Food & Accommodation
Accommodation and food at our yoga school in Rishikesh
Nestled amidst the majestic Himalayas and overlooking the serene River Ganga, our yoga school offers an environment that embodies tranquility and natural beauty.
Three sattvic meals eaten together in a quiet hall, a room chosen to suit the season you arrive in, and a terrace to watch the valley from. That is the whole of it — and after a fortnight here, most people find it is enough.
A room and three meals a day are in the fee here, so accommodation for yoga teacher training in Rishikesh is not something you go and arrange separately once you have landed. Anyone weighing an all-inclusive yoga retreat in India against a course that quotes tuition and leaves the bed to you is really comparing this page with a booking site. And where ashram accommodation in Rishikesh usually means a shared room and a bathroom down the corridor, every room at this yoga school in India has its own — food and lodging on one bill, from the day you arrive to the day you leave.
The Table
Three sittings a day
The kitchen serves at fixed hours, arranged around the practice rather than the other way round. Nothing is cooked between them.
Breakfast
8:30 – 9:30 AM
After the morning practice, never before it. Fruit, porridge, herbal tea and something warm.
Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 PM
The largest meal of the day, taken when digestion is strongest — dal, sabzi, rice, roti, salad, curd.
Dinner
7:00 – 8:00 PM
Deliberately light and early, so you sleep well and wake for the morning class without heaviness.
The Kitchen
Sattvic vegetarian meals, cooked that morning
Sattvic Vegetarian Meals
Our yoga school serves three nourishing vegetarian meals daily, prepared with fresh, locally-sourced ingredients.
These Sattvic meals support your yoga practice by promoting health and clarity through a balanced diet of vegetables, grains, fruits, and herbal teas.
We encourage mindfulness by starting meals with a moment of silence to foster gratitude and calm.
Kansa Plates
We serve your food in pure Kansa (Bronze) plates, bowls, glasses, and spoons — a sacred tradition rooted in Ayurveda.
Kansa is held to balance the three doshas and to keep food alkaline as you eat it. It also asks something of you: bronze is washed by hand, never stacked into a machine, which is part of why the dining hall runs the way it does.
Dietary Requirements & Allergies
The kitchen is entirely vegetarian and cooks without onion or garlic, in the sattvic tradition. Vegan, gluten-free and Ayurvedic-constitution plates are prepared on request — tell us when you book rather than on the day.
If you need to skip a meal, please inform the staff three hours in advance. It is a small courtesy that stops food being cooked for a plate nobody comes to.
The Dining Hall
Eating is part of the practice
The hall is not a canteen you pass through. It runs on a handful of observances that every student, teacher and staff member keeps — and they are the reason a room of forty people eating can still be one of the quietest hours of your day.
A moment of silence first
Nobody begins until everyone is seated and the room has been still for a moment. It takes twenty seconds, and it changes how the meal lands.
Breakfast is taken in silence
The morning meal follows practice, and the quiet carries over from the hall. Conversation resumes at lunch.
Phones stay out of the hall
No screens at the table and no calls taken at the door. If you are expecting something urgent, eat afterwards — the kitchen will keep a plate.
Take only what you will finish
Serve small and come back for more. Food left on a Kansa plate is the one thing the kitchen genuinely minds.
Clear your own place
Plate, bowl and glass go to the wash station yourself. Everyone does this, teachers included.
Meals stay in the hall
Food is not carried up to the rooms or the terrace. It keeps the rooms clean and the monkeys uninterested.
Arrive within the sitting
The kitchen serves for one hour and then closes so the staff can eat. Come at the start of the window rather than the end of it.
Nothing non-sattvic on the premises
No meat, fish, alcohol, tobacco or recreational drugs anywhere on the property — not in the hall, and not in the rooms.
None of this is policed. It is simply how the hall runs, and new students pick it up within a sitting or two.
The Terrace
The best room in the school has no roof
Above the top floor the whole building opens out into one flat terrace, and this is where most students end up. The Himalayan foothills stand along the far side, the Ganga turns below them, and in the evening the valley goes gold and then violet in about fifteen minutes.
It is where sunrise pranayama happens when the weather is kind, where people take their tea and their journals between sessions, and where the last conversation of most courses takes place. Nobody schedules any of that. It simply happens up there.
Come up at six in the morning for the light on the hills, or at nine at night for a sky with no city underneath it.
The terrace with the monsoon cloud coming inYour Room
Private and shared rooms
Every room here is the same room in the ways that matter — an attached private bathroom, hot water, a window worth opening. What you are really choosing between is two things: how many people are in it, and whether it is air-conditioned.
Rishikesh makes that second choice for you more than you would expect. From October to March the nights are cool enough that most students never switch a unit on; from April to July, an air-conditioned room is the difference between sleeping and not.
Showing Non-AC, Sharing room
See more in the galleryNon-AC · SharingBest Oct – Mar
The classic — and the room most of our students choose.
Double or triple-sharing, naturally ventilated, ceiling fan, attached private bathroom. It is the most straightforward room we have and the least expensive, and in the cool season nobody who takes it wishes they had booked otherwise.
If you are picturing a yoga school in the Himalayas — a simple room, a window full of hills, two or three people keeping the same early hours — this is the room you are picturing.
Best for Cool-season courses, retreats, and anyone keeping the trip affordable.
Rates for this room are quoted per program, and stay is included in every course and retreat fee. See teacher training rates or retreat rates.
Whichever You Choose
What is in every room
Attached private bathroom
Every room, no exceptions — with hot water morning and evening.
Wi-Fi throughout
In the rooms and the common areas. Deliberately not in the yoga hall.
Mountain & river views
Rooms look onto the foothills or down towards the Ganga.
Attached balconies
Most rooms open onto their own balcony, and all onto the terrace.
Naturally ventilated
Cross-ventilation and a ceiling fan in every room, AC or not.
Fresh linens & clean bathrooms
Sanitized surfaces and well-ventilated rooms for the length of your stay.
Cleanliness Standards
Rooms are looked after throughout your stay, with special care given to bedding, bathrooms, and common areas.
Fresh linens, sanitized surfaces, and well-ventilated spaces ensure that you feel safe, comfortable, and cared for during your stay.
See the room before you book the bed.
We will walk you through the building on a video call — the hall, the rooms, the terrace and the kitchen — and answer as we go.
Practicalities
Wi-Fi, water and the practical questions
The questions that decide whether somebody books a month in India, answered here rather than left to an email. Every one of them is a fact the school already publishes; not one of them was on this page.
Is the drinking water safe?
- Clean drinking water is provided at the school for the whole of your stay, and it is part of what your fee covers rather than something you buy again every day. It sits on the same list as the room and the meals.
What happens on Sundays?
- Sunday is the lighter day of the week here, and the kitchen serves accordingly: the three sittings above cover every day except Sunday. Tell us if you would rather eat in on a Sunday and we will sort it out. Most students use the day for a longer excursion, for the Ganga Aarti at the riverside, or for a proper lie-in.
Is there Wi-Fi, and where does it reach?
- Wi-Fi runs in the rooms and in the common areas, and it is included. It deliberately does not reach the yoga hall — that is the one room on the property where a phone is no use to anybody, and keeping it out of range turns out to be easier than asking.
Do I share a bathroom, and is there hot water?
- No room here shares a bathroom. All four — private or sharing, air-conditioned or not — have their own attached bathroom with hot water, which is not what ashram accommodation in Rishikesh usually means.
Is the room heated in winter, or air-conditioned in summer?
- Both can be arranged and neither is in the standard package: air conditioning and a heater are charged on top of the fee. Rishikesh makes the decision seasonal — from October to March the nights are cool enough that most students never switch a unit on, and from April to July an air-conditioned room is the difference between sleeping and not.
Is the food safe if I have never eaten in India before?
- Everything is cooked in the school's own kitchen, that morning, from vegetables bought from local farmers in the hills — you are not eating from a stall or from a buffet that has been standing. The kitchen is entirely vegetarian and cooks without onion or garlic, and the Kansa bronze it is served on is washed by hand rather than stacked into a machine.
Every fee on this site is quoted with the room and the meals inside it. What a given course or retreat costs is on its own page: yoga teacher training courses and yoga retreats in Rishikesh.
Photographs
Don't take our word for any of it
Everything described on this page is photographed in the gallery. Each door below opens straight onto its own set.
09 PhotographsRooms & BathroomsEvery room type, made up and photographed as you would actually find it — and the attached bathroom that comes with all four.Open
14 PhotographsKitchenWhat actually turns up on the Kansa plate.Open06 PhotographsView From SchoolThe terrace view, at several times of day.Open
06 PhotographsCampusThe courtyard the rooms open onto, and the walkways between them.OpenStill want to see the room first?
Take a virtual tour and we’ll walk you through the hall, the kitchen and whichever room you’re considering — live, answering as we go.