The Heart Reset

No. Therapy is essential work, and many of our participants are in therapy. This retreat does not replace it. What it offers is a different shape of healing — practical, somatic, communal, and built around a practice you can take home. We will ask in your application form whether you are currently in therapy. If you are, we recommend telling your therapist you are coming.

No. There is no forced sharing. There is a circle each day, and there is space to speak if you want to. Many people choose not to and still describe the retreat as the most powerful experience of their lives. The work is internal. The room only holds it.

A yoga retreat works on the body. A silent retreat works on the mind. This retreat does both — and adds the emotional and energetic work that heartbreak specifically requires. It is also deliberately small. Fourteen people, one guide, four days. Not a programme. A practice.

You will be. That doesn’t disqualify you — it is the precise reason to come. The work is not to stop loving them. The work is to stop needing them in order to feel whole. There is a difference. It is the difference this retreat exists for.

Yes. Many of our participants are mid-divorce, separated, or sitting in a marriage that has ended emotionally but not legally. The retreat is held in complete confidentiality. What happens here, and who is in the room, is not shared anywhere — including on social media. We ask the same of you.

Continue both. Bring your medication. Tell us in the application form what you are taking and whether you are in therapy. This retreat works alongside, not instead of, clinical care. If we feel the retreat would not serve you at this moment, we will tell you honestly, refund your application, and recommend a better time.

The honest answer is: it depends less on time and more on what you do with the time. Many people carry a heartbreak for years because they manage it rather than move through it. This retreat is not about accelerating grief artificially. It is about doing the actual work — in your body, your mind, your energy — so that time can actually do its job. Most participants report that four days here moved them further than the previous year alone.

The Heart Reset is one of the only dedicated heartbreak retreats in India. It is held in Rishikesh, on the banks of the Ganga, and is guided by Ashwani Deswal — a Self Mastery Guide with 15+ years of experience working with grief, loss, and emotional recovery across 120+ countries. It runs twice a year, with a maximum of 14 participants per cohort.

The Heart Reset has three tiers: ₹49,000 (Companion — shared room), ₹69,000 (Sanctuary — private room with garden view), and ₹89,000 (Riverside — private room facing the Ganga). All tiers include accommodation, all meals, 4 days of guided practice with Ashwani Deswal, airport/station transfer, a practice journal, and 90 days of post-retreat integration support. A three-instalment payment plan is available on request.

Yes. Most of our participants are not what they would call spiritual. They are tired. They are practical. They want results, not aesthetics. The methodology is rooted in ancient practice but the language and delivery are modern, neuroscience-informed, and free of jargon. You will not be asked to chant anything you don’t want to chant.

Then you cry the whole time. That is welcome. There is a quiet agreement in this room that grief is not an interruption — it is the work. Many people arrive afraid they will cry. Many people arrive afraid they won’t be able to.

No. Every cohort holds a balance. Heartbreak does not have a gender, and neither does this room. Past cohorts have been 40–50% men, often in their 40s and 50s, often dealing with divorce or the kind of grief that men are not given permission to feel out loud.

Every participant receives 90 days of post-retreat integration: a weekly group call with Ashwani, a private WhatsApp group with your cohort, and a personal check-in at day 30. The practice you leave with is fifteen minutes a day. The community you leave with is for life.

Most people come alone. That is the design. You are not meant to manage anyone else’s experience here, or be managed. Coming alone is not a disadvantage — it is the whole point. You arrive as yourself. You do the work as yourself. You leave with thirteen people who felt the same thing and chose the same room.

Each day follows the 4D framework — Body, Mind, Emotions, Energy — in sequence. Day one is arrival and nervous system regulation. Day two is somatic release — Yoga Nidra, breath, movement. Day three is the mind work: dismantling the story, understanding the pattern. Day four is integration and the practice you carry home. Sessions run morning and evening. Afternoons are largely unstructured — the river, the garden, silence.

The application form is designed to answer this for you. Ashwani’s team reads every response and will tell you honestly if a different kind of support would serve you better right now. If you are in acute crisis, recently suicidal, or currently requiring daily clinical care, we may suggest a different entry point first. If you are functional but hurting — which describes most of our participants — the retreat is built for you.

Rishikesh has been a place of inner work for thousands of years for a reason. The Ganga, the Himalayas, the quality of silence you find away from the main market — these are not incidental. The sanctuary where we hold this retreat sits apart from the tourist area. There is no noise, no distraction, no Wi-Fi in the rooms. The environment is doing active work from the moment you arrive.

Cancellations made more than 30 days before the retreat start date receive a full refund minus the application deposit. Cancellations within 30 days are non-refundable, but your place may be transferred to the next cohort (April 2027). If we cancel the cohort for any reason, a full refund is issued. All details are confirmed in writing at the time of acceptance.