VG is away from the world, hidden in rural Mid Devon. You can drop and relax with spiritual practice, nature and wholesome home-cooked vegan food. There’s a gentle rule with morning and evening meditation, walks, eating together and optional tasks in the garden, orchard, woodland and fields.
Viveka is a Sanskrit term meaning discernment, or wisdom, or coming to understand the true reality. The retreat place is entirely vegan, and the 8.5 acre land is managed with no animal inputs and to encourage biodiversity. Gardens describes the different outdoor spaces here, and evokes a gentle Eden.
I hope to have curated a place where nourishment happens at all levels of our being, and transformation can unfold.
I’m Fiona, the founder and facilitator at Viveka Gardens.
My desire, through yoga practices and offering hospitality, is to facilitate space for deep rest and flowing peace, shabbath and shalom. It is my experience that in this space Spirit can flow, be felt and inform us. Celtic spirituality invokes a thin place, a liminal world between worlds. I and visitors find that here, and through the practices within.
I trained as a yoga teacher in 2001 in a traditional school, and had a long apprenticeship with that organisation. This was while raising a family in London, working in adult education and community food growing. A faith journey followed in, and out, of the church. I explore spirituality, practice and meaning in my substack essays.
I offer coaching as a way to support inner transformation and action in the world, and spiritual accompaniment alongside others on their path. In 2023 I confirmed a focus of working with women here at VG, and our life journey, and am developing work around diagnosis, dying, death and ceremony.
A warm welcome to friends new and old.
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