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Rooted in knowing
The Vedic sciences of breath, time and self, taught plainly and lived daily. Wisdom is not what you read — it is what remains when the book is closed.
TARAVAN
Between Veda & Silence
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House of Tara · Path of Return · Rooted in Wisdom
A heritage forest sanctuary for ancient Vedic meditation, yoga, tantra and holistic healing. Fifty acres of protected jungle in the south of Sri Lanka.
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Changing Lives Through Practice
The ancient ways,
The ancient ways,
alive again
We do not teach a philosophy. We hold the space where lives are changed through practice — through ancient Vedic meditation, through the honest path of yoga, and through the living traditions of tantra and holistic healing.
Every practice here reaches toward the same point: to dissolve what is false, to still what is restless, and to return you to the ground of who you already are. The forest does half the work. Silence does the rest.
Taravan exists for one reason — to be the place where the seeker arrives, and the seeking ends.
Here, meditation is not performance. Yoga is not posture. Tantra is not mystification. Each is a precise, ancient technology for inner transformation, taught with lineage, held with integrity, and offered within a space that has been protected, in one form or another, for centuries.
Under the protection of Baglamukhi — she who stills the tongue of delusion — every practice at Taravan moves toward truth.
Our Path
Wisdom · Practice ·
Wisdom · Practice ·
Acceptance
Three currents that run through everything we hold. Not philosophy — lived experience. Not rules — a way of return.
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The daily return
Yoga, meditation, tantra, sādhana. Practice is the path itself — not the arrival. Every morning on the mat is the journey, repeated with devotion and without performance.
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Self reflection & surrender
The hardest door to open is the one that faces inward. Acceptance is not passivity — it is the courage to see clearly and let the false self fall away.
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Yoga Teacher Training
Led by Maharishi Yoga Peeth — Yoga Alliance accredited RYS 200 · 300. The classical eight-limbed path, taught from living lineage at the foot of the Himalayas, brought into the southern forest of Sri Lanka.
Āsana, prāṇāyāma, mantra, & the inner sciences. Daily sādhana, philosophy under the teak ceilings, kriyā at first light on the cliff shala. Forty-five day immersions and shorter retreats — held in residence, lived together.
200hr
Foundation
Three weeks · in residence
300hr
Advanced
Four weeks · deeper practice
Retreat
Immersion
Short stays · non-certifying
RYS
200·300
200·300
Yoga Alliance · Maharishi Yoga Peeth
Lineage-held · certification accredited
Schedules opening soon
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Featured Programme · Exclusively for Women
Awakening the Divine
Awakening the Divine
Goddess Within
Hosted by
Divyamaaya
A classical tantra immersion in the lineage of the Daśa Mahāvidyā — the ten faces of the sacred feminine. Ancient Vedic wisdom, sound, and ritual, held in residence to return the practitioner to inner liberation.
Tap any name — she will speak. The sanctuary itself changes colour.
क्रीं
ॐ
श्री
ह्रीं
क्रीं
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Initiations announced by season
Practice · Prāṇāyāma
Before you decide,
Before you decide,
breathe for a moment.
Before you take a decision or make up your mind — sit here for a few breaths. Stillness will strike clarity for any insight you choose to carry from this place.
Now that you have come here, we wish to share this aspect of stillness with you — to take with us, or to take with you.
The mandala expands as you inhale and falls back as you exhale. Choose a pattern. Match the circle. The drone will hold the room.
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Build your path
Configure your retreat
Move the sliders. Choose what calls you. The right doorway will reveal itself.
Traditional Retreats
The full path,
The full path,
held in residence
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01 / Foundation
The Seven-Day Stillness
Silent retreat · first steps
- 05:00 Pranayama & meditation
- 07:00 Asana on the cliff shala
- 11:00 Karma yoga in the garden
- 16:00 Philosophy & chanting
- 19:00 Final meditation, lights out
7nights
40hours
1:8ratio
02 / Vipassana
Ten-Day Silence
Buddhist insight · noble silence
- 10 days of total silence
- 11h daily seated practice
- — Anapana → Vipassana
- — Evening discourse
- — Forest walking meditation
10nights
110hours
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03 / Mantra Sadhana
21 Days of Sound
Japa retreat · 1.25 lakh recitations
- — Personal mantra initiation
- — Daily 108-bead mālā rounds
- — Sankirtan in the evening
- — Sanskrit pronunciation training
- — Closing fire ceremony
21nights
1.25Lrecitations
108per round
04 / Tantra of Fire
Yagya & Havan Intensive
Vedic ritual · in the courtyard
- — Daily havan at sunrise
- — Bīja, yantra & mantra theory
- — Construction of personal yantra
- — Navagraha & deity homas
- — Closing Mahā-yagya on full moon
9nights
18fires
1full moon
05 / Goddess Initiation
Daśa Mahāvidyā Sādhana
Women only · ten goddesses, ten mornings
- — One mahavidya per dawn
- — Bīja, mantra, yantra, story
- — Devotional dance & sound
- — Forest darshan ceremony
- — Closing fire under Baglāmukhī
10mornings
10goddesses
1sisterhood
06 / The Long Stay
The Forty-Day Tapas
Anuṣṭhāna · classical retreat
- 40 unbroken days in residence
- — Personal mantra · daily japa
- — Asana · fire · study · silence
- — One nourishing meal a day
- — Final ceremony & dakshinā
40nights
1meal/day
∞transformation
Heritage & Forest
A mansion in
A mansion in
the jungle
A Bawa-era heritage home stands at the heart of fifty acres, thirty of them protected forest. Birdsong replaces the news. The forest does the rest.
50Acres of estate
~30Protected forest
BawaHeritage era
SouthSri Lanka
01The courtyard pool from above
02Colonial verandas · teak ceilings
03The grand teak hall
04Pool at first light
05Croton stairs into the canopy
06Lantern light on water
07The outdoor practice slab
08The old balustrade
09The octagonal dining room
10Bedroom by lamplight
11The living room at dusk
12The courtyard at night
13Reading seat by the window
14Fifty acres, thirty wild
Play · Sand Yantra
Trace a mandala
Trace a mandala
with your hand
An ancient practice. Move your cursor inside the wheel. Each gesture is mirrored — through symmetry, ordinary strokes become sacred geometry.
Symmetry
Mirror
Glow
Trace
Ink
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The doors open soon
Taravan is preparing to receive its first guests.
Write to us at info.taravan@gmail.com — for enquiries, collaborations, or to be the first told when the gates open.