This immersive meditation retreat is designed to support mental wellbeing, emotional wellness, inner balance, and awakening through a practical, step-by-step approach led by Bodhi Sattva. It offers a 7-fold framework to help transform, heal, and harmonize the body, mind, and emotions for healthier, more mindful living.
Key Features of the Course
- Mental health
- Emotional wellness
- Body-mind balancing
- Healing and chronic cure
- Restoring and revitalizing
- Transformation
- Inner wellbeing
- Joyful living and awakening
- Energy awakening
- Yoga psychology
- Ayurvedic sattvic diet
Welcome to Yoga Essence, where you can explore the art of transformation, emotional wellness, inner wellbeing, and awakening with lead meditation, mindfulness, yoga nidra teacher Bodhi Sattva Ji.
In today’s world, stress, tension, and anxiety have risen significantly. Many people feel emotionally unbalanced, mentally uncertain, and unfulfilled in areas such as work and relationships. This retreat invites you to reflect on your inner state and ask: how do we feel about ourselves and others, how do we respond to difficult situations, how do we relate to our environment, and how committed are we to transforming negative emotions and attitudes?
Seven-Fold Approaches for Emotional Wellness and Mental Wellbeing
- Yoga Nidra and guided relaxation practices: a systematic and scientific way to support relaxation, rejuvenation, sleep quality, and healing through guided relaxation and yoga nidra
- Mindfulness meditation practices for inner wellbeing: practical methods for mental health, energy, inner balance, and peace through active and passive mindfulness and meditation practices
- Special meditation practices for emotional wellness: techniques to work with negative emotions, emotional imbalance, and emotional transformation for greater stability and integrity
- Laughter yoga and joyful living practices: exploring the healing power of laughter yoga and opening the path to unconditional joy, love, and emotional wellbeing
- Holistic yoga and breathing meditation practices: supporting physical, energetic, psychological, and emotional health through holistic yoga, breathwork, and sound meditation
- Practical tips and guidance from Bodhi Sattva: supportive guidance for mindful living and maintaining mental health, emotional wellness, inner wellbeing, and awakening
- Insights of the masters for transformation and awakening: powerful yogic insights on mental health, inner wellbeing, transformation, meditation, mindfulness, yoga, and higher consciousness
Highlights
- Practical tools for stress, anxiety, emotional overload, and overthinking
- Ways to transform disturbed emotions and burnout into deep peace
- Meditation techniques created for the modern, overstimulated mind
- Mind detox practices to break habitual thinking and digital-distraction patterns
- Emotional release methods that encourage lightness, clarity, and heart-centered living
- Guidance on managing thoughts instead of being controlled by them
- Silence, stillness, and digital detox away from noise and constant stimulation
- A spiritual yet scientific approach that is accessible for beginners and relevant to contemporary life
Why Emotional Wellness and Inner Wellbeing Matter
Wellbeing is more than the absence of physical illness. It also includes psycho-emotional health, vitality, and stability. Our mental health, joy, and overall quality of life are closely connected to emotional wellness, emotional intelligence, and the ability to respond to life with creativity, sensitivity, and mindfulness. By understanding the nature and roots of emotions, and learning how to manage and transform them, we can cultivate self-love, self-respect, meaningful relationships, happiness, and resilience.
Inner wellbeing can be understood as a deep sense of psychological wellness and a healthy relationship with our emotional states. It is a way of living in harmony with the greater whole. While many people seek peace and joy, this retreat encourages reflection on whether we are looking in the right direction, in the right place, and with the right understanding.
In-Person Residential Retreat Overview
- 03 Days Meditation Retreat
- Level: Beginner, Intermediate
- Course dates: 12th Dec – 14th Dec, 2025; 24th Jan – 26th Jan, 2026; 26th Feb – 28th Feb, 2026; 20th Mar – 22nd Mar, 2026; 25th Apr – 27th Apr, 2026
- Language: English (Basic) / Hindi
- Accommodation: Double Sharing Room / Private Single Room (private room on availability)
- Food: 3 Sattvic Ayurvedic Diet & Herbal Drinks (gluten free, vegan food available)
- Course contribution: Twin Sharing Room: 199 Euro; Private Single Room: Please Enquire
Online Emotional Wellness, Inner Wellbeing & Awakening
- 05 Days / 07 Days Meditation Retreat
- Level: Beginner, Intermediate
- Course dates for 5 Days Meditation Retreat: 5th February – 1st March 2026; 15th March – 19th March 2026; 15th July – 19th July 2027; 15th October – 19th October 2027
- Course dates for 7 Days Meditation Retreat: 25 February – 03 March 2026; 15 July – 21 July 2026; 15 October – 21 October 2026; 15 March – 21 March 2027; 15 July – 21 July 2027
- Language: English (Basic) / Hindi
- Accommodation: Double Sharing Room / Private Single Room (private room on availability)
- Food: 3 Sattvic Ayurvedic Diet & Herbal Drinks (gluten free, vegan food available)
- Course contribution: 05 Days Meditation Retreat — Twin Sharing Room: 329 Euro; Private Single Room: Please Enquire
- Course contribution: 07 Days Meditation Retreat — Twin Sharing Room: 449 Euro; Private Single Room: Please Enquire
Daily Schedule
| Time | Activity |
|---|
| 06:30 am | Restorative and holistic yoga practices |
| 07:45 am | Samatva kriyas and energy awakening practices |
| 09:00 am | Light breakfast |
| 10:30 am | Kirtan meditation, yoga nidra |
| 12:00 | Lunch & rest |
| 2:30 pm | Self practice / self study |
| 04:00 pm | Satsang, yogic insights, yoga philosophy & yoga psychology |
| 05:00 pm | Herbal tea |
| 05:30 pm | Pranayama, breathing meditations, kirtan meditation |
| 07:00 pm | Dinner |
| 08:00 pm | Self study / night meditation |
| 09:30 pm | Light off & rest |
Please note: the daily schedule is subject to change.
