Sometimes life gives success, but not meaning. Sometimes it gives movement, but not direction. These retreats are for those ready to stop running outside and start listening within.
Small groups. By application only.
Groups are small and places are given rather than sold, so dates open and close quickly. Register your interest and you will hear first.
Five days in the oak forests of Kumaon at 2,116 metres. Morning meditation, long mountain walks, deep silence, and the work of finding your direction again. Twenty people, no more.
Both will follow the same shape as Kasar. Register your interest and you will hear before they are published here.
A shorter format, for those who cannot take a full week away but need the same quiet. Dates, location and details will be announced soon.
Register your interestA return to Kasar in deep winter, when the silence is at its most complete. Dates and details to be announced.
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Kasar sits above Almora in Kumaon, at 2,116 metres, among oak forest and Himalayan cedar with the snow peaks in the distance. It is the kind of altitude where the nervous system finally has nothing to react to.
People have come to these hills to think for a very long time, with D. H. Lawrence and Swami Vivekananda among them. That is not decoration. Somewhere carrying millennia of contemplative practice does something to the quality of your attention.
Every application is read personally. The group is small and the days are intimate, so who is in the room matters.
A short set of honest reflection questions. There are no right answers, only true ones.
Non-refundable, and it includes a set of Intention Cards worth ₹799, sent to you immediately.
Every application is reviewed personally by the team. Not scored, read.
Those selected are contacted personally. Anyone applying for a funded seat has a short conversation with Nived.
Register your interest for the December weekend retreat or February 2027 in Kasar, and you will hear before they are published here.