JAYĀ SARASWATĪ — FOR THE LOVE OF WISDOM AND THE WISDOM OF LOVE
Jaya and Saraswatī met on Lake Atitlán, Guatemala during a yoga teacher training they found themselves teaching together… discovering a shared passion of yoga philosophy, sound, music, mantra and bhakti yoga, they began co-facilitating Kula Collective yoga teacher trainings and transformational retreats at their Guatemalan retreat center of The Yoga Forest on Lake Atitlán and around the world. Co-creating the Sound Ceremony trainings they now specialise in teaching, offered 3 times a year in Guatemala and the Advanced medicine Illumination Retreat offered in Peru.
Starting a family in 2017, they have two sons; Elijah Rumi, and Rafael James. Transitioning on from The Yoga Forest in late 2022, they are now hosting at Casa Floresta, a new family home and intimate ceremonial space on the lake front of the magnificent Lake Atitlan. They offer sacred sound and medicine retreats from their family home setting.
JAYAJI
Jayaji is the pen name for Australian born James Roland Hillcoat. He a modern day contemplative and is renowned for his oration and words of wisdom as well as being the author of several publications of sacred song and verse.
A musician, sound healer and chant leader, the founder of the Sound Ceremony Academy and Floresta Atitlán . His main focus is as Founder and Director of the Forest Path where he acts as ritual leader and multidisciplinary spiritual guide in his home of Guatemala where he lives with his wife and two children, Elijah Rumi and Rafael James.
Jaya started on the contemplative path at a young age with some of his earliest memories significantly impacting the way he views and understands the world. His teaching is direct and clear stemming from the world’s wisdom traditions and spoken from a place of felt presence. At the age of 14 he discovered psychedelics and by 22 he was guiding people on intimate initiations into that world. He started serving Ayahuasca in 2015 which has led him around the world and to a living ritual where his teachings come alive.
Learn more about his mystical verse and poetry books here.
SARASWATĪ
Hayley Saraswatī embodies the essence of the creative Mother, balancing loving softness with a graceful strength. Her powerful presence inspires and empowers others to step into their full potential, through vibrant authenticity and awakening to the expansive joy of the heart.
Since creating The Yoga Forest, the Conscious Living Retreat Center she founded in 2009, Saraswatī has wholeheartedly offered herself through the path of devotion; offering kirtan, sound ceremonies, voice workshops and singing circles, Forest Path medicine retreats and Sound Ceremony Trainings for the past decade and a half. Her dedication to creating and holding a safe space allows the veils to fall away, inspiring spontaneous expression and the authentic embodiment of the Truth - all is Love.
Weaving together her passion for ceremony, beauty and natural design, she has since designed and created Kula Maya Boutique Hotel & Spa, and the recently built Casa Floresta family home and Ceremonial Center.
Hayley Saraswatī is also one of seven co-founding members of the Kula Collective, an organization weaving together diverse holistic experiences and educational yoga offerings through combined passions and a collective intention of global awakening.