Retreats

Transformational retreats

A retreat is for your soul’s nourishment, you reconnect with yourself in a new way, you recharge your batteries, and the effect of a retreat is felt even after years. With a retreat you either continue or embark on a transformational journey that we all need to partake in at some point in our lives. When you participate in a retreat, you go deep within, into new depths of your being that you may or may not have explored.

When you go within, you begin a process to see yourself in a more authentic way. You get in touch with your real self, you connect with the immense love within, and you feel nurtured and supported. You feel less lonely even when you are alone. You begin to connect with yourself in a deeper and more fulfilling manner. You begin to realize that you are as much within as you are outside and your role in this world is as important as towards yourself.

My Offerings

In my retreats I carefully partner with venues, these places are managed by people with similar values, and the place holds energy that enables us to do the self-work. In the retreat, you will have an opportunity to immerse yourself, while being immersed in nature. All your basic needs will be taken care of so that you can feel supported in doing the real work: self-work.

In the retreat, you will have the opportunity to experience several healing modalities, yoga, certain creative pursuits, mindfulness practices and other activities while being immersed in nature. Being in nature is often very therapeutic. You will feel the support of like-minded retreat participants, who are on a similar journey to you. Come embark on this transformational journey through a retreat.

I have conducted several retreats in Morocco. These retreats were focused on deep healing, yoga, mindfulness and more.

Latest / Upcoming Retreats

Shimoga - Coming Soon

Connecting with your inner self

Day-to-day life, past trauma, or stress can create disconnection within us. Come engage in deep healing, yogic and mindfulness practices while being immersed in nature to reconnect with yourself and be your authentic self, with complete acceptance. It is truly liberating to find joy, peace and happiness that is not dependent on our life context, rather it is unconditional.

Neelambari - February 2025

Healing the 5 elements

This 5-day healing retreat in a nurturing setting at Neelambari, Kerala is like a software upgrade! You will not only feel rejuvenated and a deeper connection with yourself but also feel you have shifted within. You will begin to see yourself, your relationships and patterns with a new found awareness!

The retreat, designed to reconnect with the five elements (fire, earth, water, air, and ether) that constitute us, fosters deep healing. We will engage in energy healing, yin yoga, rituals with the five elements, deep reflection, and experience local art and culture, and explore the ever-nurturing nature, experience energetically charged spaces, surrounding villages, visit ancient sites & temples, sunset river cruise, and more.

Shimoga Retreat Reviews

Any amount of words will fall short of explaining Dr.Smita's work and wonderful soul-soothing retreat at @Kolavara Heritage Center. The choice that she has made by choosing Kolavara speaks for her integrity. Starting from safety, hygiene, comfort, nature, and food OMG it was an amazing experience for me. Dr. Smita is a magician, fairy godmother, my safe place, and my go-to person. Her voice is magical and she is so intuitive to the level of understanding a person without having to express in words. She never comments on what is wrong/right but rather lets you choose what is good for you. The Yoga Nidra was mind-soothing, she is an excellent yoga teacher, and trust me I have never seen such a Yoga teacher with immense wisdom who shows variations of Asanas according to the level of individual Yoga practice. I was thrilled to see how she taught us Headstand. The chakra-cleaning session was bliss. The experience during and after the session is beyond words to experience and one must attend this session in person to experience and enjoy such bliss. Grateful will be the least word to express my gratitude to Dr.Smita and every sweetheart who joined the retreat. It is special to have met this lovely mindful soul who enjoyed the session. Retreats is the commitment that you ought to make for yourself.

I must say, it was an excellent adventure, an excellent experience. It was such a serene place. The whole ritual of doing yoga, pranayama, meditation, and above all, sharing the feelings of the pent-up grief along with the healing by using something called Energy Chakras, was mind-blowing. I'm in my fifth decade of life, and while I do believe that exercise, meditation, pranayama have scientific basis for taking care of our health, even diet and other things play a significant role and I can reason about it, I was completely taken aback. I have been very skeptical of the approach of energy healing and others of the kind like Reiki, etc. I have tried them earlier but somehow it did not work for me so far. I think maybe for the first time in so many years, or maybe one of the few times in so many years, I was completely surprised. I felt so centered, calm and balanced. It was like the energy of the co-participants, the energy which a healer like Smita is able to provide to all of us. It made me a calm person. I became a little bit more self-centered. I would highly recommend to a lot of people to try it out, to lead a better life for themselves, to lead a purposeful life in harmony with the relationships, whether it's with parents, with your children, spouse, best friends, as well as professional connections at work. I feel I can become more productive if my mind stays like this. So wish me luck that I am proven wrong this time, and I think I am.

Morocco Retreat Reviews

This retreat allowed me to understand and learn more about myself especially my insecurities and be aware of my weaknesses and the importance of expressing how I feel. Increased my insight about the factors that have contributed to my current insecurities and be more forgiving to myself. Active listening along with sharing personal thoughts are the things that have marked me during this retreat, having a group of people ready to listen to you and show support and care about your experience was great.

During the retreat, when everyone was sharing how they felt and their emotions, I felt more connected to the group and shared a little about my experience with mindfulness which made me feel more heard and understood. I learned that being vulnerable around those with similar experiences and even different ones, would not judge me. I learned that I wasn’t alone in this journey and that they are here for me. Now I don’t feel ashamed if I become emotional around others, it just shows that I have feelings that need to be heard.

The retreat revealed —or maybe reminded me of my ability and capability to achieve things and overcome challenges, but that I am maybe even better at doing so when I want to. I could easily have abandoned and could have avoided taking part in this but then, with the group support, and the different reflections shared by each member, I realized that I could try, be true to myself.

This retreat has been, for me, all about self-care, positivity, and learning. I am unable to talk about one negative thing or feeling that I have experienced during these three days. I felt that place was “a happy place, where nothing bad can happen”. Of course, now I am aware that I have only spent 3 days there, but saying these exact words, I believe, demonstrate the state of mind I was in. The moment I returned from the retreat, I felt that something was missing, and I needed that kind of connection with others and myself., the connection I have had during the retreat. Also I notice that I have stopped complaining about things and life, because I realized my problems were so insignificant.

Uh, also the retreat, that was really helpful. When we go on holidays and have a lot of fun, it does help you more mentally, but you're exhausted physically. But this retreat felt like a week, not a weekend because we rested both mentally and physically and that was really, really helpful and impacted me a great deal. I am clearly different than the person I was before the trip.