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Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":608,"team":609,"consultations":610},"A very large practitioner team by the standards of this market, across dedicated general, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic and consultation rooms.","Programmes open with a wellness consultation and a bio-impedance assessment, and the treatment plan is written from those rather than sold in advance.","An opening consultation, a mid-programme review and a departure session with a written plan.",{"amount":549,"currency":51},{"amount":551,"currency":51},{"slug":424,"name":614,"resortSlug":140,"modalitySlug":40,"hook":615,"intention":616,"concerns":617,"nights":436,"groupSize":435,"intensity":618,"overview":619,"suitedTo":622,"notSuitedTo":626,"phases":630,"dayShape":655,"sampleDay":656,"included":679,"excluded":685,"departures":688,"faqs":697,"image":701,"imageAlt":702,"bands":703,"durations":725,"counted":736,"priceIncludes":752,"care":753,"price":757,"singlePrice":758,"resortName":141,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8},"The integrated fortnight","Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa and yoga under one clinical team — so the physician can choose the tradition rather than defend one.","rebuild",[208,259,73],"moderate",[620,621],"One of very few houses anywhere running Ayurveda and Sowa Rigpa side by side with a shared clinical team. You are assigned a programme after consultation and there is no menu to order from — the assignment is the product.","Sowa Rigpa contributes pulse and urine diagnosis, Himalayan formulations and moxibustion; Ayurveda contributes the therapy structure. Where they disagree, a physician decides rather than a spa manager.",[623,624,625],"Chronic complaints that have not responded to one tradition alone","Anyone who wants the assignment made for them by clinicians","Guests who value structure and dislike ordering from a menu",[627,628,629],"Anyone wanting a specific named treatment — you do not choose here","Guests expecting a resort; the tone is deliberately institutional","Anyone unwilling to surrender their phone in the public areas",[631,639,647],{"title":632,"days":633,"body":634,"points":635},"Consultation and assignment","Days 1–3","Separate Ayurvedic and Sowa Rigpa consultations, bloods, and a programme assigned by the joint team.",[636,637,638],"Two diagnostic traditions","Arrival pathology","Programme assigned, not chosen",{"title":640,"days":641,"body":642,"points":643},"Treatment","Days 4–11","Daily therapy from whichever tradition the team selected, with moxibustion or Himalayan formulations where indicated, and a full daily practice schedule.",[644,645,646],"Daily therapy block","Moxibustion where indicated","Yoga and meditation daily",{"title":648,"days":649,"body":650,"points":651},"Protocol","Days 12–14","A single written protocol drawing on both traditions, with three months of preparations.",[652,653,654],"Combined written protocol","Three months of preparations","Eight-week follow-up","Five hours are fixed and nothing is chosen by you — the assignment is the product.",[657,659,662,665,667,671,672,675,677],{"time":658,"what":478},"06:00",{"time":477,"what":660,"note":661},"Practice","Yoga or qi-based movement, per your assignment.",{"time":663,"what":488,"note":664},"08:00","Silent for the first half-hour.",{"time":487,"what":452,"note":666},"Alternating between the Ayurvedic and Sowa Rigpa leads.",{"time":668,"what":669,"note":670},"09:30","Therapy block","Two to three hours from whichever tradition the team selected.",{"time":494,"what":495},{"time":497,"what":673,"note":674},"Rest","Phones stay in the room; the public areas are device-free.",{"time":500,"what":676},"Second therapy, or moxibustion",{"time":506,"what":678},"Dinner, then silence from nine",[680,681,682,512,683,684,654],"Fourteen nights","All consultations across both traditions","All therapies and preparations","Full daily practice schedule","Transfers from Dehradun",[686,687],"Flights, visa and insurance — flights quoted separately","Anything à la carte, because there is nothing à la carte",[689,693],{"start":690,"end":691,"note":692,"places":370},"2026-10-19","2026-11-02","Autumn",{"start":694,"end":695,"note":696,"places":435},"2027-02-15","2027-03-01","Late winter",[698],{"q":699,"a":700},"What changed when Six Senses took over?","The management and some of the austerity, by several accounts. The clinical structure survives, which is why we still list it — but if you stayed under the original ownership and expect exactly that, ask us what has changed before you book.","photo-1596040033229-a9821ebd058d","Himalayan medicinal preparations",[704,711,718],{"band":545,"label":546,"months":705,"sharing":706,"single":708,"note":710},"May, June, July and August",{"amount":707,"currency":17},480000,{"amount":709,"currency":17},578000,"Too hot for a full schedule in May and June; landslide season in the hills in July and August. We sell these months only to people who ask for them.",{"band":554,"label":555,"months":712,"sharing":713,"single":715,"note":717},"December, January and September",{"amount":714,"currency":17},545000,{"amount":716,"currency":17},654000,"Cold clear mornings and unheated halls in midwinter; September is still emptying out after the monsoon.",{"band":563,"label":564,"months":719,"sharing":720,"single":722,"note":724},"February to April, October and November",{"amount":721,"currency":17},632000,{"amount":723,"currency":17},763000,"Warm days, cold nights, and a river running green. The months to come, and priced accordingly.",[726,728,731],{"nights":436,"label":581,"factor":41,"note":727,"recommended":365},"Long enough for all three traditions to be assessed and for one of them to lead.",{"nights":585,"label":586,"factor":729,"note":730},1.42,"Where the assessment finds something that a fortnight can start and not finish.",{"nights":732,"label":733,"factor":734,"note":735},28,"The month",1.82,"The longest stay the house takes as standard, and the one its returning guests book.",[737,740,744,748],{"value":603,"label":738,"detail":739},"hours of therapy","Across Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa and natural therapies — assigned by the assessment, not chosen from a list.",{"value":741,"label":742,"detail":743},"3","traditions assessed","Ayurvedic, Tibetan and yogic, together, at arrival. Almost nowhere else does this in one building.",{"value":745,"label":746,"detail":747},"14","hours of movement","Yoga, meditation and the movement timetable, one to one and in groups.",{"value":749,"label":750,"detail":751},"0","menus","One kitchen, no a la carte, portions matched to the programme. Guests find this the hardest and best part.","Per person for fourteen nights, including the room, all meals from the single kitchen, the assessed programme of therapies, the daily movement and meditation timetable, consultations across all three traditions and return transfers from Dehradun. There is no a la carte and nothing to add on. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":754,"team":755,"consultations":756},"Physicians in Ayurveda and in Sowa Rigpa — the Tibetan system, taught at a national institute in Bhutan and integrated into public healthcare there — working with natural-therapy and yoga teams.","The arrival assessment decides which tradition leads. That decision is the reason to come here rather than to a single-discipline house.","An opening assessment across the traditions, mid-stay review and a departure consultation with a written protocol.",{"amount":707,"currency":17},{"amount":709,"currency":17},{"slug":425,"name":760,"resortSlug":146,"modalitySlug":11,"hook":761,"intention":202,"concerns":762,"nights":573,"groupSize":524,"intensity":437,"overview":763,"suitedTo":766,"notSuitedTo":771,"phases":775,"dayShape":796,"sampleDay":797,"included":826,"excluded":831,"departures":834,"faqs":843,"image":847,"imageAlt":848,"bands":849,"durations":870,"counted":879,"priceIncludes":894,"care":895,"price":899,"singlePrice":900,"resortName":147,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":28,"destinationName":29,"country":30},"The sleep reset","A circadian reset at altitude in the Sri Lankan hill country, with cool nights doing half the work.",[202,208,247],[764,765],"Altitude changes the proposition entirely: cool nights, no coastal humidity, and walking that is a pleasure rather than an ordeal. The programme is built around light exposure, a fixed eating window and Ayurvedic treatment for the nervous system.","It is short by the standards of this site, and deliberately so — a week is enough to move a sleep pattern, and the rest of the work happens at home with the protocol you leave with.",[767,768,769,770],"Broken sleep rather than an absence of it","Anyone with a week rather than a fortnight","Guests who want a modern building and a design-led setting","A first Ayurvedic experience",[772,773,774],"Diagnosed sleep apnoea, which needs investigating at home first","Anyone wanting a classical Panchakarma — this is not that","Guests who dislike a winding three-hour transfer from Colombo",[776,783,791],{"title":777,"days":453,"body":778,"points":779},"Measuring","Consultation, a sleep history, and two nights simply observed before anything is changed.",[780,781,782],"Sleep history and consultation","Baseline observation","Eating window set",{"title":784,"days":785,"body":786,"points":787},"Resetting","Days 3–6","Morning light exposure and walking, shirodhara and abhyanga in the late afternoon, dinner finished by seven and lamps down early.",[788,789,790],"Morning light and walking","Daily Ayurvedic treatment","Fixed early dinner",{"title":468,"days":792,"body":793,"points":794},"Day 7","A written evening routine built for your actual household, and a six-week follow-up.",[795,473],"Written protocol","Under three hours are fixed. Light exposure and the eating window do most of the work.",[798,802,806,808,811,813,816,818,822],{"time":799,"what":800,"note":801},"06:15","Wake and out into daylight","Morning light is the intervention; the treatments are secondary.",{"time":803,"what":804,"note":805},"06:45","Walk in the tea terraces","Forty-five minutes, outdoors, whatever the weather.",{"time":663,"what":807},"Breakfast — the eating window opens",{"time":809,"what":810},"10:00","Consultation or free",{"time":812,"what":495},"12:30",{"time":814,"what":815},"14:00","Free — and genuinely so",{"time":500,"what":817},"Abhyanga or shirodhara",{"time":819,"what":820,"note":821},"18:30","Dinner — the eating window closes","Twelve hours after breakfast, without exception.",{"time":823,"what":824,"note":825},"20:30","Lights warm and low","No overhead light in the rooms after this hour.",[827,828,512,829,830],"Seven nights","Daily consultation and treatment","Daily yoga and guided walks","Transfers from Colombo or Kandy",[832,833],"Flights, ETA and insurance — flights quoted separately","Tips",[835,839],{"start":836,"end":837,"note":838,"places":14},"2026-11-14","2026-11-21","Hill-country season",{"start":840,"end":841,"note":842,"places":524},"2027-02-06","2027-02-13","Dry and cool",[844],{"q":845,"a":846},"Seven nights for a sleep problem — really?","A week moves a pattern; it does not fix a disorder. If you have been sleeping badly for years, this is a start and a protocol, not a cure — and if there is any suggestion of apnoea we will send you to a sleep clinic at home first.","photo-1470071459604-3b5ec3a7fe05","Green hill country at dusk",[850,856,863],{"band":545,"label":546,"months":851,"sharing":852,"single":853,"note":855},"May to September",{"amount":33,"currency":34},{"amount":854,"currency":34},2630,"The southwest monsoon on this coast. Rain comes in bursts rather than all day, the sea is rough, and the rates fall by a third. For a treatment stay this matters far less than it sounds.",{"band":554,"label":555,"months":857,"sharing":858,"single":860,"note":862},"April, October and November",{"amount":859,"currency":34},2480,{"amount":861,"currency":34},2980,"Inter-monsoonal and changeable. Warm, green, and quiet.",{"band":563,"label":564,"months":864,"sharing":865,"single":867,"note":869},"December to March",{"amount":866,"currency":34},2880,{"amount":868,"currency":34},3470,"Dry, calm sea, and the coast at its best. Book early — the good rooms at the good houses are gone by September.",[871,873,876],{"nights":573,"label":578,"factor":41,"note":872,"recommended":365},"Enough to break a pattern and go home with a protocol.",{"nights":435,"label":874,"factor":582,"note":875},"The extended reset","Where sleep has been broken for years rather than months.",{"nights":436,"label":581,"factor":877,"note":878},1.84,"The version that changes the baseline rather than the fortnight.",[880,884,887,890],{"value":881,"label":882,"detail":883},"7","nights of sleep tracking","The programme is built on your own data rather than a questionnaire, and it is revised mid-stay on what the data says.",{"value":885,"label":738,"detail":886},"16+","Ayurvedic and physiotherapeutic, chosen from the assessment.",{"value":749,"label":888,"detail":889},"clocks in the rooms","Deliberate. The single most effective intervention in the programme costs nothing.",{"value":891,"label":892,"detail":893},"500","metres of altitude","In a tea valley above Kandy — several degrees cooler than the coast, and it matters for sleep.","Per person for seven nights in a chalet, including all meals from the single kitchen, the sleep assessment and tracking, all prescribed therapies and physiotherapy, the movement timetable and return transfers from Colombo. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":896,"team":897,"consultations":898},"An integrated team — Ayurvedic physicians alongside western-trained doctors, physiotherapists, nutritionists and yoga teachers. That combination is unusual in Sri Lanka and is why the sleep programme here is more than a spa package.","Sixteen chalets in total, so the assessment is genuinely individual.","An opening assessment with sleep tracking, a mid-stay revision and a departure protocol.",{"amount":33,"currency":34},{"amount":854,"currency":34},[902,974,1032],{"slug":159,"name":160,"destinationSlug":54,"area":903,"country":56,"opened":904,"modalities":905,"character":138,"knownFor":906,"why":907,"signature":912,"typicalNights":913,"priceNote":914,"accolades":915,"honest":918,"relationship":128,"confidence":563,"image":919,"imageAlt":920,"gallery":921,"greatFor":928,"whoShouldGo":932,"team":933,"roomTypes":934,"facilities":947,"dining":954,"activities":964,"arrival":970,"destinationName":55,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":973},"Laem Set, the south coast",2005,[58,12],"The anchor property of Asian wellness travel — built around a cave that Buddhist monks used for meditation retreat, and the house most responsible for the modern programme format.",[908,909,910,911],"Opened in 2005 on a site found in 2000, built around a monks’ meditation cave that is still the spiritual centre of the property. The name means \"Lotus Realm\".","Twenty years of running essentially the same programme structure, which in this field is an unusually long evidence base of its own.","A genuinely multidisciplinary team — traditional Chinese medicine, naturopathy, Ayurveda, Thai medicine and psychology — with a consultation that assigns the programme.","A fixture of international best-spa lists for two decades. A Tourism Authority of Thailand Kinnari award is widely reported for the property; we could not confirm it directly, so we flag rather than assert it.","Programme-based stays — sleep, stress and burnout, detox, emotional balance — assigned after a wellness consultation on arrival.","5–14 nights","Upper-mid band for Thailand; programme rates differ substantially from room rates. Indicative.",[916,917],"Two decades on international best-spa and best-retreat lists","Built around a former monks’ meditation cave","The site is steep and built into a hillside, which is beautiful and hard work — ask for a room near the centre if stairs are an issue. The detox programmes include colon hydrotherapy, which we do not sell and whose evidence base is poor; the sleep and burnout programmes are the ones we would actually recommend.","photo-1468413253725-0d5181091126","A palm-lined beach on the Gulf of Thailand",[922,925],{"src":923,"alt":924},"photo-1600334129128-685c5582fd35","Bodywork on a treatment mat",{"src":926,"alt":927},"photo-1547036967-23d11aacaee0","Turquoise water from above",[929,930,203,931],"Emotional balance","Detox and reset","Solo travellers","Somebody who wants a wide, properly staffed wellness programme with real clinical depth behind it, in a place built around a monk’s meditation cave on a hillside. It is the most complete single property in this atlas and the one we send the widest range of people to.","A very large practitioner team by the standards of this market — naturopaths, nurses, nutritionists, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, Ayurvedic therapists, physiotherapists and yoga teachers, across dedicated general, TCM, Ayurvedic and consultation rooms. Programmes open with a wellness consultation and a bio-impedance assessment.",[935,938,941,944],{"name":936,"note":937},"Hillside room","Set among the boulders and vegetation on the slope. Steps are unavoidable at this property and this is the category with most of them.",{"name":939,"note":940},"Suite","Larger, with a terrace, part-way down the hill.",{"name":942,"note":943},"Villa","The upper categories, some with private pools, at the top and bottom of the estate.",{"name":945,"note":946},"Beachfront villa","At the water, and the flattest walking on the property — the category to ask for if stairs are a problem.",[948,949,950,951,952,953],"The monk’s cave, still at the centre of the property","General, TCM, Ayurvedic and consultation treatment rooms","Infrared saunas, steam caverns and plunge pools","Twenty-five metre outdoor pool","Yoga pavilion and fitness centre","Holistic fitness and movement studios",[955,958,961],{"name":956,"note":957},"Soma","The main restaurant, with the programme menus and an à la carte that does not undermine them.",{"name":959,"note":960},"Amrita Café","Lighter, by the water — juices, raw dishes and the detox menus.",{"name":962,"note":963},"The Alchemy Tea Lounge","Herbal infusions built around the programmes, and the best place on the property to sit and read.",[965,966,967,968,969],"A full daily class schedule — yoga, qi gong, meditation, fitness","Seminars and talks","Kayaking","Cooking classes","Guided island walks",{"airport":971,"code":61,"transfer":972},"Samui","About forty minutes across the island; return transfers are included for guests on a wellness programme",{"amount":549,"currency":51},{"slug":140,"name":141,"destinationSlug":20,"area":975,"country":8,"opened":976,"modalities":977,"character":138,"knownFor":978,"why":979,"signature":984,"typicalNights":985,"priceNote":986,"accolades":987,"honest":990,"relationship":128,"confidence":991,"image":992,"imageAlt":993,"greatFor":994,"whoShouldGo":998,"team":999,"roomTypes":1000,"facilities":1010,"dining":1018,"activities":1022,"arrival":1028,"destinationName":21,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":1031},"Malsi Estate, Dehradun",2014,[11,40,12],"The most programme-disciplined retreat in India — it opened in 2014 as Vana with no à la carte menu at all, and was rebranded under Six Senses in 2023.",[980,981,982,983],"It is one of very few properties in the world running Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa and yoga side by side under one clinical team, which lets a physician choose between traditions rather than defend one.","Everything is programme-based: you are assigned a schedule after consultation and there is no spa menu to order from.","Its Ayurveda track is sold from a fourteen-night minimum, which is a more useful signal of seriousness than any listing.","An hour from Rishikesh, so it pairs naturally with a yoga fortnight in the valley.","Minimum-stay programme retreats built around a consultation, with Sowa Rigpa available alongside Ayurveda.","14 nights minimum on the Ayurveda track","Upper band for India, and the Ayurveda programme is priced for stays from 14 days. Indicative — confirm the programme rate, which differs materially from the room rate.",[988,989],"Runs Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa and yoga under one clinical team","Ayurveda programmes sold from a 14-night minimum","The rebrand to Six Senses reportedly changed the management and, by several accounts, some of the austerity that made the original notable — we could not independently confirm the date of the transition. We list it because the clinical structure survives, but if you stayed in 2016 and are expecting exactly that, ask us what has changed before you book.","medium","photo-1476231682828-37e571bc172f","Forest canopy in the Himalayan foothills",[995,996,997,931],"Three traditions under one roof","Long retreats","Silence","Somebody who wants Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa and yoga assessed together rather than picked from a menu — and who is content to wear the same house kurta as everyone else, eat what the kitchen sends and give up the phone in public areas. It is the least hotel-like of the comfortable houses.","Physicians in Ayurveda and in Sowa Rigpa, the Tibetan system, working alongside natural-therapy and yoga teams. The assessment on arrival decides which tradition leads, which is the whole argument for coming here rather than to a single-discipline house.",[1001,1004,1007],{"name":1002,"note":1003},"Vana room","The standard category, in the low blocks in the sal forest. Uniform by design — you are not choosing a view here.",{"name":1005,"note":1006},"Vana suite","Larger, with a sitting area.",{"name":1008,"note":1009},"Two-bedroom suite","For two guests travelling together, both usually in programmes.",[1011,1012,1013,1014,1015,1016,1017],"Separate Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa and natural-therapy wings","Watsu pool","Indoor and outdoor pools","Two yoga shalas","Fitness and movement studios","Meditation cave and library","Twenty-one acres of forest in the Dehradun valley",[1019],{"name":1020,"note":1021},"The dining hall","One kitchen, no à la carte, and portions matched to the programme. Vegetarian, with a lot of thought behind what looks like very little.",[1023,1024,1025,1026,1027],"Yoga and meditation through the day","Forest walks","Talks and workshops","Sound sessions","Deliberately little else",{"airport":1029,"code":26,"transfer":1030},"Dehradun (Jolly Grant)","Around thirty minutes by road, included",{"amount":707,"currency":17},{"slug":153,"name":154,"destinationSlug":45,"area":1033,"country":47,"opened":904,"modalities":1034,"character":138,"knownFor":1035,"why":1036,"signature":1041,"typicalNights":913,"priceNote":1042,"accolades":1043,"honest":1046,"relationship":128,"confidence":563,"image":1047,"imageAlt":1048,"greatFor":1049,"whoShouldGo":1054,"team":1055,"roomTypes":1056,"facilities":1069,"dining":1077,"activities":1084,"arrival":1090,"destinationName":46,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":1093},"Begawan, Payangan, above the Ayung river",[12],"The property that made Bali a serious wellness destination rather than a yoga town — a residential health retreat in jungle above the Ayung.",[1037,1038,1039,1040],"Opened in 1998 as Begawan Giri Estate, acquired by COMO in 2004 and relaunched as COMO Shambhala Estate in December 2005.","Resident specialists rather than a spa team — the model is a consultation followed by an assigned programme, and it predates almost everything comparable in Southeast Asia.","The site itself is the draw: five residences in steep jungle above a river gorge, reached by a path rather than a driveway.","It anchors the COMO Shambhala wellness programme that the group now runs across its properties.","Residential wellness programmes assigned after consultation — Ayurvedic-influenced, yoga-anchored, and heavily hydrotherapy-based.","Upper band for Bali. Indicative.",[1044,1045],"Relaunched as COMO Shambhala Estate, December 2005","Long-standing fixture on international best-retreat lists","It is expensive for Bali, the terrain is genuinely steep — a real consideration if you have knees or a hip — and the wellness is contemporary and eclectic rather than rooted in a single tradition. If you want a lineage, this is not it. If you want the best-run residential retreat on the island, it probably is.","photo-1544644181-1484b3fdfc62","A temple standing on water in Bali",[1050,1051,1052,1053],"Movement and rehabilitation","Nutrition","Jungle setting","Couples","Somebody who wants a physically intelligent programme — assessment, movement, nutrition, hydrotherapy — in a building that sits over a river gorge rather than in a clinic corridor. It is the least medical of the serious houses and the most beautiful of them.","Resident wellness practitioners, nutritionists, movement and yoga specialists, with Ayurvedic and traditional Balinese therapies alongside. Every stay begins with an assessment that sets the programme rather than confirming a package you have already chosen.",[1057,1060,1063,1066],{"name":1058,"note":1059},"Garden room","In the residences on the estate, opening onto the gardens.",{"name":1061,"note":1062},"Terrace suite","Larger, with a private terrace over the Ayung valley.",{"name":1064,"note":1065},"Private villa","One and two bedrooms with pools, for guests who want the estate’s programme and their own front door.",{"name":1067,"note":1068},"Residence","Five houses across the estate, each with a shared living room and staff — the way most long stays are booked.",[1070,1071,1072,1073,1074,1075,1076],"Vitality pools and hydrotherapy","Two yoga pavilions","Movement and pilates studios","Climbing wall and outdoor circuit","Spa with Ayurvedic and Balinese treatment rooms","Sacred spring on the estate","Jungle gorge above the Ayung river",[1078,1081],{"name":1079,"note":1080},"Kudus House","A restored Javanese joglo serving the estate’s Balinese and Indonesian cooking.",{"name":1082,"note":1083},"Glow","The nutrition kitchen — the food the programmes are actually built on, and good enough to eat by choice.",[1085,1086,1087,1088,1089,968],"Yoga, pilates and movement classes","Guided gorge and rice-terrace walks","Cycling","Rafting on the Ayung","Temple and market visits",{"airport":1091,"code":52,"transfer":1092},"Ngurah Rai (Denpasar)","About ninety minutes by road, longer in traffic. Included.",{"amount":1094,"currency":51},3700,1788864741590]