Immerse yourself in weekend bliss at the Magnetic Sanctuary—an oasis designed to help you decompress and recharge amid the festival energy.
This decompression zone invites you to step away from the hustle and embrace a world of meditative vibes, sensory experiences, and transformative workshops. Begin your day with Sunrise Meditation and Hatha Yoga, unwind with Yoga Nidra and Sound Baths, or deepen your connection through Breathwork Activation and Somatic Embodied Movement. Treat yourself to Thai Massage, explore Nada Yoga, and dive into the journey within with Cacao Ceremony + Breathwork.
Sanctuary will bring together top facilitators and practitioners to offer a vibrant space for connection, rejuvenation, and self-discovery through unique, revitalizing experiences.
Priyanjali
Priyanjali is a multi-dimensional explorer - a movement, psyche and sonic researcher who believes in quantum thinking. Priyanjali has been holding space, and facilitating yoga therapy for 10 years now. The last 5 years have also kept her busy in the space of sound therapy where she is combining her intuitive guidance towards creative arts with her study and research of the exploration of human consciousness through a sound collective called Farasha. She lives in Auroville and works with SVARAM as a sound facilitator, space holder, visiting faculty and yogic sound researcher. She is also a visiting faculty for Sarveda & Om Yoga shala - sound and yoga training initiatives and travels across the country conducting sound, somatics and yoga workshops, trainings and hosting women's circles.
She has recently launched the first Women's wellness retreat in Northeast India called Suki Suki. Her current studies and research have taken her into an exploration of approaching yoga and sound therapy from an integral perspective – combining the understanding of yogic philosophy (Panchakosha) and nada yoga with Western scientific movement science and psycho-acoustics. In the core of combining integral knowledge, lies her firm belief that sound, breath & movement is accessible to everyone if approached with sensitivity, authenticity and receptivity.
Shubhra Chaturvedi
Shubhra Chaturvedi is a Shamanic Breathwork Space Holder, a Certified Essential Oil Specialist, a Certified Yoga Instructor and is studying trauma-informed psychotherapy at the moment. She has been in the energy healing space for over ten years now, she has learnt many other modalities such as Reiki, Psych-K, Emotional Freedom Technique, Shamanic Healing, SHM and has been working with plant medicines for over a decade. She believes deeply in the power of building ceremonial spaces to facilitate deeper connection with ourselves and the cosmos.
Lilya
Lilya dreams of a world built on individuated humans and communities that grow together. With 20+ years of wisdom in self-enquiry, personal growth, alchemical transmutation, trauma recovery, and embodied living, Lilya holds space for humans to be real, dive deep, and shift how they feel and think about themselves. She has found her flow in seeing through people’s stories, the not-self, and helping them accept and BE their whole self.
Mav RBell
Mav is a well-known global Thai Massage and Bodywork Trainer. Having been following and teaching Bodywork for more than a decade, Mav brings these works to professional as well as personal spaces. He works with not just training masseurs, physiotherapists and sports persons but also is invited to big outdoor festivals from climbers to dance and movement communities. At the same time, Mav shares not just the therapeutic but also the deep healing aspect of this field, emphasising upon principles of conscious touch, listening, presence and empathy. His vision of bringing these values to partnerships, friends, families, communities and society as a whole keeps him going on his path and purpose. He has also been involved in research projects combining plant medicine, neuroplasticity and bodywork and he will be sharing these unique gifts with us in the sessions at Magnetic Fields.
Chirag
Chirag is someone who left the city lights for the moonlight. With a background of the best of the Media companies in the world - National Geographic, Discovery Networks and The Walt Disney Co., she chose to leave the corporate world and join the natural world. It's been 8 years on this journey and it's been a great learning place.
Building the brand Genie in a Bottle, the power of plants and their essences unveiled. The aromas of the plant have their own effect on the senses and the usage of oils - topical or via ingestion have their own effect. They are mother nature's magical gifts for our bodies and well-being. As we say at GIB, Nature works best on Nature ( i.e. us as we're made out of nature).
Rahul Mangal
Rahul Mangal shares conscious and playful movement and connection journeys with games that draw inspiration from Argentine tango dance tradition, expressive arts, theatre and psychomagic.
A black belt in taekwondo and award-winning salsa dancer, Rahul’s movement journey now focuses on Tango and Qi gong. He uses his own personal exploration and research to create playful workshops (playshops) to help people express and flow freely, experiencing core human connections of oneness in a trusting & safe space. In this space, topics which are frequently addressed include presence, awareness, healthy intimacy, vulnerability, respect, sensuality, relaxation and etiquette.
Rahul also shares a conscious connected breathwork journey, Sacredplay Breathwork, which is rooted in ancient Yogic and Shamanic traditions yet includes the influences of certain modern breathwork innovators. Certified by IBF(International Breathwork Foundation) under the guidance of Michael O Meara, founder of Celtic Breathwork. Through his personal exploration and research, Rahul has brought together breath, sound, play, chanting and movement to help facilitate an inner journey of joyful presence and wholeness.
Sahitya
A musician and sound practitioner working with different modalities, Sahitya is a student of Dhrupad with Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar. She is a graduate in music therapy and has further explored the work of sound at Svaram Sound Experience, Auroville under their Integral Sonic Studies Program.
Harsh
Harsh is a math teacher and a physics student who is studying sound and researching in the field of cymatics at Svaram Sound Experience in Auroville. He is interested in designing and synthesizing sound electronically using Ableton Live and Modular Synthesis Techniques and visually representing sound through his research in cymatics.
Annida Tattva
Annida leads a workshop set on the foundation of the free-form movement. In this practice, we explore various themes within the body through somatic movement. We work with embodiment and guided visualisation encouraging an immersive somatic release through the physical body
Akshay Chawda
Akshay Chawda is a seasoned handpan player and a versatile musician. With over 15 years of experience in playing various musical instruments, he brings a unique approach to wellness through sound, creating tranquil, transformative atmospheres for his audience.
Vshal
Vshal, a multi-wind instrumentalist, weaves the soulful bansuri, haunting duduk, and world woodwinds into immersive soundscapes that guide listeners toward a divine experience. Rooted in Indian classical music and sound healing, he channels his global journey into every note, inspiring deep connection and transcendence.
Mariella Ercolano
Mariella is a dedicated Thai Yoga Masseuse and wellness practitioner specializing in the ancient healing art of Thai Massage. Each session is tailored to meet the unique needs of the individual, combining elements of yoga, acupressure, and breathing techniques. Whether you're seeking relief from physical discomfort, or emotional tension, or simply want to experience the benefits of a deeply restorative treatment, she creates a nurturing space for healing and rejuvenation.
Jade Shaw
Jade advocates non-ordinary states of consciousness for personal and collective change. Following a life-changing OBE, she left behind a successful career in the arts to study the phenomena as part of an MSc in transpersonal psychology. She went on to consult for the number one Netflix series ‘Behind Her Eyes’ and produced ‘Insight Out’, a film featured on Amazon Prime and Gaia TV. Her unique mindfulness-based approach to OBEs for well-being has attracted the attention of the UK national press and prompted invites to lead events in Europe, South America and the US. In the 1980s the CIA trained OBEs as part of the Stargate Programme at The Monroe Institute in Virgina, USA. Jade has completed the same course. As part of her ongoing self-transformational journey, Jade has lived in a Tibetan Buddhist Temple for five years, undertaken a pilgrimage around India and attended Shamanic retreats.
