
Healing Yoga Flow and Sound Retreat
with Samanta Duggal
Hatha Yoga and Sound Healing with Samanta Duggal
Samanta’s two-week yoga retreat is a journey through classical Hatha Yoga enriched with somatic movement and sound healing. Mornings centre on asana, pranayama and meditation, while afternoons bring chakra exploration, mudras and mantras. Gentle somatic practices help ease tension and clear the mind, while sound baths with bowls, chimes and voice settle the nervous system and invite deep rest. This yoga retreat is especially supportive if you feel drained from too much time online, offering focus, clarity and a renewed connection with yourself.
Samanta Duggal at Ulpotha Yoga Retreat
What's included:
Accommodation at Ulpotha is on a twin-sharing basis in comfortable, beautifully designed adobe huts open to the surrounding nature.
Yoga classes twice daily (there is no yoga on Thursday afternoons and Sunday mornings)
A yoga-friendly breakfast and two sumptuous organic vegetarian meals, plus snacks, juices, and teas.
Indulge in one free massage/week from one of our visiting therapists.
Transport for 1 excursion (half or full day) per week to nearby cultural heritage sites (entrance fees not included).
What's not included:
Transport to and from Ulpotha
Travel insurance is not included.
Ayurveda treatments are not included in the price; please see prices on our booking page.
A Typical day at Ulpotha:
All times are indicative, as is this description of a day in Ulpotha. There's no regimented or obligatory schedule as such. You're free to do precisely as you wish.
07:00 - 07:30: Tea and Fruit
07:30 - 09:00: Yoga
After yoga: Breakfast (available from 7 onwards for those not practising yoga)
From 10 onwards: Massages/Ayurveda/Swimming/Relaxing/Reading
12:30: Lunch
After Lunch: Massages/Ayurveda or a siesta; alternatively, go for bicycle rides, swim, read or explorative walks
16:00 - 17:00: Tea and Snacks
17:00 - 18:30 Yoga/Meditation/Sunset Walks/Relaxing
19:00 onwards Dinner by Firelight
Your Teachers & Therapists
Samanta Duggal
Yoga TeacherSamanta is one of Mumbai's leading yoga teachers. She unites expertise in Yoga, Thai Massage and Sound Healing to help you rediscover your storehouse of energy. Her Integrated Teaching Method offers benefits of Sivananda, Iyengar and Vinyasa yoga styles, deep relaxation and detox therapies.
Samanta has been dedicated to mind-body health for over 20 years. With a lifetime spent practicing Yoga, Jazz Technique and Bharatnatyam, she is able to combine unique perspectives about wellbeing, healing and physiology.
Samanta’s work centres on Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga, Ayurvedic and Thai Bodywork Therapies, Sound Healing with Tibetan Singing Bowls and Handpan and Vedic Chanting. The Yoga she teaches centres around aspects of Movement therapy coupled with the more traditional and esoteric practices of Chakras, Mudras, Bandhas, Mantra and Yoga Philosophy.
Eva Thomas
Visiting TherapistEver since Eva was a young girl, growing up in Germany, she was utterly passionate about movement and dancing. She danced not just with her body but with her whole spirit and became interested in traditional healing methods from a young age.

Ever since Eva was a young girl, growing up in Germany, she was utterly passionate about movement and dancing. She danced not just with her body but with her whole spirit and became interested in traditional healing methods from a young age.
Eva with a cup
Through her love of helping people to heal themselves she completed all 7 levels of Ka Huna massage and bodywork training at High Spirits Institute in Australia and has been working as a Ka Huna body worker since 2010. She has established various massage sanctuaries in Australia and Germany and now works from her home in Mullumbimby - nestled in the rainbow region in the northern rivers area of Australia.
She also specialises in foot reflexology, deep belly abdominal massage and emotional release techniques which she integrates into her massages. Her recent training in Somatic Experiencing (trauma informed massage) is accredited by the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute established by Dr.Peter Levine.
In addition to her professional western training at various institutes, Eva also spent time learning traditional healing methods in Mayan villages in Guatemala, sacred places in the Amazon and in secluded huts in the Australian bush.
Ka Huna massage is not just an ordinary massage but an experience that leaves the body, mind and spirit feeling whole, connected, energised and at the same time deeply relaxed. Her clients often describe it as “something special happens during the massage that is hard to describe”, “ Afterwards I feel like floating”, “ I feel connected to something deep inside”.
Eva uses organic coconut oil and massages with long flowing strokes using her hands and forearms, sometimes underneath and on top of the body at the same time, while she moves with dance-like steps around the massage table.
Ka Huna massage comes from the Hawaiian shamanic tradition and Eva combines her “seeing hands” with her open heart and intuitive grounded presence and years of experience. She is very confident to hold space for you in a safe environment.
Each bodywork session is uniquely adapted to who you are at that moment.