Retreats
Slow down. On purpose.
These aren't wellness resorts with yoga mats and smoothie bars. These are intentional pauses — designed for people who need to step away from everything for a while.
Creative Reset - Writing & Photography in Tirthan
For writers, photographers, and anyone whose creative well has run dry. Six days in the Tirthan Valley - gateway to the Great Himalayan National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site - with morning writing prompts, afternoon photo walks through ancient villages, and evening sharing sessions around a fire. The Tirthan River runs crystal-clear through the valley. The forest canopy is dense enough to filter the light into something photographers dream about. The villages - Gushaini, Banjar, Shoja - are unhurried, photogenic, and welcoming. Facilitated by a professional photographer and a published writer. Aishani Paul consults on the retreat structure to ensure creative blocks are addressed holistically - not just as a skills problem but as an emotional one. No Instagram posting during the retreat. No performance. Just the practice. Accommodation is in a riverside cottage. Meals are Himachali home-cooked. Groups are kept to 8 people maximum.
Facilitated by Creative facilitators (with Aishani Paul advisory)
Mountain Solitude - Barot Valley
A colonial-era forest rest house on the banks of the Uhl River. Trout fishing in waters so clear you can count the stones on the riverbed. Pine forests so quiet you can hear your own breathing. Barot Valley is one of the last unhyped valleys in Himachal Pradesh - built around the century-old Shanan Hydel Project, a British-era hydroelectric channel that now doubles as the most scenic walking path in the valley. This is a solitude retreat - not clinically facilitated, but designed in consultation with Aishani Paul to create the conditions for genuine rest. Days are unstructured: fish, read, sketch, walk the old British-era aqueduct trail, or simply sit on the veranda watching the Uhl River flow past. Evenings include a bonfire and unhurried conversation. No group activities unless you want them. Limited to 8 people.
Facilitated by Self-guided (designed with Aishani Paul)
Burnout Recovery - A Week in Jibhi
This isn't a wellness retreat with yoga mats and smoothie bars. This is a clinically informed burnout recovery programme set in the deodar forests of Jibhi, in the Tirthan Valley of Himachal Pradesh. Co-facilitated by Aishani Paul - an RCI-licensed clinical psychologist (M.Phil, Clinical Psychology) who specialises in working with high-performing professionals experiencing chronic stress, emotional exhaustion, and depersonalisation. The first two days are intentionally empty - sleep as long as you need, walk along the Tirthan River, eat warm food. From Day 3, Aishani introduces gentle therapeutic sessions: identifying burnout patterns, understanding what drained you, somatic release exercises, and building a recovery framework you can take home. The setting is a family-run homestay in Jibhi surrounded by cedar and deodar forest. Water is clean. Food is exceptional - Himachali dham, fresh trout from the Tirthan River, local honey. Phone signal is zero. Groups are limited to 6 people.
Facilitated by Aishani Paul
Digital Detox in Sangla Valley
Five days without screens in Sangla Valley - where the Baspa River runs turquoise through a valley of walnut and apricot orchards, and 500-year-old Kinnauri wooden temples stand on hillsides above terraced farms. Your phone goes into a locked box on Day 1. In return, you get morning walks along the Baspa River, visits to the ancient Kamru Fort and its wooden temple, afternoon naps in a traditional Kinnauri home with carved wooden balconies, and evenings watching the light change on the Kinner Kailash range. Aishani Paul, an RCI-licensed clinical psychologist, co-facilitates this retreat with a focus on digital dependency awareness, attention restoration, and mindful presence. Accommodation is in a heritage Kinnauri home. Meals feature local rajma, siddu, fresh apricots, and Kinnauri chulli (buckwheat pancakes).
Facilitated by Aishani Paul
Slow Living in the Parvati Valley
A week of intentional stillness in the Parvati Valley - the Himalayan river valley where the Parvati River carves through dense pine forests, hot springs bubble up between boulders, and stone cottages sit above terraced apple orchards. This retreat is co-facilitated by Aishani Paul, an RCI-licensed clinical psychologist (M.Phil, Clinical Psychology). Aishani brings a therapeutic lens to the experience: guided reflective journaling, body-scan meditations by the river, and one-on-one check-ins for anyone who needs them. Her approach is integrative, evidence-based, and culturally sensitive - designed for Indian professionals who are running on fumes but don't know how to stop. There is no Wi-Fi. Meals are cooked by a local family using ingredients from their garden - Himachali siddu, rajma-chawal, fresh honey, and apple cider. Days are unstructured by design. You will leave slower than you arrived.
Facilitated by Aishani Paul