Training programmes and retreats
Deepen your practice, gain professional skills or find a retreat for your growth — through breath, sound and leadership programmes led by experienced teachers.
Choose a transformative journey back to yourself
Our programmes bring together breathwork, somatics, sound healing, Vedic knowledge and leadership themes. The offer includes professional development programmes, intensive courses and retreats.
The programmes suit different levels of experience — from people wishing to deepen their personal practice and self-care to professionals and team leaders. The format and type of certification are shown with each programme.
Choose your programme
Breath, sound and leadership programmes — choose the path that suits you.
Breath coach — pranayama, somatics and sound
An integrated professional development programme — from classical pranayama techniques to contemporary Transformational Breath, somatics and sound practices.
New · 30 h YACEP + 50 h IPHM certificationSound healing — the fundamentals
A three-day course on sound as a spiritual technology — from the Vedic levels of sound to the use of instruments, holding a safe space and "hands on" principles.
30 August, 5 and 6 September · ĀdažiTheocentricity — a course for leaders and managers
Ten modules over five days on the foundations of a meaningful brand and a thriving business in a time of great change. Led by Sandra Sondore and Guntars Kukuls.
New · Ādaži or at your company's premises
Nature does its work — you just breathe.
A private peninsula on Lake Cārmanis
The retreats take place in a protected nature area at the fairy-tale Laimavoti — on a private 21-hectare peninsula surrounded on all sides by Lake Cārmanis. No other guests and no strangers, just you, the group and nature.
Wooden houses, terraces overlooking the lake, two saunas and swims in clean water. A calm, safely held space where practice, rest and the rhythm of nature weave into one whole.
Live and practise in nature's paradise
The programmes include staying in a protected nature area at the fairy-tale Laimavoti, on a private peninsula (21 hectares) surrounded by Lake Cārmanis — with no other guests or strangers. Full board includes meals, practice equipment and evening events according to the chosen programme.
in a nature reserve
instrument collection
in a clean lake
Sound healing — the fundamentals
Sound — the most powerful spiritual technology, with which absolutely everything is possible. Three full days. One journey into the depths.
What is the Human Being and what is the Logos, or the Word, in its absolute sense? What is sound according to the Vedas, and what are its four levels? Why is the ability to create sound the highest of the gifts given to us? We will talk about the gunas, about faith, about emotions as vibrations and about the chakras as portals of sound — and go further, to healing itself: how and why the placebo and nocebo effects work, how the Vedas resonate with epigenetics, and why sound is the highest of the art forms and a refuge in Kali Yuga — the age we are living in now.
From theory to practice with instruments
The practical side
You will get to know various musical instruments and see them demonstrated, and learn by which criteria to use them for different needs, following the principle of place, time, circumstances (yoga classes, massage, sound therapy and so on). We will talk about the purpose of using these instruments and about the measurable criteria by which to judge the result achieved when working with sound.
Instruments · Criteria · Result
Holding space and integration
Particular attention will be given to the skill of holding a safe space, to "hands on" principles and guidelines — how to build trust respectfully and create a space in which participants can truly open up. The course also covers how to build a "playlist" and integrate music into your own sessions, as well as time for questions, answers and integrating the experience.
Safety · "Hands on" · Playlist"Refuge is in sound, refuge is in sound, refuge is in sound!" — Vedānta sūtra
The next training dates
30 August, 5 and 6 September, 11:00–20:00. Places are limited.
- 30 August, 5 and 6 September, 11:00–20:00
- The theory of sound according to the Vedas — all four levels
- Instrument demonstration and criteria for their use
- Holding a safe space and "hands on" guidelines
- Building a "playlist" and integrating it into sessions
- One day of your choice, 11:00–20:00
- The full programme of that day
- Instrument demonstration in person
- Questions, answers and integrating the experience
- Places are limited
Theocentricity as the foundation of a meaningful brand and a thriving business
A training course for leaders and for the heads of companies and teams in a time of great change.
There are moments when comfortable, familiar answers no longer work. When success in business no longer brings the fulfilment you expected, when the logic of competition and struggle begins to feel like a resource running dry rather than a source of life. If you are a leader — a creative person with initiative, an entrepreneur, a marketing or public relations professional, the head of a team or of a community — and you have ever stopped to ask yourself about the meaning of your life and about a perspective that reaches further than the near future, this course is meant for you.
During the course we will together refocus our understanding of ourselves, the meaning of life, wealth, success, relationships and business — from the egocentric to the theocentric paradigm (Skt. Ishvara Pranidhana), from the reality of competition and struggle to a reality of Gratitude and Cooperation, in which your main Partner in that cooperation is God.
Imagine that your business Partner is God himself — with all the resources, energies, knowledge and abilities at His disposal. If so, then everything is possible, because there is no power in the world that could stop you from following your calling and realising it, as long as you are in partnership with God. To each will be given according to his true, living faith.
For those who are truly searching
In every age the Creator gives a person the ability and the opportunity to hear and grasp the true knowledge that is present in all spiritual traditions.
Participants of the course will discover the influence of the Feminine principle of God on success and flourishing, both in business and in relationships. They will learn about the asymmetric dialectics and logic of Vedanta and about the meaning of the Vedic principle "Desha, Kala, Patri" (Place, Time, Circumstances).
They will get to know what spiritual entrepreneurship is and which of God's laws it rests on, opening up the meaning of the Universal principle "Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha". During the course, concrete, real life stories will be told about miraculous changes in people's lives and businesses when they chose to be in partnership with God — and the secret of Daiva Varnashrama Dharma about the code of human thinking will be revealed.
Ten modules over five days
At the start of each module, participants also learn spiritual technologies and practices for maintaining the energy field: the basics of meditation, and yogic breathing, sound and somatic techniques for regulating the nervous system.
The Vedas and your calling in life
What are the Vedas and what is their practical value? The four cornerstones of Dharma — truthfulness, mercy, austerity, purity. Living faith and cognitive technologies. Each person's unique calling in life and the three gunas in business. The most sacred knowledge of the Vedas — symmetric and asymmetric dialectics and the dialectical pairs: God–nature, consciousness–unconsciousness, the masculine–feminine principle, individual–society and others.
Day oneThe nature of time and the meaning of money
Chronos, Kyklos, Kairos — and the Vedic principle "Desha, Kala, Patri". Apocalypse and transhumanism. The mimetic crisis, progress as an illusory myth, the Pinker paradox. What is money — the goal of business or energy in the service of other goals? The cult of money, real and illusory wealth.
Day twoCivilisation and the social order
The origin and nature of civilisations, states and social orders from antiquity to the present day — the cycle of reform, chaos and the next reform, and the consequences of combinations of liberalism and reform for human rights.
Day threeThe ontology of lies and the value of a brand
The origin and use of propaganda, PR and other cognitive technologies, and the influence of artificial intelligence on real human intelligence. The symbol as a form of sacred geometry. Brand values and positioning — what separates a real brand from an empty form. A company's corporate values, or 10 commandments, and the 12 signs of spiritual entrepreneurship.
Day fourSound as creative potential
Sound as the way in which consciousness realises its creative potential — the word as consciousness expressed in form. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God." Destructive sound and its effect on emotions. To close — a summary, questions and answers.
Day five
Sandra Sondore and Guntars Kukuls
Sandra Sondore — a lawyer with a master's degree in law, an internationally registered yoga teacher in the "Yoga Alliance" system (RYT 500+, E-RYT 200, YACEP) and in the ITEC system. Owner of "House of Devi" and the Laimavoti retreat centre, co-owner of the "Amrita Water" brand. With 25 years of experience in senior positions in public administration — including 12 years as adviser on legal and legislative matters to two Presidents of Latvia, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga and Valdis Zatlers.
Guntars Kukuls — an entrepreneur with 35 years of experience in marketing, advertising and public relations, political campaigns and brand building. He has been head of the Information and Public Relations Department of Riga City Council, adviser to several deputy mayors and ministers, and brand, marketing and communications director of the "NP Foods" group. Creator and owner of the "Amrita Water" and "Laimavoti" brands.
Start a conversation about the course for your team
We run the course both at "House of Devi" in Ādaži and at your company's premises. We agree the exact schedule and the offer after our first conversation.
Sound comes on when you press play.
Knowledge that transforms.
My first retreat at Laimavoti changed my perspective on life. The nail board is a powerful practice that helps to regulate emotions and release tension — at home I stand on my own board.
Book your place on a training programme
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