15 concerns, each answered with what helps, what a fortnight can and cannot do, and where the evidence stops.
All concerns →Every destination, the season each one is genuinely best in, and the months we would talk you out of.
Open the atlas →The properties the world has actually heard of — and which of them we can book for you.
See them all →Wired at midnight, flat at four. The programme works on the clock before it works on the mind.
Per person. Sole occupancy is not half a double, and we would rather you saw both now.
What this actually is
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.
Read this part twice
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.
The shape of it
Days shift according to how you respond — that is the point of a daily review. This is the structure, not a timetable.
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.
Days 4–8
Shirodhara most evenings, abhyanga daily, herbs chosen for your constitution, and yoga nidra rather than asana in the afternoon.
Days 9–10
A written evening routine built around your actual household, and an honest conversation about which parts of it will survive.
A day, hour by hour
Roughly three hours are fixed. The evenings are the programme; the days are yours.
Where you stay
The property describes itself as the world’s first Ayurveda hospital run in a resort setting — a claim we attribute rather than assert, since Barberyn in Sri Lanka makes a parallel one — and it is unquestionably among the earliest.
Forty years of operation means forty years of building, and the estate is larger and busier than the boutique houses inland. If you want twelve guests and silence, Palakkad will suit you better; if you want the institution that invented this, it is here.
The full profile →Who looks after you
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.
Counted, so you can compare
Most of this industry publishes inclusions as a bulleted list, which cannot be compared between two programmes at two prices. These can.
Shirodhara and abhyanga daily, timed to the evening rather than the morning, because that is the point.
Daily review of sleep, digestion and mood, with the prescription adjusted each morning.
To take home, with a written night routine that matters more than the medicines.
Included, by video.
The money
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.
Long enough for the nervous system to change register and short enough to take out of one year's leave.
| Season | Sharing | Single |
|---|---|---|
| Low seasonJune to September | US$1,530 | US$1,840 |
| ShoulderOctober, November, April and May | US$1,740 | US$2,080 |
| High seasonDecember to March | US$2,010 | US$2,430 |
What the price is. 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.
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
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