YOGA TOURING · RETREATS & WELLNESS HOLIDAYS
Find the place that fits your practice.
Reviews of the best yoga retreats, classes and wellness holidays on earth, place by place. Ubud rice-terrace shalas and Rishikesh on the Ganges, Chiang Mai temple sunrises and Ibiza cliff studios, zen halls in Kyoto and sound baths in Bali. We read through the listings so you book the right stay.
Worth the airfare
Three practices rooted in one place.
You can take a class almost anywhere now. But a melukat ritual under a Balinese waterfall, dawn pranayama on the Ganges at Rishikesh, and a monk-led sit above the temples of Chiang Mai belong to these places and the traditions that made them.
Ubud, Bali
A Waterfall Purification Ritual
Above the rice terraces north of Ubud, a spring-fed cascade pours into a stone temple pool used for melukat, the Balinese water-cleansing rite. A priest leads you under each spout in turn, the cold mountain water taking the week with it, before a slow flow and meditation in the shala. Sound healing in town, energy work in the jungle: nowhere blends yoga and the sacred quite like Bali.
- 1 Taman Beji Griya Waterfall: Holy Bathing/Soul Retreat Ritual
- 2 Bali: Ubud Sound Yoga & Energy Healing Experience
- 3 Bali: Ubud Yoga and Healing Meditation
Rishikesh, India
Yoga at the Source on the Ganges
This is where yoga began. In the foothills of the Himalaya, with the green Ganges running past the ghats, the ashrams teach the way they have for generations: hatha and pranayama at first light, philosophy by day, the Ganga Aarti fire ceremony at dusk. A teacher-training town more than a resort, Rishikesh is the practice stripped back to its roots.
See all 1 →Chiang Mai, Thailand
Sunrise Meditation Above the Temples
Before the heat, you climb to a hilltop wat as the mist lifts off the valley and a monk leads alms-giving and a guided sit. Chiang Mai pairs forest-monastery mindfulness with affordable retreats, vegetarian kitchens and slow mornings: the gentle, grounded end of the Southeast-Asia yoga trail, with the old city always a short ride away.
- 1 Spiritual Sunrise Wat Doi Suthep, Pha Lat, Alms & Meditation
- 2 Chiang Mai: Evening Chanting & Meditation
- 3 Meditation Retreat and Self-Care in Nature
The one everyone books
If you only book one thing.
More travellers reach for this one than anything else on the site. A safe first booking in a place you are still getting to know.
The classics
The World’s Most Popular Retreats
Bali, Chiang Mai, Ibiza, Kyoto, the Himalaya. The retreats, classes and wellness stays travellers reach for first, in the places they most want to practice.
Where to roll out the mat
Pick the place that fits you.
Bali and the islands for soulful flow and sound healing. Thailand for temple-sunrise calm. India for the source of the practice. Spain and the Balearics for cliff-top studios, Greece for slow Aegean mornings, Japan for zen stillness. Each place, with the retreats it does best.
Which kind of practice
How deep do you want to go?
A single class, a full immersion, or a local healing ritual. Three ways to practice on the road, depending on the time you have and what you want to come home with.
Bali & the islands
Bali is where the world comes to practice.
Nowhere else weaves yoga so deeply into daily life. Ubud is all open-air shalas above the rice terraces, sound healing and waterfall purification rites; Canggu trades temples for surf and beach-town vinyasa; the Gili islands keep it car-free and quiet. Plant-based kitchens, teacher trainings and energy work everywhere you look, with the island’s own Hindu rituals never far from the mat.
See the best retreats in Indonesia →Thailand
Temple mornings and island detoxes.
Chiang Mai is the gentle, grounded heart of it: forest-monastery meditation, hilltop wats at sunrise, vegetarian kitchens and affordable retreats in the cool north. Down south, Ko Samui, Ko Tao and the Andaman coast run detox-and-yoga weeks by the sea. Bangkok keeps the city studios humming in between. Mindful, warm and easy on the budget.
See the best retreats in Thailand →The best part
You come home lighter than you left.
A good retreat is never just the asana. It is the teacher who reads the room and adjusts the sequence, the strangers on the mats beside you who become the table you eat with, and the morning the breath finally drops and the mind goes quiet. You leave a little more open than you arrived, with a practice you can take anywhere and a few people who shared it.
Browse every retreat & class →Where it all began
India is the root of the practice.
Every flow you have ever taken traces back here. Rishikesh teaches hatha and pranayama at first light with the Ganges running past the ashram steps; Goa pairs beach-side shalas with Ayurveda by the Arabian Sea; Jaipur and Amritsar fold yoga into Rajasthani palaces and the calm of the Golden Temple. Teacher trainings, philosophy and ritual, taught the way they have been for generations.
- 1 Rooftop Yoga in Jaipur – Includes Transport, Tea & Instructor
- 2 Wagah Border Flag Retreat Ceremony
- 3 Karma Yoga and Meditation
By how long you have
How much time can you give it?
Some trips you just want an hour on the mat between sightseeing. Some you want a weekend to switch off and reset. And some you want to give a whole week to the practice and come home someone slightly new. Tell us the time, we will point you at the stay.
A single class
Just unroll the mat for an hour.A drop-in flow, a sound bath, a guided meditation: an hour of breath and movement you can fold into any trip, no commitment beyond the morning.
A weekend reset
Two or three days to reset.A short retreat or a weekend of daily practice: sunrise sessions, a digital-detox afternoon, clean food and an early night. Long enough to feel the shift, short enough for a city break.
A full immersion
Give a whole week to the practice.Days that begin with pranayama and end with restorative yin: a teacher-training intensive or a deep wellness stay you plan a whole trip around and carry home for years.
The other side of Ibiza
Spain practices on a clifftop at sunset.
Beyond the clubs, Ibiza hides pine-shaded studios and clifftop decks where the day ends in breathwork and a cacao ceremony as the sun drops into the sea. Barcelona keeps the rooftop and beach classes going year-round, and the Canary Islands trade winter for warm-weather retreats on Gran Canaria and Tenerife. Mediterranean light, sea air and an easy, sociable kind of wellness.
See all 33 retreats in Spain →By town
Pick a place and begin.
Ubud for jungle shalas and sound healing. Chiang Mai for temple sunrises. Ibiza for clifftop sunset flow. Canggu for surf-and-yoga. Rishikesh for the source on the Ganges. Kyoto for zen-temple stillness.
By country
Every country worth the trip.
From the islands of Indonesia to the temples of Thailand, the ashrams of India to the Balearic clifftops of Spain, the bays of Vietnam to the zen halls of Japan. Browse by the country you want to practice in.
Dawn to dusk
A day on retreat.
Never done a residential retreat and wondering how the days go? Here is the rhythm most of them settle into, from the quiet of a sunrise practice to a slow, restorative wind-down at dusk.
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