Latin America
Wellness retreats from Brazil
The same houses, read from where you actually are — which of them the flight justifies, and whether the two weeks you can take are the two weeks worth going in.
- Programmes from
- US$1,530
- Destinations that work
- 5
- Departing
- São Paulo Guarulhos · Rio de Janeiro
The bit that decides it
When Brazil can travel, and whether that is the right season
The southern-hemisphere calendar is the advantage nobody uses. Brazilian summer holidays fall in January and February — precisely the dry season in Kerala and Sri Lanka, and the quietest weeks in the Alpine clinics. Your holiday and the best season are the same weeks, which is not true for any European market.
Departing from
- São Paulo Guarulhos
- Rio de Janeiro
- Brasília
Getting there
The shape of the journey from Brazil
- The European cure towns
An overnight from São Paulo to Lisbon, Madrid, Paris or Frankfurt, then a short connection or a train. Brazil has the best European connections in South America.
- India, Sri Lanka and Thailand
Two flights, east through Europe or the Gulf. It is a long way and it is worth doing for a fortnight, not for a week.
- Japan
Two stops whichever direction you take. The longest journey on this map, and the one that most needs a stopover built into it.
Routings describe the shape of the journey, not a timetable. Carriers, times and the sensible connection change every season, so we confirm the actual routing in writing with the quote rather than printing a schedule here that will be wrong by the time you read it.
Worth the flight from Brazil
5 destinations, in the order we would suggest them
India
Kerala
The one place on earth where Ayurveda is at once a licensed medical system, a 120-year-old pharmaceutical industry and a tourism product.
Sri Lanka
The Ayurveda coast
The sixty kilometres of coconut coast that effectively invented the European Ayurveda holiday.
Austria
Tyrol
Where the Mayr cure became a medical category — and where “going to Austria for your gut” came from.
Switzerland
Montreux
The origin point of the entire European longevity-clinic category — and the most expensive week on this atlas.
Germany
Baden-Baden
The archetype of the nineteenth-century European spa, and one of eleven towns UNESCO inscribed together in 2021.
Month by month
Set your leave against the season before you book anything
| Destination | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KeralaIndia | Jan: perfectly good | Feb: perfectly good | Mar: we would talk you out of it | Apr: we would talk you out of it | May: we would talk you out of it | Jun: book this | Jul: book this | Aug: book this | Sep: book this | Oct: perfectly good | Nov: perfectly good | Dec: perfectly good |
| The Ayurveda coastSri Lanka | Jan: book this | Feb: book this | Mar: book this | Apr: book this | May: we would talk you out of it | Jun: we would talk you out of it | Jul: we would talk you out of it | Aug: we would talk you out of it | Sep: we would talk you out of it | Oct: we would talk you out of it | Nov: perfectly good | Dec: book this |
| TyrolAustria | Jan: perfectly good | Feb: perfectly good | Mar: perfectly good | Apr: perfectly good | May: book this | Jun: book this | Jul: book this | Aug: book this | Sep: book this | Oct: perfectly good | Nov: we would talk you out of it | Dec: perfectly good |
| MontreuxSwitzerland | Jan: perfectly good | Feb: perfectly good | Mar: perfectly good | Apr: book this | May: book this | Jun: book this | Jul: we would talk you out of it | Aug: perfectly good | Sep: book this | Oct: book this | Nov: we would talk you out of it | Dec: perfectly good |
| Baden-BadenGermany | Jan: we would talk you out of it | Feb: we would talk you out of it | Mar: perfectly good | Apr: perfectly good | May: book this | Jun: book this | Jul: perfectly good | Aug: perfectly good | Sep: book this | Oct: book this | Nov: we would talk you out of it | Dec: perfectly good |
What it costs
What a stay from Brazil costs
Flagship
Somatheeram Ayurveda Village · 21 nights
Classical Panchakarma
The full five-action sequence with a proper two-week rebuild behind it, at the house that invented the format.
US$3,430demandingSomatheeram Ayurveda Village · 10 nights
Sleep & the nervous system
Wired at midnight, flat at four. The programme works on the clock before it works on the mind.
US$1,530gentleKalari Kovilakom · 14 nights
The palace Panchakarma
A NABH-accredited Ayurvedic hospital inside a restored royal palace, which will not sell you anything shorter than a fortnight.
US$3,010demandingCarnoustie Ayurveda & Wellness Resort · 14 nights
Cycles & hormones
A women-only cohort with women physicians, and a therapy schedule that moves around your cycle rather than the diary.
US$2,220moderateBarberyn Reef · 21 nights
The annual cure
The three-week Ayurvedic cure that Northern Europeans have taken here every year for four decades.
US$3,020gentleSantani Wellness Resort · 7 nights
The sleep reset
A circadian reset at altitude in the Sri Lankan hill country, with cool nights doing half the work.
US$2,380gentle
Prices are shown in US dollars and are indicative. We confirm the figure in writing before you commit to anything, and it is the written quote that binds — not this page.
Booking from somewhere else
We write these for every market we sell to
Tell us when you can travel
Give us the two weeks you can actually take and we will tell you which of these houses is any good in them — or that you should wait for a better month.
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