Awakened Clarity, Embodied Power:
the MahaGanapati Retreat
Sivananda Yoga Ashram, Paradise Island, Bahamas
May 11th - 15th, 2027
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for the MahaGanapati Retreat!
5 Days of deep practice, invitations, guided meditations, somatic healing and much more, all in the powerful space of a living ashram (meditation monastery) on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
Your retreat includes 3 hours each day in dedicate guided retreat practices with me.
The rest of the day you will enjoy the full ashram schedule of hatha yoga classes, meditations, morning and evening satsangs, the temples, and time to contemplate and integrate on the white sandy beach or renewing in the clear azure blue ocean.
About our retreat together
We all experience challenges and difficulties we can’t seem to solve with the ordinary thinking mind.
We all also approach powerful thresholds of incredible opportunity to take leaps in growth, awakening and thriving.
The odds are great that if you’re reading this, something in you is called to more. Whether you know clearly what that “more” is, there’s a calling.
Perhaps you’ve been searching and exploring books and workshops for a long time. Perhaps you have had a strong set of practices and feel like you’ve been stuck at a plateau. Perhaps you are a life-long learner and are hungry to grow further and further and be of greater benefit to beings.
The ways we learned to survive earlier in life can form fixations and rigidities in mind and habit that make it difficult to discern the best way forward, to access clarity and beneficial power. Often these amazing opportunities for deep growth are hidden from our view, until they’re not.
May 11th - 15th, 2027 we will gather in the Sivananda Yoga Ashram Bahamas for a very special empowerment and practice retreat.
We’ll be working deeply with the energy of MahaGanapati.
MahaGanapati is a hidden and deeply transformative tantric form of power and consciousness that lives within you and all of life. MahaGanapati is known as the “lord of obstacles”. This power knows how to remove obstacles as well as place obstacles to expedite growth, stability and embodied awakening.
In this retreat you’ll be given formal initiation into the core mantra and practices of MahaGanapati. The initiation unlocks your access to the transformative power in the syllables of the mantras, opening and continually deepening a journey supported by incredible grace and support.
Throughout the retreat, I’ll be guiding you through key ancient Sri Vidya practices for accessing and embodying the transformative power of MahaGanapati along with guided breathing practices and meditations to help you stabilize these powerful energies.
There have been countless masters in the lineage empowering this initiation and the practices who have fully embodied the potential of the MahaGanapati mantra and practices. What that means is that you receive the unwavering support and guidance of their awakened awareness and realization of the fruits of these practices.
While it’s helpful to have some prior experience with mantra and meditation, the most important factor is coming to the retreat with an open mind and heart – open to the great possibilities of you awakening to more of your true nature and stabilizing that recognition into your ordinary life moments for the benefit of all beings.
This practice retreat is an opportunity to take a leap in living from greater compassion, love, equanimity and empathetic joy for yourself and all beings.
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Meet Your Teacher
Scott Schwenk delivers impactful transformative teachings that integrate spiritual awakening with whole-life thriving and embodied leadership.
Blending ferocious commitment with playful joy, Scott guides the willing to quickly access the heart of what matters most and clarify the steps for moving forward with greater ease, grace and velocity.
Through a blend of one-on-one master coaching, live and pre-recorded workshops and courses, retreats and corporate leadership development, there are numerous pathways to deeper your inner work
As an embodiment coach, Scott weaves attachment healing, parts/shadow work, somatic healing practices, adult ego development and much more to meet you where you are and guide you stage by stage into showing up for yourself and all of life as your very best self.
As a spiritual teacher with lineage permission to initiate and guide transformative tantric practices (Sri Vidya), Scott's teaching work offers precise practices for dissolving the veils obscuring equanimity, love, compassion and joy.
Host of The Choice to Grow Podcast and known for his hugely popular courses and workshops with One Commune, Younity.com, Wanderlust Festivals, and Unplug Meditation, Scott has been catalyzing the inner evolution of others for decades: helping them to grow, transform obstacles into opportunities, and find Love within.
Scott spent several years living and studying in a Hindu monastery which introduced him to the core body of Tantric traditions which continue to flow through each of his teachings. Apprenticeships in leadership development, meditation and philosophy training, spiritual awakening and Vedic rituals were all part of Scott’s development into the teacher, coach and guide that he is today.
Scott has committed himself to a life of growth and learning, continuing to learn and study with the extraordinary guides, teachers and wisdom keepers of our times in service of being of maximum benefit to beings.
Scott’s teachings support the entire person to not only progressively recognize, stabilize and embody our inextricable oneness with the source of creation (Waking Up), but also to resolve the wounds of the past (Cleaning Up), continually expand our capacities for wider and more inclusive perspectives on any moment (Growing Up) and creatively and joyfully participate and collaborate with all of life as a loving thriving human being (Showing Up).