As we go through our day-to-day lives at work, school, and home, we often forget to listen to the needs of the body, mind, and soul. Fatigue, low energy, attention deficit, dullness, stress, and hyperventilation are the body’s “check engine” lights. When they start flashing, we often continue to push through life without paying attention until it is too late.
Some of us travel to get away from the routine, but thanks to the number of travelers, traffic, and endless flight delays, vacations often turn out to be more stressful than relaxing. The best vacations are the ones where you’re able to slow down, re-energize, and rejuvenate—replenished and ready to take on the world!
An Ayurveda spa retreat is an ideal way to recharge our souls, pamper our bodies, and feed our minds. You can cater to your physical, mental, and spiritual needs with
- Alternative healing therapies, including Ayurvedic treatments, yoga, and meditation
- Spending time in nature walking and hiking forest and mountain trails
- Silence to give the chattering mind a rest
- Deeply nourishing Ayurvedic detoxes and spa treatments including panchakarma, shirodhara, basti, nasya, abhyanga or karna purna that attend to your individual doshic constitution and heal illnesses from their roots
- Delicious nourishing food that complements and balances your doshas, feeding your body and your soul
- Creative and fun activities that challenge your mind and relax your body.
Why You Need a Spa Retreat
1. Detox
When you take the time to rid the body of the toxins accumulated in the system, you instantly reap the benefits. You feel energized, light, healthy, sharper, calmer, more positive, and sleep better. Some of the best detoxes come in the form of body cleanses called Panchakarma.
Panchakarma is a set of cleansing processes prescribed by Ayurvedic doctors, based on your unique dosha (constitution). The treatments are tailor-made to target the specific imbalances and toxins in the body using natural oils, herbal formulations, masks, diet, yogasanas, and pranayamas. It balances the doshas and removes the toxins from deep within the tissues—those accumulated from overeating, over-indulgence, stress, and poor sleeping habits. The detoxes also help to reduce the stagnation of body fluids, aid blood circulation and digestion, regenerate healthy cells, and improve immunity. There are treatments that specifically cater to improving various organ functions like skin, kidneys, liver, digestion or lymphatic system.
The award winning Panchakarma Detox Retreat at the our Shankara Ayurveda Spa is a heavenly experience that pampers your senses, detoxes your systems, and relaxes the mind with meditations and blissful chants and kirtans. It includes
- A consultation using the
time-tested methodology of pulse diagnosis by one of our Ayurveda experts. They’ll map your current overall health, as well as illnesses or symptoms you are predisposed to, conditions you need to watch out for, and doshas that need to be balanced. You will then receive a set of treatments personalized for your unique dosha. - About two and a half hours of Ayurvedic treatments daily
- Abhyanga (warm oil massage)
- Swedna (steam room therapy)
- Combinations of several treatments, such as shirodhara, karna purna, nasya, marma, kati basti, or netra tarpana, as recommended for you
- A therapeutic, organic diet designed to support your treatments
- Ayurvedic cooking classes, meditation, pottery classes, and daily kirtans.