Sep 19 - Sep 21, 2025
Beyond Trauma
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View a listing of all our programs, workshops, and events—including our best-selling Happiness Retreat, Silent Meditation Retreat, and Ayurveda Wellness Cleanses.
Order a copy of our latest retreat guide and discover all the ways to relax, renew, and discover inner peace—programs, events, workshops, spa treatments, and more.
Quiet the mind and align with the present moment in our happiness, meditation, and silence programs.
You choose the dates, the activities, and Ayurveda treatments—we’ll do the rest. The perfect custom vacation!
The ancient science of Ayurveda gives us all the tools we need to live a holistic, healthy, and happy life in today’s modern world.
Guest teachers, thought leaders, authors, and experts inspire with their timely wisdom and transformative programming.
Our on-demand programs are great introductions to the healing power of Ayurveda. Discover the Ayurvedic Daily Routine, overcome insomnia, and more—whenever, wherever!
Discover an extraordinary space for transformation and community building in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Explore our campus in an interactive 360° virtual tour with guided navigation or on Google Maps.
If the lazy days of summer are looking more like the crazy days, take a few deep breaths and try an Ayurvedic approach to calming down your lifestyle. The word Ayurveda comes from two Sanskrit words—Ayur meaning life and veda meaning knowledge or science. Developed around 1500 BC, Ayurveda is an approach to living in harmony with the universe in order to achieve optimum health.
As you plan your summer schedule, here are three tips to help you have a de-stressing, Ayurvedic season.
Shankara Ayurveda Wellness offers workshops, retreats and treatments focused on Ayurveda, one of which is an authentic Panchakarma program. Our Panchakarma cleanses are led by a team of Ayurveda experts and are customized to each person. Offered throughout the year, Panchakarma includes Ayurvedic treatments, cooking demonstrations, yoga, meditation, vegetarian meals, and take-home education and tools.