By how you want to feel
Answer three questions — what you need, where, and when — and see the retreats that fit.
Open the retreat finderWellness resorts & clinics
By kind of place
Ayurveda · Ananda in the Himalayas · Rishikesh
Ananda’s Ayurvedic programme for immunity and vitality, sold at 7, 14 or 21 nights on the Palace Estate at Narendra Nagar.
Your retreat, at a glance
Ananda describes its Ayurvedic Rejuvenation and Immunity Booster as a programme of Ayurvedic treatments, a nourishing diet, rasayana (restorative) preparations and yoga, aimed at better immunity, energy, metabolism and skin. It sells it at 7, 14 or 21 nights, with other lengths allowed, in its Comprehensive and Intensive categories.
The brochure describes each length in turn. At 7 nights it works on digestive fire and circulation, with Purvakarma preparatory measures. The 14-night Sodhanam adds three to four days of intensive cleansing, then a prescribed aftercare diet. The 21-night Rasayanam moves on to rasayana therapy after two weeks of cleansing, with medicated enemas on five to six days.
The property says the listed inclusions can change: the lead consultant may alter them, or recommend further therapies, after assessing the guest on site.
Is this your kind of stay?
Travel-planning guidance. Medical suitability is for your own doctor and the qualified team at the property.
Price & inclusions
14 nights, sharing a Deluxe Garden View Room
The price includes: Accommodation, three meals a day, consultations, the programme’s therapies and personal sessions, group activities and hydrotherapy.
Ayurvedic and cleansing therapies over 14 nights; Intensive lists 35. The property says each therapy, session or consultation lasts 30 to 85 minutes.
Yoga, pranayama and meditation over 14 nights, the same in both categories.
Over 14 nights, as the brochure counts them, from pre-stay diagnostics through Ayurveda, emotional healing and physiotherapy to the post-stay follow-up.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner, as guided by the lead consultant.
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.
The shape of it
The structure as the property describes it — a shape, not a timetable.
7 nights
The property calls the 7-night option an introduction to detoxification. It works on digestive fire and circulation, and includes Purvakarma, preparatory measures the property says ready the body for major cleansing therapies.
14 nights, with 3 to 4 days of cleansing
The property describes intensive cleansing procedures over three to four days, aimed at eliminating toxins and balancing the doshas. Paschatkarma aftercare follows: a balanced diet and Ayurvedic daily routine matched to body type, which the property says hold the results and support metabolism.
21 nights
The property says that after two weeks of cleansing the body is more receptive to rasayana, a medicinal programme aimed at longevity and physical and mental capability. It says this length includes major cleansing treatments, such as medicated enemas, on five to six days.
A day, hour by hour
The property publishes one typical day for all guests: activities starting 7am to 10am and 4pm to 6pm, and spa treatments at 11am.
Where you stay
A wellness retreat on the 100-acre former palace estate of the Maharaja of Tehri-Garhwal, overlooking Rishikesh and the Ganga valley. Its press kit says it opened in 2000 as India’s first luxury wellness retreat.
Worth knowing: The property says it is a wellness destination, not a clinic, and that its therapies offer no immediate cures. Leaving early is charged 100% of the booked value with no refund. Children under 14 are not admitted, and some spa treatments are restricted for 14–18-year-olds. Several programmes start at 14 nights, and Panchakarma runs 21.
The full profileWho looks after you
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.
Questions
Make a trip of it
The excursions and extra stays we arrange in Rishikesh, placed by when to take each — a good day out on the wrong day of a treatment course is not a good day out.
Arrive early — see the country while you are fresh
Extra stay · 2 nights
Old Delhi, the Lodi tombs and a night’s sleep before the domestic hop. Fights jetlag and the Dehradun weather risk at once.
Culture · Half day
An hour downstream and several centuries older in feel — a pilgrimage town with none of Rishikesh’s yoga-school economy.
Light enough for a rest day or a free afternoon
Culture · Half day
Chaurasi Kutia, where the White Album was largely written in 1968 — now a ruin inside Rajaji reserve with a small entrance fee and a great deal of graffiti art. Melancholy and worth it.
Active · Half day, early
A short steep temple climb for the Himalayan range at first light — Bandarpunch, Gangotri, Chaukhamba. Leave at 04:30. Not compatible with a 05:30 practice start, so take it on a rest day.
Culture · 90 minutes, at dusk
The riverbank fire ceremony, every evening, free and unticketed. Go on your first night rather than your last — it sets the register for everything after it.
The reward, once the treatment is done
Extra stay · 4 nights
India’s oldest national park and then the quiet ridge villages above it. The correct decompression after a month of teacher training.
Extra stay · 2 nights
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.
Active · Half day
September to November and March to May, when the river is running. Excellent, cold, and firmly incompatible with any oil-therapy week — book it either side.
Begin with a conversation
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.
Two minutes: when you would like to start, how long, your nationality and your WhatsApp number.
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.
Room, dates, treatments, flights and transfers in one quote, with the current cancellation terms.
Nothing is paid until you confirm in writing. One team then looks after the whole journey.
