A little wonder … in Eslöv!

Now, for once, I’m going to do some advertising here on the blog because it’s so much deserved! Just listen:

Finding That Place that is beautiful, which has good vibes, that attracts people who want to protect each other and the earth, people who want to grow and mature as individuals, a place that is simple, close, friendly and where you can get access to a deeper understanding of how we as living creatures are connected to everything around us, known and unknown, a place that one can also afford to go to even when the cashier is rude (and who welcomes children!), a place to visit and contribute to .. you can look for long without success. And then there is this, next door near… ESLÖV! Eslöv, the place that seen Johan Glans is born and as half humorous people love to breed for that, well, what should you say? – Eslessness? For me, Eslövskighet has been given a new shimmer after spending most of the week at Divinya, which is a short drive from Eslöv station, and the fine yoga festival, called Yoga Mela, which was invited there.

Divinya is a center of conscious living whose hub is the Indian SatGuru Sri Vast, a wise and gentle man who actively participates in most things and who in a simple and uncomplicated way generously shares his energy with everyone who wants to be there. Previously, Divinya was located on the other side of Skåne and has recently moved to Eslöv, more specifically to Farhult’s farm, which previously was a large horse farm. In just four weeks, Sri Vast and his “crew” in front of Yoga Mela have created a wonderful place: transformed stables into satsang / workshop halls, the riding stables into a huge concert venue and another stall section for a café. Organic vegetarian food is served in the green – yes, it was fantastic weather! – and there were even a glass wagon with the most delicious organic ice cream from Malmö’s best ice cream shaker. Around the place there is the most beautiful park you can imagine, the place is so well maintained and you feel how everyone involved put their soul in keeping it just as nice as it is.

Yoga Mela is a festival that contains everything possible you can imagine for internal development. There, yoga forms of all kinds are offered – not just the Hatha / Ashtanga Yoga which most people see before them when they think of Yoga, but also other, often ancient forms such as. has its origin in sound and vibration (such as Nada Yoga and Sound Bowl Meditation) or the completely new form of Inner Yoga that includes energetic breathing that cleans up considerably in the energy channels and which connects the earth with space, the particle with the whole, matter with emptiness on a way that can be directly experienced in one’s own body.

Yoga har blivit en ganska tom och missförstådd företeelse i väst. Här har det på många sätt blivit en produkt av det västerländska sinnelaget, fyllt med prestation och resultat. Men så som jag förstår Yoga är det ett helt sätt att leva sitt liv genom att ständigt bejaka medvetenhet, långt mer än bara några timmar i veckan. Det finns många sätt att göra det och ibland är det med lite andra ”instrument i orkestern” än i t.ex. den Tibetanska Buddhismen som jag är mer van vid, eller i Oshos fantastiska meditationer som är mitt ”hem”. Men det är ju så berikande att lyssna till många olika sorters orkestrar, vare sig den musiken ger resonans i ytterörat, innerörat eller hjärteroten.

Music really characterized the whole festival. There were various visiting artists, most of them world-class, who both held workshops, concerts and performances. Everything happened from the heart and for the first time ever, I could feel with all of me that all that is said about the power of love, that it can change the world, was actually true. I just thought it was empty talk before … and forgot that it is not just me and a few who strive for a more conscious life without us being many. And when many gather in one place and all that energy is channeled – yes, then I could feel how the particles were disrupted in the old patterns and that a new, more beautiful reality variant began to appear.

Last night Mirabai played Ceiba at the closing concert and when we all got stuck out in the lukewarm night many hours later we were rushed by something I would wish everyone to drink off in deep sips: music, love, community and a gentle curiosity.

Hope, folks!

Divinya is available here: http://www.divinya.org

At Divinya there will be regular arrangements, weekend retreat, longer courses, the opportunity to participate in volunteering with tree planting etc. and of course the unique opportunity to sit in satsang with a living Master, Sri Vast.

Visit the place with an open mind and no hope whatsoever that the schedule you think should apply actually does. Because it’s quite ok to let go and trust the moment!

8 JULI, 2018 / POONAMSPLACE

Children’s Programs

At Divinya Yoga Mela festival we welcome children of all ages. Children have various possibilities to play, explore and learn while their parents attend their own programs. Parents of children who still need their company are welcome to join any of the children’s programs.

The Program offers a great variety of what appeals to a child’s passion. Activities include: playing, nature excursions, animal watching, horse riding, picnics, baking and pizza making, yoga, watching children’s cartoons, drawing, outdoor games, crafts, music, theatre, magic and more.

One of the best gifts we can give to our children is to introduce them to the great outdoors of nature, laying the groundwork for a life-long connection to Mother Earth. We will encourage children to be attentive to everything natural, activating their senses and responding to life. Children are free to explore and move; allowing all delightful forms of self-expression that are often limited or restricted to them. Being in nature enables them to run, jump, skip and roll.

Bring your children to Divinya Yoga Mela festival and let them discover life in togetherness with people of all ages. Let them explore the wonder and awe of the natural world and get enriched in their sharing.

Jai Uttal, US

Jai Uttal is a kirtan artist, multi-instrumentalist, and ecstatic vocalist. He combines influences from India and American rock and jazz, creating a stimulating and exotic multi-cultural fusion that is truly a world spirit music. Having travelled extensively in India, where he met many beautiful saints and singers, Bhakti yoga became his personal path. Jai has been leading, teaching, and performing World Music and kirtan around the world for close to 50 years, creating a safe environment for people to open their hearts and voices.

Awakening Bhakti Workshop

Bhakti Yoga is the path of personal relationship with Spirit, with God, with Goddess; it’s a relationship that includes all the flavours and moods of the human heart. For everyone who loves and practices kirtan, this workshop will fuel your soul.

Nubia, BR

Author, Yogini, teacher trainer, and Odissi dancer, Nubia Teixeira has devoted herself to teaching different aspects of Yoga for the past 29 years. Perceiving Yoga as a healing art, Nubia’s refinement and connection to this ancient practice is reflected in her unique teachings.

Workshop

Nubia will introduce you to her vision of how to embellish and empower your yogasana with mudras that are symbolically representatives of the Gods and Goddess of Yoga and poetically expressive of the beauty of Nature. Her aim is to give you a resource to grace your yoga practice with the transporting keys of the hand-gestures.

Guruji Sri Vast

Welcome to immerse yourself into the profound presence of Guruji Sri Vast – A Master, Mystic and Poet, full of authentic joy, love, grace and a flow of natural wisdom.

Guruji’s profound Teachings invite us to celebrate life as a path to total Liberation, rediscovering our human potential and the cosmic life on this planet. Guruji’s Teachings initiate the shift in consciousness towards the Divine Age – an enlightened era.

Satsang with Guruji Sri Vast is an opportunity for you to receive profound spiritual insights for your everyday life. During Satsang you are welcome to ask questions enriching your spiritual growth.

Vish Sheth, US

The Hanumen are Benjy Wertheimer, John de Kadt, Vish Sheth and Gaura Vani. These diverse artists present a unique experience of world-music, mystic poetry and mantra chanting – a musical journey to the deepest part of the soul. This acclaimed international world music group is known for there beautiful original arrangments, their musicality and there huge hearts that keep people smiling and dancing and sitting in utter stillness.

Murray Kyle, AU

Mirabai Ceiba, DE

Offering delicate sounds of harp, piano, and guitar blend with lovingly intertwined voices amid lush celestial soundscapes.
Their concerts are group celebrations for peace that embody the duo’s profound belief in music as a universal language uniting all. Mirabai Ceiba engages a new style of world devotional music blending Gurmukhi mantras with original Native American songs also drawing words of wisdom from Rumi, Thich Nhat Hanh, Guru Nanak and Yogi Bhajan.

Mark Pinkus, CA

A solo pianist, who’s compositions are like sound paintings, creating picturesque images reflecting Mark’s love for nature and his quest for peace and tranquility.

Influenced by Zen and Buddhism Mark Pinkus likes to call his musical compositions Piano Impressionism taking the listener’s imagination on a journey. From one piece to the next, there is a totally different and unique story to be told and unraveled.

Mahesh Vinayakram, IN

Mahesh Vinayakram is one of the leading artists in the field of Carnatic and world music. He has performed extensively around the world in concerts and festivals, as a soloist and with other world class musicians. His singing has been featured in many movies – both in Hollywood and Bollywood. There are many albums to his credits. Mahesh Vinayakram has received numerous awards for his performances.

John de Kadt, US

The Hanumen are Benjy Wertheimer, John de Kadt, Vish Sheth and Gaura Vani. These diverse artists present a unique experience of world-music, mystic poetry and mantra chanting – a musical journey to the deepest part of the soul. This acclaimed international world music group is known for there beautiful original arrangments, their musicality and there huge hearts that keep people smiling and dancing and sitting in utter stillness.

Gaura Vani, US

The Hanumen are Benjy Wertheimer, John de Kadt, Vish Sheth and Gaura Vani. These diverse artists present a unique experience of world-music, mystic poetry and mantra chanting – a musical journey to the deepest part of the soul. This acclaimed international world music group is known for there beautiful original arrangments, their musicality and there huge hearts that keep people smiling and dancing and sitting in utter stillness.

David Newman, US

A renowned kirtan chant artist, sacred singer-songwriter, best-selling author, and inspirational teacher.

David, also known as Durga Das, travels extensively sharing his music, and teachings on the path of love as a vehicle for spiritual awakening. He has released numerous CDs, and is the author of The Timebound Traveler. David is also the founder of the Stay Strong Project and Yoga On Main, a collaborative project between the Kirtan Chant and Yoga community to support the environmental and humanitarian efforts of Global Green USA.

Brenda McMorrow, CA

Brenda McMorrow is known for her unique and warmly embracing style of mantra music, in which she blends elements of acoustic folk, world rhythms and ancient Indian chants with a sweetly introspective singer-songwriter’s sensibility. Yoga Journal describes Brenda as having “a knack for expressing the deepest realizations in the sparsest lyrics”.

As spiritual teacher Ram Dass has said: “Brenda has a gift”, and her music has been touching people’s hearts worldwide. With 4 celebrated devotional chant albums, Brenda is a featured artist on the White Swan Records roster, a Colorado label well known for it’s high-profile yoga-inspired artists like Deva Premal. Brenda has been invited to Festivals and events across North and South America, Europe and Asia as part of her most recent tour schedule.

Benjy Wertheimer, US

The Hanumen are Benjy Wertheimer, John de Kadt, Vish Sheth and Gaura Vani. These diverse artists present a unique experience of world-music, mystic poetry and mantra chanting – a musical journey to the deepest part of the soul. This acclaimed international world music group is known for there beautiful original arrangments, their musicality and there huge hearts that keep people smiling and dancing and sitting in utter stillness.

Ajeet Kaur, IR

Ajeet’s love of music began at a young age, leading her around the world to study traditional Indian and Irish music, along with other folk traditions and western musical styles.

Ajeet Kaur’s music is a meeting of rivers. Ajeet blends the healing power of ancient mantras with a fresh and unique contemporary style, weaving together ancient rhythms and melodies, deep meditative spaces and heart-opening songs to bring you on a journey through music – leaving you with a deep sense of peace.

She has released many albums and travels the world to share the healing power of music, yoga and meditation.

Christopher Sigmond, SE

Jennikel Andersson, SE

Miriam Wessels, DE

Hannes vo Wald, CH

The experimental pyrotechnician and wizard from the Swiss alps has widely earned a great reputation. He is a person full of fire, loving to work with fire. His character is of contagious joy, humor and great improvisation with a big heart to nature and children. Twenty years ago, the father of two has turned away from the teaching profession in favor of magic. The experiential artist conjures at festivals, conferences, business meetings and private events. He works not only as a solo artist, but is also a member of the artists ensemble Animation Style.

Frederik Swahn, SE

Samhey, RU, IN

The band SAMHEY has been developing the concept of ethno-fusion. A blend of Indian music culture, Russian folk tunes and Western European sound. The combination of instruments is very unique. It consists of sitar, Indian tabla drums, violin, flute, Russian harp and guitar.

Denis Kucherov (RU)

Denis Kucherov is a Indian traditional music performer in Russia and eastern Europe. He started learning classical western music at the age of 8 and tabla at the age of 14. After 4 years at the JNCC cultural center in Moscow, he got invited to India to extend his skills. Denis recorded several albums. He is the creator of the fusion band SAMHEY.

Nastya Saravasti (RU)

Nastya Saraswati hails from St. Petersburg, Russia. She moved to Bangalore to learn Indian music and fell in love to sing Bhajans. As a member of SAMHEY she contributes with her violin, flute and vocals.

Bittu Mallick (IN)

Bittu Mallick is an Indian musician originating from Vrindavan. He descends from 13 generations of musicians and performers of classical Indian music (Dhrupad, Khyal, Bhajan,Mantras,Gazal etc.) In last 10 years Bittu has travelled all over the world with the SAMHEY project.

Mataji Irene, CH

Cosmic Life I and II

Mataji Irene has been living in the spiritual Sangha of Guruji Sri Vast past 15 years. Her understanding of the life on this planet and the deeper meaning in life has grown in these years to a profound inner realization. Following the Master’s teaching which is a nature-based spirituality is a path of self-realization.

Lecture on Cosmic Life

The lectures on ‘Cosmic life’ bring you on a journey to yourself, learning how to understand the human function and tendencies through the wisdom of nature and cosmos. Connecting to the nature of this planet and tuning to the cosmic rhythm is a way to deepen your connection with your divine essence. The lecture will give you practical life wisdom from the Sri Vast Teachings, and practical examples and tools for daily life to expand the living experience and stretch towards your potential as a true divine being.

Singing Bowl Meditation, Sound Journey – Deva Sangeet, DE

Time to Relax! Just Lie down to the healing sounds of Nepalese Singing Bowls (and other instruments) – inviting you on an inner Journey. “ There is nothing to do – nowhere to go- just Be.” This will help you to start your day relaxed and give inner focus – on what really matters. Deva Sangeet (means in Sanskrit ‘Divine Music’) is a certified Yoga teacher as well as a Music Producer. He studied Sound Healing with Santa RatnaShakya in Nepal – and Sound Massage with Peter Hess in Germany.

Blanka-Kady Taylor, DE

Blanka-Kady Taylor is Healing Voice Kadija’Ma and Kum Nye Teacher from Berlin. Kum Nye is a tibetan practice from the Nyingma Tradition, brought to the Western World by Lama Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche in 1969. Kum Nye reminds us to connect to our breath and to feel our body through exploring our feelings without analyzing or judging them nor us. Feelings are full of treasures. They are a gateway to your inner wisdom. Kum refers to your energy bodies, your Aura and Nye to an inner massage of the physical body through your breath. Subtle postures, gentil breathing and a meditative guidance will lead you to your awareness of consciously feeling, so you may effortlessly unlock more of your energy and expand your presence to dive deep inside, while fully feeling yourself in the present moment.

Inner Yoga – Mataji Simone, CA

Inner Yoga – Yoga of the Cosmic Being

Inner Yoga, conceived by Guruji Sri Vast, is a technique that reveals the natural state of being – a key to enter into the unknown.For the past thirteen years Simone is living a yogic life at Sri Vast Ashram, where she teaches the life-transforming Inner Yoga techniques.

About Inner Yoga

Inner Yoga is a profound yoga and meditation technique conceived by Guruji Sri Vast, developed as a practice integrated in everyday life. Inner Yoga is an evolutionary step in the field of Yoga, helping to expand yourself from a physical plane to a cosmic life experience that naturally evokes an inner transformation towards the deeper meaning in life. Inner Yoga is a self-healing technique, where our inherent intelligence in the body is evoked, and natural healing can take place.

Inner Yoga reveals one’s inner beauty and grace. It works in various subtle layers of our body, including the chakras, elements and the cosmic attunement. In this new life experience, an inner freedom is attained where our life goals can be reached and performed effortlessly.

Benefit of practicing Inner Yoga:
A flexible body and open mind
A natural life rhythm
Inner calmness and harmonious relations with your surroundings
An experience of life that expands beyond oneself
the release of inherent patterns
Joy and well-being

Emma Johansson, SE

Vinyasa and Yin Yoga

Emma will share soft, creative classes in Vinyasa Yoga and Yin Yoga, as well as a beautifully mixed session of – Where Yin meets Yang. Emma comes to invite you to soft, fluid and free movements of yoga. Her focus is on Yoga Soma and Somatic bodywork. The base for her practice comes from Hatha yoga, Hatha flow and martial arts. She believes that each one of us has a wisdom that we carry in our body. Her classes give you a chance to reconnect with this wisdom and take a direction to merge into something bigger than ourselves.

Constance Mattheus, DE

Constance Mattheus, a concert singer, vocal coach and choreograph at the ‘Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg’ and as well a freelance artist, is solely following the way of her heart in harmony with the life. Musically and spiritually in uenced specially by her travels through so far 34 countries, her concert program “Silence is a gentle being” is an expression of her intensive diving into the topic of silence. In her concerts and yoga mantra classes Constance touches deeply with her multifaceted voice and sensitively creates a space for healing, leading the audience towards their innermost core.

Ivo Mutter, SE

Ivo takes us on a journey from the acoustic purity of the singer-songwriter’s heart to the soul depths of modern spiritual music.

The songs with their sophisticated simplicity correspond to different states of mind and events in our lives. Through Ivo’s presence he brings his music into the deepest part of our being. Between the words the unspoken is sensed more than words can say. His latest CD: 24 Reasons to Live- a musical and poetic project.

Matias Papini, AR

Rawfood Workshop

Matias Papini is the founder of Jugox from Argentina. He says “A detoxified body is the key to living a healthy life.“ Matias passion is raw food, detoxification with juices and overall sense of well being. He is coming to present a series of workshops with raw food and conscious eating– to give a deeper insight into healthy and nourishing diet and what is the best way to prepare it. Get to know more about what kind of food your body needs and learn the best way how to prepare delicious raw food recipes.

Gopi Anand Kirtan, DK

Gopi Anand Kirtan has throughout the last seven years been leading more than 100 kirtans yearly. Devoted to the call and response tradition of Northern India they share simple and happiness provoking mantras. In the spirit of bhakti they perform kirtan only to make participants open their hearts and surrender to the sweet and transformative yoga of mantra.

The style of their kirtan is basic and intimate. Instrumentation is simple, harmonium and dholak. The co-created space is one of silence, bliss and madness. The bhav is one of love. One love. Radhe Radhe.

Mattis Olsson, SE

Welcome to sing from the heart with Mattis, sharing the liberating and joyful experience of just singing. Mattis Heart Songs bring the joy of singing together and the uplifting energy of mantras from the different traditions such as Sanskrit, Buddhist, North & South American Indian chants, as well as own composition and improvisation.

Mattis is a cheerful soul who come from a traditional training in yoga and meditation, where he found his fascination for the path of bhakti with daily exercise of chanting Sanskrit mantras. From here music became the beacon in his life and for 15 years Mattis traveled around the world exploring the power of singing together. Mattis is a “musical medicine man”, who works ceremonial, giving concerts and sessions with different types of instruments. Combining humor with profound insights Mattis brings us into the depths of our being and into the heart’s reality.

Saint (in Divinya)

‘Saint’ – songs of the new soul. It is a musical expression of devotion and celebration of the new human. The songs are born in Vastian togetherness, arising from moments of bliss and freedom. The lyrics are poems of Guruji Sri Vast, sharing an overflowing love and passion towards this life.

Vastians are dreamers of the Divine Age – envisioning a new consciousness of love, beauty and sacredness. This dream is celebrated and honored through Saint’s music. Saint is a new reference of music which arises from the pure consciousness, stimulating the Divine Age – A Heaven on Earth.

The band consists of people who are dedicated to this new expression – A bliss and freedom of an Innocent.

Come Come join the Dance, Come Come be the Song

Palace on Wheels, SE

KG Westman -sitar

Stian Grimstad -sitar

Hugo Widén -tabla

Sae Bom Park -tanpuri

Palace on Wheels is a collective that plays Indian classical music in a jugalbandi-format. In this setting with two sitars and tabla interesting improvisations gives new life to the old raga forms and semi-classical music.

K.G. Westman is a Swedish sitar player who is one of Europe´s foremost in the field of north Indian classical and semi classical music. Due to training in both Indian and western music, he is one of few with a deep understanding of both systems. As a senior student of Pandit Rabindra Narayan Goswami, KG Westman is now a frequent performer in Europe, India, as well as other parts of the world.

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Nastya Saraswati

SAMHEY

Nastya Saraswati hails from St. Petersburg, Russia. She moved to Bangalore to learn Indian music and fell in love to sing Bhajans. As a member of SAMHEY she contributes with her violin, flute and vocals.

The band SAMHEY has been developing the concept of ethno-fusion. A blend of Indian music culture, Russian folk tunes and Western European sound. The combination of instruments is very unique. It consists of sitar, Indian tabla drums, violin, flute, Russian harp and guitar.

Denis Kucherov

SAMHEY

Denis Kucherov is a Indian traditional music performer in Russia and eastern Europe. He started learning classical western music at the age of 8 and tabla at the age of 14. After 4 years at the JNCC cultural center in Moscow, he got invited to India to extend his skills. Denis recorded several albums. Denis is the creator of the fusion band SAMHEY.

The band SAMHEY has been developing the concept of ethno-fusion. A blend of Indian music culture, Russian folk tunes and Western European sound. The combination of instruments is very unique. It consists of sitar, Indian tabla drums, violin, flute, Russian harp and guitar.

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Bittu Mallick is an Indian musician originating from Vrindavan. He descends from 13 generations of musicians and performers of classical Indian music (Dhrupad, Khyal, Bhajan,Mantras,Gazal etc.) In last 10 years Bittu has travelled all over the world with the SAMHEY project.

The band SAMHEY has been developing the concept of ethno-fusion. A blend of Indian music culture, Russian folk tunes and Western European sound. The combination of instruments is very unique. It consists of sitar, Indian tabla drums, violin, flute, Russian harp and guitar.

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The information below helps to make Yoga Mela Festival in Divinya an enjoyable experience for everyone.

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There is strictly no alcohol, drugs or tobacco permitted anywhere at Divinya.
No open fires are allowed on the entire property (even inside tents), including barbeques, camp-fires, fireworks, lanterns, candles (cooking is allowed only in camper vans with permission)
No hunting and fishing. Please be respectful of wildlife and avoid scaring or chasing animals.
Swimming in the lake is permitted only in the designated area and is fully at people’s own risk. It is the parents’ full responsibility to keep their children safe in the property, incl. the lakes and forests.
Please keep your dog or other pets at home, unless you guarantee it is on a leash and will not disturb the wildlife in Divinya. If you do plan to bring your pet, you must inform us in advance to receive our permission.
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Please keep Divinya clean and neat for everyone to enjoy. All waste must be disposed of in the bins provided.
Divinya is a children-friendly place Parents are responsible for their children during their entire stay at Divinya. If children do not feel comfortable at the public events, it is the parents’ duty to make sure that the event is not disturbed and find a good alternative to keep the children happy elsewhere. Children who still need parental care must be accompanied to the children programs by their parents or caretakers.

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Yoga Mela – Children friendly

Yoga Mela creates a wonderful opportunity for families with children. The festival is drug and alcohol free and a children friendly event in a castle environment that evokes the atmosphere of fantasy and fairytale. The Children program give the possibility to support the parents to participate in the main programs.

Raw Food

This Raw Food course introduces its students to a whole new way of approaching nature, food and our human body.

It is not only to learn new recipes and a healthy aspect towards nutritious food which are the aims of this course, but also the ecological aspect of cooking and a new relationship to the planet. Deep thankfulness and appreciation is an essential part in the preparation of the food that nurtures us.

The course includes theoretical classes, ethical and philosophical inquiries about the essence of what nourishes us and practical and explorational workshops. You will discover a wide range of possible raw food ingredients and recipes to nurture our senses, our body and mind.

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Children’s Programs

At Divinya Summer School we welcome children of all ages. Children have various possibilities to play, explore and learn while their parents attend their own programs. Parents of children who still need their company are welcome to join any of the children’s programs.

The Program offers a great variety of what appeals to a child’s passion. Activities include: playing, nature excursions, animal watching, horse riding, picnics, baking and pizza making, yoga, watching children’s cartoons, drawing, outdoor games, crafts, music, theatre, magic and more.

One of the best gifts we can give to our children is to introduce them to the great outdoors of nature, laying the groundwork for a life-long connection to Mother Earth. We will encourage children to be attentive to everything natural, activating their senses and responding to life. Children are free to explore and move; allowing all delightful forms of self-expression that are often limited or restricted to them. Being in nature enables them to run, jump, skip and roll.

Bring your children to Divinya Summer School and let them discover life in togetherness with people of all ages. Let them explore the wonder and awe of the natural world and get enriched in their sharing.

Sky Watching

The extraordinarily vast star field

Divinya is unique during the day and when the sun sets behind the hills giving way to the nightlife, a totally different realm is opened up. Far from any neighboring lights, the land offers an exceptional sanctuary of natural darkness, allowing you to contemplate the beauty and mystical splendor of the sky.

The mysterious beauty of the dark entices you to dive into the endless details of the night sky. Exploring the vast subject of astronomy during the day in the class, can give you a better understanding of the cosmic map and its components.
This course will teach you about the celestial bodies, to identify and position the constellations and their stars, distinguish a planet from a star, about the different moon cycles and their effects on Earth and our bodies. Entering into the details of this realm, the extraordinarily vast star field is impressed on you. A different knowledge and perception of nature’s beauty and infinite space is opened up – you will love it.

Nature Photography

Capture this deeply touching beauty of nature

Divinya has a heart-warming environment with wonderful gardens, parks, natural reserve, river, lakes and fields.
The stunning scenery is perfect for this course as it encourages the viewers to observe the details of nature and be fully immersed in the beauty unfolding in front of their eyes. Nature is calling to be present in joy and appreciation and that gives many opportunities for beautiful shots. The camera as a tool captures the glittering moment, expressing what naturally unfolds.

The main focus of this course is to increase full awareness and become a witness, enjoying what nature has to offer, connecting with the flow of life and appreciating this peaceful natural space.

The course is for beginners, although we occasionally have more advanced photographers in the group. Those who take this course have an opportunity to join a group of like-minded individuals and together create a sequence of photographs, sharing a unique experience.

Permaculture Design

The Permaculture course is an introductory course into the philosophy of Permaculture Design, emphasizing the beauty and sacredness of life. The course includes theoretical classes as well as practical learning and active participation in the permaculture gardens of Divinya. The course offers an inspiring exploration of nature wisdom to bring home.

During the 2-week course you will be introduced through practical demonstrations, visual media and theoretical classes to the philosophy and history of Permaculture and learn from nature through careful observation of structures, patterns, forms, textures, shapes and cycles of the local ecosystem. The hands-on techniques learned in the fields as well as the deeper understanding of the ethics and principles of Permaculture Design will help you to prepare to start your own permaculture garden.

Bird Watching

Nature in its purity and intimacy

Divinya is home for many native species of birds. Being on one of the most important migratory paths in South Sweden, the lakes and open fields of the property welcome each spring and autumn a large diversity of migrating birds from around the world.

Divinya’s landscape of fields, meadows, forests, lake and river, provides an ideal environment for biodiversity, which includes a wide variety of song birds and birds of prey. The wetlands are an ideal natural observatory, where one can learn to patiently experience the beauty of nature without disturbing any of its species. The lake is like a jewel in the middle of the wild-kept forest, and its abundance of fish attract the grey heron. It is also a protected breeding area for many birds such as swans, geese and ducks.

The bird watching course is a chance to experience wildlife closely, giving totally new perspective and appreciation of nature.

Mantra Chanting

The powerful moments of collective singing and meditation

Mantras are powerful sounds, based on ancient wisdom, influencing the physical body, clearing the emotional body and leading one closer to the heart. Reciting mantras allows you to feel a positive energy, the body relaxes and you can enter into a higher state of presence.
Each sound of a mantra originates from a different part of the human body. When you pronounce those sounds, you activate energy points in your body. As the mind concentrates more and more on the mantra and its meaning, the thinking process stops and you can rise to a higher state of consciousness.

You will have a chance to learn the meaning and benefits of mantras, various techniques of mantra chanting and pranayamas (breathing techniques).

Theatre

The theatre workshop series will be a creative exploration on the art of storytelling onstage. Using minimal text, the emphasis will be on bringing stories to life through expression, gesture, voice & movement. Students will playfully engage in exercises rooted in improvisation, scene-study, characterization & personal writing. In addition, students will also be guided through the collective create of a few short pieces, that will culminate in a sharing. All ages are welcome!

Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultancy

Ayurveda – the Science of Life – is a holistic approach towards body, mind and spirit. Ayurveda recognizes each person as whole and encourages individuals to actively participate in creating their own wellbeing. This holistic healing knowledge, rooted in the Indian Vedic science, is a stimulating learning ground for people seeking complementary and alternative health-care and a holistic organic lifestyle.
Divinya offers an experiential Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultancy training. This course serves your personal sense of well-being and offers you a range skills. The curriculum, with theoretical and practical classes, emphasizes the restoration of our natural state of balance. Topics focus on Ayurvedic diets, exploring and learning about the Doshas (constitution), Healing Techniques and an introduction to pulse diagnosis.

The course is conducted by experienced Ayurvedic doctors from India. Participants will learn profound teachings and how to use their knowledge in the current society and also share it with others.
This two-week course is counted as the first part of the four-week certified Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultancy training.

Herbs & Natural Remedies

The abundant gifts of the local nature

This course focuses on a deep connection between flora and the human being. By including local herbs and plants into our daily diet, applying them as natural remedies, it helps us to balance our body in many different ways such as a natural detoxification, disease prevention and alkalization.

During this one week course we will walk in nature to explore and enjoy nature’s numerous offerings: every seed, root, flower, grass and leaf can reveal its healing benefits and potential.

You will learn how to differentiate and identify various herbs as well as their use as remedies and how to incorporate them into a diet.
This course brings awareness on how to consciously nurture ourselves within the ecosystem we are living in. We learn new ways to enjoy the beautiful and wild gardens, to start seeing weeds as plants and flowers as nutrients for all the senses. Mother Nature’s generosity is so vast.

Chakra Healing

There are seven major energy centers in the body known as Chakras. Chakras are responsible for our energetic, emotional, physical, psychological, mental and spiritual well-being. Our lifestyle, our imprints and the disconnection from nature has marked our Chakras, resulting in many blockages and imbalances within our body. The Chakra Healing course provides an understanding on how each Chakra functions, where they are located, how they can get activated and balanced, and how each governs our mind, body, emotions and spirit.

The one-week Chakra Healing course gives you a chance to learn the basics on how you can rebalance your body. You will have an opportunity to learn a series of life-changing tools and exercises that can help you to grow beyond your past.

Hatha Yoga

A Teacher Training part 1

For a balanced body and mind

The Hatha Yoga Training presents the ancient yogic science as a tool to bring awareness into the body and to integrate yogic practices into the modern everyday life.

The Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Part 1 introduces you to theoretical and practical side of the art of yoga. Learning the philosophy of four main limbs of Yoga – Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga and Bakthi Yoga, will give you a greater understanding of the root of Yoga and how that can bring transformation into your life. Through various sets of Asanas, meditation techniques, Pranayama practices and Surya Namaskar you can enhance the flexibility of the body and mind, bringing calmness and clear focus into the everyday life experience.

Hatha Yoga is a suitable practice for anyone who wishes to live with a calm mind, inner strength, a flexible body and through a better understanding of their body.

This two-week course is counted as the first part of the four-week certified Hatha Yoga Teacher Training.

Inner Yoga

Yoga of the Cosmic Being

Inner Yoga is a profound yoga and meditation technique developed as a practice to be integrated in everyday life. Inner Yoga is an evolutionary step in the field of Yoga, helping to expand oneself from a physical plane to a cosmic life experience that naturally evokes an inner transformation.
Inner Yoga is a subtle technique to bring back the connection of the body with nature, initiating a process of natural sensing and natural movements. It is a self-healing technique, which awakens the
inherent intelligence in the body, restoring the natural state of function in our body and allowing natural healing to take place. It works in various subtle layers, including chakras, elements and the cosmic attunement and is highly beneficial for the whole body.

Inner Yoga offers an entry point for a new life experience. Through practice of Inner Yoga life can shift to a lighter, authentic and positive experience of oneself, which will naturally radiate and be felt by one’s surrounding, revealing one’s inner beauty and grace.

This two-week intensive course is a basic Training to gain a deeper understanding of Inner Yoga. You will learn Inner Yoga asanas, meditation and sensing exercises as well as cosmic breathing techniques.

Jenny Viktorsson, SE

Slow Flow Yoga

Jenny Viktorsson guides us into a slow flow of movement, synchronized with the fullness and length of the breath. It is a practice which allows us to receive, nourish and be present, resulting in a stillness and peace of mind. What started as something for herself a long time ago, she now does for others by teaching yoga full time and being co-owner of a yoga studio – Yoga Kendra in Malmö Sweden. Jenny has taken different yoga teacher training courses in Sweden, Bali and India. These included Hatha Yoga with Daniel Strausser, Vinyasa Flow, Elemental Yoga Therapy, Mediyoga, Pregnanc Yoga, Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Anusara Inspired with Anja Bergh, Sama Yoga with Sky. For some time now, she has been working at the Ashiyana Yoga Retreat Center in Goa.

Anne Careen Engel

Nada Yoga – Lecture, Sound-Meditation & Workshop

Nada Yoga is a journey through sound, voice and inner movement tuning into the moment of life. It guides from simple sounding to singing and develops a bodily felt awareness of sound, allowing the mind to rest. Nada Yoga is ultimately affecting body and soul. It improves concentration, inner balance and focus abilities, it is distressing and gives peace. Anne-Careen Engel teaches Nada Yoga on the basis of Dhrupad, the most ancient style of North India, which has Nada Yoga as it’s core.

World music producer, multi-instrumentalist and expert in Sound Medicine

Kailash Kokopelli

A ceremonial sound healing concert with Kailash Kokopelli & Friends Jagannath, Vieux & Mariama Kokopelli is recognized as a cross-cultural bridge-maker, medicine person and humanitarian artist working with indigenous people around the planet. As a world music producer, multi-instrumentalist and expert in Sound Medicine he offers his instruments as prayer tools and keys to initiate self-healing processes. Doors to expanded perception are being unlocked through his mystic songs and medicine chants to commune with Source. The sound of his unique string instrument known as Tritar or Worldstick carries his Heartsongs, healing mantras and sung prayers into the world as an invitation to practice the Yoga of Song and sing along to co-create a unified energy field of grace where miracles can take place.

Sacred Earth in Concert, AU

Sacred Earth are one of Australia’s most esteemed artists in the ambient music genre. Their songs offer a connectedness with the deepest aspects of the self through the expansive nature of music.

The duo has been playing together for 14 years and made seven acclaimed albums. Prem with her captivating main vocals sings sacred mantras and heartfelt lyrics while playing the keyboard. Jethro adds vocal harmonies and soothing instrumental melodies by playing shakuhachi (Japanese flute), Indian bansuri, Irish tin, low whistles and acoustic guitar.

Sacred Earth offers their listeners the experience of an exceptionally moving event at their live performances.

Tina Malia singer, songwriter, instrumentalist

Tina Malia, US

A musical visionary in the world, Tina Malia uses her artistic gifts as singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and producer to express her radiant inner landscape with an exceptionally broad creative palette. Her voice, an instrument of exceptional purity, can be as tender as an angel’s sigh or as powerful as a deep ocean current. Tina’s all-encompassing worldview and artistic perspective have led her to studio and live work with a wide variety of iconic artists and her music is the winner of four Global Peace Song Awards.

Painting

This course will teach you many artistic skills and painting techniques and furthermore allowing you to share your individual expression and re-discoveries of your experiences of the beauty in life and nature.

When you explore nature through painting – colors, forms, patterns, textures, compositions and light – the expression of your unique view unfolds right in front of you.

To participate in this course you can be a complete beginner as you will have a chance to approach yourself as a blank canvas where there is no concept of what is the right way how to paint.

Enhancing the imagination and inspiration, painting offers the opportunity to freely and joyfully convey the experience of this very moment.

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There is strictly no alcohol, drugs or tobacco permitted anywhere at Divinya.
No open fires are allowed on the entire property (even inside tents), including barbeques, camp-fires, fireworks, lanterns, candles (cooking is allowed only in camper vans with permission)
No hunting and fishing. Please be respectful of wildlife and avoid scaring or chasing animals.
Swimming in the lake is permitted only in the designated area and is fully at people’s own risk. It is the parents’ full responsibility to keep their children safe in the property, incl. the lakes and forests.
Please keep your dog or other pets at home, unless you guarantee it is on a leash and will not disturb the wildlife in Divinya. If you do plan to bring your pet, you must inform us in advance to receive our permission.
It is the Foundation’s irrevocable right to refuse or eject people who show unruly behaviour or disturb the harmony of the event or place.
Please keep Divinya clean and neat for everyone to enjoy. All waste must be disposed of in the bins provided.
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A celebration full of authentic joy, devotion and freedom.

Join us this summer for a 9-day continuous celebration with over 200 programs – along with world-renowned artists, fellow seekers and yoga enthusiasts from all over the world.

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now available til March 31

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Join us at Yoga Mela 2019

Highlights

Food & Cafe

Foods & Cafes

Main Meals

Foods & Cafes

Heaven's Cafe

Foods & Cafes

Cherry Lane Creperie

Foods & Cafes

Gaia's Grace

Foods & Cafes

Krishna Lounge

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Own Tent

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Camper Van

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Luxury Tent

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