The Becoming Woman
A Tejas Mother & Daughter Journey through India
Dates : 1st October 2026 - 12th October 2026
There is a moment when a young woman stands quietly at the threshold of her life — when childhood softens behind her and destiny begins to whisper from ahead.
She is not quite who she was, not yet who she will become.
She is unfolding.
This journey is crafted for that moment.
For the young woman — awakening to herself, to the world, and to the question of who she is becoming.
And for the mother beside her — witnessing, blessing, remembering, letting go, and meeting her daughter anew.
Together, you will travel through India — a land where myth, ritual, beauty, and truth form a sacred mirror for the journey into womanhood.
Held by rhythm, meaning, and presence, this is not a holiday.
It is a pilgrimage of emergence — a rite of passage for both mother and daughter. This journey is not a teaching programme — it is a relational pilgrimage held through presence, rhythm, and embodiment rather than instruction.
Day 1- Delhi: Arrival & Welcome to India
Arrive in Delhi, where ancient devotion and modern life breathe side by side.
Begin your journey in the afternoon at the Sikh temple of Bangla Sahib, joining the langar — a community kitchen that feeds all who arrive. A simple act of service and equality opens the path.
✨Embodied lens: The first step is always one of reverence. Beginning the journey in service and gratitude plants a seed of humility and connection.
✨Soul Theme : Service calms the soul and anchors the awakening “I” in grounded moral experience. Grounding, humility, orientation.
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Day 2 – Delhi: Tastes & Tales
Begin with a guided walk through the colourful bazaars of Old Delhi, led by a chef who introduces you to the living story of food — spices, sweets, aromas, and sounds of centuries-old kitchens. The interplay between chaos and meaning. In the afternoon, explore Humayun’s Tomb, an echo of what will later culminate in the Taj Mahal. As day turns to dusk, drive along New Delhi’s sweeping boulevards, where colonial grandeur meets India’s independent spirit.
✨ Embodied lens: Adolescence awakens discernment. We train perception before opinion.
✨Soul lens: “I can meet complexity and not be lost.”
Integration Ritual in the evening.
Day 3 – Voice, Womanhood & the Courage to Belong to the World
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Morning: Women’s Leadership Circle with a Delhi social enterprise (carefully curated; real voices, not performative charity).
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Your daughter meets peers—students, artists, young leaders—speaking from lived experience.
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Afternoon: Craft Museum + Textile Gallery with a private educator: symbolism, identity, story in cloth.
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✨ Embodied lens: Truth emerges through authentic encounter. Adolescents need reality, not moralising.
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✨Soul lens: Sisterhood, voice, social awakening : “My life is a story I will write.”
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Day 4 – Delhi to Agra: Encounter with the Ideal.
Travel to Agra. The pace slows.
tep into Agra, where history whispers through marble walls and the legacy of love stands eternal in the Taj Mahal’s glowing embrace. This city is a living storybook—where imperial grandeur meets the pulse of everyday life, inviting families to witness beauty shaped by devotion and resilience.​
In the late afternoon, settle into your hotel and allow space for rest and quiet anticipation. No major sightseeing yet — the ideal is approached with restraint.
✨ Embodied lens: The adolescent meets the Ideal best when it is not overstimulated.
✨ Soul theme: Aspiration.
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Day 5 – Agra to Jaipur: Beauty, Love & Moral Imagination
At sunrise, witness the Taj Mahal— A Living Symbol of Love’s Enduring Power, glowing with morning light — an image of love made stone.
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The Taj Mahal rises from Agra’s earth like a luminous dream, its white marble shimmering with the promise of devotion that transcends time. For centuries, it has stood as a breathtaking symbol of love—built by Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal.In the Tejas journey, the Taj Mahal becomes more than a monument; it is a living lesson in the transformative power of love. Every arch, garden, and reflection pool speaks of unity, harmony, and the ability of the human heart to create beauty from longing and loss. Here, children and families are invited to experience how love, when honored and given form, becomes something that outlasts lifetimes—touching all who stand in its presence. For Steiner students and families, the Taj Mahal is a story in stone:
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Its graceful symmetry echoes the balance and order children seek in the world and within themselves.
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Its gardens, designed as a paradise on earth, mirror the soul’s longing for wholeness.
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Its origin—a testament to both devotion and grief—teaches that love is not only joyful, but also courageous and creative, capable of turning sorrow into something radiant.
Standing before the Taj Mahal at sunrise, families are reminded that the greatest legacies are those built on love. The memory of this moment becomes a gentle call to nurture beauty, empathy, and connection in our own lives—carrying the spirit of the Taj Mahal onward, long after the journey ends.
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Visit the Agra Fort, where power and beauty entwine. On the way to Jaipur, pause at the ancient stepwells of Abhaneri, learning how people once harvested rain in this desert land.
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✨ Embodied lens: Beauty forms the foundation for inner structure.​
The Taj Mahal becomes a living lesson in:
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the mathematics of beauty
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how light reveals truth
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how form expresses soul
This meets the adolescent’s longing for beauty that is truthful.
✨ Soul lens: She is learning that the world contains both heartbreak and possibility —
and she is strong enough to hold both.
​“I can hold grief and beauty together.”
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Day 6 – Jaipur: Identity, Lineage & the Feminine Thread
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Welcome to Jaipur, a city where history and heart dance in vibrant color. Known as the “Pink City” for its warm sandstone walls glowing in the sunlight, Jaipur invites families into a world where myth, artistry, and community pulse with life. Here, every street and courtyard tells a story.
The city’s architecture and gardens echo the balance and order that Steiner students explore in their studies, revealing how beauty, law, and harmony come together to shape human experience. In Jaipur, myth and history unfold not just as stories but as living traditions—carried forward by storytellers, musicians, and dancers who weave the past into the present.
Jaipur greets you like a tapestry —
colours layered upon colours, stories woven into stone,
feminine craft held in every detail.
This is a day about lineage — the long thread of women who create, express, beautify, and carry culture forward.
For the teen, who is shaping her own identity, this day becomes an awakening:
“I come from somewhere.
I stand in a lineage.
I am part of a larger story.”
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This morning, ascend the Amber Fort, where mirror halls shimmer and ancient kings once ruled.
Amber Fort is a masterpiece of symmetry, geometry, and beauty, echoing the forms and patterns Steiner students encounter in form drawing, geometry, and the study of ancient civilizations.
The sandstone walls rise like a spine of the earth,
holding centuries of queens, artists, warriors, and dreams.
For the young woman, this is a mirror of what she is discovering:
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that strength and beauty can coexist
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that power can be graceful
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that womanhood is a form of architecture
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that she, too, is building herself
Amber Fort becomes a curriculum of form —
her Grade 12 architectural studies made alive through history and place.
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The Stories Women Carry
Later, you sit with Rajasthani storytellers — unfolding their Kavad, a handpainted shrine that reveals story after story.
This touches the adolescent deeply.
Why?
Because Grade 12 students seek meaning, biography, lineage, the story behind the story.
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how stories carry identity
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how family shapes destiny
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how culture holds grief and beauty together
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how women pass wisdom through gesture and narrative
She begins to ask inwardly:
“What is my story?
What will I carry forward?”
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Chai at Palladio — Beauty as Inner Gesture -Later, at Jaipur’s iconic Palladio,
she experiences a different form of beauty —
feminine, modern, refined, intentional.
This is when many mothers witness their daughters take a breath,
straighten their posture,
and see themselves anew.
This moment is quiet, but meaningful:
She is recognizing her own aesthetic identity.
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✨ Embodied lens: Myth ripens into biography; story supports identity without instruction.
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✨ Soul lens: ​Lineage. “I come from somewhere — and I am becoming someone.”​
Day 7 - Aesthetic Judgment & the Art of Choosing
This day is a journey into taste, identity, creation, and self-expression.
At dawn, cycle through Jaipur as the city slowly wakes — offering grain to cows, greeting shopkeepers, watching the pink walls glow in the morning sun. This is not just a morning ride—it is a living lesson in presence, rhythm, and “good kharma”. The concept of “good kharma”—the positive ripples of our thoughts and actions—aligns with the Steiner focus on moral imagination and personal responsibility.
The Feminine Craft of Choosing**
Together, you explore Jaipur’s textile houses, jewelry ateliers, and local boutiques.
But the purpose is not consumption.
It is discernment.
For an teen learning who she is, choosing becomes a spiritual act:
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What colours pull me?
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What textures feel like mine?
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What do I want to present to the world?
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Who am I becoming?
This day helps her step out of peer-driven aesthetics
and into self-chosen beauty.
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Later, journey to Bagru village, join artisans teaching the ancient craft of block printing. Together with your child, press colours into cloth, learning patience and joy through creation. Jaipur is a place where children can step into the rhythm of ancient craft, learning through hands-on experiences like block printing, where colors and patterns come to life under their fingertips. This engagement with making connects head, heart, and hands—the very essence of Steiner education.
✨ Embodied lens: The will is educated through doing; discernment grows through real choice.​
✨ Soul lens: Self-authorship. .
Overnight at Samode Haveli in Jaipur
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Day 8 - Jaipur - Order, Cosmos & Big Questions
Visit City Palace, exploring civic order, beauty, and governance. Continue to Jantar Mantar, where astronomy becomes embodied thinking — humans measuring the heavens.
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✨ Embodied lens: Adolescents seek cosmic context — law, order, and meaning beyond the personal.
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✨Soul lens: Wonder with structure.
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Day 9 — Jaipur → Rishikesh
Entering Stillness
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Journey to Rishikesh | Arrival at the Ganges
Today, travel north by road into the foothills of the Himalayas, where the holy Ganges flows in silver threads.
Arrive in Rishikesh and settle into
our home for two nights is Aloha on the Ganges, a serene retreat that offers comfort, beauty, and stillness — a gentle space for the soul to open.
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Here, spirituality is not instructed — it is felt.
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Evening bells and the sound of the Ganga remind us we have stepped into sacred ground.
Learning that life, too, has a rhythm — of breathing in and out, of activity and rest, of stillness and song.
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✨ Embodied lens: A shift in setting mirrors the inner shift — leaving behind the bustle for a place where stillness and spirit are palpable. The journey into the mountains becomes an outer reflection of the inner step toward adulthood — an existential movement from known to unknown.
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✨ Soul lens: Threshold, silence, transition.
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Day 10 – Rishikesh: Learning at the Source
The Birth of Yoga
Long before yoga became a posture or a practice, it was a way of being.
In Rishikesh, this ancient way of life is not something found in temples or studios, but in the air itself — in the morning bells that echo across the river, in the rhythm of the sadhus crossing the bridges barefoot, in the devotion of those who come to bathe in her holy waters.
For the children, this becomes a gentle doorway into understanding that yoga means “union” — not something to perform, but something to feel.
Union with their breath. With the earth beneath their feet. With the river that has carried the prayers of thousands before them.
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A short guided sunrise movement by the river — gentle stretches, a moment of breath, listening to the birds awaken.
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A story circle about the yogis who once lived here — people who sought not perfection, but presence.
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A quiet moment of offering flowers or floating candles into the Ganges — a simple gesture of gratitude.
✨ Embodied lens: Freedom begins in conscious relationship with the self.
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will
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alignment
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balance
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embodiment
It meets the adolescent’s need to integrate thinking, feeling, and willing.
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✨ Soul lens: Embodiment & the Awakening of the Will
Day 11 - Rishikesh → Delhi - Re-Entry & Meaning-Making
Return to Delhi. This is not an ending but a re-entry — bringing inner experience back into the world.
Evening at leisure: a final shared meal, quiet reflection, early rest.
✨ Embodied lens: Meaning consolidates through return, not climax.
✨ Soul theme: Carrying the journey into life.
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Overnight: The Oberoi Delhi
Day 12 - Farewell to India - Journey Home with full hearts.
​​As our remarkable journey comes to a close, we depart Delhi—carrying with us the vibrant stories, deep rhythms, and heartfelt connections that have blossomed over these days.
The sights, sounds, and lessons of India now live richly within each of you—woven into your family’s shared story. Though the journey ends here, its echoes will continue to inspire curiosity, compassion, and wonder for years to come. As you prepare to board your flight back home we invite you to hold the spirit of this pilgrimage close: the balance of reverence and adventure, the beauty of community, and the timeless rhythm of breathing in and out—both in the world and within yourselves.
Safe travels, dear families. Until we meet again, may the light and love of India accompany your every step.
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With hearts full and stories alive, this journey comes to a close — though its echoes will remain for years to come.
Inclusions and Price
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Total of 11 nights’ accommodation.
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Meal Plan – breakfast at all hotels.
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All transfers, sightseeing & excursions using Air-conditioned by Mini Coach.
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Entrance fee at the monuments as per program. (Single visit).
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Services of English-speaking Local guides as per the itinerary.
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Road taxes, parking fee, fuel charges, interstate taxes. Any hikes in these fee / taxes will be extra.
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All currently applicable taxes.
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Flights and Travel Insurance NOT included.
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Price per person : AUD $7,450.00
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Limited spots
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Please see Terms and Conditions Here
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Our Partner in India
Family-run since 1977, Our Partner in India brings depth, care, and integrity to every Tejas journey. Their team — from guides to artisans — embodies India’s ancient art of hospitality, serving with warmth and human dignity.
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Like Tejas, they believe that travel can be a path of awakening: a meeting of soul and world through beauty, relationship, and reverence. Their approach resonates deeply with the Steiner philosophy — honouring rhythm, community, and the spiritual unfolding of each human being.
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Through the Ram Kohli Foundation, they nurture children in Delhi’s underserved communities through art and education, while their Travelife sustainability certification reflects a living care for people, culture, and planet.
Together, we hold each journey with rhythm, grace, and heart — where outer travel becomes an inner path.