Take a break from your daily life – take time for yourself and reconnect to nature and your true self. Fresh air, long walks, good locally grown food, combined with stimulating and relaxing yoga set with the backdrop of Victoria Lake and the Knuckles Mountains. Come and experience the freedom of Welikande with its nearby waterfalls and abundant wildlife.
Highlights
- 2 yoga classes per day (90 minutes / class)
- 30 minutes massage
- Daily guided meditation
- 4 daily activities
- Unlimited water, coffee, and tea
- 5 nights accommodation
- 3 meals per day
Duration (nights)
5Location
Welikande Yoga Retreat Center, Kandy 234 Siridigana Rd Pussallegolla, Udispattuwa, Kandy District, Knuckles Mountains, Kandy, Sri LankaPrice from
€ 891Program
This retreat aims to produce a holistic experience away from the everyday rush of the modern world. Enjoy this relaxing 6-day retreat at Welikande. Wake up and watch the sunrise from behind the mountains while you enjoy an energizing yoga class in our beautiful yoga shala on your personalized retreat. You will finish every class with a guided meditation. In your yoga classes, you will learn to listen to your body – giving your body what it needs. Your teachers make sure to modify for different levels of practitioners so that everyone can have a safe practice, offering two 90-minute classes per day.
Besides yoga, you can choose one activity a day during your stay with Welikande Estate Wellness. All the experiences they created are around the local community. To meet and greet, to learn from them, and smile with them. This is also to create work within this small area, giving them the possibility to work together to give you a great time. All activities organize are including transport, lunch and a guide to ensure you have a stress-free experience whilst staying at Welikande Estate.
Included excursions
Tea Plantation & Waterfall Tour
By tuk-tuk, you will drive through the Tea plantations to 5 waterfalls followed by a short walk to the waterfall for a refreshing swim if you wish. There will be a picnic provided and a visit to a local tea shop for hot tea. Along the way, there are fantastic views and chances to meet the tea-picking crews they have to pick 20 kilograms of fresh tea leaves a day. It’s a tough life but they love to stop for a photo.
Spa Wellness Treatment
Ayurveda is a traditional Hindu system of medicine based on the idea of balance in bodily systems. It uses diet, herbal treatment, and yogic breathing. Local herbs and oils give the physical body a deep, relaxing massage, which has positive effects on the mind. The treatment includes an herbal steam bath, traditionally called Vashta Swedha. Steam infused with medicinal herbs cleanses pores and the skin.
Heeloya Trek
You will find yourself in the company of one of their state-licensed tour guides for a beautiful trek in the Heeloya National Park. The guides will tell you all about the different herbs and spices that grow around and are used in the food they serve. The trek is a great experience to profoundly connect with the elements of nature, as taken from the ancient teachings of Buddhism. You hike through rice paddies, tea plantations, pine forests, and past villagers’ homes to get a sense of the landscape and culture. You will eat lunch at a waterfall, where you have the opportunity to take a refreshing swim before we head back to Welikande.
Local Cooking Experience
A trip to Sri Lanka would be incomplete without an introduction to Sri Lankan cooking. You will start the day with a short tuk-tuk ride and then a 3-kilometer hike into the rice paddies, where we meet up with a local female cook who, with her family’s help, has recreated two authentic rice paddy houses from mud and wood.
On this day, you will make your own lunch in an outdoor kitchen with a view of mountains and rice paddy fields. Most of the ingredients, like jackfruit, green leaves, coconuts, and other fruits and vegetables, will be harvested directly on the property before cooking. You will enjoy lunch sitting cross-legged on the first floor.
After lunch, there is sometimes work to be done in harvesting or planting rice paddies with the mud between your toes. Then, down to the river for a swim.
Mandala Painting
Welikande Estate Wellness have created a lovely, peaceful art room that you are welcome to use at any time during your stay. Mandala painting is an ancient art form that can be used as meditation and centering. They are very privileged to have a fantastic art teacher to guide you through the process. You are very welcome to take home your wooden disc, or it will hang with the others in reception.