Discover the Wisdom of Ayurveda and Yoga at Raga Svara

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Raga Svara: Ayurveda & Wellness Retreats

Location

Gujarat

India

Duration

4 Days/3 Nights

Price Starts At

$931 Per Room

About The Journey

Raga Svara is built around a simple belief: wellbeing is not something to be prescribed to you, but something you learn to cultivate for yourself. Surrounded by orchards and gardens in Kasturbadham, Gujarat, this intimate retreat brings together Ayurveda, yoga and the beauty of nature in a space designed for reflection and renewal. Rather than offering wellness as a collection of treatments, Raga Svara creates the conditions for a more intentional way of living – shaped by mindful routines, nourishing food, movement, rest and time spent outdoors.

The journey that follows gives you the opportunity to step away from the pace of everyday life and explore practices rooted in Ayurvedic wisdom and yogic tradition. From structured healing and mindful movement to reconnecting with nature's daily pace through Dinacharya, each experience is designed to help you understand what supports your own wellbeing and carry that awareness beyond your stay.

We look forward to welcoming you to Raga Svara and walking alongside you as you rediscover your own ways of living well.

CURATED & HOSTED BY

Raga Svara: Ayurveda & Wellness Retreats

Gujarat, India

STANDARD PRICE

$931

Per Room

3 Nights / 4 Days, Double occupancy

STARLIFE MEMBER PRICE

$810

Per Room

Save $121 | Members Only

Pricing is based on double occupancy and the starting room category. Rates may vary for higher room categories, seasonal travel periods, and special requests. Group booking benefits and solo traveller discounts are available.

9 EXPERIENCES | ALL INCLUSIVE

The moments that make

this journey

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Arrive at a Retreat Named for a Note

Heritage Welcome

Raga Svara: Ayurveda & Wellness Retreats

The name tells you the idea. In Indian classical music, a svara is a single note — the word comes from a root meaning ‘to sound’, and the old texts call it ‘that which shines by itself’ — and a raga is the mode built from those notes, the frame a melody lives inside. Raga Svara is named for both: the note and the whole. You arrive in Kasturbadham, a village near Rajkot that carries the name of Kasturba Gandhi, once held here for leading a satyagraha. A cotton Suti Mala goes around your neck, a cool drink into your hand. The rest of the stay is, in a sense, tuning — bringing a life back into key.

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Meet the Doctor Who Reads Your Constitution

Ayurveda Therapies

Raga Svara: Ayurveda & Wellness Retreats

Before any therapy, you sit with the resident Ayurveda doctor, and the first thing they try to read is your prakriti — your constitution. The idea, old as the classical Ayurvedic texts, is that everyone is born with a particular balance of three forces, called doshas: vata, pitta and kapha, loosely the qualities of air, fire and water in the body. Yours is a fixed signature, unlike anyone else’s, and it decides what will settle you and what will unbalance you. So there is no standard programme here. The doctor takes your pulse, asks about sleep, appetite, temperament, and builds the rest of your stay — the oils, the food, the pace — around the particular person you turn out to be.

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Settle into Guided Meditation at Bodhi

Meditation

Raga Svara: Ayurveda & Wellness Retreats

As your first day softens into evening, you're led into Bodhi, a space built specifically for quiet. Here, under the guidance of Raga Svara's Yoga Guru, you'll settle into a guided meditation designed to do one thing well: calm an overstimulated nervous system. After a day of travel and a first, personal encounter with the retreat's Ayurvedic philosophy, this session offers a place to simply be still. The practice is gentle and accessible, no prior meditation experience required, just an invitation to anchor your awareness in the present moment. Bodhi's architecture itself supports the work, minimal, quiet, and deliberately free of distraction. By the time the session ends, the noise of arrival, travel, and transition has largely dissolved, leaving something closer to real rest. It's a fitting close to Day One, the moment the retreat's promise of stillness starts to feel less like an idea and more like something you're actually living.

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Move Through the Eight Limbs of Yoga

Yoga

Raga Svara: Ayurveda & Wellness Retreats

Yoga, in the West, has come to mean the postures. In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, compiled some two thousand years ago, the postures are only one of eight limbs — the word itself comes from yuj, to yoke, to join. Your days here move through several of those limbs by name. You practise asana, the physical postures, in the morning at Antara. You sit in dhyana, meditation, at a space called Bodhi — ‘awakening’. And you take an hour of swadhyaya, self study, in the Anahata library, named for the heart’s ‘unstruck sound’, the note that sounds without anything striking. Different rooms, one old idea: that the body, the breath and the mind are worked as parts of a single thing.

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Lie Still Under a Thread of Warm Oil

Ayurveda Therapies

Raga Svara: Ayurveda & Wellness Retreats

The signature therapy has a plain Sanskrit name: shirodhara, from shiro, the head, and dhara, a stream. You lie down, and a fine, unbroken thread of warm oil is poured onto your forehead, just above the brow, and kept flowing there — the same slow pour, for a long time. It is a strange, particular sensation, and most people find their thoughts go quiet somewhere in it. Earlier there’s abhyanga, a full-body massage worked with warm oil by two therapists at once. The doctor chooses the oils for you, not off a menu. Ayurveda holds that a body is steadied through the skin as much as the stomach; whatever you make of the theory, the hour itself does something.

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Learn the Day the Old Texts Prescribe

Digital Detox

Raga Svara: Ayurveda & Wellness Retreats

One evening, the doctor sits you down not for a treatment but for a lesson — in dinacharya, literally ‘day-conduct’, the daily routine the old Ayurvedic texts lay out. The premise is that health is built less by big interventions than by small things done at the right hour: rising before the sun, scraping the tongue, drinking warm water, eating the main meal at midday when digestion is said to be strongest, winding down as the light goes. It maps a day onto the body’s own clock. This is the part of the stay meant to leave with you — not the oils or the setting, which stay here, but a handful of habits small enough to keep once you’re home.

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Clean the Vessel, Then Walk Barefoot

Walking Mentorship

Raga Svara: Ayurveda & Wellness Retreats

There’s a logic to starting the day this way. The classical yoga texts open not with postures but with shatkarma — six cleansing acts — and the Gheranda Samhita calls the body a ghata, a clay pot, this first work its scouring: clean the vessel before you fill it. In gentle form that might be neti, rinsing the nasal passages, or trataka, steady gazing at a flame to settle the mind. Then you go outside and walk, slowly and barefoot, across grass and stone and packed earth, feeling the ground change under your feet. After the inward cleaning, the plain outward fact of the earth. A way of arriving in the day rather than lurching into it.

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Cook the Season Straight From the Garden

Organic Farm Visit Cooking Class

Raga Svara: Ayurveda & Wellness Retreats

Indian tradition counts not four seasons but six — vasanta, grishma, varsha, sharad, hemanta, shishira, spring through winter — and Ayurveda has a whole discipline, ritucharya, for eating differently in each, because what suits the body in the monsoon won’t in high summer. You see the principle at its simplest in the garden. You walk the beds with the chef and the resident botanist, picking whatever the season is actually giving that week, and carry it to the kitchen to turn into soups and salads while you watch. Nothing arrives from far away or out of its time. It’s less a cooking class than a small argument for eating what grows around you, when it grows.

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Walk the Grounds for Birds From Siberia

Nature Storytelling Nature Walks

Raga Svara: Ayurveda & Wellness Retreats

Many of the birds you’ll see on the evening walk didn’t grow up here. Gujarat sits on the Central Asian Flyway, one of the great migration routes, and every winter millions of birds come down it from Siberia and Central Asia to winter on this side of India. A large share of the world’s cranes winters in this state. The grounds are designed to hold some of that life rather than push it out - gardens, water, trees left as habitat. You go round with the resident naturalist, a co-founder, learning to tell one call from another. Late autumn to late winter, the season for it, is also when the retreat is at its best.

DAY-BY-DAY

Your

Itinerary

DAY

WHERE YOU WILL BE

Raga Svara: Ayurveda & Wellness Retreat

Morning

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Arrive at Raga Svara and receive a traditional Suti Mala and a signature welcome drink (Fresh Mint Lemonade or Apple Cinnamon Tea) as you are introduced to the retreat's gardens and orchards.

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Settle into your private suite and relax.

Afternoon

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Begin your wellness journey with a personal consultation with Raga Svara's resident Ayurveda Doctor.

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Discover your Prakriti – your individual constitution – and discuss your energy, sleep, digestion and everyday life.

Evening

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As the day quietens, join the Yoga Guru at Bodhi for a gentle guided meditation.

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Let the pace of travel fall away as you settle into stillness and begin reconnecting with your breath and the present moment.

DAY

Morning

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Begin the morning with a guided yoga session led by an Expert Yoga Guru.

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Move through gentle postures, breathwork and mindful sequencing designed to bring both body and mind into focus.

Afternoon

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Continue your individual wellness programme at Prakriti, Raga Svara's dedicated Ayurvedic wellness centre.

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Enjoy traditional therapies such as Sarvanga Abhyangam or Shirodhara.

Evening

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Meet the Resident Ayurveda Doctor for a practical introduction to Dinacharya, the Ayurvedic approach to structuring daily life around nature.

DAY

WHERE YOU WILL BE

Nature Wrapped Grounds

Morning

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Begin with Shuddhi Kriya, traditional yogic cleansing practices guided by a Yoga Instructor.

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Continue into a slow barefoot walk across grass, stone and soil, paying attention to the textures beneath your feet and the natural surroundings.

Afternoon

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Meet the Executive Chef and Resident Botanist in Raga Svara's organic garden.

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Walk through the seasonal beds and pick fresh produce.

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Follow your harvest into the kitchen for an interactive cooking session centred around fresh, nutrient-rich soups and salads.

Evening

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As the light softens, head out with Raga Svara's Naturalist/Co-Founder for a slow walk through the grounds.

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Look for local and migratory birds and discover the plants that shape the landscape across Gujarat's six distinct seasons.

DAY

WHERE YOU WILL BE

Indoor Spaces

Morning

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Begin your final morning at Anahata Library with a Swadhyay session guided by a Yoga Instructor.

Afternoon

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Sit down to one final Ayurvedic meal prepared by the Culinary Team.

Evening

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When it is time to leave, a private transfer takes you to Rajkot Airport or Railway Station. Leave with the practices and insights gathered during your stay.

Starting Package Price

STANDARD PRICE

$931

Per Room

3 Nights / 4 Days, Double occupancy

EXCLUSIVE STARLIFE MEMBER PRICE

$810

Per Room

Save $121 | Members Only

Inclusions

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Luxurious accommodation (Megh Suite)

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All meals

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2 Daily Ayurveda Therapies

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Ayurveda Doctor Consultation

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Yoga & meditation sessions (twice in a day)

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Airport Transfers

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Ayurvedic Cooking Session, Mandala Art Session, Dinacharya & Ayurvedic Routine Session, Shuddhi Kriya/Barefoot Walking Session, Wellness Cuisine Session/Organic Garden Tour, Bird Watching & Nature Walk, Yoga Philosophy/Swadhyay Session

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Guests staying 3 nights may get up to any 2 experiences from the list above as per season.

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Access to all Campus Facilities

Exclusions

International and domestic flights or train tickets

Off-property city or cultural tours

À-la-carte treatments or private 1-on-1 yoga outside the package program

Travel insurance and personal expenses

Alcohol and tobacco (strictly prohibited on premises)

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