Sitting with your eyes closed in a relaxed sitting or lying down posture, learn to do inner practices within your body and its substance. Naturally and with Grace receive and allow transformation of your body, life-energies, thoughts and inner vision. Aspire and practice to connect to higher consciousness above mind, depth of heart, sacred ground below and within our pure subtle body. Slowly learn to do these practices of progress, evolution and transformation with eyes open and alongside regular activities.
3 day residential retreat Facilitator: Arul Dev, practicing and sharing in these areas for 31 years Date: 2nd to 5th October 2025 Venue: Arulville, the Hermitage, Retreat Center (Located in Chennai to Puducherry route)
The practices and exploration in this retreat is spread out in a comfortable pace that allows for depth. We practice in a natural setting with nature and flowers.
Please find brochure enclosed that fully details the exploration we will be doing in this retreat. Click here.
Mind turned towards Light Online workshop | 9 Sundays | 7 to 8 am IST | Begins 17th August 2025 Facilitator: Arul Dev
All details are there in the brochure
It is meant for those who have a deeper aspiration to evolve and progress and are willing to do the Sadhana of the mind. The practices help in dealing with the common challenges of mind like noise & confusion in thoughts, entangled memories and internal chatter and slowly allows the mind to turn towards the domains of light and intuition, all the time.
Our humble Prayer – Can be done as a practice each moment or day
Calling the Divine Mother: I humbly pray for Her presence to grace my heart center. Seeing The Mother’s smily face within (the Eyes are also smiling with love and compassion) and praying, “Mother, please do not see me as impure. Kindly come, and rest within me”. With devotion, I cleansed my heart center, placed there a radiant golden cloth and lit a gentle lamp to welcome Her. Now, concentrate on the flame, you can concentrate on Her beautiful smiling face or Her lotus Feet or simply envisioning Her seated within the heart center. In this stillness, allow Her touch to envelop you. You can feel Her presence.
This is a deeper body work practice offered on 18th July 2025
Summary:
Releasing the mental, psychological hold on the breath we connected to its natural, nourishing force. Deepening simultaneously another part of awareness inside the body, we connected to the pure peace, quititude, silence of the body, of which it is born, intuitively we requested all the cells of the body to turn their gaze and reconnect to their originality. In a loving, joyful patience we adopted the posture of honesty, waiting inside the body for the body to reveal its pure substance, its Divine portion. A joyful waiting for the Divine lover to reveal his face, his light, his spark in this body.
Duration: 34 Minutes
Facilitator : Shweta Rajurkar
These practices help your to work deeper in your body, connect it to the Divine and prepare ‘inner groves’ within us for the later emergence of a Divine Body.
3-day Residential Retreat Program: 7th August to 10th August 2025 Thursday 4:00pm to Sunday 11:00am IST Venue: Arulville, the Hermitage, near Chennai – Pondicherry
This retreat beautifully unfolded this weekend. Sharing here:
1. Summary of retreat experience
2. Next retreat dates
3. Some photographs
4. Some sharing of participants captured
5. Original brochure for reference
1. Summary of retreat experience
With deep joy the Divine Body project completed a 3 day residential retreat today with Shweta Rajurkar as facilitator. We looked at different forms of body perfection – yoga asanas, Kalari and Tai Chi. Through it all we explored conscious movements, connecting to vastness, surrender and deeper body work. We had the Havan, a sacred flame process, as a conscious way to practice the inner process of harmony. We went out to the back waters one of the days to connect to vastness and open ourselves more.
There was memory work. Lots of breath work was there. We had both normal food and very healthy food prepared like sathu mavu kanji, soup, kitchedi and the like.
Body opened up more. We learnt to open to higher consciousness all done in a simple, well interwoven way.
There was simply chanting. Some offered their singing and flute as a new way of re-beginning their habits.
The retreat was a blend of some structured sessions and some organic- natural- spontaneous- intuitive sessions. Keeping the body as the central point – the anchor – we tried to connect the other parts of our being like mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual. We explored vastness, mantras and Divine Qualities for a better vision of the future.
The venue was Arulville, the Hermitage, a wellbeing retreat centre in Cheyyur Village.
2. Next retreat dates
The next residential retreat offered by Shweta Rajurkar is fixed for 23rd to 26th January 2026. Same venue
3. Some photographs
4. Some sharing of participants captured
“Ārambha The 4 day experience was a mosaic being created in real time and unfolding itself in an emergent here and now. Our sensei, Shweta has travelled far and wide and collected seeds that now are shared with us. Her foundation has been with the Body ever since she became a yoga practitioner. And then comes her metamorphosis into bringing the Divine into Body consciousness. The typical day comprising of pranayama, jala neti, yoga, agnihotra, kalari, conscious bodywork and music give us pathways to new worlds awaiting us. The meal times were special, offerings of so many natural and sattvik foods were offered to us as prasad. All gathered, cooked and served with love. Tremendous behind the scene preparations was evident without any proclamations. The invitation has been extended, the volition is in place and each one of us will create our own unique mix of what is best suited to our mind-body- consciousness matrix.
For me, this year is the year of the Body. My tarot card was : Perseverance : and it was the divine Mothers Grace to receive this offering. I am so humbled to introspect on how my body has allowed me to follow my aspirations, supporting me for the past 60 years, never asking any gratification. I seek forgiveness from my body for neglecting her. Now the time has come for giving back. The body has not aged, it is the Mind that has. Breaking free from the biases of gender, age, legacy is my challenge. But the workshop has given me just that nudge to walk the new paths. I must seize the moment before the fire burns out.
I am filled with gratitude for being a part of the cohort and my pranam to our Sensei Shweta. 🙏🏼
Joy”
“Dear Team, Thank you for the three wonderful days with you all. I have learned so much and will cherish the good memories and lifelong friendships we’ve built. I am currently practicing Mudra Yoga for half an hour each day and plan to extend it to include pranayama and physical exercises. A special thanks to Sanjay for introducing me to the workshop…” Azha
5. Original brochure for reference
Are you caught in a state of “How do I begin?” Then this retreat is that starting point for you where you get a simple, gentle, and genuine hand holding to be steadfast on a profound and lifelong journey towards a more healthy, Beautiful and integrated ‘Self’.
This residential rejuvenation retreat is being offered by Shweta Rajurkar. She is collaborating with Rajvardhan, to bring the Kalari and Yantra elements in.
The aspiration of this retreat is to give you a deeper experience and greater capacity to utilise a few tools for your Sadhana, physical culture, inner work, daily conscious living and transformation.
The aspiration is to take the cream and the best of these ancient tools, and raise it to a new frequency in the light of Integral Yoga of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
Retreat venue is Arulville, the Hermitage set in nature with aesthetic and indigenous architecture.
