Join us for the Colour Madness at Holi 2016!

If you get our newsletter, you have already received an invitation to the retreat we planned next: the Holi Retreat 2016! While in the past years we just loosely invited everyone with a special offer for the time of the colour festival, we now have a complete program ready for a first-hand experience of India, the Ashram and of course the colour madness of the Holi celebration!

Holi, for all who don’t know it, is one of India’s two biggest festivals of the year! It is a huge colour celebration and while the rest of India celebrates it on one day in spring, the town of Vrindavan hurls itself into colours a whole week long!

It is an exceptional time of the year during which you can really feel like a child again! You can play tricks on each other, paint with colours without worrying about your clothes and throw colours onto one another as well!

With our Holi Retreat program, you will have the possibility to enjoy Indian culture from within, starting with a welcome-party at the Ashram followed by a guided tour through Vrindavan so that you know the city you will spend the next one or two weeks in. Next, you will get to see how Holi is celebrated inside the main temple of Vrindavan, how we prepare fresh colours ourselves and then take part in the big Holi celebration at the Ashram on the climax day of Holi. In the safe environment of our private party, we will get crazy with the colours!

After Holi is over, your holiday will continue a bit calmer but not any less interesting! You get to visit our school and the school children, have time for a question and answer round with Yashendu where you can ask whatever you want and of course you will make a trip to see the Taj Mahal in Agra! In a presentation of Indian spices, you’ll get to know what creates the wonderful taste of the Ashram’s food and in an Ayurvedic Cooking Workshop you will learn how to prepare these dishes yourself. With a walk around the town and a stop at the evening fire ceremony at the river, we will conclude the program – and after a farewell party, you will be on your way back home with the most beautiful memories on your mind.

There will be daily yoga classes and enough time to explore the surroundings yourself, relax at the Ashram, take Ayurvedic massages and treatments, play with the children or go shopping in Vrindavan’s colourful bazaars!

With this Holi Retreat we want to combine the fun of the Holi celebration with the feeling of being taken care of in your experience of incredible India – and we are already looking forward to getting coloured together with you!

Here you can get all details for the Holi Retreat 2016!

And here you can see pictures of previous Holi celebrations