India Ignite The Light Of Soul Retreat - Durganihantri 杜尔迦

Tamil Nadu in South India (Tamil: தமிழ் நாடு, Hindi: तमिलनाडु, Latin alphabet transliteration: Tamil Nadu) is a state in southern India. Ancient temples of various sizes, places of interest, and historic sites are scattered all over the country, and it is also called “the most sacred pure land.”

A place full of vibrant sacred color, the physical and spiritual experience of cultural and artistic exchanges

Have you ever experienced drinking fresh coconut water and masala tea at roadside stalls? Have you tried walking alongside the elephants to the temple every morning for worship? Sing and meditate with Indian schoolchildren in the morning before entering the classroom? Watch cultural dance and singing performances with gorgeous four-color costumes during festival celebrations? Have you learned the experience of learning how to be one with nature, heaven, and earth, the universe, connecting your body and mind?

Why Choose The Festival of Lights, Diwali for a Visit

The Festival of Lights, originally Diwali (Dīpāvalī; Marathi: दिवाळी, Diwali; Hindi: दिवाली, Diwali; Tamil: தீபாவளி, Deepavali), In Malaysia, this festival is called Deepavali, while in Taiwan and China are called Light Festival. It is a five-day celebration on the first new moon day of the first week of August or the first week of August in the Indian calendar (that is, late October or early November in the Gregorian calendar). In the traditional custom, the people celebrate the festival of “dispelling darkness with light, defeating evil with goodness.” Later, Diwali was also a celebration of “inner light.” Even a some section of Buddhist followers celebrate this festival. Since this is a significant Hindu festival, many people later treated this festival as one of Indian’s New Year.

The beautiful Diwali Festival symbolizes light and hope. Every household will clean up and tidy up the house the day before Diwali Festival, just like the Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival. People will wear brand new clothes, and children will take a bath in the Ganga river and wash away the dirt on their bodies to purify their body and spiritually. On this day, every household will use colorful lights to decorate their homes and temples, etc. During the night, colorful fireworks will be lit to illuminate the night sky. Vibrant bright light illuminates the night, filling the hearts of countless people with joy and hope, and symbolizes the victory of light, justice over evil, knowledge over ignorance, hope over despair, and numerous people’s yearning for an ideal world! On the night of the Diwali celebration, most people will join in a family-based prayer and blessing ceremony and make their wishes to the Goddess Lakshmi, who symbolizes wealth and abundance. In addition to devout believers from all over the world visiting temples, lighting lamps and praying for blessings, everyone will exchange gifts and taste various delicious snacks, which is a time that full of joy and happiness.

The significance of this soul purification and retreat journey is not only to allow everyone to experience cultural festivals but, more importantly, to make everyone more aware, to experience how to ignite our light in our inner soul during our darkest period of time, and learn to let ourself become a light to illuminate the world. The essence of the light of the soul is to learn to purify ourself, respect ourself, and connecting to our higher self of divinity wisdom.

The rich and shimmering golden near the ashram, Sripuram Golden Temple

Sripuram Golden Temple, also known as the Golden Temple, is located in the town of Vellore, South India, in the village of Thirumalaikodi. In just seven years, this undeveloped 100-acre land was built with astonishing speed from barrenness to golden temple, bringing a new look to the surrounding villages and towns. The notable feature of the temple is the building of the six-pointed star. It symbolizes twelve kinds of mascots that combine the elements of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, and spirit to produce a strong magnetic field and form a high-frequency occasion. The temple garden also has a natural ecology, planting more than 20,000 flowers and trees.

In addition, the Golden Temple is most famous for having a temple built entirely of 1,500 kilograms of gold in the center of the temple. The design of the temple is from every pillar, corner, and roof to a mascot carved by hand and covered with gold. This golden temple shows magnificent and spectacular scenery, whether day or night. The temple houses a golden idol of Sri Mahalakshmi (Most Highest Lakshmi), the Goddess of Wealth, made of 75kg of pure gold. The rumors in the folk are very apparitions, attracting thousands of believers worldwide to visit and worship here every day.

The Golden Temple was officially opened to the public on August 24, 2007. The various charitable activities, education, and cultural thoughts, no matter how big or small, are frequently held in the temple, not only helping many poor people solve the difficulties in life and the challenges of the material world but also bringing a lot of ideological improvement and transformation to human beings, so that life can be improved. Many people will participate in any resource work and donate in gratitude for this grace to give back to this place that has helped them grow physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Meditate to receive divine energy

Every day, people worldwide travel to experience the sacrificial ceremony performed by the eminent monk Sri Sakthi Amma for Goddess Narayani. The monks will continue to chant for three hours. After the worship ceremony, everyone can receive the blessing and blessed holy water from the eminent monk. Many people came from far away to get the blessed holy water to heal their illnesses, to add wealth and luck to their homes or business, or to make a wish for their happiness.

Contribute to society with a heart-to-heart, and accumulate blessings for yourself and your family

During the trip, we will have the opportunity to participate in various volunteer projects, such as children’s education and school construction, serving free food in the canteen, healing and blessing for patients in the hospital, meditation for patients, green planting projects, recycling projects, and so on.

Taking part in this journey of spiritual awakening, you will learn:

The retreat’s theme focuses on lighting our inner light, learning about self-love and self-respect, and connecting with the divine higher self. Retreat activities include:

【Learning Zen Meditation】How to manage emotions and life gracefully and peacefully without being affected by negative energy and evil forces from the society
【Energy Healing】Learn how to receive energy, how to heal and protect ourself
【Relationship Healing】Re-establish the harmonious belief of family members and intimate partners
【Health Healing】Reduce the physical and mental stress caused by emotions, learn to program the mind and body link consciousness
【Wealth Consciousness】Discover our inner belief in the lack and limitation of wealth, and rewrite ur consciousness with innovative wealth creations
【Participate in giving】Give ourself the opportunity to participate in local community activities, charity volunteers, educational activities, green planting, hunger donations, etc.
【Cultural Exchange】Have the opportunity to learn about different cultures and visits

This time, we also especially invite guest teachers to share the following:

【 Love Relationship】Understanding love, masculine and feminine energy in relationship
【Mind Body Connection】Morning ritual to learn how to connect our body, mind, and spirit
【Mantra Medicine】Learn and understand the healing power of chanting
【Music Healing】Connecting our soul through music
【Natural Karma】Learning karma through connecting to the nature
【Learn To Surrender】Learn to let go of the ego and become one with the universe

Note: The itinerary and content of the retreat tour will be adjusted according to the student’s learning capability level, the group’s schedule of activities in the place, etc. Due to being in an area with high energy frequency, some students with energy blockages in body and mind, experiencing karmic issues, or facing personal health such as female menstruation leave, can choose to rest in the room and not participate in certain group activities.

The main learning of this trip is to realize inner self-awareness. The leader will also respect the choices of each soul and believe that everyone will be responsible for their behavior. Every trainee must know that their behavior is representing their country and participating in cultural exchanges abroad. If a student does not respect the culture of the place, does not abide by the rules of the retreat camp, behaves indiscreetly, disturbs other students’ retreat, etc., he will be banned from all activities of the team, and the registration fee will not be refunded. The student must Be responsible for all costs of leaving the retreat on her own.

Retreat Date : November 9 to November 15, 2023. (7 days)

The deadline for registration is October 31, 2023.

Retreat include:

Sponsorship fees: daily sponsorship of temples and event ceremonies, donations to schools, hospitals, and environmental protection.
Accommodation fee: full stay in the temple dormitory.
Food expenses: three meals a day. Fresh organic vegetarian food will be arranged uniformly throughout the whole process. If you have special dietary needs, you can buy them at local restaurants.
Transportation costs: Airport pick-up, drop-off, and all group travel fares.

The fee does not include the following:

Air tickets: round-trip air flight tickets from your departure country to Chennai Airport in India.
Visa: check your passport requirement if visa or e-visa registration is needed
Expenses: Personal shopping expenses, personal voluntary sponsorship, or personal blessing ceremony sponsorship expenses.

Retreat registration and enquiries:
Specific retreat details will be announced in the student group after registration. You can directly leave a message on WeChat Durganihantri99 (for students from China) or email [email protected].

Retreat Facilitator: Durganihantri

Durganihantri is Holistic performance coach with certified clinical hypnotherapist, psychologist, aromatherapist and a consciousness researcher. Growing up with a multicultural, multi religion practices background, she has implementing energy healing with scientific approach to not only teach the knowledge, but also provide guidance on practical practices that you can instantly apply in your daily life improvements.

Durganihantri invented Archetype Internal-Self System Therapy™ (A.I.S.T™), which combined years of research and case studies experience on practicality clinical psychotherapy, past life regression, hypnotherapy and extra sensory perception approach knowledge to help many’s to understand themself and improve their life.

Durganihantri now traveling the world to give talks and workshop, and leading spiritual retreats in India and sacred energy vortex sites to elevate our soul practices.

Special Invite Guest Mentors:

Dr Lakshmi Venkatesan is a Doctor of Homeopathic medicine certified in Singapore and UK. She has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Madurai Medical College, India.

Lakshmi not only have a creditable science and medical background, but she also working on energy healing field of two decades. She specializes in Varmum Healing and Mantra Healing and has been implementing Bach Flower Remedies Healing for emotional stress for the last 20 years. She is a certified in Blocked Qi Healing and a certified Reiki Energy Healer.

Lakshmi’s philosophy is Poorna Holistic Healing envisages healings from within each of us to bring us to a state of balance and harmony, which allows us to manifest our core essences of wisdom and love in our lives.

Sri Gauri is an international bestselling co-author of Elevate Your Energy book, transformational & leadership coach , meditation teacher, retreat host , speaker & energy healer.

She hold’s postgraduate degrees in Education, Counseling & International Relations.

With over 20 years of international life & work, she merged wisdom of the east & west to help people overcome their fears & challenges so they can connect with their inner power , presence & purpose.

Sri Gauri’s mission is to bring more divine love to people’s lives & relationships so we can co-create a better future for all living beings.

Zoë Narayani is a classically-trained vocalist and songwriter who is passionate about mantra, Bhajan and Kirtan (devotional music). She has dedicated the past 17 years to living a life of spirituality and service at Sri Narayani Peedam, in South India.

Zoë has practiced ritual and sacred music since her childhood, discovering bhajan singing when she first came to India in 2006. Along with daily devotional chanting and singing at her home temple in India, Zoë has performed at spiritual events and temples in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Bali. Her original songs are a fusion of East & West, being inspired by Western classical, pop, Celtic, Indian classical, and devotional music.

Zoë’s mission is to use her voice and music as a vehicle for the Divine in this world, and her great wish is to bring the energy of peace, joy and healing into people’s lives.

Praveen is a student of life. He has lived in 6 countries and travelled over nearly half the world. After 15 years in the technology industry he has spent the last 5 years coaching, mentoring and facilitating people to connect with their authentic self and embody self love. He embodies and advocates a holistic approach to living combining eastern & western teachings/practices ranging from Ashtanga yoga, Bhakti, Mantra meditation, Parts Work (a western therapy tool) and Ayurveda. He is based in Sydney, Australia with extended periods of time in Vellore, Tamil Nadu under the guidance of his guru, Sri Sakti Amma.