My 11-Day Silent Meditation Retreat in Rishikesh: Learning Pranayama, Vipassana, and Finding Clarity
Special thanks to Mum and Saurabh for review and feedback One of the best things I did in 2025 was deliberately choosing less: less noise, less input, less distraction. I’ve been meditating for about 12 years (mainly self-taught via YouTube and some in-person classes in London), but as I was navigating some significant decisions in my career and life, I wanted to go deeper. Reading books like the Autobiography of a Yogi and Raja Yoga had me curious about experiencing meditation from an authentic perspective at an actual ashram. So I stepped away from the constant stream of information and deadlines, and spent 11 days at a silent retreat in Rishikesh, India to deepen my practice of pranayama, meditation, and yoga. It gave me a level of clarity I didn’t realise I was missing. ...