Hosts: Satya Amrita Kumari Jehman (Vedic Priestess Temple) and Emmy Chahal (Healing with Emmy)
Description:
We will gather on a beautiful 100-acre organic farm on the traditional unceded territory of the Hul’q’umi’num’ and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples, to explore and discover ancient yogic practices from India to invoke the Tridevi’s blessings.
Join Satya (Vedic Priestess Temple) for a full day of yogic practice, contemplation, workshop, storytelling and ceremony. Indian yoga practitioner, Emmy Chahal (Healing with Emmy), will support us with yoga asana and pranayama (breathwork).
Soon we will be entering the spring cycle when the days become longer, and the light of the season begins to expand. What we’ve planted and cultivated in the dark season will be ready to take form.
During this retreat we will bring our seeds of intention, and nurture their expansion as we transition into spring.
The Tridevi represents the feminine forms of Creation and expresses as Goddesses Saraswati, Parvati and Lakshmi. Together they embody the sacred energies of the universe that are essential for the creation, preservation and transformation of the cosmos: knowledge (truth), power (shakti) and abundance.
Saraswati is the power of creativity, speech, wisdom, and flow. She helps us to access these divine currents of wisdom within ourselves, and in the world around us – informing and clearing the way for creation.
Parvati is the goddess of power (shakti), love, motherhood, devotion, meditation, and compassion. She is the embodiment of determination and discipline. She supports us to stay focused on nurturing our creative growth.
Lakshmi blesses us with material abundance, prosperity, generosity, grace, inner beauty, and unconditional love. She helps us to source the abundance around us and within, so that our creations may flourish.
The three energies of the Tridevi balance and empower each other. We will explore how they dance together.
We will learn ancient traditional practices and inquiry teachings that tune us into the Tridevi’s wisdom and blessings, and build a toolkit to help clear away any blockages that are getting in the way of our expansion.
We will devote ourselves to the steady practice of bringing our intentions to life, by aligning our thoughts, words and actions with the strength and grace of the Tridevi.
Come join us in circle and nurture your expansion!
This retreat is the lead up to the upcoming bi-annual festival of Navratri (begins in early April) – nine days devoted to the Sacred Divine Feminine. Participants will leave empowered with a practice to harness and celebrate this deeply auspicious time.
Stowel Lake Farm – just five minutes from the Fulford Harbour ferry terminal on Salt Spring Island, BC. – is surrounded by blossoming gardens and grounds, with two lakes nearby for an optional swim in the evening. A delicious Indian lunch will be served by Omja Catering. All are welcome.
This is the seventh retreat in the Living Shakti Series: Bringing the Teachings of the Yogic Deities into Daily Life.
*For those who have previously attended the Lakshmi and/or Saraswati Living Shakti Retreats, we will be learning new practices that relate to these goddesses. Everyone is welcome, both beginners and seasoned practitioners.
Your Retreat Facilitator:
Satya Amrita Kumari Jehman (Vedic Priestess Temple)
Born into the Vedic lineage, Satya has been living the traditional path of yoga all her life – with a more concentrated practice over the last 22 years. Satya carries the gift of fire ceremony and ritual by the grace of her ancestors from North India. She completed a year-long Yoga Apprenticeship in 2015 (Vijnana Yoga RYT200), and a deep dive study into jnana yoga (Vedic scripture study/self inquiry) with her teacher in her ancestral homeland of India amid a trio of winters from 2011-2013. While there in 2016, Satya was initiated into the Sidh Kunjika Stotram – the highest call to Maha Shakti (Divine Mother). She has been furthering her yogic studies in India with regular trips there for the past 15 years.
Satya recently completed a leadership training with a focus on Trauma-informed Leadership, Transformational Leadership, and Coaching.
Encouraged by her teachers, Satya is a facilitator of Retreats, Workshops, Ceremony, Ritual, One-on-One Guide on Salt Spring Island and surrounding communities, in India – as well as online. She offers from the deepest place in her with utmost respect and reverence to her ancestors, to You, to the Divine, and to the Self.
Learn more about Satya’s offerings at @vedic_priestess_temple (Instagram) + @vedicpriestesstemple108 (Facebook).
Your Asana & Pranayama Teacher: Emmy Chahal (Healing with Emmy)
Emmy was introduced to yoga as a child through her grandmother and mother. Her ancestors are from North India, and the practice of yoga continues to connect her deeply to her heritage. With a steady yoga practice for 20 years, she has been teaching yoga internationally for the past 12 years. Emmy is particularly focused on yoga for mental health, trauma-informed approaches, and supporting women and young people through embodiment, decolonization, and embodied pedagogy.
Throughout her studies in yoga and the healing arts, Emmy has extensively trained in hatha, trauma-informed teaching, pre/postnatal yoga – and her yoga journey led her own research at the University of British Columbia on yoga in the university classroom. Emmy also facilitates cultural awareness training for yoga teacher trainings around the world. As a South Asian woman working in the North American yoga industry, her voice is dedicated to sharing the complexities of social inequity and building bridges between people of all backgrounds. Learn more about Emmy and her offerings at www.emmychahal.com.
