Swatantra Immersion in South India (Tiruvannamalai)

🪷 Experience Your Own Swatantra Immersion

A personalised journey of embodied healing, empowerment & transformation

The Swatantra Immersion is a uniquely tailored program designed for deep embodied healing, self-expression, empowerment, clarity, and inner transformation.

Under the loving guidance of Shrinandanji, supported by Sylvia Vana Selvy, you are invited to immerse in Swatantra for 5, 6, or 7 nights — with longer or shorter stays available by arrangement.

🕉️ The Setting

Your immersion takes place at the Swatantra Jnana Dhana Illam (Abode of Wisdom) in Tiruvannamalai, one of India’s most sacred pilgrimage sites.

The Illam has been lovingly designed to support inner stillness, self-expression, and deep rest, surrounded by nature and magnificent views of Arunachala.

Your private room includes:

• Ensuite bathroom

• Air-conditioning

• Balcony area

• Rooftop access - sunrise with Arunachala

• Clean, safe, and peaceful environment

• Lovingly home-cooked high-pranic meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner)

🌿 What is Swatantra?

Swatantra is not a method or belief system — it is a way of being, a living embodiment of freedom, inclusion, and the direct self-realisation of one’s true nature.

Emerging from Shrinandanji’s state of inner silence and awareness, the Swatantra Sadhana offers safe embodied approaches into deeper dimensions of being. Unique guided practices including Garuda Pranayama, Shudi Kriya, Naga Pranayama, mantra and mudra activate transformative shifts in energy, perception, and presence.

Each immersion is personalised — adapted to your unique nature, needs, and readiness.

Swatantra empowers you to dissolve inner limitations and open into greater clarity, connection, joy, and peace.

🙏 Meet Shrinandanji

For over 25 years, Shrinandanji has shared from his own lived experience of self-realisation.

Sitting one-on-one with each person as a unique individual, he has guided and supported many people into deeper states of contentment, aliveness and awareness. His steadiness, clarity and unconditional compassionate presence activates powerful shifts within the energy system, These shifts can be experienced not just at an intellectual level, but at a deeper cellular level.

Shrinandanji's inclusive and practical approach demystifies spirituality, gives clarity beyond concepts and makes real connection accessible to everyone.

“I am no-one, doing nothing — everything is just a happening.”
— Shrinandanji

Sylvia Vana Selvy

Sylvia was given the name Vana Selvy while living with Shrinandanji in 2022. Since connecting with Swatantra, she has experienced radical transformations in her life and energies, which continue to unfold.

Practicing as a certified yoga and meditation instructor for over a decade, Sylvia is also passionate about dance and conscious movement, with qualifications & experience in somatic movement therapy, expressive arts & psychotherapy (Gestalt). Sylvia also shares VortexHealing™ and Vedic Samvahan healing sessions.

She has been teaching and sharing the Swatantra Sadhana and homa (fire ceremony) practices since 2022. She is grateful for the opportunity to share these experiences with all who feel called.

Sylvia’s offerings also draw on a rich tapestry of professional and personal experiences, including 15 years of legal practice with refugee and First Nation communities across varied contexts, including refugee communities and Indigenous traditional owners in remote Central Australian Desert. She also works with First Nation and diverse ability individuals and group in community arts dance and movement. These experiences support her understanding of trauma-informed, compassionate approaches. The strength, wisdom, and resilience she witnesses in her work continues to inspire her commitment to empowerment, expression, and connection with nature as means of individual, community and broader transformation.

What happens in a Swatantra Immersion

Each Swatantra Immersion is unique and every person's experience will be different. There is no one-size prescription. Swatantra is, in essence, a spontaneous presence which is always adapting to the needs and nature of each individual and situation. The program will be tailored with you accordingly.

💎 Inclusions

• 1:1 sessions with Shrinandanji (Founder of Swatantra)

• 1:1 personalised guidance in Swatantra Sadhana (unique somatic sequences incorporating breath, body and awareness)

• 1:1 healing using VortexHealing™ & Samvahan

• Movement & rest practices (yoga, dance, authentic movement, yoga nidra)

• Homa (fire ceremony with mantra)

• Supported silence & digital detox

• High-pranic vegetarian meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner; juice fasting optional)

• Nature or temple excursion

• Online pre-arrival & post-departure calls

✨ Also available: Nature Cure consultations, traditional massage, sound bath, fasting support

A Sample Day

Morning
🧘 Yoga / movement
🌬️ 1:1 Swatantra Sadhana guidance
🥣 Breakfast
🌳 Nature walk
🕉️ 1:1 session with Shrinandanji
💤 Rest / optional massage

Afternoon & Evening
🍃 Lunch & rest
💫 Vortex/Samvahan healing session
🌼 1:1 session with Shrinandanji
💃 Dance / movement / yoga nidra
🍽️ Dinner & rest
🔥 Homa (fire ceremony)
🌙 Quiet reflection

Who Can Benefit

Swatantra welcomes anyone seeking healing, clarity, or inner transformation — from seasoned practitioners to those newer to self-inquiry and embodiment practices.

Whether you’re navigating life changes, releasing stuck energy, old patterns, or longing to reconnect more to your own natural well of peace, creativity, and vitality within — Swatantra offers transformative practices for release, renewal and self-discovery.

Swatantra meets you exactly where you are — fully, lovingly, and without condition.

Offering & Contribution

In the spirit of offering, the Swatantra Immersion is being made available on a costs-cover/gift-donation (Dakshina) basis.

The costs involved in making the program happen are indicated in the below options, with the freedom to offer from the heart should you wish and have means. 💗

💫 Program Options

5 nights: AU$754* / $879
6 nights: AU$908* / $1040
7 nights: AU$1028* / $1193

*Reduced rate for joint bookings of 2 or more people (each with private ensuite room).
Shared occupancy and longer or shorter stays available by request.

🌟 Early Bird Reduction:
Book by 21 November 2025 to save AU$104 for 6 & 7 night program options

Secure your place with a $350 deposit.

Refunds available 14 days prior to arrival (less $250 fee).

💞 Please reach out to discuss alternative arrangements if finances are an issue.

Dates

Immersions commence each Monday or Wednesday, or by arrangement, during the following periods:

📅 23 February – 8 April 2026
📅 November – December 2026 (Dates to be confirmed)

Spaces are limited due to the personalised nature of the program.

Register now to secure your place:

swatantra.vselvy@gmail.com
WhatsApp: +61 468 870 280

www.swatantrasadhana.in

💬 Words from others

“As a psychotherapist, I’ve attended many retreats, but this touched something far deeper — a space where true healing happens. Guruji and Sylvia guided me with love and clarity. Utterly transformational.”
— Claudia Marjoram, UK

“Meeting Guruji and practicing Sadhana allowed me to release childhood traumas and feel freer, stronger, and more serene.”
— Elizabeth, France

“My time at the Illam was restorative and transformative — gentle yet strong. Sylvia’s guidance complemented Guruji’s clarity.”
— Alannah M., Australia

“The combination of Sadhana with Selvy and being with Guruji was a doorway towards awareness in love, silence, aliveness, joy, clarity - the realisation of who I really am.”
— Prabodhi, Germany

“The preparation with Sylvia made my sessions with Guruji deeply fruitful. Her loving presence and healing touch eased both emotional and physical pain.”
— Anashwar, Germany

"My healing session with Sylvia was a deeply moving shamanic experience and I was able to let go of a long-held trauma."

— Ingrid König, Gerrmany

Ready to Begin?

Register now to experience your own Swatantra Immersion — an awakening journey into deeper love, peace and aliveness. ✨️

📧 swatantra.vselvy@gmail.com
📱 WhatsApp: +61 468 870 280

Nearby airports: Chennai and Bangalore

Safe and convenient airport taxi transfers available.