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In our experience it is the difference between a good fortnight and a changed year.","Per person for twenty-one nights, including the room, all meals cooked to your prescription, every prescribed therapy, all medicines during the stay, three months of preparations to take home, return airport transfers and the follow-up consultation. Flights are quoted separately and we can hold them with the programme.",{"supervision":607,"team":608,"consultations":609},"A resident BAMS physician — five and a half years of training including a clinical internship, registered with a statutory council — examines you on arrival and reviews you every morning of the stay.","Two therapists work on you together and are assigned for the whole stay rather than rostered daily. The fourth abhyanga with someone who knows your body is a different treatment from the first.","Daily, plus arrival and departure examinations, and a video follow-up six weeks after you get home.",{"amount":223,"currency":17},{"amount":554,"currency":17},{"slug":613,"name":614,"resortSlug":125,"modalitySlug":11,"hook":615,"intention":202,"concerns":616,"nights":617,"groupSize":576,"intensity":618,"overview":619,"suitedTo":622,"notSuitedTo":627,"phases":630,"dayShape":654,"sampleDay":655,"included":687,"excluded":694,"departures":697,"faqs":709,"image":713,"imageAlt":714,"bands":715,"durations":730,"counted":738,"priceIncludes":751,"care":752,"price":756,"singlePrice":757,"resortName":126,"resortCharacter":127,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8},"somatheeram-sleep","Sleep & the nervous system","Wired at midnight, flat at four. The programme works on the clock before it works on the mind.",[202],10,"gentle",[620,621],"Shamana rather than purification — the palliative line of Ayurveda, which uses diet, herbs and routine and leaves the purgation out entirely. It is the programme we sell most of, and the right first Ayurvedic experience for the great majority of people.","Shirodhara most evenings, dinner finished by seven, lamps down at nine, and a serious conversation on day eight about what happens when you go home and the phone comes back. That last part decides whether any of it lasts.",[623,624,625,626],"Difficulty falling asleep, or waking at three and not returning","A first Ayurvedic programme","Anyone with ten nights rather than twenty-one","People who talk or decide for a living and cannot stop doing it at night",[628,629],"Diagnosed sleep apnoea — that needs investigating properly at home first","Anyone hoping to come off prescribed sleep medication during the stay. That is your own doctor’s decision and takes longer than ten nights",[631,639,647],{"title":632,"days":633,"body":634,"points":635},"Re-anchoring the clock","Days 1–3","Fixed meal and lamp times from the first evening, an early light dinner, and no screens after eight. Most guests sleep badly for two nights and then unusually well.",[636,637,638],"Fixed timings from day one","Early light dinner","Screens surrendered at eight, if you ask us to",{"title":640,"days":641,"body":642,"points":643},"Treatment","Days 4–8","Shirodhara most evenings, abhyanga daily, herbs chosen for your constitution, and yoga nidra rather than asana in the afternoon.",[644,645,646],"Shirodhara, prescribed not chosen","Daily abhyanga","Yoga nidra",{"title":648,"days":649,"body":650,"points":651},"Taking it home","Days 9–10","A written evening routine built around your actual household, and an honest conversation about which parts of it will survive.",[652,653],"Written protocol","Six-week follow-up call","Roughly three hours are fixed. The evenings are the programme; the days are yours.",[656,660,664,667,671,673,676,680,683],{"time":657,"what":658,"note":659},"06:30","Wake and warm water","Later than the purification programmes — the point here is regularity, not austerity.",{"time":661,"what":662,"note":663},"07:00","Gentle practice and pranayama","Forty minutes, weighted towards long exhalations.",{"time":477,"what":665,"note":666},"Breakfast","Warm, cooked, and at the same hour every day.",{"time":668,"what":669,"note":670},"10:00","Abhyanga","An hour of warm-oil massage, then rest.",{"time":485,"what":672},"Lunch — the main meal",{"time":489,"what":674,"note":675},"Free","Walk, read, swim. Nothing scheduled.",{"time":677,"what":678,"note":679},"17:00","Shirodhara","The warm-oil thread on the forehead, most evenings, prescribed rather than chosen.",{"time":497,"what":681,"note":682},"Dinner, finished by seven","The single most important item on this list.",{"time":684,"what":685,"note":686},"21:00","Lamps down","Screens surrendered at eight if you have asked us to hold you to it.",[688,689,690,691,692,693],"Ten nights, sea-facing room","Daily consultation","All therapies and medicines","All meals","Airport transfers","Six-week follow-up",[695,696],"Flights, visa and insurance — flights quoted separately","Tips",[698,702,705],{"start":699,"end":700,"note":701,"places":396},"2026-09-18","2026-09-28","Runs continuously",{"start":703,"end":704,"note":701,"places":394},"2026-10-16","2026-10-26",{"start":706,"end":707,"note":708,"places":370},"2026-12-04","2026-12-14","Peak season",[710],{"q":711,"a":712},"Is shirodhara really doing anything?","The evidence is modest and mostly on anxiety measures rather than sleep architecture. What the programme actually rests on is the timing — the fixed early dinner, the dark evenings and the routine. We would rather tell you that than sell you the oil.","photo-1508672019048-805c876b67e2","A jetty on still water before dawn",[716,720,725],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":551,"sharing":717,"single":718,"note":555},{"amount":16,"currency":17},{"amount":719,"currency":17},154000,{"band":557,"label":558,"months":559,"sharing":721,"single":723,"note":564},{"amount":722,"currency":17},145000,{"amount":724,"currency":17},174000,{"band":566,"label":567,"months":568,"sharing":726,"single":728,"note":573},{"amount":727,"currency":17},168000,{"amount":729,"currency":17},203000,[731,734],{"nights":617,"label":732,"factor":41,"note":733,"recommended":365},"The short course","Long enough for the nervous system to change register and short enough to take out of one year's leave.",{"nights":576,"label":735,"factor":736,"note":737},"The fortnight",1.34,"The version we recommend where sleep has been broken for more than a year. The extra four nights are all consolidation.",[739,742,745,749],{"value":740,"label":591,"detail":741},"20+","Shirodhara and abhyanga daily, timed to the evening rather than the morning, because that is the point.",{"value":743,"label":595,"detail":744},"10","Daily review of sleep, digestion and mood, with the prescription adjusted each morning.",{"value":746,"label":747,"detail":748},"6","weeks of preparations","To take home, with a written night routine that matters more than the medicines.",{"value":602,"label":603,"detail":750},"Included, by video.","Per person for ten nights, including the room, prescribed meals, all therapies, medicines during the stay, six weeks of preparations to take home and return airport transfers. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":753,"team":754,"consultations":755},"A resident BAMS physician examines you on arrival and reviews you daily.","A dedicated therapist pair for the stay. Shirodhara is a two-person treatment done properly and a one-person treatment done badly.","Daily, with arrival and departure examinations and a six-week video follow-up.",{"amount":16,"currency":17},{"amount":719,"currency":17},{"slug":759,"name":760,"resortSlug":130,"modalitySlug":11,"hook":761,"intention":406,"concerns":762,"nights":576,"groupSize":617,"intensity":409,"overview":763,"suitedTo":766,"notSuitedTo":771,"phases":775,"dayShape":800,"sampleDay":801,"included":830,"excluded":837,"departures":839,"faqs":852,"image":856,"imageAlt":857,"bands":858,"durations":873,"counted":885,"priceIncludes":900,"care":901,"price":905,"singlePrice":906,"resortName":131,"resortCharacter":127,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8},"kalari-kovilakom-panchakarma","The palace Panchakarma","A NABH-accredited Ayurvedic hospital inside a restored royal palace, which will not sell you anything shorter than a fortnight.",[230,236,242],[764,765],"Fourteen nights is the shortest stay the house sells, which tells you everything about how it regards the programme. Classical Panchakarma under NABH accreditation — an Indian hospital standard rather than a tourism one — in an early-twentieth-century Vengunad palace restored rather than themed.","No alcohol, no meat, no coffee, no phones in the public rooms, and a strictly vegetarian diet prescribed individually. Guests who arrive expecting a palace hotel with treatments attached are unhappy within a day. Guests who arrive for the treatment tend to come back.",[767,768,769,770],"You want the most clinically accredited Ayurveda available in India","You can accept a genuinely austere fortnight — no alcohol, no meat, no phones in public","A second or later Ayurvedic programme, where you know how you respond","You would rather have ten guests than a hundred",[772,773,774],"A first Ayurvedic experience — the ten-night shamana programme at Chowara is the right start","Pregnancy or breastfeeding","Anyone travelling with a non-treating companion; there is nothing here for them",[776,784,792],{"title":777,"days":778,"body":779,"points":780},"Examination and preparation","Days 1–6","Full examination and pathology on arrival, then internal and external oleation with a narrowing diet. Nothing is decided in advance of the physician seeing you.",[781,782,783],"NABH-standard clinical intake","Snehana and swedana daily","Individually prescribed vegetarian diet",{"title":785,"days":786,"body":787,"points":788},"Purification","Days 7–9","Virechana on a single supervised day, with basti where indicated on either side, and hourly observation.",[789,790,791],"One supervised purgation day","Basti series where indicated","Two days cleared afterwards",{"title":793,"days":794,"body":795,"points":796},"Rebuild","Days 10–14","Structured re-feeding, rasayana preparations, and a written protocol for the three months that follow.",[797,798,799],"Samsarjana krama re-feeding","Rasayana preparations","Closing examination and protocol","Six hours are fixed and the rest is silence. There is no alternative menu and no à la carte anything.",[802,805,809,813,815,819,821,824,826],{"time":803,"what":804},"05:30","Wake with the bell",{"time":806,"what":807,"note":808},"06:00","Yoga and chanting","In the palace courtyard, before the heat.",{"time":810,"what":811,"note":812},"07:15","Physician's round","Pulse and tongue, then the day's prescription written.",{"time":477,"what":665,"note":814},"Prescribed individually. Whatever arrives is what you eat.",{"time":816,"what":817,"note":818},"09:00","Therapy block","Two to three hours with the same therapist pair for the whole fortnight.",{"time":485,"what":820},"Lunch",{"time":489,"what":822,"note":823},"Rest — enforced","Guests are asked to stay in their rooms. It is not a suggestion.",{"time":493,"what":825},"Second therapy or steam",{"time":827,"what":828,"note":829},"18:00","Evening prayer, then dinner","Finished before seven; the palace goes quiet at nine.",[831,832,833,834,835,836,693],"Fourteen nights, palace room","Daily physician consultation and arrival pathology","All therapies, medicines and preparations","All meals, individually prescribed","Yoga and meditation","Transfers from Coimbatore or Kochi",[695,696,838],"Anything not on the prescribed diet — there is no alternative menu",[840,844,848],{"start":841,"end":842,"note":843,"places":13},"2026-08-08","2026-08-22","Karkidakam",{"start":845,"end":846,"note":530,"places":847},"2026-10-03","2026-10-17",7,{"start":849,"end":850,"note":851,"places":617},"2027-02-06","2027-02-20","Dry season",[853],{"q":854,"a":855},"What does NABH accreditation actually mean?","It is the Indian national hospital accreditation standard — the same board that accredits conventional hospitals — covering clinical protocols, records, infection control and patient safety. Very few Ayurvedic properties hold it, and it is a materially stronger signal than any tourism classification.","photo-1596040033229-a9821ebd058d","Ayurvedic herbs and preparations",[859,863,868],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":551,"sharing":860,"single":861,"note":555},{"amount":234,"currency":17},{"amount":862,"currency":17},302000,{"band":557,"label":558,"months":559,"sharing":864,"single":866,"note":564},{"amount":865,"currency":17},285000,{"amount":867,"currency":17},342000,{"band":566,"label":567,"months":568,"sharing":869,"single":871,"note":573},{"amount":870,"currency":17},331000,{"amount":872,"currency":17},399000,[874,877,881],{"nights":576,"label":875,"factor":41,"note":876,"recommended":365},"The minimum the house sells","Kalari Kovilakom will not take a booking shorter than this, and the refusal is the clearest signal in the atlas that the programme is the product.",{"nights":408,"label":878,"factor":879,"note":880},"The full course",1.42,"Three weeks, with the rebuild the fortnight compresses.",{"nights":584,"label":882,"factor":883,"note":884},"The classical month",1.85,"What the physicians would prescribe if the calendar were not a consideration.",[886,889,892,896],{"value":887,"label":591,"detail":888},"34+","In twelve treatment rooms serving nineteen guest rooms — a ratio no resort in this atlas can match.",{"value":890,"label":595,"detail":891},"14","Daily, in a NABH-accredited facility. That is the Indian national hospital accreditation standard, not a tourism grade.",{"value":893,"label":894,"detail":895},"12","treatment rooms","Against nineteen bedrooms. You are never waiting for a slot.",{"value":897,"label":898,"detail":899},"0","things to buy on site","No alcohol, no meat, no leather, no phones in the public rooms, and no menu. The invoice is the invoice.","Per person for fourteen nights in the palace, including all prescribed meals, every therapy, all medicines during the stay, preparations to take home and return airport transfers. There is nothing to pay on site — the house has no bar, no menu and no spa list. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":902,"team":903,"consultations":904},"Resident physicians in a NABH-accredited Ayurvedic hospital — a clinical accreditation rather than a tourism classification, and very few properties in this field hold one.","Therapists assigned per guest across twelve treatment rooms. Nineteen bedrooms in total, so the house is never running at a ratio that thins the supervision.","Daily physician review, with arrival and departure examinations and a written protocol to take home.",{"amount":234,"currency":17},{"amount":862,"currency":17},{"slug":908,"name":909,"resortSlug":133,"modalitySlug":11,"hook":910,"intention":911,"concerns":912,"nights":576,"groupSize":617,"intensity":913,"overview":914,"suitedTo":917,"notSuitedTo":922,"phases":926,"dayShape":949,"sampleDay":950,"included":972,"excluded":977,"departures":979,"faqs":990,"image":994,"imageAlt":995,"bands":996,"durations":1011,"counted":1018,"priceIncludes":1030,"care":1031,"price":1034,"singlePrice":1035,"resortName":134,"resortCharacter":127,"destinationSlug":6,"destinationName":7,"country":8},"carnoustie-womens-health","Cycles & hormones","A women-only cohort with women physicians, and a therapy schedule that moves around your cycle rather than the diary.","women",[247,254,279],"moderate",[915,916],"Built around menstrual health, fertility and perimenopause, with physicians specialised in the Ayurvedic obstetric and gynaecological branch. Female therapists throughout as standard rather than on request.","The therapy schedule genuinely moves around your cycle — some treatments are contraindicated during menstruation and others are timed to specific phases — which is why the cohort is capped at ten and departures are fixed.",[918,919,920,921],"Irregular, painful or newly changed cycles that have been investigated","Perimenopausal sleep, mood and temperature disruption","Fertility, as a complement to whatever your own clinic is doing","Anyone who would simply prefer a women-only cohort",[923,924,925],"Pregnancy — a different and much gentler programme applies","Anyone mid-cycle in an IVF protocol; timing matters and we will ask you to come before or after","Undiagnosed bleeding. See a gynaecologist first — we will say so and decline",[927,934,941],{"title":928,"days":633,"body":929,"points":930},"Assessment","A long history including a cycle diary and any existing investigations, plus pathology on arrival.",[931,932,933],"Cycle-phase mapping","Arrival bloods","Individual diet set",{"title":640,"days":935,"body":936,"points":937},"Days 4–11","Abhyanga, udvartana or pizhichil according to constitution, uttara basti where indicated, and specific preparations. The order shifts with your cycle.",[938,939,940],"Cycle-timed therapies","Herbal preparations","Daily physician review",{"title":942,"days":943,"body":944,"points":945},"Protocol","Days 12–14","Three months of preparations and a routine mapped onto your own cycle, with a follow-up at eight weeks.",[946,947,948],"Three-month protocol","Eight-week follow-up","Written report for your own gynaecologist","Four to five hours are fixed, and the schedule moves with your cycle rather than the diary.",[951,952,955,958,960,962,964,968,969],{"time":657,"what":658},{"time":661,"what":953,"note":954},"Yoga, adapted to cycle phase","Restorative during menstruation, fuller through the follicular phase.",{"time":956,"what":474,"note":957},"08:15","With one of the two women physicians. Ten minutes, every day.",{"time":959,"what":665},"08:45",{"time":668,"what":817,"note":961},"Abhyanga, udvartana or pizhichil as prescribed, with a female therapist throughout.",{"time":963,"what":820},"12:45",{"time":965,"what":966,"note":967},"14:30","Free, or a group session","Twice weekly there is a teaching session on cycle physiology with the physician.",{"time":677,"what":825},{"time":970,"what":971},"18:45","Dinner, then the beach",[973,974,690,975,691,976,947],"Fourteen nights, at the occupancy you are quoted for","Women physicians and female therapists throughout","Three months of preparations","Transfers from Kochi",[695,696,978],"Hormonal assays beyond the arrival panel",[980,983,987],{"start":981,"end":529,"note":982,"places":13},"2026-09-12","Cohort of 10",{"start":984,"end":985,"note":982,"places":986},"2026-11-07","2026-11-21",8,{"start":988,"end":989,"note":982,"places":617},"2027-02-13","2027-02-27",[991],{"q":992,"a":993},"Can Ayurveda treat PCOS or endometriosis?","It can help with symptoms for some people and it does not cure either. Both need a gynaecologist, and this programme is designed to sit alongside that care rather than replace it — which is why we send a written report to your own doctor.","photo-1593693411515-c20261bcad6e","A backwater channel at first light",[997,1001,1006],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":551,"sharing":998,"single":999,"note":555},{"amount":252,"currency":17},{"amount":1000,"currency":17},223000,{"band":557,"label":558,"months":559,"sharing":1002,"single":1004,"note":564},{"amount":1003,"currency":17},210000,{"amount":1005,"currency":17},252000,{"band":566,"label":567,"months":568,"sharing":1007,"single":1009,"note":573},{"amount":1008,"currency":17},244000,{"amount":1010,"currency":17},294000,[1012,1015],{"nights":576,"label":1013,"factor":41,"note":1014,"recommended":365},"The course","The length the cycle-based protocols are written for.",{"nights":408,"label":1016,"factor":879,"note":1017},"The extended course","Where the presentation is long-standing, or where a full menopausal protocol is being run.",[1019,1022,1024,1028],{"value":1020,"label":591,"detail":1021},"30+","Including the specific uttara basti and abhyanga protocols the programme is built on.",{"value":890,"label":595,"detail":1023},"With a physician qualified in the women's-health branch, daily.",{"value":1025,"label":1026,"detail":1027},"2","kitchens on site","The Ayurvedic one you will eat from, and a separate a la carte one for a companion who is not in treatment. It is why this house suits couples.",{"value":598,"label":599,"detail":1029},"Dispensed at departure with a written protocol.","Per person for fourteen nights, including the room, prescribed meals, all therapies, medicines during the stay, preparations to take home and return airport transfers. A companion not on a programme can be added at a room rate. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":1032,"team":1033,"consultations":755},"Resident BAMS physicians, with the programme led by one qualified in prasuti tantra and stri roga — the obstetrics and gynaecology branch of Ayurvedic medicine.","A dedicated female therapist pair for the whole stay, which for this programme is not a preference but a requirement.",{"amount":252,"currency":17},{"amount":1000,"currency":17},{"slug":1037,"name":1038,"resortSlug":136,"modalitySlug":11,"hook":1039,"intention":1040,"concerns":1041,"nights":576,"groupSize":986,"intensity":618,"overview":1042,"suitedTo":1045,"notSuitedTo":1050,"phases":1054,"dayShape":1077,"sampleDay":1078,"included":1104,"excluded":1111,"departures":1113,"faqs":1126,"image":1133,"imageAlt":1134,"featured":365,"bands":1135,"durations":1157,"counted":1168,"priceIncludes":1183,"care":1184,"price":1188,"singlePrice":1189,"resortName":137,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8},"ananda-rejuvenation","Ayurvedic rejuvenation","Rebuilding rather than purifying, on a palace estate above the Ganga — the gentlest serious programme in the Himalaya.","rebuild",[230,236,247,259,73],[1043,1044],"Rasayana is the branch of Ayurveda written for depletion — after treatment, after a hard birth, after a long illness, after three years of sixteen-hour days. Nothing is removed and everything is rebuilt: medicated ghee, gentle daily therapy, a widening rather than a narrowing diet.","It runs on a hundred-acre palace estate at a thousand metres with the valley below, which matters more than it sounds: guests who cannot face an austere clinic will actually complete a fortnight here.",[1046,1047,1048,1049],"Recovery after illness, surgery or a difficult birth — with your doctor’s letter","Long-term exhaustion that sleep no longer touches","Anyone who has done a cleanse before and found it took more than it gave","Guests over sixty, for whom purification is often the wrong tool",[1051,1052,1053],"Anyone in active treatment — come when the acute phase has finished","Anyone whose real goal is weight loss","Guests who want to feel that something dramatic is happening",[1055,1063,1070],{"title":1056,"days":1057,"body":1058,"points":1059},"Assessment and stabilising","Days 1–4","A slower start than any other programme we sell: bloods, a long history, and four days of eating and sleeping to a schedule before therapy begins in earnest.",[1060,1061,1062],"Full history and pathology","Sleep re-anchored first","Light abhyanga only",{"title":1064,"days":1065,"body":1066,"points":1067},"Nourishing","Days 5–11","Daily therapy chosen for building rather than moving — pizhichil, navarakizhi, medicated ghee — with a diet that adds rather than subtracts.",[1068,798,1069],"Pizhichil and navarakizhi","Walking, never training",{"title":1071,"days":943,"body":1072,"points":1073},"Carrying it home","A three-month protocol written with your actual life in it, and two follow-ups built in.",[1074,1075,1076],"Three-month written protocol","Six-week and three-month follow-ups","Preparations shipped at week ten","Three to four hours are fixed. This is the least demanding schedule on the site, deliberately.",[1079,1082,1084,1087,1090,1092,1094,1097,1100],{"time":657,"what":1080,"note":1081},"Wake","No bell, no obligation. Depleted guests are allowed to sleep.",{"time":810,"what":1083},"Gentle hatha or a valley walk",{"time":1085,"what":1086},"08:30","Breakfast on the terrace",{"time":481,"what":1088,"note":1089},"Consultation and therapy","Physician first, then two hours of pizhichil or navarakizhi.",{"time":485,"what":820,"note":1091},"Prescribed, but generous — this programme adds rather than subtracts.",{"time":489,"what":674,"note":1093},"Most guests sleep. That is the intention.",{"time":1095,"what":1096},"16:00","Vedanta or meditation session",{"time":1098,"what":1099},"17:30","Second treatment, or the spa",{"time":1101,"what":1102,"note":1103},"19:00","Dinner","Light, early, and the valley goes dark below you.",[1105,1106,690,1107,691,1108,1109,1110],"Fourteen nights, palace estate room","Daily physician consultation","Three months of preparations, shipped","Yoga, meditation and Vedanta sessions","Transfers from Dehradun","Two follow-up consultations",[695,696,1112],"Spa treatments outside the prescribed programme",[1114,1118,1122],{"start":1115,"end":1116,"note":1117,"places":14},"2026-10-05","2026-10-19","Autumn, clear air",{"start":1119,"end":1120,"note":1121,"places":526},"2026-11-09","2026-11-23","Cool and dry",{"start":1123,"end":1124,"note":1125,"places":986},"2027-03-08","2027-03-22","Spring",[1127,1130],{"q":1128,"a":1129},"Do I really need a letter from my doctor?","Yes, and we will not book without one if you are within a year of treatment for a serious condition. The physician needs to know what was done, what you are taking, and what your own team wants avoided. It is the one piece of paperwork we never waive.",{"q":1131,"a":1132},"Why is this so much more expensive than Kerala?","Because you are paying for a hundred-acre palace estate as well as the medicine. The clinical content at Somatheeram or Kalari Kovilakom is comparable and costs substantially less. What Ananda adds is comfort — and for a depleted guest, comfort is sometimes what makes a fortnight possible at all.","photo-1506905925346-21bda4d32df4","Himalayan peaks above a wooded valley",[1136,1143,1150],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":1137,"sharing":1138,"single":1140,"note":1142},"May, June, July and August",{"amount":1139,"currency":17},436000,{"amount":1141,"currency":17},525000,"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":557,"label":558,"months":1144,"sharing":1145,"single":1147,"note":1149},"December, January and September",{"amount":1146,"currency":17},495000,{"amount":1148,"currency":17},594000,"Cold clear mornings and unheated halls in midwinter; September is still emptying out after the monsoon.",{"band":566,"label":567,"months":1151,"sharing":1152,"single":1154,"note":1156},"February to April, October and November",{"amount":1153,"currency":17},574000,{"amount":1155,"currency":17},693000,"Warm days, cold nights, and a river running green. The months to come, and priced accordingly.",[1158,1162,1164],{"nights":847,"label":1159,"factor":1160,"note":1161},"The week",0.55,"Enough for a genuine rest and a proper consultation. Not enough for rejuvenation in the technical sense, and the page will not pretend otherwise.",{"nights":576,"label":735,"factor":41,"note":1163,"recommended":365},"The length at which rasayana therapy actually does what it is named for.",{"nights":408,"label":1165,"factor":1166,"note":1167},"Three weeks",1.44,"For guests who have done the fortnight, or where the physician recommends it after the arrival examination.",[1169,1172,1175,1179],{"value":1170,"label":591,"detail":1171},"26","Ayurvedic and cleansing therapies across the fourteen nights, in a spa of about twenty-five thousand square feet with twenty-four treatment rooms.",{"value":890,"label":1173,"detail":1174},"hours of personal sessions","Yoga, pranayama and meditation one to one, in addition to the group timetable.",{"value":1176,"label":1177,"detail":1178},"8","hours of consultation","Ayurvedic assessment, an emotional-healing session, nutrition and the departure protocol.",{"value":1180,"label":1181,"detail":1182},"100","acres of sal forest","With walking trails, meditation pavilions and the Ganges valley below.","Per person for fourteen nights in a valley-view room, including all meals from the wellness kitchen, the prescribed therapy hours, daily yoga and Vedanta, consultations, use of the hydrotherapy facilities and return airport transfers from Dehradun. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":1185,"team":1186,"consultations":1187},"Ayurvedic physicians on site, with yoga and Vedanta teachers alongside. Every programme opens with a physician's assessment and the prescription is revised through the stay.","A large treatment team across twenty-four treatment rooms — the house does not thin out in high season, which is where smaller properties quietly drop to one treatment a day.","An opening assessment, mid-programme review and departure consultation, plus daily contact with the therapy team.",{"amount":1139,"currency":17},{"amount":1141,"currency":17},{"slug":1191,"name":1192,"resortSlug":136,"modalitySlug":12,"hook":1193,"intention":1194,"concerns":1195,"nights":847,"groupSize":394,"intensity":618,"overview":1196,"suitedTo":1199,"notSuitedTo":1203,"phases":1206,"dayShape":1229,"sampleDay":1230,"included":1249,"excluded":1253,"departures":1255,"faqs":1262,"image":1266,"imageAlt":1267,"bands":1268,"durations":1283,"counted":1289,"priceIncludes":1303,"care":1304,"price":1308,"singlePrice":1309,"resortName":137,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8},"ananda-yoga-week","The Himalayan yoga week","Hatha and Vedanta on the estate above Rishikesh, without the ashram’s five-thirty start.","first",[213,269,279],[1197,1198],"Twice-daily practice, pranayama and Vedanta taught rather than sprinkled, with an Ayurvedic consultation on arrival that shapes the week. It is the gentlest introduction to the valley we sell.","For anyone considering a full training in Rishikesh later, this is the honest way to find out whether four weeks in an unheated hall at half past five is really what you want.",[1200,1201,1202],"A first yoga retreat","Anyone curious about Rishikesh who is not ready for an ashram","Guests who want the practice with a comfortable bed at the end of it",[1204,1205],"Experienced practitioners wanting an intensive — take the Rishikesh training instead","May to August, when the valley is too hot and the monsoon closes the hill roads",[1207,1215,1222],{"title":1208,"days":1209,"body":1210,"points":1211},"Finding the practice","Days 1–2","Ayurvedic consultation, an assessment of where your practice actually is, and a schedule built from both.",[1212,1213,1214],"Ayurvedic consultation","Practice assessment","Twice-daily schedule set",{"title":1159,"days":1216,"body":1217,"points":1218},"Days 3–6","Morning hatha, evening restorative and pranayama, Vedanta twice, and one Ayurvedic treatment daily.",[1219,1220,1221],"Twice-daily practice","Vedanta sessions","Daily Ayurvedic treatment",{"title":1223,"days":1224,"body":1225,"points":1226},"A practice to keep","Day 7","A thirty-minute home sequence you build and then teach back, which is the only part that survives the airport.",[1227,1228],"Personal sequence built","Written home practice","Four hours are fixed across two practice blocks; afternoons are open.",[1231,1232,1235,1236,1240,1241,1243,1246,1248],{"time":657,"what":1080},{"time":661,"what":1233,"note":1234},"Morning hatha","Ninety minutes in the pavilion above the valley.",{"time":816,"what":665},{"time":1237,"what":1238,"note":1239},"10:30","Ayurvedic treatment","One daily, chosen at the arrival consultation.",{"time":485,"what":820},{"time":489,"what":674,"note":1242},"Walk to the temple, swim, or sleep.",{"time":1095,"what":1244,"note":1245},"Vedanta","Taught, not sprinkled. Twice in the week.",{"time":1098,"what":1247},"Restorative practice and pranayama",{"time":1101,"what":1102},[1250,1251,1252,691,1109],"Seven nights","Twice-daily practice and all teaching","Ayurvedic consultation and one treatment daily",[695,1254],"Additional spa treatments",[1256,1259],{"start":1257,"end":1116,"note":1258,"places":526},"2026-10-12","Autumn",{"start":1260,"end":1123,"note":1261,"places":396},"2027-03-01","Yoga festival week in the valley",[1263],{"q":1264,"a":1265},"Is a week long enough to be worth it?","For a first retreat, yes — long enough for the practice to change and short enough that you will actually take the time off. For anything therapeutic, no, and we will say so.","photo-1447452001602-7090c7ab2db3","A figure holding tree pose at sunrise",[1269,1273,1278],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":1137,"sharing":1270,"single":1271,"note":1142},{"amount":25,"currency":17},{"amount":1272,"currency":17},249000,{"band":557,"label":558,"months":1144,"sharing":1274,"single":1276,"note":1149},{"amount":1275,"currency":17},235000,{"amount":1277,"currency":17},282000,{"band":566,"label":567,"months":1151,"sharing":1279,"single":1281,"note":1156},{"amount":1280,"currency":17},273000,{"amount":1282,"currency":17},329000,[1284,1286],{"nights":847,"label":1159,"factor":41,"note":1285,"recommended":365},"A complete introduction, and the length most people can actually take.",{"nights":576,"label":735,"factor":1287,"note":1288},1.82,"Where a practice is being rebuilt rather than sampled.",[1290,1294,1297,1300],{"value":1291,"label":1292,"detail":1293},"7","hours of personal practice","One to one, an hour a day, with the sequence built around what the first session finds.",{"value":890,"label":1295,"detail":1296},"hours of group programme","Asana, pranayama, meditation and the Vedanta talks.",{"value":1298,"label":591,"detail":1299},"4","Ayurvedic treatments chosen at the opening consultation rather than from a menu.",{"value":602,"label":1301,"detail":1302},"opening consultation","With an Ayurvedic physician, which is what separates this from a yoga holiday.","Per person for seven nights in a valley-view room, including all meals, the daily group programme, the personal sessions listed below, one Ayurvedic consultation and return transfers from Dehradun. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":1305,"team":1306,"consultations":1307},"Yoga and Vedanta teachers, with an Ayurvedic physician for the opening consultation and any prescribed therapy.","Personal sessions are one to one throughout. The group timetable runs alongside and is optional.","One Ayurvedic consultation at the start and a closing session with your teacher.",{"amount":25,"currency":17},{"amount":1272,"currency":17},{"slug":1311,"name":1312,"resortSlug":140,"modalitySlug":40,"hook":1313,"intention":1040,"concerns":1314,"nights":576,"groupSize":617,"intensity":913,"overview":1315,"suitedTo":1318,"notSuitedTo":1322,"phases":1326,"dayShape":1344,"sampleDay":1345,"included":1365,"excluded":1370,"departures":1372,"faqs":1378,"image":856,"imageAlt":1382,"bands":1383,"durations":1399,"counted":1407,"priceIncludes":1419,"care":1420,"price":1424,"singlePrice":1425,"resortName":141,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":20,"destinationName":21,"country":8},"vana-integrated","The integrated fortnight","Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa and yoga under one clinical team — so the physician can choose the tradition rather than defend one.",[208,259,73],[1316,1317],"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.",[1319,1320,1321],"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",[1323,1324,1325],"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",[1327,1334,1340],{"title":1328,"days":633,"body":1329,"points":1330},"Consultation and assignment","Separate Ayurvedic and Sowa Rigpa consultations, bloods, and a programme assigned by the joint team.",[1331,1332,1333],"Two diagnostic traditions","Arrival pathology","Programme assigned, not chosen",{"title":640,"days":935,"body":1335,"points":1336},"Daily therapy from whichever tradition the team selected, with moxibustion or Himalayan formulations where indicated, and a full daily practice schedule.",[1337,1338,1339],"Daily therapy block","Moxibustion where indicated","Yoga and meditation daily",{"title":942,"days":943,"body":1341,"points":1342},"A single written protocol drawing on both traditions, with three months of preparations.",[1343,975,947],"Combined written protocol","Five hours are fixed and nothing is chosen by you — the assignment is the product.",[1346,1347,1350,1352,1354,1356,1358,1361,1363],{"time":806,"what":1080},{"time":657,"what":1348,"note":1349},"Practice","Yoga or qi-based movement, per your assignment.",{"time":477,"what":665,"note":1351},"Silent for the first half-hour.",{"time":816,"what":474,"note":1353},"Alternating between the Ayurvedic and Sowa Rigpa leads.",{"time":481,"what":817,"note":1355},"Two to three hours from whichever tradition the team selected.",{"time":1357,"what":820},"13:00",{"time":965,"what":1359,"note":1360},"Rest","Phones stay in the room; the public areas are device-free.",{"time":493,"what":1362},"Second therapy, or moxibustion",{"time":1101,"what":1364},"Dinner, then silence from nine",[1366,1367,1368,691,1369,1109,947],"Fourteen nights","All consultations across both traditions","All therapies and preparations","Full daily practice schedule",[695,1371],"Anything à la carte, because there is nothing à la carte",[1373,1375],{"start":1116,"end":1374,"note":1258,"places":370},"2026-11-02",{"start":1376,"end":1260,"note":1377,"places":617},"2027-02-15","Late winter",[1379],{"q":1380,"a":1381},"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.","Himalayan medicinal preparations",[1384,1389,1394],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":1137,"sharing":1385,"single":1387,"note":1142},{"amount":1386,"currency":17},480000,{"amount":1388,"currency":17},578000,{"band":557,"label":558,"months":1144,"sharing":1390,"single":1392,"note":1149},{"amount":1391,"currency":17},545000,{"amount":1393,"currency":17},654000,{"band":566,"label":567,"months":1151,"sharing":1395,"single":1397,"note":1156},{"amount":1396,"currency":17},632000,{"amount":1398,"currency":17},763000,[1400,1402,1404],{"nights":576,"label":735,"factor":41,"note":1401,"recommended":365},"Long enough for all three traditions to be assessed and for one of them to lead.",{"nights":408,"label":1165,"factor":879,"note":1403},"Where the assessment finds something that a fortnight can start and not finish.",{"nights":584,"label":1405,"factor":1287,"note":1406},"The month","The longest stay the house takes as standard, and the one its returning guests book.",[1408,1410,1413,1416],{"value":1020,"label":591,"detail":1409},"Across Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa and natural therapies — assigned by the assessment, not chosen from a list.",{"value":598,"label":1411,"detail":1412},"traditions assessed","Ayurvedic, Tibetan and yogic, together, at arrival. Almost nowhere else does this in one building.",{"value":890,"label":1414,"detail":1415},"hours of movement","Yoga, meditation and the movement timetable, one to one and in groups.",{"value":897,"label":1417,"detail":1418},"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":1421,"team":1422,"consultations":1423},"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":1386,"currency":17},{"amount":1388,"currency":17},{"slug":1427,"name":1428,"resortSlug":143,"modalitySlug":11,"hook":1429,"intention":1040,"concerns":1430,"nights":408,"groupSize":1431,"intensity":618,"overview":1432,"suitedTo":1435,"notSuitedTo":1440,"phases":1444,"dayShape":1465,"sampleDay":1466,"included":1484,"excluded":1489,"departures":1492,"faqs":1502,"image":1506,"imageAlt":1507,"bands":1508,"durations":1528,"counted":1536,"priceIncludes":1549,"care":1550,"price":1554,"singlePrice":1555,"resortName":144,"resortCharacter":127,"destinationSlug":28,"destinationName":29,"country":30},"barberyn-annual-cure","The annual cure","The three-week Ayurvedic cure that Northern Europeans have taken here every year for four decades.",[259,274],20,[1433,1434],"This is the format the house invented in 1984: a three-week cure, taken annually, with a physician who often has years of notes on the same guest. Sri Lankan Ayurveda uses a different materia medica from Kerala’s and a gentler protocol — more herbal steam and mud, less deep purification.","The clientele is largely German, Swiss and Austrian and largely returning, which is the single strongest signal a wellness property can have. Nobody comes back annually for twenty years to something that does not work for them.",[1436,1437,1438,1439],"A gentler alternative to Kerala’s intensity","Anyone building an annual habit rather than taking one dramatic trip","Guests travelling with a non-treating companion","A first serious Ayurvedic programme",[1441,1442,1443],"Anyone wanting full classical Panchakarma with virechana — that is Kerala","May to October, when the Yala monsoon soaks this coast","Guests expecting a modern five-star property",[1445,1452,1460],{"title":1446,"days":1057,"body":1447,"points":1448},"Examination and settling","Examination, pathology, and a diet set individually. Treatment starts gently on day two.",[1449,1450,1451],"Full examination","Individual diet","Daily consultation begins",{"title":1453,"days":1454,"body":1455,"points":1456},"The cure","Days 5–18","Two therapies daily — abhyanga, herbal steam, shirodhara, mud applications — with preparations from the in-house pharmacy and a herb garden you can walk through.",[1457,1458,1459],"Two therapies daily","In-house preparations","Daily yoga and meditation",{"title":942,"days":1461,"body":1462,"points":1463},"Days 19–21","A three-month plan and, where an insurer needs one, an invoice in the format they specify.",[946,1464,693],"Insurer-format invoice on request","Three to four hours are fixed. Regulars spend the rest of the day reading in the same chair they had last year.",[1467,1470,1472,1473,1476,1477,1479,1481,1483],{"time":1468,"what":1469},"06:45","Wake, warm herbal water",{"time":810,"what":1471},"Yoga by the sea",{"time":956,"what":665},{"time":481,"what":1474,"note":1475},"Physician's round, then therapy","Two treatments daily — abhyanga, steam, mud or shirodhara as prescribed.",{"time":485,"what":820},{"time":489,"what":674,"note":1478},"The beach, the herb garden, or the same chair.",{"time":493,"what":1480},"Second treatment",{"time":827,"what":1482},"Herbal drink and meditation",{"time":1101,"what":1102},[1485,1106,690,1486,1487,1488,693],"Twenty-one nights","All meals on the prescribed diet","Daily yoga","Airport transfers from Colombo",[1490,696,1491],"Flights, ETA and insurance — flights quoted separately","Companion rate without a programme",[1493,1496,1498],{"start":1494,"end":1495,"note":851,"places":986},"2026-12-05","2026-12-26",{"start":1497,"end":849,"note":708,"places":370},"2027-01-16",{"start":1499,"end":1500,"note":1501,"places":576},"2027-03-06","2027-03-27","End of the dry season",[1503],{"q":1504,"a":1505},"Will my German insurer reimburse this?","Some policies part-reimburse an accredited Ayurvedic cure with a referral obtained before travel. It is never automatic. Ask them first; we will supply whatever documentation they name.","photo-1547036967-23d11aacaee0","Turquoise water along the Sri Lankan coast",[1509,1515,1522],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":1510,"sharing":1511,"single":1512,"note":1514},"May to September",{"amount":263,"currency":34},{"amount":1513,"currency":34},3340,"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":557,"label":558,"months":1516,"sharing":1517,"single":1519,"note":1521},"April, October and November",{"amount":1518,"currency":34},3150,{"amount":1520,"currency":34},3780,"Inter-monsoonal and changeable. Warm, green, and quiet.",{"band":566,"label":567,"months":568,"sharing":1523,"single":1525,"note":1527},{"amount":1524,"currency":34},3650,{"amount":1526,"currency":34},4410,"Dry, calm sea, and the coast at its best. Book early — the good rooms at the good houses are gone by September.",[1529,1532,1534],{"nights":576,"label":735,"factor":1530,"note":1531},0.7,"The shortest stay the house considers a cure rather than a holiday.",{"nights":408,"label":1428,"factor":41,"note":1533,"recommended":365},"What Barberyn's European regulars have been booking, in the same weeks, for decades.",{"nights":584,"label":1405,"factor":586,"note":1535},"For chronic presentations, and where the physician recommends it.",[1537,1540,1542,1545],{"value":1538,"label":591,"detail":1539},"40+","Two treatment sessions daily across the three weeks, in separate men's and women's wings.",{"value":594,"label":595,"detail":1541},"Daily review in the Sri Lankan Ayurvedic tradition, which diverges from the Kerala one in useful ways.",{"value":602,"label":1543,"detail":1544},"herb garden","On site, supplying the preparation kitchen. Ask to be walked round it — very few guests do.",{"value":1546,"label":1547,"detail":1548},"60","years of practice","The house has been treating largely German and Swiss guests since the 1960s, which is a longer record than any marketing claim.","Per person for twenty-one nights in a sea-view room, including all Ayurvedic meals, daily physician review, all prescribed therapies and medicines, yoga and meditation, and return transfers from Colombo. Flights quoted separately — and this is the destination where holding the room from the previous day is worth the money, because most long-haul lands at four in the morning.",{"supervision":1551,"team":1552,"consultations":1553},"Resident Ayurvedic physicians in the Sri Lankan tradition, with an on-site herb garden and preparation kitchen rather than bought-in medicines.","Therapists in separate men's and women's wings, assigned for the stay.","Daily physician review throughout — standard here, not an upgrade.",{"amount":263,"currency":34},{"amount":1513,"currency":34},{"slug":1557,"name":1558,"resortSlug":146,"modalitySlug":11,"hook":1559,"intention":202,"concerns":1560,"nights":847,"groupSize":986,"intensity":618,"overview":1561,"suitedTo":1564,"notSuitedTo":1569,"phases":1573,"dayShape":1591,"sampleDay":1592,"included":1615,"excluded":1619,"departures":1620,"faqs":1626,"image":1630,"imageAlt":1631,"bands":1632,"durations":1647,"counted":1658,"priceIncludes":1672,"care":1673,"price":1677,"singlePrice":1678,"resortName":147,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":28,"destinationName":29,"country":30},"santani-sleep-reset","The sleep reset","A circadian reset at altitude in the Sri Lankan hill country, with cool nights doing half the work.",[202,208,247],[1562,1563],"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.",[1565,1566,1567,1568],"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",[1570,1571,1572],"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",[1574,1581,1587],{"title":1575,"days":1209,"body":1576,"points":1577},"Measuring","Consultation, a sleep history, and two nights simply observed before anything is changed.",[1578,1579,1580],"Sleep history and consultation","Baseline observation","Eating window set",{"title":1582,"days":1216,"body":1583,"points":1584},"Resetting","Morning light exposure and walking, shirodhara and abhyanga in the late afternoon, dinner finished by seven and lamps down early.",[1585,1221,1586],"Morning light and walking","Fixed early dinner",{"title":1588,"days":1224,"body":1589,"points":1590},"Home","A written evening routine built for your actual household, and a six-week follow-up.",[652,693],"Under three hours are fixed. Light exposure and the eating window do most of the work.",[1593,1596,1599,1601,1603,1604,1606,1608,1611],{"time":469,"what":1594,"note":1595},"Wake and out into daylight","Morning light is the intervention; the treatments are secondary.",{"time":1468,"what":1597,"note":1598},"Walk in the tea terraces","Forty-five minutes, outdoors, whatever the weather.",{"time":477,"what":1600},"Breakfast — the eating window opens",{"time":668,"what":1602},"Consultation or free",{"time":485,"what":820},{"time":489,"what":1605},"Free — and genuinely so",{"time":493,"what":1607},"Abhyanga or shirodhara",{"time":497,"what":1609,"note":1610},"Dinner — the eating window closes","Twelve hours after breakfast, without exception.",{"time":1612,"what":1613,"note":1614},"20:30","Lights warm and low","No overhead light in the rooms after this hour.",[1250,1616,691,1617,1618],"Daily consultation and treatment","Daily yoga and guided walks","Transfers from Colombo or Kandy",[1490,696],[1621,1624],{"start":1622,"end":985,"note":1623,"places":14},"2026-11-14","Hill-country season",{"start":849,"end":988,"note":1625,"places":986},"Dry and cool",[1627],{"q":1628,"a":1629},"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",[1633,1637,1642],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":1510,"sharing":1634,"single":1635,"note":1514},{"amount":33,"currency":34},{"amount":1636,"currency":34},2630,{"band":557,"label":558,"months":1516,"sharing":1638,"single":1640,"note":1521},{"amount":1639,"currency":34},2480,{"amount":1641,"currency":34},2980,{"band":566,"label":567,"months":568,"sharing":1643,"single":1645,"note":1527},{"amount":1644,"currency":34},2880,{"amount":1646,"currency":34},3470,[1648,1651,1655],{"nights":847,"label":1649,"factor":41,"note":1650,"recommended":365},"The reset","Enough to break a pattern and go home with a protocol.",{"nights":617,"label":1652,"factor":1653,"note":1654},"The extended reset",1.36,"Where sleep has been broken for years rather than months.",{"nights":576,"label":735,"factor":1656,"note":1657},1.84,"The version that changes the baseline rather than the fortnight.",[1659,1662,1665,1668],{"value":1291,"label":1660,"detail":1661},"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":1663,"label":591,"detail":1664},"16+","Ayurvedic and physiotherapeutic, chosen from the assessment.",{"value":897,"label":1666,"detail":1667},"clocks in the rooms","Deliberate. The single most effective intervention in the programme costs nothing.",{"value":1669,"label":1670,"detail":1671},"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":1674,"team":1675,"consultations":1676},"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":1636,"currency":34},{"slug":1680,"name":1681,"resortSlug":153,"modalitySlug":12,"hook":1682,"intention":1194,"concerns":1683,"nights":847,"groupSize":394,"intensity":913,"overview":1684,"suitedTo":1687,"notSuitedTo":1692,"phases":1696,"dayShape":1717,"sampleDay":1718,"included":1736,"excluded":1742,"departures":1746,"faqs":1754,"image":1758,"imageAlt":1759,"bands":1760,"durations":1782,"counted":1792,"priceIncludes":1805,"care":1806,"price":1810,"singlePrice":1811,"resortName":154,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":45,"destinationName":46,"country":47},"como-shambhala-residential","The residential week","A consultation, then an assigned programme in steep jungle above the Ayung — the model that made Bali serious.",[230,269,279],[1685,1686],"You are consulted on arrival and assigned a programme rather than handed a menu — the model COMO built here in 2005 and has since exported across the group. Ayurvedic-influenced, yoga-anchored and heavily hydrotherapy-based.","Five residences in steep jungle above a river gorge, reached on foot. The terrain is genuinely part of the programme, and genuinely a consideration if you have knees.",[1688,1689,1690,1691],"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",[1693,1694,1695],"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",[1697,1704,1711],{"title":474,"days":1698,"body":1699,"points":1700},"Day 1","A wellness consultation and physical assessment, then a programme assigned for the week.",[1701,1702,1703],"Consultation and assessment","Programme assigned","Hydrotherapy circuit introduced",{"title":1705,"days":1706,"body":1707,"points":1708},"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.",[1709,1219,1710],"Daily treatment","Prescribed nutrition",{"title":1712,"days":1224,"body":1713,"points":1714},"Continuation","A written continuation plan and a follow-up at four weeks.",[1715,1716],"Written plan","Four-week follow-up","Four hours are fixed; the hydrotherapy circuit is open all day and most guests use it twice.",[1719,1720,1723,1724,1726,1727,1730,1732,1734],{"time":657,"what":1080},{"time":661,"what":1721,"note":1722},"Morning practice","Yoga or a guided walk down to the river.",{"time":1085,"what":665},{"time":668,"what":640,"note":1725},"Per the assignment made at your arrival consultation.",{"time":485,"what":820},{"time":489,"what":1728,"note":1729},"Hydrotherapy circuit","Vitality pool, plunge, steam. Twenty minutes, twice a day.",{"time":1095,"what":1731},"Second treatment or a class",{"time":827,"what":1733},"Restorative practice",{"time":1735,"what":1102},"19:30",[1737,1738,1739,691,1740,1741],"Seven nights, residence room","Arrival consultation and assessment","Daily treatments per the assigned programme","Twice-daily practice and hydrotherapy","Transfers from Denpasar",[1743,1744,1745],"Flights and visa — flights quoted separately","Insurance","Treatments outside the assigned programme",[1747,1750],{"start":1748,"end":1749,"note":851,"places":526},"2026-09-07","2026-09-14",{"start":1751,"end":1752,"note":1753,"places":394},"2027-05-10","2027-05-17","Start of the dry season",[1755],{"q":1756,"a":1757},"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",[1761,1768,1775],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":1762,"sharing":1763,"single":1765,"note":1767},"February, March, October and November",{"amount":1764,"currency":51},3700,{"amount":1766,"currency":51},4450,"The wet months, which in Ubud means an afternoon downpour rather than a washout. Green, cheap and quiet.",{"band":557,"label":558,"months":1769,"sharing":1770,"single":1772,"note":1774},"April to June and September",{"amount":1771,"currency":51},4200,{"amount":1773,"currency":51},5040,"The best combination of weather and price on the island, and the months we book most.",{"band":566,"label":567,"months":1776,"sharing":1777,"single":1779,"note":1781},"July, August, December and January",{"amount":1778,"currency":51},4870,{"amount":1780,"currency":51},5880,"European and Australian holidays. Excellent weather, full houses, and the highest rates of the year.",[1783,1785,1789],{"nights":847,"label":1681,"factor":41,"note":1784,"recommended":365},"The house's standard, and the length its programmes are designed at.",{"nights":617,"label":1786,"factor":1787,"note":1788},"Ten nights",1.38,"Where the assessment finds a movement or rehabilitation issue worth working through properly.",{"nights":576,"label":735,"factor":1790,"note":1791},1.86,"For guests rebuilding after injury or illness.",[1793,1797,1800,1802],{"value":1794,"label":1795,"detail":1796},"14+","hours of treatment","Bodywork, hydrotherapy and Ayurvedic or Balinese therapies as the assessment directs.",{"value":1291,"label":1798,"detail":1799},"hours of personal training","Movement, pilates or the outdoor circuit, one to one.",{"value":598,"label":1177,"detail":1801},"Assessment, nutrition and the departure plan.",{"value":1025,"label":1803,"detail":1804},"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":1807,"team":1808,"consultations":1809},"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":1764,"currency":51},{"amount":1766,"currency":51},{"slug":1813,"name":1814,"resortSlug":156,"modalitySlug":12,"hook":1815,"intention":1194,"concerns":1816,"nights":370,"groupSize":986,"intensity":618,"overview":1817,"suitedTo":1820,"notSuitedTo":1824,"phases":1828,"dayShape":1849,"sampleDay":1850,"included":1868,"excluded":1872,"departures":1873,"faqs":1880,"image":1884,"imageAlt":1885,"bands":1886,"durations":1901,"counted":1907,"priceIncludes":1921,"care":1922,"price":1926,"singlePrice":1927,"resortName":157,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":45,"destinationName":46,"country":47},"fivelements-healing-week","The Balinese healing week","A respectful, well-mediated encounter with a living tradition — and honest that it is not medicine.",[213,269],[1818,1819],"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.",[1821,1822,1823],"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",[1825,1826,1827],"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",[1829,1836,1842],{"title":1830,"days":1209,"body":1831,"points":1832},"Arriving","An orientation to the tradition and its boundaries, the first healing session, and the plant-based kitchen.",[1833,1834,1835],"Orientation to usada","First healing session","Water purification",{"title":1159,"days":1837,"body":1838,"points":1839},"Days 3–4","Daily sessions with the practitioners, yoga, and time on the river.",[1840,1487,1841],"Daily practitioner sessions","Plant-based kitchen",{"title":1843,"days":1844,"body":1845,"points":1846},"Closing","Day 5","A closing session and a frank conversation about what does and does not transfer home.",[1847,1848],"Closing session","What transfers, discussed honestly","Two to three hours are fixed. It is the gentlest schedule here.",[1851,1853,1855,1857,1861,1862,1864,1867],{"time":661,"what":1852},"Wake to the river",{"time":473,"what":1854},"Yoga in the bamboo shala",{"time":816,"what":1856},"Breakfast — plant-based",{"time":1858,"what":1859,"note":1860},"11:00","Healing session","With a named practitioner, roughly ninety minutes.",{"time":1357,"what":820},{"time":965,"what":674,"note":1863},"Most guests sit by the water.",{"time":677,"what":1865,"note":1866},"Water purification or bodywork","On two days of the five.",{"time":1101,"what":1102},[1869,1870,1871,1487,1741],"Five nights","Daily healing sessions with named practitioners","All plant-based meals",[1743,1744],[1874,1877],{"start":1875,"end":1876,"note":851,"places":370},"2026-09-20","2026-09-25",{"start":1878,"end":1879,"note":851,"places":986},"2027-04-18","2027-04-23",[1881],{"q":1882,"a":1883},"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",[1887,1891,1896],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":1762,"sharing":1888,"single":1889,"note":1767},{"amount":50,"currency":51},{"amount":1890,"currency":51},2490,{"band":557,"label":558,"months":1769,"sharing":1892,"single":1894,"note":1774},{"amount":1893,"currency":51},2350,{"amount":1895,"currency":51},2820,{"band":566,"label":567,"months":1776,"sharing":1897,"single":1899,"note":1781},{"amount":1898,"currency":51},2730,{"amount":1900,"currency":51},3290,[1902,1905],{"nights":370,"label":1903,"factor":41,"note":1904,"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":847,"label":1250,"factor":736,"note":1906},"The version with room to let each session settle before the next.",[1908,1912,1915,1918],{"value":1909,"label":1910,"detail":1911},"5","healing sessions","With Balinese healers in the usada tradition, not with spa therapists working from a menu.",{"value":602,"label":1913,"detail":1914},"water purification","The melukat ritual on the river, done properly and explained beforehand.",{"value":743,"label":1916,"detail":1917},"hours of yoga and movement","In the bamboo pavilion over the Ayung.",{"value":1180,"label":1919,"detail":1920},"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":1923,"team":1924,"consultations":1925},"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":1890,"currency":51},{"slug":1929,"name":1930,"resortSlug":159,"modalitySlug":58,"hook":1931,"intention":202,"concerns":1932,"nights":617,"groupSize":576,"intensity":618,"overview":1933,"suitedTo":1936,"notSuitedTo":1941,"phases":1945,"dayShape":1962,"sampleDay":1963,"included":1984,"excluded":1988,"departures":1991,"faqs":2004,"image":2011,"imageAlt":2012,"featured":365,"bands":2013,"durations":2034,"counted":2045,"priceIncludes":2058,"care":2059,"price":2063,"singlePrice":2064,"resortName":160,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":54,"destinationName":55,"country":56},"kamalaya-burnout","Burnout & sleep","The programme this house is genuinely best at — and the one we recommend instead of its detox.",[202,208,213,274],[1934,1935],"A wellness consultation on arrival assigns the programme, and a multidisciplinary team — traditional Chinese medicine, naturopathy, Ayurveda, Thai medicine and psychology — delivers it. Twenty years of running the same structure gives it an unusually long track record.","The house is built around a cave that Buddhist monks used for meditation retreat, and the meditation content is taken seriously rather than added on. The site is steep; ask for a room near the centre if stairs matter.",[1937,1938,1939,1940],"Sustained overwork that sleep no longer repairs","Anyone who wants a multidisciplinary team rather than a single tradition","Guests who will use the meditation content rather than skip it","A first Asian wellness programme",[1942,1943,1944],"Anyone with significant mobility limitation — the site is steep and stepped","Guests who came for the detox; we do not sell the colon hydrotherapy and we will tell you why","October to December, the island’s genuine wet season",[1946,1951,1959],{"title":474,"days":1209,"body":1947,"points":1948},"A wellness consultation, bio-impedance and stress assessment, and a programme assigned across the disciplines.",[1949,1950,1702],"Multidisciplinary consultation","Stress and body-composition assessment",{"title":1952,"days":1953,"body":1954,"points":1955},"The work","Days 3–8","Daily treatments across TCM, Thai bodywork and naturopathy, with meditation, breathwork and a structured sleep protocol.",[1956,1957,1958],"Daily treatments","Meditation in the monks’ cave","Structured sleep protocol",{"title":1588,"days":649,"body":1960,"points":1961},"A written continuation plan and a follow-up consultation at six weeks.",[1715,693],"Four to five hours are fixed. The meditation content is the part guests skip and later regret skipping.",[1964,1965,1968,1971,1972,1975,1976,1978,1980,1982],{"time":657,"what":1080},{"time":661,"what":1966,"note":1967},"Meditation in the monks' cave","Twenty minutes. This is the oldest thing on the property.",{"time":1969,"what":1970},"07:45","Yoga or qi gong",{"time":816,"what":665},{"time":1237,"what":1973,"note":1974},"Treatment block","Two treatments across TCM, Thai bodywork and naturopathy, per your assignment.",{"time":1357,"what":820},{"time":965,"what":1977},"Free — or a consultation",{"time":493,"what":1979},"Breathwork or a second treatment",{"time":827,"what":1981},"Sunset sit above the sea",{"time":1101,"what":1983},"Dinner, finished early",[1786,1985,1739,691,1986,1987,693],"Arrival consultation and assessments","Meditation, yoga and breathwork","Airport transfers from Samui",[1989,1990,1745],"Flights and insurance — flights quoted separately","Colon hydrotherapy, which we do not include or recommend",[1992,1995,1999],{"start":1749,"end":1993,"note":1994,"places":986},"2026-09-24","Quiet season",{"start":1996,"end":1997,"note":1998,"places":13},"2027-02-08","2027-02-18","Best weather",{"start":2000,"end":2001,"note":2002,"places":2003},"2027-03-15","2027-03-25","Dry",11,[2005,2008],{"q":2006,"a":2007},"Why not the detox programme?","Because its core is colon hydrotherapy and juice fasting, and the evidence for the former is poor while the risks — electrolyte disturbance, dehydration, rarely perforation — are real. The supervised fasting has a better case. If you want a detox we will discuss it with the physician on site, but we will not sell you the colonics.",{"q":2009,"a":2010},"How steep is steep?","Genuinely steep. The property is built into a hillside above the sea and some rooms involve a hundred-odd steps. Say so at booking and they will place you centrally; do not discover it on arrival.","photo-1516815231560-8f41ec531527","Clear shallow water on a Thai island",[2014,2021,2027],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":2015,"sharing":2016,"single":2018,"note":2020},"October to December",{"amount":2017,"currency":51},5630,{"amount":2019,"currency":51},6780,"Samui runs on its own monsoon calendar and takes its rain when the rest of Thailand is dry. Rates fall sharply and the island empties.",{"band":557,"label":558,"months":1769,"sharing":2022,"single":2024,"note":2026},{"amount":2023,"currency":51},6400,{"amount":2025,"currency":51},7680,"Hot, bright and quiet. Very good value for a treatment stay.",{"band":566,"label":567,"months":2028,"sharing":2029,"single":2031,"note":2033},"January to March, July and August",{"amount":2030,"currency":51},7420,{"amount":2032,"currency":51},8960,"The dry northern-winter months and the European summer. The island is busy and the rates reflect it.",[2035,2038,2040,2042],{"nights":847,"label":1159,"factor":2036,"note":2037},0.74,"Enough to stop. Not always enough to start again.",{"nights":617,"label":1649,"factor":41,"note":2039,"recommended":365},"The length the burnout protocols are written for, and the one we book most.",{"nights":576,"label":735,"factor":1653,"note":2041},"Where the exhaustion is measured in years. The extra four nights are the consolidation.",{"nights":408,"label":1165,"factor":2043,"note":2044},1.94,"Rare, and prescribed rather than chosen.",[2046,2049,2051,2055],{"value":2047,"label":1795,"detail":2048},"22+","Across naturopathic, traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic modalities, assigned from the consultation.",{"value":1298,"label":1177,"detail":2050},"Wellness assessment, bio-impedance, nutrition and a life-coaching session.",{"value":2052,"label":2053,"detail":2054},"70+","practitioners on staff","Naturopaths, nurses, nutritionists, TCM practitioners, physiotherapists and yoga teachers — the largest clinical team in this atlas.",{"value":1020,"label":2056,"detail":2057},"classes a week","Yoga, qi gong, meditation, fitness and the seminar programme, all included and all optional.","Per person for ten nights, including the room, all programme meals, the treatment hours below, the wellness consultation and bio-impedance assessment, the full daily class timetable and return airport transfers — which the house includes for every guest on a wellness programme. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":2060,"team":2061,"consultations":2062},"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":2017,"currency":51},{"amount":2019,"currency":51},{"slug":2066,"name":2067,"resortSlug":162,"modalitySlug":12,"hook":2068,"intention":2069,"concerns":2070,"nights":617,"groupSize":2071,"intensity":913,"overview":2072,"suitedTo":2075,"notSuitedTo":2080,"phases":2084,"dayShape":2103,"sampleDay":2104,"included":2123,"excluded":2126,"departures":2128,"faqs":2133,"image":2137,"imageAlt":2138,"bands":2139,"durations":2153,"counted":2161,"priceIncludes":2175,"care":2176,"price":2180,"singlePrice":2181,"resortName":163,"resortCharacter":138,"destinationSlug":54,"destinationName":55,"country":56},"absolute-yoga-immersion","Yoga immersion","A serious daily practice schedule at a third of what the flagship houses charge.","learn",[225],16,[2073,2074],"A large, genuinely busy daily schedule — vinyasa, yin, Pilates and pranayama — with enough choice that an experienced practitioner and a relative beginner can both fill a day usefully.","It is the affordable one, and that is the point: the format spread from Samui because this house priced a serious programme at a third of the flagship rate.",[2076,2077,2078,2079],"Building a daily practice habit over ten consecutive days","Anyone wanting volume and variety rather than a single lineage","Guests on a budget who still want structure","Sociable travellers — this is the friendliest house on the list",[2081,2082,2083],"Anyone wanting a single-lineage immersion; the schedule is deliberately eclectic","Guests who dislike a busy, compact property","Anyone here for the detox programmes, which we do not sell",[2085,2091,2098],{"title":2086,"days":633,"body":2087,"points":2088},"Settling","Finding the classes that suit you, and an honest assessment of what your practice can absorb daily.",[2089,1213,2090],"Schedule orientation","Two to three classes daily",{"title":2092,"days":641,"body":2093,"points":2094},"Volume","Three to four classes a day if you want them, with bodywork twice in the week to keep the load survivable.",[2095,2096,2097],"Three to four classes daily","Thai bodywork twice weekly","Pranayama daily",{"title":2099,"days":649,"body":2100,"points":2101},"Consolidating","A written home schedule that is realistic about the week you will actually go back to.",[2102,1716],"Written home schedule","Nothing is compulsory. Most guests settle at two classes a day and add a third on good days.",[2105,2108,2109,2112,2113,2115,2117,2119,2120],{"time":661,"what":2106,"note":2107},"Morning vinyasa","Ninety minutes.",{"time":959,"what":665},{"time":1237,"what":2110,"note":2111},"Pilates or a second practice","Optional, and about half the group goes.",{"time":485,"what":820},{"time":489,"what":674,"note":2114},"Beach, pool, or sleep.",{"time":1095,"what":2116},"Yin or restorative",{"time":1098,"what":2118},"Pranayama and meditation",{"time":497,"what":1102},{"time":2121,"what":2122},"20:00","Optional evening talk",[1786,2124,2125,691,1987],"Unlimited daily classes","Two Thai bodywork sessions",[1989,2127],"Detox and colonic programmes, which we do not sell",[2129,2131],{"start":1748,"end":2130,"note":1994,"places":394},"2026-09-17",{"start":1260,"end":2132,"note":2002,"places":2071},"2027-03-11",[2134],{"q":2135,"a":2136},"Will three classes a day break me?","It might, and the teachers will tell you so. Most guests settle at two and add a third on good days. The point of ten nights is consistency, not heroics.","photo-1544367567-0f2fcb009e0b","A held posture in silhouette at sunset",[2140,2144,2149],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":2015,"sharing":2141,"single":2142,"note":2020},{"amount":60,"currency":51},{"amount":2143,"currency":51},2280,{"band":557,"label":558,"months":1769,"sharing":2145,"single":2147,"note":2026},{"amount":2146,"currency":51},2150,{"amount":2148,"currency":51},2580,{"band":566,"label":567,"months":2028,"sharing":2150,"single":2151,"note":2033},{"amount":1890,"currency":51},{"amount":2152,"currency":51},3010,[2154,2156,2159],{"nights":847,"label":1159,"factor":2036,"note":2155},"A solid immersion for a first serious yoga stay.",{"nights":617,"label":2157,"factor":41,"note":2158,"recommended":365},"The immersion","The length at which a practice changes rather than merely resumes.",{"nights":576,"label":735,"factor":1653,"note":2160},"For teachers and long-term practitioners, or anyone building towards a training.",[2162,2165,2168,2171],{"value":1538,"label":2163,"detail":2164},"classes available","A very full daily timetable — yoga, pilates, muay thai, meditation and breathwork, all included.",{"value":1909,"label":2166,"detail":2167},"personal sessions","One to one, to correct what a group class cannot see.",{"value":1025,"label":2169,"detail":2170},"studios","Plus a reformer pilates studio, which very few houses at this price have.",{"value":2172,"label":2173,"detail":2174},"15","minutes from the airport","The shortest transfer in this atlas, which matters more than it sounds after a long-haul.","Per person for ten nights, including the room, all meals from the health kitchen, the full class timetable, the personal sessions below and return transfers from Samui airport, fifteen minutes away. Flights quoted separately.",{"supervision":2177,"team":2178,"consultations":2179},"Wellness consultants and a large yoga faculty. There is no physician here and the supervision is lighter than at the medical houses — we would rather say that than let the page imply otherwise.","Personal sessions are one to one; everything else is a timetable you can take as much or as little of as you want.","An opening wellness consultation and a closing review.",{"amount":60,"currency":51},{"amount":2143,"currency":51},{"slug":2183,"name":390,"resortSlug":192,"modalitySlug":112,"hook":2184,"intention":225,"concerns":2185,"nights":576,"groupSize":41,"intensity":409,"overview":2186,"suitedTo":2189,"notSuitedTo":2194,"phases":2199,"dayShape":2219,"sampleDay":2220,"included":2243,"excluded":2247,"departures":2251,"faqs":2263,"image":2270,"imageAlt":2271,"bands":2272,"durations":2294,"counted":2303,"priceIncludes":2318,"care":2319,"price":2323,"singlePrice":2324,"resortName":193,"resortCharacter":174,"destinationSlug":109,"destinationName":110,"country":92},"lanserhof-mayr-cure","Medically supervised digestive rest at the house that invented the category — and the first three days are genuinely miserable.",[218,225,242],[2187,2188],"A medical intake with blood work on arrival, then a graded and deliberately dull diet — beginning for most guests with broth and a stale roll you are taught to chew thirty times — with manual abdominal treatment, magnesium, and nothing to eat after early evening.","The point is a digestive rest with a doctor watching. Days two and three are unpleasant for almost everybody as caffeine and sugar come out, and the house says so before you book rather than after.",[2190,2191,2192,2193],"Bloating, reflux and functional digestive complaints already investigated and found structurally normal","A metabolic reset — insulin resistance, visceral fat, weight that will not move","Anyone whose eating rhythm has drifted into late nights and grazing","Guests who want a genuinely medical fortnight with diagnostics attached",[2195,2196,2197,2198],"Any history of an eating disorder — the restriction and the weighing are inappropriate and we decline","Pregnancy and breastfeeding","Type 1 diabetes, and type 2 on insulin or sulfonylureas, without your own doctor’s written plan","Anyone underweight, or over seventy without a cardiology review",[2200,2207,2213],{"title":2201,"days":633,"body":2202,"points":2203},"Intake","Physician examination, bloods, body composition and a diet assigned. Then the hard part: caffeine and sugar come out and most guests have a headache by the second evening.",[2204,2205,2206],"Medical intake and bloods","Diet assigned individually","Chewing training begins",{"title":1453,"days":935,"body":2208,"points":2209},"Manual abdominal treatment daily, a graded diet that widens slowly, magnesium, and prescribed graded walking on the hill outside.",[2210,2211,2212],"Daily abdominal treatment","Graded diet","Prescribed daily walking",{"title":2214,"days":943,"body":2215,"points":2216},"Rebuilding","Food is reintroduced on a schedule, with a written eating protocol for the three months that follow and a repeat blood panel.",[2217,2218,1074],"Structured reintroduction","Repeat bloods","Three hours are fixed, and the walking is prescribed rather than offered. The rest of the day is quiet by design.",[2221,2223,2225,2228,2231,2234,2236,2238,2240],{"time":661,"what":2222},"Wake, and weigh",{"time":473,"what":665,"note":2224},"Broth and a stale roll, chewed thirty times. It takes twenty-five minutes and it is meant to.",{"time":1085,"what":2226,"note":2227},"Physician contact","Brief, daily, and it changes the day's diet.",{"time":816,"what":2229,"note":2230},"Manual abdominal treatment","Twenty minutes, and the part guests are most sceptical of before and most attached to after.",{"time":668,"what":2232,"note":2233},"Prescribed walk","Graded by the doctor. The hill is part of the treatment.",{"time":485,"what":820,"note":2235},"The largest meal, which is not saying much in week one.",{"time":489,"what":2237},"Rest, or a diagnostic appointment",{"time":1095,"what":2239},"Second treatment or the sauna",{"time":827,"what":2241,"note":2242},"Supper — and nothing after it","The eating window closes here. This is non-negotiable.",[973,2244,2245,1486,2246,652],"Full medical intake, bloods and closing panel","Daily physician contact and manual treatment","Guided graded walking",[2248,1744,2249,2250],"Flights or rail — both quoted separately, and we book European rail","Diagnostics beyond the standard panel","Any food not on the prescribed diet — there is none available",[2252,2255,2259],{"start":2253,"end":1875,"note":2254,"places":41},"2026-09-06","Late summer",{"start":2256,"end":2257,"note":2258,"places":41},"2027-05-16","2027-05-30","Alpine spring",{"start":2260,"end":2261,"note":2262,"places":41},"2027-06-13","2027-06-27","Long light",[2264,2267],{"q":2265,"a":2266},"How bad are the first days?","Headache, fatigue and hunger, peaking on day two or three. Taper caffeine at home for a fortnight beforehand and it is markedly easier. Everybody who has done it says the same thing about day four.",{"q":2268,"a":2269},"Does the theory hold up?","Partly. Supervised caloric restriction, chewing training and a strict eating rhythm plausibly explain most of the benefit, and those are well supported. The more specific diagnostic claims made for abdominal palpation are not. Go for the structure and the supervision.","photo-1501785888041-af3ef285b470","An Alpine lake below the Tyrolean mountains",[2273,2280,2287],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":2274,"sharing":2275,"single":2277,"note":2279},"November to February",{"amount":2276,"currency":34},8620,{"amount":2278,"currency":34},10390,"Short days and snow. Both Mayr houses run all winter and it is the least expensive time to take a cure — which, given you will be indoors and fasting, is worth thinking about seriously.",{"band":557,"label":558,"months":2281,"sharing":2282,"single":2284,"note":2286},"March and April",{"amount":2283,"currency":34},9800,{"amount":2285,"currency":34},11760,"The thaw. Changeable föhn weather, and the quietest weeks of the year at both houses.",{"band":566,"label":567,"months":2288,"sharing":2289,"single":2291,"note":2293},"May to October",{"amount":2290,"currency":34},11370,{"amount":2292,"currency":34},13720,"Alpine walking from the door, long light evenings, and the months everybody wants. Book six months out.",[2295,2298,2301],{"nights":847,"label":1159,"factor":2296,"note":2297},0.56,"The shortest cure the house takes. Enough to be uncomfortable, rarely enough to be changed.",{"nights":576,"label":2299,"factor":41,"note":2300,"recommended":365},"The classical cure","The length modern Mayr medicine is written around, and the one the physicians will recommend.",{"nights":408,"label":1165,"factor":879,"note":2302},"For metabolic and inflammatory presentations, and where the diagnostics find something worth working on.",[2304,2307,2311,2315],{"value":890,"label":2305,"detail":2306},"days of prescribed diet","In stages, decided at the medical examination and revised through the cure. There is no menu and nothing to choose.",{"value":2308,"label":2309,"detail":2310},"6+","medical examinations","Including diagnostics and laboratory work on site, at the start, through and at the end.",{"value":2312,"label":2313,"detail":2314},"10+","manual treatments","Abdominal treatment is the core Mayr technique and it is a physician's or therapist's hands, not a machine.",{"value":2316,"label":1670,"detail":2317},"900","On the Lans plateau above Innsbruck, with walking from the door — which is prescribed rather than offered.","Per person for fourteen nights, including the room, the prescribed Mayr diet at every stage, the medical examinations and diagnostics listed below, manual abdominal treatment, the movement programme and use of the thermal area. Transfers from Innsbruck and flights are quoted separately.",{"supervision":2320,"team":2321,"consultations":2322},"Physicians trained in modern Mayr medicine alongside internists, with diagnostics and laboratory work carried out on site.","Every stay opens with a medical examination and the diet is prescribed from it. Manual abdominal treatment runs through the cure.","An opening examination, regular medical reviews through the cure and a departure consultation with a protocol for home.",{"amount":2276,"currency":34},{"amount":2278,"currency":34},{"slug":2326,"name":2327,"resortSlug":195,"modalitySlug":112,"hook":2328,"intention":73,"concerns":2329,"nights":617,"groupSize":41,"intensity":913,"overview":2330,"suitedTo":2333,"notSuitedTo":2338,"phases":2342,"dayShape":2361,"sampleDay":2362,"included":2381,"excluded":2385,"departures":2387,"faqs":2397,"image":2404,"imageAlt":2405,"bands":2406,"durations":2420,"counted":2431,"priceIncludes":2443,"care":2444,"price":2448,"singlePrice":2449,"resortName":196,"resortCharacter":174,"destinationSlug":109,"destinationName":110,"country":92},"park-igls-metabolic","The metabolic week","The most clinical Mayr week available, at roughly half what the flagship houses charge.",[218,225,73,274],[2331,2332],"A diagnostic and metabolic week built on the Mayr method: bloods, body composition, cardiovascular assessment and a graded diet, with unhurried physician consultations that are the reason people choose this house over its glossier neighbours.","At roughly 900 m above Innsbruck, with the graded walking the cure depends on directly outside the door — prescribed rather than suggested.",[2334,2335,2336,2337],"A metabolic baseline you will actually act on — insulin resistance, lipids, visceral fat","Anyone who wants the medicine without the destination-spa dressing","Guests comparing Mayr houses on clinical quality rather than architecture","A first cure, where value matters",[2339,2340,2341],"Any history of an eating disorder","Anyone expecting a luxury hotel — it is a comfortable Alpine house and no more","Pregnancy, and diabetes on insulin without your own doctor’s written plan",[2343,2350,2356],{"title":2344,"days":633,"body":2345,"points":2346},"Baseline","Physician examination, full metabolic bloods, body composition and cardiovascular assessment, then a diet assigned from the findings.",[2347,2348,2349],"Metabolic blood panel","Body composition","Cardiovascular assessment",{"title":1453,"days":641,"body":2351,"points":2352},"Manual abdominal treatment, graded diet, magnesium and prescribed daily walking on the hill, with a mid-week physician review.",[2353,2354,2355],"Daily manual treatment","Prescribed graded walking","Mid-week review",{"title":2357,"days":649,"body":2358,"points":2359},"The protocol","Repeat bloods, a written protocol covering eating rhythm, exercise and anything needing your own doctor’s attention.",[2218,652,2360],"Referral letter where indicated","Three hours are fixed. The consultations are unhurried, which is the main reason regulars choose this house.",[2363,2365,2367,2370,2371,2373,2374,2377,2379],{"time":661,"what":2364},"Wake, weigh, and bloods on assessment days",{"time":1969,"what":665,"note":2366},"Graded to your assignment; chewing training from day one.",{"time":959,"what":2368,"note":2369},"Physician consultation","Unhurried — twenty minutes, not five.",{"time":481,"what":2229},{"time":1237,"what":2372},"Prescribed walk on the hill",{"time":485,"what":820},{"time":489,"what":2375,"note":2376},"Rest or diagnostics","Cardio-pulmonary testing and body composition fall here.",{"time":1095,"what":2378},"Treatment or the thermal suite",{"time":827,"what":2380},"Supper, and the eating window closes",[2382,2383,2245,1486,2246,2384],"Ten nights, at the occupancy you are quoted for","Full diagnostic panel on arrival and departure","Written protocol and referral letter where indicated",[2248,1744,2386],"Imaging beyond the standard assessment",[2388,2390,2393],{"start":1875,"end":2389,"note":1258,"places":41},"2026-09-30",{"start":2391,"end":2392,"note":2258,"places":41},"2027-05-09","2027-05-19",{"start":2394,"end":2395,"note":2396,"places":41},"2027-07-04","2027-07-14","High summer walking",[2398,2401],{"q":2399,"a":2400},"Is this really \"longevity\"?","It is metabolic medicine, which is the part of the longevity conversation that has evidence behind it. Nobody here will sell you an infusion or a cell therapy, and if that is what you were looking for we would rather lose the booking.",{"q":2402,"a":2403},"Lanserhof or Park Igls?","Park Igls if you want the most clinical tone and the best value; Lanserhof if you want the diagnostics and the architecture and do not mind paying for both. We will tell you plainly which one your answers point at.","photo-1520769945061-0a448c463865","An Alpine meadow above the Inn valley",[2407,2411,2415],{"band":549,"label":550,"months":2274,"sharing":2408,"single":2409,"note":2279},{"amount":114,"currency":34},{"amount":2410,"currency":34},5190,{"band":557,"label":558,"months":2281,"sharing":2412,"single":2414,"note":2286},{"amount":2413,"currency":34},4900,{"amount":1780,"currency":34},{"band":566,"label":567,"months":2288,"sharing":2416,"single":2418,"note":2293},{"amount":2417,"currency":34},5680,{"amount":2419,"currency":34},6860,[2421,2423,2426,2428],{"nights":847,"label":1159,"factor":2036,"note":2422},"The house's short cure. Real, and the physicians will tell you what it cannot do.",{"nights":617,"label":2424,"factor":41,"note":2425,"recommended":365},"The metabolic cure","Long enough for the laboratory work at the end to mean something against the work at the start.",{"nights":576,"label":735,"factor":736,"note":2427},"The classical length, and what we would book given the choice.",{"nights":408,"label":1165,"factor":2429,"note":2430},1.88,"For long-standing metabolic presentations.",[2432,2434,2437,2440],{"value":743,"label":2305,"detail":2433},"In stages, from the medical examination, revised as the cure progresses.",{"value":2435,"label":2309,"detail":2436},"5+","With laboratory work at the start and the end, so the result is measured rather than felt.",{"value":2438,"label":2313,"detail":2439},"8+","Abdominal treatment, the core of the method.",{"value":602,"label":2441,"detail":2442},"genuine single-room house","A large proportion of the rooms here are real singles rather than doubles sold for sole use — which for a solo guest is a material difference in the price.","Per person for ten nights, including the room, the prescribed Mayr diet at every stage, medical examinations and diagnostics, manual abdominal treatment, the movement programme and the sauna and pool. Transfers from Innsbruck and flights are quoted separately.",{"supervision":2445,"team":2446,"consultations":2447},"Physicians trained in modern Mayr medicine, with diagnostics and laboratory work on site and therapists for manual abdominal treatment.","The medical density here is comparable to its better-known neighbours; the difference is in the building, not the medicine.","An opening examination, reviews through the cure and a closing consultation with laboratory work repeated.",{"amount":114,"currency":34},{"amount":2410,"currency":34},1788864740922]