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A Sacred Pilgrimage to Devi Kamakhya

In November 2026, we invite an intimate circle of Women to travel with us to Kamakhya,
one of the most revered seats of the Divine Feminine in India and a living centre of Shakta Tantra.

Guided by Karolina Soham and Dori Tsao

There are journeys we choose.
And there are journeys that seem to call us.

In November 2026, we invite an intimate circle of women to travel with us to Kamakhya, one of the most revered seats of the Divine Feminine in India and a living centre of Shakta Tantra.

For ten days, we will remain in Guwahati, Assam, entering into a rhythm of temple pilgrimage, daily Tantrik Goddess embodiment, kriya, mantra, meditation, sacred dance, ritual and sisterhood.

Rather than rushing across India collecting destinations, we stay.
We return to the sacred grounds of Kamakhya.
We practice.
We listen.
We allow our relationship with the place to deepen.

At the centre of our pilgrimage is Maa Kamakhya — the Goddess worshipped not through an anthropomorphic statue, but through the sacred Yoni, continuously nourished by an underground spring.

Within the sacred landscape of Nilachal Hill are temples associated with the Daśa Mahāvidyās — the Ten Great Wisdom Goddesses of Tantra.

Kali · Tara · Tripura Sundari · Bhuvaneshwari · Bhairavi · Chinnamasta · Dhumavati · Bagalamukhi · Matangi · Kamalatmika

These ten forms reveal radically different faces of Shakti — creation and dissolution, beauty and terror, silence and expression, desire and renunciation, sovereignty and surrender.

During our ten days together, these Goddesses become more than mythology.

We meet them in the temple.

We meet them through practice.

And we explore where they already live within us.

This is not simply a retreat.
It is not conventional sightseeing.
It is Yatra — sacred pilgrimage.

A journey from observing the Goddess…
to entering into relationship with Her.

Why Kamakhya

The Womb of the Goddess

You don't just visit Kamakhya. You enter a living field of Shakti.

Kamakhya is one of the most revered Shakti Pīṭhas of India and an important living centre of Shakta Tantra.

According to sacred mythology, after the death of Sati, parts of her body fell across the Indian subcontinent, forming powerful seats of Shakti. Her Yoni — the sacred generative womb — is believed to have fallen at Kamakhya, making this place especially connected with feminine creative power, fertility, desire, transformation and the mysteries of birth, death and renewal.

Unlike many temples, there is no anthropomorphic statue of the Goddess in the innermost sanctum.

Pilgrims descend into the garbhagriha — the womb chamber — where the Goddess is worshipped through a naturally formed sacred cleft in the stone, continuously touched by an underground spring.

Kamakhya is therefore not simply a temple we visit.
She is a living field of Shakti we enter.
This is the heart of our pilgrimage and the inspiration behind its name:
INTO THE GODDESS WOMB

For us, this pilgrimage is not about collecting spiritual experiences.

It is an invitation to descend beneath the identities, roles and stories we carry and listen more intimately to the source from which life itself emerges.

A Living Daśa Mahāvidyā Immersion

The Ten Great Wisdom Goddesses

The Daśa Mahāvidyās are the Ten Great Wisdom Goddesses of Tantra.

They reveal that the Divine Feminine cannot be contained within one expression.
She is creation and destruction.
Beauty and terror.
Silence and speech.
Desire and renunciation.
Abundance and emptiness.

During our pilgrimage, each Goddess becomes a doorway into a different dimension of consciousness.

Liberation · Time · Radical Transformation

Kali

The force that cuts through illusion and everything no longer true.
She invites us to meet impermanence, fear, ego and attachment without turning away.
Her fierce love strips away what is false so that something more essential can remain.

Her invitation: Let go.

Guidance · Compassion · The Voice That Carries Us Across

Tara

The Goddess who guides us through uncertainty transition and the unknown.
She is associated with wisdom, sound, mantra and the compassionate force that carries the seeker across difficult inner waters.

Her invitation: Trust the crossing.

Beauty · Desire · Sacred Pleasure

Tripura Sundari

The radiant Goddess of beauty, desire, harmony and the blissful nature of consciousness.
She teaches that desire does not always have to be rejected; when purified and consciously directed, it can become a pathway toward the Divine.

Her invitation: Recognise the sacred within beauty and longing.

Space · Sovereignty · Expansion

Bhuvaneshwari

Queen of the Universe,and the vast space within which all experience arises.
She invites us to expand beyond contraction and remember the spacious awareness capable of holding every emotion, identity and experience without becoming limited by it.

Her invitation: Become spacious enough to hold it all.

Inner Fire · Discipline · Transformative Power

Bhairavi

Embodies the fierce fire of tapas — the energy of committed spiritual practice and transformation.
She awakens the courage to meet intensity consciously and to direct our life-force toward what truly matters.

Her invitation: Enter the fire willingly.

Surrender · Life Force · Freedom Beyond Ego

Chinnamasta

One of Tantra's most radical images of self-transcendence.
She represents the movement of life-force beyond the ordinary boundaries of ego, as well as the mysterious unity of creation, nourishment, sacrifice and dissolution.

Her invitation: Release the need to control life.

Emptiness · Loss · Ancient Wisdom

Dhumavati

The Goddess of the void, endings, and the wisdom found when familiar structures fall away.
She teaches us to remain present when there is nothing left to grasp and to discover the wisdom hidden inside periods of uncertainty, loss and emptiness.

Her invitation: Discover what remains.

Stillness · Protection · Power of the Word

Bagalamukhi

The power to stop, still and neutralise confusion or harm.
Her energy teaches conscious speech, inner silence and the capacity to pause reactive patterns before they take control.

Her invitation: Become still before you act.

Expression · Creativity · Unconventional Wisdom

Matangi

Associated with speech, music, creativity and wisdom that exists beyond conventional social boundaries.
She invites authentic expression and asks us to reclaim parts of ourselves that may have been rejected, censored or considered unacceptable.

Her invitation: Give your truth a voice.

Abundance · Beauty · Gratitude

Kamalatmika

The lotus Goddess of abundance, nourishment, beauty and prosperity.
She reminds us that spiritual life is not separate from our ability to receive, appreciate and participate fully in the richness of embodied existence.

Her invitation: Open to receive.

These are not ten separate Goddesses competing for our attention.
They are ten doorways into the One Shakti.

During the pilgrimage we meet these energies through temple Darshan, mantra, kriya, meditation, sacred movement, ritual and direct embodied experience.

The question is not only:
Who is this Goddess?
But also:

Where does She already live within me?

FROM THE ONLINE TEMPLE TO THE SACRED LAND

This pilgrimage is a continuation and deepening of our Daśa Mahāvidyā Goddess Immersion — brought from the online temple into the physical sacred geography of Kamakhya.

Our practices weave together:
Tantrik Goddess Embodiment · Kriya · Mantra · Meditation · Mudra · Goddess Dance · Mythology · Ritual · Self-Inquiry · Women’s Circles

The practices are not separate from the pilgrimage.
The temple becomes part of the practice.
The practice prepares us to enter the temple.

And the experiences of the temple are brought back into the body through movement, breath, contemplation and ritual.

Temple → Practice → Embodiment → Integration

Again and again. For ten days.

This Pilgrimage May Be for You If…

You are not simply looking for another journey.
You are standing at a threshold.

You simply feel Her calling you closer.
You do not come to Kamakhya demanding a transmission.
You come available to receive.
And perhaps the question is no longer:
“Why would I go?”

But:

“What is waiting to be born through me when I enter the Goddess Womb?”

This Is Not a Luxury Retreat

India has a rhythm unlike almost anywhere else.

Kamakhya is a living pilgrimage site — intense, devotional, crowded, unpredictable and extraordinarily alive.

Temple queues may sometimes take 3–5 hours.
Schedules may shift.

There may be noise, heat, crowds, early mornings, waiting, barefoot walking and moments when surrender becomes part of the practice.

We do not want to sterilise this experience.
We want to meet it consciously.

There will also be generous periods of free time for sleep, integration, journaling, massage, exploring Guwahati, sitting quietly with tea or simply doing nothing.

Our intention is to create enough structure to hold the journey — and enough spaciousness to allow the journey itself to teach us.

10 Days in the Field of the Goddess

The Rhythm of Our Pilgrimage

Rather than following a rigid retreat timetable, our days move according to the living rhythm of Kamakhya, temple schedules and the needs of the group.

The precise order may change, but the essential structure of our pilgrimage remains the same.

Morning

Daily Morning Sadhana

Each day begins with personal or guided sādhana to prepare the body, mind and energetic field for the temple experience.

Our morning practice may weave together:
Meditation · Mantra · Mudra · Breath · Contemplation · Goddess Practice
Morning sādhana becomes the bridge between our inner world and the sacred sites we enter.

Threshold

Kamakhya Darshan

During our pilgrimage, we will enter the main Kamakhya Temple for two significant Darshan experiences, including an early-morning temple experience.

We descend into the womb chamber of the Goddess for prayer, presence and direct encounter with one of India’s most revered seats of Shakti.

These are not simply temple visits.
They are central thresholds within our Yatra.

Daytime

Daily Daśa Mahavidya temple pilgrimage

Across our ten days together, we enter the sacred temple landscape of Kamakhya and the Daśa Mahāvidyās.

Our days include visits to the Mahāvidyā temples, Darshan, meditation, prayer, teachings and space to encounter each Goddess within her sacred setting.

There will be time for Prasad, prayer, meditation and personal connection.

We are not only learning about the Goddesses.
We are meeting them in place.

Evening

Daily Evening Kriya & Goddess Embodiment

Each evening we return to the body.
Through approximately one hour of guided practice, we integrate what has been activated through the temples and experiences of the day.

Our evening practices weave together:
Kriya · Goddess Embodiment · Mantra · Meditation · Mudra · Sacred Movement · Goddess Dance · Mythology · Self-Inquiry · Integration

This daily return to practice is one of the central pillars of the pilgrimage.

Woven Into Our Ten Days

Sacred Ceremonies

SPACE TO INTEGRATE

Not every hour will be programmed.

There will be free mornings or afternoons depending on the rhythm of the temples and our journey.
This space is intentional.

Rest.
Journal.
Receive a massage.
Drink tea.
Explore Guwahati.
Return to a temple.
Sit in silence.
Or simply sleep.

Pilgrimage can move deeply through the body and psyche.
Integration is part of the practice.

Follow the Goddess's Plan

A NOTE ABOUT OUR SCHEDULE

This pilgrimage follows a living schedule rather than a fixed retreat timetable.

Temple opening hours, ritual days, religious ceremonies, queues, weather and local conditions may require us to change the order or timing of individual activities.

Some Kamakhya Darshan experiences may involve several hours of waiting.
We therefore ask every participant to arrive with flexibility, patience and openness.

The organisers reserve the right to adjust the daily schedule while maintaining the essential elements of the pilgrimage:
Kamakhya Darshan · Daśa Mahāvidyā Temples · Morning Sādhana · Evening Kriya · Ritual · Embodiment · Integration

Sometimes the Goddess changes the plan.
And that too becomes part of the Yatra.

Two Ways to Join Us

Choose the Level of Support That Lets You Be Present

We recognise that women come to India with very different levels of travel experience.

Some of you have travelled through India many times and feel completely comfortable organising your own hotel, airport transfers and daily logistics.

Others want to arrive, exhale and know that the practical details have already been taken care of. For this reason, we offer two pathways.

Independent Travel
Sacred Program
$999

10 Days

$799

5 Days

Best for experienced travellers and women already comfortable travelling independently in India.
You organise your own journey to Guwahati, accommodation, airport transfers, meals and personal transportation.
We provide the sacred container.

***Not included:
Accommodation, airport transfers, personal transportation outside scheduled group arrangements, meals unless specifically stated as Prasad or part of a ceremony.

Come to Guwahati. Exhale.
Fully Supported Pilgrimage
$1888

10 Days

$1222

5 Days

Let us take care of the practical foundations so you can give your energy to the pilgrimage itself.
This pathway is designed especially for women travelling to India for the first time, women who prefer additional support, or anyone who simply does not want to spend her pilgrimage organising hotels and logistics.

Everything in the Sacred Program, plus:

You remain responsible for booking your international/domestic flights and obtaining your Indian visa, but we will provide guidance so that you know exactly what needs to be organised.

***Not included:
Additional meals beyond the one organised meal per day / stated Prasad, individual taxis or transportation outside the scheduled pilgrimage.

Not included in either pathway: international/domestic flights, Indian visa/ e-Visa fees, travel insurance, personal shopping and souvenirs, massages/Ayurvedic treatments, SIM/ mobile data, personal tips and donations, additional temple offerings or individually requested rituals/ pujas, medical expenses, and travel before or after the pilgrimage.

Why Two Options?

India can be extraordinarily rewarding — and extraordinarily intense.
For an experienced India traveller, arranging a hotel, taxi and meals may feel completely natural. For a first-time visitor, the same practical details can consume a surprising amount of energy.

We want you to choose consciously.

Independent Traveller

"Give me the practice, temples and sacred container. I can navigate the rest."

Fully Supported Pilgrim

"I want to arrive and place my attention on the experience. Please take care of the foundations for me."

Neither pathway is “more spiritual.”
Choose the level of support that allows you to be most present.

What Makes This Pilgrimage Different

We Stay Long Enough for Relationship to Develop

We are not travelling across India collecting sacred sites.
We stay in one place long enough for relationship to develop.
For ten days, Kamakhya becomes our temple, classroom and living practice ground.
We combine outer pilgrimage with inner sādhana.
You don’t simply visit Kali’s temple.
You meet Kali through the body.
You don’t simply encounter Bhuvaneshwari.
You sit in meditation with her spaciousness.
You don’t simply attend sacred fire.
You bring your own prayers into it.

The journey moves repeatedly between:

Temple → Direct Experience → Embodied Practice → Integration → Temple

This rhythm is the heart of our pilgrimage.

Your Guides

Two Women, Ten Wisdom Goddesses,
One Pilgrimage

KAROLINA SOHAM from Lithuania

E-RYT 500 · YACEP · Founder, Goddess Wisdom Academy Shakta Tantra · Goddess Embodiment · Sacred Pilgrimage

Karolina Soham is an internationally certified E-RYT 500 teacher and YACEP provider, with more than 1,000 hours of training in Yoga, Tantra and Tantric Goddess traditions. For over six years, she has guided women through Goddess embodiment journeys, retreats, facilitator trainings, mentorships and sacred pilgrimages across Europe and Asia.
Her relationship with India began with a profound sense of recognition.

“When I first arrived in Rishikesh in early 2020, something in me recognised the land. The colours, sounds, rituals, chaos and devotion felt strangely familiar — as though I had returned rather than arrived.”

What began as spiritual study became life. Karolina went on to spend approximately four years living in India, as well as two years in Taiwan.

Through marriage into an Indian family, daily life, pilgrimage and practice, her relationship with India deepened far beyond that of a visiting seeker.
India became Mother India — Bharat Mata: a land, culture and spiritual tradition to which she feels profound gratitude and devotion.

Karolina has since organised and facilitated women's programs, certified facilitator trainings, retreats and spiritual journeys in India, including a two-week Shiva–Shakti pilgrimage, weaving sacred sites with sādhana, ritual and embodied practice.

Initiated into the Sri Vidya path and devoted to Shakti, particularly Maa Kali and the Daśa Mahāvidyās, her work bridges traditional Goddess wisdom with direct embodied experience through mantra, shakti kriya, meditation, mudra, yantra, feminine ritual and Goddess Dance.

Karolina invites women to encounter India not as something exotic to consume, but as a living sacred culture to enter with humility, curiosity and reverence.

Oṁ Śrī Mātre Namaḥ

DORI TSAO from Taiwan

A Devoted Sādhak · A Kriya Yogini​

The journey began with a simple question:

“What do you know about yoga?”

What started as a question gradually became a path of devotion, discipline, and self-realisation.

Dori is a devoted sadhak and Kriya Yogini, walking a path deeply rooted in the ancient traditions of Tantra and Kriya Yoga. Guided by her Guru beyond the limitations of physical form, she continues to explore the depth of yoga not merely as a practice, but as a living path toward the recognition of the essential Self.

Her journey has taken her to some of the most sacred and powerful places across India and the Himalayas — from the deep-rooted Tantrika traditions of Maa Kamakhya Temple, one of the most revered seats of the Divine Feminine, to the sacred landscapes surrounding Mount Kailash, regarded as a profound symbol of pure consciousness and the cosmic axis.

She has walked through the Himalayan mountains, immersed herself in the waters of Mother Ganga, and, above all, devoted herself to the quiet discipline of daily Kriya practice.

For Dori, pilgrimage is not simply about travelling to sacred places. It is an inner journey.

The Kriya tradition she follows is deeply connected to the Tantric understanding of Shakti, the dynamic power of consciousness. Through movement, breath, prana, and the body understood as a living mandala, Kriya becomes a practice of embodied wisdom — transforming spiritual understanding from something conceptual into something directly experienced.

Through consistent sadhana, the practitioner gradually creates the conditions for a higher possibility to emerge: the recognition of the essential Self, and the sacred reunion of Shiva and Shakti — pure consciousness and its dynamic power.

As a devotee of Maa Kamakhya, Dori continues to study with teachers and practitioners from different lineages and parts of the world, approaching Tantra not simply as a philosophy to be understood, but as a wisdom to be lived through prana, devotion, embodied practice, and the intelligence of the Divine Feminine.

Her path continues to unfold through practice, pilgrimage, study, and devotion.

“Yoga, for her, is not something to be performed. It is a way of remembering who we truly are.”

Hari Oṁ Tat Sat

Two women.
Ten Wisdom Goddesses.
One sacred pilgrimage.

And a circle of women willing to enter.

Before We Meet in India

You will receive practical preparation information before departure covering:

Arrival in Guwahati

Travel insurance

Money & currency

Cultural considerations

How to prepare your personal intention for the pilgrimage

Recommended flight timing

What to pack

Health & travel preparation

What to expect at Kamakhya

Indian visa / e-Visa

Temple clothing & etiquette

Communication within the group

Physical demands of temple days

We will also connect as a group before arriving so that the pilgrimage begins before we step onto the sacred grounds of Kamakhya.

Questions

Frequently Asked

A sincere curiosity and willingness to practice are more important than previous knowledge.
Women already familiar with Goddess traditions will have an opportunity to deepen their practice, while newcomers will be guided through the foundations necessary for the journey.
Not if you choose the Fully Supported Pilgrimage.
If India is completely new to you, this is the pathway we recommend.
The Sacred Program / Independent Travel option is designed primarily for experienced travellers and women already comfortable organising their own accommodation and logistics in India.
Your destination is Guwahati, Assam, India. Detailed arrival guidance and recommended arrival times will be shared with registered participants.
No. Women join us from different parts of the world, so each participant books the flight itinerary that suits her point of departure.
Only in the Fully Supported Pilgrimage ($1,888 for 10 nights/ $1,222 for 5 nights)10 or 5 nights in a carefully selected semi-premium hotel in Guwahati. Independent participants arrange their own.
The Fully Supported Pilgrimage includes one organised meal per day, alongside Prasad where specifically included in our pilgrimage.
Other meals, drinks and personal food choices remain your responsibility.
The Independent Sacred Program does not include daily meals.
Our pilgrimage is centred around Kamakhya and the sacred temples associated with the Daśa Mahāvidyā tradition on and around Nilachal Hill.
The exact sequence of temple visits may change according to opening times, ceremonies, accessibility and local conditions.
Our deeper encounter with all ten Mahāvidyās unfolds through temple pilgrimage, teachings and daily embodiment practices.
Expect walking, stairs, standing, barefoot temple visits, crowds and periods of waiting.
Some temple queues may take 3–5 hours.
We intentionally balance more demanding pilgrimage periods with free time for recovery and integration.
Not exactly.
A retreat often removes us from the intensity of ordinary life.
Pilgrimage asks us to meet life differently.
Kamakhya is active, crowded, devotional and alive.
Rather than creating an isolated retreat bubble, we enter into relationship with an existing sacred culture and living temple tradition.
Yes.
Temple schedules, religious events, weather, queues and local circumstances can change unexpectedly.
We reserve the right to adjust the sequence and timing of the pilgrimage while preserving its essential elements and integrity.
Flexibility is part of the practice.

YOUR INVESTMENT

Sacred Program
$999

10 Days

$799

5 Days

For experienced and independent travellers
Fully Supported Pilgrimage
$1,888

10 Days

$1,222

5 Days

Accommodation · Airport Transfers · Scheduled Local Transportation · One Organised Meal Daily · Practical Pilgrimage Support
A Pilgrimage Begins With a Yes

Perhaps you have been thinking about India for years.

Perhaps Kamakhya appeared unexpectedly.

Perhaps you have already been working with the Mahāvidyās and want to meet these Goddesses within the sacred landscape where their worship is profoundly alive.

Or perhaps you cannot explain it rationally at all —

Something in you simply recognises the invitation.

Spaces are intentionally limited to preserve the intimacy of the pilgrimage.

CONTACT & PILGRIMAGE QUESTIONS

Please first take a moment to read through the Frequently Asked Questions.

If your question isn’t answered there, Karolina & Dori are happy to support you. You’re also welcome to arrange a complimentary discovery call with us if you would like to feel into whether this pilgrimage is the right journey for you.

Contact: kamakhya.goddess@gmail.com

We look forward to connecting with you.

JAI MAA