21 to 27 March 2027
Kundalini and a transformational journey, facing Koggala Lake.
Tejas, in Sanskrit, is inner radiance — the luminosity born of fire, clarity and vitality.
Some experiences open a parenthesis, then close again. Others settle so deeply that they come home with you. What matters is what each experience carries you through, and the feeling it leaves in you, long afterwards.
For five full days, we will walk through the elements, from water to fire. Water, to let things flow, to lay down what has weighed on you for too long, and to make space. Fire, to transform what needs transforming, and to rekindle what had gone out.
Beneath the surface, two roots feed this path from beginning to end: the nervous system, and the memories held in the subconscious.
The jungle, the lake and the ocean will be part of the journey itself: they are what will feed the fire. Many of our practices will be lived outdoors, in contact with the elements, far more than on a mat. Each day will take the shape the living world chooses to give it: we will listen to it, rather than impose a programme on it.
Two of us will walk with you, Lilie and Eugénie, with all our presence, so that you can let go in trust. Come as you are: the rest, we will move through together.
Each day carries a theme of its own, and rests on three moments: a Kundalini practice, a practice with Eugénie, and an experience in connection with the living world. At dawn, the Ayurvedic rituals; all day long, herbal infusions. The schedule itself stays open: we will build it with what is alive around us, and hand it to you when you arrive.
ArrivalSunday 21 March, afternoon
Crossing the threshold. The road is still in your body, with its weariness and the noise of the world left behind. The water welcomes, washes, unknots. Your breath slows, and something deep within finally whispers: here I am.
Day 1Monday 22 March
Feeling the earth beneath your feet, warm, patient, solid. Before anything else, finding again in the body the safety that life has sometimes made you forget. Everything else can be born from it: what feels safe at last dares to open.
Day 2Tuesday 23 March
Letting energy flow again, like a river held back for too long. Listening to the nervous system with tenderness, then stepping towards forgiveness, the kind that frees far more than it excuses. What was knotted comes loose, and the momentum returns.
Day 3Wednesday 24 March
Daring to receive. Slowly leaving a life wrung out of effort for a life that welcomes. Abundance and manifestation: feeling that desire is not a fault, and that what the heart calls for knows how to find its way.
Day 4Thursday 25 March
Standing at your true height, neither inflated nor diminished, and finally letting yourself be seen. Self-love, all the way into the reflection in the mirror: holding your own gaze, and finding gentleness where, for so long, there was only judgement.
Day 5Friday 26 March
Setting yourself down. Letting the week sink slowly into the body, like rain the earth drinks in. Choosing what comes home with you: a simple, faithful practice, light enough to keep every morning, deep enough to keep the flame alive.
DepartureSaturday 27 March, around noon
Giving thanks. Entrusting to the fire what has been crossed and no longer serves, and watching it burn away, without regret. Then leaving with a lighter heart, carrying the radiance that now only asks to shine: Tejas.
Our two approaches reach for the same place — the nervous system, the memories held in the subconscious — and get there differently. Through the body, the breath and sound on one side; through regulation and work on conditioning on the other. That is where this retreat draws its strength.
Radha Navjot Kaur
Kundalini Yoga
Founder of La maison VEDA, in the Charente and then in Sri Lanka, trained in the direct lineage of Yogi Bhajan. She teaches Kundalini, the yoga of awareness: a powerful practice that transforms quickly. The nervous system is regulated through the body, meditation and chant, and the memories of the subconscious are worked on — what is cleared there becomes mental clarity in daily life, and the capacity to set out.
Holistic transformation
Coach and trainer, founder of the Maison de Coaching Holistique and of the Spirit Gateway Institute. She created Neurosagesse, an approach bringing together ancestral wisdom, psychology and neuroscience, and has guided deep transformation for more than ten years. Here she brings nervous system regulation, work on the subconscious, constellations and collective healing sessions.
The approach Eugénie brings to this retreat unites the science of the body, nervous system regulation, experiential neuroscience and the wisdom of ancestral practices.
It does not claim to heal. It creates the conditions for the body to recover its natural capacity for self-regulation, homeostasis and regeneration. When the nervous system finds a genuine sense of safety, the body gradually releases what it no longer needs.
The mind settles. The body breathes. Energy moves. Emotions find their motion again.
An invitation out of survival mode — because the living holds an extraordinary intelligence: give it the right environment, and it finds its way back.
Your booking
Six nights facing Koggala Lake, full board, to move through the elements from water to fire.
21 to 27 March 2027
Arrival on Sunday afternoon Departure on Saturday around noon
Fly into Colombo, and mind the time difference. The group transfer from the airport, both ways, is included.
In the villas of La maison VEDA. Ideal for sharing the experience.
€435 deposit by bank transfer. Send us the proof by email to confirm.
Balance due one month before departure.
Cancellation: refund if your place is taken over, or in case of force majeure.
A space of your own, in a neighbouring chalet, at Tothupola or Jungle Breeze.
€495 deposit by bank transfer. Send us the proof by email to confirm.
Balance due one month before departure.
Cancellation: refund if your place is taken over, or in case of force majeure.
Yes. You apply online on the official Sri Lankan government site, and the answer comes back by email very quickly. Apply about a month before you leave: should you mistype something, you will have time to put it right.
I recommend SriLankan Airlines, direct from Paris–Charles de Gaulle to Colombo: around ten hours in the air.
Two hours and a quarter between Colombo and La maison VEDA. I can arrange the transfer, both ways.
Yes, very. The country is markedly calmer than India, and I live there most of the year.
November to April on our coast, in the south of the island.
No vaccination is required to enter Sri Lanka from Europe. A yellow fever certificate is only required of travellers arriving from a country where the disease circulates, or who have transited more than twelve hours through one — there is no yellow fever in Sri Lanka. For everything else, ask your doctor or a travel health clinic.
Vegetarian and entirely gluten-free — I insist on that, being intolerant myself.
No. Drinking water is provided on site, there is nothing for you to buy.
Yes, and it works very well.
Every day. Bed linen and bath towels are changed every five days.
There are, but the window is short: a quarter of an hour at nightfall. After that you forget them.
Changing money is easy, but withdrawing rupees on site is simpler still.
Sinhala and Tamil. We welcome you in French and English.
I am on site from October to May.
Yes, laundry can be done at La maison VEDA.
No. Kundalini classes adapt to everyone: you can slow down, pause, come back. Finding your own limit is yours to do, and nobody will push you past it.
Very easily, and many do. Participants are most often women between thirty and sixty.
Nothing for the practice: mats, blocks and bolsters are waiting for you on the shala.
No. You will be invited to every class and every workshop, but you remain free to come and go, inside the retreat as outside it.
Yes, it is reserved for the group for the whole retreat.