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CGH Earth Kalari Rasayana Ayurveda Hospital is the Kerala's answer to traditional ayurveda treatment with openminded and modern way of thinking. It is a place, where food is medicine and where you feed not only the body, but also mind and soul.
At Kalari Rasayana, the journey to healing is filled with many discoveries. Located in the lap of the Paravur backwaters and surrounded by thick coconut groves and floating mini-islands, Kalari Rasayana or the Song Of the Lake is a place that heals by its very tranquility and beauty.
An expansive feeling of oneness with the environment, an all pervading sense of openness that envelopes your body and spirit, a gentle throwback to a quieter pace of life where Nature is an ever tangible presence. Kalari Rasayana is silent song, which tune you with the rythm of the life.
Located in the heart of the backwater area of the erstwhile Venad kingdom in Kerala, the place is a veritable abode of peace. Gazing at its gentle waves, watching the fishermen going about their daily rounds on their boats, hearing the distant roar of the sea beyond the horizon, tracking the trains moving across the bridge over the backwaters and observing birds that habitually visit this place, absorbing the warmth emanating from the staff members and the happy ambience of an open space, all these and more can by themselves calm the nerves fraught by the vagaries of an urban lifestyle. But beyond this, central to the whole experience, is Ayurveda itself, practiced at its authentic and traditional best.
Dr. Sreelal, senior doctor and his wife Dr.Porneema, dietologist - are the souls of the healing place, truly old fashion Vaidyas with modern way of thinking. They meet with every patient daily and individually design treatment programmes.
Ayurvedic treatments are offered here by a team passionately devoted to the cause of the natural way of life, as espoused in the ancient texts. The Ayurvedic therapy includes various treatments suited to individual conditions along with their accompanying detox processes such as ghee intake and massages, besides internal and external medicines. This in combination with yoga, meditation and food are core factors in ayurvedic treatment.
Kalari Rasayana offers most authentic form of ayurveda programs and treatments. They are combination of physical, mental and spiritual therapies, well complimented and supported by yoga and meditation practices. It is not a holiday resort but a place to immerse you in a life style that was advocated by ancient Indian traditions. This treatments and life style helps you to balance your energies, your outer material world and the inner spiritual world, leaving you refreshed and energized.
Kalari Rasayana received NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Health Care Providers), the highest recognition of the Indian government in the hospitals and health care sector.
Morning yoga and evening meditations supplement the treatment, but the central healing idea of the place is Karma Yoga: “We closely practice the traditional ayurvedic approach which involves a holistic approach to physical and mental wellbeing. The entire team is trained to be sensitive to the environment, to individual care and to the CGH Earth’s ethos. The treatment processes are intensely focused on patient care and recovery. Every patient is gently guided and supported through each aspect of the treatment and is encouraged to conform to a disciplined adherence and the prescribed lifestyle thereafter. This ensures a permanent state of healthy living.”
Dr.Poornima Sreelal believes, that kitchen can be a pharmacy: "Food can be medicine. If you treat disease with the ideal drug, you can cure it. But, if you are eating a proper food, you don't need the medicine." She also believes, that our vital energy comes not only from the eating the food itself, but also from environment, breathing techniques or way of thinking. For example, when we are practicing yoga, meditating or chanting mantras, we are giving also food to our body. It's a prana for our body. We can feel it through all the sense organs, not only on the tongue. If we're seeing the pleasant things in the environment, it is a good food for the body. Or nice smell, relaxing music – all can be considered the food for the body.
Spread over 8 acres of coconut grove land, Kalari Rasayana offers 22 rooms well-equipped with modern amenities and a clinic with 11 treatment rooms. The living space at Kalari Rasayana complements the healing process with its nurturing and warm environment and an unobtrusive, quiet adherence to discipline. Typical day starts 5:30 am with yoga session followed by breakfast, treatments, juice break, lunch at 1:00 pm, yoga nidra, another treatment, feeding the fish at 5:30 pm (favorite part of the day), dinner and then sometimes a short activity such as meditation training, cooking demonstration or cultural performance in the evening. The day ends around 8 pm.
Kalari Rasayana is situated in south tip of Kerala, 1,5 hours from Trivandrum airport. Transfer from and to the airport is already included into the ayurveda treatment programme.
Trivandrum area reflects the beauty of the entire Kerala called as well as God's own country. In this district all natural beauties such as hill stations, back waters, beaches, lagoons, and wild life sanctuaries are present. Before or at the end of your stay short trips can be arraged on request. During the ayurveda treatment programme travelling is not recommended.
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