Between tantra, ayurveda, and the divine embodied in a woman’s body
31 July – 4 August | Madre Selva, Tuscany
These five days at Madre Selva offer a tangible, embodied opportunity to enter a space at the heart of divine love as it lives through the body of a woman.
For this love to truly inhabit the body, women are invited to reconnect with their inner cycles in resonance with the seasons, the moon, and the elements.
This is Shakti: alive, shifting, and ever-changing.
Not something to control or endure, but something to meet.
To learn how to remain present within her movement and her transformation.
That becomes possible when another polarity also awakens within: the presence of Shiva.
An inner verticality, steady and grounded, moving through the spine — what yogic traditions call the Inner Lingam.
This presence makes it possible not to be swept away by the storms of cyclicity, nor to suppress them.
Instead, it allows each woman to observe what the Divine Mother reveals through every cycle, and to stay in relationship without losing herself.
This retreat is a space to cultivate both dimensions:
so they may meet in the body.
Throughout these days, Nadeshwari Joythimayananda will share practices, rituals, and teachings shaped by years of experience and transmission across Asia and around the world.
What she offers is not theoretical, but embodied.
Through yoga, dance, ritual, and presence, participants will enter into frequencies that cannot be learned by the mind, only recognized through the body.
These methods were passed on to her by her teachers within a path rooted in yoga, ayurveda, and shamanic traditions from different parts of the world.
Raised in a home where these disciplines were part of daily life — with an ayurvedic physician and yoga teacher as a father and a mother who was a spice healer — Nadeshwari has spent more than 13 years bringing this work to women in the West, accompanying thousands through journeys, trainings, and retreats.
Her approach integrates:
Each offering is shaped by a balance between activation and containment.
That containment is supported by the embrace of the Divine Mother and the presence of the Inner Lingam.
The work is also deeply informed by an understanding of the autonomic nervous system: the approach is careful not to push beyond what the system can hold, but to create the conditions for the body to feel safe enough to soften and release.
There is nothing to achieve.
And nothing new to learn.
Through carefully designed practices, the body is guided to:
Within this space, a quality of sisterhood also begins to emerge.
Not constructed.
Not directed in a conventional way.
But arising naturally.
A subtle coherence among women, born from the field itself.
A play of reflections, recognitions, and mirrors.
Each woman meets something of herself through the other, without this becoming a burden or a dynamic to carry.
The field is opened with precision.
And it is also closed with care.
So that what has emerged can integrate, without remaining attached.
Without carrying the projections of others.
The work brings together several layers:
These are interwoven with specific teachings and practices, including:
During the retreat, we will also work with the elements, especially:
These elements support the movement of Shakti, while presence in the body sustains the quality of Shiva.
Transformation happens in the meeting of these two poles.
During the retreat, it will be possible to receive:
The food will also follow a rhythm connected to cyclicity and purification.
31 July – Arrival and opening
1 – 2 – 3 August
4 August – Integration and closing
Born in Sri Lanka into a Tamil family originally from India, she moved to Italy with her family at the age of three due to the genocide in Sri Lanka. This marked the beginning of her boundless dance between East and West, which has shaped her entire life.
She holds a degree in Herbal Techniques and lives among the forests of the Ligurian mountains, where she lovingly and joyfully dedicates herself to the magic of flowers and the moon. She teaches yoga from a tradition open to the feminine, oriented toward cyclicity, strength, and receptivity, through original and spontaneous tools rooted in traditions from Asia, Europe, and Central America. She is co-founder and author of the free online transcultural magazine Matrika–Consciousness Development.
She collaborates with La Grande Via, founded by Dr. Franco Berrino, and with Science and Nonduality, an international community inspired by timeless wisdom and informed by cutting-edge science. After more than a decade in Europe transmitting circle-based mindfulness practices, she created the Italian training Yogini Shakti and various online courses dedicated to the many shades of feminine cyclicity, for women and with women, in service of a shared feminine maturity. She is co-author of the book for daughters, women, and grandmothers: Lunatika, viaggio nell'universo femminile (Macro Edizioni).
Nadeshwari Joythimayananda
Località Podere Pagliano, 22, 53031 Casole d'Elsa SI, Italy
Provincia di Siena
Price
€250.00
Duration
4 nights / 5 days
Available any date