Vedanta & Embodiment Retreat with Sharada Devi

EMBODIED WISDOM RETREAT - the Essence of Vedanta and a Life of Embodiment 
Dates: June 3-6, 2027 at Villa Söderåsen in south Sweden

Retreat Highlights:

• Devotional rituals to open the heart
• Guided meditations that support the mind and lead to deep absorption
• Vedic teachings that reveal your true nature as limitless, whole, and complete
• Sharing circles to process emotions and strengthen your connection to the community
• Nature walks to soothe and regulate the nervous system
• Nourishing vegetarian meals to support your body from the inside out
• Surprises to spark magic and joy throughout the long weekend

 

EMBODIED WISDOM RETREAT - the Essence of Vedanta and a Life of Embodiment 

 

Some words from Sharada Devi:

“Imagine gazing into a mirror that reflects back your wholeness, showing you that you are already complete, perfect, and deeply lovable, just as you are. Picture yourself being guided to honor your body as a sacred temple, learning to appreciate it fully and releasing emotions through sacred expression.”

This vision is about to become a reality.

In 2027 we gather for the 12 th annual Vedanta Retreat, now incorporating deeper embodiment rituals and an extra day to allow for more connection and exploration together.

For many years, it has been my privilege to facilitate this retreat, hosted by the beautiful Villa Söderåsen in the serene South of Sweden. Each year, we gather to explore life’s most profound questions and experience clarity, freedom, and a sense of belonging that is hard to find elsewhere.

Whether you are seeking to connect more deeply with yourself, your spiritual path, or find answers to fundamental questions about life, this retreat is for you. 

It is a space where you can receive devotional tools, clear guidance, and support on how to bring these transformative teachings into your daily life.

Guided by my 20 years of experience and unwavering dedication to the path of freedom, and supported by my host and team, it is a joy to welcome you.

Over the years, people have traveled from across the globe to attend—some from as far as the United States, Croatia, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, Norway, Denmark and other countries—each seeking to immerse themselves in the timeless wisdom of Vedanta. For many, this retreat has become an annual tradition, with one participant attending for the 9th time.

The teachings of Vedanta have transformed my life, guiding me toward a path of inner freedom and fulfillment. Once you’ve tasted the sweet nectar of non-duality, there’s no turning back. Life may still present challenges, but you face them with the knowledge that you are free no matter what.

During this retreat, we will explore the deeper questions of life:

 • Who am I, truly?

 • Is there life after death?

 • What is the purpose of life?

 • Are we really separate, or is there a deeper connection?

 • Can we live fearlessly?

 • How to embrace trauma stored in the body?

These are the inquiries that bring us closer to understanding our true nature. We don’t need to wait for a catastrophe to explore these questions. Instead, we prepare ourselves for life’s challenges—old age, disease, death, and other difficulties—by understanding the impermanence of circumstances and the eternal nature of the Self.

Through the lens of Vedanta, we learn to live with deep reverence for both life and death. We discover stability, security, and fulfillment in that which never changes.

So if you feel called to join us, you are warmly invited.

With love and deep gratitude to all the wonderful participants who have shared their presence over the years. This is only the beginning, and I can’t wait to continue this sacred journey with you.”

/Sharada Devi

 

 

SOME WORDS FROM PARTICIPANTS OF PAST RETREATS:

”So many of my dreams have become true" 
”I felt I could just be myself" 
”I felt so safe"”I’m so grateful that you include embodiment & talk about the importance of sacred s✨uality"
”I finally understood"

 

ABOUT Shāradā Devī

Shāradā Devī** is a spiritual mentor, ceremonialist, educator, and founder of Devi School, where ancient wisdom meets embodied, contemporary spirituality.

Born to Swiss and Filipina parents and raised between the Swiss Alps and the Philippines, Shāradā grew up within two very different cultural worlds. In Davos, she was surrounded by snow, fine dining, precision, achievement, and the refined codes of European society. In the Philippines, she ate with her hands, slept beneath the stars on the 100 Islands, and was held within the warmth of her grandmother Lola, who had given birth to 15 children and whose life was woven into a family of more than 70 people.

These contrasting environments shaped Shāradā deeply. One world emphasized individuality, ambition, status, and personal achievement; the other was rooted in family, community, simplicity, and *kapwa*—the Filipino understanding of shared identity and interconnected humanity. Living between these worlds brought both richness and inner conflict, but it also gave her an intimate understanding of duality, belonging, and the longing to feel whole.

Shortly after turning 18, Shāradā travelled to India, driven by a profound ache and a desire for freedom beyond the familiar structures of her upbringing. During a plant-medicine ceremony guided by four Babas, she underwent an intense spiritual experience that she understood as an awakening into the recognition of oneness. Although doctors later diagnosed the experience as psychosis, Shāradā chose to meet it with humility, discernment, and an enduring commitment to discovering her own truth.

Her path carried her through India, Venezuela’s La Gran Sabana and Salto Ángel, temazcal ceremony, devotional temple traditions, and eventually Bali—the island of a thousand temples—which has been her home for the past 17 years. Across these journeys, she has continued to explore the meeting point between spiritual experience, psychological integration, cultural tradition, and embodied human life.

For more than 24 years, Shāradā has immersed herself in the spiritual heritage of the Vedic tradition. She has studied, practised, assimilated, and taught Vedānta, Sanskrit, Vedic chanting, Āyurveda, Pūjā, yoga, and sacred ritual under the guidance of teachers within the lineage of Swami Dayānanda Saraswati, as well as respected teachers in their respective fields.

At the heart of her work is the recognition that our essential nature is whole, limitless, and not separate from life. For Shāradā, this understanding is not merely philosophical. It is a lived practice of learning to rest in reality as it is—to meet each moment with openness, including the painful, the pleasurable, the uncertain, and the beautiful. This embodied freedom, known in Sanskrit as *moksha*, is the deepest return on our lifelong investment: immeasurable, priceless, and available through a gradual process of self-acceptance and clear seeing with the help of the timeless teachings of Vedanta. 

Shāradā’s teachings are also shaped by her background in Odissi, the classical Indian dance tradition with roots in temple ritual, and by her work in inner-child healing, trauma integration, sacred sexuality, and relational embodiment. As a certified VITA Sex, Love & Relationship Coach, Sacred Sexuality Teacher, and philosophy educator, she bridges ancient teachings with the realities of modern life.

Through Devi School, she offers certification programs, immersive retreats, personalised mentorship, and educational experiences for emerging teachers, facilitators, and conscious leaders. Her work invites people to reconnect with their bodies, their inherent wholeness, their capacity for intimacy, and the freedom to live with greater truth and aliveness.

Shāradā shares her teachings internationally through her online platform, annual festival appearances, retreats, and collaborations with leading yoga teacher-training programmes. Her approach is at once rooted and expansive: grounded in lineage, informed by lived experience, and devoted to helping people discover that spirituality is not an escape from life, but a way of meeting life more fully.

More info & offers: www.devischool.info

 

 

SOME RETREAT PRACTICALITIES….

…shared to you by retreat organizer and 

HOST:

Åsa, Vedanta student, nature lover and also the owner and manager of Villa Söderåsen. 
”I am so grateful and happy to organize and host  this retreat for Sharada Devi to teach, and for us all to come together in the opportunity to dive deeper in the teachings of Vedanta and explore the Self in loving safe retreat mode. Welcome to surrender into the warm embrace of cozy Villa Söderåsen and the beautiful surrounding nature”

 

VENUE:

Villa Söderåsen in Röstånga, south Sweden www.villasoderasen.com 

B&B imbedded in the majestic nature of Söderåsen national park in the south of Sweden, will warmly take care of us. Located just an hours drive from international airport Kastrup, Copenhagen and easy accessed by train and bus. 

We have booked the house exclusively for us attending the retreat to create as much safe Sanga space as possible. We will all live together in shared bedrooms, two - max three pers./room. The rooms are equipped with bed linen and towels, so no need to bring your own. Bathrooms are shared. 

 

SHALA: 
Classes will be at close by shala, just some 5 minutes walk away from Villa Söderåsen and occasionally in the beautiful nature Shala’s that the forest naturally provides. No need to bring yoga mats, meditation pillows or blankets for indoor classes - it’s provided. For out door classes, we recommend to bring something to sit on if you prefer - a sarong or a prop of your choice. 

 

FOOD:

Joanna, a Goddess in the kitchen with lots of chef experience, will set the menu, & cook for us. Base is as organic and local as possible, vegan & mostly gluten free, with vegetarian toppings. Joanna has been a part of this Vedanta retreat team since the start 12 years ago and is a shining star and we are blessed by her food and sweet presence.

 

SEVAS:

Together we share the home-like sanga-space where we also share some small everyday sacred duties to deepening the togetherness and participation, so you will for example get a couple of food prep-, washing up-, cleaning- or tea station duties during the weekend. 

 

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS:

Please bring your instruments for Kirtan and devotional singing together

 

DATES:

June 3-6, 2026

 

WEEKEND FLOW / PROGRAM:
Schedule flow for classes, talks, satsang, ceremonies, meals etc will be announced at the welcome ceremony. Please be understanding and flexible to changes as we go 

 

Thursday - Half day schedule
Early arrival: walk in the nationalpark, swim in Odensjön fresh water spring lake near by, contemplation in the garden… 

Villa Söderåsen host another group leaving at 11 so its full on cleaning and prepping mode at Villa Söderåsen until….
…14: when you are welcome to check in and move in to your shared bed rooms

15.00 Start/Welcome ceremony and first Vedanta class will follow 

Friday - Full day schedule

Saturday - Full day schedule

Sunday - half day schedule
We finish after last meal/lunch together at latest 15ish.. We move out of our bedrooms at 9 AM on Sunday but you can keep your luggage in a provided luggage room and for you who wish to stay another night, its possible to book an extra night via www.villasoderasen.com or contact Åsa: [email protected] and shell help you book the extra night

 

INVESTEMENT:

• Super Early bird when signing up before the end of the year, Dec 31, 2026: SEK 7000
• Early bird when signing up before Feb 30, 2027: SEK 7500
• March 1 - June 3, 2027:  SEK 8000  
  
  (From your investment, Sharada receives approx 3000kr. The rest approx 5000kr is the costs for us exclusively having the venue for the retreat, food, chef, shala etc see below)
  
  If you like to join but sleep in your van or elsewhere close by, the price is minus 500kr (its not the bed space in the shared bed rooms that make up the costs, please see below)

You invest in your life profoundly by receiving the teachings Sharada Devi shares with us - with a four days full retreat program - embodiment classes, Vedanta talks & -satsangs, guided meditations, pujas and Vedic ceremonies, kirtan and surprises. 

You contribute to this possibility for us all to gather - to rent the shala and have Villa Söderåsen exclusively as our retreat home for 4 days and 3 nights with full food & board. 

What’s included:

In the price full food and board is included with a bed in shared guest rooms where linen and towels are provided. During the retreat the first meal is served at dinner on Thursday and the last meal at lunch on Sunday. Coffee, tea, fruits and nuts will be provided at all times during the weekend. In the price is also included that we rent the full venue/house just for the retreat which gives us full retreat-privacy incl all the props and deco for the full weekend. Also we rent a whole other building with the shala inside that also provides yoga mats, meditation pillows etc only five min walk away from Villa Söderåsen. And of course also your investment include’s Sharada Devi’s priceless teaching, Joanna’s work in the kitchen and Åsa’s organizing and hosting and all the team’s and volunteer’s facilitation, devotion and presence with all sacred duties helping this retreat to manifest and go smoothly - before, at and after our gathering. 

CANCELLATION POLICY:

Please note! To make this retreat possible, note that your registration means full commitment and your full payment is non-refundable. 
For details please read our Cancellation Policy which are the same for this retreat with Sharada Devi at Villa Söderåsen as for Devi School:
 https://www.devischool.info/cancellation-policy 

 

REGISTER AND BOOK THE RETREAT: 

Click on the date: June 3, 2027 here below and register

Plese note, if you register more than one person, you are responisble for all the registered person's bookings. If you register more than one person, plese provide us with full names and email addresses to all persons, thank you.

If you have a wish to share guest room with someone special, please tell us as you register.

OPPORTUNITY TO STAY LONGER IN THIS STUNNING NATURE:

You are welcome to stay longer for contemplation, being in nature, hiking, cycling, horse back riding, canoeing, swimming… Sleep in nature or add on nights at Villa Söderåsen, book nights after the retreat here (to come and stay before the retreat is not possible this time due to another group renting the venue before our retreat): 
www.villasoderasen.com

UNIQUE POSSIBILITY FOR PRIVATE SESSIONS WITH SHARADA DEVI:

Private one on one classes with Sharada Devi can be booked a couple of days after the retreat in Röstånga
For more info and to book the private session, please email: [email protected]

Any questions about the retreat, please contact Åsa: [email protected]