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menu to order from.","Its Ayurveda track is sold from a fourteen-night minimum, which is a more useful signal of seriousness than any listing.","An hour from Rishikesh, so it pairs naturally with a yoga fortnight in the valley.","Minimum-stay programme retreats built around a consultation, with Sowa Rigpa available alongside Ayurveda.","14 nights minimum on the Ayurveda track","Upper band for India, and the Ayurveda programme is priced for stays from 14 days. Indicative — confirm the programme rate, which differs materially from the room rate.",[425,426],"Runs Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa and yoga under one clinical team","Ayurveda programmes sold from a 14-night minimum","The rebrand to Six Senses reportedly changed the management and, by several accounts, some of the austerity that made the original notable — we could not independently confirm the date of the transition. We list it because the clinical structure survives, but if you stayed in 2016 and are expecting exactly that, ask us what has changed before you book.","medium","photo-1476231682828-37e571bc172f","Forest canopy in the Himalayan foothills",[432,433,434,435],"Three traditions under one roof","Long retreats","Silence","Solo travellers","Somebody who wants Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa and yoga assessed together rather than picked from a menu — and who is content to wear the same house kurta as everyone else, eat what the kitchen sends and give up the phone in public areas. It is the least hotel-like of the comfortable houses.","Physicians in Ayurveda and in Sowa Rigpa, the Tibetan system, working alongside natural-therapy and yoga teams. The assessment on arrival decides which tradition leads, which is the whole argument for coming here rather than to a single-discipline house.",[439,442,445],{"name":440,"note":441},"Vana room","The standard category, in the low blocks in the sal forest. 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Several schools have a physician on site, which turns a hard four-week training into something the body survives.","The town is legally dry and vegetarian, which removes a set of decisions you would otherwise spend the month making.",[484,485,486,487,488],"Swami Sivananda founded the Divine Life Society at Muni Ki Reti, Rishikesh, in 1936.","Maharishi Mahesh Yogi established Chaurasi Kutia in 1963; the Beatles arrived in February 1968 and wrote much of the White Album during the stay.","Parmarth Niketan hosts the International Yoga Festival in the first week of March, supported by the Ministry of Tourism.","The UN General Assembly proclaimed 21 June the International Day of Yoga by resolution 69\u002F131 on 11 December 2014, with a record 175 co-sponsors.","Alcohol and non-vegetarian food are prohibited within Rishikesh municipal limits.","Yoga teaching is not a regulated profession anywhere, and Rishikesh is the sharp end of that. Yoga Alliance is a voluntary registry rather than an accreditor — an \"RYS 200\" listing certifies that a school filed a curriculum document, not that it teaches well or safely. There are several hundred schools here and we list three. The town is also crowded and noisy, and the river at Laxman Jhula is not the serene Ganga of the photographs; the good schools are up the valley for a reason.",[41,23,23,23,42,42,42,42,23,23,23,41],"February to April and late September to November: warm days, cold clear nights, and a river that is green rather than brown and in spate. July and August are landslide season in the hills. May and June are simply too hot for a full practice schedule, and December to January is cold enough that an unheated ashram room becomes a test of commitment.",[493,496,499,502,505],{"label":494,"value":495},"Airports","Dehradun (DED), forty minutes away, with frequent Delhi connections. 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The correct decompression after a month of teacher training.",{"name":610,"nights":603,"note":611,"side":595},"Amritsar & the Golden Temple","An overnight train or a short flight west. The langar kitchen feeds 50,000 people a day and it is the most moving hour in north India.",{"amount":25,"currency":17},7,14,{"slug":202,"name":203,"group":204,"said":205,"lede":616,"body":617,"whatHelps":621,"expect":628,"nights":634,"caution":635,"programmeSlugs":636,"resortSlugs":640,"image":641,"imageAlt":642,"programmeCount":13,"fromPrice":643},"The single most common reason people come to us, and the one that responds fastest to being somewhere else.",[618,619,620],"Broken sleep is rarely a sleep problem on its own. It arrives attached to something — a schedule, a screen, a stimulant, a worry, a menopause, a gut — and the reason a fortnight away can shift it when a year of sleep hygiene did not is that a residential programme changes all of those at once and holds them changed for long enough to matter.","What a good sleep programme actually does is unglamorous: it fixes your light exposure, moves your last meal three hours earlier, takes the caffeine out, puts a long slow treatment where your evening screen was, and gets you outside in the morning. The Ayurvedic and naturopathic houses dress that differently, and underneath they are all doing a version of the same thing — plus, in the Ayurvedic case, shirodhara, which is a warm oil stream on the forehead for forty minutes and is very hard to stay anxious through.","The measurable part matters. The houses that track your sleep and revise the programme on the data mid-stay get better results than the ones that hand you a questionnaire on arrival, and we will point you at the former.",[622,624,626],{"modalitySlug":11,"why":623},"Shirodhara and evening abhyanga are the classical interventions, and they are timed to the evening rather than the morning for exactly this reason. Add a narrowed, earlier diet and the digestion-sleep loop that keeps people awake at three tends to break.",{"modalitySlug":12,"why":625},"Yoga nidra and slow pranayama in the hour before bed do more for sleep onset than the asana practice does. Any competent house will make this the last thing on the timetable.",{"modalitySlug":58,"why":627},"The naturopathic houses in Thailand pair sleep tracking with bodywork and a strict evening protocol, which suits people who want a number at the end of it.",[629,630,631,632,633],"Your last meal moves to about six in the evening and stays there. Most guests find this harder than the treatments.","Caffeine goes on day one, and days two and three are unpleasant. That is the caffeine, not the programme.","A long passive treatment in the evening instead of a screen — shirodhara, abhyanga or a warm bath, most days.","Morning light and a walk before breakfast, prescribed rather than suggested.","A written night routine to take home, which is the part that decides whether the fortnight lasts.","Seven nights will shift the pattern. Ten to fourteen is what we book when sleep has been broken for more than a year, because the extra nights are consolidation rather than treatment.","Sleep that is broken by pain, by breathing, or by a mood disorder needs a diagnosis before it needs a retreat. Untreated obstructive sleep apnoea in particular will not respond to any of this and should be investigated at home first — snoring plus daytime sleepiness plus waking unrefreshed is the pattern to take to your GP. If you take a prescribed sleep medication, nothing on this site is a reason to stop it, and no physician at any house here will tell you to.",[637,638,639],"santani-sleep-reset","somatheeram-sleep","kamalaya-burnout",[146,159,140],"photo-1465101046530-73398c7f28ca","A clear night 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