Nepal
Pilgrimage to the Self
Flow with Change
Flourish in Life
Thrive.
Inner Pilgrim
Your Activation Journey
Clarity & Purpose: Activate inner parts and align with your next life chapter.
Vitality: Move, meditate, nourish. Daily embodiment practices.
Connection & Sustainability: Dive into nature, culture, local wisdom, and community.
Resilience: Gain tools to navigate life’s big transitions with more ease.
Inner-Discovery
Do you hear the inner call—to blossom 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 10 spots 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
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Lifestyle is the new medicine: apply evidence-based tools for longevity, thriving, and preventing chronic disease. Discover, energize, and flourish.
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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.
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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
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Delve into the rich wisdom of Eastern Meditation practices. Cultivate peace and equanimity in the land of mantras
Tea Ceremonies:
A meditation with nature.
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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
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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
GLACIAL EXTENSION OFFERING
7-Day Advanced Trek +
Continued Self-Activation
7-Days: Nov 26-Dec 1
Activity Level: Moderate
Annapurna Trails
Special Features
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Delve into the rich wisdom of Eastern Meditation practices. Cultivate peace and equanimity in the land of mantras
Tea Ceremonies:
A meditation with nature.
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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.
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After this life-changing trek soak in Himalayan thermal springs.
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High Elevation Community Volunteering
Transformation Methodology
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Lifestyle is the new medicine: apply evidence-based tools for longevity, thriving, and preventing chronic disease. Discover, energize, and flourish.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. Breathwork, guided archetype activation, and mindful movement 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.
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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.
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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
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A longer pilgrimage unfolds, each step 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
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Our final trek carries you to the storied village of Ghandruk. By the river, we release intentions into snowmelt waters—a song to the earth, to each other, to the self renewed. Explore the Gurung heritage, walk among prayer flags whispering 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 Cost:
$3,800
Glacial 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
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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
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Awaken to crisp mountain air & soak in heavenly views. Community volunteering for high elevation living. Potential yak farm visit.
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Ascend to 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
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Optional full-day hike to Khayer Lake (sacred pilgrimage site), or rest and journal in stillness.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
Complete Retreat Cost:
$5,179
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 small humble eco-boutique lodges during our trek.
FAQs:
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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.
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A: We will have a trusted sherpa-guide and our founder has done this trek multiple times.
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We can organize your pickup
Our instructors
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Founder
Change and growth is constant, so let’s learn to surf the waves of transformation together. I believe falling in love with the essence of life is the journey of self-discovery.
Lifestyle Medicine & Neuroscience Coach
Sustainable Lifestyle Designer
Pilates, Taichi, Kungfu, Meditation Instructor
Tea Ceremonialist
Pilgrim of Life
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END—Essential Narrative Design Founder
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Personal Narrative Design


