5 Day Guided Retreats - Awake, Heal, Liberate
We genuinely care for your spiritual evolution so we have designed shorter stay retreats that offer tools to empower, wake up, think deeply, explore and learn. The depth and rich array of our practices will free your hearts and offer you the healing you require.
We welcome you. We are here to support you on your journey. All of our 2025 retreats are now finished. Check back in November for our 2026 program launch.
WHAT YOU WILL GAIN
- Hope, renewal, relaxation and inspiration – enabling you to help yourself and offer inspiration to others.
- Self-knowledge, confidence
- Connection with your inner wisdom and knowing – your Divine nature
- Feeling of sacredness in the earth and yourself.
- Skills to listen compassionately to yourself and others.
WHAT THE RETREATS ARE ABOUT
Each retreat is an intimate experience with like-minded participants and includes morning Hidden Language Hatha Yoga, daily workshops guided by senior Ashram teachers, a taste of Karma Yoga, reflection time, satsang each evening, three nourishing farm-to-table meals daily and time to explore our beautiful forests, beaches and grounds.
See our Retreat Daily Schedule; Community Guidelines and Pricing Below.
Guided Retreats 2026 - Coming soon
May 26 - June1
Power of Choice: Awakening Potential
“One of the greatest powers we have, although it is often unrecognized, is the power of choice.” Swami Radha
Where do you want to go? How can you make courageous choices that support your direction? Through watching your mind, guided reflection and spiritual practices, you can start to understand how your thoughts influence your attitude and actions. This retreat guides you to recognize your power of choice and reconnect with your inner potential, cultivating greater clarity, intention and self-trust.
These five days include our signature Life Seals workshop, an impactful process of creating and interpreting your own life map (no artistic ability required). Drawing on the wisdom of both intuition and rational insight, this process supports you in exploring your inner landscape and opening to the mystery and potential that resides within you.
June 4-10
Empowered Elders: Facing Transitions with Grace
“Elder.” What images, feelings, memories does this 5-letter word evoke? What arises within you when you imagine being called an Elder, by others and by yourself? Who are you now, in this stage of life?
This guided retreat offers a sacred space for Elders to come together in community. Through visualization and self-reflection, participants are invited to explore their identity, consider the roles they wish to embody and discover ways to navigate life’s transitions with grace and purpose.
July 7-13
Timeless Teachings: Deepening Commitment - A Swami-led Intensive
“The teachings don’t live in the air or in a book. They have to be embodied. They have to be brought to life and lived.” Swami Radhananda
This retreat is led by Ashram senior teachers, Swami Lalitananda and Swami Samayananda, with Hidden Language Hatha Yoga offered by Swami Matananda and Swami Sukhananda. Take this important opportunity to dive deeply into the present moment, asking Who am I now? How have I changed? Where do I go from here?
Supported by Light, mantra, reflection and asana, participants will enter two timeless workshops—Life Seals and Straight Walks, designed by Swami Radha. These intensive workshops draw on the power of symbol and metaphor to surface underlying patterns and potentials in your life.
Join us in this beautiful way to illuminate your path forward…
July 21-27
Reclaiming the Feminine: Returning to the Heart
“If we return to the heart, to the feminine within ourselves, we can hear Divine Mother’s voice.” Swami Radhananda
Explore the inner feminine power that can help you create the life you want to live. Using body, mind and spiritual practices, you can listen more deeply to your intuitive knowing. Take time to tune in, clarify your choices, tap into your creativity and move forward with confidence.
Grounded in our women-led lineage, this retreat offers a compassionate environment inviting you to open to the messages of your heart and to reclaim the inspiration that arises from the feminine power within.
August 4-10
Finding Courage & Hope in Uncertain Times
“When we look outward at situations in the world, we often feel that we have no control, no ability to effect change. But we can go back to changing our world within – where we do have the ability to change” Swami Radhananda
Take time in this supportive space to pause, breathe deeply and reconnect with your inner source of power and courage. The spiritual practices of Mantra Yoga and the Divine Light Invocation will support you in cultivating courage and hope. Through reflection and shared experience, you will explore how developing internal balance and tapping into your inner Light can ripple outward, enriching relationships, community and the wider world.
August 20-26
Steps to Freedom: Opening to Possibility
“Ultimate freedom is the application of your understanding, the application of your own transcending insights to your daily life.” Swami Radha
How do you overcome limitations and a feeling of being ‘stuck’? How can spiritual practice invite you to question your assumptions and open yourself to new possibilities?
The goal of yoga is liberation from all limitations. This retreat guides you to explore the power of yoga to transform your life through a process of self-inquiry and meditation practices. Each choice you make, each step you take, can help you overcome limitations and bring you closer to freedom.
August 31-September 6
Quieting the Mind: Hear What Matters
“In yoga we want to learn how to bring the mind to its natural, balanced state, in order to hear the inner voice of wisdom.” Swami Radhananda
How can your inner, knowing voice be heard in a surrounding world of noise? How can you create stillness and allow space to listen deeply to what is most important?
In this retreat, participants are invited to draw inward through breath, silence, gentle movement and visualization practices that support self-understanding and connection. Stilling the mind, imagination and emotions can allow our hearts to speak. Listening within, you can hear what matters most to you now.
September 9-15
Spirit and Nature: Nourishment from the Garden to the Kitchen
“Nature teaches us about time and patience. Seeds take time to germinate and grow, and even the most difficult soil has a life force.” Swami Radhananda
Join us for a spiritually nourishing retreat where gardening, preserving and cooking become powerful metaphors for inner discovery and growth. This immersive retreat invites participants to explore the connection between spiritual practice and the natural world. What lessons does the land offer? What do the cycles of the garden reveal about the cycles of your own life?
From planting seeds to harvesting and preserving, each moment has the potential to invite inner insights and connection. Includes hands-on workshops, allowing you to experience these spiritual practices in direct connection with the land.
September 26 - October 2
Living from Love: Tuning into Your Heart’s Messages
“The Heart is symbolic for the centre of our spiritual being–limitless compassion and knowledge beyond the intellect.” Swami Radha
The ground of the Heart is where we can open to inspiration and understanding. In this retreat, we offer practices of reflection, mantra, visualization, silence and breath to deepen a connection to the inner source of love. By listening and becoming receptive to your still, small voice, you can invite healing that clears the way for expressions of gratitude, generosity and compassion. What does your heart say? And how can listening to its messages improve your relationships–first to yourself, then to those around you?
See Pricing Below
Cost and accommodation
You will be staying in our cozy, well-appointed rooms within walking distance to the Temple of Light and Mandala House and all amenities. Arrive between 2-5pm in time for dinner and program introduction. Depart by 10am after breakfast on the final morning. Your stay includes accommodation, tuition and three meals per day. Enjoy savings and a shared experience by rooming with someone you know.
Accommodation
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Single $1530
(shared hall bath)
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Single Ensuite $1834
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Shared Twin (price person) $1073
Coming with a friend or family member? Share a twin room together and enjoy the retreat side-by-side. Or book as a solo traveler and you’ll be placed in a twin room with another participant of the same gender. Access to a shared bathroom.
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Double Ensuite $2599
Reconciliation Fund
Your stay will include a $25 contribution (added to your invoice) toward The Reconciliation Fund initiated January 1, 2022. The collected money will be donated to a First Nations non-profit organization. These contributions, together with offerings from Ashram residents, will be given with the sincere intention to help right past injustices. All who visit or live at Yasodhara Ashram are on the beautiful but unceded territory of First Nations peoples, and we want to take meaningful action and give something back for this privilege.
Indigenous Bursary Program
The bursaries (for three different programs) are open to all First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, with a special invitation to the Ktunaxa and Sinixt peoples on whose unceded territory the Ashram is located. To apply, please fill out this form: Bursary Application or for more information, please contact us here.
I learned tools and insights to bring home - that can help in my daily life both at home and at work. I feel motivated to integrate some of the practice into my daily life and to gain a deeper understanding of yoga.
You're nurtured, you're listened to, you're taken care of. It's just a very wonderful place to go through some growth and with all the support that surrounds you here at the Ashram.
