Since 2007 I keep on exploring, testing, evaluating ayurvedic centres and hospitals in India and elsewhere.

The result is this short list of about twenty names, chosen among more than 150, and responding to my criteria
as explained below.


After exchanging emails or talks in order to better know what could best fit your needs, we do the booking, but not only!

Do not hesitate to wander on our web site and discover the subtile resources of Ayurveda.

This site is definitively not a "click and go", but a visual help, very useful to prepare your next ayurvedic cure with us.

See you soon,

Gerard BOGRAND

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NATTIKA BEACH RESORT

THRISSUR

INDIA/KERALA

The NATTIKA BEACH RESORT is a beautiful ayurvedic resort wich has been built by the owner of Coconut Bay Beach in Kovalam.
The hotel part was finished in 2009 and vaidyasala (clinic) in 2010.
The medical team is top level (7 vaidyas) and the food, the yoga, the therapists, the house keepers, they  are all together to bring you unforgetable souvenirs.

Comfort

*****

Charm

*****

Location

beach

Swimming pool

oui

NIKKI'S NEST 

KOVALAM

INDIA/KERALA

The NIKKI'S NEST AYURVEDA CLINIC is a middle size center located at the end of the very large Chowara Beach. Comfortable villas are nicely scattered in a gentle slope facing the sea. It is possible to combine your stay with DUKE'S FOREST LODGE , 40 km away on the mountains foot, in a rubber plantation.

Cook, therapists, doctors, staff : all are providing care, from their heart and their skills.

Comfort

****

Charm

*****

Location

beach

Swimming pool

yes

BETHSAIDA HERMITAGE

KOVALAM

INDIA/KERALA

The BETHSAIDA HERMITAGE is a 97 rooms ayurvedic center, with so much space that nobody could guess its real capacity. Rooms are large, most of them with sea view.

The center is in fact the economic lungs for a 1400 pupils orphanage and school located in the same property.

Comfort

****

Charm

****

Location

beach

Swimming pools

yes : 2

KALARI KOVILAKOM

KOLLENGODE

INDIA/KERALA

The KALARI KOVILAKOM If you are looking for paradise with a touch of class, look no further, it's here! No white sandy beach, yet only nature with mountains in the background, but a unique decor and food, care, peacefully, raising the soul...

Comfort

*****

Charm

******

Location

nature

Swimming pool

no

LINTAS BEACH RESORT

TRIVANDRUM

INDIA/KERALA

The LINTA's BEACH RESORT is a small center (10 rooms) created in 2015 by Dr Linta and her husband Sunil.

Design, conception are the outcome of a genious Italian architect, with much refined and simple taste in furniture, colours, etc...

Family ambiance in a quiet place by the beach

Comfort

****

Charm

****

Location

beach

Swimming pool

yes

THE DUKE'S FOREST LODGE

KOVALAM

INDIA/KERALA

TheDUKE'S FOREST LODGE” is a remote and quiet place in the jungle, facing mountains, crossed by a wild river, in a rubber trees plantation.

There are few villas (hence few curists)

It is a joined property with Nikki's Nest in Kovalam, and it is there where are made all treatments ils.

Comfort

*****

Charm

*****

Location

jungle

Swimming pool

yes

AYURVEDA VILLAGE

POOVAR

INDIA/KERALA

AYURVEDA VILLAGE

The Ayurveda Village is a dedicated enclave to ayurvedic curists inside of the Poovar Island Resort one of the most famous resorts in INDIA and in Kerala.

Furniture and landscape are equal to the quality of treatments, comfortable and peaceful, full of care.

Comfort

*****

Charm

******

Location

lake-sea

Swimming pool

yes

CARNOUSTIE AYURVEDA

MARARIKULAM

INDIA/KERALA

The CARNOUSTIE AYURVEDA is a very luxury center wholly focused on Ayurveda, which easily proofs that both can live together well.

Pools, bamboo ecodesigned restaurant, tratments rooms floating on water, etc...

Comfort

******

Charm

*****

Location

beach

Swimming pool

yes

SITARAM BEACH RETREAT

THRISSUR

INDIA/KERALA

The SITARAM BEACH RETREAT is a new venture from SITARAM laboratory, initiated by HH the Maharajah of Cochin Sree Rama Varma XV in 1921. It is located on the sea shore, by a wonderful quiet and large beach. There is a lot of space to relax, although the number of rooms is reduced (10 rooms only), but the medical quality of treatments and diagnoses is top; it is mostly dedicated for people getting real helath problems.

Comfort

*****

Charm

****

Location

beach

Swimming pool

no

RAJAH BEACH HOSPITAL

GURUVAYUR

INDIA/KERALA

The RAJAH BEACH HOSPITAL is a center with a small capacity (10 rooms now, since the building of RAJAH ECO) on a beautiful and remote beach. Medical programs are identical to Rajah Island Hospital, Rajah Acre Hospital and Rajah Eco Beach. It was the first ayurvedic hospital to be certified NABH by Indian government.

Comfort

****

Charm

****

Location

beach

Swimming pool

yes

MITRA HERMITAGE

KOVALAM

INDIA/KERALA

The MITRA HERMITAGE RESIDENCY is located between Kovalam and Trivandrum, on the bank of the local backwaters.

It's more like a clinic-guest-house than a resort, and there are not mùany rooms, but for budget rates, you get the benfits or a genuine and attentive Ayurveda with real care.

 

Comfort

**

Charm

***

Location

backwaters

Swimming pool

no

AYURYOGATHEERAM

CHAVAKKAD

INDIA/KERALA

The SREECHITHRA created by Dr MADHU, teacher at Thrissur Government Ayurveda College, expands, but on the sea shore and by the beach.

This is a small unit (actually 8 rooms only) for those who wish a genuine Ayurveda with modern standards of accommodation. 

Comfort

****

Charm

****

Location

beach

Swimming pool

yes

ASHOKA MADEIRA

CANIÇO DE BAIXO

MADEIRA/PORTUGAL

The Centro de Cura Ayurvédica ASHOKA is a rarity in Europe because it offers real panchakarmas driven by vaidyas from Kerala who have been living there permanently since its beginnings in 2012.

A great way to discover Ayurveda just a few hours away by plane.

Comfort

*****

Charm

****

Location

sea

Swimming pool

no/yes

RAJAH ECO BEACH

GURUVAYUR

INDIA/KERALA

The RAJAH ECO BEACH is an ayurvedic hospital (58 rooms) by the sea and which opened in January 2018 close to the RAJAH BEACH HOSPITAL.

Treatments, vaidyas, therapist, are common to the two centres and there is a swimming pool for those who'd like to feel some fragrance of vacations.

Comfort

****

Charm

***

Location

beach

Swimming pool

yes

SWASWARA

GOKARNA

INDIA/KARNATAKA

The SWASWARA, is a resort out of range, located in a very famous beachdesigned in the shape of a Omkara, the graphic expression of the sacred sound OM.
It is a unbelievable place, precious as a jewel, with luxury cottages, good cooking, good medicine and a perfect care. Really first class!

Comfort

******

Charm

*****

Location

beach

Swimming pool

yes

GREEN PALACE HEALTH

ALLEPPEY

INDIA/KERALA

The GREEN PALACE HEALTH RESORT is a small ayurvedic centre recently open on an island in the Backwaters, surrounded by paddy fields and water.

The location is magic, they even managed to build a swimming pool.

Comfort

****

Charm

****

Location

backwaters

Swimming pool

yes

MEKOSHA AYURVEDA

TRIVANDRUM-VARKALA

INDIA/KERALA

The MEKOSHA AYURVEDA is a small centre recently opened in a green location on the bank of the riverVamanapuram.

The large and clear rooms have a little room attached devoted to additonal massages if needed.

Comfort

****

Charm

****

Location

river

Swimming pool

yes

 

Giving priority to "care" - not related to money, but to human qualities - we have eliminated more than 130 ayurvedic centres and hospitals. The result is this short list, around twenty. For those seeking the onhes we have put aside, all pictures and web pages are still available on demand.

Our priotritary creteria for validating a centre are:

  • empathy from the owner and the manager, because Ayurveda being a subtle and global medicine, care must be present at all levels,
  • cheerful and human qualities of staff,
  • hygiene, cleanlyness ant beauty of the place,
  • real medical skills connected to ancient vaidyas (Ayurveda is a traditional medicine based on sanskrit memorized knowledge and then depending on Indian culture and gurukula),
  • food better than good (tasty),
  • private space (specially during monsoon),
  • reaisonnable size (small and middle size properties).

Tariffs on this website are there to help future clients to evaluate budget competition between centres, but real rates are dependant on avialabilities, therefore, they can be used as a indicative information for discriminating those which are budget compatible from the others. due to important differencies between offers - are on this website the only value for roughly comparing ayurvedic centres.

At AYURVEDA BOOKING Ltd's, bookings are human (not robots) and are made by emails, including questions and answers about, availabalities and rates, but also health, pain and Ayurveda.

Authentic Ayurveda:

Genuine Ayurveda is single person focused, and based on an old scientifical and philosophocal knowledge which is far away from prejudices and short sights,. It has been transmitted through the gurukulam where teaching was so deep that it could have lasted many years before the future vaidya get full insight on how to acurately practice. Nowadays it is taught in registered schools which deliver a BAMS diploma, but the unique non verbal transmission is over, and only inheart capacities of new vaidya, more over when they are still connected with traditional lineages, can bring part of the art of which samhitas are only the visual aspect.

People not fully understanding the spirit of Ayurveda will reduce this knowledge to ready made recipes, and say "this is authentic, this is not authentic". The only authenticity is the vaidya himself, that's all. When you are told that swimming pools, beaches, mattresses on dhronis, eating meat, fish, etc... are anti-ayurvedic, there is part of truth, sure, but it is globally wrong. Everything should be related to its context and the involved individual koshas (layers): psychological (manamayakosha), energetical (pranamayakosha) and cellular (annamayakosha).

In most centres hosting wellness tourists, to speak true, there is a big part of business, and affirmation about authenticity may easily be some marketing argument, no more, then it is important for those who are expecting some real health care to discriminate.

Anyway, I think that real authentic people never use this word...

(See Truth about Ayurveda)


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Some centres have been removed from our website, but links are still available on request:

AADITHYAA LAKE SIDE RESORT, AMAYA HILLS, AMAYA LAKE, ANANDA SPA IN THE HIMALAYAS, ANANTYA RESORT, ANHC SALIGAO CENTER, AYURBAY BEACH RESORT (fermé), AYURKSHETRA, AYURVEDA YOGA VILLA, LAKESONG RESORT, AYURTHEERAM AYURVEDIC RESORT, AYURVEDAMANA POOMULLY, AYURVEDA MANA PERUMBAYIL, AYURVEDAGRAM, BACKWATER RIPPLES, BANGARAM ISLAND, BARBERYN BEACH AYURVEDA RESORT, BARBERYN REEF AYURVEDA RESORT, BENTOTA AIDA AYURVEDA, BIG BANANA ISLAND RETREAT, COCONUT BAY BEACH RESORT (fermé), CURE MONASTERY, DANUBIUS HELIA HEALTH RESORT, DUNE, EDEN GARDEN, ESTUARY ISLAND, GANESH AYURVEDIC CENTER, GAYAVEDA, GODS OWN COUNTRY RESORT, HARIVIHAR, ISOLA DI COCCO, JETWING AYURVEDA PAVILIONS, KADAVU, KAILASH BEACH RESORT, KAIRALI AYURVEDIC HEALTH RESORT, KANAN BEACH RESORT, KRISHNATHEERAM, KUNNATHUR MANA, LAKE PALACE, LAKE RESORT, LEELA KOVALAM, MATT INDIA, LE PONDY, AYURVEDA MANA PERUMBAYIL, NAGARJUNA AYURVEDIC CENTER, OM BEACH RESORT, RAJAH HEALTHY ACRES, REGANT LAKE VILLAGE, SAARAM, SATSANGAM, SHAMANA, SOMA PALMSHORE, SREE VIVEKAANANDA AYURVEDA KENDRAM, SRI BUDDHASA AYURVEDA WALAUWA, THAPOVAN HERITAGE, THE FORTRESS, THE OCEANO, THE PRIVILEGE, TRAVANCORE HERITAGE, TURTLE ON THE BEACH, UDAY SAMUDRA, VASUDEVA-AAYUKSHETRAM, VISHRAM, WOOD HOUSE BEACH RESORT, YANTRA, ZURI KUMARAKOM.

 

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