Ananda in the Himalayas · A Travel Pals journey

Pure Awakening

A hundred acres of forest, a palace, and a doctor who writes your week.

Narendra Nagar · Uttarakhand

A guide for the first-timer

You've never done a wellness retreat.

Most of our guests hadn't either.

Ananda, in the Himalayan foothills above Rishikesh, is a hundred-acre palace estate — and also a serious medical wellness centre. That combination confuses people. This page explains, in plain language, what actually happens there, what it will do for you, and how to work out the length of stay you need. Then we build the rest of the India trip around it.

Three things people get wrong before they arrive:

It is not a hospital.

You stay in a suite in a Maharaja's palace estate, with the service of a five-star hotel.

It is not a juice fast.

You eat three cooked meals a day, prescribed by a doctor for your body type.

Nothing is compulsory.

Some guests do six hours of therapy a day. Some read by the pool. Both are fine.

How it works

Four steps, and only one of them is yours.

Start here

What would you like to be rid of?

Pick the sentence closest to how you feel. That is genuinely how the programme gets chosen — the doctor confirms it on arrival.

The programme for this

Minimum stay

Intensity

Best paired with

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Ayurvedic therapy, the heart of every programme Spa

What your days look like

What you go home with

The honest answer

How long
do I need?

Fewer nights are not a smaller version of the same thing — they are a different thing. Choose a length below.

Suits

Add to the trip

What you'll notice

The benefit arrives in three waves.

Going to Ananda is more like a pilgrimage than a visit.

Oprah Winfrey

Before you ask

The questions everybody actually has.

The rose petal bath Spa

The infrared sauna chamber Spa

The estate

Where the week is spent.

A hundred acres of sal forest, a Maharaja's palace, a dining room where the menu is written by a doctor — and none of it feels clinical.

The dining room Dining

The Ananda Suite Rooms

Baked asparagus, almond purée, apricots Cuisine

The pavilion restaurant Dining

The spa pool Wellness

Deluxe suite terrace Rooms

The relaxation room Spa

The Palace The estate

One-bedroom villa pool Rooms

Next step

Tell us how you feel. We'll do the rest.

One conversation — fifteen minutes, no obligation. We match you to a programme and a length of stay, hold the dates, and build the flights, Delhi nights and anything else you want either side of the retreat.

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