Retreat calender for summer 2026 in Rishikesh, India

Team Building

Leadership & Emotional Resilience

Interactive activities & engagement
  • Group Discussions – Applying scriptures to modern leadership challenges

  • Group Activities – Criticism and handling feedback, Role-plays

  • Case Studies – Leadership analysis of historical and mythological figures

  • Reflection Exercises – Personal leadership style & dharmic decision-making

  • Guided Meditation – Cultivating self-awareness & emotional balance

  • Peer Review Assignment

Who should attend?
  • Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders

  • Corporate Professionals, Managers & Aspiring Leaders

  • Coaches, Trainers & Educators

  • Spiritual Seekers & Personal Growth Enthusiasts

Benefits
  • Ethical leadership principles for modern challenges

  • Handling criticism & setbacks without reacting emotionally

  • Encourages decision-making from wisdom, not ego or fear

  • Taming the ego: Self-awareness as a leadership superpower

 

Contents

 

Ethical leadership

Bhagavad Gita – Krishna’s guidance to Arjuna on duty, purpose, and decision-making

  1. Session on the importance of Dharma

    • Focusing on responsibilities and acting with integrity

    • Aligning personal values with leadership responsibilities

  2. Making tough decisions while maintaining moral integrity

  3. Concept of Samatva – the state of equilibrium

 

Tratak meditation
  1. Candle-gazing practice (Trataka)

    • Participants reflect on how often their mind wanders

    • Discuss strategies to maintain focus in high-pressure leadership situations

  2. Third eye meditation

    • Strengthening intuitive decision-making

    • Participants solve a complex leadership scenario and reflect on improved mental clarity after meditation

 

Mindful leadership
  1. Session on emotional intelligence & emotional resilience

  2. Session on Vairagya & Nishkam Karma (Non-Attachment)

    • Emotional resilience: Avoid over-attachment to success, failure, or praise

    • Controlling emotions & making decisions with clarity

Practice includes:

  • Observing emotions without being controlled by them (Detachment – Vairagya)

  • Accepting situations as they come and responding with clarity, not impulse

  • Breathwork & self-regulation: Mastering self-discipline and emotional intelligence

Emotional Health

Intro to emotional management
  • Recognising your emotion (self-awareness)

  • Emotional reasoning (existing emotional belief system & why?)

  • Mental refocus

  • Building detachment – Learn to observe emotions without over-identifying with them

  • Asanas

  • Breath control

  • Meditation

  • Nadi Shodhana

  • Empathy & relationship management as per Yog Sutras

Workshop syllabus
  • Mental health anatomy and physiology

  • Nervous system

  • The brain

  • Brainwaves

  • Yoga for mental health

  • Yoga for trauma, depression and anxiety

  • Yoga for depression

  • Yoga for anxiety

  • Trauma-sensitive yoga

Yoga practices

  • Breathwork

  • Recognize and regulate

  • Full yogic breath

  • Boxed breathing

  • Coherent breathing

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