Wellness & Ayurveda

Ayurveda is a medical system with a calendar, and the calendar says monsoon. Kerala’s June-to-August rains open the pores, which is why classical panchakarma centres fill then and why a real course wants fourteen days, not four. At Kalari Kovilakom that means white cotton, no alcohol, no phone at dinner, and a physician who reads your pulse each morning. Elsewhere the register changes: Vedanta talks and Himalayan air at Ananda above Rishikesh, sowa rigpa at Vana, a hot-stone menchu bath in a Bhutanese farmhouse, herbal steam on Sri Lanka’s south coast. We take a written consultation to the doctor before arrival, then build the days around treatment times rather than the other way round.