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Wellness traditions
How each tradition shapes your day, where it comes from, how long it takes and what professional standards apply. Regulation varies by country — where a discipline is unregulated, we say so.
India’s licensed system of medicine, practised as medicine
A licensed medical system in India. Physicians hold a BAMS — five and a half years including a clinical internship — and are registered with a state medical council. In most other countries it is a complementary therapy with no equivalent protection, which is precisely why where you go matters.
Read the Ayurveda guide
A lineage, a teacher, and enough consecutive days to matter
Not regulated anywhere. Anybody may call themselves a yoga teacher, and a two-hundred-hour certificate can be bought in a fortnight. We list schools by lineage — Krishnamacharya, Sivananda, Bihar, Iyengar, Ashtanga — and name the teacher and their years on every page, because that is the only signal that carries any weight.
Read the Yoga guide
Himalayan medicine, delivered by the state in Bhutan
One of very few countries where traditional medicine is fully integrated into the public health service: Bhutan runs Sowa Rigpa units inside government hospitals, trains practitioners at a national institute, and manufactures the medicines itself from high-altitude plants.
It depends on what you want from the trip, how long you have and when. A specialist will help you choose, free.
