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Abhilash S

Co-founder · Actor · Artist · Traveller · Yoga Practitioner

An actor, an artist, a practitioner of yoga, and an experienced traveller who has spent a life exploring the world — and paying close attention to all of it.

Abhilash S
His story
Living the practice
across every canvas.

Abhilash S is many things at once — and he has always let that be. An actor who practices yoga. An artist who travels to understand, not to consume. A co-founder who brings a creative, exploratory energy to everything Pragalbha Retreat Co. builds.

His connection to yoga is not the kind that begins and ends on a mat. It is a living practice — something he carries across film sets, through foreign cities, up mountain paths, and into quiet conversations with strangers who become friends. For Abhilash, the practice is about presence, and presence can happen anywhere.

As a traveller, he has developed a deep appreciation for places that slow you down — villages where time moves differently, coastlines that make noise feel unnecessary, forests that require nothing of you but your attention. That sensibility shapes every retreat location Pragalbha Retreat Co. chooses.

His philosophy

What travel has taught him.

01

The world is a teacher

Every place Abhilash has travelled has offered something a studio could not — a different rhythm, a different relationship to time, a different way of being in a body.

02

Art requires emptiness

Whether on stage or on a yoga mat, the most alive moments come when you are not performing — when you have emptied out enough to actually receive what the moment is offering.

03

Movement is storytelling

As both an actor and a yoga practitioner, Abhilash sees movement as the oldest language. Retreats, for him, are an invitation to return to that language before words crowd it out.

His worlds

Where he lives fully.

Acting & Performance

His primary canvas — storytelling through presence, stillness, and the full range of human expression.

Yoga Practice

A daily companion more than a discipline. Yoga anchors him between sets, cities, and everything in between.

Visual Arts

An artist's eye that finds composition in landscapes, light in ordinary moments, and meaning in what most people pass by.

World Travel

Not tourism — exploration. He travels to understand how other people live slowly, well, and with intention.

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His work on record.

A glimpse of Abhilash's life on screen — his filmography and credits as an actor.

IMDbView filmography & credits
Connect with him

Follow along.

Travel, practice, and the everyday — shared in his own words.

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