Workplace Wellness Programme
Corporate Wellness Retreat in Kathmandu, Nepal
Custom team retreats for groups of 4 to 40. Designed and led personally by Maa Nisha Kabir, Swami Anish and Yogi Awdaitmani to address chronic burnout, reset culture and send people back to work in a different nervous-system state.
What is a Jivan Parivartan corporate wellness retreat?
A Jivan Parivartan corporate wellness retreat is a 2 to 6 day team programme built around yoga, breathwork, meditation and Tibetan sound healing, designed to address chronic burnout and reset a team in a single concentrated block. It is custom-built for every company after a structured intake call with HR or leadership.
We started running corporate programmes because the same patterns kept walking through our door: founders sleeping four hours a night, healthcare leads carrying years of secondary trauma, engineering teams that had not been off-screen in months. Corporate burnout used to be treated as a personal issue. Most leadership teams now treat it as an operational risk: it shows up in attrition rates, mistakes, sick days, and the quiet quitting that no engagement survey ever picks up.
Our work is not a wellness day with mats and a smoothie bar. It is a structured programme that uses the same practices we use in our 200-hour teacher trainings, scaled down and translated for desk-bound bodies and busy minds. The aim is not to turn anyone into a yogi. The aim is to drop the nervous system into a different state long enough to break the chronic-stress loop, then send people home with two or three techniques that genuinely fit their working life.
Programmes are co-led by the three senior teachers at the centre. Maa Nisha Kabir brings the meditation and Reiki work. Swami Anish leads the breathwork, sound healing and the optional clinical hypnotherapy sessions. Yogi Awdaitmani designs and teaches the physical practice. To see how the full Jivan Parivartan retreat portfolio fits together, visit our retreats hub for Kathmandu and the Himalayas.
What corporate retreat formats do you offer?
There are four formats we run repeatedly because they fit how teams actually schedule. Each can still be customised inside the format, but starting from one of these saves a lot of design time. The right starting point depends on team size, how far you can travel and how deep you want the work to go.
2-Day Intensive
Tarkeshwor centre + day trip
Day 1 at our Tarkeshwor centre with yoga, breathwork, meditation and a Tibetan sound healing session. Day 2 at a Kathmandu Valley property (typically near Shivapuri or Nagarjun forest) with longer practice blocks, reflection time and an integration session.
Team size
4 to 16
Best for
Local Kathmandu teams, leadership groups, fast resets
4-Day Off-Site
Kathmandu Valley luxury property
Four days at a private Kathmandu Valley property with sole-occupancy accommodation, daily morning and afternoon practice, two evenings of sound healing, one half-day of leadership work and one half-day of unstructured rest. Optional clinical hypnotherapy sessions for senior leaders.
Team size
8 to 24
Best for
Cross-functional teams, post-fundraise resets, annual planning offsites
6-Day Combined
Valley property + light Himalayan trek
Three days of practice and integration at a valley property, then a light two-day trek into the foothills with a final day of recovery and reflection. Designed for teams who want both inner work and a shared physical challenge, with full guide and porter support.
Team size
6 to 18
Best for
Senior leadership, sales kickoffs, founders and co-founders, partner retreats
On-Site at Your Office
Your office or local hotel
Half-day or full-day on-site programmes brought to your office or chosen Kathmandu hotel. Suitable for one-off wellness days, the wellness component of an existing offsite or a recurring quarterly programme.
Team size
4 to 40
Best for
Distributed teams with one shared in-person week, or short-format wellness days
What does the daily programme include?
Every retreat is custom, but the working components are stable. Yoga, breathwork, meditation and sound healing make up the core. Optional layers like clinical hypnotherapy or one-to-one Reiki are added for senior teams or anyone in the group who would benefit from deeper individual work.
Yoga and movement
Led by Yogi Awdaitmani, scaled to desk-bound and travel-fatigued bodies. Chair-based variations available throughout. Focus is on opening the spine, the hips and the diaphragm, not on advanced asana. Hatha-based and slow, never performance-driven.
Breathwork (pranayama)
Two daily sessions: a morning energising practice (Bhastrika, Kapalbhati) for clarity and an evening regulating practice (Anulom Vilom, extended exhales) for sleep. Designed to give the team take-home techniques that work at a desk in 90 seconds.
Guided meditation
Maa Nisha Kabir teaches the daily meditation block. The work is grounded, secular when needed, and never demands belief. Focus is on attention training and emotional regulation, with techniques people can use sitting in a chair in their next meeting.
Tibetan sound healing
A Himalayan singing bowl session with Swami Anish, usually mid-retreat. Sound therapy is one of the fastest ways we know to drop a hard-running nervous system, which is exactly the state most corporate retreats start in.
Clinical hypnotherapy (optional)
Optional one-to-one sessions with Swami Anish, a certified clinical hypnotherapist. Available for senior leaders or anyone in the team who would benefit from deeper work on a specific pattern. Always opt-in, always confidential.
Reflection and integration
Daily reflection blocks, with a structured journaling framework and an optional small-group share circle. Teams leave with a written take-home practice plan tailored to their working life, not a generic handout.
What does a typical retreat day look like?
A typical day is bookended by two practice blocks, with structured workshop time in the morning and reflective or restorative work in the afternoon. Nothing is mandatory; every session is offered. The point is to give the team space, not to fill it.
06:30
Optional silent walk
A quiet walk in nature with no phones, available to anyone awake.
07:00
Pranayama and meditation
A 75-minute block of breathwork and seated meditation with Maa Nisha Kabir.
08:30
Yoga session
A 75-minute yoga session with Yogi Awdaitmani, scaled to the team's mobility.
10:00
Breakfast and rest
Vegetarian breakfast and unstructured rest time. Phones discouraged.
11:00
Workshop block
A teaching session on stress, sleep, attention or breath patterns at work, led by Swami Anish.
13:00
Lunch and free time
Long sattvic lunch followed by free rest or optional one-to-one healing sessions.
16:00
Sound healing or restorative yoga
A Tibetan singing bowl session or restorative yoga, depending on the day.
18:00
Dinner
Simple vegetarian dinner. Optional facilitated team reflection circle after.
20:30
Wind-down practice
A short 30-minute evening pranayama and Yoga Nidra to support sleep.
What is included once we agree a programme?
Every Jivan Parivartan corporate retreat is structured the same way once the proposal is signed: pre-retreat intake, full faculty teaching on every day, venue and meals, optional one-to-one work, a written take-home plan and a 30-day follow-up. You get a single point of contact from first call to follow-up.
Pre-retreat intake call
A 45-minute call with HR or the leadership sponsor to set objectives, identify concerns and design the schedule. No retreat starts without this.
Full faculty team
Maa Nisha Kabir, Swami Anish and Yogi Awdaitmani all teach on every retreat. You are getting the founders, not contracted staff.
Venue and accommodation
Choice of our Tarkeshwor centre, a Kathmandu Valley luxury property near Shivapuri-Nagarjun National Park, or a Himalayan property for premium retreats.
All meals (vegetarian and sattvic)
Three meals a day plus herbal teas. Vegan, gluten-free and Ayurvedic options on request. Alcohol-free across the whole programme.
Daily yoga, breathwork and meditation
Twice-daily practice across all programme days, scaled to the energy of the team and the time available.
Tibetan sound healing session
At least one full group sound healing session with authentic Himalayan singing bowls in every programme of two days or more.
Optional one-to-one work
Reiki, energy healing or clinical hypnotherapy sessions with Maa Nisha Kabir or Swami Anish, included for senior teams or available as an add-on.
Take-home integration plan
A printed take-home practice plan for each participant with the breathing, meditation and movement routines that fit their working life.
Post-retreat follow-up
A 30-day check-in with the team sponsor and an optional follow-up online meditation series for participants who want to continue.
Local transport and logistics
All in-Kathmandu and in-Nepal transport, airport pickups, permits where needed and a single point of contact from booking through follow-up.
How is corporate retreat pricing structured?
Pricing is custom because no two corporate retreats look the same. Rather than a per-head sticker price that does not actually predict your final cost, here are the four variables that drive every quote we issue. After a 45-minute intake call we send a formal proposal with a fixed per-team price.
Team size
4 to 40 participants. Smaller groups (under 10) tend to be more intensive per-head; larger groups need more support staff but spread fixed costs.
Duration
2 to 6 days. The standard formats are 2-day intensive, 4-day off-site and 6-day combined; longer programmes have a different per-day rate.
Accommodation tier
Centre-based, Kathmandu Valley property or Himalayan luxury. The accommodation choice is the single biggest driver of the final per-head price.
Programming intensity
Standard group programme, or with added components: clinical hypnotherapy, one-to-one Reiki for the senior team, leadership coaching or post-retreat follow-up.
What we will not do
We do not quote a per-head price without an intake call, because the number would be either dishonestly low (and then padded later) or so high it would scare off teams that are a good fit. The variables above genuinely move the price by a factor of 3 or 4.
We also do not run programmes designed to deliver a specific business KPI, like a productivity uplift number. Programmes that promise that are usually selling something else. We deliver a real reset; what your team does with it is what drives the ROI.
Which kinds of teams have you worked with?
Our corporate work has clustered around four kinds of teams in the last three years: technology and product groups, healthcare and clinical teams, consulting and professional services, and senior leadership or founder groups. Every team is different, but the underlying pattern of chronic stress is remarkably consistent.
Technology and product teams
Engineering, design and product groups carrying chronic screen-time fatigue, sleep disruption and post-launch burnout. We focus on nervous-system regulation, sleep hygiene, breath patterns for focus and a structured way to step out of always-on mode.
Healthcare and clinical teams
Doctors, nurses and clinical leadership teams carrying secondary trauma and decision fatigue. Programmes lean on Swami Anish's clinical hypnotherapy background and on Maa Nisha's trauma-informed Reiki work, with extra confidentiality protections built in.
Consulting and professional services
Audit, legal, strategy and finance teams between cycles. Programmes are short and tactical, focused on stress recovery, sleep, breathing and clear meditation techniques that survive contact with a 70-hour week.
Senior leadership and founder groups
Founders, C-suites and board-level groups who carry decision load most of the year. We typically run a 4 to 6 day programme with private rooms, one-to-one sessions and optional hypnotherapy work for the senior figures.
Who actually runs the retreat?
Every Jivan Parivartan corporate retreat is co-led by all three of our senior teachers. Companies sometimes ask whether the founders only show up on day one. The honest answer is that all three teach every day; we built this practice and we do not contract it out.
Maa Nisha Kabir
Founder, Reiki Master, Meditation Guide
Maa Nisha Kabir leads the meditation and Reiki work. After two years of silent retreat in the Himalayan caves and 12 years of continuous sadhana, she has supported over 8,000 people one-to-one. With corporate groups she focuses on attention training, emotional regulation and the deeper trauma-informed work that some teams need.
Swami Anish
Co-Founder, Clinical Hypnotherapist
Swami Anish leads breathwork, sound healing and the optional clinical hypnotherapy sessions. His training bridges the Himalayan ashram tradition with formal Western clinical hypnotherapy, which is why corporate sponsors often ask for him specifically when senior leaders want deeper one-to-one work during the programme.
Yogi Awdaitmani
Yoga Master and Yoga Therapist
Yogi Awdaitmani designs and teaches the physical practice. A B.E. Biomedical Engineering graduate from Anna University in Chennai, he scales every yoga session to the team in front of him. His sessions are accessible for desk-bound bodies, never performative, and rooted in classical Hatha and yoga therapy.
Full biographies, training and credentials are on the teachers and healers page. If a participant wants to take the practice further after the retreat, the natural next step is our yoga teacher training in Kathmandu.
What do participants say afterwards?
The reviews below are from our One-Day Transformation Programme, which uses the same core practices as the corporate retreats in a more compressed format. Corporate programme participants tend to describe a similar arc, especially when the retreat is the first proper break the team has taken in twelve months or more.
How does it work for an international team?
We regularly host teams from India, the UAE, Singapore, the UK and the US. For international groups we handle the full ground arrangement: airport pickup, all in-country transport, hotel or venue booking, vegetarian and dietary accommodation, and a written pre-arrival pack covering visas, weather and what to bring.
Visas for the team
Most nationalities receive a Nepal tourist visa on arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport (15, 30 or 90 days). We send a formal invitation letter for HR records and any embassy questions. Passports need six months of validity and two blank pages.
Best months to travel
October to early December and mid-February to April are the clear, comfortable seasons in Kathmandu. The monsoon (June to August) is cooler but wetter; some teams choose it deliberately for the lower travel cost.
Confidentiality and HR
Group sessions are confidential. One-to-one healing and hypnotherapy sessions are bound by professional confidentiality and never reported back to the company. Anonymised group-level outcome reporting is available on request.
Pairing with other Nepal programmes
Some teams add a short cultural day in Kathmandu Valley before or after the retreat (Boudhanath, Patan, Bhaktapur). Others choose to combine with a light Himalayan trek; see our pre and post trekking yoga retreat for that pairing.
Corporate Wellness Retreat: Frequently Asked Questions
Start the Conversation
A 45-minute intake call is the starting point. After that we send a written proposal with a fixed per-team price. WhatsApp, email or call Maa Nisha and Swami Anish directly.