International Yoga Festival Rishikesh Experience

This is a private, 9-day tour built around the International Yoga Festival Rishikesh Package. It covers the full 7-day festival, plus a night in Haridwar on either end, with your own guide, driver and vehicle throughout. You stay in a riverside hotel close to the ashram rather than in an ashram room, your guide handles registration and your wristband, and the week is paced with a day off the mat, an Ayurveda day and a private couple's yoga session so the festival's size doesn't wear you out. Three tiers are available — Premium, Luxury and Ultra-Luxury — and the festival pass itself is booked and paid separately, at the organiser's price.

Package Information

This international yoga festival Rishikesh package puts you at the festival for its full seven days. The International Yoga Festival is held every March at Parmarth Niketan, in Swargashram on the banks of the Ganga, and the 2027 edition runs from 9 to 15 March. This Rishikesh yoga festival tour package is built around it: a night in Haridwar, seven nights in Rishikesh, and a private guide, driver and vehicle from the airport to the airport. It is a Parmarth Niketan yoga festival experience for guests who want the festival without the logistics.

The festival is large. Its own programme lists more than 12 hours of activity a day and more than 70 hours of classes over the week, in styles that include Kundalini, Power Vinyasa, Iyengar and Kriya Yoga, with evening discussions led by spiritual teachers. Nobody attends all of it, and a good week is one you have paced. That is why this is a private yoga festival tour Rishikesh guests can shape day by day: some days are full, one is a day off the mat, one is for Ayurveda, and each one has a car and a guide on call.

The package is a yoga holiday India offers at its most concentrated, and it is priced as a tailor-made Rishikesh yoga retreat in three tiers, Premium, Luxury and Ultra-Luxury. You stay near the ashram in a riverside hotel and not in an ashram room, so you have your own room, bathroom and door. A Haridwar Rishikesh private tour would show you the towns. This one shows you the week.

What to know before you book. Festival passes are sold only through the official festival website, and ashram rooms are reported to fill quickly, so book early. The pass fee is paid at the organiser's price and is not included in our price. Dress is modest, with shoulders and knees covered. The ashram is vegetarian, with no alcohol or eggs. And in 2027 the festival follows Haridwar's Ardh Kumbh, so roads around Haridwar are busy in early March.

Dates. The organisers give 9 to 15 March for 2027. Dates moved between years: sources we read for 2026 disagree, and a 2025 press report gave 1 to 7 March. We confirm the dates on the official site before we quote.

WHY BOOK THIS WITH BIZAREXPEDITION

A festival this size is easy to attend and hard to enjoy without a plan.

• Haridwar is our home base. BizareXpedition™ Services Pvt. Ltd. (CIN U63090UR2016PTC007433) is headquartered in Haridwar, 25 km down the river from Rishikesh, so the roads, the hotels and the ghats are known to us first-hand.

• Privacy is the plan. You have your own vehicle, your own guide and your own room, with the driver waiting at the ashram. Nobody joins the car and you leave a session whenever you want to.

• We register you. Your guide collects your wristband and reads the schedule with you each morning, so you do not queue or guess which hall a session is in.

• The week is paced. A day off the mat, an Ayurveda day and a private yoga session are built in, so the seventh day feels as good as the first.

• Three tiers, one route. The Premium, Luxury and Ultra-Luxury versions share the same route and the same guide standard. The tiers change the hotel, the vehicle and the private touches.

ACCOMMODATION CATEGORIES

Note on hotels. For this package the hotel is chosen by its distance from the ashram. Aloha on the Ganges is in Tapovan, a little over a kilometre from Laxman Jhula. Rishikesh's best-known luxury resorts, such as The Roseate Ganges (a listing gives it as 19 km from Laxman Jhula) and Ananda in the Himalayas, are much further out, and a festival day with a 12-hour programme is hard to enjoy from that far. So the Luxury and Ultra-Luxury tiers stay close to Parmarth Niketan, and the Ultra-Luxury tier adds a Mercedes on the plains legs and the private touches. Haridwar has no ultra-luxury property. Property names are proposals and are confirmed at booking. Rates in this document are modelled, not contract rates.

3-TIER PRICING SUMMARY (indicative)

Prices are indicative and modelled, and exclude the festival pass. The upper figure covers date and season variation. The final quote depends on dates, hotels confirmed and any upgrade you choose.

Why Choose This Rishikesh Yoga Festival Package

• Built around one very large event, not against it. The festival runs over 12 hours a day and more than 70 hours of classes across the week — genuinely too much for anyone to attend in full. This itinerary is shaped around choosing well, not attending everything.

• A private trip in the middle of a public festival. Your vehicle, driver and guide belong to your party alone for all nine days. Nobody else joins the car, and you can leave any session whenever you want to.

• Registration handled for you. Your guide collects your wristband and walks the printed festival schedule with you each morning, so you're not queuing at the registration desk or guessing which hall a class is in.

• Your own room, not an ashram bunk. You stay at a riverside hotel a short walk from Parmarth Niketan, with your own room, bathroom and door — many festival-goers stay inside the ashram itself, but this trip is built for guests who'd rather not.

• The week is paced on purpose. A day away from the mat, a slower Ayurveda day, and a private one-hour yoga session for two at your hotel are built into the plan, not left for you to arrange.

• Local to the last mile. BizareXpedition is headquartered in Haridwar, 25 km down the river from Rishikesh, so the roads, the hotels near the ashram and the ghats are known first-hand, not from a brochure.

FESTIVAL DATES AND SEASON

What You'll Experience

• The full seven-day festival. Attend the International Yoga Festival at Parmarth Niketan from opening to closing day, choosing from over 70 hours of classes in styles that include Kundalini, Power Vinyasa, Iyengar and Kriya Yoga, plus evening talks with visiting spiritual teachers.

• The Parmarth Niketan Ganga aarti. Held from 6 to 7 pm in March on the ashram's own ghat — your guide shows you where to sit so you see the lamps on the water rather than the crowd behind you.

• A private yoga session for two. A one-hour session with a private teacher at your hotel, giving you something that's entirely yours in the middle of a very large public event.

• A day off the mat. A walk across the Ram Jhula and Laxman Jhula footbridges and an evening at Triveni Ghat, with an open afternoon to rest, shop or simply do nothing.

• An Ayurveda day. A doctor's consultation and a massage for two, timed for around the midpoint of the week when most guests are ready to slow down.

• A gentle start at Haridwar. One night before the festival begins, with the Mansa Devi ropeway and the evening river aarti, so you arrive settled rather than straight off a flight and into a crowd.

Who This Trip Suits

• Yoga practitioners at any level who want the festival's full range of classes without losing a week to queueing, crowd navigation or shared dorm-style ashram rooms

• Couples and friends who'd rather have their own room, their own car and their own pace than a group tour schedule

• First-time festival-goers who want someone else to handle registration, the wristband and the daily schedule, so the only decision left is which class to attend

• Anyone drawn to Rishikesh's wider yoga scene but who also wants a proper hotel bed, a private bathroom and a quiet room to return to after a long festival day

• Travellers comfortable with a vegetarian, alcohol-free week since both Haridwar and Rishikesh are dry towns and the ashram itself serves vegetarian meals only

PRACTICAL NOTES

• Passes and registration. Passes are sold only on the official festival website. Week passes and day passes exist. Transfers to another person were free until 8 February in 2027, and cancellations cost 5% more than 30 days out and 50% inside 30 days. We register you as guests of the tour.

• What the pass covers. Classes, lectures, performances, meals and drinks. Vegetarian meals are served, and dietary preferences cannot be guaranteed for every guest.

• Dress and conduct. Shoulders and knees are covered at all times, including in classes, and see-through clothing is not allowed. Alcohol, eggs and meat are not allowed in the ashram. By collecting the wristband you also agree that the festival may use your image.

• Pacing. The programme runs from early morning to late evening. Most guests go to one or two sessions a day and rest between them. Nobody checks attendance.

• Your own room. You stay at a hotel and not in the ashram, so you have your own room, bathroom and door.

• Weather. March days reach 24 to 29 C, and nights fall to about 12 C. Bring a light layer for early mornings and evenings, and a rain jacket for the odd shower.

• Health. The festival has a medical service on site, with limited hours, and after-hours emergencies go to the help desk. Check with a doctor if you have a heart, back or joint condition, and tell the guide about injuries before a class.

• Vegetarian Rishikesh. Rishikesh and the ashram are vegetarian and alcohol-free, and hotel menus follow suit. Delhi has no such limit.

• Crowds at Haridwar. In 2027 the Ardh Kumbh is on in Haridwar until 20 April. We time the Haridwar night and the road out around the main bathing days.

• Ghat access. The aarti at Parmarth Niketan is open to visitors of every background. At Har Ki Pauri in Haridwar, boards put up in January 2026 say non-Hindus are prohibited, though the town commissioner said there was no formal directive. We confirm the position for your dates.