120 Participants from Across India Join Three-Day Dance and Health Retreat in Rishikesh
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There are places where the river does not just flow — it heals. And in Rishikesh, where the Ganga sings her eternal song between ancient mountains, 120 souls gathered this week not merely to dance, but to rediscover themselves.
A three-day Dance and Health Retreat, organised by Sandhya — founder of the celebrated Soul School programme — and Sameer of ADC Group, transformed Rishikesh into a living studio of joy, movement, and renewal. Participants arrived from every corner of India, carrying with them the weight of years spent in service, in clinics, in offices — and left carrying something far lighter: a new rhythm for life.
The story of this collective began in the darkest season of our recent memory. Founded in 2020, in the silence of the Covid lockdown, the Soul School movement became a lifeline — a virtual stage where movement refused to stop. Over the years that followed, more than two lakh people joined its dance workshops, making it one of India’s most quietly powerful grassroots wellness movements. The Rishikesh retreat was, in many ways, a homecoming for that spirit.
Retired government servants, doctors, healthcare workers, and commerce professionals — many of whom had spent decades giving to others — found themselves on the banks of the Ganga, finally giving something back to themselves. Sandhya’s meticulously crafted creative activities drew out expression from within each individual, while Sameer’s dance sessions, marked by warmth and innovative technique, turned hesitant first steps into confident, joyful movement.
Between sessions, participants absorbed the soul of Rishikesh — learning about the Ganga’s sacred significance, walking her ghats, breathing the mountain air. The river, it seemed, added her own grace to every step.
By the retreat’s final evening, faces that had arrived carrying quiet fatigue were illuminated by something unmistakable — the glow of people who had found, perhaps for the first time in years, a new way to be alive.
In Rishikesh, the Ganga flows on — and now, so do they.
