A framework, not
a treatment.
Ayurveda is the structure everything else at Vedic Wellness is arranged within — the food, the therapies, the hour you are asked to eat.
Older than almost everything, and unusually practical.
Ayurveda is often introduced through its most exotic parts. What it actually offers is a way of noticing — of connecting how you slept to what you ate, what the season is doing, and how the last six months have gone.
Its central proposition is that people differ, and that the same advice cannot suit everyone. Which sounds obvious until you notice how rarely wellness advice behaves as though it were true.
We use it as a framework rather than a faith. Where it is useful, we follow it. Where a guest needs medical care, we say so plainly and refer them onward.
Not personality types. Patterns of tendency.
Everyone carries all three in some proportion. A consultation is less interested in which one you “are” than in what has shifted, and when it started.
Vata
Air & space
- Qualities
- Light, dry, mobile, cool
- When it drifts
- Restlessness, irregular appetite, broken sleep, dryness
- What tends to help
- Warmth, oil, routine, earlier nights, cooked food
Pitta
Fire & water
- Qualities
- Sharp, hot, intense, precise
- When it drifts
- Irritability, overheating, driving oneself too hard
- What tends to help
- Cooling food, shade, unstructured time, less competition
Kapha
Earth & water
- Qualities
- Heavy, steady, cool, stable
- When it drifts
- Heaviness, sluggish mornings, congestion, inertia
- What tends to help
- Movement, warmth, spice, lighter evening meals, early rising
Vedic Wellness offers lifestyle, nutrition and traditional wellness experiences. Our programmes are not a substitute for medical diagnosis or treatment, and individual experiences vary. Please consult your physician before beginning any new wellness programme, particularly if you are managing a health condition, are pregnant, or are taking medication.
An hour of questions before anything else.
Your first morning begins with a long conversation — pulse, observation, and a great many questions about sleep, digestion, appetite, temperature and routine.
From it your practitioner writes the shape of the stay: which therapies, at which hours, with which food alongside. That plan is revised as the week goes on, because the version written on day one is a starting hypothesis.
The order of things.
Dinacharya translates as daily routine, which makes it sound duller than it is. What it describes is the order of things — the observation, repeated over a very long time, that the body prefers certain events to happen in a certain sequence.
Most guests leave with a version of this, trimmed down to whatever they will realistically still be doing in a month.
- Light within the first half hour of waking
- Warm water before anything cold
- Movement before the working day
- The largest meal at midday
- Dinner early and light
- An evening that descends rather than stops
The question is rarelywhat is wrong with you.
Begin with a consultation.
Every stay opens with one. If you would like to understand what it covers before you commit to anything, write to us and ask.