India Pilgrimage
the journey Within
January 17–30, 2027
There are some places we travel to see.
And there are some places we travel to because something in us knows we need to go.
India has always been that kind of place for me.
I have been traveling there since I was young. It is woven into so much of who I am — into my relationship with Ayurveda, Bhakti, Yoga, devotion, service, community, and the way I understand what it means to live a life oriented toward something greater than myself.
And every time I return, India gives me something different.
Sometimes she has given me answers. Sometimes she has completely undone the answers I thought I had.
She has humbled me, stretched me, softened me, overwhelmed me, brought me to tears, and reminded me again and again of what matters.
There is something about stepping outside of the life you know — outside of your routines, your responsibilities, the identities you inhabit every day — that allows you to see yourself differently.
And that, to me, is the heart of pilgrimage.
Not escaping your life, but stepping away long enough to return to it more awake.
For over a decade, Vira and I have had the privilege of bringing people to India with us. And this January, we are going back.
Not for a retreat that could have happened anywhere.
For a pilgrimage.
Maybe you have felt the pull toward India for years.
I hear this so often.
I’ve always wanted to go.
Something about India has always called me.
I don’t even know why, but I know I need to experience it.
I understand that feeling.
India has been a pilgrimage destination for thousands of years because there is something there that is very difficult to describe until you are inside of it.
The sacred is woven through ordinary life.
Someone is ringing a temple bell on their way to work. Flowers are being offered before breakfast. A mantra moves through the streets. A family pauses beside the Ganges to pray. A spiritual teaching that we might read about in a book in the West is simply part of the rhythm of someone's life.
It isn't perfect. It isn't polished. And it certainly isn't always comfortable.
India is alive.
And part of what I love about her is that she does not allow us to keep everything neatly separated.
The beautiful and the difficult.
The spiritual and the mundane.
The ancient and the modern.
Life and death.
Joy and grief.
It is all there.
And when we are willing to really meet it, something inside of us begins to soften too.
“I went to India wanting to deepen my relationship with God, and that is exactly what happened. Not in the way I expected, but in a way that felt much more real. India opened something in me that I am still learning how to live from.”
A pilgrimage asks something of us.
There are moments in life when we can feel that who we have been is no longer quite who we are becoming.
Sometimes there has been a loss or a birth, a relationship ending or beginning, a change in our work, our health, our family, our faith.
And sometimes nothing dramatic has happened at all.
We simply begin to hear a quieter voice underneath the life we have built asking:
Is this still true for me?
What am I devoted to now?
What wants to change?
What do I want my life to be in relationship with?
Those questions are hard to hear when we are constantly moving.
One of the gifts of pilgrimage is that we intentionally step out of the familiar.
We remove ourselves from the environment that continually reminds us who we have been, and enter an environment that asks us to pay attention.
For two weeks, we will practice together.
We will study, sing, walk, pray, eat, laugh, explore, sit beside sacred rivers, listen to teachers, spend time in community and give ourselves the kind of spaciousness that our normal lives rarely provide.
And somewhere inside of all of that, we listen.
Itinerary
Our journey begins by slowing down.
After arriving in Mumbai, we will travel to Govardhan Eco Village, a beautiful spiritual and ecological community surrounded by nature.
This is one of the places I am most excited to bring you.
We will spend five days here allowing ourselves to arrive — not only in India, but in ourselves.
Our mornings will begin with practice. We will explore meditation, breath, Yoga philosophy, Ayurveda and Bhakti. We will spend time in nature, eat beautiful vegetarian food, experience kirtan and community, and learn from people whose lives are deeply rooted in these traditions.
And there will be space.
Space to rest.
Space to have conversations that don't need to end because someone has somewhere else to be.
Space to walk alone.
Space to notice what begins to come forward when life gets a little quieter.
One of the things I have come to understand through Ayurveda is that our environment is always affecting us.
We are never separate from what surrounds us.
And when we spend time in an environment organized around simplicity, spiritual practice, nature and service, we begin to notice what happens inside of us too.
Then we enter the heart of India.
From Govardhan, we return to Mumbai.
We will visit the ancient Elephanta Caves and experience one of the most extraordinary celebrations I have ever witnessed: the Flower Festival at Radha Gopinath Temple.
There are thousands upon thousands of flowers.
There is music and chanting and beauty and devotion spilling everywhere.
And perhaps what moves me most is witnessing people expressing their love for God so freely.
There is something deeply healing about being somewhere reverence is not embarrassing.
Where devotion is allowed to be embodied.
Where people sing what they love. Bow to what they love. Cook for what they love. Decorate with flowers for what they love.
It always brings me back to the question:
What is my life devoted to?
Not simply what I say matters to me.
But what the way I actually live reveals matters to me.
And then, we go to the Ganges.
We end our pilgrimage in Rishikesh, nestled at the foothills of the Himalayas.
There are few places that have touched me the way Rishikesh has.
For thousands of years, seekers have traveled here to practice, study and sit beside the Ganges.
And when you are actually there — walking beside her in the early morning, hearing bells and chanting across the water, watching people offer their prayers to the river — you begin to understand why.
Our days here will have spaciousness.
We will practice together and continue our workshops, but we will also walk, explore, visit temples and markets, participate in Ganga Aarti, spend time in nature and simply sit beside the river.
If you feel called, you can enter her waters.
And as our journey begins to close, we will turn toward perhaps the most important part of any pilgrimage:
How do I bring what I have touched here home with me?
Because I don't want India to simply become a beautiful memory for you.
I want whatever becomes clearer there to find its way into your actual life.
Your mornings.
Your relationships.
Your work.
Your home.
The decisions you make.
The way you spend your time.
The way you relate to the sacred.
This is the work Vira and I care most deeply about.
We both grew up immersed in the traditions of Bhakti Yoga, and India has been part of our lives for as long as we can remember.
Over the years, both of our paths have continued to deepen through Ayurveda, Yoga, psychology, somatic work, relationship, motherhood and fatherhood, community, and our own ongoing spiritual practice.
The work we do now is rooted in something very simple:
How do we bring ourselves into right relationship?
With ourselves.
With one another.
With Nature.
With God.
Because spirituality, to us, isn't about leaving our humanity behind.
It is about becoming more present inside of it.
This pilgrimage holds all of that.
There will be teachings and workshops. There will be ancient philosophy. There will be experiences that are profoundly sacred.
And there will also be chai and laughter and getting dusty and eating something incredible and walking through a crowded market and someone inevitably having their plans changed because… India.
That is part of the pilgrimage too.
We aren't going there to transcend life.
We are going there to become more intimate with it.
“India met me in ways I never could have planned for. I felt stretched, inspired, humbled, and deeply alive. What I loved most was that the trip held both depth and joy — spiritual practice and real life, sacred moments and so much laughter. I returned home seeing my life with new eyes.”
“I thought I was going to India for an adventure, but it became so much more than that. There were moments of profound beauty and devotion, moments that stretched me, and so many moments of joy. I came home feeling like I had remembered a part of myself that had gotten lost underneath the pace of everyday life.”
“Traveling with Dhyana and Vira felt like being welcomed into a relationship with India rather than simply being shown around it. There was so much care in the way the journey was held, and I felt supported enough to really let the experience work on me. I left with a deeper sense of trust, devotion, and gratitude for my life.”
India meets each person differently.
Over the years, I have watched people come on this pilgrimage carrying questions they could not quite articulate.
Some were in the middle of enormous transitions.
Some were grieving.
Some wanted a deeper relationship with God.
Some were simply hungry to experience a way of living that felt different from their life at home.
And India met each of them in her own way.
One past pilgrim described the journey as a turning point in her life — that she returned home feeling a sense of strength and wholeness she hadn't known before.
Another came with the intention to deepen his relationship with God, or Spirit, or the source of life.
And afterward he said:
That is exactly what happened.
We cannot promise what India will give you.
And I wouldn't want to.
That is part of the beauty of pilgrimage.
You come willing to meet what is there.
INDIA PILGRIMAGE: THE JOURNEY WITHIN
January 17–30, 2027
Investment:
Double Occupancy: $4, 900
Share a room with a friend or loved one joining the pilgrimage, or come on your own and we will thoughtfully pair you with another participant of the same gender.
Single Occupancy: $6,300
For those who would like the privacy and spaciousness of their own room throughout the pilgrimage.
A $1,000 non-refundable deposit reserves your place, and payment plans are available.
International airfare, our domestic flight within India, visas, travel insurance and optional Ayurvedic treatments are not included.
January 17–30, 2027
We will spend thirteen nights together traveling from Mumbai → Govardhan Eco Village → Mumbai → Rishikesh, weaving spiritual practice and teachings with cultural immersion, nature, sacred sites, community, beautiful food, ceremony, adventure and plenty of space to simply experience India.
Your pilgrimage includes accommodations throughout the journey, most meals, our ground transportation within India, daily practices and workshops with us, teachings and experiences with local teachers and communities, the Flower Festival, our time at Govardhan Eco Village, our pilgrimage to Rishikesh and the Ganges, and the experiences we have intentionally chosen along the way.
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