YOGA INDIA.
Your custom itinerary.
NORTH INDIA CULTURE RETREAT : EXPLORE, HERITAGE, ADVENTURE
| Date | Location | Hotel | Meals | Yoga | Highlights (optional) |
| 1st March | Jaipur | 4* | D | PM | Arrival, evening campfire. |
| 2nd March | Jaipur | 4* | B, L & D | AM + PM | Heera Panna Kund , Amber fort, Hike on Jaipur Amber Wall |
| 3rd March | Jaipur | 4* | B, L & D | AM + PM | Elephant feeding, Painting, hugging and Walking with Elephants. |
| 4th March | Jaipur | 4* | B, L & D | AM + PM | Jaigarh fort, Nahargarh Fort and Evening Aarti in Krishna temple. |
| 5th March | Jaipur | 4* | B, L & D | AM + PM | Heritage city Walk, Hawa Mahal, City Palace and Jantar Mantra |
| 6th March | Jaipur | 4* | B, L & D | AM + PM | Block Printing, Precious stone Carvings and Carpet Making |
| 7th March | Jaipur | 4* | B, L & D | AM | Holika Dahen |
| 8th March | Jaipur | 4* | B, L & D | Festive day | Playing Holi with Colours |
| 9th March | Jaipur | 4* | B | Departure |
* Itinerary subject to adjustments due to weather, guide availability
DAY 1: DELHI/MUMBAI > JAIPUR
Flight: -Mumbai/Delhi-Jaipur
Included activity:
– Evening Basic yoga class – Pre-dinner campfire Today we’ll make our way to Jaipur. This week, we’ll explore our outer relationship to yoga: By visiting Temples of deities such as Shiva, Vishnu and Lord Krishna, by visiting forts and palaces and by Hiking on old walls of Amber on the Aravali Hills. Jaipur is one of the best Heritage and Cultural destinations of India.
The retreat begins after 3pm at our Hotel. We’ll arrange your driver to pick you up at Jaipur airport or Jaipur Railway Station.
DAY 2: JAIPUR
Included activity:
– Morning Shat Karma(Body cleaning techniques) and Hatha Yoga.
– Evening Pranayam and Meditation.
– After Dinner Bhajan and Chanting.
– Guided walk or hike to Amber wall on Aravali Hills and Amber fort.
Optional additional activity**:
– Spa
A day in nature! And exercise! Wake up and honor the day with meditation and asana dedicated to connecting with our inner spiritual seeker.
This day will be dedicated to connecting with the natural beauty of the region.
After breakfast you will have the option to hike to Amber Fort and Amber Fort wall. Later visit Heera Panna Kund a reservoir for Amber local people.
You’ll visit locals of Amer to witness the culture of the region in a more intimate setting.
We’ll return to our hotel for lunch, after which you may choose to nap, read, visit the spa. Late afternoon will take us on a short walk to the banks of the lake near the amber fort to see illuminated Amber Fort.
DAY 3: JAIPUR
Included activity:
– Morning Shat Karma and Ashtanga yoga.
– Evening Pranayam and Meditation.
– After Dinner Bhajan and Chanting.
– Elephant Activities like Feeding, hugging, Painting with natural colours and at the end walking with the elephants.
Optional additional activity**:
– Cycle ride in Amber
After breakfast, we will visit Anokhi Museum where you will learn about the natural Block printing on the cloths. Later visit the Gators ki Chatriya, a royal family cremation ground.
After Lunch visit the Elephant Village. Here there are fun and relaxing activities waiting for us. First there will be integration with the elephant where the elephants we recognise you and your smell and make you there friends.
Elephants one of the favourite food is sugarcane so there you will feed them the sugarcane with your own hand. Later with natural colours and bamboo brush you will paint on the elephants whatever you like, because of the bamboo brush the elephants feel ticklish and they
love it. After that you will have a walk with the elephants(we are strictly against riding the elephants). We will end our elephant village tour by giving them the Bananas as the dessert.
DAY 4: JAIPUR
Included activity:
– Morning Shat Karma, Basic Yoga and Surya Namaskar.
– Evening Pranayam and Meditation.
– After Dinner Bhajan and Chanting.
Optional activity*:
– Workshop of Tye Dye and block printing($119/PP)
A day in Nature. After breakfast, the people who signed up for workshop will go for workshop.
This experience is provided by us at additional cost (approx $119USD per person) but we find this activity well worth it!
Rest will go and visit Jaigarh fort and Nahargarh fort.
Afternoon and early evening is unscheduled save an hour for gentle Pranayam and meditation. You may enjoy a restful day by the pool.
Later in the evening we will go to the Govind dev ji temple for evening Aarti.
At dinner we will meet by the camp fire and enjoy a satsang dedicated to sharing our experiences and favorite moments of our travels so far.
DAY 5: JAIPUR
Included activity:
– Morning Shat Karma and Acro yoga.
– Evening Pranayam and Meditation.
– After Dinner Bhajan and Chanting.
– Old Jaipur Heritage Walk, Wind Palace, Observatory and City Palace.
Optional additional activity**: –Spa
After morning yoga and breakfast, you will have a Heritage walk of old Jaipur. Visit of Hawamahal, Jantar Mantar and City Palace
Afternoon free to relax and enjoy your pool.
DAY 6: JAIPUR
Included activity:
– Morning Shat Karma and Vinyasa flow.
– Evening Pranayam and Meditation.
– After Dinner Bhajan and Chanting.
Optional additional activity**:
– Free day; all activities can be arranged
– Like Seeing how Handloom works do the Carpet weaving with 15th century old techniques.
– Precious Stone polishing and cutting work to create wonderful Jewellery.
We’ll wake to Vinyasa yoga, followed another leisurely breakfast. Our last final full day in Jaipur, we’re holding space for a “free day” for you to relax or explore your own interests. For those of you who are do-ers, all types of activities and excursions can be arranged. Want to do an activity again? No problem, we can make it happen!
We’ll have one final pranayama and meditation practice with our final chant together. Then, we’ll meet by the campfire one.
DAY 7: JAIPUR
Included activity:
– Morning Shat Karma, Surya Namaskar, Chanting and meditation.
– Holi Festive celebrations.
– After Dinner Bhajan and Chanting.
Morning after breakfast we will go to a Village where we will Visit a Gaushala(Cow rescue centre). There we will do some service, like feeding them with some Molasses. Visit of village to see the beautiful culture of it.
Later in the evening we will celebrate the Holi by burning some woods. Wood burning represent the death of the evil and start of new journey in our life.
After dinner this will be our last Bhajan and Chanting.
DAY 8: JAIPUR
Included activity:
– Morning we will Play Colourful Holi. With Lots of natural colours
In the morning we will start with the celebrations of the Holi Festival. Here we will play with colours and water.
You all will put colours on each other. Music will be played and snacks and beverages will be served.
In the evening we will all come together near the bonfire and tell our experience and what you enjoyed the most.
DAY 9: JAIPUR
Departure