Awakening your Inner Light

Bringing you the FIRST edition of The Sacred Self retreat, designed to help you journey within, connect with your authentic self and manifest the happy, fulfilling life you were born to live.

In our stressful everyday lives, it’s very easy to lose sight of who we are and what we truly want.
This retreat, facilitated by a team of dynamic and highly experienced coaches and therapists in the beautiful Sharjah desert, will provide you with the space, tools, guidance, processes and time you need to return to yourself and discover your inner light.

Albert Einstein said, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.” This is a unique opportunity to tap into your intuition and unique gifts in order to become a conscious creator of your destiny.

About the Facilitators

Monisha Gurkar is an Angelic Reiki© Master Teacher and a practitioner of SRT, ThetaHealing®
and New Shamballa. Her aim is to empower people to be successful on all levels – mental, emotional,
physical and spiritual. Using various healing modalities, her purpose is to help you harmonize your connection
with your true self to awaken your inner light and ultimately prosper and shine in all areas of your life.

Amrika Bhogaita, life coach and co-founder of H.A.D. Consultants (a training consultancy focusing on
bespoke tailor-made events), has 17 years’ experience developing and leading large teams within a
global corporate environment. In addition to qualifications encompassing leadership, software development
and customer experience, she has a Master’s in Business Psychology with Coaching, and is now passionate
about helping individuals to unlock their potential and achieve success without sacrificing their well-being.

HalaBouAlwan is a lawyer, entrepreneur, coach, TV presenter and thought leader. With two Master’s
degrees in Law under her belt, she’s had a strong focus on team development and training throughout
her career, specialising in areas such as compliance, financial crimes, AI and CSR, as well as helping
executives develop the leadership and communication skills required for senior roles. As co-founder of H.A.D. Consultants, she thrives on motivating and empowering teams and individuals to be their best.

Tilika Dsouza is an artist, art educator and paint maker, who started Dubai’s Studio Passepartout
in 2020 as a way to bring curated, handmade art supplies to the community. She truly believes that
everyone is an artist and, through practice, products and highly engaging workshops, aims to make the process of painting approachable, holistic and therapeutic.

Anuradha Kamath is a wellness coach and behavioural therapist, who uses a variety of therapies to
help her clients, including hypnotherapy, energy healing, Laughter Yoga and sound healing. She has
conducted countless wellness, spiritual and self-empowerment sessions internationally, and
participants travel across the globe to attend her workshops in the UAE. Having held
a top-management role for 23 years, she has both personal and corporate wellness covered.

10:30 am The gorgeous 5-star Mysk Al Badayer Retreat, Sharjah

Event opens with welcome drinks and canapes

• Introducing your tools for the weekend: On arrival, you will be presented with an inspirational journal tailor-made for the retreat, along with a crystal to help ground you and a wellness kit to ensure this weekend is all about self-care, relaxation and restoration too.

• Connecting with your sacred self: To set your journey of self-reflection, healing and awakening in motion, Wellness Coach and Angelic Reiki Master Monisha Gurkar will guide you through a powerful meditation that will start to unlock your subconscious channels with the aim of discovering who you truly are rather than who you think you should be.

• Identifying your mission and setting intentions: Business and Life Coach Amrika Bhogaita, Business Coach and Thought Leader HalaBouAlwan, and Monisha Gurkar will lead this dynamic session, in which you will explore your life goals, identify your vision and mission, and set your intentions with the purpose of uncovering your unique gifts and bringing them into the light for success and fulfilment.

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12:30 pm The gorgeous 5-star Mysk Al Badayer Retreat, Sharjah

Lunch and Check-in

• Breaking with old patterns: Led by Monisha Gurkar and Amrika Bhogaita, we will consider what we’ve learnt about ourselves and our desires so far, as well as what’s holding us back from achieving them. Through reflection and meditation, you will start setting positive intentions and draw up a list of patterns and habits that no longer serve you.

• Making scents of it all: A beautiful, creative session led by Monisha Gurkar, in which you will make a scented candle using a special blend of natural oils made just for this retreat. Since scent is very evocative, this will be a powerful companion to your journaling going forward, helping you to tap into your creative, sacred self, intentions and desires.

• Release and surrender under the stars: Carrying our lists of things we wish to surrender, we will hike through the desert under the setting sun to a bonfire in the dunes, where we will cast our lists into the flames in a powerful, symbolic release. We will then settle around the fire for a special sound healing experience offered by Wellness Therapist Anuradha Kamath. Fire is a powerful purifying element, while sound frequencies calm the mind and bring the body into a balanced state, so the combination of the two under the night sky will help you to truly let go.

7:30 pm The gorgeous 5-star Mysk Al Badayer Retreat, Sharjah

Dinner and then to bed

8:00 am The gorgeous 5-star Mysk Al Badayer Retreat, Sharjah

Breakfast

• Mapping your destiny: During this dynamic session, Amrika Bhogaita and Monisha Gurkar will help you to use everything you’ve discovered about your sacred self (your gifts, subconscious dreams and desires, soul purpose) to set positive intentions aligned with your goals, and map a new course in which you are a conscious creator of your destiny. They will also provide you with tools and practices, using your journal, to keep you on track.

• Inner alignment and manifestation through art: Using paints made from natural pigments found in the surrounding environment (extracted from crystals, rocks, etc), you will create an abstract watercolour painting under the tutelage of Artist Tilika Dsouza and Monisha Gurkar. When we create, we weave together inspiration and intuition, tapping into our subconscious, which may influence our choice of colours or reveal buried dreams, thus awakening and manifesting our deepest desires.

11:30 pm The gorgeous 5-star Mysk Al Badayer Retreat, Sharjah

Closing and check-out

Tilika Dsouza

Artist, Art Educator and Paint Maker

Monisha Gurkar

Anuradha Kamath

Wellness coach and Behavioural Therapist

Amrika Bhogaita

Co-Founder ( HAD ), Master’s in Business Psychology with Coaching, and a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

Hala Bou Alwan

Co-Founder, HAD Consultants

Email : hala@hadconsultants.com

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Event opens with welcome drinks and canapes