After arriving at the Chennai International Airport, you will be picked up by one of our drivers and taken less than 6 miles to the luxurious Hotel GRT Grand located in the heart of downtown Chennai. This beautiful 4-star hotel is the flagship hotel of the GRT Hotels and Resorts. It is home to two restaurants and a 24-hour coffee shop, as well as the renowned Bodhi Spa, a fully-equipped gym, and a private indoor lap-pool.

Here, you will spend the night and have the opportunity to settle in and relax after your travels. You will be treated to an upscale buffet for lunch, dinner, and breakfast the following morning as part of your travel package.

After enjoying your breakfast at the GRT Grand in Chennai, you will travel by coach bus back to Chennai International Airport and board a plane to Madurai, arriving at your destination approximately one hour later. After landing, you will board a coach bus where you will be served a packed lunch from a restaurant in Hotel Poppy's in Madurai, and begin making your way to Dr. Pillai's birthplace and the world's premier karma-dissolving vortex, Rameshwaram.

During the bus ride, you will have an opportunity to enjoy scenic Southern India and listen or join in on group chanting led by one of our trip guides. 

Later on in the evening you will cross the epic Pamban Bridge, connecting the island of Rameshwaram to the mainland, and check into the beautiful 4-star Hotel Daiwick. After getting settled in your room, you will be treated to an upscale buffet for dinner in the hotel's beautiful banquet hall downstairs. The Hotel Daiwick has many modern amenities including ayurvedic spa, multi-cuisine restaurant, room service, and shopping arcade. 

Today is Dr. Pillai's birthday! You will begin your day with an early morning birthday meditation session with Dr. Pillai in his sacred birthplace of Rameshwaram. Afterwards, you will be treated to an upscale breakfast-themed buffet.

After breakfast, you will make your way to the large temple in Rameshwaram, home to the ancient 22 wells, with 22 different kinds of water, each dissolving a different kind of karma. Dr. Pillai has shared that the 22 wells here are much older than the actual temple, which was built around them at a later time.

This temple is rich with mythology which adds to its energetic properties. It is said in sacred texts that this is where the Avatar of Vishnu, Rama, came to cleanse his sins from killing the demonic king and staunch devotee of Shiva, Ravana.

There are two powerful Shiva lingams located here, one of which is considered the southernmost 'Jothirlingam' of India, of which there are only twelve. This special Jothirlingam, also known as Ramalingam, is said to have been manifested by Shiva himself as a gift to Lord Rama. Shiva is recorded in sacred scriptures as saying that those who come to this temple seeking his blessings shall always reside in Shivaloka (highest heaven), thanks to this special Jothirlingam.

The second lingam, according to the mythology, is said to have been brought by the Archetype Hanuman, an incarnation of Shiva and number one devotee of Lord Rama, from the sacred city of Benares (Kasi). This Lingam is referred to as Hanumanlingam or Kasilingam.

Also located at this temple is the tomb of the exalted Tamil Siddha, Father of Yoga, and former past-life of Dr. Pillai, Patanjili. It was in this sacred spot where Dr. Pillai had his very first enlightenment experience as a young boy. You will have an opportunity to meditate in this sacred space where Patanjali is still alive in his light body. Many people from previous trips have reported the extraordinary peace that can be felt here, as well as spontaneous telepathic communication with Patanjili.

After leaving the temple you will be treated to an upscale lunch buffet back at the Hotel Daiwick, another seminar/meditation session with Dr. Pillai during his birthday, and finally end the day with a hearty buffet-style dinner before retiring for the night.

After an early morning wake-up call, you'll start your day with an extended group meditation session in Rameshwaram, followed by an upscale breakfast buffet. Following breakfast, you'll join Dr. Pillai for a seminar in the banquet hall, and then for a precious temple visit in Rameshwaram.

Upon your return, you will be treated to lunch at the hotel, and then board a coach bus to begin making your way to the heavenly Hotel Indeco Resort in Swamimalai (Kumbakonam).

Once you arrive, you'll be shown your room and invited to join the group for a large dinner at the hotel.

Today, you'll wake up in the aura of Kumbakonam, the temple capital of the world, home to the largest collection of active temple-powerspots in close proximity, unlike anywhere else on the planet. You may notice the space here feels alive and vibrant with divine energy. This is Dr. Pillai's personal favorite place to go on retreat. 

The reason there are so many powerspots here is because Kumbakonam was chosen as the location where the world would be restarted after one of its many destruction cycles. Prior to this great cataclysm, it is said the Creator God, Brahma, gathered and preserved all divine wisdom and knowledge into a sacred pot, which washed away in a great flood. The pot eventually emerged in an area that we now call Kumbakonam, where it was broken causing all divinity and knowledge to flow through this one location.

To this day, Kumbakonam is still considered by many to be the central vein for spirituality and temple powerspots in Southern India, and even the world.
One of many unique features of Kumbakonam is the Gods and Goddesses share their temples with the Nine Planetary Archetypes (time/karma). Dr. Pillai says that just to be in the presence of the energy at these temples will remove your karma, even if you do not pray.

You'll have the opportunity to immerse yourself for three days in this sacred space, where Dr. Pillai will be guiding and empowering you in various temple powerspots based on his in-the-moment revelations, the group's energy, and current time-energy.

On each of these three days, you'll start with an early morning group meditation, and later in the day you will join Dr. Pillai for multiple seminars and visits to different temple-powerspots. All three daily meals will be served in grand fashion at the hotel resort.

You'll start the day with another early morning group meditation, breakfast, seminar session and possible temple-powerspot visit with Dr. Pillai in Kumbakonam.

Lunch will be served at the hotel, after which you will bid Kumbakonam farewell and set out for the 4-Star Sparsa Resort in Thiruvannamalai, another extraordinarily beautiful South Indian hotel.

Later in the evening after arriving, you'll enjoy dinner and have the opportunity to bask in the evening glow of the mountain of fire, Arunachala, which the resort overlooks, before retiring to your room for a relaxing sleep.

Thiruvannamalai is the home of Arunachala, the mountain of fire. Dr. Pillai has said that this is the most powerful spiritual vortex on earth.

Deeply revered by the Yogis and Siddhas, this sacred mountain is believed to embody the infinite pillar of light of the supreme being, as the largest Shiva Lingam in the world. According to the Siddha Venkataraman, for whom Dr. Pillai has great respect, this space is so charged with power that all spiritual practices (initiations, meditations, divine sight of Guru) are magnified thousands of times. 

You will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in this sacred space for two nights and experience Dr. Pillai's 24/7 energetic transmission of this space's power.

It is here where Dr. Pillai will be giving the grand finale initiations and mystery teachings for the trip. What he will reveal will remain divinely dynamic up until the moment he speaks.

Your final day of the trip will start with breakfast at the resort in Thiruvannamalai, following which you will travel back to the Hotel GFT Grand in Chennai, where you started the trip. From here you will have one more lunch and opportunity to say your goodbyes before being taken to the Chennai International Airport by one of our drivers for your return home.