Goa Yoga Retreat (Swedish) - Jennie Wadsten Sharma

This is a Swedish-language yoga retreat in Goa, India, led by the yoga teacher Jennie Wadsten Sharma of YogaLeela. It runs for a week and is meant for people who want time away from a busy schedule to practise yoga, rest and come back to everyday life feeling calmer and more focused. The Goa yoga retreat is held in Swedish, and Jennie also teaches a parallel retreat in English.

What Past Participants Say

The retreat is described by those who have attended as caring and supportive. Guests write of coming home calm, inspired and energised, and of staying focused back at work. One participant came to her first ever retreat and called the week positive and relaxing. Another said she was glad to have carved out time for herself in a full life, and plans to return.

About Jennie Wadsten Sharma

Jennie Wadsten Sharma is a yoga teacher, trainer and founder of YogaLeela, born in Sweden in 1977. She fell in love with yoga in 1997 and has taught since 2005. For many years she worked full time as an accountant in the IT and media sector, until her passion for yoga took over. In 2005 she founded YogaLeela, and she has worked full time as a yoga teacher and business consultant since then.

For Jennie, teaching yoga is about helping people cultivate awareness, self-compassion and strength, and then carry those qualities into everyday life. Her style is warm, enthusiastic and encouraging, and draws on extensive knowledge of anatomy and psychology. She is passionate about how yoga can balance the nervous system and help us feel centred under stress, so that everyday decisions line up with what matters to us.

Through YogaLeela she also teaches courses in Yoga Nidra and Yin Yoga, offered in both Swedish and English, along with mentoring for yoga teachers.

Before You Go

This retreat is taught in Swedish. The same teacher leads a retreat in Goa in English for those who prefer it. First-time retreat guests have attended and spoken warmly of the experience, so you do not need to be an old hand at retreats.

Places on the Swedish Goa retreat are fully booked, and a waiting list is open. Many of Jennie's retreats fill before they are announced publicly. The best way to hear early is to join the list of interest, which carries no commitment. Those on it receive an email with dates, details and an early bird offer as soon as a new retreat is ready.

Further yoga retreats are being planned, among them a Swedish-language summer retreat in Sweden, Swedish and English retreats in Ibiza led together with Emilia Löf-Karlsson, and another Swedish retreat in Goa that Jennie will lead with Josefin Wikström.