Our Story: Rooted in the Himalayas
In Nepal since 2014.
We partner with yoga teachers to design and deliver journeys that integrate trekking, retreat time, and local support — carefully managed from arrival to departure.
Origins
2014
2017
2020
Today
Karnesh began guiding in the Annapurna and Everest regions while also teaching and studying yoga.
In the Himalayas, practice felt different — influenced by altitude, landscape, and a culture steeped in spiritual tradition.
Kamala Yoga Nepal was founded to bring yoga groups into the Himalayas in a thoughtful way.
At first, we offered open yoga treks along established routes. Guests came from around the world to practice, hike, and experience Nepal beyond the usual retreat settings.
Over time, we realised our real strength was not hosting our own retreats — but supporting experienced teachers to bring their communities here.
We shifted fully into working as local partners for international yoga teachers.
Instead of leading under our own brand, we focused on designing and running journeys behind the scenes — blending trekking, retreat time, and cultural immersion into a coherent, well paced structure.
Prana Vista continues this work with more clarity and depth.
We operate directly in Nepal with an experienced Himalayan team, managing the permits, routes, lodges, transport, pacing, and safety ourselves.
We are not a booking agency — we are on the ground.
Nepal is our home base and our teachers and students come from around the world.
Meet Karnesh
Founder & Journey Director
Meditation & Sound Practitioner
Born and raised in Nepal, Karnesh began his yoga and meditation practice as a teenager. His formal training started in 2007 and later included studies in Mysore and in traditional ashram settings in Nepal and India.
Since 2014, he has worked in the Annapurna and Everest regions, guiding in the Himalayas while maintaining a committed personal practice.
Over the years, he has designed and directed more than one hundred journeys across Nepal, working closely with licensed trekking teams and local coordinators. His experience spans route planning, group pacing, permit management, and on-the-ground leadership.
Karnesh lives in Geneva, Switzerland, where he offers private sound healing and guided meditation during the off-season.
His training in yoga, Himalayan singing bowl therapy, and music informs the subtle integration of sound, mantra, and meditation within a journey when appropriate.
Within Prana Vista collaborations, he does not lead the asana practice. That space belongs to the invited teacher.
His role is to support the overall rhythm of the journey and ensure that the outer landscape and inner work remain aligned and steady.
He works in English, and also speaks Newari, Nepali, Hindi, and French.
The Meaning Of Prana Vista
Vitality
Prana is often translated as breath, but it is more than breath alone. It is vitality — the quiet current that animates a practice, a conversation, a group moving together through a landscape.
You feel it in steady effort, in shared silence, in the subtle shift that happens over days spent away from routine.
Perspective
Vista speaks to perspective. It suggests openness — a widening of view that happens both outwardly and inwardly.
In the mountains, that widening is literal: long horizons, high ridgelines, clear air. But it is also internal. Time in nature recalibrates perception. Things fall into proportion.
Where They Meet
Prana Vista reflects the meeting point of those two forces: inner vitality and expansive surroundings.
Our journeys are designed at that intersection — where practice is strengthened by the natural setting, where movement clarifies thought, and where the wider landscape becomes part of an internal shift.