Mantra and Nada Yoga Retreat
Jan 26-31, 2025
Listen deeply ~ Sing heartfully ~ Free your voice ~
Listen deeply ~ Sing heartfully ~ Free your voice ~
What are Mantra and Nāda Yoga?
Yoga means union, melting our individuality with the cosmic Self.
Mantra is a tool (tra) to protect and free our conditioned mind (manas).
Nāda refers to the primordial sound, out of which everything originates.
Mantra & nāda yoga are a path of Union through sacred word and sound.
Why?
Because you are aware that Mantra and Vibration are an incredibly powerful support for healing, transforming, awakening to consciousness and opening your heart.
You are aware of it all and, therefore, you could definitely benefit from a clear roadmap and the proper tools to walk this path in a deep and genuine way.
This is the goal of this training: to lay for you the foundations of a life-long sonic journey into the Self.
How may this training transform you?
From a committed completion of this training, we believe you’ll be able to:
Develop a personal mantra and sound practice that’s stable, centered and effective
Commit to a transformative path of objective and compassionate self-study
Cultivate a serene trust and devotion in life and its unfoldments
What’s included?
All the live teachings with Víctor Sakshin
5 nights Accommodation
3 daily delicious and nutritious meals
WiFi connection
Water, tea, coffee served throughout the day
Course Manual:
A physical booklet with the core concepts, sheets, and all the mantras (properly transcribed and translated) covered in the training
Audio recordings of all the mantras covered in the training
Certificate upon successful completion
The foundation for a life-long journey
This training works as a stand alone course for those who wish to become proper mantra and nāda yoga practitioners. Furthermore, it will lay the foundations that will allow you to access more advanced trainings in due time:
Foundation (the initiation)
Become a genuine Mantra and Nāda Yoga Practitioner
Deepening (the confirmation)
Become an advanced Mantra and Nāda Yoga Practitioner
Proficiency (the call to serve)
Become an apt Mantra and Nāda Yoga Facilitator and Teacher
The power of retreat and community
During the training we will be sharing in a retreat format. This gives you the opportunity to experience a full, undistracted immersion into the field of practice and a natural and healing atmosphere.
Furthermore, the co-living offers a unique opportunity to be together in community, thus creating potential bonds of friendship and alliances. As we say in the yogic tradition, we will develop satsanga: being together in the face of truth, and empowering each other’s awakening through our shared presence.
Program
Throughout this intensive foundational training we will be covering a wide variety of essential topics and practices for helping you develop the proper foundations of an effective and genuine Mantra and Nāda Yoga personal practice.
Deep listening meditation:
Discovering and aligning to the vibrational foundations of the universe through external and internal listening. The witness consciousness.
Sanskrit sounds, the anatomy and physiology of mantra:
In-depth study of the Sanskrit alphabet phonetics following the IAST (International Alphabet for Sanskrit Transliteration), tapping into the secrets of its 50 phonemes as the core seed (bīja) mantras
Types of Mantras and the building of a Mantra Repertoire:
Fundamental nāma (name) and bīja (seed) mantras for japa (loop repetition)
Invocations
Kirtan, devotional group singing
Selection of some important sūtras and sacred scripture verses
Instruments and tools to accompany the practice of mantra:
Traditional (tanpura, shruti box, bell, drum…) and non-traditional (handpan, guitar, kalimba…) instruments and their use in mantra and nāda yoga practice
The japa māla: different types and how to utilize it properly
Mudrā practices to accompany your mantra recitation.
Core philosophical and theoretical principles of mantra and nāda yoga:
The six rule-principles of mantra recitation
The four levels of sound and their application to mantra and listening meditation
The core understanding of what yoga is and how mantra and nāda come into the picture.
A sample daily itinerary (subject to change):
5:30-6:45 – Deep listening nāda yoga and mantra japa sādhana
6:45-7:30 – Gentle āsana and prāṇāyāma practice to begin the day
7:30-9:30 – Breakfast break (eating, resting, free time)
9:30-10:30 – Morning class (principles of chanting, mythology and context, yogic wisdom, explanations)
10:30-12:00 – Morning practice (mantra ceremony)
12:00-14:30 – Lunch break (eating, resting, free time)
14:30-15:30 – Afternoon class (principles of chanting, mythology and context, yogic wisdom, explanations)
15:30-17:00 – Evening practice (mantra ceremony)
17:00 onwards – Free time for walking, temple visits, journaling, silent integration, dinner, and early rest for rejuvenation
For whom?
This retreat is suitable for any person interested in meditation, sound and inner growth, regardless of your previous background.
If you are new to this path, it will be a very good way to initiate a profound journey and receive all the necessary tools for it.
If you are an experienced music, soundhealing or yoga practitioner, it can bring intense insight and breakthroughs in your already existing path, along with lots of extra depth into the practice.
In short: this retreat is for anyone who feels the call to connect with inner peace and silence through the way of mantra and sound as a whole.
You may ask:
“Do I need to be a singer or a musician to engage?”
And the answer is:
“If you can breathe, you can sing. If you can hear, you can listen.”
The Facilitator
Victor Sakshin, a visiting artist from Tenerife, Canary Islands, is a musician, Integral Yoga teacher, and Ayurvedic therapist specializing in Vedic Astrology (jyotiṣa) and mantra healing.
After completing a bachelor's and master's degree in Philosophy between Madrid and Paris, since 2008 he has dedicated his life to the practice, study, and teaching of Yoga, focusing chiefly on meditation through mantras and ecstatic music, perennial wisdom and kundalini tantra.
Between 2014 and 2020 he lived in a gurukula residential school in India, completely devoted to the practice of dhrupad (the oldest and most meditative form of Indian classical music) under the guidance of his mentors, the Gundecha Brothers.
He regularly offers group and individual sessions, courses, workshops, concerts, and retreats between Spain, Portugal, Belgium, India, and Brazil.
Accommodation Options
The recommended way to enjoy all the benefits of this retreat would be to stay with us in the same premises as A Sunlit Path.
We offer a variety of options (shown below) for you to choose from.
15% “Early Bird” discount! Last date: Nov 25, 2024
Single Occupancy Room
Only one person in an entire room
All rooms are well lit and have attached bathrooms
This price is per person
Double Occupancy Room
Two persons share a room
All rooms are well lit and have attached bathrooms
This price is per person
Triple Occupancy Room
Three persons share a room
All rooms are well lit and have attached bathrooms
This price is per person
Please note that each room is unique and may not be exactly as shown in the above images.
If you are visiting India for the first time, please keep an open mind and remain flexible as it may be different from your expectations or previous travel experience. We invite you trust the process and surrender to the unknown.
For more information and registration
email info@asunlitpath.org
or Whatsapp +91-8870988843