EMBODY
A Somatic Self Healing Workshop | In Celebration of Swamiji's Birthday
Start Your Summer...
Immerse in a Transformative Retreat Where You Return to the Intelligence of the Body.
At the City of New Light | Monte Sacro, EMBODIEMENT is amplified!
Here, on 60 hectares (148 acres) of untouched land, where the mountains meet the sea, nature is an active catalyst and holds an indescribable space for your healing. With the support of the Sacred Mountain, each element becomes a guide back to your embodied truth.
When somatic work is woven with the elements, the body opens more quickly, the nervous system softens more deeply, and transformation becomes natural, integrated, and real. Because nature is an unconditional source that mirrors, informs, and holds the same resonance as our body's in their healthiest state, you will experience a self healing like never before.
What might take months…
begins to move within days.
Ancient Earth
Grounds you back into safety and belonging
The Adriatic Sea Water
Opens emotional flow and deep release
Shiva Fire
Ignites your life force, power, and devotion
Air & Ether
Expand you into spacious awareness and connection to your Highest Divine Self
Shivananda Swamiji
This retreat becomes both a self healing initiation and a celebration.
A space where
You don't just understand yourself more—you feel different in your body.
Where healing can be experienced in joy.
Where transformation can be playful—alive, expressive, and shared.
The essence of Summer.
Aligned with Swamiji's birthday, this journey carries the energy of Fire at its heart
This is a threshold
A remembrance of your inner flame, your inner devotion, your capacity to live, EMBODIED fully.
Start your summer LIBERATING your being.
THE JOURNEY
Each day opens a new layer— guided by the intelligence of the body and the wisdom of the elements.
EMBODY Retreat Event Schedule
Day 1 | Landing in the Body + Monte Sacro
JUNE 3
💛10:00 – 13:00 Arrival + Check-in
💛13:30 Vegetarian Lunch
💛15:30 Welcome Tour + Sacred Land Connection
💛17:00 Elemental Body Mapping Practice
(Welcoming and opening space to listen and explore your body. Grounding the nervous system)
💛19:00 SATSANG | Somatic Self Healing
💛20:30 Vegetarian Soup
DAY 2 | EARTH — RETURNING TO THE ROOTED BODY
June 4
💛07:30 Kundalini Yoga
💛08:30 Somatic Sadhana | Opening Your Somatic Portal
(Nervous system regulation, safety in the body)
💛10:00 Breakfast
💛12:00 Nature Immersion + Earth Day
• Hiking the land
• Mother Earth Ceremony
• Immersive Cave Meditation
• Sacred Tree Meditation
💛15:00 Vegetarian Lunch
💛19:30 Cacao Ceremony + Ecstatic Dance
💛20:30 Vegetarian Soup
Day 3 | FIRE - IGNITING CELLULAR TRANSFORMATION
June 5
💛07:30 Kundalini Yoga
💛08:30 Somatic Sadhana | Breath of Fire
(Igniting the inner fire—breathwork, core activation, awakening life force energy)
💛10:00 Breakfast
💛13:00 Dynamic Shakti Patt Activation + Truth Expression Practice
(Freeing the voice, expressing truth, opening the channel of power)
💛15:30 Vegetarian Lunch
💛16:30 Devotional Fire Preparation + Intention Setting
(Entering the fire consciously—what is ready to be released, what is ready to be reborn)
💛18:00 Fire Puja with Swamiji
💛19:00 Rebirthing Ceremony
(Releasing old identities, patterns, limitations into the fire)
💛20:30 Vegetarian Soup
Day 4 | WATER — EMOTION + SURRENDER + RELEASE + CELEBRATE
SWAMIJI'S BIRTHDAY
💛07:30 Kundalini Yoga
💛08:30 Somatic Water Sadhana (Pool)
💛10:00 Breakfast
💛11:30 – 16:30 Adriatic Sea Experience
• Water Darshan
• Floating Meditation
• Cleansing Ritual
• Bhajan + Chanting by the Sea
💛17:00 Special Lunch for Swamiji Birthday
💛19:30 Somatic Dialogue & Emotional Release Session
(Guided expression, releasing stored emotion)
💛21:30 Sacred Celebration
• Live Music + Kirtan
• Ecstatic Dance
• Joyful expression of aliveness
Day 5 | AIR + ETHER — EXPANSION INTO YOUR EMBODIED SPIRIT
💛07:30 Kundalini Yoga
💛08:30 Somatic Sadhana | Pranayama + Kriya
💛10:00 Breakfast
💛12:00 Horse Therapy + Divine Darshan with Swamiji
💛15:00 Vegetarian Lunch + Closing Circle
What We Will Experience
WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP FOR?
This retreat is for those ready to move beyond understanding and into embodied transformation.
For you if you feel:
💛Disconnected from your body, emotions, or inner clarity
💛Stuck in patterns that talking or thinking alone hasn’t shifted
💛A desire to feel more grounded, open, and alive
💛Called to heal through the body, nature, and direct experience
💛Ready for a reset—physically, emotionally, and energetically
No prior experience is needed.
Only a willingness to show up, feel, and allow the body to guide.
EMBODY the Divine YOU
WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE?
Through somatic practices and the power of the elements, you will:
💛Regulate and calm your nervous system
💛Release stored emotional tension
💛Reconnect to your body and intuitive awareness
💛Experience greater ease, clarity, and inner stability
💛Awaken life force energy, joy, and aliveness
💛Learn tools to support ongoing integration in daily life
Leave Feeling:
Grounded. Open. Reconnected. EMBODIED.
Contribution for Workshop
We ask for a DAKSHINA for this sacred workshop.
*NOTE: the Dakshina is only in exchange for the 1-3 spiritual practices offered daily by Shivananda Swamiji. If you would like to stay (room and board) at the City of New Light | Monte Sacro, please contact us for details.
Dakshina is the act of giving from a place of inner recognition.
Traditionally, Dakshina is offered to a teacher, a guide, or a sacred space—not to "repay" them, because what is given in wisdom cannot be priced—but to honor the exchange and keep the flow of energy alive.
It is what arises when something within you has been touched—when knowledge, guidance, presence, or truth has shifted you in a real way. Rather than payment, it is a chosen offering from the heart. A quiet acknowledgment that says: I have received, and I choose to give in return—not out of obligation, but fullness.
Dakshina is reciprocity without measure.
It is gratitude made tangible.
It is giving that reflects not the value of the service, but the sincerity of the heart.
It also asks something deeper of the giver—presence, honesty, and self-responsibility.
Not "What is expected?" but "What feels true to give?"
In this way, Dakshina becomes a practice in itself.
A mirror of one's relationship to abundance, worth, and receiving.
And when offered with awareness, it nourishes both directions—
the one who gives, and the one who holds space.
Monte Sacro: The Sacred Mountain
Monte Sacro has long been a place of retreat, transformation, revelation. Now, it becomes a sanctuary for collective healing and awakening of the Soul. The City of New Light is not merely a location — it is a field of intention. A living prayer. A commitment to ethical living, conscious community, and spiritual maturity embodied in daily life. Join us in initiating something new. Not new in time — but new in embodiment.
The Master + Teacher...
Shivananda Swamiji
Swamiji’s mission is to create a supportive space for transformation. Whether through retreats, meditations, ceremonies, or personal guidance, his work fosters healing and connection. For Swamiji, community is at the heart of spirituality.