Yoga on the terrace
Gentle hatha with a Rishikesh-trained local teacher. Three mornings a week.
Wellness · slow living
Wellness & slow living in the hills.
What is actually offered
Wellness activities included in your stay
Not treatments — practices, run by people who do them anyway.
Forest bathing
Walking very slowly in oak forest. No talking after the first ten minutes.
Meditation in the grove
Twenty-five minutes at dusk in the temple grove, uncut for two centuries.
The cold water
The April waterfall is eight degrees. You go in, you shout, you come out changed.
Silent mornings
By arrangement, nobody speaks to you before eleven — breakfast included.
The empty afternoon
Two to five, deliberately unscheduled. The actual intervention, and free.
Slow living
Why the mountains help you slow down
None of these are things you do. They are true of the place — and they do most of the work.
- Dawn at fiveThe light wakes you. No alarms.
- Unreachable, dailyHours without signal, nothing confiscated.
- Food you watched growEleven metres from soil to pot.
- Cold that means somethingFifteen degrees from noon to midnight.
- One tableNobody eats alone after day two.
- Dark by sevenNowhere to go, nothing to miss.
A stillness day
A sample wellness day
The shape of the Stillness package. Nobody is held to it — half abandon it by day three for long walks. On request the kitchen goes lighter, with dinner at 6.30 and no tea after four.
- 05:45
Awake
Because of the light. Tea outside your door on a steel tray.
- 06:30
Yoga on the terrace
Sixty to seventy-five minutes with our yoga teacher, facing north.
- 08:30
Breakfast, silent if asked
Nobody speaks to you before eleven if you requested it.
- 10:00
Forest bathing
Three hours, two kilometres, a lot of standing still in oak.
- 13:30
Lunch, then nothing
The empty afternoon — hammock, book, terrace. Two to five.
- 17:30
Meditation in the grove
Twenty-five minutes at dusk under two-hundred-year-old oak.
- 19:00
Dinner, one table
The only fixed point. Even the silent guests start talking here.
Questions
Wellness FAQs
Anything else — ask us on WhatsApp. We answer honestly, including when the answer is ‘we don’t do that’.
No. Nothing here is compulsory and nobody keeps a register. About half of guests try it once and decide they would rather sleep — also a wellness outcome.
Yes. Our teacher teaches a gentle hatha sequence and modifies for anyone. Tell her about a back or knee injury before, not during.
Yes, and it will be respected without comment. Ask on the first evening and say when it starts and ends.
No. There is a good Ayurvedic practitioner in Pithoragarh, 55 km away, and we will give you the number.
Possibly — please tell us in advance so we can be useful rather than clumsy. But we are a family with a spare room, not clinicians; arrange professional support before you come.
We will keep it in the kitchen drawer if you ask. We have done it eight times; six asked for it back within a day.
The afternoon with nothing in it. Three nights to feel it; six to stop resisting it.