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 →Rebuilding rather than purifying, on a palace estate above the Ganga — the gentlest serious programme in the Himalaya.
Per person. Sole occupancy is not half a double, and we would rather you saw both now.
What this actually is
Rasayana is the branch of Ayurveda written for depletion — after treatment, after a hard birth, after a long illness, after three years of sixteen-hour days. Nothing is removed and everything is rebuilt: medicated ghee, gentle daily therapy, a widening rather than a narrowing diet.
It runs on a hundred-acre palace estate at a thousand metres with the valley below, which matters more than it sounds: guests who cannot face an austere clinic will actually complete a fortnight here.
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 1–4
A slower start than any other programme we sell: bloods, a long history, and four days of eating and sleeping to a schedule before therapy begins in earnest.
Days 5–11
Daily therapy chosen for building rather than moving — pizhichil, navarakizhi, medicated ghee — with a diet that adds rather than subtracts.
Days 12–14
A three-month protocol written with your actual life in it, and two follow-ups built in.
A day, hour by hour
Three to four hours are fixed. This is the least demanding schedule on the site, deliberately.
Where you stay
India’s first destination spa, on the Maharaja of Tehri Garhwal’s palace estate above the Ganga valley — and for twenty years the most decorated wellness address in Asia.
It is a luxury hotel that does wellness extremely well, not a clinic. If you want a medically austere Panchakarma with nothing else in it, Palakkad is the more honest answer and costs a good deal less. What Ananda gives you that Palakkad cannot is comfort, a view and a properly run spa — and for many people that is what makes a three-week programme survivable.
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.
Ayurvedic and cleansing therapies across the fourteen nights, in a spa of about twenty-five thousand square feet with twenty-four treatment rooms.
Yoga, pranayama and meditation one to one, in addition to the group timetable.
Ayurvedic assessment, an emotional-healing session, nutrition and the departure protocol.
With walking trails, meditation pavilions and the Ganges valley below.
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.
The length at which rasayana therapy actually does what it is named for.
| Season | Sharing | Single |
|---|---|---|
| Low seasonMay, June, July and August | US$5,220 | US$6,290 |
| ShoulderDecember, January and September | US$5,930 | US$7,110 |
| High seasonFebruary to April, October and November | US$6,880 | US$8,300 |
What the price is. Per person for fourteen nights in a valley-view room, including all meals from the wellness kitchen, the prescribed therapy hours, daily yoga and Vedanta, consultations, use of the hydrotherapy facilities and return airport transfers from Dehradun. 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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