TENDING THE FIRE 2025 - A Writing Retreat for Women with Devavani

For four nights and five days May 12-16, 2025 we will immerse ourselves in the peace and beauty of nature with our days spent writing, listening, walking, laughing, singing, creating and connecting. This special one-of-a-kind retreat is calling forth an intimate group of six to eight women to share a deeply nurturing space of inquiry and acceptance as writers.

We begin Monday May 12th at 6pm with dinner. Participants are invited to arrive during daylight hours to our secluded mountain retreat at Little Yosemite Lodge. Retreat will end Friday May 16th at 11:00 am. Retreat fee covers all lodging, meals and program. Participants will share a retreat home and help prepare delicious organic plant-based meals together.

Earlybird price is $495 before April 20. Retreat fee is $595 after April 20. We will hold your spot with a non-refundable deposit of $200. Transportation is not included.

Check, Zelle or PayPal (add 4%) accepted.

Contact Devavani by email to reserve your spot or to ask any questions.

BEING RADIANCE

A MIDSUMMER WOMEN’S RETREAT WITH DEVAVANI AND SUPRIYA

JULY 24-28, 2025 AT LITTLE YOSEMITE LODGE, NORTH FORK, CA., 93643

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness” ~ John Muir

LIMITED TO 10 PARTICIPANTS:

· Deep Listening Experiences

· Devotional Voice with Devavani

· Hiking and Outdoor activities

· Community Inquiry

· Guided and Silent Meditation with Supriya

· Rest and Reset your nervous system

This mountain retreat offers intimate time away from your daily life and is designed to heighten awareness & conscious connection through your deep listening and embodiment. At all times, our retreat location welcomes the freshness and harmonious presence of the 5 elements of creation: Space, Air, Water, Earth, and hopefully the inner cool Fire.

Our philosophy of nurture plus nature seamlessly addresses body, mind and spirit through periods of silent meditation, devotional voice, community living, fun, celebration, and outdoor activity. Becoming Radiance happens when we “polish the mirror” with shared community experiences. Participants will share a retreat home, help prepare delicious fresh organic plant-based meals. These shared daily retreat experiences create the intimacy and dynamic connection we find to be so powerful for women in retreat.

For 4 nights and 5 days, Being Radiance Retreat’s all-inclusive earlybird fee of $695. covers all Lodging, Program and organic vegan meals. Transportation is not included.

Please visit the Contact page on this website to register your interest in this retreat.

A $200 deposit will hold your spot, (non-refundable). Please register by June 1st for early bird pricing! After June 1st, our retreat fee is $795.

RETREAT FACILITATORS:

SUPRIYA - Supriya Ishaya has dedicated her life to creating intentional focused environments in which human beings recognize and nurture their experience and concept of God. Supriya took eternal vows as an Ishaya monk in January 2005, at age 52. She is a Meditation Teacher of teachers, Visual Artist, Reiki Master, Breathwork Practitioner, Spiritual Transformation Facilitator, and a talented chef. See more at: www.ArtofAwareness.me

Supriya has also actively participated for 20 years in implementing the indigenous wisdom download that is currently happening all over the world, and shares this wisdom with others.She loves co-leading spiritual retreats with her women’s retreat partner Devavani.

DEVAVANI - Devavani is a lifelong singer, having grown up in a musical home. Her training includes teaching music and movement education to children; directing children’s & adult choirs; creating and producing the San Diego Conscious Music Fest in 2013 / 2015; Certification to teach Yoga of the Voice from Vox Mundi School of Sound and the Voice; and two decades experience as Music Director for Universal Spirit Center in San Diego, CA. where she is a talented inspirational singer and a well-loved devotional chant leader.

In 2023, Devavani published her first book of poetry, Falling Off the Moon, (available on Amazon)

Devavani and Supriya have been co-leading women’s retreats for the last ten years in many beautiful places where nature plays a powerful role in supporting their healing work.

See more at: www.Devavani-Arts.com