In Person:
PROUT Healing the World
(A Three-Day Retreat for Cooperation and Personal Growth)
Dates & Location
July 15-18th, 2026
Avnø Oasis Ecovillage, Denmark
Presentation #1: What do Women Bring to the Table?
Speaker – Didi Devanistha
Didi Devanistha travels internationally as a parent educator and instructor trainer with the International Association of Infant Massage and Infant Massage USA.
She serves as an acharya in Ananda Marga, where she teaches meditation and a yogic lifestyle. She has worked with Prout organisations for over 45 years, advocating for progressive social change. Currently, she serves on the Prout Research Institute Asheville Board, as part of the PU Global Advisory Board, and on the Ananda Marga NYS Advisory Board.
She has five grown children and seven grandchildren.
Brief workshop outline
As we work toward long-lasting and effective change in the world, what do women bring to the table? I suspect that we bring some vitally important skills and knowledge that have been missed in our current imbalanced, capitalistic and competitive society. Let’s explore together, in a guided conversation, what this knowledge and these skills are, and how Proutists and women can use them to change the world.
Presentation #2: Leadership as Service
Speaker – Alberta Pedroja, PhD (Amma Devii)
Alberta Pedroja, PhD (Amma Devii), spent over 30 years in hospital administration, focusing on systems design and performance improvement. This required a clear understanding of the conditions under which people and organizations shift their behaviors, practices, attitudes, and mental models. Her doctorate in Applied Statistics prepared her to produce groundbreaking work on nonlinear models, more commonly known as tipping points, patterns that accompany paradigm shifts.
She is the Board Chair for the Neohumanist College of Asheville, USA, which is advancing a new kind of education and leadership, and she is an active member of the Cascadia Prout Collective. She is a committed practitioner of meditation and yoga for over 50 years.
Brief talk outline
Alberta “Ammadevi” Pedroja will take you through a hands-on presentation that will enable you to step into your leadership style without sacrificing your authentic self. She will provide you with truly inspiring examples of leaders who quietly but assuredly changed the trajectory through the use of a neohumanist framework and provide you with principles and practice in applying these.
Presentation #3: Music for social transformation
Speaker – Kiiranamayi
Kiranamayii is a music teacher specialized in facilitating and directing choir singing. She has 18 years of experience from the Danish educational system, teaching music and language in Danish High Schools as well as from projects with different Danish choirs and vocal groups, both as a director, pianist and as a singer. She works currently in a Waldorf High School, where she teaches music theory, analysis, ensemble-play and choir. She also works more widely with pedagogy and coaching of students in different projects about music, artcraft, literature and personal development.
Brief workshop outline
In this workshop, all Sisters are invited to let their personal voice melt into a powerful collective sound to let us feel our powerful dynamic and potential together. Tuning in together with harmonies and songs that anchor us in the proutist values, strengthen us in our faith and hope for the future and help us to rise and stand up for these values in these challenging times, collectively and individually. Let the art- and practice of music connect us to the creativity within ourselves as a way to hold on to humanity.
Presentation #4: Experiential Learning: Building Resilience
Speaker – Kumari Pooja
K. Pooja is a PhD researcher in Applied AI at DTU, Denmark, and a dedicated sádhaka for the past seven years.
She integrates Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti’s rational and practical teachings deeply into her daily life. Her academic journey has taken her across India, France, and now Denmark – exploring fields from Space Science and Medical Technology to Material Science – all pursued independently. Yet, her deepest understanding and resilience have emerged not from research alone, but through Baba’s discourses and the living application of his PROUT ideas in the real world.
Brief workshop outline
In this uncertain world, don’t we all feel that knot of doubt when it’s time to actually use our skills and training to earn a living or just get through daily life? Will we make it successfully, especially with all the scary news about AI and the digital world sweeping away jobs? The question that keeps haunting us is: Will my work—everything I’ve built—suddenly become obsolete with these relentless changes? In this workshop, we will use Baba’s teachings and shared experiences to build practical and psychological resilience, allowing you to confidently thrive amid constant change.
Presentation #5: Political & Economic Democracy and Venezuela
Speaker – Didi A. Sadhana
Avtk. Ananda Sadhana A’carya was born in Holland and has lived and worked for the last 48 years in different countries, teaching the principles of self-realisation and service to humanity. Presently, she works in Venezuela.
Brief talk outline
Political democracy has turned into “domonocracy”. The solution lies in economic democracy. How this is playing out in Venezuela.
Presentation #6: Seeds of Sadvipra: Claiming our Rights
Shri Ashrita Verrill is a consultant and strategic planning advisor whose work asks the same question at every scale: how do communities govern themselves through transitions they didn’t choose? Holding a Master of Science in tidal restoration ecology and certified as an Ecological Restoration Practitioner, she founded Sunrise Ecologic, LLC to bring that question directly into Maine’s coastal towns — managing federally funded climate adaptation projects, developing governance charters for volunteer climate action committees, and serving on the Boothbay Planning Board and the Executive Committee of the Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission. As Board President of the Alliance for Economic Democracy and former Director of Strategic Planning for WWD-F, she has helped build cooperative governance frameworks at the regional and national scale; as former Core Team Leader of the Proutist Universal Global Strategic Planning Process, she has carried that work into international territory, working across the Americas and Europe with communities building toward collective self-determination. Seeds of Sadvipra is the distillation of everything she has learned: governance is not something communities adopt from the outside, but something they naturally express when supported by strong moral foundations, clear cooperative principles, and skilled facilitation.
Speaker – Shri Verrill
Brief workshop outline
Seeds of Sadvipra is a minimum 90-minute experiential governance workshop designed as a role-playing board game specifically for the Prout Sisters Retreat, building on last year’s presentation at the Prout Convention on vrittis in group collaborative work. Participants will gather around a three-foot circular game board oriented to the compass directions of the room, form into up to six groups, and journey outward from the center through three rounds of play using the embodied metaphor of carrying a cauldron of sacred water that must arrive hot to the destination. Each round surfaces a different layer of governance patterning, physical, psychic, and psycho-spiritual, with competitive team dynamics used deliberately to make invisible habits visible rather than to manufacture artificial consensus. At the horizon ring, close to the cosmic edge, teams encounter five Sadvipra governance boards, represented as glowing temple-tents, signifying the destination where the cauldron must be delivered. Before arriving, each participant must enter the Bodhi field and reflect inward to find which function lives most strongly in themselves. The workshop does not close with a finished governance structure, but with a room of sisters who have practiced seeing together, which is the first skill any Sadvipra board requires. We will plant the seed together.
Presentation #7: From Inner Balance to Social Balance: A PROUT Approach to Healing Communities
Speaker – Didi A. Madhupurna.
A. Madhupurna is an educator and nonprofit leader with extensive experience directing early childhood centres, managing social service programs, and building international volunteer networks across Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, and the United States. She has strengthened school accreditation, including improving one preschool from meeting the requirements to excellent.” Her work spans educational leadership, community development, youth mentoring, and yoga‑meditation teaching, supported by a Master’s in Education Management and broad accredited training in early childhood education and leadership.
Brief workshop outline
This workshop explores how personal inner balance becomes the foundation for social harmony and community well‑being. Through reflection, storytelling, art, and interactive activities, participants discover how PROUT principles—such as cooperation, ethical leadership, and meeting basic human needs—can transform individual awareness into collective healing. The session offers practical tools for nurturing resilience, strengthening relationships, and building communities rooted in dignity, compassion, and shared responsibility.
Daily Structure (Overview)
• Morning: Early meditation, kiirtan, and asanas
• Mid-Morning: Workshops and talks (Programs 1, 2, 3, etc.)
• Midday: Lunch, rest, and time to connect
• Afternoon: Additional workshops, group reflection, and kiirtan
• Evening: Cultural program, singing, and deeper bonding
Participation Fee:
€120 (full price)
€100 (for seniors, students, or unemployed)
Contribution above €120 (So other women can attend)
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