About Us

A community retreat born from the courage to live differently.

What defines Vaatalya?

Family built
Family-built &
community-run
Slow growth
Grown slowly, without
outside investment
Rooted in Himachali
land & culture
Guided by nature,
not schedules
Designed for rest,
reflection & self-reliance
Sustainable Living
A living experiment in
sustainable living

How did it start?

In 2007, one family left the city and chose the mountains. They did not build a business. They built a life — learning from the land, growing their own food, creating with what was available, slowly shaping a home to be shared. What you experience today is not a project. It is the continuation of that life.

People of Vaatalya

The people who live and work at Vaatalya come from many worlds — professional, creative, rural, urban. They are the ones who built this place and care for it each day.

You may meet them in the kitchen, on trails, in the garden, over tea, in silence — and during workshops. They choose presence over performance.

Conversation over content. A quieter way of living, rooted in work, nature, and community.

“Modern life has taught us how to survive, but forgotten how to live.”

Vaatalya exists as a response
to this forgetting.

Our Work

We collaborate, we research, we educate, and we inspire change.

We follow Triple Bottom Line approach in our work. From a journey that started back in 2007, in 2022, we are now running our operations, innovation & creating experimental solutions with various students and professionals from local, government & private sectors via our work exchange and internship programs.

While we generate funds for this work from the paid travellers who stay with us, our 04 business models at Vaatalay give us an ecosystem to the functioning of this community beautifully.

Read below more about our work & journey

Our Journey | Blogs