Psyche & Co. presents · Seven retreats across India · 2027–2028
Seven sacred places across India, one journey into the Divine Human.
Psyche & Co. presents the Divine Human Mystery School with Andrew Harvey: seven retreats across India between December 2027 and August 2028. Each takes place in a site sacred to one of the great streams of Indian spirituality, and each opens a different facet of what Andrew calls the Divine Human, the birth of divine consciousness within an ordinary, embodied life.
Each part can be taken on its own. For those who feel called to the whole arc, we hope to offer the full seven-part journey as a single path; this is subject to confirmation, and all dates are still to be confirmed.
The place
The journey begins in Benares, Shiva's city on the Ganges, where the weaver-poet Kabir was born. It moves to Bodh Gaya in Bihar, where the Buddha's awakening is remembered beneath the Bodhi tree, and then to Mahabalipuram on the Tamil Nadu coast, with its Pallava Shore Temple and the great relief of the Descent of the Ganges. From there it travels north to Srinagar in Kashmir, homeland of the fourteenth-century Shaiva mystic Lalla, also known as Lal Ded, whose vakhs are among the earliest works of Kashmiri poetry; and to Ranikhet, a hill town in Uttarakhand within sight of the Himalaya.
The last two parts turn south. At Somatheeram in Kerala the focus is Ayurveda and the care of the body. The journey closes in Pondicherry, where Sri Aurobindo and the Mother founded their ashram in 1926 and where both rest in the samadhi in its courtyard; Aurobindo's vision of the divinisation of earthly life is one of the deepest roots of Andrew's own teaching.
The teachings
- Benares: Kabir, devotion and the meeting of life and death on the Ganges.
- Bodh Gaya: the Buddha's awakening, clear seeing and compassion.
- Mahabalipuram: sacred art, the sea and the Descent of the Ganges as embodied devotion.
- Srinagar and Ranikhet: Lalla's Kashmiri Shaivism, then the silence and grandeur of the Himalayan foothills.
- Somatheeram: Ayurveda and the body as a temple of awakening.
- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo, the Mother and the transformation of ordinary life, drawing the whole journey together.
A sketch of the days
- Part 1Benares, December 2027: opening the journey in Kabir's city. A sketch of the days; the final programme will be confirmed.
- Parts 2–3Bodh Gaya and Mahabalipuram, February and March 2028: clear seeing, compassion and sacred art.
- Parts 4–5Srinagar and Ranikhet: the Kashmiri mystics and the Himalaya.
- Part 6Somatheeram, Kerala: Ayurveda, rest and embodiment.
- Part 7Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and the integration of the whole journey.
This is an outline to give you a feel for the days. The final programme, teachers and timings will be confirmed with the dates.
What you'll take home
- A coherent, lived understanding of the Divine Human, built up place by place.
- Practices drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Shaiva and Aurobindonian traditions, adapted for daily life.
- First-hand experience of some of India's most sacred sites, in the company of a teacher steeped in their mystics.
- For practitioners, a deeper inner resource for work with suffering and meaning.
- For those who take the full journey, a sustained community of fellow travellers.
Who it's for
The Mystery School is for psychotherapists, psychologists and other helping professionals, and for thoughtful laypeople drawn to the mystics and to India's spiritual traditions. Come for one part, several, or, subject to confirmation, the whole journey. Dates and details are to be confirmed; register your interest to be told first.
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Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Marcin Białek (CC BY-SA 3.0); Harshit SR (CC BY-SA 4.0); Kpsudeep (CC BY-SA 4.0).