Measuring
Days 1–2
Consultation, a sleep history, and two nights simply observed before anything is changed.
- Sleep history and consultation
- Baseline observation
- Eating window set
AyurvedaSantani Wellness Resort · The Ayurveda coast, Sri Lanka
The sleep reset, 7 nights
A circadian reset at altitude in the Sri Lankan hill country, with cool nights doing half the work.
From · sharingUS$2,380
From · singleUS$2,870
Per person. Sole occupancy is not half a double, and we would rather you saw both now.
- Length
- 7 nights
- Group
- Max 8
- Intensity
- gentle
- Lengths
- 7 · 10 · 14 nights
- Discipline
- Ayurveda
What this actually is
The programme
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.
Intensity: Gentle — nothing dramatic. Every programme here carries this line, because "restorative" and "demanding" are sold with the same photographs.
Read this part twice
Who this is for, and who it is wrong for
Read the right-hand column as carefully as the left. It is the half that decides whether this is a good fortnight or a wasted one, and it is published before the price for that reason.
✓Book this if
- 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
✗Do not book this if
- 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
The shape of it
Day by day
Days shift according to how you respond — that is the point of a daily review. This is the structure, not a timetable.
Resetting
Days 3–6
Morning light exposure and walking, shirodhara and abhyanga in the late afternoon, dinner finished by seven and lamps down early.
- Morning light and walking
- Daily Ayurvedic treatment
- Fixed early dinner
Home
Day 7
A written evening routine built for your actual household, and a six-week follow-up.
- Written protocol
- Six-week follow-up
A day, hour by hour
What a Tuesday actually looks like
Under three hours are fixed. Light exposure and the eating window do most of the work.
- Wake and out into daylightMorning light is the intervention; the treatments are secondary.
- Walk in the tea terracesForty-five minutes, outdoors, whatever the weather.
- Breakfast — the eating window opens
- Consultation or free
- Lunch
- Free — and genuinely so
- Abhyanga or shirodhara
- Dinner — the eating window closesTwelve hours after breakfast, without exception.
- Lights warm and lowNo overhead light in the rooms after this hour.
Where you stay
Santani Wellness Resort
The contemporary hill-country alternative to the coastal Ayurveda houses — a minimalist property on a former tea estate at altitude.
Santani Wellness ResortThe hill country near Kandy · Sri Lanka
This is a beautifully-designed wellness hotel with a physician, not an Ayurveda hospital. If you need a full classical Panchakarma with daily physician review, the Beruwala houses do it more seriously and for less money. If you want the practice in a setting you will actually enjoy for a fortnight, this is the one.
The full profile →Who looks after you
Supervision, by qualification and number
You will not find a physician's name on this site. Staff move, and a page that names one is a page that quietly goes out of date — worse, it invites you to book a person no house can promise will be on shift. Assignment is made on arrival, from your examination, at every serious property here.
- Clinical supervision
- 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.
- The team around you
- Sixteen chalets in total, so the assessment is genuinely individual.
- Consultations
- An opening assessment with sleep tracking, a mid-stay revision and a departure protocol.
Your consultation is with our clinical desk, not a salesperson. The free call before you book is about whether this programme is right for you at all — and often enough it ends with a recommendation to go shorter, later, or somewhere we do not sell.
Counted, so you can compare
What is actually in it
Most of this industry publishes inclusions as a bulleted list, which cannot be compared between two programmes at two prices. These can.
- 7nights 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.
- 16+hours of therapy
Ayurvedic and physiotherapeutic, chosen from the assessment.
- 0clocks in the rooms
Deliberate. The single most effective intervention in the programme costs nothing.
- 500metres of altitude
In a tea valley above Kandy — several degrees cooler than the coast, and it matters for sleep.
The money
Prices, by season and occupancy
Both occupancies in every band, before you enquire rather than after. Sole occupancy is not half a double and never has been — publishing only the sharing rate quotes the minority of this market and surprises the rest.
Enough to break a pattern and go home with a protocol.
| Season | Sharing | Single |
|---|---|---|
| Low seasonMay to September | US$2,400 | US$2,830 |
| ShoulderApril, October and November | US$2,730 | US$3,270 |
| High seasonDecember to March | US$3,160 | US$3,820 |
- Low season. 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.
- Shoulder. Inter-monsoonal and changeable. Warm, green, and quiet.
- High season. Dry, calm sea, and the coast at its best. Book early — the good rooms at the good houses are gone by September.
What the price is. 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.
Illustrative, and held for seven days once we have quoted you in writing. Nothing on this site costs more for booking it through us.
The detail
What the price covers
Included
- Seven nights
- Daily consultation and treatment
- All meals
- Daily yoga and guided walks
- Transfers from Colombo or Kandy
Not included
- Flights, ETA and insurance — flights quoted separately
- Tips
Cancellation. Free to 30 days before arrival. Half between 30 and 14 days. Inside 14 days we hold the full amount as a credit for twelve months rather than keeping it — a cancelled treatment is usually a health reason.
Questions
The ones we are actually asked
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.