Nourish Your Inner Fire
A 3-Day Summer Solstice Ayurveda and Yoga Retreat
Awaken your vitality. Restore your balance. Live with greater intention.
June 18–20, 2027 | Bloom Holistic Retreat | Kingston, Ontario
A summer retreat with Sonia Sharma and special guest Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya
If you’ve been feeling depleted, overwhelmed, irritable, or caught in the constant push to do more, this retreat invites you to step back and explore what your body and mind truly need.
Join Ayurvedic practitioner and wellness coach Sonia Sharma, together with internationally recognized Ayurvedic educator and bestselling author Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya, for three days of learning, nourishment, movement, and renewal.
Through the wisdom of Ayurveda and Yoga, practical workshops, daily yoga and meditation, breathwork, and carefully curated seasonal meals, you’ll explore how to understand your unique nature and cultivate energy that lasts.
Set beside the beautiful lake at Bloom Holistic Retreat, this is an opportunity to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and discover a more intentional way of living.
The intention is simple: vitality without depletion, ambition without constant pressure, and passion without losing your sense of balance.
Why Nourish Your Inner Fire?
The Summer Solstice celebrates the abundance of light and the beginning of summer – a season that invites us to explore our own inner fire.
In Ayurveda, Pitta dosha, associated with fire and water, governs transformation, digestion, clarity, and purposeful action. When balanced, we feel energized, focused, and creative. When we push beyond our capacity to rest and recover, we may feel depleted, irritable, or disconnected from ourselves.
We each experience this energy differently. Ayurveda helps us understand our unique nature and how food, movement, sleep, and daily habits influence our well-being.
Yoga and Ayurveda work hand in hand: Yoga connects us with our body and inner awareness, while Ayurveda guides us in caring for ourselves in everyday life.
This retreat is an invitation to explore your own relationship with inner fire and discover how to nourish it without allowing it to consume you.
What You’ll Experience
An intentionally curated Ayurvedic experience that combines timeless wisdom, practical tools, embodied learning, and joyful connection.
Each day includes a thoughtful balance of movement, reflection, learning, stillness, and rest.
World Renowned Experts
Explore Ayurvedic wisdom with with two experts in this field, Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya and Sonia Sharma, combining classical principles with practical insights for everyday life.
Personalized Ayurvedic Session (Post retreat)
Retreat participants are invited to a focused 25-minute private session with Sonia Sharma. Discover how Pitta, digestion, energy, emotions and seasonal changes relate to your unique mind-body constitution. Identify one key imbalance and receive a personalized seasonal recommendation to support balance and well-being.
Move, Breathe and Meditate
Experience accessible daily yoga, pranayama, and meditation to support the summer heat, Pitta season and gain greater awareness, calm, and nourish your inner fire.
Nourishing Ayurvedic Meals
Enjoy six authentic and delicious, anti-inflammatory meals curated by Sonia Sharma, crafted to cool, heal, and energize your body. All meals are vegetarian, gluten-free, dairy-free, and sourced from local ingredients.
Make Space for Rest and Reflection
Reconnect with nature beside the lake, enjoy the forest trails, and give yourself permission to slow down.
Take Home Practical Tools
Explore small, sustainable changes you can integrate into your own routines, rather than another demanding wellness checklist.
Meet Your Host
Sonia Sharma
Ayurvedic Practitioner | Wellness Coach | Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Yoga brings you to your body. Ayurveda teaches you how to live there.
Sonia Sharma is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, wellness coach and educator. Passionate about introducing people to new perspectives on health and well-being, she helps clients understand their unique nature and discover practical ways to live with greater vitality, balance, and intention.
A longtime yoga practitioner and teacher, Sonia spent years exploring the transformative potential of yoga before discovering how Ayurveda could bring that awareness into everyday life. Through simple, seasonal practices, she experienced a profound shift in her own vitality feeling more energized at 58 than she had at 40.
Drawing on hundreds of hours of coaching with clients, Sonia takes an individualized approach that looks beyond isolated symptoms to explore the patterns influencing digestion, sleep, stress, movement, and energy. She translates Ayurvedic wisdom into realistic, sustainable practices that fit each person’s life.
Through her three-month Ayurvedic Foundations Program, nine-month Ayurvedic Life Transformation Program, seasonal cleanses, workshops, and retreats, Sonia helps people deepen their understanding of themselves and make more informed choices about their well-being.
Her approach is grounded, compassionate, and practical. She believes wellness is not about following rigid rules, but about learning to listen to your body, recognize your patterns, and adapt as your needs change.
At Nourish Your Inner Fire, Sonia brings this perspective to the summer season, helping participants explore how to cultivate vitality, recognize their limits, and nourish their energy without burning themselves out.
Learn more about working with Sonia: soniawellnesscoaching.com
Meet Our Special Guest
Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya
Ayurvedic Practitioner | International Educator | Bestselling Author
Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya is a New York City–based Ayurvedic practitioner, educator, and international bestselling author of Your Body Already Knows: Intuitive Ayurveda – 21 Days to Reset Your Gut, Sleep, Mood, and Health.
A third-generation practitioner raised in India, Nidhi grew up immersed in the traditions of Ayurveda and Vedic philosophy. Her work brings together classical Ayurvedic knowledge and a contemporary approach to understanding the body’s individual needs.
Through her teaching, writing, and Inner Climate® Method, Nidhi helps people explore the relationship between their constitution, daily habits, digestion, sleep, mood, and overall well-being. She is known for making Ayurvedic principles accessible to modern audiences while encouraging a more individualized understanding of health.
Her work has been featured in prominent publications, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, and Allure. She has also appeared on India Today’s Booked, discussing the relevance of Ayurvedic wisdom in contemporary life.
At this retreat, Nidhi will bring her expertise and fresh perspective to our exploration of Ayurveda, seasonal health, and the ways we can better understand and support our own nature.
Her message complements the heart of this gathering: when we learn to pay attention to our own patterns, we can make more informed choices about how we nourish ourselves, manage our energy, and live.
Discover more about Nidhi: nidhi.me
I’ve attended many retreats in my life, including a solo month in Bali, but this one truly shifted something inside me. It was calm, expansive, and filled with moments that made me feel more awake than I’ve felt in a very long time (if ever). Every part of it elevated my energy. The gratitude I experienced (that I could feel flowing through my veins) was visceral. It wasn’t just a getaway; it was a return to something ancient and authentic.
Nourishment, Nature & Connection
Bloom Holistic Retreat offers a beautiful lakeside setting in which to step away from daily demands and reconnect with yourself.
Your three-day, two-night experience includes:
- Daily yoga, pranayama, and meditation.
- Workshops on Ayurveda, Pitta seasonal health, and sustainable vitality.
- Learning with Sonia Sharma and special guest Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya.
- An Ayurvedic cooking class.
- Six seasonal vegetarian meals, thoughtfully curated by Sonia.
- Guided reflection and opportunities for personal insight.
- Time to enjoy the lake, forest trails, and peaceful natural surroundings.
- Opportunities to connect with others who share an interest in well-being.
Is This Retreat For Me?
This retreat is designed for anyone seeking to:
- Cultivate lasting energy and vitality without constantly pushing beyond their limits
- Understand their unique nature and what helps them feel balanced and
energized - Explore the connection between digestion, emotions, energy, and overall well-being
- Bring more clarity, intention, and balance into their everyday lives
- Deepen their understanding of Ayurveda and Yoga through practical, embodied experiences
- Reconnect with themselves through movement, nature, nourishment, and
reflection
You don’t need to be flexible, vegan, or “spiritual.”
You only need to be curious and open to discovering new ways to nourish yourself and
live with greater vitality and balance.
Nourishing Amenities to Melt Stress & Elevate Your Retreat Experience
The retreat also offers access to the setting’s amenities, including:
- Wood-Fired Sauna – Encourages full-body relaxation, eases muscular tension, and supports mental clarity through grounding heat.
- Paddle Boarding & Kayaking – Gentle movement on calm waters that soothes the nervous system and promotes mindful presence.
- Forest Trails (25+ km) – Quiet pathways for reflective walks, nature immersion, and stress-reducing time among the trees.
- Private Lakefront Dock – A serene setting for sunrise rituals, meditation, journaling, or simply sitting in stillness.
- Outdoor Fire Pit – A cozy, screen-free gathering space that fosters connection, storytelling, and calming evening winds-down.
- All-Day Coffee & Tea Station – Supports slow, intentional mornings and mindful breaks throughout your stay.
- Luxury Linens & Towels – Soft, calming textures that enhance your comfort and encourage restorative sleep.
Each element is thoughtfully curated to soothe your senses, from the scent of cedar in the forest to the comforting warmth of the sauna and the glass-calm lake at dawn.
This is a retreat, not a bootcamp. There is space to participate, learn, rest, explore, and simply enjoy being here.
What You’ll Take Home
- A deeper understanding of your individual patterns and needs.
- A new perspective on the role of inner fire, energy, and balance.
- Practical Ayurvedic ideas for seasonal nourishment and daily living.
- Simple movement, breathing, and meditation practices.
- Greater awareness of how you respond to stress and everyday demands.
- Inspiration to make choices that support your well-being over time.
The goal is not to leave with a long list of rules. It is to return home with a better understanding of yourself and practical ways to apply what you’ve learned.
Retreat Details
Nourish Your Inner Fire: A Summer Solstice Retreat
Dates: June 18–20, 2027
Location: Bloom Holistic Retreat, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Host: Sonia Sharma
Special guest: Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya
Your retreat package includes accommodation, meals, workshops, yoga, meditation, and retreat activities. Private and shared accommodation options will be available.
Spots are limited to preserve the intimate nature of the experience. Early booking is recommended.
Important Notes
All are welcome — this retreat is open to all genders, backgrounds, and experience levels.
Yoga is gentle and accessible; modifications always offered.
This is a technology-light experience and we encourage you to unplug to fully reconnect.
Confidentiality and respect are honored — this space is sacred.
“The most powerful alignment is the one within you. When you return to yourself, everything else flows.”
— Sonia Sharma
Ready to Nourish Your Inner Fire?
Give yourself three days to step away from the demands of everyday life, discover new perspectives on your well-being, and reconnect with the energy that helps you live with purpose.
Join Sonia Sharma and Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya for a summer retreat grounded in the wisdom of Ayurveda, the practices of Yoga, and the restorative beauty of nature.
Awaken your vitality. Restore your balance. Live with greater intention.
Questions? Contact Sonia at info@soniawellnesscoaching.com.
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