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The terrain is genuinely part of the programme, and genuinely a consideration if you have knees.",[597,598,599,600],"A first residential retreat","Anyone who wants the decisions made for them","Guests who will actually use a hydrotherapy circuit twice a day","Travellers who want Bali without Ubud town",[602,603,604],"Anyone with significant knee, hip or mobility limitation — the site is steep and stepped","Guests wanting a single tradition; the approach here is deliberately eclectic","November to March, the wet season",[606,614,621],{"title":607,"days":608,"body":609,"points":610},"Consultation","Day 1","A wellness consultation and physical assessment, then a programme assigned for the week.",[611,612,613],"Consultation and assessment","Programme assigned","Hydrotherapy circuit introduced",{"title":615,"days":616,"body":617,"points":618},"The programme","Days 2–6","Daily bodywork or Ayurvedic treatment, twice-daily practice, hydrotherapy, and a kitchen that treats food as part of the assignment.",[619,462,620],"Daily treatment","Prescribed nutrition",{"title":622,"days":467,"body":623,"points":624},"Continuation","A written continuation plan and a follow-up at four weeks.",[625,626],"Written plan","Four-week follow-up","Four hours are fixed; the hydrotherapy circuit is open all day and most guests use it twice.",[629,630,633,635,639,640,643,645,648],{"time":475,"what":476},{"time":478,"what":631,"note":632},"Morning practice","Yoga or a guided walk down to the river.",{"time":634,"what":483},"08:30",{"time":636,"what":637,"note":638},"10:00","Treatment","Per the assignment made at your arrival consultation.",{"time":489,"what":490},{"time":492,"what":641,"note":642},"Hydrotherapy circuit","Vitality pool, plunge, steam. Twenty minutes, twice a day.",{"time":496,"what":644},"Second treatment or a class",{"time":646,"what":647},"18:00","Restorative practice",{"time":649,"what":504},"19:30",[651,652,653,509,654,655],"Seven nights, residence room","Arrival consultation and assessment","Daily treatments per the assigned programme","Twice-daily practice and hydrotherapy","Transfers from Denpasar",[657,658,659],"Flights and visa — flights quoted separately","Insurance","Treatments outside the assigned programme",[661,665],{"start":662,"end":663,"note":664,"places":519},"2026-09-07","2026-09-14","Dry season",{"start":666,"end":667,"note":668,"places":394},"2027-05-10","2027-05-17","Start of the dry season",[670],{"q":671,"a":672},"Is it worth the price for Bali?","It is roughly three times a good Ubud retreat and it is not three times better. What you are buying is the setting, the consultation-led structure and a two-decade operating record. If the budget matters more than the address, Fivelements gives you a great deal of the same for far less.","photo-1544644181-1484b3fdfc62","A temple standing on water in Bali",[676,683,690],{"band":531,"label":532,"months":677,"sharing":678,"single":680,"note":682},"February, March, October and November",{"amount":679,"currency":51},3700,{"amount":681,"currency":51},4450,"The wet months, which in Ubud means an afternoon downpour rather than a washout. Green, cheap and quiet.",{"band":539,"label":540,"months":684,"sharing":685,"single":687,"note":689},"April to June and September",{"amount":686,"currency":51},4200,{"amount":688,"currency":51},5040,"The best combination of weather and price on the island, and the months we book most.",{"band":548,"label":549,"months":691,"sharing":692,"single":694,"note":696},"July, August, December and January",{"amount":693,"currency":51},4870,{"amount":695,"currency":51},5880,"European and Australian holidays. Excellent weather, full houses, and the highest rates of the year.",[698,700,705],{"nights":436,"label":589,"factor":41,"note":699,"recommended":365},"The house's standard, and the length its programmes are designed at.",{"nights":701,"label":702,"factor":703,"note":704},10,"Ten nights",1.38,"Where the assessment finds a movement or rehabilitation issue worth working through properly.",{"nights":560,"label":561,"factor":706,"note":707},1.86,"For guests rebuilding after injury or illness.",[709,713,716,720],{"value":710,"label":711,"detail":712},"14+","hours of treatment","Bodywork, hydrotherapy and Ayurvedic or Balinese therapies as the assessment directs.",{"value":566,"label":714,"detail":715},"hours of personal training","Movement, pilates or the outdoor circuit, one to one.",{"value":717,"label":718,"detail":719},"3","hours of consultation","Assessment, nutrition and the departure plan.",{"value":721,"label":722,"detail":723},"2","kitchens","Glow for the nutrition menus and Kudus House for Balinese cooking — the rare wellness kitchen you would eat at by choice.","Per person for seven nights, including the room, all meals from the nutrition kitchen, the assessed programme of treatments and movement, use of the hydrotherapy facilities, the daily class timetable and return transfers from Denpasar. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":726,"team":727,"consultations":728},"Resident wellness practitioners, nutritionists and movement specialists, with Ayurvedic and traditional Balinese therapists alongside.","Every stay opens with an assessment that sets the programme, rather than confirming a package chosen in advance.","An opening assessment, a mid-week review and a departure consultation with a written plan.",{"amount":679,"currency":51},{"amount":681,"currency":51},{"slug":425,"name":732,"resortSlug":156,"modalitySlug":12,"hook":733,"intention":434,"concerns":734,"nights":370,"groupSize":735,"intensity":437,"overview":736,"suitedTo":739,"notSuitedTo":743,"phases":747,"dayShape":769,"sampleDay":770,"included":792,"excluded":796,"departures":797,"faqs":804,"image":808,"imageAlt":809,"bands":810,"durations":825,"counted":832,"priceIncludes":848,"care":849,"price":853,"singlePrice":854,"resortName":157,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":45,"destinationName":46,"country":47},"The Balinese healing week","A respectful, well-mediated encounter with a living tradition — and honest that it is not medicine.",[213,269],8,[737,738],"Balinese healing sessions with named practitioners in the usada tradition, paired with yoga, water purification and a plant-based kitchen. Built around the tradition rather than importing a wellness concept onto it.","Five nights is the shape of it. This is a retreat rather than a cure, and the house does not pretend otherwise.",[740,741,742],"Anyone curious about Balinese healing who wants it handled respectfully","Guests who want a short, gentle first retreat","Plant-based eaters, who are catered for as standard rather than as an exception",[744,745,746],"Anyone looking for clinical treatment — this is not medicine and we will not sell it as such","Guests wanting a long programme; five to seven nights is the format","Sceptics who will find the ceremonial framing irritating rather than interesting",[748,755,762],{"title":749,"days":451,"body":750,"points":751},"Arriving","An orientation to the tradition and its boundaries, the first healing session, and the plant-based kitchen.",[752,753,754],"Orientation to usada","First healing session","Water purification",{"title":458,"days":756,"body":757,"points":758},"Days 3–4","Daily sessions with the practitioners, yoga, and time on the river.",[759,760,761],"Daily practitioner sessions","Daily yoga","Plant-based kitchen",{"title":763,"days":764,"body":765,"points":766},"Closing","Day 5","A closing session and a frank conversation about what does and does not transfer home.",[767,768],"Closing session","What transfers, discussed honestly","Two to three hours are fixed. It is the gentlest schedule here.",[771,773,776,778,782,784,787,791],{"time":478,"what":772},"Wake to the river",{"time":774,"what":775},"07:30","Yoga in the bamboo shala",{"time":482,"what":777},"Breakfast — plant-based",{"time":779,"what":780,"note":781},"11:00","Healing session","With a named practitioner, roughly ninety minutes.",{"time":783,"what":490},"13:00",{"time":785,"what":493,"note":786},"14:30","Most guests sit by the water.",{"time":788,"what":789,"note":790},"17:00","Water purification or bodywork","On two days of the five.",{"time":503,"what":504},[793,794,795,760,655],"Five nights","Daily healing sessions with named practitioners","All plant-based meals",[657,658],[798,801],{"start":799,"end":800,"note":664,"places":370},"2026-09-20","2026-09-25",{"start":802,"end":803,"note":664,"places":735},"2027-04-18","2027-04-23",[805],{"q":806,"a":807},"Is this the \"real\" Balinese healer experience?","It is a mediated one, and that is the honest description. A balian treats their own community, and the tourist trade in healer visits has done real damage to that. What is on offer here is a respectful encounter arranged with practitioners who have chosen to work this way — not a private audience with a village healer.","photo-1518173946687-a4c8892bbd9f","Backlit tropical leaves",[811,815,820],{"band":531,"label":532,"months":677,"sharing":812,"single":813,"note":682},{"amount":50,"currency":51},{"amount":814,"currency":51},2490,{"band":539,"label":540,"months":684,"sharing":816,"single":818,"note":689},{"amount":817,"currency":51},2350,{"amount":819,"currency":51},2820,{"band":548,"label":549,"months":691,"sharing":821,"single":823,"note":696},{"amount":822,"currency":51},2730,{"amount":824,"currency":51},3290,[826,829],{"nights":370,"label":827,"factor":41,"note":828,"recommended":365},"The healing week","Short by the standards of this atlas, and honestly so — this is an emotional and cultural programme rather than a medical one.",{"nights":436,"label":506,"factor":830,"note":831},1.34,"The version with room to let each session settle before the next.",[833,837,840,844],{"value":834,"label":835,"detail":836},"5","healing sessions","With Balinese healers in the usada tradition, not with spa therapists working from a menu.",{"value":578,"label":838,"detail":839},"water purification","The melukat ritual on the river, done properly and explained beforehand.",{"value":841,"label":842,"detail":843},"10","hours of yoga and movement","In the bamboo pavilion over the Ayung.",{"value":845,"label":846,"detail":847},"100","per cent plant-based","The kitchen at Sakti is largely raw and is a destination in its own right.","Per person for five nights in a riverside suite, including all meals from the plant-based kitchen, the Balinese healing sessions, the water purification, daily yoga and return transfers from Denpasar. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":850,"team":851,"consultations":852},"Balinese healers working in the usada tradition alongside the house's own therapists. The property is small enough that these are real relationships rather than a rota.","There is no physician and nothing is diagnosed. This is a cultural and emotional programme and the page says so rather than implying otherwise.","An opening conversation, a session each day, and a closing one.",{"amount":50,"currency":51},{"amount":814,"currency":51},[856,935,997,1053],{"slug":136,"name":137,"destinationSlug":20,"area":857,"country":8,"opened":858,"modalities":859,"character":138,"knownFor":860,"why":861,"signature":866,"typicalNights":867,"priceNote":868,"accolades":869,"honest":873,"relationship":128,"confidence":548,"image":874,"imageAlt":875,"gallery":876,"greatFor":881,"whoShouldGo":886,"team":887,"roomTypes":888,"facilities":908,"dining":917,"activities":924,"arrival":931,"destinationName":21,"programmeCount":23,"fromPrice":934},"Narendra Nagar, Tehri Garhwal",2000,[11,12],"India’s first destination spa, on the Maharaja of Tehri Garhwal’s palace estate above the Ganga valley — and for twenty years the most decorated wellness address in Asia.",[862,863,864,865],"Named the world’s number one destination spa by Condé Nast Traveler readers repeatedly between 2005 and 2020, and by Travel + Leisure in 2008 — a run of recognition no other property in this atlas matches.","Roughly a hundred acres of palace estate at around 1,000 m, with a Viceregal Palace building added in the 1910s and views down the valley to Rishikesh.","It runs genuine programme structures — Ayurveda, yoga, detox, weight, stress — with physicians and a consultation on arrival, rather than a spa menu.","It is the property that made \"wellness\" a luxury category in India, and everything built since has been measured against it.","Programme-based stays of 7 to 21 nights combining Ayurveda, yoga and Vedanta with a Western spa infrastructure.","7–21 nights","Among the higher price bands in India, varying widely by season and programme. Indicative only.",[870,871,872],"Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice — world’s No.1 destination spa (2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2019, 2020)","Travel + Leisure — No.1 destination spa (2008)","India’s first destination spa (opened 2000)","It is a luxury hotel that does wellness extremely well, not a clinic. If you want a medically austere Panchakarma with nothing else in it, Palakkad is the more honest answer and costs a good deal less. What Ananda gives you that Palakkad cannot is comfort, a view and a properly run spa — and for many people that is what makes a three-week programme survivable.","photo-1506905925346-21bda4d32df4","Himalayan peaks above a wooded valley",[877,880],{"src":878,"alt":879},"photo-1439853949127-fa647821eba0","A still lake in the foothills",{"src":427,"alt":528},[882,883,884,885],"Ayurveda with hotel standards","Yoga and Vedanta","Weight and detox","First-timers who want comfort","Somebody who wants a serious, supervised programme and is not prepared to give up a properly made bed to get it. Ananda is the point where a five-star hotel and an Ayurvedic clinic genuinely meet, and it is the house we send people to when the medicine matters and so does the plumbing.","Ayurvedic physicians, yoga and Vedanta teachers, and a large treatment team across a spa of about 25,000 square feet with twenty-four treatment rooms. Every programme opens with a physician’s consultation and the prescription is revised through the stay.",[889,893,896,899,902,905],{"name":890,"size":891,"note":892},"Deluxe palace-view room","about 45 sqm","In the Maharaja’s palace grounds, looking back at the building.",{"name":894,"size":891,"note":895},"Deluxe valley-view room","The Ganges valley and Rishikesh below. The room most programmes are quoted in and the one to take.",{"name":897,"note":898},"Deluxe suite","A separate sitting room and a larger terrace.",{"name":900,"note":901},"Garden and Ananda suites","The larger categories in the main building.",{"name":903,"note":904},"Viceregal suite","The palace’s grandest room, with the history to match.",{"name":906,"note":907},"Ananda villas","One and two bedrooms with private pools, in the sal forest.",[909,910,911,912,913,914,915,916],"A spa of about 25,000 sq ft with twenty-four treatment rooms","Hydrotherapy pools and thermal suite","Outdoor heated lap pool","Two yoga pavilions","Fitness centre","Six-hole golf course","Meditation pavilions in the sal forest","A hundred acres of estate",[918,921],{"name":919,"note":920},"The Restaurant","Calorie-counted, dosha-appropriate wellness cuisine, with the prescription driving the plate. The kitchen will build to a programme rather than offer a menu.",{"name":922,"note":923},"The Tea Lounge","Himalayan teas and the between-meal preparations, in the old palace drawing room.",[925,926,927,928,929,930],"Yoga, pranayama and Vedanta talks daily","Guided treks in the sal forest","Rafting on the Ganga in season","Ganga aarti at Rishikesh","Cookery demonstrations","Golf",{"airport":932,"code":26,"transfer":933},"Dehradun (Jolly Grant)","About an hour by road, included",{"amount":25,"currency":17},{"slug":153,"name":154,"destinationSlug":45,"area":936,"country":47,"opened":937,"modalities":938,"character":138,"knownFor":939,"why":940,"signature":945,"typicalNights":946,"priceNote":947,"accolades":948,"honest":951,"relationship":128,"confidence":548,"image":673,"imageAlt":674,"greatFor":952,"whoShouldGo":957,"team":958,"roomTypes":959,"facilities":972,"dining":979,"activities":986,"arrival":993,"destinationName":46,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":996},"Begawan, Payangan, above the Ayung river",2005,[12],"The property that made Bali a serious wellness destination rather than a yoga town — a residential health retreat in jungle above the Ayung.",[941,942,943,944],"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.","5–14 nights","Upper band for Bali. Indicative.",[949,950],"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.",[953,954,955,956],"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.",[960,963,966,969],{"name":961,"note":962},"Garden room","In the residences on the estate, opening onto the gardens.",{"name":964,"note":965},"Terrace suite","Larger, with a private terrace over the Ayung valley.",{"name":967,"note":968},"Private villa","One and two bedrooms with pools, for guests who want the estate’s programme and their own front door.",{"name":970,"note":971},"Residence","Five houses across the estate, each with a shared living room and staff — the way most long stays are booked.",[973,912,974,975,976,977,978],"Vitality pools and hydrotherapy","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",[980,983],{"name":981,"note":982},"Kudus House","A restored Javanese joglo serving the estate’s Balinese and Indonesian cooking.",{"name":984,"note":985},"Glow","The nutrition kitchen — the food the programmes are actually built on, and good enough to eat by choice.",[987,988,989,990,991,992],"Yoga, pilates and movement classes","Guided gorge and rice-terrace walks","Cycling","Rafting on the Ayung","Temple and market visits","Cooking classes",{"airport":994,"code":52,"transfer":995},"Ngurah Rai (Denpasar)","About ninety minutes by road, longer in traffic. Included.",{"amount":679,"currency":51},{"slug":198,"name":199,"destinationSlug":117,"area":998,"country":119,"modalities":999,"character":138,"knownFor":1000,"why":1001,"signature":1006,"typicalNights":1007,"priceNote":1008,"accolades":1009,"honest":1011,"relationship":151,"confidence":1012,"image":1013,"imageAlt":1014,"greatFor":1015,"whoShouldGo":1019,"team":1020,"roomTypes":1021,"facilities":1030,"dining":1037,"activities":1044,"arrival":1050,"destinationName":118,"programmeCount":42},"Playa Guiones, Nosara",[12,73],"The anchor of Nosara’s twenty-year yoga community, and the most established base on the Blue Zone coast.",[1002,1003,1004,1005],"Sits at Playa Guiones, the centre of a surfing and yoga community that has been building since the 1990s — the teaching depth here is real and long-standing.","Certified sustainable operation with its own organic garden, which in Guanacaste is a meaningful rather than decorative claim.","Ninety minutes from the inland Blue Zone cantons, so a fortnight can genuinely combine the villages with a daily practice.","Small enough that the yoga is the point rather than an amenity.","Daily yoga at the centre of the Nosara community, paired with trips inland to the Blue Zone cantons.","7–14 nights","Mid band; high season December to April carries a substantial premium. Indicative.",[1010],"Long-standing anchor of the Nosara yoga community","Nosara is on the coast and the Blue Zone is inland — this is the base, not the phenomenon, and a hotel forty kilometres from the cantons cannot honestly sell you the longevity story. Come for the practice and the community, take a few days inland, and treat the demography as context rather than product.","medium","photo-1545205597-3d9d02c29597","A group practising together on a Pacific beach at sunset",[1016,1017,1018,956],"Yoga and surf together","The Blue Zone","A gentler first retreat","Somebody who wants a yoga stay with an ocean in front of it and the Nicoya longevity story around it, and who is not looking for a clinic. It is the most relaxed house in this atlas and the least medical, and the page is clear about which of those it is.","Yoga faculty and spa therapists, with nutrition guidance built into the retreat programmes. There is no physician and no diagnosis, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise.",[1022,1024,1027],{"name":961,"note":1023},"In the low buildings around the gardens, a short walk from Playa Guiones.",{"name":1025,"note":1026},"Suite","Larger, with a terrace and an outdoor shower.",{"name":1028,"note":1029},"Bungalow","Free-standing, for couples and longer stays.",[1031,1032,1033,1034,1035,1036],"Two open-air yoga shalas","Salt-water pool","Spa treatment rooms","Surf shop and board storage","Juice bar","Three hundred metres from Playa Guiones",[1038,1041],{"name":1039,"note":1040},"The Harmony Restaurant","Largely organic, much of it from the Nicoya peninsula itself — beans, maize, squash and fish. The Blue Zone diet as it is actually eaten rather than as it is packaged.",{"name":1042,"note":1043},"The juice bar","Cold-pressed, and the cleanse programmes run through it.",[1045,1046,1047,1048,1049],"Yoga several times daily","Surf lessons at Guiones","Turtle nesting at Ostional in season","Mangrove and estuary walks","Finca visits inland",{"airport":1051,"code":122,"transfer":1052},"Liberia (Daniel Oduber Quirós)","Two to three hours by road; domestic flights to Nosara run daily in season",{"slug":162,"name":163,"destinationSlug":54,"area":1054,"country":56,"modalities":1055,"character":138,"knownFor":1056,"why":1057,"signature":1062,"typicalNights":946,"priceNote":1063,"accolades":1064,"honest":1066,"relationship":128,"confidence":1012,"image":1067,"imageAlt":1068,"greatFor":1069,"whoShouldGo":1073,"team":1074,"roomTypes":1075,"facilities":1084,"dining":1090,"activities":1094,"arrival":1100,"destinationName":55,"programmeCount":41,"fromPrice":1103},"Choeng Mon, north-east Samui",[58,12],"The house that made structured detox and yoga affordable — and the reason Samui became shorthand for the detox holiday.",[1058,1059,1060,1061],"It priced a serious programme at roughly a third of what the flagship properties charge, which is what actually spread the format. We could not verify a published opening year and do not give one.","A large, genuinely busy yoga schedule alongside the detox programmes, so the two halves support each other.","Moroccan-styled, compact and social — it is the one property here where guests tend to leave with people’s numbers.","Consistent, unglamorous delivery of the same programmes for well over a decade.","Multi-day detox and cleanse programmes paired with an extensive daily yoga and Pilates schedule.","The best value of the famous Samui houses. Indicative.",[1065],"Published retreats run from 6 nights to a 31-night lifestyle-change programme","The detox programmes are built on colon hydrotherapy and juice fasting, and we are on record that the evidence for the former is poor and the risks are real. We list the house for its yoga and its structure, not for the colonics, and we will say so if you ask us to book it.","photo-1506126613408-eca07ce68773","Sitting practice at a window at sunset",[1070,367,1071,1072],"Detox and fasting","Value","A first wellness stay","Somebody who wants a real detox or yoga programme at a price that does not require a decision, and who does not need a five-star room to get it. It is the most accessible serious house in this atlas and it earns its place on exactly that basis.","Wellness consultants, naturopathic and detox specialists, and a large yoga faculty running a full daily schedule. Programmes include a consultation and are adjusted, but the supervision is lighter than at the medical houses and the page should say so.",[1076,1079,1082],{"name":1077,"note":1078},"Deluxe room","Moroccan-inflected, colourful, compact. The standard and perfectly good.",{"name":1080,"note":1081},"Studio","Larger, with a sitting area.",{"name":1025,"note":1083},"The top category, with a terrace.",[1085,1086,1087,1088,1033,913,1089],"Detox and colonic facilities","Two yoga studios with a full daily schedule","Pilates reformer studio","Swimming pool","Infrared sauna",[1091],{"name":1092,"note":1093},"Love Kitchen","The health kitchen — juices, raw and cooked programme food, and an à la carte that is genuinely good rather than merely permitted.",[1095,1096,1097,1098,1099],"A very full yoga and fitness timetable","Pilates","Muay thai","Meditation and breathwork","Beach walks at Chaweng",{"airport":1101,"code":61,"transfer":1102},"Samui","Fifteen minutes, and the closest property to the airport in this atlas",{"amount":60,"currency":51},1788864741930]