The time is approaching for this year to end and another one to begin. This is the opportunity for us to contemplate on our life event of this year and to carry forward the learning into the next phase. Lets take one more step towards understanding ourselves and realizing our destiny.
We invite you to join us for 6 nights and 7 days (starting from 10th Jan: 1:00 PM till 16th Jan: 11:00 AM) for an spiritual yoga retreat in the glorious city of bells.
The Host -The Trip is hosted by our experienced and practicing Yoga Teacher Nidhi Thakur. She has been practicing yoga for more than 5 years and holds an Yoga Alliance International accreditation. She teaches yoga to all age groups and she finds herself really fortunate to bring a difference in her practitioner's lives. She believes that Yoga needs to be applied into one's every aspect of life in order to understand its true objective.
Retreat Specifics-
*Begin your day with a traditional hatha yoga practice at dawn.
*Workshops on practicing various cleansing techniques (part of Shatkriyas) such as Neti, Dhauti, kapalbhati, Shankh Prakshalan and Tratak.
*Workshops on Pranayams such as Nadishodhan (Alternate nostril breathing), Ujjayi (the victorious breath), Bhramri (the humming bee breath) etc.
*Daily Awareness practice to improve mind and body coordination.
*Dynamic Mediation
*Every evening restorative Yoga practice for better sleep.
*Open sessions to speak your heart out and listen to one another to improve the community bonding and to learn to look at life from various perspectives. without the feeling of judgement.
Guided Trips- Apart from daily yoga workshops the retreat includes guided tour to all the popular places in and around Varanasi. There will be a day trip to Sarnath wherein we will visit Chaukhandi Stupa, Ashoka Pillar, Thai Temple, Tibetan temple, Deer Park etc. Since Varanasi is known for its Ghats, we will be visiting all the Ghats to experience the very soul of the city. One of our organizer is Varanasi local hence there will always be assurance of travelling through correct routes, eating at safe places, visiting to all the popular attraction.
Food- Although we respect everyone's food choices but we would only be offering vegetarian food which is prepared by our in-house nutritionist. We will be offering various traditional delicacies such as kachori (puri stuffed with lentils) served with potato gravy, gud sharbat (traditional jaggery juice) with roasted chana, roasted millet, malaiyo, traditional beetle leaves etc.
Festival Highlights- There is a major festival "Makar Sankranti" aka "The Kite Festival" On the 14th Jan. The festival holds a significant space in Indian culture and considerd very important day for spiritual practices. Trust me, you are going to fall in love with this festive season.
Important note- The retreat begins on 10th Jan and ends on 16th Jan with check in being at 01:00 PM and checkout being at 11:00 AM. We suggest you to plan your travel accordingly. We will make arrangements to welcome you at the airport and also to see you off but to make these arrangements we request you to share your travel details at least one week prior to the retreat.
06:00 AM- Good Morning.
06:30-08:00 AM- Yoga session.
08:30 AM- Breakfast.
09:30- 11:00- Meditation and pranayama practice.
13:00-14:00- Lunch.
14:00- 19:00- Scheduled trips in and around Varanasi.
20:00- Dinner.
21:00- Restorative yoga session, group discussion, jamming.
22:00- Good Night.