Reading Retreat 2025: Nature Writing Edition

Step away from your everyday routines and spend three restful days immersed in books, nature, and meaningful conversations. The second edition of the Champaca Reading Retreat returns to the serene Olaulim Backyards in Goa, bringing readers together to explore the theme of Nature Writing. Curated and facilitated by Thejaswi Shivanand, this retreat is a space to reconnect with the joy of reading—at your own pace, in the company of like-minded readers, with the support of thoughtful curation and guided sessions.

Date: 19th September 2025 - 22nd September 2025

Venue: Olaulim Backyards, Bardez, Goa

About the Retreat

At Champaca, we understand that everyone has a unique approach to reading. Some immerse themselves for hours, while others enjoy shorter, interrupted sessions. In our busy lives, finding the time and energy to read can be challenging. Many of us end up with piles of unread books, despite our love for reading.
In our many ways of enabling our community's desire to reconnect with reading, we’ve created the Champaca Book Club, the Champaca Reading Challenge, and the Champaca Reading Retreat.
The second edition of this three-day retreat returns to Olaulim Backyards in the Bardez taluka of Goa and provides an environment to focus on reading. Whether you prefer reading alone or with others, you'll have the freedom to choose your pace and books from our curated selection of books.
Twice-daily discussions with our curator, Thejaswi Shivanand, will anchor the program, offering support and enhancing the shared reading experience. This retreat is designed to help you reconnect with the joy of reading, free from daily responsibilities and distractions.
Download this PDF for more detailed information about the retreat.

About the Facilitator

After working for over a decade and a half at an alternative school, Thejaswi Shivanand is currently a library educator and curator of books at Champaca Bookstore and Children’s Library, Bengaluru. At Champaca, he has been a regular part of the book club discussions and hosted several events with authors over the past six years. He also currently works with schools and library-focused organisations across India in the professional development space to nurture and support the growth of communities of readers, and has been part of initiating and sustaining book-related communities for the past nineteen years.

Early Bird Registrations include:

- Discounted price of INR 40000

- A personalized reading list from our curator, Thejaswi Shivanand

- A 10% discount on all purchases at Champaca Bookstore for 12 months

- Shared accommodation in Olaulim Backyards, Goa for three days and three nights

- A box of five curated books on nature writing

- A surprise sixth book individually curated for each participant

- Guided reading sessions

- Individual and group reading

- Meals for all three days

If you would like to make the payment in two installments, please email us at hello@champaca.in.