To gain maximum benefit from the panchakarma experience a minimum of 5 to 10 days treatment is recommended. During panchakarma, healing and transformative powers are detoxing, rejuvenating and balancing your body, mind and soul.

Panchakarma Treatment:
Upon your arrival, you will have a comprehensive exam to discover your constitutional nature, called Prakruti, and the current balance of your doshas, called Vikruti. You will be started on a cleansing diet of easily digested, simple foods to increase your metabolism and digestion. Then you will begin a process to loosen ama with herbalized ghee (clarified butter).

For a detailed description of what a panchakarma treatment involves and accomplishes, read our article 'Panchakarma'.

A panchakarma treatment at the retreat also includes the following therapies:

Abhyanga Treatment:
Enjoy the amazing effects of a massage with medicated herbal oils applied by two massage therapists, working in synchronized movements in the traditional manner of Ayurvedic massage. It revives the whole body, improves circulation, rejuvenates the tissue, induces sound sleep, and provides good shape to the body. This special therapeutic massage stimulates the nervous system and the immune system, improves the texture and complexion of the skin, providing shine and softness. Above all, it leaves you with a general sense of well being.

Shirodhara Treatment:
Lying on a specially designed table, after a mild oil massage, herbal medicated oil is poured on your forehead and head in a continuous and rhythmic manner. It enhances circulation in the brain, improves memory, nourishes hair, provides sound sleep, and calms the body and mind. Shirodhara is an ancient, unique therapy shared with us from the Ayurvedic tradition.

Sweda Treatment (Herbal Steam Bath):
After an oil massage, relax your mind and body with the herbal steam bath which fully envelopes you from feet to neck, with soothing herbal steam. It improves peripheral circulation by vasodilatation, which opens the pores in the skin and absorbs the medicinal properties of the herbal oil, eliminate certain impurities through sweat, relieves stiffness, pain and swelling, and provides lightness to the body.

A full panchakarma treatment lasts 2-3 hours. This is recommended for either 5, 8 or 12 days consecutively. Treatments may last for 1 day, a week, a month or longer. To gain maximum benefit from the panchakarma experience a minimum of 5 to 10 days treatment is recommended. During panchakarma, healing and transformative powers are detoxing, rejuvenating and balancing your body, mind and soul.

During your panchakarma experience:
-Rest as much as possible
-Meditate upon rising, after your treatments, and in the evening.
-Practice Yoga
-Open to the prana available in nature.
-Be silent, listen
-Consciously feel your body, open your senses.
-Become the observer to the mind's endless ramblings.
-Allow memories and the emotional response to them arise gently.
-Ask yourself . . . what nourishes me? What are the things you want to be doing for yourself?
-Avoid extremes
-Make eating a meditation.
-CREATE NOTHING ELSE FOR YOU TO DO!