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Kalaripayattu Intensive

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Master The Art Of Kalari Intensive: For The Dedicated Practitioner

The Kalari Intensive at Atman Kalari Yoga is a 60 days advanced residential training program that unites the ancient martial art of Kalaripayattu with deep yogic practices, breath mastery, and inner discipline. This program is specially designed for practitioners who already have experience in Kalari or Yoga and are ready to go well beyond foundational techniques to explore combat application, breath power, mental clarity, and spiritual depth.

This immersive journey is more than a training course — it is a transformative experience that challenges your body, expands your breath capacity, sharpens your focus, and strengthens your inner resilience.

Prerequisites

training Environment & protocol

The Kalari Intensive is conducted in a residential setting, intentionally structured to remove distractions and support deep internal and external work. You train daily with consistency — there are no free days or intermittent routines. Digital devices like phones and email are set aside to minimize interruptions and help you cultivate presence and discipline.

A clean diet without salt, spices, tea, or sugar further supports your clarity, energy, and physical readiness, purifying body and mind alike.

Who This Program is For

This intensive is suitable for practitioners who:

  • Have prior experience in Kalaripayattu or Ashtanga Yoga

  • Are physically fit and mentally ready for advanced discipline

  • Want to deepen breath work, combat application, and inner awareness

  • Seek to strengthen self-practice and personal resilience

This program is not for beginners. Due to its intensity and depth, a foundation of practice, consistency, and self-motivation is required.

Benefits you can expect

Participants in the Kalari Intensive experience:

  • Enhanced strength, flexibility, and endurance

  • Greater breath capacity and control under stress

  • Improved ability to sustain postures with alignment and awareness

  • Stronger combat understanding, grappling control, and tactical application

  • Increased mental focus, discipline, and inner confidence

  • Deepened self-practice and spiritual clarity through Veeramudhra Dhyanam

This training brings measurable physical improvement and long-lasting personal transformation.

Curriculam

What you will Train in

In this intensive, training is comprehensive and progressive, combining martial, yogic, and meditative disciplines:

Advanced Kalari Combat Skills

Your Kalari practice moves beyond basic movement to include combat-oriented techniques such as hand-to-hand engagement, dynamic movement patterns, and fluid application of strikes, blocks, and evasive maneuvers. The curriculum is structured to help you build practical body control as well as the mental discipline to apply techniques effectively under physical stress.

grapplings, Locks & Close-Range Control

As you deepen your understanding of Kalari dynamics, you will explore grappling principles and joint locking mechanisms that enhance your ability to control, neutralize, and dominate an opponent in close quarters. These skills build on traditional Kalari biomechanics and integrate body awareness with tactical precision.

Advanced Pranayama for Breath mastery

The program includes structured advanced Pranayama sequences, advancing beyond basic breath practices into deeper control of inhalation, exhalation, and breath retention. These techniques elevate lung capacity, stabilize nervous energy, and build inner stillness that supports both physical performance and mental clarity.

Extended Asana Practice

Yoga in this intensive is not just warm-up or recovery — it is a powerful training tool. You will practice foundational asanas held for longer durations, enhancing muscular endurance, joint stability, alignment awareness, and meditative focus in posture. Extended holding cultivates steadiness of body and mind, preparing you to sustain effort over long training periods.

Veeramudhra Dhyanam – Inner power meditation

At the core of the training lies Veeramudhra Dhyanam, a traditional sadhana designed to awaken your inner strength, refine awareness, and deepen your connection with the essence of practice. This mystical meditative discipline is introduced gradually and integrated as a central component of your transformative journey, taught to committed participants as you progress. This practice uses bhandhas, mudhras and pranayamas which may not be suitable for many people, it needs higher level of austerity. So even though its part of the program, will be taught only after understanding the student.

Self-Practice Integration

The intensive emphasizes the importance of integrating what you learn into your own self-practice. This means developing your capacity to train independently with focus, discipline, and consistency. Self-practice is supported through structured routines, guided reflection, and techniques designed to be reproducible beyond the residential setting.

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Daily Life in The Ashram
  • 5:20 am – Wake up
  • 6:00 am – Satsang (group meditation, chanting and talk)
  • 6:30 am – Kalari Payattu & Asana Session
  • 8:00 am – Tea
  • 10:00 am – Brunch (Indian vegetarian meal)
  • 11:00 am – Karma Yoga (selfless service)
  • 12:30 pm – Asana Coaching (Optional)
  • 1:30 pm – Tea
  • 2:00 pm – Lecture (talks on various yoga topics)
  • 5:00 pm – Kalari & Asana Classes
  • 6:30 pm – Dinner (Indian vegetarian meal)
  • 8:00 pm – Satsang (group meditation, chanting and talk)
  • 10:00 pm – Lights out

NOTE: The daily schedule will have changes, self practice of asanas and higher pranayamas and the practice of veeramudhra dhyanam will be the key.

Practical Information
  • Guests should be familiar with the Ashram Rules & Guidelines before their arrival.
  • The daily schedule may change from time to time according to need. The entire schedule is mandatory unless otherwise indicated.
  • Day trips to places of interest are regularly arranged on the day off.
  • Things to bring: Comfortable clothes, sandals, toiletries, personal items, meditation shawl for cool evenings, yoga asana mat, meditation cushion, notebooks, pens, black towels, sesame oil water bottle and torch.