages. It unleashes evolutionary mechanisms and accelerates all biological processes, enabling higher brain function. This process leads to Enlightenment and Self-Realization, establishing the being in nondual bliss awareness, Truth. Receiving Shaktipat Deeksha will set forth and clear the path of Kundalini.

Each day, one of the chakras will be our main point of focus. We willstart with yoga in the morning, stirring energy within and enabling better circulation. Later there will be a talk about the chakra, a Shaktipat session, followed up with Q&A. The transmission will facilitate Kundalini (ascension), cleansing of the five elements (Bhuta shuddhi), with a goal to pierce through all 7 chakras (Shat chakra nirupana).

The following Live Satsangs will be led by Yaari, Anuttara, Gyani or Hridaya with time for Questions and Answers at the end.

Also, if you cannot join any of the live calls they will be recorded and sent to you shortly after so you can practice on your own time.

What’s included?
– An informative e-book with information about Shaktipat, how to receive and what to expect;
– E-booklet containing all the schedule and information about the event, including chakra information and recommended readings;
– 25+ Live zoom calls (7 yoga classes + 7 Satsang sessions)
– Kirtan singing circles with AliisaAuroraMusic, Ylva Lavanya and Emma Morgen.
– A community of other initiates to connect to and share experiences;
– Support and Guidance from our team of teachers and gurus, offering direct pointers to the Absolute.

How can you join?
After purchasing the ticket to join the event, you will receive emails each of the seven days containing information about the schedule for the day and the link to join the yoga sessions and live Satsangs.

Date

Dec 15 – 21 2021

Cost

108.00€


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Hourly Schedule

DAY 1

Speakers:

Vajra Devi

DAY 2

Speakers:

Qusai Kathawala

DAY 3

Speakers:

Qusai Kathawala

DAY 4

Speakers:

Qusai Kathawala

DAY 5

Speakers:

Qusai Kathawala

DAY 6

Speakers:

Qusai Kathawala

DAY 7

Speakers:

Qusai Kathawala


Vajra Devi

Vajra Devi











Qusai Kathawala

Qusai Kathawala

Yoga & QiGong Teacher








While Yoga asana and qigong might look quite different from the outside, their deepest guiding principles are the same. In my clesses we will explore these intersections and their potential to make our practice whole.

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Hourly Schedule

DAY 1 - 15 December (TIMES IN CET)

7:30 - 8:30
Opening Ceremony
About Us and the Event.
Speakers:
Vajra Devi, Yaari Prema
12:30 - 13:30
The 4 functions of the mind
Understanding how the mind operates and the formation of ego.
Speakers:
Vajra Devi
14:00 - 15:00
Yoga Nidra
Yoga of sleep, Meditation made Easy
Speakers:
Kristín Bára
17:00 - 18:30
Shaktipat Deeksha & Darshan
Kundalini energy transmission and meditation
Speakers:
Yaari Prema
18:30 - 19:30
Kirtan & Conscious music
Devotional singing to awaken and expand the heart
Speakers:
Ylva Lavanya

DAY 2 - 16 December

7:30 - 8:30
Yoga Asana & QiGong
Awareness through movement
Speakers:
Qusai Kathawala
10:00 - 11:00
Trika Tantra
A short Introduction to Trika Tantra and historic significance, it's methods of awakening to your shiva nature.
Speakers:
Alexandra Costin, Rohan ji
12:30 - 13:30
Returning to the center
A short introduction to the 3 Means of entering into the Supreme Consciousness focusing on Anavopaya. Anavopaya or the Individual means like the Empowered Means, is concerned with the mental purification which is achieved through meditative absorption sustained by objective supports
Speakers:
Yaari Prema
14:00 - 15:30
Dialogue about Kundalini, Sexuality and Cosmic Bliss
LIMITED SPACES. This is for you who, upon your own personal experiences, your wonderings and your quests, want to know more about kundalini and sexual energy and are open to participate in a dialogue about it. The starting point for this will be the article ”Kundalini, Sexuality and Cosmic Bliss” written by AdvaitAshrams Initiator, Peter Majumdar who, based on elements of the Trika tradition, Abhinavagupta's scripture "Tantraloka" and his own experiences throughout his awakening processes, explains the transformation of the sexual energy and its relation with cosmic bliss. Small group, book your spot per instructions that will be given in email.
Speakers:
Peter Majumdar
15:30 - 16:30
Bioelectricity and Kundalini
Metaphysical aspects of kundalini energy
Speakers:
Christian Dittrich
17:00 - 18:30
Shaktipat Deeksha & Darshan
Kundalini energy transmission and meditation
Speakers:
Yaari Prema

DAY 3 - 17 December

6:00 - 7:00
Healing Trauma
Kundalini & Healing Trauma: Supporting Post-Traumatic Growth
Speakers:
Hannaneel Perez
7:30 - 8:30
Yoga Asana & QiGong
Awareness through movement
Speakers:
Qusai Kathawala
11:00 - 12:00
Dancing with Shakti
Sharing personal experiences and insights from awakening the inner flame
Speakers:
Aaradhna
12:30 - 13:30
Exploring Shiva's Heart
The difference between anavopaya shaktopaya and sambavopaya. The nature of shakti, the Divine Energy. Shifting from Anavopaya to one-pointedness or Shaktopaya through meditative immersion
Speakers:
Yaari Prema
14:00 - 15:30
Dialogue about Kundalini, Sexuality and Cosmic Bliss
LIMITED SPACES. This is for you who, upon your own personal experiences, your wonderings and your quests, want to know more about kundalini and sexual energy and are open to participate in a dialogue about it. The starting point for this will be the article ”Kundalini, Sexuality and Cosmic Bliss” written by AdvaitAshrams Initiator, Peter Majumdar who, based on elements of the Trika tradition, Abhinavagupta's scripture "Tantraloka" and his own experiences throughout his awakening processes, explains the transformation of the sexual energy and its relation with cosmic bliss. Small group, book your spot per instructions that will be given in email.
Speakers:
Peter Majumdar
17:00 - 18:30
Shaktipat Deeksha & Darshan
Kundalini energy transmission and meditation
Speakers:
Vajra Devi

DAY 4 - 18 December

6:00 - 7:00
Shamanic view of mental illness
Shamanic/Animistic Perspectives on Mental Health. If you resonate with trauma and the unique challenges that occur when kundalini activates and awakens, please consider joining my talks. There will be an opportunity to safely connect, receive guidance, and ask questions!
Speakers:
Hannaneel Perez
7:30 - 8:30
Yoga Asana & QiGong
Awareness through movement
Speakers:
Qusai Kathawala
10:00 - 11:00
Conscious music
Ephemeral soundscapes of deep beats and ethereal voices
Speakers:
Virender
12:00 - 13:30
Dialogue about Kundalini, Sexuality and Cosmic Bliss
LIMITED SPACES. This is for you who, upon your own personal experiences, your wonderings and your quests, want to know more about kundalini and sexual energy and are open to participate in a dialogue about it. The starting point for this will be the article ”Kundalini, Sexuality and Cosmic Bliss” written by AdvaitAshrams Initiator, Peter Majumdar who, based on elements of the Trika tradition, Abhinavagupta's scripture "Tantraloka" and his own experiences throughout his awakening processes, explains the transformation of the sexual energy and its relation with cosmic bliss. Small group, book your spot per instructions that will be given in email.
Speakers:
Peter Majumdar
14:00 - 15:00
Recognizing awareness
A meditation and introduction of the second Upaya, Shaktopaya, a shaivite view and application of experiencing intrinsic awareness.
Speakers:
Alexandra Costin
17:00 - 18:30
Shaktipat Deeksha & Darshan
Kundalini energy transmission and meditation
Speakers:
Hridaya Devi
19:00 - 20:00
Ayurveda & Holistic Medicine
Awakening and diet, nutrition, herbs & supplements
Speakers:
Dr Joe

DAY 5 - 19 December

7:30 - 8:30
Yoga Asana & QiGong
Awareness through Movement
Speakers:
Qusai Kathawala
11:00 - 12:00
Shadow Work
How to handle triggers projections and use suffering as a tool for awakening
Speakers:
Rohan ji, Vajra Devi
13:00 - 14:00
Swim the Shoreless Ocean
A meditation and introduction of the third Upaya, Shambhavopaya - Shifting from centering awareness to simply being aware
Speakers:
Vajra Devi
15:30 - 16:30
Psychedelics & Kundalini
Entheogens, plant medicine and the cosmis serpent
Speakers:
Amituofo Tida
17:00 - 18:30
Shaktipat Deeksha & Darshan
Kundalini energy transmission and meditation
Speakers:
Hridaya Devi

DAY 6 - 20 December

7:30 - 8:30
Yoga Asana & QiGong
Awareness through movement
Speakers:
Qusai Kathawala
12:00 - 13:30
Dialogue about Kundalini, Sexuality and Cosmic Bliss
LIMITED SPACES. This is for you who, upon your own personal experiences, your wonderings and your quests, want to know more about kundalini and sexual energy and are open to participate in a dialogue about it. The starting point for this will be the article ”Kundalini, Sexuality and Cosmic Bliss” written by AdvaitAshrams Initiator, Peter Majumdar who, based on elements of the Trika tradition, Abhinavagupta's scripture "Tantraloka" and his own experiences throughout his awakening processes, explains the transformation of the sexual energy and its relation with cosmic bliss. Small group, book your spot per instructions that will be given in email.
Speakers:
Peter Majumdar
14:00 - 15:00
Astrology
Solstice - The birthing of the Sun
Speakers:
Shivani
15:30 - 16:30
Yoga Nidra
Journey Through the Chakras
Speakers:
Kristín Bára
17:00 - 18:30
Shaktipat Deeksha & Darshan
Kundalini energy transmission and meditation
Speakers:
Vajra Devi
18:30 - 19:30
Kirtan and conscious music
Devotional singing to open the heart
Speakers:
Aliisa Aurora Kirtan Prit

DAY 7 - 21 December

7:30 - 8:30
Sufi Whirling
Awarenes through Movement
Speakers:
Qusai Kathawala
12:30 - 13:30
Guru Yoga
A dive into the nature of blissful awareness beyond and within conceptual understanding. What is the path of grace, and who is Guru? In this talk, the aim is to gain purpose and understanding of your own path and relationship with Guru tattwa.
Speakers:
Alexandra Costin
14:00 - 15:00
Shaktipat Deeksha & Darshan
Kundalini energy transmission and meditation
Speakers:
Rohan ji
15:30 - 16:30
The Heart Sutra
Scripture, Silence, and Meditation
Speakers:
Emma Morgen & Laurent Doucet
17:00 - 18:00
Kirtan & Music
Devotional singing to awaken and expand the heart
Speakers:
Emma Morgen & Laurent Doucet
18:00 - 19:00
Closing Ceremony
Instructions on how to continue practice and follow up
Speakers:
Vajra Devi, Yaari Prema
Vajra Devi
Vajra Devi
Siddha Guru, Shaktipat Acharya
She is the founder at Advaitashram. She offers deeksha and is a Shaktipat Acharya, MahaSiddha Guru.
Yaari Prema
Yaari Prema
Siddha Guru, Shaktipat Acharya
Yaari is a MahaSiddha Guru, Shaktipat Acharya, and one of the central figures as an Initiator at Advaitashram.
Kristín Bára
Kristín Bára
Yoga Nidra, Yogic Sleep
My name is Kristín Bára and Yoga Nidra has been a passion of mine for the last few years, after a decade and a half of Yoga practice. Being a registered nurse, the benefits of a guided meditation and relaxation, as Yoga Nidra is, is quite clear. During the online event I’m privileged to share the magic of what is often referred to as Yogic Sleep. Yoga Nidra is a powerful way to manage common stress related health issues and destructive behavioural patterns. With practice you can relieve stress and burnout, release depression, anxiety and it is an effective way to recover from trauma, PTSD and addiction. Scientific studies show that Yoga Nidra improves your sleep quality, overall health and the quality of your life. Yoga Nidra can take you to the deepest levels of relaxation where you find yourself in complete peace in a conscious sleep state. In resting awareness we recognize the abiding Self that exists beyond. You can strengthen the awareness of your thoughts and develop the skill of observing mind-made activity without getting caught up in it. In doing so you learn to interrupt the process that leads to conditioned behaviour and habitual actions and reactions. Go from thinking and doing to feeling and being, enter the Zero stress zone. Yoga Nidra is meditation made easy.
Ylva Lavanya
Ylva Lavanya
Kirtan Singer & Musician
Combines Cacao & Kirtan to create a magical portal, for the heart to open up wide. She has a hypnotising voice and captures awareness with the strings of her guitar.
Qusai Kathawala
Qusai Kathawala
Yoga & QiGong Teacher
Qusai uses posture and movement as a way of building awareness and circulating energy (qi/prana). Synthesising learnings from over 20 years of study of yoga, qigong, feldenkrais, meditation and other allied somatic practices, his classes are flexible and playful yet have the potential to be deeply nourishing and transformative.
Alexandra Costin
Alexandra Costin
Siddha Yogi
With great interest, practice, and respect for scriptures and teaching methodologies towards yoga. Alexandra emphasizes experience and understanding beyond the intellect. She finds guidance and creative flow through the innermost space of silence, where words can only point, but never reach. 'Recognizing awareness' - A meditation and introduction of the second Upaya, a shaivite view and application of experiencing intrinsic awareness. ‘Guru Yoga’ - A dive into the nature of blissful awareness beyond and within conceptual understanding. What is the path of grace, and who is Guru? In this talk, the aim is to gain purpose and understanding of your own path and relationship with Guru tattwa. There is no need to have a prior interest or understanding of Shaiva Tantra, the importance will be on recognition and awareness itself, while offering a small glimpse into the rich tradition of Trika philosophy and its methods. “Shiva is the principle of the universe and shakti is the energy that animates it. So in reverse when we meditate on our breath and begin to meditate on Prana, the divine pulsation, we come to meditate on its underlying principle and recognize that in which the world disappears into neither reality nor unreality.”
Rohan ji
Rohan ji
Siddha Guru, Shaktipat Acharya
He is the founder and lineage holder at Advaitashram. The param satguru, Mahasidhha and shaktipat acharya.
Peter Majumdar
Peter Majumdar
Siddha Guru, Shaktipat Acharya
Peter Majumdar is an Initiator of Advait Ashram, A Shaktipat Acharya, Siddha Guru and has been in a constant awakening throughout his life.
Christian Dittrich
Christian Dittrich
Science & Metaphysics
I am Christian, 51 years old, from Germany. I work as an inventor, author and workshop teacher in the crossover field of holistic science and health. My spiritual journey was inspired mostly by Advaita and Taoism until I found the perfect blend of teachings for me in the offerings of Advait Ashram. I was diagnosed with an incurable disease at the age of 13 which sparked my interest in alternative healing. Over the years, I found it necessary to revisit science history and found out that so much of the ancient knowledge about the energetic dimension of life has actually been confirmed by modern science and even the phenomenon of Kundalini and the preperatory stages for its awakening can be explained in scientific terms.
Hannaneel Perez
Hannaneel Perez
Shadow Work & Trauma release
My journey with kundalini began in childhood and continued on and off into adulthood. My full “spontaneous” awakening occurred in 2013 wherein I was challenged to confront many deeply suppressed, repressed, rejected, and abandoned parts of my separate self and learn how to accept and integrate them into wholeness. I did not have an external guru or guide for this journey, so I had to accept the innate wisdom, awareness, and truth that arose from within. It was only when I began to share my experience and gained wisdom that I realized I had been following a similar path as many ancient traditions and was able to offer validation, support, and guidance to individuals similar to myself, those with mental health diagnoses, trauma-histories (both personal and generational), and emotion dysregulation. If you resonate with trauma and the unique challenges that occur when kundalini activates and awakens, please consider joining my talks. There will be an opportunity to safely connect, receive guidance, and ask questions!
Aaradhna
Aaradhna
Dancing with Shakti
Sharing the process and personal struggles faced during the shift as well as how they were overcome by Shakti. "Since childhood I was looking for a deeper insight in life. I dabbled in a lot of healing modalities, yet didn’t practice any because I knew there was more to explore. As I advanced in shamanic journeys and practices, I asked my spirit guide if I had reached my goal. A voice told me, “one more step”. That is when I met Rohan, and started my journey within. There was no looking back."
Virender
Virender
Musician
I’m Virender and I create music as an exploration of the self; to resonate my core and makes me flow. I wish you let this musical expression seep deep within and take over your movement. Stream Drop (((O))) Sunyata music | Listen to songs, albums, playlists for free on SoundCloud
Hridaya Devi
Hridaya Devi
Siddha Guru, Shaktipat Acharya
Hridaya Devi is an Initiator of AdvaitAshram, A Shaktipat Acharya, Siddha Guru, and has among other things, a background in Ashtanga Yoga.
Dr Joe
Dr Joe
Ayurveda & Holistic Medicine
Dr. Joseph Van Hanovnikian M.D. was trained in Internal Medicine at Los Angeles County Hospital + USC in Los Angeles, CA after graduating with Alpha Omega Alpha Honors from the University of Illinois College of Medicine. His approach is profoundly holistic and through a refined lens of vitalism and ayurveda. Dr. H’s intake and care plans are comprehensive and address the fundamental roots of dis-ease in the people he works with. His foundations in modern medicine and his continued education ancient knowledge that has stood the test of time provides a formula for unprecedented support in healing.
Amituofo Tida
Amituofo Tida
An Indian Entheobotanist & Vegetalismo
Trained with Shippibo & Quechua tribes in Peru with Don Gilberto & Maestra Olivia Lomas. Tida combines the Ancient Ayurveda and other indigenous mystical practices of India with the Sacred Plant Medicines of the Amazon. Founder of Somaa.org Co-founder of Psychedelic Society of India
Shivani
Shivani
Astrologer
My name is Shivani, I have more than 20 years of experience in guiding people through life’s expected and unexpected transformations. I am an experienced astrologer, yoga teacher, doula and ceremonialist. I see the connection between macrocosmos and micro cosmos. I read the symbolism in the planetary positions. I study the heavens on a daily basis to predict the cosmic weather and how it is affecting us on a collective level but also how it affects you in a personal and unique way. For thousands of years, the star studded sky has guided and inspired humans. The planets reveals that history repeats itself. Life is a cosmic dance in cycles. I guide you through the symbolism of the cosmic light, We don’t come into this life empty. Our cells are full of deep knowledge. The elements within us is deeply connected to events, people and different phases in our lives. Some events happens once, others are repeated. We have the whole cosmos within us. And how the plantes moves around the sun, where they are on a certain moment and what relation they have with each other, plays out within and around us. The Solstice represents the rebirth of our Sun. The many different planetary cycles that shifts in energy at this time, colors the Birth of our Sun in a unique way. For thousands of years, astrologers have made a horoscope at the time of the Solstice to predict the year ahead. Please join me as I read that message from the Stars.
Aliisa Aurora Kirtan Prit
Aliisa Aurora Kirtan Prit
Kirtan Singer & Musician
Having never been to India herself, Aliisa found herself on the path of singing Mantras and holding Kirtans by accident. Being mute about expressing herself with her voice for about 25 years, after the first encounter with the plant medicine World something just opened up in her and thus she found her voice and her creative abilities with music & sound. How she found Mantras though was her longing for a spiritual community or regular meet-ups with the Soul family. What was available was a weekly Kirtan... She did not know what it was and didn't understand it even for the first times but after a while just being consistent with showing up the Mantras started to open up their World and open something in her too: emotional releases from the body, information, traveling in different astral worlds.... all with the power of mantra and music. Aliisa has been singing mantras since 2016 regularly and has been holding her own Kirtan and concerts for some years already. She has been performing in various big alternative festivals in Finland like Natural High Healing. She is a certified Kundalini Yoga -teacher and deep with mantras in Gurmukhi also. She started to sing and play the guitar in 2015 after her first plant medicine journey. Her love and devotion is forever in the Natural world.
Emma Morgen & Laurent Doucet
Emma Morgen & Laurent Doucet
Siddha Yogi
Emma began North American indigenous practices at the young age of 5 building her first Medicine Wheel in the hay fields of New Hampshire, USA. At age 8 she relocated to the forests of Maine, sweating in Inipi and tying prayer ties in her backyard. At this time, she began a more intimate relationship with swamps & wildlife that later revealed in her life when meeting Kambo (the Giant Green Tree Frog of the Amazonian jungle). By age 12 the teachings of Yoga became a part of her life to alleviate scoliosis. In London, at the age of 24 exiting a ‘dark night of the soul’ she heard the wisdom of her heart calling her to India & onward to the Amazonian Rainforest which she followed receiving her teacher certification in Rishikesh, India. She lived abroad in India for nearly a year volunteering and studying. She met many teachers including the Dali Lama during his talks on the ‘Middle Way’. At this time, she received a ‘Spiritual Awakening’ of Kundalini activations in a Vipassana 10-Day Silent Meditation and began assisting in her first Kambo ceremonies. After India, she began her studies of Tantra on a mystical island of Thailand and at age 25 received Red Tara initiation from the Lama Zapa Rinpoche. Inward & outward, she traveled onward to Central America studying with Taoist monks in the monastery on Lake Atitlan. She has had the honor to live closely with tribes deep in the Amazon and share ceremony with Shamans around the world such as the Huni Kuin, Taita Querubin, Shipipbo Abeulas, and many others. At the age of 27, Emma visited Jerusalem and received activations from the Hathor and Isis temples of Egypt beginning her initiation into nourishing the body on prana/chi/energy. Her holistic practices are bio-diverse including Tantra, Siddha Yoga, Qi Gong, Breathwork, Kambo, Plant Medicines, Marma Therapy, Massage, Pranic Nourishment, Nutrition, Meditation, Hypnosis, Music, Art, and Writing.

Date

Dec 15 - 21 2021
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