YOGA in INDIA 🪷 2027
- All accommodations
- Daily Holistic Yoga Practices and Workshops (including mantra, guided meditation, yoga nidra, kirtan, story time, and a full range of holistic asana practices with hands-on guidance for all levels of practitioner)
- 3 delicious vegetarian meals daily (except for 2 meals out in the South and 3 meals out in the North)
- Group excursions to temples, holy caves, markets, the Ganga river and more
- Workshops and deeper inquiry work on non-excursion days
- Evening kirtan singing, mythology, story telling & more
- Airport transfer on arrival and on travel day between Tiru & Rishikesh
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Prana is going to India in February/March 2027! Are you coming with us?
🪷 Do you love yoga? Are you drawn to explore the origins of yoga in its birthplace… colourful India? Have you quietly dreamed for years of journeying there one day? This is your invitation.
🪷 After many heart opening and inspiring trips to India, we are thrilled once again to bring a group to share in our favourite treasures; ashrams, villages, sacred sites, nature spots, temples and markets. We’ll be introducing you to the wonders we have discovered, while holding space for deep inner practices and lots of delectable yoga!
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YOGA in INDIA 🪷 S O U T H: Holy Mountain ~ Yatra, Mantra, Sadhana
Feb 13–23, 2027 (Ten days)
Join Isabelle and April for a deep dive into the practices that bring yoga’s wisdom alive within—asana, pranayama, mantra, and meditation—supercharged by yatra (a sacred journey) to the holy mountain of Arunachala, recognized and worshipped as a literal incarnation of Shiva for thousands of years.
Our South India adventure begins in Tiruvannamalai, India in a beautiful village ashram. Enriching morning practices and workshops, visits to holy caves, temples and ashrams, pujas (ceremonies), parayana (recitation of sacred texts), and satsang (meetings with realized beings) will be balanced with time for quiet reflection, meditation, walks, and relaxed togetherness. We will also make a day trip to a very special Shiva Water Temple a few hours away. You’ll be supported by the quiet, heavenly atmosphere of a small countryside ashram and nourished by fresh, delicious, vegetarian meals prepared by the ashram staff, who are like family to us.
We will be there for a full moon night (Poornima), a night when millions of people travel to Tiruvannamalai to circumambulate Arunachala, as a form of worship and to ask for blessings. You will have the option to participate – and we will also have an opportunity to engage in this practice on a much quieter morning as well.
For those doing both retreats, there will be a group travel day with a domestic flight to north India, to the yoga capital of the world and the home of Yogrishi Vishvketu: Rishikesh!
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YOGA in INDIA 🪷 N O R T H: Sacred Waters ~ Akhanda Yoga & the Ganga River
Feb 23 – Mar 8, 2027 (Thirteen nights)
Next, we’ll travel by bus one hour north to experience the beauty and wonder of Yogrishi Vishvketu’s new Jungle Ashram. Set in a gorgeous natural landscape at the confluence of two mountain rivers, the jungle ashram offers a taste of yoga’s ancient lineage, with a balance of deeper meditative practices along with holistic yoga, workshops, and daily fire puja ceremonies. Afternoons will be open for dipping in the river, resting, and exploring the stunning surroundings or enjoying an afternoon yoga practice. We’ll be there during the Akhanda Yoga Festival to enjoy plenty of time with Vishvaji, the beloved mentor of many of Prana’s teachers.
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Yoga’s wisdom and blessings are deeply embedded in India’s land, water, history, languages, cultures, and peoples. While yoga’s depth and dimensionality can certainly be discovered within, making a pilgrimage to its place of origin offers a life-changing opportunity to deepen your relationship with it—making your understanding more direct and embodied.
What’s included:
International and domestic flights, travel insurance and travel visa to visit India and are not included in the retreat price. Departure taxi or flight to Dehli is not included but we will help you book. More info below under flight booking.
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These are group journeys to ashrams, nature spots and holy sites that we love, in the context of yoga and inner inquiry with simple, clean accommodations.
Space is limited for these trips. Please book early to reserve your spot, and to get the best times and rates for the international flights. We will do our best to coordinate flight info, so where possible participants can fly together.
All accommodation is shared (double). Private accommodation is subject to availability and for an extra fee
🌺 Reserve Your Spot Now 🌺
Deposit: $600 -non-refundable per retreat ~ choose from South, North, or both
*please note: we expect the retreats will sell out, if you plan to attend both retreats, you must submit a deposit for EACH retreat to save your spot.
RETREAT DEPOSIT SOUTH – EMAIL TO BE WAITLISTED (pranayogaoffice@gmail.com)
RETREAT DEPOSIT NORTH
REFUND POLICY: Retreat deposits are non-refundable. Retreat payments can be used as studio credit in case of cancellation: 2 months prior for international retreats, 2-3 weeks prior for local retreats. Retreats require venue bookings and minimum participants and are a large commitment. Thank you for understanding.
PRICING:
YOGA in INDIA 🪷 S O U T H ~ 10 days: $2199 EARLY BIRD before June 21st ($2399 after)
YOGA in INDIA 🪷 N O R T H ~ 12 days: $2599 EARLY BIRD before June 21st ($2799 after)
YOGA in INDIA 🪷 B O T H ~ 22 days: $4598 EARLY BIRD before June 21st ($4998 after) *prices reflect the $200 savings for the combined retreat
*prices INCLUDE the $600 deposit/s, which will be subtracted from your final balance.
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Flight booking info:
Before booking flights, please pay your retreat deposit to reserve your spot, and wait to hear from us directly with additional information.
For 200 hour trained teachers, this retreat counts as 40 hours of Yoga Alliance CEU’s OR 40 elective module hours for the Prana 300 hour Yoga Teacher Training.
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Your guides:
April Cantafio E-RYT 500. The essence of yoga first infused my life in the year of 2000 as I unknowingly walked into the depth of what would be a completely new landscape, led by such humble and wise guides that naturally the practice unfolded before my eyes. From that point on it never left my sight for long and little did I know that it would forever change the way the world appeared through my eyes. I began the path of teaching in 2004 in the form of mentorship with my original teachers Deb and Lacie Cosgrove, and somehow that led me to puruse other trainings both locally and internationally in various styles and schools of thought ranging from Ashtanga to Akhanda to Kundalini. This helped me form a new perspective with which to observe, witness, see. The foundation that was laid in that time eventually led me to sincerely study the wisdom held in Ayurveda, Sanskrit, Mantra, Meditation and the traditional philosophies that form the umbrella of Yoga while under the guidance of my dear teacher, Yogi Baba Prem and the lineage of Mahavatar Baba-ji. In 2016 I was more than humbled to receive the traditional title of Yogakovid. I approach my practice and teaching with an innate intention to support the elevation of consciousness. With every practice emphasizing a balance of effort and ease, the embrace of self and collective compassion, and the importance of the foundational breath. I appreciate and always bow in gratitude to the facets of studentship that so many of us share together. The light in me honours the light in you.
Isabelle Addison (Sakshi) is an E-RYT 500 Akhanda (holistic) Yoga Teacher. After living on both coasts of the US and NSW coast of Australia, she is grateful to call Alberta home. Isabelle has engaged in spiritual exploration, practice, and study across various traditions for almost 4 decades. Through classes and trainings she offers depth, warmth, insight and humour, balanced with precise attention to physical placement and understanding. She holds a BS in Languages and Linguistics summa cum laude from Georgetown University, and her love of sound, words, and their power to transmit meaning is evident in her teaching and singing. She is additionally trained in Classical Kundalini Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, the Work of Byron Katie (inquiry-based stress reduction – a form of Jnana Yoga), Hormone Yoga Therapy, Vedic Chanting, and the fascinating and illuminating theory and practice of Katonah Yoga®.
LEALA ENFIELD E-RYT 500 has been devoted to the path of yoga and embodied movement for over 30 years. Her journey began on the remote side of Maui, where she fell in love with practicing yoga in wild nature and exploring the freedom of movement, dance, and intuitive expression.
Her passion for feminine wisdom and community led her to complete Women’s Group Facilitator Training with the Awakening Women’s Institute in 2008, and to attend the Yogini Summer Ashram in Corfu, Greece in 2010 and 2025.
After moving to Canada, Leala met Yogrishi Vishvketu, beginning her deeper studies in Akhanda Yoga. In 2006 she founded Prana Yoga Studio, which has grown into a thriving urban yoga community and a respected center for Akhanda Yoga teachings for over twenty years.
Alongside running a busy studio, Leala has raised a family, guided international yoga retreats, and taught numerous Yoga Teacher Trainings in both Canada and India.
Her work today weaves together yoga, feminine practices, somatic awareness, and group synergy to create spaces where authentic expression, connection, and transformation can unfold.
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What past participants had to say:
“It was the most amazing spiritual journey of my life! I became immersed in the vibrance and enchantment of the history and modern worlds of yoga as it lives today.”
“Journey of a lifetime.. out of this world experience.”
“I signed up to experience life in an ashram, to visit mystical places where Vedic sages lived and learned, and to experience food and shopping delights. It exceeded my expectations! I was incredibly surprised how much I enjoyed the back to basics of Tiruvanamali and the the magical Akhanda Ashram.”
“The retreat exceeded my expectations. Everything was so carefully planned, selected and executed; still in awe of it all.”
“This retreat opened my mind, body and spirit to knowing a clearer more connected union within myself and those around me.”
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