Yoga Retreat in Nepal With Ayurveda Wellness - 7 Days

You land at Tribhuvan International Airport, and someone from our team is already there waiting for you with a smile and a sign with your name on it — no scrambling for a taxi, no trying to figure out currency exchange with jet lag fog in your brain. We get you to your hotel, and then… nothing.

That’s the whole point of day one. You unpack, you shower off twenty hours of travel, you nap if you need to. In the evening, we sit down together for a welcome briefing, where we walk you through what Nepal’s about, what the week ahead looks like, and answer whatever questions are rattling around in your head.

No pressure to be “on” yet. Just land, breathe, and let your body catch up to the fact that it’s actually here.

This is your one full day of classic sightseeing, and honestly, it’s a beautiful way to ease into the trip before things get quiet.

You’ll walk through three UNESCO World Heritage sites: Kathmandu Durbar Square, Patan Durbar Square, and Bhaktapur Durbar Square. Each one is stacked with centuries of carved wood windows, ancient temples, and courtyards where daily life has played out for generations.

A guide walks with you the whole way, so you’re not squinting at a guidebook trying to figure out what you’re looking at.

Think of this day as the transition zone, and your mind is still curious and engaged, but you’re already a thousand miles (literally) from your inbox.

After breakfast, you leave the city behind and drive out to the resort, tucked away in nature.

And this is where the real retreat begins.

2:00 PM: You arrive to a welcome drink, a quick check-in, and some light snacks. Nobody’s rushing you to fill out forms while you’re still half-asleep from the drive.

3:00–4:00 PM: Your private consultation with the Ayurvedic doctor. This is the conversation where they actually get to know you — your history, your sleep, your stress, your body type (your prakriti) — and start building a plan around you specifically.

4:00–5:00 PM: Your first Ayurvedic Abhyanga, a full-body massage using warm, specially prepared medicated oil. If you’ve never had one, it’s hard to describe until you feel it — it’s less “spa treatment” and more like your whole nervous system quietly exhaling.

5:30–6:30 PM: A personalized yoga session. Tell your teacher what you’ve done before (or that you’ve never done any of this before, which is completely fine), and they build the session around that.

7:00–8:00 PM:  Your first Sattvic dinner. Simple, warm, plant-based food that’s easy on your system and designed to support everything else happening this week.

This is the heart of the retreat, and probably the day you’re most curious about, so let’s actually walk through it hour by hour.

6:00 AM: Brahma Muhurta wake-up. This is the pre-dawn hour Ayurveda considers the most sacred window of the day. You wake to actual daylight and birdsong instead of an alarm, sip warm water (called Usha Paan, a gentle way to wake up digestion before anything else), and go through simple morning rituals before showering.

7:00–8:30 AM: Yoga, pranayama, and a short meditation. Slow, intentional movement paired with breathwork — the kind that leaves your shoulders looser instead of sore.

9:00–10:00 AM:  Sattvic breakfast, genuinely better than “healthy breakfast” tends to sound.

10:30–10:45 AM: A short mindful walk, just to settle before the day’s activities properly begin.

11:00 AM–12:00 PM: Ayurvedic therapy session, based on whatever your doctor recommended for you on day three.

12:00–12:30 PM:  Sauna, to help everything from the morning settle into your body.

1:00–2:00 PM: Sattvic lunch.

3:00–4:00 PM: Forest bathing, or another therapy session, depending on your plan. Forest bathing sounds like a fancy term for “walking in the woods,” and honestly, that’s basically what it is — except you’re doing it slowly, on purpose, paying attention to what’s actually around you instead of scrolling through it.

5:00–6:00 PM: Sound healing. Bowls, chimes, and vibration therapy that a lot of first-timers describe as “the best nap of my life, except I wasn’t actually asleep.”

7:00–8:00 PM: Sattvic dinner.

8:00–9:00 PM: Campfire.

After a day this full of stillness, sitting by a fire under a Himalayan sky, talking or just staring at the flames, tends to be the moment people say felt the most like coming home to themselves.

Picture someone like a teacher from Manchester, and we’ll call her Priya, and just to be clear, this is a made-up scenario to help paint the picture, not an actual guest of ours who arrived barely sleeping four hours a night.

By the third evening at that campfire, she realizes she hasn’t checked her phone once since lunch. Not because she forced herself not to. She just forgot it existed for a few hours. That’s the kind of shift this day is built to create.

Your second full day at the resort follows a similar gentle rhythm, because healing isn’t a one-and-done thing — it needs repetition to actually stick.

6:00 AM: Brahma Muhurta wake-up, same peaceful start: forest views, birdsong, warm water, morning rituals.

7:00–8:30 AM: Yoga, pranayama, dhyan (meditation).

9:00–10:00 AM: Sattvic breakfast. 10:30–10:45 AM — Mindful walking.

11:00 AM–12:00 PM: Ayurvedic therapy. 12:00–12:30 PM — Sauna.

1:00–2:00 PM: Sattvic lunch, and then departure from the resort, back toward Kathmandu.

By now, most guests notice something’s different, even if they can’t quite name it. Maybe you’re sleeping through the night for the first time in months. Maybe your shoulders aren’t up around your ears anymore. Maybe you just feel… lighter. That’s the work these two days were built to do

The drive back to Kathmandu isn’t just a transit day. We built in one more big, beautiful moment before the trip wraps up.

You’ll stop at Chandragiri Hills, where the Himalayas spread out below you in a way photos genuinely don’t do justice. From there, you head to Swayambhunath Stupa, one of the oldest and most iconic religious sites in the valley, watching over Kathmandu the way it has for centuries.

You’ll also pass back through Kathmandu Durbar Square before the day winds down with a farewell dinner in Thamel, Kathmandu’s most colorful, lively neighborhood and good food, good company, and a chance to actually talk through the week with the rest of the group before everyone heads home.

After breakfast, we get you to Tribhuvan International Airport for your flight home. No rush, no last-minute stress just a calm end to a week that (we hope) leaves you a little lighter than when you landed.

Whether you’re heading back to Chicago, Toronto, London, Madrid, or Sao Paulo, the goal is the same: you leave feeling like yourself again, maybe for the first time in a while.