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A Lao cooking class in Vientiane, a sunrise balloon over Vang Vieng’s karsts, and a rice farming morning outside Luang Prabang, five days, capital to royal city, over Valentine’s Week.

Alaya Retreats · For the soul
A retreat built around practice, rhythm, and real silence, where the place you’re travelling to is yourself.
The first silent morning feels long. By the third, you’ll wonder why the rest of your life is so loud.
Soul & Silence is Alaya’s first retreat: a trip where the daily rhythm (practice, meals, silence, rest) is the product itself.
We’re finalising the practice, the teachers who’ll lead it, and the setting. Join the early list and you’ll get the full retreat design, dates, and price before anyone else.
Trip DNA & Lenses
Every Alaya Retreat is built and checked against the same 4 lenses. Here’s what each one looks like on this trip.
The specific modality: the style of yoga, the meditation tradition, the breathwork.
Who leads it, and the training or lineage behind them.
How the place itself is used for stillness: the specific silence, the specific view.
The daily structure: wake time, practice blocks, silent hours. The rhythm is the product.
The full Trip DNA (named people, places, and moments for every lens) is published with the final itinerary.
What you’ll bring home
You’ll come home not just rested, but recalibrated.
Day by day
We don’t publish an itinerary until one of us has walked it. Here’s where this trip stands.
Destination chosen, trip designed around its Trip DNA.
Every guide and host is met in person before their name reaches an itinerary.
Published to the early list first, then to everyone.
Small group, capped. Early-list members get first right to a spot.
Your guides
Designed and scouted by the two of us. Tour leaders are confirmed with the final itinerary.
Questions
You’ll get the full itinerary, final dates, and price before they’re announced publicly, plus first right to a spot. There’s no payment and no obligation.
Small, always. Every Alaya departure is capped, the exact number is confirmed with the itinerary, and it won’t move once it’s published.
On our open departures, a 30% deposit holds your place and the balance is due 60 days before departure. Final terms for this trip are confirmed when booking opens.
Yes. Our Concierge team handles flights, extra nights, and insurance matched to the trip, including altitude and trekking cover for Expeditions.
Yes, through Alaya Reserve we can build a private version around your own dates and group.
Join the early list
Itinerary, final dates, and price go to this list before they’re announced anywhere, along with first right to a spot. No payment, no obligation.
We’ll send the full Soul & Silence: A Sri Lanka Retreat itinerary to your inbox before it goes public.
Want the full itinerary to read later or share?
Request the brochureThe early list
Dates, prices, and open spots reach the list before they’re announced anywhere else. Once or twice a month, never filler.
Watch your inbox. New departures reach you before they reach anyone else.