Ayurveda · Somatheeram Ayurveda Village · Kerala
Body Purification Therapy (Shodhana Chikilsa)
Somatheeram’s Panchakarma purification package — Shodhana Chikilsa — sold as a seven-night or fourteen-night stay.
Your retreat, at a glance
The programme
Body Purification Therapy (Shodhana Chikilsa) is package 2 of Somatheeram’s Ayurveda Panchakarma and Rasayana packages. The property describes it as a process of purifying the whole body to attain proper balance of vatha, pitha and kapha, based on Panchakarma and Swethakarma treatment.
Read the full description
The property lists body massage, snehapanam, nasyam, virechanam (a medicated purgative), snehavasthi, dhara, pizhichil, njavarakizhi, karnapooranam, tharpanam, sirovasthi and a steam bath, with internal herbal medicines. Its tariff describes snehapanam as medicated ghee taken internally in gradually increasing amounts.
The tariff says the consulting doctor takes the final decision and the process may change with the patient’s body condition. The property states that each guest is given a tailor-made diet and treatment schedule after consultation with the doctors, and that all its medicines are manufactured by Somatheeram from medicinal plants grown organically in its own gardens.
Season, arrival & included essentials
- Accommodation as per the category of booking
- Daily Ayurvedic treatments, with internal herbal medicines
- Ayurvedic vegetarian full-board meals, with an individual Ayurveda diet menu
- Initial, daily and final consultation by the doctor
Is this your kind of stay?
Who it suits — and who it doesn’t
Travel-planning guidance. Medical suitability is for your own doctor and the qualified team at the property.
Consider another option if
- Children under 12 — the tariff states that, as an Ayurveda hospital, it does not recommend them unless the doctors recommend admission
Price & inclusions
What it costs, and what is in it
14 nights, sharing a Standard Room A/C
The price includes: Accommodation, daily Ayurvedic treatments with herbal medicines, vegetarian full board, the doctor’s consultations and medicines.
Counted, so you can compare
- 14nights
It also sells a 7-night package.
- 2hours of treatment a day
The property’s schedule states a minimum of two hours of treatment a day, which may vary with the doctor’s direction and the therapy booked.
Included
- Accommodation as per the category of booking
- Daily Ayurvedic treatments, with internal herbal medicines
- Ayurvedic vegetarian full-board meals, with an individual Ayurveda diet menu
- Initial, daily and final consultation by the doctor
- Free medicines during the inpatient treatment period
- One yoga session a day
- Airport transfer from Thiruvananthapuram, complimentary
- Language interpreters, complimentary
Not included
- The half-day backwater boat tour, included only from 21 nights
- A specific room on request, at 5% extra
- A €60 per person supplement on 31 December
- Early check-in and late check-out — subject to availability, at an additional charge
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.
A day, hour by hour
The day, as the property publishes it
The property publishes a general day: medicine at 6am, yoga and meditation, meals in set windows, two hours' treatment minimum, bed by 10pm.
- Internal medicine, as advised by the doctors
- Vegetarian breakfast, as advised by the doctors
- TreatmentAt least two hours a day in set slots. The property says it may vary with the doctor’s direction and therapy; some packages have two treatments.
- MeditationThe property allows half an hour of meditation a day.
- Yoga (advanced)Or beginners' yoga at 10:00–11:30, or intermediate at 17:00–18:30. The property allows an hour and a half of yoga a day.
- Vegetarian lunch, as advised by the doctors
- Vegetarian dinner, as advised by the doctors
- Bedtime — before 10pm
Where you stay
Somatheeram Ayurveda Village
An Ayurveda hospital on a hillock at Chowara Beach. Its About page calls it the "World’s First Ayurveda Hospital with a Resort Ambiance" — its own claim, worded differently across its pages, one of which limits it to India.
Worth knowing: The whole booking is paid in advance, and cancelling within 30 days of arrival costs all of it. Medical need comes first when rooms are assigned, so your category is not guaranteed, and a specific room costs 5% more. The tariff says every amenity, the pool included, is used only on the doctors' advice, and that treatment length, and so the price, can change on their direction.
The full profileWho looks after you
Supervision, by qualification and number
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.
- Clinical supervision
- The property states that all treatments are prescribed by Ayurvedic doctors at the hospital and carried out under supervision. Its tariff lists a resident Ayurveda doctor and a modern-medicine doctor on call.
- The team around you
- The property states it has 20 Ayurvedic doctors and 90 therapists. Its tariff says pizhichil, listed for this package, is given by two to four trained therapists.
- Consultations
- Initial, daily and final consultation by the doctor, according to the tariff.
Make a trip of it
Before, during and after your 14 nights
The excursions and extra stays we arrange in Kerala, placed by when to take each — a good day out on the wrong day of a treatment course is not a good day out.
Explore flights, excursions & extra stays
Before you begin
Arrive early — see the country while you are fresh
Extra stay · 3 nights
Kochi & the backwaters
The obvious and correct opener: fort Kochi, a barge night, and an unhurried arrival into the time zone before anyone takes your pulse.
Nature · Overnight, or a half day
A night on the backwaters
A converted rice barge from Alleppey through the Kuttanad channels. The overnight is worth it; the three-hour version is a queue of identical boats.
Culture · Full day
Fort Kochi and Mattancherry
The Chinese fishing nets, the Paradesi synagogue, the Dutch Palace murals and a spice-market walk. Five hundred years of Portuguese, Dutch and Jewish Kochi in one walkable afternoon.
During the stay
Light enough for a rest day or a free afternoon
Body Purification Therapy (Shodhana Chikilsa) · 14 nights at Somatheeram Ayurveda VillageCulture · 3 hours
Kathakali, properly
Arrive an hour early to watch the make-up go on — it is the better half. Ask us for the Kochi hall that still plays to Malayali audiences rather than the tourist matinée.
Culture · 2 hours
The oil kitchen and the pharmacy
At the houses that still compound their own preparations, ask to be shown the room. Most will say yes and few guests think to ask. It is the single most convincing hour of the fortnight.
After you finish
The reward, once the treatment is done
Extra stay · 5 nights
The Golden Triangle
Delhi, Agra and Jaipur on the way home. Long flights internally and worth every one of them if it is a first trip to India.
Extra stay · 4 nights
Tamil Nadu temples
Madurai, Thanjavur and Chettinad — the living Dravidian south, three hours east and a different civilisation.
Nature · Full day, or two nights
A tea estate day in Munnar
Four hours up from Kochi into the Western Ghats at 1,600 m. Genuinely cold, entirely different country. Too far and too long for a treatment rest day — take it before or after.
Nature · Two nights
Periyar, for the elephants
A tiger reserve where you will not see a tiger and will see elephant, gaur and hornbill. A boat on the lake at dawn is the version worth doing.
Begin with a conversation
Plan your 14 nights at Somatheeram Ayurveda Village
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.
- 1
Share your plan
Two minutes: when you would like to start, how long, your nationality and your WhatsApp number.
- 2
Talk it through
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.
- 3
Your written quote
Room, dates, treatments, flights and transfers in one quote, with the current cancellation terms.
- 4
Confirm when ready
Nothing is paid until you confirm in writing. One team then looks after the whole journey.