Retreats, Events & Workshops
An open gateway to my retreats, ceremonies, rituals, and community offerings.
This page is the living calendar of everything I share — my own retreats, workshops, and ceremonies, as well as special gatherings co-created with fellow artists, yogis, and visiting practitioners at Salasbananas Yoga & Art Studio in Talpe & other venues.
Here you’ll find:
Seasonal retreats and immersions in Sri Lanka’s most sacred landscapes.
Workshops and wisdom circles on yoga, art, queer wellness, and ancestral practices.
Ceremonies and rituals for individuals, couples, and groups.
Talk circles, performances, and visiting teacher events hosted in my studio.
This calendar below is your guide — click on any highlighted date, or scroll down bellow to view full details and reserve your spot.
Scroll down to find detailed retreat list
Introduction To Ayurveda Workshop with Sala
Return to Natural Harmony
Discover the ancient science of life and the wisdom of balance through the lens of Ayurveda. This workshop helps you reconnect with your elemental constitution, remembering how to live in rhythm with nature by tuning into ancestral wisdom coded deep within.
Introduction To Ayurveda Workshop
Return to Natural Harmony
Discover the ancient science of life and the wisdom of balance through the lens of Ayurveda. This workshop helps you reconnect with your elemental constitution, remembering how to live in rhythm with nature by tuning into ancestral wisdom coded deep within.
YIN YOGA & SOUND HEALING: Chakra Healing for Nagula Chavithi
Nagula Chavithi is a Vedic celebration of transformation, shedding, and renewal.
As the serpent releases its old skin, we too are invited to release what no longer serves us and rise into new energy, clarity, and purpose.
✨ Awaken your Kundalini energy gently and safely
🌊 Cleanse your Nadis (energy channels)
💫 Recharge your life force and vision
🐍 Connect with the transformative Naga vibration
Catherine will guide you through the gentle depths of Yin Yoga, inviting body and breath into release and renewal. Prashani will weave a sound journey with Tibetan bowls, harmonizing energy, calming the mind, and opening the heart.
SHADOW INTEGRATION WORKSHOP
🖤 SHADOW INTEGRATION WORKSHOP 🖤
Tuesday, 21 Oct | 11 AM – 1 PM
📍 Salasbananas Yoga & Art Studio, Talpe
This workshop is not for everyone.
It’s for those who dare to meet themselves: fully and fiercely.
Guided by the wisdom of Kālī Ma, we’ll explore how to transform through love… To face the darkness within and reclaim it as power.
This is your initiation into radical self-responsibility and remembrance.
Limited spots.
Book and confirm your place at www.salasbananas.com
or comment here to reserve your spot.
Facilitated by Devie Jagesar & Sala
Contribution: LKR 3000
Dīpāvalī: the Festival of Light.
Monday, 20 Oct | 5–8 PM, join us for a Dīpāvalī New Moon Ceremony – The Festival of Light 🪔 at Salasbananas Yoga & Art Studio.
We’ll gather for storytelling, intention setting, mantra, music, sweets & tea — celebrating the light within us and all around us.
✨ Wear white or festive colours
🍎 Bring fruits or flowers to offer
🎶 Instruments welcome
Full Moon Yin & Sound Bath
This Full Moon, surrender into stillness and sound. 🌕✨
Catherine will guide you through the gentle depths of Yin Yoga, inviting body and breath into release and renewal. Prashani will weave a sound journey with Tibetan bowls, harmonizing energy, calming the mind, and opening the heart.
Awakening Durga
Sacred Sovereignty & Boundaries
Join us under the October Full Moon at Salasbananas for a powerful workshop inspired by the story of Goddess Durga slaying Mahishasura. Guided by Devi and Sala, we will explore the wisdom of boundaries through story, movement, and shared practice. This session invites you to reconnect with your sacred sovereignty, honor your body’s truth, and rise in empowered clarity.
Introduction To Ayurveda Workshop (Copy)
Yoga Beyond Asana
Yoga is not only about asana — yoga is about life.
In this wisdom workshop, we’ll journey through the eightfold path, an ancient map guiding body, mind, and spirit into union. 🌿
Ceremony of the Heart
A sacred day with the wise & intuitive medicine of Grandfather.
This is a space to soften the nervous system, to let go of defenses, and to meet your own heart with love and vulnerability. Through guidance, prayer, sound, movement and community, we walk together into clarity, safety, and renewal. No expectations — only intention and openness.
Saturday, September 20th · 8 AM – 8 PM
Facilitated by Yonel & Sala · Contribution: $222
(Location shared upon registration)
Radha & krishna Pooja
A heart-centered community gathering of devotion, music, movement, and connection.
Join us in circle — where devotion meets co-regulation, and love reveals itself through you.
A collaborative workshop by The Temple of Tara & Salasbananas