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.
Hover over highlighted squares on the calander and click to find detailed retreat list
Introduction To Ayurveda Workshop with Sala @ Senses Yoga Midigama
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 with Sala @ Harmony Ahangama
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.
Restorative Yoga & Sound Journey
Restorative Yoga & Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing
with Sala & Prashani
🗓 Friday 23rd
🕟 4:30 PM onwards
📍 Lotus Yoga Shala
This week we call in the frequency of union —
the meeting of Shiva & Shakti,
the masculine and feminine currents within us,
remembering how to work, create, love, and live with ease.
This is a deeply restorative session that invites:
• peace in the nervous system
• softening of inner conflict
• alignment of polarities
• surrender into your unique gifts
Especially nourishing for creatives, visionaries, artists of all kinds, and queer bodies —
for those tired of forcing, pushing, proving —
and ready to let life move through them instead.
Supported by bolsters, breath, guided rest, and the healing resonance of Tibetan bowls,
this is a space to lie down, receive, and allow a new paradigm to land.
Come as you are.
Leave a little more whole.
✨ Limited spaces
✨ Sign up required
Sound Healing certification & training for beginners
🕉️ SOUND HEALING CERTIFICATION FOR BEGINNERS
A gentle, grounded introduction to sound healing — for personal use, self-care, and nervous system balance.
This is not about performing or becoming a professional.
It’s about learning how to listen, feel, and use sound consciously.
✨ What you’ll receive
• Clear foundations of sound healing
• Hands-on singing bowl practice
• Chakra + sound basics
• A self-healing sound routine for home
• A deeply restorative mini sound bath
• Certificate of completion (personal practice)
• Herbal refreshments & chai
🌿 Perfect for
Beginners • Yoga & meditation practitioners • Wellness seekers • Anyone drawn to sound as self-care
🕰️ Duration: 4 hours
💰 Investment: USD 100 per person
📍 Location: Lotus Surf & Wellness, Ahangama
🎟️ Limited spaces
Come learn a beautiful, practical skill you can return to again and again.
Comment SOUND or DM to book ✨
Restorative Yoga & Sound Journey
Om Mani Padme Hum – Quan Yin Sound & Restorative Journey
with Sala & Prashani
In the fire and movement of a new year, we gather to soften.
This restorative yoga and Tibetan bowl sound healing session is guided by the compassionate frequency of Quan Yin — the embodiment of mercy, listening, and unconditional love. Quan Yin teaches us that true strength is found in tenderness, and that deep transformation arises not from force, but from allowing.
Through gentle restorative yoga postures, mantra, and immersive sound, the body is invited into profound rest. The nervous system settles. The heart opens. The mind quietens. Sound becomes a listening field — meeting what is present without judgement, and holding it with care.
At the center of this journey is the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum, a sacred vibration that awakens compassion within the heart and reminds us of the jewel that lives inside the lotus of our human experience.
This session is especially supportive for:
those feeling emotionally or energetically stretched
creatives and sensitives navigating a fast-paced world
anyone longing to rest, release, and be gently held
No prior experience is needed. Come as you are, and allow yourself to be supported by stillness, sound, and softness.
Date: 16 January 2026
Time: 3:30 PM onwards
Location: Lotus Yoga Shala, Ahangama
Facilitators: Sala & Prashani
Practice includes: Restorative Yoga · Mantra · Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing
Spaces are limited.
Restorative Yoga & Sound Journey
Restorative Yoga & Tibetan Sound Healing — Ganesha Frequency
This restorative journey calls upon the steady, benevolent frequency of Ganesha — the remover of obstacles, the guardian of thresholds, the wisdom of beginning again.
Through stillness, breath, mantra, and sound, we explore
the wisdom of truth
the wisdom of surrender
and the remembering that obstacles dissolve not through force or effort,
but through sweet, seated surrender.
Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha
A mantra of devotion, grounding, and inner alignment — inviting clarity where there was confusion, ease where there was strain.
What to expect
Restorative yoga to soften the body and quiet the nervous system
Guided meditation & mantra led by Sala
Tibetan bowl sound healing & frequency activation by Prashani
A deeply grounding space to release resistance and allow life to move again
Details
Friday 9th January
3:30 PM onwards
📍 Lotus Surf & Wellness
Contribution: LKR 6,000
Sign up required — pay on arrival
Limited spaces available
This is an invitation to stop pushing.
To stop trying to fix.
To sit, soften, and allow grace to do the work.
Come rest in the field of Ganesha.
Introduction To Ayurveda Workshop with Sala at Arise
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.
Restorative Yoga & Sound Journey
Green Tara Frequency Ceremony • Restorative Yoga, Meditation and Tibetan Sound Healing
On the second day of the New Year we gather to awaken the fearless tenderness of Green Tara, the compassionate feminine force of protection, courage and loving action. This sacred evening weaves guided meditation, deeply nourishing restorative yoga and Tibetan sound bowl and vibrational healing with Prashani, creating a field of devotion, truth, softness, joy and power.
For those ready to begin the year grounded, brave, held and unapologetically alive, this ceremony is a calling.
Restorative Yoga & Sound Journey
Guided Restorative Meditation & Sound Healing Journey
An intimate gathering inviting deep release, surrender, and inner realignment. Guided by Sala through meditative rest and the Medicine Buddha mantra, followed by a 16 Tibetan bowl sound activation by Prashani. This session supports nervous system regulation, embodied healing, and trust in the body’s natural intelligence.
Live Flute Sound Journey & Guided Meditation
live flute sound and guided meditation, this evening invites the nervous system to soften, the heart to unclench, and the body to remember safety. Krishna’s flute is approached not as mythology or performance, but as breath moving through emptiness — a living metaphor for coherence, devotion, and surrender without collapse.
The flute becomes breath.
Breath becomes listening.
Listening becomes love remembering itself.
This is not a workshop, ceremony, or performance.
It is a listening.
A remembering.
A gentle return to the heart.
Decolonizing Yoga: A Conscious Conversation & Guided Workshopwith Sala
Discover a transformative Decolonizing Yoga workshop for teachers, healers, and facilitators committed to honoring yoga’s roots, dismantling colonial narratives, understanding the Yoga Sutras, and teaching with lineage, integrity, and liberation. Learn how to navigate cultural appropriation, ethics, and embodied awareness in modern yoga spaces.
Restorative Yoga & Sound Journey
Restorative Yoga & Sound Journey
Shedding the Year & Entering a New Frequency
Friday 5th December • 4 PM
Lotus Surf & Wellness, Ahangama
As we move toward the dawn of a new year, the energy invites us to shed what no longer fits, soften the body’s armour, and drop gently into the frequency of ease, grace, and renewal.
This event is a slow, deeply nourishing collaboration between Sala (restorative yoga) and Prashani (sound healing) — created to support the physical, emotional, and energetic release that December naturally brings.
Trusting Your Body — A Restorative Sound Journey
Sunday 30th November
1:30pm to 3:30pm at Arise Hiriketiya
Facilitators: Sala & Prashani
Investment: LKR 5,000
Your body has a wisdom far older than your thoughts.
When life moves too fast, that wisdom fades beneath tension, noise, and survival patterns.
This gathering is an invitation to return to safety, softness, and trust — gently, honestly, and without force.
Trusting Your Body is a restorative sound journey guided by Sala & Prashani, created for anyone longing to slow down and reconnect with the nervous system’s natural rhythm of ease.
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