Our story
We do not sell escape.
Escape wears off on the flight home. We teach the rhythm. You take the rhythm home. The whole idea lives there.
The manifesto
“Teach people how to live well. Once they know how, they can do it anywhere.”
Invana · Founding note
Where we come from
Invana is a project of Inspiria.
Inspiria Knowledge Campus trains the next generation of professionals in Siliguri. Running a campus teaches you what young people carry and what they lack.
Sleep is the first thing to break. Food is the second. Movement is the third. Mental steadiness is the fourth. Recovery never gets taught at all.
We built Invana to teach the rhythm we now teach our students. Then we opened it to teams who need it even more.
Why here
The geography is the infrastructure.
Siliguri sits where the plains meet the Himalayas. Darjeeling is two hours away. Kalimpong is three. Kanchenjunga is on the horizon on clear days.
A 5 AM trail at Invana is a real mountain, not a metaphor. The light arrives. The air cools. The altitude changes. Your body notices in a way no treadmill reproduces.
- Coordinates
- 26.71°N · 88.43°E
- Altitude
- 120m at base, 920m at ridge
- Darjeeling
- 2 hours by road
- Bagdogra (IXB)
- 40 minutes by road
The people
Chefs, coaches, teachers, caretakers.
Forty-two people run Invana. Twenty-two are full-time. The rest rotate through quarterly residencies. You will know most of them by name by day three.
- 42People running Invana
- 22Full-time on campus
- 20Rotating residency
- 6Practitioners in residence
- 12Rooms
- 20Trails
Writing on us
What people have said.
- Condé Nast Traveller
- Mint Lounge
- Conde Nast India
- The Hindu
- Business Today
- GQ India