PILGRIMAGE TO INDIA – KUMBH MELA 2025

A quantum leap in consciousness awaits you in India.

Join Lalita Shree Maa on an all-inclusive 8-day spiritual journey to India, where you will immerse yourself in one of the most powerful vortices for spiritual awakening on the planet. Experience the Kumbh Mela, the largest and oldest spiritual festival in the world, alongside millions of seekers and gurus.

An Unforgettable Journey of Transformation

Follow the call of your soul to experience the spiritual power of India.

India has always been the epicenter of the human quest for spiritual enlightenment. More than just a geographic destination, it is a portal of consciousness where the air pulsates with mystical energy.

The energies of India awaken within us the qualities of our divine being, connecting us with unshakeable inner serenity and a heart overflowing with joy and love. A spiritual pilgrimage to India is not only one of the most impactful adventures of your life but also can profoundly transform you forever.

India calls to you, but you seek something more than just a tourist trip…

  • You want to immerse yourself in the authentic wisdom and spiritual energy that India is famous for.
  • You long to embark on a journey of self-discovery that will transform and elevate your being forever.
  • You feel that the time has come to take a quantum leap in your spiritual development.
  • You have dreamed of going to India for years but don’t know how to start planning a trip with true spiritual significance.

This is Your Unique Opportunity to:

  • Experience a journey to India guided by a spiritual teacher
    Connect with the spiritual power of India through daily deep meditations, spiritual discourses, and participation in traditional ceremonies and practices.

  • Immerse yourself in the powerful spiritual vortex of the Kumbh Mela
    Be transported to higher dimensions of consciousness through the potent energy of the planet’s largest spiritual festival, attracting millions of gurus and spiritual practitioners, and occurring only every 6 years.

  • Receive blessings from Her Holiness Jagadguru Sai Maa and other enlightened masters
    Enjoy the rare privilege of staying at the Kumbh Mela camp of the renowned spiritual master Sai Maa, where you will receive daily personal blessings and teachings. Additionally, you will have the honor of being in the presence of many great spiritual masters.

Pilgrimage to India 2025: 
Kumbh Mela Experience 

With Lalita Shree Maa

Embark on an 8-day spiritual retreat in two of India’s most powerful places: the sacred city of Varanasi and the Kumbh Mela festival, which occurs only every 6 years. Experience daily meditations, spiritual discourses, and practices that will transform your consciousness and being.

Unique Aspects of this Pilgrimage

Daily Meditation and Spiritual Practice

You will be lovingly guided step-by-step on a deep journey of self-discovery and awakening. Lalita Shree Maa will guide you throughout the journey, including preparing you before arriving in India and integrating the experience upon returning home. 

Each day of the pilgrimage in India will bring new experiences and knowledge through deep meditations, chants, ceremonies, spiritual discourses, and much more.

You will receive practical teachings and techniques that you can bring into your everyday life to stay anchored in an elevated state no matter what is happening around you.

Immersion in the Kumbh Mela

For one week, you will be completely immersed in the powerful healing energies of the Kumbh Mela festival. As the largest spiritual gathering on the planet, the millions of dedicated spiritual practitioners who congregate for this festival create an energy vortex that will elevate your consciousness and calm your mind.


By staying at Sai Maa’s ashram, a serene oasis in the heart of this vibrant festival, you will have the opportunity to deepen your spiritual practice and experience the ancient Vedic tradition of India.

Presence of Her Holiness Sai Maa

Her Holiness Jagadguru Sai Maa is a renowned spiritual master who holds the highest title awarded to a master in the Hindu tradition.

As an enlightened esoteric master, Sai Maa transmits a depth of love and light that will powerfully accelerate your awakening and enlightenment. During our immersion in the Kumbh Mela, you will have the rare privilege of being in Sai Maa’s presence in an intimate setting, receiving blessings, teachings, and consciousness activations.

Soul-Level Connections

By sharing such deeply moving and transformative experiences, you can create lasting connections with your fellow travelers. This guided journey is an evolution in community, so there will always be opportunities to learn, grow, and enjoy together. These authentic bonds can continue to support you upon returning home after this profound experience.

THE PILGRIMAGE:

February 7-15, 2025

Start:
Arrive in Varanasi

Connect with your fellow travelers, and prepare for the adventure ahead as we journey together to the Kumbh Mela.

Immersion:
Kumbh Mela

We will spend one week in a deep spiritual retreat at Her Holiness Sai Maa’s camp, a serene oasis in the heart of the vibrant Kumbh Mela festival, participating in daily meditations, chants, ceremonies, and discourses.

Culmination:
Varanasi

In India’s most sacred city, we will spend 2 days elevating our consciousness through temple visits, a boat ride on the Ganges River, and absorbing Varanasi’s powerful energies through spiritual practices and teachings.

Glimpse the Magic of the  Kumbh Mela

Life at the Kumbh Mela

A SPIRITUAL TRADITION OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS

The Kumbh Mela is the largest spiritual festival on the planet,

celebrated for thousands of years at four main sacred sites in India. It attracts millions of devoted spiritual seekers who gather to receive blessings and teachings from India’s great spiritual masters. Each master has their own shabir or tent ashram built for the month-long event. The Kumbh Mela is celebrated every 12 years at each sacred location, at astrologically significant moments. It is believed that bathing at the confluence of the sacred rivers during the Kumbh Mela cleanses all karma and grants the blessings of spiritual liberation.

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TRANSFORMATIVE ASHRAM LIFE

During the Kumbh Mela, we will live in the shabir of Her Holiness Sai Maa.

The shabir is an ashram, or monastery, dedicated to immersion in spiritual practice. Life in the ashram centers on spiritual practice, living in community, and selfless service, with the intention of deepening one’s spiritual development. It is a lifestyle based on the values of simplicity, purity, devotion, and joyful discipline.

For one week, you will have a fully immersive experience that will allow you to gain all the benefits of this transformative lifestyle.

BLESSINGS FROM AN ENLIGHTENED MASTER

Sai Maa has touched the lives of millions of people around the world

through her teachings, healing work, and blessings of divine love. Maa travels the world throughout the year, often leading programs for hundreds of people at a time. Only during the Kumbh Mela do we have the rare opportunity to spend so much time in close physical proximity to Sai Maa.

This unique gift, combined with the Kumbh Mela vortex, is an unprecedented opportunity to make a quantum leap in our awakening and evolution.

“I use the Kumbh Mela, with this enormous number of people, to create a vortex of light, a vortex of love, a vortex of service to elevate humanity’s consciousness.”

-Her Holiness sai maa

The investment for the pilgrimage to India

All-inclusive 9-day tour

February 7-15 2025

  • 7 nights of shared accommodation in a hotel in Varanasi and in Sai Maa’s ashram at the Kumbh Mela (includes accommodation in a six-person tent; single-person tents available for a higher price with limited availability)
  • All meals, transportation, tours, and activities during the trip
  • Guided retreat with daily meditations, teachings, ceremonies, and spiritual practices

Investment: $5,400 USD

*Payment plans are available as well as a limited number of partial scholarships.

Schedule a call if you are interested 
in joining the journey

If you are interested in learning more about the trip and if it is a fit for you, the next step is to schedule a free 30-minute call with Lalita Shree Maa. During this call, you can ask all your questions, learn more about the pilgrimage, and find out how to sign up if you decide to join.

Prefer to reach out via email? Contact us with your questions or interest at hello@lalitashreemaa.com. We’d love to hear from you!

Hi! I am Lalita, and it’s an honor to be your guide on this spiritual journey.

​​Since childhood, my spiritual orientation has guided my life. As a teenager, I felt a deep calling to India. After graduating high school, I traveled to India and spent time with Sathya Sai Baba, followed by travels through Nepal. This journey changed my life and awakened a deep devotion within me.

In 2004, less than 2 years later I met Her Holiness Sai Maa, and experienced a profound spiritual awakening. I immediately knew I had found my path. Over the past 2 decades I have studied intimately with Sai Maa, transforming every part of myself, and receiving training as a teacher and healer. I have traveled regularly to India with Sai Maa and every time I experience quantum leaps in my consciousness.

Simultaneously, I dove deep into the study and practice of body-centered psychotherapy, neuropsychology, and all things related to optimizing human health, fulfillment, and self-mastery.

I was initiated as brahmacharini (nun) in Sai Maa’s monastic order in 2016, fully committing my life to my spiritual practice and service.

In 2019, I was honored with the title of “Mahamandaleshwar” within a venerable 2,700-year-old monastic lineage in the sadhu society of India. This honor grants me the profound responsibility of spreading its sacred teachings of spiritual enlightenment around the world.

For over 15 years I have worked with people all over the world individually and in groups facilitating transformation at the deepest levels to bring greater freedom, health, and fulfillment. 

I look forward to guiding you on this journey into a whole new level of yourself and your consciousness in the magnificent land of India.

This journey is for you if:

  • You are drawn to the spiritual energy for which India is known.
  • You want to experience profound transformation and awakening.
  • You are ready for the spiritual adventure of your life!

It is probably not for you if:

  • You are looking to “sightsee” in India.
  • You do not wish to step out of your comfort zone.
  • You prefer to travel through India without structure or guidance.

Frequently asked questions

What are the sleeping accommodations?

Each tent has 6 beds, shared with other guests of the same gender. The tents have thick walls with heaters. There are metal bed frames, mattresses, and bedding (sheets, pillow, blanket). We recommend you bring a sleeping bag as it can get very cold at night. Men and women sleep in separate tents, including couples. Single-person tents are also available.

What are the bathrooms and showers like and is there laundry service?

Each tent has 6 beds, shared with other guests of the same gender. The tents have thick walls with heaters. There are metal bed frames, mattresses, and bedding (sheets, pillow, blanket). We recommend you bring a sleeping bag as it can get very cold at night. Men and women sleep in separate tents, including couples. Single-person tents are also available.

What is provided for food and water?

You will be provided 3 vegetarian meals a day – breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Gourmet Indian food will be supplied by a professional caterer and prepared to Western tastes (less spicy). Filtered water and reusable water bottles will be available.

How are wellness needs met within Sai Maa’s camp?

There will be a wellness area in the camp with treatment rooms and a team dedicated to the participants’ wellness. An Indian doctor will be available as needed, as well as Western medical practitioners from the Sai Maa community. Western medicine and alternative medicine will be included.

How may I best prepare for optimum wellness during the Kumbh Mela?

After registering, we will provide more information on how to stay healthy when in India, as well as ways to boost your immune system prior to attending. It will be foggy and smoky, so people with breathing challenges should take extra precaution.

What is provided for transportation?

Your transportation will be provided by bus from the moment you arrive at the Varanasi airport through your return to the Varanasi airport at the end of the 8-day tour.

What type of clothing and footwear should I bring?

You will receive a list of suggested items to bring after you register for the Kumbh Mela. In India, guests staying at our ashram wear white Indian-style clothing, which will be available for pre-order or for purchase onsite at the camp. Due to significant temperature fluctuations (warm in the day, cold at night), several layers of clothing are recommended.

Do I need a visa to go to India?

Yes, you need a visa. Upon registration for the Kumbh Mela tour, you will receive information on how to apply for the visa as well as the details to put on your India visa application.

Do I need immunizations to go to India?

Immunizations are not required. Check with your healthcare professional for his/her recommendations.

When booking travel, what airport in India will I fly into?

Typically, people fly into Delhi or Mumbai, India, and then take a second flight to Varanasi, India, where the tour begins.

How can I communicate by phone during my travels to India and will there be a contact number?

You will be provided an emergency contact number to give to your family or friends. You can add an international plan to your cell phone if you need to be in communication. Please note, we recommend that you fully “unplug” from communications during this unique spiritual experience to create maximum value for yourself.

Do people in India speak English?

Many people in India speak English. In either case, you will be traveling with our group and will be well taken care of every step of the way. Upon registration, you will receive instructions in your welcome letter for meeting our group after arriving at the Varanasi airport.

Will it be safe?

At our camp, we have security guards and a partition between the public area and the participants’ accommodations. No one aside from our guests will enter the private area. Additionally, we have a shared safe to securely keep passports and other valuables that you do not need on a daily basis.

Schedule Your Call Today to Learn More and Join the Journey

Prefer to reach out via email? Contact us with your questions or interest at hello@lalitashreemaa.com. We’d love to hear from you!

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