Rishikesh Retreat · New Delhi Clinic
Classical Panchakarma above the Ganga at Tapovan, and an unhurried consulting room in Greater Kailash. No packages that fit everyone — only programmes built around your prakriti.
The house of Prakriti
PRAKRITI began in a two-room dispensary off Laxman Jhula, where Vaidya Hemlata Bhardwaj treated raftsmen, sadhus and the occasional lost traveller with oils she pressed herself. Her grandson still presses them — in the same copper vessels, on the same wood fire.
What we practise is shodhana: not a spa treatment borrowed from a brochure, but the classical sequence of preparation, elimination and rebuilding described in the Charaka Samhita. It takes time. It is often unglamorous. It is also, in our experience of twenty-seven years, the reason people come back.
Bala, Mahanarayana, Ksheerabala — cooked here across 3–7 days, never bought in drums. You may watch the process on any Thursday.
Every programme is prescribed by a BAMS or MD (Ayu.) physician after pulse reading and a full case history, then reviewed on day 3 and day 7.
Rising at 5, oil before sun, silence until the first bell. The rhythm is the medicine as much as the therapy table is.
Prakriti Pariksha
Ayurveda reads a person before it reads a complaint. Answer honestly — as you have been for most of your life, not as you feel this week — and we will show you the balance of vata, pitta and kapha that shapes your care here.
Your reading
A quick, warm constitution — bright at the start, prone to burning through its own fuel.
This is an orientation, not a diagnosis. A vaidya confirms prakriti by pulse, tongue and case history — please consult our doctors before starting any therapy.
The encyclopaedia
No mystique, no invented names. What each therapy is, what it is traditionally indicated for, how long it takes and what it costs at our Rishikesh retreat.
Tap any card for indications, duration and the oils we use.
See full tariffPrices are per session at the Rishikesh retreat and are already included inside residential programmes. Therapies are prescribed after consultation — we will decline anything that is not indicated for you, and we do not guarantee outcomes.
Build your stay
Duration decides how far the purification can honestly go. Everything below recalculates live — itinerary, tariff and all — and ends in a WhatsApp message you can send to our reservations desk at Tapovan.
Classical shodhana needs seven nights or more.
All rooms face the valley; cottages face the river.
Added only if your vaidya agrees on day one.
Dinacharya
The retreat runs on a bell, not a schedule app. Tap any hour to see what is actually happening in the building at that moment.
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ब्रह्म मुहूर्त
Charaka Samhita · Sutrasthana
“The purpose of medicine is to protect the health of the healthy and to relieve the disorder of the diseased.”
Written roughly two thousand years ago · still the brief we work to
The retreat
Shot across one monsoon week — the oil room, the dispensary, the therapy wing, the ghat below the property where the evening walk ends.
Since 1998, first at Laxman Jhula and since 2009 on the Tapovan ridge.
Across both homes — residential programmes and Delhi outpatient care combined.
Cooked over wood in copper, filtered through cloth, dated and shelved by batch.
Full shodhana with samsarjana krama and a rasayana tail. Booked months ahead.
Voices
Tariff
One price covers consultations, therapies, medicines, meals and the room. Nothing is added at the desk on the day you leave.
A short, honest introduction. Preparation therapies and a full physician workup — not a shodhana.
The shortest stay in which a classical purification can be completed properly, end to end.
For chronic, long-standing patterns where one cycle of purification is not enough.
M-Block Market, Greater Kailash II · walk-in day rates
| Service | Duration | Fee (INR) |
|---|---|---|
| First consultationNadi pariksha, full case history, prakriti assessment | 60 min | ₹1,800 |
| Follow-up consultationWithin 90 days of the first visit | 25 min | ₹900 |
| Abhyanga अभ्यंगFour-hand warm oil massage with medicated taila | 60 min | ₹3,400 |
| Shirodhara शिरोधाराContinuous oil stream on the forehead | 45 min | ₹4,200 |
| Nasya karma नस्यNasal instillation with anu taila, after face & neck fomentation | 40 min | ₹2,600 |
| Kati bastiWarm oil pooled over the lumbar region within a dough ring | 45 min | ₹3,100 |
| UdvartanaDry herbal powder massage, upward strokes | 50 min | ₹3,600 |
| Netra tarpanaGhrita pooled over the eyes within a dough ring | 35 min | ₹2,900 |
| TeleconsultationFor guests outside Delhi and returning retreat guests | 30 min | ₹1,200 |
Two homes
The retreat is where programmes happen. The clinic is where most journeys start — and where everyone comes back for review.
The Retreat
Tapovan – Phool Chatti Road, above Laxman Jhula
Rishikesh 249192, Uttarakhand
Dehradun airport (DED) 35 km · Haridwar junction 24 km
The Clinic
Second floor, M-Block Market, Greater Kailash II
New Delhi 110048
Nearest Metro: Greater Kailash (Magenta Line), 700 m
Before you write to us
Write to us
If a residential programme is not the right call for you right now, we will say so — and suggest what is. Reservations answer within one working day.
+91 86691 17894 — reservations, both locations. Voice calls 8:00 am to 8:00 pm IST.
reservations@prakriti-ayurveda.in · vaidya@prakriti-ayurveda.in for clinical questions
We collect from Dehradun airport and Haridwar junction. Share your train or flight and we will place a car. Included on 14- and 21-night programmes.
Please read. Ayurveda here supports your wellbeing alongside your existing medical care. We make no claim to cure any condition and we guarantee no outcome. Do not stop or change a prescribed medicine on your own — bring your prescriptions and reports, and consult our doctors first. Panchakarma is not advised during pregnancy, acute illness or fever. In a medical emergency in India, call 112; for mental-health support, Tele-MANAS is on 14416, free, 24×7.
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