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Cosa aspettarsi
Preparati per un'esperienza stimolante e rigenerante immersa nella comunità, nella creatività e nell'azione ecologica
presso Utsava Maa 2025.
Il tuo soggiorno a Utsava Maa
Immersi nei tranquilli dintorni di Shri Jasnath Asan, un ashram storico nella regione di Marwar nel Rajasthan, gli ospiti di Utsava Maa si troveranno immersi in un ambiente di supporto dedicato a promuovere connessioni profonde e dialoghi significativi. Il festival fonde la tradizionale ospitalità indiana con intuizioni globali contemporanee, creando un equilibrio armonioso tra attività di gruppo strutturate e momenti di quiete e riflessione. I partecipanti soggiorneranno in guest house appositamente preparate, progettate per offrire comfort e semplicità, facilitando un ambiente riposante essenziale per l'introspezione e la costruzione della comunità.
Aspettatevi un programma arricchente di sessioni di yoga giornaliere, workshop interattivi, spettacoli accattivanti, discorsi stimolanti e pratiche di meditazione condivise, il tutto attentamente progettato per rafforzare la resilienza interiore e incoraggiare azioni pratiche sulla crisi climatica. Con pasti vegetariani biologici nutrienti ispirati all'Ayurveda, opportunità di imparare mestieri tradizionali e serate piene di scambi culturali, i partecipanti saranno incoraggiati a tornare a casa ispirati e attrezzati per guidare un cambiamento di impatto nelle loro comunità.
Morning
5:30am - 1pm
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Yogi Tea & Sunrise Yoga
Start each morning gently with warming yogi tea followed by a nourishing yoga class led by inspiring teachers. -
Breakfast & Opening Ceremonies
After yoga, enjoy a healthy breakfast before morning offerings, keynotes, or opening rituals with honoured guests and elders. -
Film Screenings, Ceremonial Sessions & Key Note Talks
Mornings often include documentary screenings, thought-provoking presentations, and group experiences, such as:-
Environmental & spiritual film showings
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Keynote addresses from Indian and international women leaders
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Storytelling, spiritual teachings, and live Q&As
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Afternoon
1pm - 6:30pm
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Delicious Vegetarian Lunch
A wholesome vegetarian community lunch is served daily — a time to rest, connect and digest the experiences of the morning. -
Workshops & Circles
Afternoons are filled with hands-on learning and deep connection through: Creative writing, healing, and wellness workshops, arts, craft, and dance sessions, presentations -
Women's wisdom circles
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Campus explorations and film screenings
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Ayurvedic learning and spiritual practices
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Chai Breaks & Community Time
Tea breaks throughout the day allow for mingling, reflection & rest. -
Yoga Practice
Late afternoon yoga to re-ground and unwind.
Evening
6:30pm - 10:00pm
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Sacred Puja & Musical Offerings
Each evening begins with a devotional puja and sacred music — from traditional mantra chanting to kirtan and candlelit rituals. -
Shared Dinner
Share a nourishing meal with new friends under the Rajasthan sky. -
Cultural Performances, Films & Dance, celebrate into the night, with classical & folk dance performances, indoor & outdoor film screenings, storytelling, theatre, open dance night with DJs & live music.
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Mantra & Closing Circle
End each day with soft mantra chanting, satsang or meditation. -
Communal Fire, Singing & Story Sharing
Gather around the fire beneath the stars — a collective space for singing, poetry, spontaneous music, and sharing stories.
Full Programme Coming Soon
Our full festival programme is blossoming behind the scenes — check back soon to see what’s unfolding. Sign up to our mailing list to be the first to know when the schedule is released and stay updated on all things Utsava Maa.
Informazioni pratiche per gli ospiti
Archana Chauhan
The festival was so amazing – the energy and connection and having [all the international visitors] there, not understanding a word of Hindi but diving into the group anyway!
It was magical!
Sneha Gupta
I live here, and yet the ashram touched me so deeply too, even after I have gone to so many temples, ashrams, and places full of spirituality. Guruji’s ashram has a very special magic.
For one, it has drawn so many of us to this one incredible place - in very similar ways.
I loved it!
Nancy Lorraine
Oh, the spirit of sisterhood! So much to learn from, rejoice & share and feel along with. There may not be enough names to share here, but please know it’s all there in the heart. Creativity, divinity, and ecology, as examples of being, from all corners of the world at Utsava Maa! Thank you so much.
Donna Waight
Walking into the ashram at Shri Jasnath Asan felt like walking into Mother Earth and then letting her wrap her arms around my tender body as she gently rocked my cares away. She fed my soul, she warmed my heart and she opened my eyes.
I am forever grateful.
I miss you.
Elizabeth Tonheim
The experience exceeded my expectations. I met incredible women from around world. We talked, did art, learned about important causes, shopped, did yoga, danced, ate delicious food, provided a safe space for each other to share their hearts, did workshops, sang songs. It was togetherness Maximus and I LOVED every second. The rooms are large. I felt safe.
It was awesome.
Clarissa Thompson
Not only did I have the opportunity to teach, but I got to attend other classes, lectures, workshops, conversations and independent film screenings. The Utsava Maa festival opened my eyes and heart to all I could be doing to affect change and help the world heal. I consider it an honour to have been given the opportunity to share my passions and cannot wait to attend in the future!
Clarissa Mae
I just returned from a deeply immersive week at Shri Jasnath Asan and the Utsava Maa Global Women's Festival in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan. I don't think I have ever had such an experience — in that week I had more heart-felt, eye-locked moments, and embraces like you give to someone you have known your whole life. I cried tears of fear, love and sorrow.
I even had a moment of pure Enchantment… during our New Year's Eve celebration, when all the Western and local Indian women danced together under the Red Tent — different languages and cultures aside,
we were all one in that tent.
Each inhale and exhale I took this past week was full of such energy and purpose. I’m trying to approach each moment as tenderly as I did in India — to open my heart, lean into inspiration, and nurture my body, mind and soul as I transition back.
To all my sisters — each of you touched my soul.
I hope we see each other again someday,
in this life or the next.
Michelle Kennedy
I'm so glad I attended the pre-festival; three days of settling in, making friends and learning in an intimate space, about what was happening in the environment and who was recording it. Meeting the people involved in making the films and starting the refuges and schools that are making improvements in the lives of the disadvantaged people was a highlight.
This time was excellent in preparing me for the festival; a time of listening, sharing, learning, bonding, singing and dancing. All those things came together in a place of love and acceptance. I've never felt such a free and easy connection with people, and I respect each one - all ages, all nationalities.
This was an utterly safe place to come together and share ideas with other women, on how we might save the world!
Thank you Utsava Maa for giving me the tools to plant more seeds.
Carla Simmons
Women are generally the choosers of food and nurturers of the family. Every woman wants the health of her family and to have that, we must have the health of the land. I learned about biodiversity, plants with medicinal qualities, the adverse effects of too much narrowing of choice and overuse of genetic modification and pesticides. My feelings have changed due to the knowledge I gained at Utsava Maa because I now realise that the people who have been making the choices in the world - the ones with the power - have made too many economy-based and selfish choices, and the environment is sick as a result.
Women coming together in the spirit of community have a strong nurturing instinct and are much more likely to look ahead for the health of the environment, our children and our grandchildren. An alliance of women, as seeded at Utsava Maa, has the capacity to transform the local food chain for generations to come.
I’m so glad I met all these fabulous women who have helped me embark on this new stage of my life.
Thank you.
Lilya Sabatier – Yoga teacher, Bodyworker and Women’s circle Facilitator
“When I saw the promotion, I knew I had to go. Why? No idea! But my body knew! After a challenging 2019, I needed a breath of fresh air! And it was that and much more. Spending a week with a hundred women in an ashram in a desert ranks among one of the most memorable, warm and beautiful experiences I’ve ever had. This festival was a deep healing of the feminine for me and I think for many women who attended the festival.
Just being in each other’s presence in a safe environment allowed us to let go and heal many wounds. To be surrounded by so much love and nurturing energy, by so many women from all around the world, helped me make peace with women and my womanhood. It was so liberating to be among sisters. To allow ourselves to relax, to be unkempt, imperfect. To share stories, meals, painting sessions, yoga, ceremonies, workshops, rooms, bathrooms, colds and toilet paper. It was liberating to laugh and cry together. It was a profound vision of what our world could look like if more women around the world unite and heal… and more men too.
It was remarkable to be among women who are all walking their path, growing and learning along the way. It was inspiring and comforting for me to see that there are other women 'like me' around the world and that I’m not alone in the vision I hold for my life and this world. I have met women who I know will be friends for a long time, some of which I intend to co-create with. The world truly needs more spaces and places where people can come together to envision new ways of being and living, and cooperate in making them materialize.
I feel forever grateful and blessed to have been part of this magical experience and very happy that I could share my practice of yoga every morning as well as hold space for the healing of other women, whether through conversations, hugs, simply listening, making tea, smiling, or ceremony space.
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Sappiamo che partecipare a Utsava Maa può sembrare un grande passo, che richiede coraggio. Siamo qui per aiutarti a rendere il viaggio il più agevole e di supporto possibile. In vista del festival, ospiteremo incontri online mensili aperti a tutti, dove condivideremo maggiori informazioni, risponderemo alle tue domande e inizieremo a costruire la nostra splendida comunità Utsava Maa 2025. Segui il link di registrazione per iscriverti a una sessione imminente e unisciti alla nostra mailing list per ricevere aggiornamenti e inviti.