Take A Shot at Happiness: A Sacred Nepal Retreat with Maria Baltazzi

A Journey Through Nepal’s Living Traditions and Mountain Stillness
All-Inclusive | Limited to 16 Guests
Includes Take a Shot at Happiness: A Happiness Explorer’s Journey Online Course


You built success. Now build meaning


If you are a successful creative professional who has achieved what you once set out to build and now feel an unexpected gap between success and meaning, this week is designed for you.


This is a structured creative reset set within Nepal’s spiritual and Himalayan landscape. You will step back from constant output and examine the narrative you are living, the ambitions that still serve you, and the direction that feels aligned now.

 

YOU ARE THERE


Kathmandu greets you in full color and sound. Temple bells and incense drift through narrow streets. Prayer flags stretch overhead. The sensory intensity pulls you into presence.


Inside The Dwarika’s, Kathmandu, the atmosphere shifts. Lantern-lit courtyards and carved woodwork hold centuries of craft. That evening, seated with a small group of peers who have built full lives of their own, you speak openly about what feels complete and what feels unfinished.


A few days later, you travel into the hills of Dhulikhel to Dwarika’s Sanctuary. The horizon widens. The air clears. From your suite overlooking terraced hills and distant peaks, perspective settles into your body.


Each morning includes a deliberate ritual: photographing first light on the mountains, writing structured reflections, and beginning the day in meditation. The practices are intentional. Insight emerges from attention.


An Ayurvedic consultation offers personalized guidance on restoring balance. Breathwork in the salt house recalibrates your nervous system. Meditation in the Crystal House deepens stillness.


A pilgrimage walk to Namo Buddha brings devotion into motion. Sharing a simple meal with monks reveals how meaning often resides in presence, not accumulation.
The landscape supports the work. The structure carries it forward.

 

WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT
This is not a passive retreat.
You will write.
You will reflect.
You will examine the story you have been living.
The week combines contemplative practice, creative methodology, and science-informed insight. Your ambition is not dismissed here. It is refined.
Limited to 16 participants, the environment allows depth of conversation and individual attention.

WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITH
You leave with:
• A clarified narrative for your next chapter
• A renewed relationship with your own inner authority
• Structured creative and contemplative practices you can continue
• Greater confidence in the direction you choose next
You return home with perspective that endures beyond the setting.

CONTINUITY BEYOND NEPAL
Enrollment in Take a Shot at Happiness: A Happiness Explorer’s Journey is included so the work continues after you return home. The program provides structure, guided reflection, and creative assignments that help translate insight into lived change. (Value: xxx — included.)
 

For further information contact: baltazzi@sojourn-intl.com

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