The retreat is organized around three core practices: breath awareness, pranayama, and seated meditation. These are not separated into isolated sessions but woven through the rhythm of each day.

Seated meditation is practiced daily, usually in the evening. Techniques vary and may include breath-anchored awareness, mantra, or guided silence depending on the group and the stage of the retreat. The intention is not to achieve a particular state but to develop the capacity to sit with whatever is present.

Throughout the six days, rest is treated as part of the structure, not as dead time. The afternoons are kept open deliberately. Integration requires space, and the body needs time to adjust when the nervous system is being worked with intentionally.

This retreat is suitable for beginners. It is also suitable for practitioners who have some experience but want to deepen their understanding of breath in a structured, supervised setting. The pacing is careful regardless of experience level.

The daily schedule has a rhythm to it, but it is not rigid. The order and timing may shift slightly depending on location, season, or the needs of the group. What stays consistent is the overall shape of the day.

Evening Meditation

The evening session is quieter in quality than the morning. It focuses on seated meditation rather than active breathwork.

Depending on the stage of the retreat and the group, this session may include silent sitting with breath as an anchor, soft mantra repetition, or a guided awareness practice. Sessions run for approximately sixty to seventy-five minutes.

The intention of the evening practice is not stimulation but settling. The day closes gently.

The breathwork and meditation structure of this retreat is the same across all four locations. The teaching, the sequence of practices, the pacing, and the approach do not change based on geography.

What each location offers is a different quality of space. Some people are drawn to a particular landscape or climate. Others choose based on travel practicality. Either is a reasonable basis for the decision

Ubud, Bali

Ubud sits inland, surrounded by terraced rice fields and forested hillsides. It is a different quality of environment from the three coastal locations — denser, greener, more enclosed in a way that many people find conducive to introspection.

This retreat is designed for people who are ready to work with breath in a sustained, structured way, with guidance, and without rushing.

It tends to suit people who have been carrying a level of mental fatigue that feels cumulative — built up over months or years rather than days. Professionals who have been operating at sustained high output. People who find it difficult to slow down without a deliberate change of environment. Practitioners of yoga or meditation who want to give breath more dedicated attention than their regular practice allows.

It is also appropriate for complete beginners to pranayama. No prior experience is required, and the program is designed so that someone with no background in breath practice can enter it safely and find it genuinely useful.

The retreat is not suitable for people in acute mental health crisis, or for those looking for high-intensity cathartic breathwork experiences. The approach here is gradual, regulated, and deliberately calm.

If you have a specific health condition — cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological — it is important to inform the team before booking and to consult your physician if there is any uncertainty.

This section exists because breathwork, when presented without care, can generate unrealistic expectations or unnecessary anxiety. It deserves a straightforward explanation.

The pranayama practices taught in this retreat are classical techniques with a long history of structured transmission. They are not extreme methods. The retreat does not involve rapid, unguided hyperventilation, extended unsupervised breath retention, or techniques designed to produce altered states through oxygen deprivation.

Breath retention — kumbhaka — is introduced in the program, but it is taught carefully and progressively. Participants are guided to work within comfortable limits rather than pushed toward maximum holds. The purpose of retention practice in this context is to develop steadiness and awareness, not to produce an intensity of experience.

Each session is guided by the teacher throughout. Participants are consistently encouraged to respect the signals their own body and nervous system are giving. If something does not feel right, the instruction is always to return to natural breath rather than continue.

Pranayama works with the autonomic nervous system. The practices in this program are oriented toward parasympathetic regulation — the direction of calm and rest — rather than stimulation. This is a deliberate choice, not a limitation.

People with anxiety sometimes wonder whether breath practices might worsen their symptoms. For most people, carefully guided pranayama — especially the techniques used in this program — tends to support a reduction in anxious arousal over time. However, individual responses vary, and participants are always given the freedom to modify or pause a practice if needed. The teacher is available throughout each session.

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All upcoming retreat dates are listed below. Each retreat follows the same six-day structure, and participants choose their preferred location and dates during the registration process.

Dates are available across all four locations — Koh Samui, Kalpitiya, Mandrem, and Ubud — and are updated regularly. The tab-based booking interface below allows you to view dates by location and check current availability.

The retreat is the same wherever you choose to go. The practice does not change with geography.

The retreat environment depends on a degree of mutual consideration among participants. The expectations here are practical rather than rigid.

Punctuality for sessions is respected. Morning and evening practices begin on time, and late arrivals can disrupt the settling process for others in the group.

Periods of silence are observed at certain points in the day, particularly in the early morning before and during the morning session. Participants are asked to be mindful of noise levels in shared spaces during these times.

Alcohol and recreational substances are not consistent with the aims of this kind of retreat. Participants are asked to refrain from their use for the duration of the program.

Personal health information that may be relevant to the practice should be shared with the teacher at the start of the retreat. This is not about restriction; it is about appropriate guidance.

Shared spaces — practice rooms, common areas, dining areas — are treated with consideration for other participants.

The overall spirit of these expectations is simple: each person's presence supports or diminishes the environment for everyone else. A small degree of attentiveness in this regard makes a meaningful difference to the quality of the retreat for the group as a whole.

Booking is completed through the registration form on this page. During registration, participants select their preferred location and dates.

A deposit is required at the time of booking to confirm the place. The balance is due approximately thirty days before the retreat start date. Specific deposit amounts and payment deadlines are confirmed during the registration process and vary slightly by location.

Payment is accepted by bank transfer and through the methods listed at registration. Queries about payment can be directed to the contact address provided on the site.

Group size is limited at each location. Places are confirmed in the order that deposits are received.

Cancellations made more than 45 days before the retreat start date are eligible for a full refund of the deposit, minus any processing fees.

Cancellations made between 30 and 45 days before the start date are eligible for a 50% refund of the deposit.

Cancellations within 30 days of the start date are not eligible for a deposit refund. The balance payment, if not yet made, is not required.

Transfers to a different date or location may be possible depending on availability. Transfer requests should be made as early as possible. A transfer fee may apply.

Advait Yoga Meditation reserves the right to cancel a retreat in exceptional circumstances. In such cases, participants will be offered a full refund or the option to transfer to an alternative date.

Breath is not complicated. It is happening right now, without effort, without instruction.

What a retreat like this offers is time — time to pay attention to something that is always present but rarely attended to. Six days in which the day is shaped around that attention rather than around output, productivity, or performance.

There is nothing to achieve here. The breath does not need to be fixed or optimized. The practice is simply one of noticing, steadying, and allowing the nervous system to remember what it already knows.

Advait Yoga Meditation has built this program on that understanding — that breath practice works best when it is approached quietly, gradually, and without exaggeration.

That is the retreat. Nothing more, and nothing less.