We are Pratik and Céline — an Indian-Belgian couple who met in Singapore, bringing together two decades of experience across banking, consulting, and designing transformative learning experiences for senior leaders across Asia and Europe. We know how to build with rigour, and we take the responsibility of curating others' experiences seriously.
Pratik grew up visiting monasteries and sacred sites across India with his family. Even as a child, those places held something he couldn't name — a stillness, a sense of belonging, a happiness that didn't seem to exist anywhere else. His relationship with India's spiritual wisdom deepened through the years, and more profoundly through the loss of his father in 2013. Grief, it turns out, is one of the most honest teachers. What he found in those philosophies during that time was not an escape from life, but a way to live it more fully.
Céline had found life-changing guidance in Indian spirituality long before she met Pratik, and had fallen in love with India — where she had travelled extensively. An avid reader of Indian philosophers, her connection to this wisdom was already deep. When she and Pratik found each other, a shared dream began to take shape naturally.
The Nirvanist had long been a common dream we knew we would build together one day. Every year, when we returned to India, we made it a point to visit ashrams and deepen our connection to these spiritual places. Finally, in February 2026, we spent two months travelling across the west and north of India to design the best possible experiences for others. Our journeys are crafted with the same love, care, and passion we have poured into our own paths — and we hope you'll find them as soul touching and as insightful as we did.