Other Retreats & Programs

InnerSpace Retreat: a weekend to explore and deepen the connection between land and spirit in community. 

The land is our mother and teacher. She has given us life and all we need to survive. How might we come back into right relationship with her? What might we offer her in return?

On June 13-15, you’re invited to the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga to connect with the wisdom of your body, the healing power of the land, and a loving community of dreamers exploring this relationship. Guided by facilitators, wellness practitioners, musicians and land stewards, you will be invited to explore a variety of modalities – breathwork, yoga, ecstatic dance and sound bath- that celebrate this connection and support its integration. All taking place on a regenerative farm, and surrounded by the protected rainforest of the Salt Spring Conservancy.

We acknowledge our privilege to offer this retreat on the traditional and unceded territories of the SENĆOŦEN & Hul’q’umi’num speaking peoples on Salt Spring Island, BC.

About This Retreat

Food: Delicious lacto-vegetarian meals prepared by the karma yogis at the centre, with ingredients right from the Salt Spring Centre farm.

Accommodations: A forested campground with tent pads, outdoor showers with hot water, and clean outhouses, that is a three minute walk from the main house where meals are. Alternate arrangements can be made if you would prefer a room at the centre at an additional cost.

Travel: For those coming from Vancouver, the ferry from Tsawassan will be leaving on Friday at 10:25 and arriving at Long Harbour, Salt Spring Island at 1:20. We recommend taking the early ferry and booking your ferry one month in advance. Please note your ferry ticket is not included in your retreat ticket.

Community: There is availability for 35 people to attend the retreat. Most will be connected through the communities of the Flying Sage and Days of Lavender.

Substances: The focus of the retreat will be connecting with each other, the land and the healing modalities offered. The Centre of Yoga asks that any substances not be used on Centre property. This is also to ensure that our facilitators who are licensed professionals, are not liable. The focus of the retreat is remembering that the land, good food, community, movement etc. is all medicine.

Registrations

InnerSpace Retreat is planned and facilitated by Days of Lavender, with promotional support from The Flying Sage.
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Ready for a Nature Immersion?

Wild Living nature immersions explore the benefits of deep time in nature through movement, nature therapies, reflection, and somatic experiences.

Activities Include:

🌿 Forest Bathing
🌿 Wild Parcours
🌿 Animal Flow
🌿 Meditation
🌿 Holistic Yoga
🌿 Breathwork

Participants discover how nature restores health and learn to create a vibrant lifestyle in harmony with the natural world.
They also gain valuable insights into the close connection between personal health and planetary health.

Immersing in nature is proven to reduce stress, restore health, enhance creativity, and foster environmental stewardship.

Is this immersion for you?

• Do you long to feel free and explore a deeper connection with nature and self?
• Are you tired of living your day-to-day life lacking vitality?
• Are you curious about how nature can positively impact your well-being?
• Do you want to learn new ways of moving and sensing in nature?
• Are you seeking a like-minded community that nourishes you and planet Earth?

If yes, then join us in nature.

The Wild Within Nature Immersion Program:

Our program is inspired by Flow Learning and we use the elements of nature to give a unique character to each practice. This allows nature to be as present in your mind and spirit, as it will be in your body.

Your day starts with energy activation, breathwork, and gentle meditation flows. Then you will stimulate your inner fire by venturing outdoors for wild parcours, animal flow and yoga. 

After savouring delicious organic food, there is time for reflection, journaling, and forest bathing. The day will wind down with yin yoga, forest bathing and sauna.

Our commitment to your growth extends beyond the immersion into the Wild Living Integration Journey. We aim to ensure you receive support to fully embody and sustain the transformative effects of your experience.

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Meet the facilitators

Tahia and Damien are your guides to self-discovery and harnessing the healing power of nature. They both have interdisciplinary backgrounds, and weave multiple knowledges in their offerings.

We are committed to inspiring you, supporting your holistic well-being, and cultivating your personal growth and connection with Earth.

Tahia Devisscher is a holistic yoga teacher, animal flow instructor, and forest therapy guide with roots in classical ballet, contemporary dance, and a PhD in ecosystem science. For her classes and retreats, she crafts inclusive spaces where partakers are invited to explore, release, and connect with nature, community and themselves. Her offerings blend playful discovery, intuitive movement, and gentle flow, empowering participants to trust themselves and co-create (with nature) pathways for healing and personal growth. Tahia is deeply invested in helping people find home within their own body and through connection with nature. Her grounded approach integrates experience-based learning, life coaching, and scientific evidence she builds through her own research as an Assistant Professor in resilience and innovation.

Damien Norris is a movement practitioner and researcher specialising in natural movement and human rewilding. With a PhD (in the making) in the philosophy and pedagogy of human rewilding, he has spent over a decade studying movement’s role in nourishing human-environment connections. His international experience includes training with nature parcours communities across multiple continents and teaching ecological knowledges such as friction fire, foraging, tracking and more. His work combines academic research with practical applications to help people reconnect with their natural movement potential.

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Learn more about this Nature Immersion & Register

• Email us your questions: wildliving.info@gmail.com
• Review the brochure:  Brochure
• Explore the website: Website
• Complete the registration form: The Wild Within Registration
• Reserve your spot with a deposit now and save 10%: Deposit Link 

🌿 More than a retreat, this is an exercise in Sacred Community 🌿

An interspiritual gathering rooted in the lineage of Ram Dass and Neem Karoli Baba and centering the teachings of Bhakti Yoga and Buddhism.

Anchored with mantra, meditation, and ritual, the core practice of this retreat is Sacred Community. We practice seeing the Divine everywhere—in nature, in each other, and in ourselves—and we act in reverence to this Truth. In this way, we help each other awaken from separation and into the Heart of Love.

Practice

By gathering in Satsang (spiritual community) and engaging in sadhana (practice), we gain Darshan (vision) and behold this Love everywhere.

Meditation

Each morning starts with guided meditation. We practice letting go of clinging in the mind, so we can return to Loving-Awareness.

Kirtan

Each night ends with kirtan from experienced chant leaders. Kirtan is the practice of chanting the Holy Names— ancient Sanskrit mantras that reveal Loving-Awareness.

Ritual

Puja is woven throughout each day, and it is a prayer made with the entire body, mind, and senses. It is an honoring of the Love within, and it awakens Bhav (the devotional mood) and connects us to community.

Teachings

Our teacher, Ram Dass, honored all paths and had a special affinity for both Bhakti (devotional yoga) and Buddhism. Authentic teachings will be offered as a way to ground our experience in something deep, meaningful, and rooted in lineage.

Community

Sacred Community is “Loving-Awareness practiced together,” and it is rooted in the truth of Interdependence. Both the practice and the reward, we actualize Sacred Community through intention-setting, small group reflections, and shared meals.

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Nine Faces of Durgā: Radiating the Goddess Through Ritual & Shakti

📆 September 19 – 21, 2025
📍 Salt Spring Centre of Yoga, Salt Spring Island
🔗 Registration: https://mawellnessandyoga.ca/saltspring-retreat/

On the celestial convergence weekend of Navratri, New Moon, Autumn Equinox and a Solar Eclipse – we enter a powerful threshold of release, balance and renewal.

This retreat is your invitation to meet the goddess not as archetypal symbol, but as a lived presence within you.

Through sacred rituals, embodied practice, and self inquiry – we will explore the Nine Faces of Goddess Durgā (Navdurgas)—each one a powerful reflection of our inner landscape. These divine aspects awaken fierce love, clarity, devotion, fearlessness, courage, and unwavering strength. Together, we will nurture Durgā’s Shakti and allow her to move through us, anchoring her energy in our bodies, hearts, and lives.

Aligned with this celestial time of harvest and shedding, we will ask:

• What are we carrying forward with gratitude?
• What is ready to be released to make space for new growth?

Through asana, pranayama, mantra chanting, storytelling, and shared rituals, participants will be supported to release fear and unhelpful patterns, and reconnect with their inner power.

You will also receive an Ayurvedic self-cleanse ritual kit and guidance for autumnal fasting and seasonal renewal, offering tangible ways to carry these teachings home.

This retreat is for those ready to honour the goddess within, deepen your connection to your sacred power, and carry this energy into your life.

Come. Root into your power. Let Durgā rise through you—fierce, wise, and unwavering.

What to Expect:

• Sri Chakra Yantra Flower Ritual
• Goddess Golden Milk Ritual
• Self Cleansing Ritual (with take home kit)
• Durga Aarti Ritual
• Evening Sauna Ritual
• Daily Goddess-Inspired Asana & Pranayama Practice
• Storytelling, Mantra Chanting, and Self Inquiry
• A peaceful nature setting amid 69 acres of farmland, meadow and forest on stunning Salt Spring Island
• Five delicious and nutritious farm-fresh vegetarian meals

Special Early Bird Offer Ends June 30, 2025

Registration Closes August 31, 2025

For retreat questions, please contact Satya at: satya@vedicpriestesstemple.com

Your facilitators:

Sarada Jagannath (MĀ Wellness & Yoga, Victoria)

Sarada is a devoted practitioner and lifelong student of the ancient Yogic tradition, embracing both the physical and spiritual aspects of this practice. By profession she is a Counselling Psychologist, Yoga Teacher, Ayurvedic Wellness Practitioner, and co-owner of Mā Wellness and Yoga.

Raised in a joint family in South India, she was deeply influenced by the wisdom of her grandfather, a respected Ayurvedic doctor, who imparted a deep understanding of holistic health and wellness from an early age, shaping her lifelong commitment to balanced living.

Sarada has cultivated a profound connection to the spiritual and healing arts from stories and rituals shared by her grandmother and great-grandmother. From childhood, the annual celebration of Navratri was a time of deep reverence and joy. Sarada fondly recalls the vibrant community gatherings, prayers, rituals, celebrations, Prasadam (blessed food) that marked the festival, reinforcing her devotion to Goddess Durgā. This festival, steeped in the worship of divine energy and transformation, has been a cornerstone of her spiritual journey, fostering a lifelong devotion to the goddess and the yogic path.

Sharing this ancient wisdom, rituals and devotion with the community and to honour the teachings of her ancestors in a way that blends traditions with modern life without losing its essence, is her passion.

Learn more about Sarada’s offerings here:

Yoga Victoria
@eightfoldsarada (Instagram)
@mawellnessandyoga (Facebook)

Satya Jehman (Vedic Priestess Temple, Salt Spring Island)

Born into the Vedic lineage, Satya has been living the traditional path of yoga all her life – with a concentrated sadhana over the past 23 years. Her maternal line has been devoted to Goddess Durgā since time immemorial, transmitting an unbroken thread of devotion, protection, and fierce love. This sacred inheritance infuses all she offers — from ceremony and ritual to the embodied wisdom of Shakti.

Satya carries the gift of Agni Hotra and Vedic ritual by the grace of her ancestors from North India. She completed a year-long Yoga Apprenticeship in 2015 (Vijnana Yoga RYT200), and undertook a deep study in jnana yoga (Vedic scripture and self-inquiry) with her teacher in her ancestral homeland amid a trio of winters from 2011–2013. In 2016, she was initiated into the Sidh Kunjika Stotram – the highest call to Maha Shakti (Divine Mother) – further awakening her devotion to the Goddess. She apprenticed in fire ceremony with two of her teachers in North India and has returned to India regularly for the past 16 years to deepen her study and practice.

For questions, please contact Satya at: satya@vedicpriestesstemple.com

Learn more about Satya’s offerings:

www.vedicpriestesstemple.com
@vedic_priestess_temple Instagram
@vedicpriestesstemple108 Facebook

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