Creative play to reconnect with your inner Goddess
9-Day Online Navaratri Retreat October 11-19, 2026
An ancient festival of the Goddess, brought into contemporary life through simple daily practice, reflection, and lived experience.
For thousands of years, Navaratri has been a celebration of the Goddess — a time of renewal, courage, and grace.
This retreat invites you to bring that rhythm into your own life, reconnecting with your inner strength, creativity, and flow.
A chance to step out of the noise of everyday life
and return to a deeper sense of yourself —
quietly supported, gently guided, and held in a beautiful container of feminine wisdom
Step away, slow down, and reconnect with yourself through simple daily practices that honour and invite the presence of the Goddess in You
Your Navaratri Workbook
Nine Durgas. Nine Demons. Nine Mantras.
Our journey will be supported by my specially created new Navaratri Workbook, designed to accompany you through the nine sacred nights.
For each of the nine forms of Durga, the workbook includes:
🌺 The story and wisdom of the Navadurga
🌺 The symbolic “demon” she helps us recognise and overcome
🌺 Her individual mantra
🌺 Journal questions and sacred inquiry
🌺 Creative space for reflections and Devi Doodles
🌺 The Durga Bhakti devotional practice
The number 108 returns us again to the sacred number nine:
1 + 0 + 8 = 9
Nine nights. Nine Durgas. Nine demons. Nine mantras—each repeated 108 times as we awaken these sacred qualities within ourselves and surrender what no longer serves us to Durga Maa.
What’s Included
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🌺Durga Bhakti, Navadurga stories, mantras, journal questions and space for reflection
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🌺 A live Durga Devi Doodle class, offering a playful and personal way to explore and embody the Goddess through creativity
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🌺 Guided journal questions and sacred inquiry to help you relate the ancient stories and parables to your own life
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🌺 Daily opportunities for reflection, connection and shared experience within a warm and intimate online community
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🌺 Individual support from Amanda as insights, questions and personal experiences arise during the retreat
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🌺 A concluding sacred fire and ceremonial offering of all we've freed ourselves of during Navaratri. Our collective offerings are surrendered to Durga Maa to create space for her help, protection and grace
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🌺All sessions will be held online, allowing you to enter the sacred rhythm of Navaratri from your own home while remaining connected to a supportive circle of women.
At the conclusion of Navaratri, you may complete the ritual in the way that feels most meaningful and practical for you:
🔥 Fire — safely burn your effigy, surrendering what you are releasing through the transforming power of fire.
🌱 Earth — bury your effigy in the garden and plant a tree or flower above it, allowing the old patterns to become nourishment for new life.
💧 Water — soak the paper in water, break it down with your hands and return it to the garden as mulch.
Nothing elaborate is required. The power of this ritual lies in the honesty, attention and sacred intention we bring to it.
Daily Ritual:
As we journey through the nine forms of Durga, we will explore not only the sacred quality embodied by each Goddess, but also the symbolic “demon” she helps us recognise and overcome.
These demons are not shameful or bad parts of ourselves. They may be fears, limiting beliefs, old habits or protective patterns that once helped us but now keep us from living with greater freedom, courage and joy.
As part of Navaratri, each participant will create simple a small personal effigy from ordinary recycled materials—brown paper, an old paper shopping bag, cardboard, twigs and natural cotton string.
Each day, you will be invited to recognise one pattern you are ready to surrender. You will write it on a small strip of recycled paper or natural cloth and attach it to your effigy.
Day by day, the effigy will take shape, gradually holding all that you have recognised and are ready to release.
You may choose to share your discoveries within our private WhatsApp group, helping to create trust, honesty and compassionate vulnerability within the circle.
Sharing is always optional, and anything you prefer to keep private may remain between you and Durga Maa.
Your Investment
Choose the option that best suits you:
AU$99 — Digital Retreat Package
Includes the complete nine-day Online Navaratri Retreat and a digital copy of the specially created Navaratri Workbook.
AU$129 — Printed Retreat Package
Includes the complete nine-day Online Navaratri Retreat and your own printed copy of the Navaratri Workbook, posted to you within Australia.
Ready to join the journey?
I would love to welcome you into our Online Navaratri experience.
Register Now and receive your complimentary Create Your Sacred Space Starter Kit immediately.
10-Day Navaratri Retreat October 11-21, 2026
with Amanda Ahern
The Way of the Goddess — Transformation, Devotion & Divine Feminine Power
For thousands of years, Navaratri has been a sacred celebration of the Goddess — a festival of renewal, courage, and grace.
In India, these nine nights (and ten days) honour the Divine Feminine in all her aspects — protector, creator, destroyer, muse.
This retreat is your invitation to bring that same sacred rhythm into your own life — to awaken the Goddess within and reconnect with your invisible power, your Shakti.
About the Retreat
Over ten sacred days, Amanda Ahern — artist, author, and spiritual teacher — will guide you on a journey through the faces of the Divine Feminine.
You’ll explore the courage of Durga, the grace of Lakshmi, the wisdom of Saraswati, and the fierce compassion of Kali, learning how to embody their qualities in your own life.
Each session is a living practice — a blend of myth, mantra, meditation, and creativity — designed to help you:
✨ Reclaim your inner strength
✨ Let go of limiting stories
✨ Awaken your creativity and joy
✨ Cultivate peace in the midst of change
You’ll emerge with a renewed sense of purpose, connection, and courage — anchored in devotion and inspired by the living Goddess within you.
We follow the tradition as I have experienced it with the Johari family. They have even created a book which explains what Navaratri is about, and stories of each of the different manifestations of Durga Maa. The mythotherapy is an important part of the experience.
Please download the Kindle version of the book from the link below for participation in Navaratri Online.
Retreat Schedule
Day 1–3:Kali — The Courage of the Heart
Day 4–6: Lakshmi — The Flow of Abundance
Day 7–9: Saraswati — The Voice of Truth and Creativity
Day 10: Dussera— Turning the demons
Who It’s For
This retreat is for you if you feel called to:
reconnect with your feminine power
feel grounded yet inspired
awaken creativity and intuition
live with more meaning, flow, and joy
No previous experience is needed — only a willing heart to meet yourself wherever and however you are.
Retreat Details
📅 When: Navaratri 2025 — Dates October 11-21
📍 Where:TBC but will be on East Coast Australia
💗 Investment: $ 3500 early bird | $3900 standard
🌺 Register: www.amandaahern.com
