About the Retreat
This deeply experiential immersion is designed to guide you beyond ordinary states of perception and into a direct experience of the clarity, peace, and inner radiance of your true nature.
Through meditation, mystery school teachings, esoteric practices, breathwork, and subtle body cultivation, you will learn to quiet the restless mind, dissolve limiting patterns of conditioning, and awaken deeper dimensions of your being.
As inner stillness and clarity begin to emerge, we turn our attention toward the refinement of the subtle body and the energetic field. Ancient wisdom traditions have long understood that consciousness and energy are inseparably connected. Therefore, working with one naturally expands and elevates the other. As the mind becomes clearer, the energy field naturally becomes more coherent, and as the energy field becomes more refined, consciousness naturally expands, opening you to entirely new dimensions of awareness and reality.
While traditional mindfulness retreats focus solely on calming the mind, Awakening the Body of Light goes a step further. We work directly with the deeper architecture of your energy system. As we refine your auric field and clear stagnant energetic blocks, your consciousness naturally expands.
You will return home not just rested, but fundamentally rewired, holding a higher frequency of presence, clarity, and personal power in your everyday life.
You will be introduced to powerful methods of energy purification, transmutation, and subtle body development that support greater presence, energetic harmony, and spiritual awakening. These practices create a foundation for expanding consciousness, embodying higher states of awareness, and aligning you more fully with your highest potential.
Through meditation, mystery school teachings, esoteric practices, breathwork, and subtle body cultivation, you will learn to quiet the restless mind, dissolve limiting patterns of conditioning, and awaken deeper dimensions of your being.
As inner stillness and clarity begin to emerge, we turn our attention toward the refinement of the subtle body and the energetic field. Ancient wisdom traditions have long understood that consciousness and energy are inseparably connected. Therefore, working with one naturally expands and elevates the other. As the mind becomes clearer, the energy field naturally becomes more coherent, and as the energy field becomes more refined, consciousness naturally expands, opening you to entirely new dimensions of awareness and reality.
While traditional mindfulness retreats focus solely on calming the mind, Awakening the Body of Light goes a step further. We work directly with the deeper architecture of your energy system. As we refine your auric field and clear stagnant energetic blocks, your consciousness naturally expands.
You will return home not just rested, but fundamentally rewired, holding a higher frequency of presence, clarity, and personal power in your everyday life.
You will be introduced to powerful methods of energy purification, transmutation, and subtle body development that support greater presence, energetic harmony, and spiritual awakening. These practices create a foundation for expanding consciousness, embodying higher states of awareness, and aligning you more fully with your highest potential.
Throughout the retreat, you will be guided through practices for:
- Purifying and harmonizing the mental and emotional body
- Refine and strengthen the auric field and energetic boundaries
- Transmute dense or stagnant energies into higher states of awareness
- Awakening the subtle body and its primary energy centers
- Activating the Light Body and higher dimensions of the subtle energy system
- Cultivate expanded states of consciousness, presence, and inner peace
This retreat offers a structured pathway for inner transformation, energetic refinement, and the awakening of the Body of Light. Its purpose is not merely to provide extraordinary experiences, but to cultivate lasting shifts in awareness that can be embodied long after the retreat has ended - bringing greater clarity, energetic coherence, inner sovereignty, and the awakening of your highest potential.
Who This Retreat Is For?
Suitable for both beginners and experienced practitioners
Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, the retreat offers practical methods and personalized guidance that support your individual stage of development.
Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, the retreat offers practical methods and personalized guidance that support your individual stage of development.
RETREAT FOUNDATIONS
The Body of Light
The Body of Light is described in many spiritual traditions as a more refined dimension of our being that becomes increasingly active as our consciousness expands. It is the innate aspect of our true nature that gradually awakens through inner purification, meditation, and subtle body cultivation. As this aspect of ourselves becomes more integrated, many practitioners experience greater clarity, presence, intuition, inner peace, and a deeper sense of connection with life. As the subtle body becomes progressively more purified and refined, it begins to radiate greater light and coherence, symbolizing the awakening of the Body of Light and the embodiment of higher states of consciousness.
Consciousness Expansion
Consciousness expansion is the gradual cultivation of greater awareness beyond habitual patterns of thinking and conditioning. As awareness becomes more stable, perception naturally becomes clearer, the mind quieter, and one's relationship with life more spacious and intentional. Rather than escaping reality, consciousness expansion allows us to engage with life from a place of greater presence, clarity, and inner freedom.
The Subtle Body
The subtle body refers to the energetic dimension of our being described across many contemplative and mystical traditions. It includes the chakras, energy channels, and the auric field, which influence our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. Throughout the retreat, participants learn practical methods for awakening, refining and harmonizing this subtle energy system, strengthening energetic coherence, and supporting expanded states of awareness.
Esoteric Practices
Esoteric Practices are practical methods of inner development drawn from ancient Mystery School traditions and contemplative lineages. Through meditation, breathwork, subtle body cultivation, and energy refinement, these practices support the purification of the mind, the awakening of the subtle body, the expansion of consciousness, and the embodiment of our highest potential.
Mystery School Teachings
Mystery Schools were ancient centers of spiritual initiation found in civilizations such as Egypt, Greece, India, Nepal, Tibet, and other sacred traditions around the world. Their purpose was to guide sincere seekers through direct inner experience rather than belief alone. Through meditation, contemplation, and practical methods for refining consciousness and the subtle energy system, students learn how to awaken their highest human potential and cultivate a deeper connection with the Divine.
The Body of Light is described in many spiritual traditions as a more refined dimension of our being that becomes increasingly active as our consciousness expands. It is the innate aspect of our true nature that gradually awakens through inner purification, meditation, and subtle body cultivation. As this aspect of ourselves becomes more integrated, many practitioners experience greater clarity, presence, intuition, inner peace, and a deeper sense of connection with life. As the subtle body becomes progressively more purified and refined, it begins to radiate greater light and coherence, symbolizing the awakening of the Body of Light and the embodiment of higher states of consciousness.
Consciousness Expansion
Consciousness expansion is the gradual cultivation of greater awareness beyond habitual patterns of thinking and conditioning. As awareness becomes more stable, perception naturally becomes clearer, the mind quieter, and one's relationship with life more spacious and intentional. Rather than escaping reality, consciousness expansion allows us to engage with life from a place of greater presence, clarity, and inner freedom.
The Subtle Body
The subtle body refers to the energetic dimension of our being described across many contemplative and mystical traditions. It includes the chakras, energy channels, and the auric field, which influence our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. Throughout the retreat, participants learn practical methods for awakening, refining and harmonizing this subtle energy system, strengthening energetic coherence, and supporting expanded states of awareness.
Esoteric Practices
Esoteric Practices are practical methods of inner development drawn from ancient Mystery School traditions and contemplative lineages. Through meditation, breathwork, subtle body cultivation, and energy refinement, these practices support the purification of the mind, the awakening of the subtle body, the expansion of consciousness, and the embodiment of our highest potential.
Mystery School Teachings
Mystery Schools were ancient centers of spiritual initiation found in civilizations such as Egypt, Greece, India, Nepal, Tibet, and other sacred traditions around the world. Their purpose was to guide sincere seekers through direct inner experience rather than belief alone. Through meditation, contemplation, and practical methods for refining consciousness and the subtle energy system, students learn how to awaken their highest human potential and cultivate a deeper connection with the Divine.
What You May Experience
- Greater clarity, presence, and inner peace
- Expanded awareness and extrasensory perception
- Increased energetic coherence and harmony
- A stronger connection to intuition, the higher Self, and inner guidance
- Deeper access to subtle body awareness
- Greater alignment with higher purpose and authentic expression
- Expanded states of consciousness
- The capacity to hold high-frequency states with clarity & embodiment
- Activation of your innate spiritual potential
Dates and program
November, 19
November, 19
Orientation day
November, 20
November, 20
10:00 a.m. – Registration
02:00 p.m. – Retreat begins
02:00 p.m. – Retreat begins
November, 21 - November, 29
November, 21 - November, 29
Nine full days of Silent Meditation Retreat for Inner Transformation through Mystery School Teachings, Esoteric Practices & Subtle Body Awakening
November, 30
November, 30
Morning – Retreat ends. Integration day begins
December, 1
December, 1
Integration day
About the Master
Jarka Kristinova
Jarka Kristinova is a spiritual teacher, meditation guide, and multidimensional energy practitioner with more than 15 years of dedicated experience in the fields of consciousness, inner transformation, and subtle energy development. After leaving a successful corporate career in New York, she devoted her life to an intensive spiritual path, studying and practicing in monasteries, ashrams, and retreat centers across the world.
Her training includes thousands of hours of meditation, long-term silent retreats, advanced energy healing modalities, breathwork, subtle body cultivation, and esoteric Mystery School teachings. A significant milestone in her journey was the completion of a rare 49-day Dark Retreat, a profound contemplative practice undertaken by only a small number of practitioners worldwide.
Combining a background in Psychology with extensive spiritual training, Jarka offers a unique approach that bridges ancient wisdom traditions with practical tools for modern life. Her teaching emphasizes direct experience, inner clarity, energetic refinement, and embodied awakening rather than theory alone.
Through her retreats, workshops, and private mentoring, she has guided hundreds of individuals on their path toward greater awareness, emotional freedom, energetic balance, and spiritual growth. Participants appreciate her grounded presence, depth of knowledge, and ability to create a safe and transformative space for profound inner exploration. Her work empowers people to access deeper levels of consciousness and awaken their highest potential.
Her training includes thousands of hours of meditation, long-term silent retreats, advanced energy healing modalities, breathwork, subtle body cultivation, and esoteric Mystery School teachings. A significant milestone in her journey was the completion of a rare 49-day Dark Retreat, a profound contemplative practice undertaken by only a small number of practitioners worldwide.
Combining a background in Psychology with extensive spiritual training, Jarka offers a unique approach that bridges ancient wisdom traditions with practical tools for modern life. Her teaching emphasizes direct experience, inner clarity, energetic refinement, and embodied awakening rather than theory alone.
Through her retreats, workshops, and private mentoring, she has guided hundreds of individuals on their path toward greater awareness, emotional freedom, energetic balance, and spiritual growth. Participants appreciate her grounded presence, depth of knowledge, and ability to create a safe and transformative space for profound inner exploration. Her work empowers people to access deeper levels of consciousness and awaken their highest potential.
Schedule
The flow of each day will be:
Awareness → Purification → Activation → Cultivation → Dream Awareness
This schedule serves as a general guide. Specific practices may be interchanged or adjusted throughout the retreat to best support the group's process and the natural flow of the journey. The duration and intensity of practices may also evolve as the retreat progresses, gradually building from shorter sessions into deeper and longer periods of practice.
Approximate daily schedule of the retreat:
Awareness → Purification → Activation → Cultivation → Dream Awareness
This schedule serves as a general guide. Specific practices may be interchanged or adjusted throughout the retreat to best support the group's process and the natural flow of the journey. The duration and intensity of practices may also evolve as the retreat progresses, gradually building from shorter sessions into deeper and longer periods of practice.
Approximate daily schedule of the retreat:
*Independent practice = option to continue learned practice independently
- Solar Body ActivationEach morning begins with an outdoor sunrise practice, combining meditation, solar attunement and subtle body cultivation. In this practice, participants learn to connect with the life-giving energy of the Sun and activate their own Solar Body - a powerful aspect of the Body-of-Light associated with vitality, illumination, and higher consciousness. Through this connection, participants cultivate greater energetic balance, inner clarity, and a deeper relationship with the subtle dimensions of their being. Practiced at sunrise, this ancient method naturally supports nervous system regulation, mood balance, energy replenishment, and the strengthening of the energy field through the nourishing and solarizing power of the Sun.
Duration: 30 minutes
- Awareness PracticeAwareness Meditation is the foundational practice of the retreat and serves as the gateway to higher states of consciousness. Through systematic training in present-moment awareness, participants learn to observe thoughts, emotions, and sensations without becoming identified with them, gradually shifting from the conditioned mind into the deeper field of awareness itself. As clarity, stillness, and presence begin to emerge, practitioners cultivate greater inner peace, emotional balance, and a more direct connection to their authentic nature. This practice lays the foundation for all subtle body, Light Body, and consciousness-expanding work throughout the retreat.
Duration: 30 minutes to 1 hour
- Energy Field Purification & Transmutation PracticesThese practices are designed to help purify, harmonize, strengthen, and expand the energy field by bringing awareness to stagnant, depleted, or limiting energetic patterns and transforming them into greater balance and vitality. Drawing from various mystery school traditions, participants learn practical methods for clearing energetic density, transmuting low- frequency patterns, and refining the subtle energy system. These practices may include breathwork, subtle energy movement techniques, and other effective methods for purifying, strengthening and awakening the energy field. As the energy system becomes more balanced, coherent, and resilient, practitioners often experience greater clarity, emotional stability, presence, and an increased capacity to embody higher states of consciousness.
Duration: 30 minutes to 1 hour
- Light Body Activation & Subtle Body CultivationThese practices are designed to awaken and refine the subtle energy system through esoteric methods of chakra activation, high-vibrational attunement, and subtle body cultivation. Participants will learn effective practices drawn from various mystical traditions that help activate higher dimensions of the energy field, strengthen intuition, cultivate energetic sovereignty, and develop greater coherence within the subtle body architecture. As these higher aspects of the energetic system become more active and integrated, practitioners may experience expanded states of awareness, a deeper connection to their higher guidance system, and an increased capacity to embody their inner radiance and multidimensional potential.
Duration: 30 minutes to 1 hour
- Embodiment & Integration PracticesThese practices are designed to help participants integrate and embody the insights, energetic shifts, and expanded states of consciousness cultivated throughout the retreat. Through grounding, awareness, and embodiment techniques, participants learn how to stabilize subtle body activations, strengthen their connection to their higher guidance system, and anchor higher states of awareness into everyday life. As the energetic system becomes more balanced and integrated, practitioners develop the capacity to embody elevated states of consciousness with clarity, presence, and stability.
Duration: 30 minutes to 1 hour
- Dream Yoga & Astral Body CultivationThis specialized practice is designed to extend awareness beyond the waking state and into the realm of sleep. Drawing from ancient contemplative and esoteric traditions, participants learn methods for cultivating greater continuity of awareness throughout the night and developing a more conscious relationship with the subtle dimensions of existence during sleep. As awareness gradually penetrates deeper layers of the subconscious mind, limiting patterns of conditioning,
emotional residues, and unconscious tendencies can be brought into awareness and transformed. This process supports the purification of the mental and emotional bodies, often resulting in more restful sleep, greater energetic balance, increased clarity during waking life, and a deeper connection to the higher Self.
Duration: 30 minutes to 1 hour
INDRIYA RETREAT CENTER on Koh Phangan is A SPACE TO FILL YOU, OPEN YOU UP, AND INSPIRE
Indriya Retreat is an international retreat center. It is located on Koh Phangan (Thailand), near a small stream and surrounded by fruit trees and tropical plants. Guests of the center find themselves in an atmosphere of seclusion and tranquility, which facilitates the practice of Vipassana meditation.
Bathrooms
A separate building with all necessary facilities — toilets, sinks, and shower cabins.
Vegetarian food
Comfortable Huts
The huts are wooden. Inside, there are two fully equipped sleeping places (with mattresses, quality bed linen, blankets, pillows, and towels).
A high-quality, exquisite vegetarian diet focused on detox and wellness: an abundance of fruits and nuts, salads, superfoods, juices, Chinese tea, cocoa.
Experience the Place
- Accommodation in an eco-bungalow with shared or single occupancy.
TRY our ALL-INCLUSIVE concept during the Retreat
- Healthy and balanced vegetarian meals twice a day, with cacao and ginger water in the evening.
- Tea available during the daytime and drinking water 24/7.
- A spacious meditation hall for meditation and yoga practice.
- Meditation cushions and yoga mats are provided.
Entry fee
To register for the retreat, you must fill out the form below and pay the registration fee using VISA, MASTERCARD.
Early Bird Offer:
Limited to the first 10 participants
Retreat Pricing
Shared Twin Room
Early Bird: $799
Regular: $999
Private Single Room
Early Bird: $1,099
Regular: $1,299
What's Included
✓ 11 Days / 10 Nights Accommodation in comfortable eco-lodges designed to support meditation practice and inner work.
✓ 2 Vegetarian + Light Evening Meals Daily — a nourishing breakfast and substantial lunch, thoughtfully prepared in accordance with the traditional retreat schedule.
✓ Unlimited Water and Tea available throughout the day to support hydration and well-being during intensive practice.
✓ Full Retreat Program
Shared Twin Room
Early Bird: $799
Regular: $999
Private Single Room
Early Bird: $1,099
Regular: $1,299
What's Included
✓ 11 Days / 10 Nights Accommodation in comfortable eco-lodges designed to support meditation practice and inner work.
✓ 2 Vegetarian + Light Evening Meals Daily — a nourishing breakfast and substantial lunch, thoughtfully prepared in accordance with the traditional retreat schedule.
✓ Unlimited Water and Tea available throughout the day to support hydration and well-being during intensive practice.
✓ Full Retreat Program
- Awareness & Consciousness Expansion Training
- Mystery School Teachings & Esoteric Practices
- Multidimensional Breathwork
- Light Body & Subtle Body Cultivation
- Dream Yoga & Astral Awareness Training
- Daily Sunrise Solar Body Activation Sessions
- Energy Purification & Transmutation Practices
- Kundalini Awakening Foundations
- Auric Field Strengthening & Harmonization
- Spiritual Mentorship Throughout the Retreat
- Post-Retreat Integration Guidance
✨ Spaces are limited. Registration is now open.
After the payment of the registration fee and filling up your personal data, you will receive an organizational letter confirming your participation.
After the payment of the registration fee and filling up your personal data, you will receive an organizational letter confirming your participation.
If you have any questions, please fill out the consultation form.
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66/9 Moo 5, Koh Phangan, Koh Phangan, Surat Thani, 84280 Thailand
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