Alchemy of Balance: Science and Soulful Strategies to Calm Stress

Healing & Wholeness

Alchemy of Balance

Science and soulful strategies to calm stress

Replenish Your Energy

In a world that continually pulls us outward, it’s easy to feel overstimulated, off balance, or disconnected from your deeper center. This restorative retreat offers an opportunity to slow down, replenish your energy, and reconnect with what truly sustains you.

Join Priti Robyn Ross for a nourishing retreat blending modern neuroscience with ancient contemplative practices to help calm the nervous system, interrupt chronic stress patterns, and create the inner conditions for deep relaxation, emotional freedom, and renewed aliveness. Drawing from more than three decades of expertise, Priti shares practical, accessible tools with wisdom, warmth, and humor.

During this restorative retreat, you will:

Free yourself from limiting beliefs through compassionate self-inquiry exercises.
Renew yourself with therapeutic relaxation, breathwork, joyful movement, and guided practices.
Learn how stress affects mood, sleep, immunity, and overall health.
Explore awe and the neuroscience of the sacred as transformative healing forces.
Discover the 7 Gateways to Whole-Life Balance ®.
Create sustainable life rituals that support greater clarity, ease, and vitality.

Whether you are running on empty or ready for a meaningful reset, you’ll leave with practical tools, renewed perspective, and a deeper capacity to meet life with steadiness and heart. Together, as we begin the new year, you’ll reconnect with the wiser part of yourself and rekindle the spark that empowers you to navigate life with greater presence, courage, and trust.

NOTE: This program is suitable for all levels. Please bring a meaningful picture or photo of someone special to you for the group altar.

Included In Your Stay

10+ Daily Yoga Classes

3 Nutritious Meals a Day

Access to the Kripalu Grounds

Schedule

OPENING DAY
2:00 pm	Check-in begins
4:45–6:00	Kripalu Yoga class
5:30–7:30	Dinner
7:30–9:30	Program Session

DAILY
6:30–7:45 am	Kripalu Yoga class
7:30–9:00	Silent Breakfast
9:00–11:30	Program Session
11:30–1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30–4:00	Program Session
4:45–6:00	Kripalu Yoga class
5:30–7:30	Dinner
7:30–8:45	Program Session (Sunday only)

CLOSING DAY
6:30–7:45 am	Kripalu Yoga class
7:30–9:00	Silent Breakfast
9:00–11:30	Program Session
11:30–1:30 pm	Lunch and Departure

Please note: Rooms are ready by 4:00 pm. You may store your bags in the Luggage Room until your room is available. On the day of departure, room check-out time is 10:00 am—you may remain on campus and take part in workshops until 2:00 pm. Actual times and schedules may vary; please see the Guest Boards or the schedule provided upon check-in for details and room locations.

FAQs

From private rooms to community-style dorms, our accommodations are intentionally simple—designed to help you unplug and feel grounded. Whether you're seeking solitude or connection, we offer a variety of options to support your stay.

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Registering for any Kripalu on campus experience includes three daily meals, daily yoga and movement classes, and access to the Kripalu grounds, and other amenities. Healing Arts sessions as well as items in the Kripalu Shop and Cafe are available for purchase.

Plan My Visit

Online booking is available for 1–2 guests. Please select the appropriate booking button on the program page.

Yes. If a program is full, you may add yourself to the waitlist or by contacting registration@kripalu.org. If space becomes available, we’ll contact you in the order received.

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