
30 Sept - 4 Oct 2026
5-Day Intensive Advanced Immersion
Intensive Advanced Immersion
We met 4 years ago to Celebrate Guru Purnima in 2022. This advanced five-day immersion is offered by invitation-only to those of you who have completed that foundational retreat and are ready to enter a more dedicated and deeper daily practice. So many of you have shared this hope. This is specially created for you as sincere seekers committed to inner transformation. Through disciplined practice, contemplative inquiry, and direct experience, these five uninterrupted days invite you to move beyond conceptual understanding towards living the higher truths with greater depth, consistency, and presence. Just for a few days, you get to leave this world behind and return to the vastness of your Cosmic Self.
The daily rhythm has been intentionally designed to encourage profound inner stillness. Our routine will include extended periods of meditation sittings, contemplative discourses on the lives and wisdom of the saints, devotional kirtan, mindful walking and eating, guided journalling, art therapy, daily practices, and soul-nourishing silence. Each element serves a distinct purpose which can help you to gently refine your awareness, strengthen attention, regulate the nervous system, and create the conditions for genuine inner transformation.
How do we begin to live with more ease, joy, calm and connectedness? I will be sharing the profound joy of simple living helping you draw inspiration from lived experience. We will invite spaciousness, silence, and moments of stillness as our powerful guides in addition to the Divine Presence of the Cosmic One that continues to shower us with ever-flowing Grace. As with all our residentials, every aspect of the experience has been thoughtfully curated to offer both the support of an intimate group and the gift of uninterrupted solitude. May this retreat establish a stable foundation for lifelong practice; one that extends far beyond these five days.
Activities include


Grounding
Practices for Daily Living


Daily Discourse
Expanding our Vessel


Kirtan
Divine Music


Meditation
Deepening of Sadhana


Walking Meditation
Mindful Movement


Sacred Circle
Experience Grace


Art Therapy
Expanding Self Awareness


Mindful Eating
Being Present to the Senses
Venue
at the Ananda Yoga Ashram


Vegetarian Meals
Fresh wholesome meals are prepared each day for you: Breakfast, Lunch, Tea and Dinner.
Temple and Swamiji's Room
Remember to carry your medicines (both regular and SOS that suit you), sanitary wear, mosquito repellants that suit you and anything else that you need for your stay to be safe and comfortable.
Double Occupancy
We will be offering the option of two people per room. As you know they are basic, clean and comfortable.
Clothes and Footwear
This detail will be planned depending on the activity and weather each day.
Medicines
Kindly carry full length clothing given the weather and terrain. Also carry a rain jacket, sturdy footwear, a sweater or light jacket.

