Yoga retreat · February 28 - March 14, 2027
Traditional Hatha Yoga and Stress Release
Yoga guided by Samanta Duggal
Join Samanta Duggal for a yoga retreat that bridges the wisdom of Hatha Yoga with somatic and vibrational healing. This two-week journey at Ulpotha weaves traditional practice with philosophy, precise asana, pranayama and the exploration of chakras, mudras and mantras. Each element is brought together to nurture awareness, balance and vitality.
What makes this yoga retreat distinctive is the integration of sound and somatic therapy. Singing bowls, chimes and voice are used to calm the nervous system and release energetic blockages, while gentle somatic techniques help to ease physical and emotional tension. Together, they create the conditions for deep rest and clarity.
Whether you come for spiritual depth, physical renewal or emotional balance, this yoga retreat at Ulpotha offers a space to reconnect with yourself through body, breath and being.
Samanta 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.
In July 2008, she partnered with Shaleen Parekh to open India's first boutique yoga studio, Yoga Sutra. Samanta started out in fitness as a teenager, and her journey into the body traversed 15 years as an instructor and lead performer with noted choreographer Shiamak Davar. She then transitioned into practising and teaching Yoga in the year 2000.
Over the last thirteen years, she has explored and mastered several healing therapies for the mind and body. She is an Advanced Teacher of the Sivananda Yoga tradition and is also certified in Yoga Therapy, Yoga for children, as well as Pranayama and Dhyan (Breathwork and Meditation).
Samanta is so in touch with the energy of the class that she knows exactly what your body and mind need from the practice.
Mirjam Gelink - Netherlands
Back home, I still join her weekly online sessions - need I say more?
Anne Hermening - Germany
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Visiting therapist
Beth Weightman
UK based Beth has been working and training in holistic health for the past 25 years. She first trained in Ayurvedic medicine and massage in India in 2000. She then qualified in several Holistic therapies including Swedish massage, Aromatherapy, Reflexology, Indian Head Massage, Anatomy and Physiology at Brighton College, UK. She has also studied Cranio-sacral therapy (2003) and qualified as a yoga teacher in Taiwan with Stephen Thomas (2007).
Most recently, she obtained an honours degree in 5-Element Acupuncture from The Acupuncture Academy in Leamington Spa, UK (2020), and since then, her focus has been primarily working with this deep and transformative modality, setting up her own successful acupuncture clinic in Somerset, where she lives with her family.
Beth is passionate about health on all levels, weaving her knowledge and experience together, working with each person to create a treatment which is tailored specifically and thoughtfully to them; honouring who and where they are, in order to bring them back to their natural, innate state of balance. She is particularly experienced in and inspired by retreat work.
She had the blessing of working as a therapist at Ulpotha from 2002-2007 and, after having children and settling in Somerset, UK, to raise her family, has been offering therapies at retreats throughout the UK.
Beth is overjoyed to now be in the position to return to magical Ulpotha and rejoin the incredible team which cares so deeply for every guest who visits. She will be offering primarily 5-Element acupuncture combined with reflexology and her other bodywork skills as required to give the best, most effective treatment she can for each guest she meets.
Resident therapist
Dilani Kandegama
Dilani brings 24 years of massage therapy experience to Ulpotha, with professional qualifications in deep-tissue and relaxation massage, as well as foot reflexology. She works at a physiotherapy clinic in Colombo, where she delivers therapeutic massage and supports patient rehabilitation programmes.
Before that, she spent nine years as a sports centre therapist at Hilton Colombo Residencies, working with guests from across the world. She currently also provides prenatal and postnatal massage support and works as a personal therapist for diplomats based in Sri Lanka.
Dilani believes every body tells its own story. She takes time to understand what each guest needs before they get onto the table, and shapes every session around that.
Who is here
Who you’ll practise with
Practicalities
What a stay includes
- Two weeks, Sunday to Sunday.
- One week is possible: pick your dates on the booking page.
- Your hut, daily yoga (usually two classes) and all meals are covered.
- Ayurveda and transfers are the only extras.