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Beginners welcomeAnapana — The Breath
Six weeks of daily guided sittings. Learn to rest attention on the natural breath and let the mind soften into its own quiet.
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India · Est. 2011
Return to thestillness withinthe wild.
I am Rowan Brooks — meditation teacher, forest walker and student of the breath. For over a decade I have guided seekers across India into a quieter, rooted way of being — through silence, spirit, and the patient teachings of the natural world.
14+
Years teaching
9,200
Students guided
42
Silent retreats
Featured inVogue India✦Condé Nast Traveller✦The Hindu✦Yoga Journal✦Mint Lounge
"The forest is my first teacher. The breath, my only text."
— Rowan
The Teacher
A quiet life,offered in service.
Rowan Brooks began his practice at seventeen, walking into a monastery in the Kumaon hills with little more than a notebook and a persistent ache to understand the mind. He has since spent fourteen years studying under teachers of the Vipassana, Advaita and forest traditions of India.
His teaching is spare and modern, yet rooted in the ancient. Long sittings under banyan trees. Slow walks through monsoon-fed valleys. Conversations that begin in the body and end somewhere much wider than the self.
Today he lives between Rishikesh and Dharamshala, leading private students, silent retreats, and a growing sangha of seekers who come to remember what has always been quietly waiting inside them.
Lineage
Vipassana · Advaita · Forest tradition
Based
Rishikesh, India
Languages
English · Hindi · Sanskrit
Practice
Breath · Silence · Nature
The Teachings
Four gentle pathsback to yourself.
Choose the practice that meets you where you are. Each one is taught personally by Rowan, in the language of breath, silence and season.
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Silent · 10 daysVipassana in Nature
Ten-day silent retreats held in mango groves and pine forests. A traditional practice, offered in living contact with the land.
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Weekly · RishikeshThe Forest Sit
Weekly satsang under an open sky. Reading, chant and long stretches of shared silence beside a river or beneath old trees.
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By invitationPrivate Guidance
A small circle of long-form students who meet with Rowan monthly. For those ready to walk the path with steady companionship.
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Upcoming Retreats
Sit with us, under the sky.
Small, seasonal gatherings in some of India's most silent corners. Home-cooked meals, long walks, and hours of unhurried practice.
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Autumn in the Kumaon
Sangha Voices
“Ten days with Rowan quietly rearranged my life. I came back softer, and somehow, more myself. There is no theatre in his teaching — only truth, and enormous patience.”
“He teaches the way a forest teaches — slowly, seasonally, without asking anything of you. I've studied with many teachers. Rowan is the rarest kind.”
From the Journal
Field notes on practice.
Practice
The breath as a slow river
On learning to trust attention that neither grips nor drifts, and what a monsoon in the hills has to say about it.
8 min · June
Nature
What a peepal tree taught me about grief
A short essay on standing beside old trees, and what they hold that we cannot.
6 min · May
Spirit
Silence is not the absence of sound
Notes from ten days of unspeaking in the Nilgiris, and the quiet that arrives afterwards.
11 min · April
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Whether you're curious about a retreat, seeking private guidance, or simply have a question about the practice — the door is open.