Shankara Ayurveda Wellness Treatments & Consultations
Ayurveda is the oldest, natural, healthcare system on the planet. Its purpose is to heal and maintain the quality and longevity of life. Our therapists work with your body to encourage stress relief, growth, and healing—bringing you into an open, blissful, and restored state. Browse our treatments below.
Please note We highly recommend booking your treatments at least four weeks in advance of your arrival date to ensure availability by calling 828.264.8382 during Shankara business hours.
Shankara Ayurveda Wellness Hours
9:00 am–6:00 pm daily.
CONSULTATIONS
Ayurvedic Health Consultation
Ayurveda emphasizes self-care that can bring you into balance through diet, lifestyle (including exercise), stress management, herbs, and seasonal cleansing. An experienced practitioner conducts an in-depth doshic evaluation to determine your natural state of being, identify imbalances, and set health and wellness goals.
$175; 60 minutes | $225; 90 minutes
Follow-Up Consultation
Schedule a follow-up 3–6 weeks after your initial Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultation to discuss and review results from the recommended lifestyle and diet changes. At this time, we’ll change, or suggest new, treatment protocols if necessary to help further healing.
$74; 30 minutes | $108; 60 minutes
Pulse Assessment with an Ayurvedic Vaidya
Pulse assessment is one of the key diagnostic tools of Ayurveda. The Ayurvedic practitioner feels for the strength of vata, pitta, and kapha in the pulse to determine one’s constitution, or dosha, and current state of imbalance. They look for the overall qualities of the pulse gain information about the physical constitution and health of their patient. This information is used to form the basis for a sensitive and personalized therapy in accordance with Ayurvedic principles of treatment.
$108; 30 minutes
Spiritual Guidance with Vedic Astrology
What does your Moon sign mean for you in Vedic Astrology? What planetary placements in your birth chart support your purpose in life, and which ones need a bit more focus for you to clear obstacles? Find out this and more in your first Jyotish Astrology Natal Reading.
This first reading includes a detailed astrological profile, an assessment of the main themes in your chart, and an overview of your current planetary influences’ strengths and challenges. Each session offers practical tools to help you move forward with confidence, deepen your relationships, and connect with your true nature. Follow-up sessions are available for continued support.
Initial Consultation $250.00; 60 minutes | Follow up $150; 30 minutes.
TREATMENTS
Abhyanga: Detoxifying Warm-Oil Massage
Abhyanga is one of the most popular and recommended therapies in Ayurveda. This Ayurvedic therapy incorporates warm, aromatic oils, rhythmically massaged into your body, which loosen toxins, relax the nervous system, and provide rest, nourishment, and rejuvenation.
$175; 60 minutes
Bashpa Sweda
Available to Panchakarma program guests only.
Bashpa (steam) Sweda (sweat) is a traditional Ayurvedic therapy that involves herbal steam therapy. It is a type of Swedana (sweating treatment) used in Ayurveda to induce perspiration and help eliminate toxins from the body. Benefits include body detoxification, reduced joint stiffness, brighter and softer skin, stimulated digestion, weight reduction, and increased feelings of lightness and invigoration.
$75; 30 minutes
Color Chakra Balancing
For the next 60 minutes, be prepared to dive deep into the world of your energetic body. You will be guided on connecting to your chakras, accompanied by Solfeggio Frequency tones for each chakra and Spectro-Chrome filters. This session heightens your ability to utilize the power of your chakras when needed and understand how to recharge them. You’ll learn a personalized breathing practice you can use anytime to maintain chakra balance, supporting the health of your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies as you strive towards living in a higher vibrational state.
$195; 60 minutes
CranioSacral Therapy
Experience a complete, divine nervous system reset with CranioSacral (CST) Therapy. This gentle, hands-on placement to the head, spine, sacrum, and torso guides your body’s natural and innate healing processes to release restrictions and bolster resistance to dis-ease. CST has been known to promote relaxation, improve sleep, reduce stress, and help with a range of well-being challenges. Sessions are conducted fully clothed.
$225; 60 minutes
Marma: Replenishing Energy Treatment
One of the most restorative treatments for the body and mind, Marma stimulates specific energy points that rejuvenate the vital organs of the body, settle the nervous system, and pacify the Doshas. You may be fully clothed during this treatment, which focuses on energy centers, rather than muscle or tissue.
$160; 60 minutes
Royal Treatment: Signature Service
The Royal Treatment combines a detoxifying warm oil massage and shirodhara relaxation therapy for an ideal rejuvenating experience. Coupling these two treatments together, the warm oil massage awakens and prepares your body for the restful tranquility that follows with Shirodhara.
$350; 120 minutes
Shankara Signature Massage
Using blended oils, our talented therapists will customize the massage to relieve your body, relax your mind, and uplift your spirit. $160; 60 minutes/$205; 90 minutes
Shankara Signature Ayurveda Facial
Through the fusion of Western science and the ageless wisdom of traditional Ayurveda, Shankara products blend pure formulations to dynamically repair and regenerate the skin. This customized facial treatment nourishes your skin and brings harmony to the doshas, supporting and encouraging your innate beauty. $160; 60 minutes
Shirodhara: Relaxation Therapy
Because of its profound effect on the consciousness, Shirodhara is often called “Bliss Therapy.” It is a continuous pouring of warm oil in a slow steady stream on the forehead that helps to pacify the subtle aspects of the doshas: nourishing the nervous system, promoting relaxation and tranquility, and improving mental clarity and comprehension.
$195; 60 minutes
Udvartana: Herbal Exfoliation Treatment
Udvartana is a deeply penetrating lymphatic massage with an herbal scrub. This invigorating full-body treatment increases circulation, revitalizes the skin, supports overall detoxification, and promotes weight loss.
$195; 60 minutes
Thai Massage
Thai Massage combines acupressure, Ayurvedic principles, and assisted yoga postures to enhance flexibility, relieve muscle tension, and balance the body’s energy.
Traditionally performed on a firm mat on the floor, you are fully clothed in loose, comfortable clothing. Gentle rocking, stretching, compressions, reflexology, and energy work release tension, stretch muscles, and tone organs.
$150; 60 minutes/$225; 90 minutes/$325; 120 minutes
THERAPIES
Basti: Joint Rejuvenation
Stiff joints are bathed in warm medicated oil. This treatment also includes a massage to the affected area.
Katti Basti: for the lower back.
Greeva Basti: for the neck and shoulders.
Janu Basti: for the knees.
$160; 45 minutes
Karna Purna: Settling The Nervous System
Warm oil is gently, slowly poured into the ears, lubricating the ear canal, calming the mind, and soothing the nervous system. When the ears are bathed in oil, the mind and body automatically calms, creating a state of deep relaxation. Balances vata dosha. $160; 45 minutes
Nasya: Clear Breath Support
The nose is the door to consciousness. Nasal Therapy helps to clear and lubricate the sinus passageways, relieving acute and chronic sinus problems such as allergies, mucous congestion, dry nasal passages, and snoring. The process of administering herb-infused oils into the nasal cavity also helps to relieve headaches and migraines, reduces anxiety, clears and strengthens the mind, and stimulates the nervous system. This treatment is best done by itself or at the end of a treatment series. Balances kapha dosha. $160; 45 minutes
Netra Tarpana: Eye Bathing
Eyes are the window to the soul. Many eyesight problems result from mental stress because the eye is closely related to the mind. This rejuvenating treatment relieves tired, achy, sore eyes and improves vision. Warmed ghee is gently poured on the eyes while you are led through relaxing, simple eye exercises. It is an enjoyable, relaxing, and effective treatment. Eyes may be sensitive to brightness and computer screens after this treatment. Plan to rest and relax. Balances pitta dosha. $160; 45 minutes
AYURVEDIC SPA EXPERIENCES
Sundarya—Lavishing Treatment
A total body experience that is comforting, nurturing, and enticing to the senses. Tension melts from the face, neck, shoulders, and head with the combination
of a soothing scalp and facial Massage.
We begin with a soothing massage with captivating Sundarya body oil. A luxurious full-body exfoliation follows using Shankara’s Sundarya Salt Scrub to awaken, refine, and purify the skin.
$240; 90 minutes
Avarna Spa Body Wrap
These dosha-specific treatments use stimulating movements, followed by the warmth and enveloping nature of the wrap, which creates space for deep
relaxation and meditation.
Rejuvenation for nourishment and hydration
Detoxification deeply purifies
Reduction smooths and tightens
$240; 90 minutes
Enhancements
These can be added to certain treatments.
- Hot Stones Therapeutic Stones $75
- Pado Abhyanga Oil Foot Massage $75
- Shiro Abhyanga Oil Scalp Massage $75
- Facial (30 minutes) $95
- Massage (30 minutes) $95
NOTE For your convenience an 18 percent service charge will be added to all services for your service provider. This can be adjusted up or down based on your satisfaction. Thank you for choosing Shankara Ayurveda Wellness.
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