Yoga · AyurSoma · Kerala
Ayur Yoga Retreat
AyurSoma’s Hatha yoga retreat with an Ayurveda package — Rejuvenation or Body Purification — sold as seven or fourteen nights.
What this actually is
The programme
- Accommodation in the room category booked
- Ayurveda treatments as per the package
- The yoga and meditation retreat programme
- Ayurvedic vegetarian full board
The Ayur Yoga Retreat is AyurSoma’s classic Hatha yoga retreat combined with an Ayurveda package — Rejuvenation Therapy or Body Purification — with Ayurvedic vegetarian full board, per the tariff.
The tariff’s timetable has three yoga and two meditation sessions a day: meditation with advanced or beginners’ yoga in the morning, and meditation with intermediate yoga in the evening. A version without treatment, the Shanti Yoga Retreat, is sold too.
Is this your kind of stay?
Who it suits — and who it doesn’t
Travel-planning guidance. Medical suitability is for your own doctor and the qualified team at the property.
Consider this if
- Yoga at any level — classes run for beginners, intermediate and advanced
- A first Ayurveda stay alongside a yoga practice
Consider another option if
- Anyone wanting yoga without treatment — the Shanti Yoga Retreat is the version without Ayurveda
Price & inclusions
What it costs, and what is in it
7 nights, sharing a Hill View Palace Deluxe Room
The price includes: Accommodation, the yoga and meditation retreat programme, the Ayurveda package’s treatments and Ayurvedic vegetarian full board.
Counted, so you can compare
- 3yoga sessions a day
Plus two 30-minute meditations, per the tariff’s timetable.
- 7nights
It also sells a 14-night package.
Included
- Accommodation in the room category booked
- Ayurveda treatments as per the package
- The yoga and meditation retreat programme
- Ayurvedic vegetarian full board
- Initial, daily and final consultation by the doctor
- Airport transfer from Thiruvananthapuram, complimentary
- A half-day country-boat backwater tour, from 14 nights
Not included
- A specific room on request, at 5% extra
- A €60 per person New Year gala dinner, mandatory on packages
Cancellation. Every property sets its own terms, and they change. Your written quote includes the current property and travel-supplier conditions before you confirm anything.
Where you stay
AyurSoma
The Somatheeram group’s flagship, built in Kerala temple-and-palace style on the hill beside Somatheeram, with sea-view rooms, an infinity pool and private treatment rooms in its top categories.
Worth knowing: It is the group’s most expensive house: a Rejuvenation week in its entry room costs about half as much again as at Somatheeram, and the pool villa more than three times as much. The whole booking is paid in advance, cancelling within 30 days costs all of it, and a €60 New Year gala dinner is mandatory on packages.
The full profileWho looks after you
Supervision, by qualification and number
Teams are described by role and qualification rather than by name, because staffing changes. The property confirms the current team and how practitioners are assigned before or on arrival.
- Clinical supervision
- The tariff states every package includes an initial, daily and final consultation by the doctor, who prescribes the treatment and takes the final decision on the programme.
- The team around you
- The tariff lists three yoga and meditation halls facing the beach; it does not publish staff numbers.
- Consultations
- Initial, daily and final consultation by the doctor, according to the tariff.
Make a trip of it
Before, during and after your 7 nights
The excursions and extra stays we arrange in Kerala, placed by when to take each — a good day out on the wrong day of a treatment course is not a good day out.
Before you begin
Arrive early — see the country while you are fresh
Extra stay · 3 nights
Kochi & the backwaters
The obvious and correct opener: fort Kochi, a barge night, and an unhurried arrival into the time zone before anyone takes your pulse.
Nature · Overnight, or a half day
A night on the backwaters
A converted rice barge from Alleppey through the Kuttanad channels. The overnight is worth it; the three-hour version is a queue of identical boats.
Culture · Full day
Fort Kochi and Mattancherry
The Chinese fishing nets, the Paradesi synagogue, the Dutch Palace murals and a spice-market walk. Five hundred years of Portuguese, Dutch and Jewish Kochi in one walkable afternoon.
During the stay
Light enough for a rest day or a free afternoon
Ayur Yoga Retreat · 7 nights at AyurSomaCulture · 3 hours
Kathakali, properly
Arrive an hour early to watch the make-up go on — it is the better half. Ask us for the Kochi hall that still plays to Malayali audiences rather than the tourist matinée.
Culture · 2 hours
The oil kitchen and the pharmacy
At the houses that still compound their own preparations, ask to be shown the room. Most will say yes and few guests think to ask. It is the single most convincing hour of the fortnight.
After you finish
The reward, once the treatment is done
Extra stay · 5 nights
The Golden Triangle
Delhi, Agra and Jaipur on the way home. Long flights internally and worth every one of them if it is a first trip to India.
Extra stay · 4 nights
Tamil Nadu temples
Madurai, Thanjavur and Chettinad — the living Dravidian south, three hours east and a different civilisation.
Nature · Full day, or two nights
A tea estate day in Munnar
Four hours up from Kochi into the Western Ghats at 1,600 m. Genuinely cold, entirely different country. Too far and too long for a treatment rest day — take it before or after.
Nature · Two nights
Periyar, for the elephants
A tiger reserve where you will not see a tiger and will see elephant, gaur and hornbill. A boat on the lake at dawn is the version worth doing.
Begin with a conversation
Plan your 7 nights at AyurSoma
Tell us your dates and who is travelling. A specialist comes back with a written quote for the stay, the treatments, the flights and the transfers.
- 1
Share your plan
Two minutes: when you would like to start, how long, your nationality and your WhatsApp number.
- 2
Talk it through
A wellness travel specialist picks it up on WhatsApp or a free call — length, room, season, and whether this is the right house for you.
- 3
Your written quote
Room, dates, treatments, flights and transfers in one quote, with the current cancellation terms.
- 4
Confirm when ready
Nothing is paid until you confirm in writing. One team then looks after the whole journey.