Food as nourishment.
Food as medicine.
Cooked from the gardens and the valley around us, and planned from your consultation rather than a fixed menu.
Fewer ingredients, better combined.
Guests are occasionally disappointed that the food is not more elaborate. Simplicity is rather the point — the kitchen is cooking for digestion first and for the plate second.
Meals are plant-forward, warm more often than raw, and timed so that the largest one falls at midday when digestion is strongest. Dinner is early and lighter than most guests are used to, which is usually the change they notice first.
If you have allergies, intolerances or a way of eating you would like respected, tell us at enquiry. It is straightforward to accommodate and easier to plan in advance.
Food as nourishment.
Food as medicine.
Our kitchen cooks from the gardens and the valley around us. What appears on the plate follows your consultation — your constitution, the season, and how your digestion is faring that week.
Guests are sometimes surprised that the food is not more elaborate. Simplicity is rather the point: fewer ingredients, better combined, and warm more often than raw.
- Seasonal
- The menu turns roughly six times a year, with the valley.
- Individual
- Built from your consultation, not from a fixed plan.
- Plant-forward
- Vegetables lead. Everything is cooked to be easy to absorb.
- Unhurried
- The largest meal at midday, eaten slowly, sitting down.
The menu turns with the valley.
Roughly six times a year. Not for novelty — because what suits the body changes as the weather does.
Cool, dry months
Warm, moist, well-oiled
Slow-cooked grains, root vegetables, ghee, warming spice. Very little raw food.
Hot months
Cooling, lighter, less spice
Sweet fruit, coconut, coriander and mint, meals taken earlier in the day.
Damp, heavy weather
Light, dry, well-spiced
Pulses, bitter greens, ginger and black pepper. Dinner noticeably smaller.
Between seasons
Simple and repetitive
The kitchen narrows the menu while the body adjusts. Kitchari weeks are common.
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.
Eaten slowly, and usually in daylight.
Communal tables are available and never required. Devices stay out of the dining room, which guests resist for about a day and then defend for the rest of the week.
Our chefs run a cooking session on most programmes — three or four dishes simple enough to repeat on a weeknight without a specialist shop.
The largest meal at midday.Everything else follows from that.
Eat for the person you are.
Tell us how you eat now — and what you would like to change. Our nutritionist will build the week around the answer.