Realize Your Dharma: Embody Your Soul’s Destiny

RETREAT BY INVITED PRESENTER

Join us for a four-day, three-night deep dive into the innermost chambers of your heart in order to uncover your Soul’s inherent nature, purpose, and path in this lifetime. Guided by Vedaji, a lifelong yogi raised as a monk, you will learn strategies to uncover your truth and discover the beauty of what lies within. Using techniques derived from the ancient traditions of Bhakti yoga and Vedanta (self-inquiry), you will be guided on a path to help reveal your true nature in order to live a more purpose-filled life.

This is a not-for-profit event. 100% of net program fees* from the retreat go directly to Food4Lives, a non-profit founded by Vedaji that offers warm vegetarian meals, basic necessities, and loving connection to unhoused and underserved populations throughout the world.

*Accommodations fees go to the Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing, a 501c3.

“These retreats are life changing! To be in an environment with the same spirited souls as yours, coming from a place of love is a wonderful and amazing experience.”

“Vedaji’s retreats are like none other I have ever experienced. His wisdom and teachings are Divine messages from the heart. Vedaji doesn’t just teach, he lives the yoga philosophies and teachings in all that he does and all that he is. His genuine desire to help people heal is authentic and inspiring. Time spent with Vedaji will transform you and touch your heart.”

“Through Vedaji’s guidance, I have found ways to live my dharma in every moment. The overwhelming joy, freedom, and peace that knowing my dharma provides is infinitely spiritually uplifting.”

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Dharma: a word so deep it is difficult to summarize cohesively. Dharma goes beyond your life purpose; it is your Soul’s inherent nature over many lifetimes that is upheld and supported by the Divine. Everyone has dharma, but due to past conditioning, traumas, and outside influences, we have lost touch with ourselves and our true nature. Dharma is inherent in everyone; one must strip the layers of past conditioning and deep impressions (samskaras) in order to uncover it.

This retreat will be a deep dive into your heart in a small, relaxed group setting. Utilizing the Vedanta practice of self-inquiry, you will be guided through a series of questions that will help you to uncover your true nature while being supported by a loving, open, and honest community of fellow seekers. Through the practice of self-inquiry, you will be guided to understand the depths and impediments to discovering your dharma, as dharma is the deepest layer of your being.

In order to uncover these truths, we will partake in some of the following activities:

• Guided Self-Inquiry Sessions: The practice of yoga is not about someone telling you what to do and think, it is about you uncovering your own inherent nature deep within the heart to then live from that space. To assist in that process, you will be provided with a set of questions throughout the weekend in order to help you access what already resides deep within your being. 

• Journaling: The practice of journaling is recommended to successfully practice self-inquiry. Writing hand to paper allows you to access and utilize the five senses, needed in order to deeply release what is covering your heart. A journal will be provided to utilize throughout the weekend and beyond.

• Small group sharing and breakout sessions: We invite you to share what you have learned through your self-inquiry with a supportive, loving community of like-minded spiritual seekers. Sharing either one on one or in a small group is also an important part of the self-inquiry process.

• Agni Hotra (fire ceremony): Vedaji will guide us through a traditional, Vedic-inspired fire ceremony that will help you to uncover the light within and release the samskaras, vasanas, and vrittis preventing you from accessing your true nature and truth.

• Breath of Detachment: This signature breathwork practice guided by Vedaji will help you to release what is holding you back from your true Self. This is a deep form of purification that has the power for immense transformation if you allow it.

• Yoga Asana & Meditation: The physical practice of yoga will be offered throughout the weekend. Classes, while optional, will be gentle in nature and accessible to all. Guided meditations that assist in accessing your dharma will be provided throughout the course.

• Kirtan: A musical mantra experience consisting of call and response chanting of Sanskrit mantras in order to call in various Divine energies. We will offer approximately three kirtans throughout the weekend, each sure to stir up a love welling from deep within your heart. 

• Loving Community: The heart of Vedaji retreats center around the formation of a loving, supportive spiritual community (sangha). Expect a weekend filled with love, connection, sharing, and an overwhelming sense of joy that comes from connecting with others in a deep and meaningful way.

• Short Hikes and Time in Nature: Spending time outdoors in nature helps us to uncover the truth of our being and to understand our own light and interconnectedness. Weather-dependent, we will spend time each day outdoors whether it be during yoga classes or meditation, hiking, or simply having a session under the trees. Connecting with nature helps us to access ourSelves.

Discovering your dharma will allow you to live a life on purpose. It is a process of Self-realization. While we are all inherently spiritual beings living in a material world, by uncovering your dharma, you can live a life on purpose rather than living your life unconsciously guided by your traumas. Rather than being guided by samskaras (impressions), vasanas (desires/inclinations), and vrittis (beliefs) which have accumulated over time, you will be guided by a force higher than yourself; you will live a life guided by the Divine. There is no greater power.

What you will take home

• A more clear understanding of your true nature
• A greater sense of purpose and fulfillment than you have ever had
• Insight into your Soul’s dharma 
• Techniques and yogic-inspired practices to uplift your daily life that can be incorporated into your daily spiritual practice (sadhana)
• A new global family and community of spiritual seekers

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Time with Vedaji and a loving community of fellow yogis and spiritual seekers; a global spiritual family
• An intimate, small group setting
• Interactive sessions including ample time for Q&A
• Delicious locally sourced vegetarian and vegan meals
• Outdoor yoga, meditation, and additional sessions (weather-dependent)
• Deep introspection through self-inquiry practices
• Meditative & ecstatic kirtans
• Easy, relaxing hike and time outdoors (weather-dependent)
• Free time to experience the grounds, contemplate, and relax
• Option to extend stay on Personal Retreat
• 100% of net proceeds go to the non-profit organization Food4Lives

OPEN TO ALL

There are no prerequisites for this program; it is appropriate for meditators at all levels and those simply interested in exploring the teachings.

SCHEDULE

(subject to change)

Thursday, July 10

Friday, July 11

Saturday, July 12

Sunday, July 13