Shakthi Retreats · Serendip, Goa
Four nights inside the practice.
Surya Kriya, held by the goddess temples of Ponda
You come to move within it.
A Shakthi Retreat happens only where the land is already alive — places with powerful Shakthi energy centres, where worship has continued unbroken for generations.
Each retreat is built around one complete yogic practice, held by the rhythm of the land’s temples, its food, its forests. The first retreat lives at Serendip, Goa.
Sacred land.
Living presence.
Serendip sits surrounded by two of Goa’s most significant goddess temples — Shantadurga and Mahalaxmi. The land has held Shakthi energy for centuries — not as an idea, but as a living presence felt in the land itself.
Doing Surya Kriya here is not the same as doing it in a studio. The setting is not incidental. It is part of the practice.
A tropical haven, built for five.
You arrive into greenery. Serendip is a four-bedroom villa with a pool, wrapped in a tropical garden — and it holds exactly five practitioners at a time, because it was designed for exactly that: Hatha Yoga, practiced without hurry.
The sessions happen in the garden, and at first light they are mesmerising. The poolside holds the slower hours of the day. There is a peace here that you notice within the first hour, and stop noticing only because it becomes normal.
And what makes Serendip rare is not the villa. It is the proximity — the goddess temples are close enough that their rhythm becomes yours.
The food is sattvic and traditional Goan — salads, fresh juices, fruit in abundance — a menu created specifically for the Shakthi Retreats, in step with the practice.
Surya Kriya.
A complete yogic practice of twenty-one steps, aligned with the sun — the source the body’s own energies answer to. Traditionally done at sunrise, it works on breath, body and attention together.
Surya Kriya is taught only within the Shakthi Retreat — in person, step by step, by Astha and Kaulina, Isha Hatha Yoga teachers.
People are often surprised by what it reaches. One participant put it simply: it was the first time some of his joints had ever moved. He left energised.
Four nights. Five days.
A structured daily rhythm that holds you from first light to nightfall.
Surya Kriya practice at the property. The body wakes before the mind insists.
Aarti at Mahalaxmi — the goddess of prosperity. The crowds here are small, and the aarti feels personal, almost as if it were held for you.
Aarti at Shantadurga — the goddess who made peace between the great forces. Her grounds hold a beautiful temple tank and many deities; the day closes in her presence.
Sessions on food, earth elements, and the relationship between what we eat, where we are, and how we practice.
Visits to the forests of the Western Ghats. The same energy that lives in the goddess temples lives in those trees.
Fixed departures.
Intimate gatherings.
Ponda, Goa.
Serendip sits in the Ponda countryside — Goa’s temple heartland, a world away from the beaches. Fly into Goa by either airport; the villa is an easy drive from both.
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