Nepal

Pilgrimage to the Self
Flow with Change
Flourish in Life
Thrive.

Inner Pilgrim

Your Activation Journey.

Clarity & Purpose: Activate inner-parts / archetypes and align with your next life chapter.

Vitality & Embodiment: Meditation, Tai Chi, Kung Fu (staff & fist), Pilates, Yoga, Tea-Ceremony.

Connection & Sustainability: Dive into nature, culture, local wisdom, and community.

Resilience: Lifestyle-Medicine—gain tools for longevity & navigating life’s big transitions.

Inner-Discovery

Do you hear the inner call—to flourish again? Recharge from burnout, embrace clarity, navigate life’s transitions, and awaken to a deeper love for yourself and life? A pilgrimage into yourself awaits. Step into Nepal’s awe-inspiring Himalayas and the sacred terrain of your inner world.

AUMUNI’s Self-Activation Journey is a 6-day bespoke active wellness retreat blending ancient wisdom, modern science, and nature’s rhythms to help you thrive.

Using our Integrative Embodiment Method (IEM™), each day is crafted to ignite your purpose, vitality, and inner harmony — all while honoring the planet.

Journey beyond the extraordinary.
Discover, Embody, Flourish.

Only 5 spots still available. Book Soon.

Himalaya Magic


Restoration: Meditation, breathwork, tea ceremony.

Activation: Tai Chi, Kung Fu staff & fist, Pilates, Yoga.

Immersion: Buddhist blessing, incense making, village life,
volunteering, Ayurvedic medicine consultation, Ayurvedic cooking class.

Unique Embodiment Offerings:

CORE RETREAT

6 Day Active Retreat
With Short Himalaya Trek

6-Days: Nov 26-Dec 1

Astam, Annapurna Trails

Activity Level: Moderate

Transformation Methodology

    • Lifestyle is the new medicine: apply evidence-based tools for longevity, thriving, and preventing chronic disease. Discover, energize, and flourish.

    • IEM™ — Your Thriving Blueprint

      IEM turns lifestyle into your most powerful medicine. Align mind, body, spirit, and nature, and activate your full potential at any life stage.

      What You’ll Experience:

    • Thrive Cycle: Daily rhythm for flourishing.

    • Integrative Embodiment: Map your inner parts & archetypes.

    • LifeWay: Bring transformation into everyday life

      Build a lifestyle that regenerates you—and the planet.

    • At AUMUNI, thriving includes the planet. Every step of your journey deepens your connection with nature and supports climate responsibility. Trek through the Himalayas with awareness—honoring the local ecosystem, culture, and communities.

    • Nepal is co-curated with local experts, ensuring every experience preserves its magic while empowering you to become a guardian of a thriving future. Join a community dedicated to “Wellbeing for All & Wellbeing for Life.”

Special Features

  • Meditation:

    • Delve into the rich wisdom of Eastern Meditation practices. Cultivate peace and equanimity in the land of mantras.

    Tea Ceremonies:

    • A meditation with nature.

    • Tai Chi – restorative and mindful movement.

    • Kung Fu Staff & Fist – cultivate self-empowerment and focus.

    • Pilates & Yoga – flexibility, aligned biomechanics, balance, and vitality.

    • Breathwork & Integration – harmonize mind and body.

  • Ayurvedic Medicine & Food:

    • A personal consultation with an ayurvedic doctor.

    • Nepalese Ayurvedic cooking class.

    • Daily local regenerative ayurvedic cuisine.

    Buddhist Blessings:

    • Receive a blessing from an esteemed local Lama.

    Local Immersive Experiences:

    • Incense making & Village farm life & walks.


SKY TEMPLE EXTENSION
TREK

7-Day Advanced Trek +
Continued Self-Activation

7-Days: Nov 26-Dec 1

Activity Level: Moderate

Annapurna Trails

Special Features

  • Meditation:

    • Delve into the rich wisdom of Eastern Meditation practices. Cultivate peace and equanimity in the land of mantras.

    Tea Ceremonies:

    • A meditation with nature.

  • Tai-Chi:

    • Deepen pycho-somatic awareness, regenerate with immersive nature-connection, and vitalize your energetic system.

    Kung-Fu:

    • The Shaolin Staff is a unique active meditation to energize and empower yourself.

    • KungFu Fists: Activate the sacred warrior within. Be strong like a mountain and flow like water.

    Gentle Yoga:

    • Breathwork and stretching. Mind, Body, Spirit.

  • After this life-changing trek soak in Himalayan thermal springs.

  • High Elevation Community Volunteering.

Transformation Methodology

    • Lifestyle is the new medicine: apply evidence-based tools for longevity, thriving, and preventing chronic disease. Discover, energize, and flourish.

    • IEM™ — Your Thriving Blueprint

      IEM turns lifestyle into your most powerful medicine. Align mind, body, spirit, and nature, and activate your full potential at any life stage.

      What You’ll Experience:

    • Thrive Cycle: Daily rhythm for flourishing.

    • Integrative Embodiment: Map your inner parts & archetypes.

    • LifeWay: Bring transformation into everyday life

      Build a lifestyle that regenerates you—and the planet.

    • At AUMUNI, thriving includes the planet. Every step of your journey deepens your connection with nature and supports climate responsibility. Trek through the Himalayas with awareness—honoring the local ecosystem, culture, and communities.

    • Nepal is co-curated with local experts, ensuring every experience preserves its magic while empowering you to become a guardian of a thriving future. Join a community dedicated to “Wellbeing for All & Wellbeing for Life.”


Core Trip Itinerary

  • Your Himalayan journey begins at Hananoie—Astam, a jewel in the crown of the Annapurnas, a boutique farm sanctuary nestled in an EcoVillage and emerald hills. Arrive to warm herbal infusions and nourishing seasonal fare. As the sun softens, we gather for our Opening Circle, setting sacred intention with restorative movement. Let the steam of the bathhouse and the rhythms of the land unwind your body. Under a velvet night sky, a local Lama offers blessings and mantras—honoring the Himalayas, honoring your path.

  • Awaken to the hush of mountain air. Through our Integrative Embodiment Method, you’ll receive your Thriving Self Journal—a compass for inner mapping, vision creation, and longevity practices. Engage breathwork, guided archetype activation, and mindful movement to awaken your vitality. Sip local tea in ceremony, rooting into the earth. A farm-to-table Ayurvedic lunch nourishes body and mind. In the afternoon, incense-making becomes an offering, a connection to lineage. Tai chi and pilates invite gentle strength before an evening of firelight, stories, and song.

  • Today deepens your personal quest. Continue shaping your Wellbeing Vision through meditation, creative expression, and narrative mapping. Afternoon brings an Ayurvedic consultation and candle-making—an act of light and intention. Shaolin kung fu stirs your inner warrior, while the bathhouse soothes you into stillness. Dine beneath the stars, the fire’s glow a reminder of your own.

  • The mountains call. Morning light finds you on sacred trails, weaving through hidden villages. We ask: What will you leave behind? What will you walk toward? Who is the Walker? Lunch arrives with sweeping views, followed by rest in your new mountain haven. A tea ceremony opens stories of nature’s role in our lives—a prayer for the Himalayas, a call to protect what is sacred. Movement practice closes the day, with optional hands-on cooking before dinner and fireside connection.

    Day 4 – Trek to Dhampus

    Distance: 4.2 miles | ⏱ Time: 2.5–3 hrs

    Elevation Gain: +1,063 ft (4,488 → 5,551 ft)

    Difficulty: Gentle to Moderate

  • A longer pilgrimage unfolds, each step brings you through alpine beauty, a meditation in motion. Conversations with the land and its people weave into a workshop on deep listening—to self, to others, to the earth. Choose restorative or strengthening movement before a night of shared stories, laughter, and mountain stillness.

    Day 5 – Trek to Landruk

    Distance: 7.5 miles | ⏱ Time: 5–6 hrs

    Elevation Gain: +1,020 ft (5,551 → 6,571 ft)

    Difficulty: Moderate

  • Our final trek carries you to the storied village of Ghandruk. By the turquoise river, we release intentions into snowmelt waters—a song to the earth, to each other, to the self renewed. Explore local Gurung heritage, walk among prayer flags whispering blessings in the wind. As night falls, a ceremonial dinner gathers us one last time. Around the fire, we close the circle—each guest stepping forward as the hero of their own journey.

    Day 6 – Trek to Ghandruk

    Distance: 6.2 miles | ⏱ Time: 4–5 hrs

    Elevation Gain: +1,200 ft (6,571 → 7,771 ft)

    Difficulty: Moderate

Includes:

  • Airport Pickup & Transportation

  • Food

  • Accomodations

  • Ayurvedic Wellness Consultation & Spa

Excludes:

  • Flight to Nepal & Pokhara

  • Visas and travel insurance

  • Trekking Porters

  • Tips & Gratuity

6 Day Core Retreat:

$3,797


Sky Temple Extension Itinerary

For those able and ready to go deeper… Continue trekking into the spiritual highlands of the Annapurnas. Daily flow practices (breath, movement, stillness) guided by mountain rhythm. Integration of the full archetypal system through real-world active-embodiment. Forest meditations, secret trails, glacier visits, deeper cultural immersion. Service opportunities: support for local eco-projects & awareness for glacier preservation. Return to the world renewed, whole, and truly activated.
REQUIRES: 45 min coaching session with Aumuni lifestyle-medicine coach to make sure the extension trek is the right fit and prepare you for the journey. In this session we’ll explore your health goals, readiness for the trek, and your deeper intentions for joining ($150 value, yours for $50).

  • Trek through lush forests with stunning views. Overnight at scenic lodge in Dobato with panoramic Himalayan vistas.

    • Distance: 6.8 miles / 11 km

    • Elevation: 7,142 ft → 11,338 ft (Gain: +4,196 ft)

    • Time: 6–7 hrs

  • Awaken to crisp mountain air & soak in heavenly views. Community volunteering for high elevation living. Potential yak farm visit.

  • Ascend to Sky Temple, Khopra Ridge, one of Nepal’s most sacred and serene high-altitude ridges. Overnight with mountain views.

    • Distance: ~4 miles / 6.4 km

    • Elevation: 11,338 ft → 12,043 ft (Gain: +705 ft)

    • Time: 3–4 hrs

  • Optional full-day hike to Khayer Lake (sacred pilgrimage site), or rest and journal in stillness.

  • Trek down through alpine forest and stay in a tranquil village nestled in the foothills.

    • Distance: ~5 miles / 8 km

    • Elevation: 12,043 ft → 6,561 ft (Loss: –5,482 ft)

    • Time: 2.5–4 hrs

  • Our final descent brings us to a much rewarded soak in natural hot springs by the river. Perfect for muscle recovery and reflection. 

    • Distance: ~6 miles / 9.6 km

    • Elevation: 6,561 ft → 3,937 ft (Loss: –2,624 ft)

    • Time: 3.5–5 hrs

  • Scenic drive back to Pokhara through the Kali Gandaki valley. We arrive at a Monastery in a Tibetan Refugee Village, time integrating and connecting with locals. Final Celebration dinner.

  • We wake up to soulful chants, meditation, and final prayers with monks. Transfer to airport or onward onward journey.

Includes:

  • Airport Pickup & Transportation

  • Food

  • Accomodations

Excludes:

  • Flight to Nepal & Pokhara

  • Visas and travel insurance

  • Trekking Porters

  • Tips & Gratuity

Sky Temple Extension:

$1,680


Where You’ll Stay

Nestled in the peaceful mountain village of Astam, Hananoie is a boutique eco-resort blending Japanese elegance with Nepali warmth. Surrounded by Himalayan peaks, this serene retreat offers organic farm-to-table dining, handcrafted details, and panoramic views—an intimate haven for rest and renewal. We stay three nights here and then quaint eco-boutique lodges during our trek.


PREMIUM ADDONS:

1. Lifestyle-Medicine Coaching Call

  • One 45 min coaching session with Aumuni lifestyle-medicine coach. In this session we’ll explore your lifestyle-design: health, purpose, and longevity goals ($150 value, yours for $50).

2. Pre-Retreat Fitness & Wellness Program

  • “Nepal Trek Readiness Program” → A 6-week online wellness + fitness guide.

  • $297: Includes—basic strength training, lifestyle tips, meditation, taichi & pilates.

3. Fitness Program + Coaching

  • “Nepal Trek Readiness Program” + 2 private coaching sessions (Best Value).

  • $340: Full preparation program to make the most out of Nepal!

  • Learning Taichi through Aumuni has been life-changing. I discovered something I love.

    Mot, Thailand

  • “I never realized how a simple cup of tea could become a doorway into presence and peace.”

    Joseph, USA

  • “Through the IEM method, I discovered parts of myself I’d forgotten. I found my compass again.”

    Aya, Japan

  • “The journey gave me clarity and courage. I returned home ready to step into my next chapter with confidence.”

    Matteo, Italy

FAQs:

  • Q: If it is a trek, does that mean we’re carrying backpacks and sleeping in teahouses?

    A: Porters: Given we will be sleeping in guesthouses, there isn’t a need for heavy bags but for convenience porters can be hired for luggage upon request. 

    C: Luggage left at Astam will be transported to you accordingly as you return from Ghandruk or Tatopani respectively

    A: Yes, we will be sleeping in tea-houses, sleeping bags are required. Thermals are required. We are exploring upgrades for couples or clients who might want private rooms, but few if any, are anticipated at this time.

  • A: We will have a trusted sherpa-guide and our founder has done this trek multiple times.

  • We can organize your pickup

  • While we do have event liability and Errors & Omissions Insurance, each participant is responsible for their own medical, travel, and emergency coverage and expenses.

Our Instructors

  • Founder

    “To thrive is to cultivate integrated health in mind, body, spirit, and with nature—an ongoing pilgrimage to realize the hero within.”

    Matias Aslan is a Lifestyle Medicine & Neuroscience Coach, Sustainability & Lifestyle Designer, Meditation, Pilates, Tai Chi, and Kung Fu Instructor, and Tea Ceremonialist. A modern pilgrim, he explores human potential and sustainable living.

    His journey began at 18 with pilgrimages—volunteering in the Sumatran jungle, surfing pristine waves, and finding inner peace in the Himalayas—developing a deep connection with nature, movement, and the self.

    A life-threatening injury left him with months of arm paralysis and three years of chronic recovery, compounded by heartbreak and mental health struggles. Through deliberate inner work and integrated health practices, he rebuilt himself, learning that thriving requires nourishing mind, body, spirit, and our connection to nature.

    Certified in Lifestyle Medicine & Neuroscience and holding a B.A. in Sustainable Living—Regenerative Innovation and Design, Matias combines modern science, archetypal psychology, and nature-based wisdom to guide others toward flourishing.

    As founder of AUMUNI and creator of the Integrative Embodiment Method™ (IEM), he empowers individuals to activate their full potential, cultivate resilience, and live in harmony with themselves and the planet. For Matias, thriving is a “gentle becoming”—an ongoing practice turning adversity into growth and life into a personal legend.

  • Anna is a learning and development specialist with over 15 years in the corporate sector. 

    In addition, Anna has helped people discover their own personal narratives through coaching and counseling. She has worked with trauma victims and obtained a 125-hour coaching certificate in Whole Person Coaching.

    After a career in the film industry, Anna turned her attention to leadership and team consulting, focusing on how narrative messaging and storytelling can shape team culture, inclusion, and leadership effectiveness. Her clients include PWC, OpenTable, Deloitte, the NBA, and many more. Among other positions, she worked at Korn Ferry as a Senior Consultant, and in tech as Senior Manager of Learning and Development at Collibra.

    Anna is co-founder of StoryCraft Academy.

  • Essential Narrative Design (E.N.D.)
    Your life is a story—are you writing it, or are others writing it for you? Essential Narrative Design is a transformational growth system that helps you reframe crisis, navigate change, and rediscover purpose through the timeless power of story. Drawing on modern archetypes, narrative arcs, and practical design tools, E.N.D. guides you to reclaim authorship of your life—turning breakdowns into breakthroughs and uncertainty into a clear call to adventure. Whether you’re facing a life transition, a midlife pivot, a challenge, or a search for deeper meaning, E.N.D. shows you how to live your story by design, not default.

    Luca Ceccarelli is a published author, storyteller, corporate consultant, and facilitator. His credo is that to live fully, one must embrace the unknown with conviction, trust, and a sense of adventure—building a lived story worth telling. Born in England and raised in Rome, Italy, Luca came to the US in 1994 to pursue film studies and a career in the entertainment industry. After writing and directing award-winning projects and producing films distributed by Amazon, Netflix, and Lionsgate, he turned his attention to developing StoryMetrics—a comprehensive story-mastery system designed to harness the universal resonance of storytelling. Adapted for fiction (StoryMetrics), business storytelling (StoryFlow), and personal development (Essential Narrative Design—E.N.D.), this modular approach empowers anyone to shape stories that inspire, connect, and transform.

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