The Himalayan Taichi Qigong Retreat

Welcome to a sacred journey into the depths of your inner world—a space for healing, rebalancing, and awakening. The Inner Transformation & Self-Discovery Retreat at Dunagiri Retreat Estate, near Mahavatar Babaji’s Cave, is a potent blend of ancient wisdom and contemporary embodiment practices, lovingly curated to reconnect you with your authentic self.

This retreat is for anyone who feels a deep inner call to pause, reflect, heal, and reawaken—regardless of previous experience, age, or background. Whether you are seeking spiritual connection, clarity of purpose, emotional release, or physical revitalization, this space is created for you.

The Alchemy of Transformation

Guided by Sonika Vickraman, a master of Taichi, Qigong, and energy healing with decades of experience, and co-hosted by Teodara, a trained Pilates practitioner and embodiment guide, this retreat is a unique integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taoist Healing, Pilates, Meditation, and Self-Inquiry.

Through the exquisite alchemy of these ancient and modern modalities, you will enter a sacred space that invites authenticity, inner silence, and the ecstasy of embodied presence.

You will be supported through processes that will help you:

• Break old patterns, addictions, attachments, and conditioned beliefs

• Move from mental “knowing” to deep inner “understanding”

• Embody simplicity, self-love, and acceptance—here and now

• Connect spiritual awakening with the body and mind

• Relax the nervous system and release inner chatter

• Cultivate vulnerability, emotional presence, and stillness

• Awaken your senses and deepen your connection to others and nature

What You’ll Experience

Each day is gently structured to offer deep restoration, inspiration, and transformation. You will experience:

• Taichi & Qigong: Daily sessions that connect breath, movement, and awareness. Learn how to open the Door of Life and Vitality through ancient practices that balance Yin & Yang energies and awaken the inner healer within.

• Pilates with Teodara: Restore alignment, posture, and deep muscular support. These intelligent, mindful exercises help retrain the body's structural balance, leading to pain-free movement and radiant confidence.

• Embodied Self-Inquiry: Discover the clarity that comes from exploring your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions without judgment—returning to a space of witnessing and formlessness.

• Meditation Practices: Learn powerful yet simple techniques to center your awareness, reduce stress, and expand your presence.

• Belly (Hara) Healing and Sacred Touch Work: Deepen your breath and explore embodied stillness and soul connection through conscious touch and energy sensing.

• Energy Activation Practices: Cleanse, charge, circulate, and expand your vital life force (Qi), grounding into Earth while connecting to the Universal Spirit.

• Community Sharing Circles: Healing within a conscious, loving field of human presence—a circle where stories are honored, emotions are welcomed, and transformation is amplified.

Discover Taichi & Qigong

Taichi and Qigong are ancient Chinese internal arts that harmonize the mind, body, and spirit. They are meditative movement systems that gently activate the body’s energy channels (meridians), improve circulation, and awaken inner vitality. Practicing these arts daily cultivates grounding, peace, agility, and emotional resilience. You’ll learn to:

• Feel the flow of Qi in your body

• Harmonize your inner rhythms with nature

• Unlock the secret to healthy aging and vibrant living

• Move from within with grace and rooted presence

The Healing Power of Pilates

Pilates, led by co-host Teodara, offers a powerful complement to the retreat. It focuses on realignment, core strength, and postural integrity. Pilates works deeply with the muscular systems that stabilize joints and support fluid, pain-free movement. Through these sessions, you’ll:

• Rebuild your connection to your physical center

• Release mechanical stress and chronic tension

• Restore posture and discover easeful movement

• Improve flexibility, mobility, and body confidence

What You’ll Take Back Home

You will not return the same person. You will leave this retreat:

• With a deeper awareness of your body, mind, and energy

• Restored in health, lightness, and vitality

• Connected to your inner voice and intuitive wisdom

• With tools to continue your healing and spiritual path

• Free from outdated roles, masks, and stories

• More open to love, life, and the unknown

• With a clear understanding of your patterns—and how to transform them

• Grounded in the here and now, with a renewed sense of wholeness

You’ll carry home a soul memory of presence—a sense of who you truly are when all else is stripped away. A seed of transformation will be planted in you—one that will continue to blossom long after the retreat ends.

The Benefits of Attending

• Reconnect with your natural rhythm and true self

• Restore physical, emotional, and mental harmony

• Release weight, stress, and old trauma

• Unlock creative and spiritual potential

• Heal chronic emotional and energetic imbalances

• Gain tools for daily embodiment, mindfulness, and healthy aging

• Return home lighter, clearer, and more whole

What Makes This Retreat Special

These 10 days Re-Discover Yourself Retreat bring such clarity that can Eliminate your entire past traumas and whatever challenges you are facing since your childhood will be fully transformed into total understanding, pure love, infinite happiness, and peacefulness in your Meaningful Life.

Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Healing Sessions on Prior Booking

1: 1 Healing session

1: 1 Consultation

Family Constellations session.

Group Bars Session.