Notes from the sanctuary.

Written by the people who work here, mostly about the unglamorous parts.

TopicsAyurvedaMindfulnessNutritionYogaSleepWellnessLifestyle

The shape of a morning

Dinacharya is often translated as “daily routine”, which makes it sound duller than it is. What it really describes is the order of things.

Dr. Ananya Rao · 28 August 2026 · 6 min read

Ayurveda

The doshas are not personality types, and the online quizzes do them no favours. Here is what a practitioner is actually looking at.

12 August 2026 · 8 min read

Sleep

Most sleep difficulty is not a night-time problem. It is a problem with the hour that precedes it — and with the eleven hours before that.

30 July 2026 · 5 min read

Mindfulness

If you only take one thing home from a wellness stay, take this. It requires nothing, costs nothing, and travels.

14 July 2026 · 4 min read

Nutrition

Our kitchen changes its menu roughly six times a year — not for novelty, but because what suits the body changes too.

22 June 2026 · 6 min read

Wellness

Forest therapy is the session guests are most sceptical about beforehand, and the one they ask to repeat.

3 June 2026 · 5 min read

Yoga

Advice for anyone returning to a practice they have abandoned more than once — which is to say, most of us.

19 May 2026 · 5 min read

Lifestyle

Our schedules deliberately leave hours empty. Guests find this the hardest part of the stay.

30 April 2026 · 4 min read

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