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Dedicated wellness retreat for Ayurveda, Yoga, Tibetan Medicine, & Natural Healing Therapies in India

Dedicated wellness retreat for Ayurveda, Yoga, Tibetan Medicine, and Natural Healing Therapies in the Himalayan foothills of India

02/12/2025

Art is not a finished piece.
It’s a process of noticing. Of allowing color and texture to speak before words arrive.

Guided by Siraj Saxena, guests explore material the way one might explore memory: slowly, without force.

Paper, clay, canvas… each surface becomes a space for reflection. Stories emerge. Patterns shift. Something softens.

This isn’t therapy. It’s expression. Raw, real, and quietly healing.

The Art Retreat continues through December 8, 2025.

Come with curiosity. Leave with something only your hands could tell.

30/11/2025

As winter settles over the land, the world outside slows, and nature invites us to do the same. In Ayurveda, Hemanta Ritu and Shishira Ritu (the pre-winter and winter season) is a time to conserve energy, nourish the body, and strengthen ojas (the essence of vitality and immunity).

The cool, dry air increases Vata dosha, making warmth, rest, and steadiness essential.
Our approach to winter wellness blends wisdom with personalized care. Our Ayurvedic therapies offer a private consultation that guides you to restore internal warmth, enhance circulation, and support digestion, helping the body adapt gently to the season’s shift.

Tibetan Healing treatments work at a deeper energetic level, easing emotional heaviness and stabilizing the mind.
Yoga practices at this time of year are grounding and breath-led. Slower asanas, gentle twists, and restorative poses that build inner heat while calming the nervous system. Pranayama and guided meditation align your breath and energy with the natural rhythm of the season.
Cuisine becomes a form of therapy too. Meals are thoughtfully designed with seasonal ingredients, mild spices, and healthy fats to nourish without burdening the system, supporting the body’s inner fire and clarity of mind.
From movement to meals, therapies to rest, life here is designed to mirror nature’s wisdom: less outward striving, more inward renewal. This is the body’s time to rebuild, rebalance, and remember its quiet strength.

29/11/2025

As the air turns crisp and the body seeks warmth, spices become nature’s quiet healers. In Ayurveda, they are the bridge between food and medicine, supporting digestion, circulation, and balance through the changing season.

At this time of year, warming spices take centre stage. Ginger, cinnamon, black pepper, clove, and cardamom are used thoughtfully in teas, tonics, and meals to stimulate agni (digestive fire) and keep internal warmth steady. Turmeric and cumin help reduce inflammation and strengthen immunity, while fennel and coriander bring lightness, ensuring the warmth never turns heavy.

Each spice is sourced mindfully, hand-ground in small batches, and added with purpose, not for heat alone, but for harmony.
Because true warmth begins with the food we eat, the breath we take, and the balance we cultivate with every season.

26/11/2025

Mornings begin with the forest waking. Sunlight through Sal trees, the sound of birds, and the first breath of yoga or meditation. These early hours activate the body’s energy and align it with the day’s rhythm.

Midday brings nourishment through food and therapies. Meals are prepared to match your body’s needs and the season’s rhythm, while Ayurveda, Yoga, and Tibetan Healing sessions work in harmony to support your inner landscape.

Afternoons are for gentle integration. Forest walks, learning sessions, or moments by the water, spaces to absorb, reflect, and realign.
Evenings ease into calm with grounding practices, herbal teas, or the soft notes of a flute offering. Rituals that prepare you for rest and renewal.

Every element of the day, from what you eat to how you breathe, is thoughtfully curated to help you return to equilibrium. A gentle reminder that wellness is not found in doing more, but in living with intention.

24/11/2025

As Hemanta Ritu (pre-winter) unfolds, nature sweetens the air and the soil ripens with nourishment.

This is the season when fruits become nature’s most effortless form of healing, restoring strength, aiding digestion, and preparing the body for the months ahead.

According to Ayurveda, fruits that are naturally sweet, slightly sour, and rich in moisture are most balancing for this time of year. Guava, amla (Indian gooseberry), custard apple, pomegranate, and citrus fruits like kinnow or orange help build ojas, the body’s vital energy, while supporting immunity and gut health.

These fruits are best enjoyed fresh, at room temperature, and ideally in the first half of the day when agni (digestive fire) is strongest.

23/11/2025

Evenings at Six Senses Vana carry their own quiet rhythm.

The forest softens, the air cools, and the body begins to unwind from the day’s activity. This is when tea becomes more than a beverage; it becomes a gentle bridge between stimulation and rest.

Our evening blends are crafted to align with the pre-winter season, when warmth, moisture, and balance are key to wellbeing.

Herbal infusions combine calming flowers like chamomile and blue pea with digestive spices such as cardamom, fennel, and cinnamon. Each element is chosen for purpose: to support agni (digestive fire), ease the nervous system, and prepare the body for restorative sleep.

Here, tea is not served in haste. It’s sipped slowly, in silence or over soft conversation. It’s a daily ritual of grounding, a way to signal to the body that it’s time to rest, digest, and restore.

22/11/2025

Not all recognition arrives with applause.
Sometimes, it comes quietly—rooted in responsibility, in how we care, how we listen, and how we live. Because here, everything matters.

Every decision is intentional.
The way we welcome. The way we build. The way we stay curious about what well-being truly means.

It’s never been about being seen. And yet again—the world noticed.

We’re grateful.
But more than that, we’re reaffirmed.
Reaffirmed in the choices we continue to make each day.
To walk lightly. To choose what’s right, not what’s easy. To keep making space for stillness, connection, and care.

20/11/2025

Art has the power to reveal what words cannot.
The Art & Healing Retreat with Siraj Saxena (December 1–8, 2025) invites you to slow down, breathe, and reconnect through creative expression. Through painting, paper-making, and clay work, each session becomes a journey inward, a way to explore emotion, presence, and balance through color and form.
No prior art experience is needed. Here, creativity is not about skill but awareness. It’s about letting the hands, not the mind, take the lead. Guided by Siraj Saxena, you’ll move between mediums and discover how creation itself can be meditative, grounding, and deeply restorative.

This retreat includes daily guided art sessions, wellness treatments, seasonal cuisine, all designed to nurture expression, healing, and inner calm.

For those seeking a gentler pace and a more intimate connection with self, this is an invitation to create, release, and rediscover through the language of art.

16/11/2025

As Hemanta Ritu arrives, Ayurveda’s season of gathering and strength, the body naturally seeks warmth, stability, and a deeper connection to breath.

Our yoga practices shift in rhythm with the season. Movements become more grounding, breathwork steadier, and sequences longer and restorative. All designed to balance Vata, the air and space energy that rises with the cool winds of pre-winter.

Morning practices focus on gentle activation: Surya Namaskar to awaken energy and stimulate digestion (agni).

Midday sessions invite heat and circulation through Warrior and Twisting asanas that tone and detoxify.

Evenings bring slower, reflective flows paired with extended Pranayama to calm the nervous system and prepare the body for deep rest.
This cyclical approach to yoga is not about routine, but relationship with nature, the breath, and ayurvedic dinacharya which helps guide type of movement through the course of the day.

When you move in rhythm with the season, practice becomes more than exercise, it becomes balance in motion.

12/11/2025

Each season brings its own needs. In Hemanta (pre-winter), warmth, hydration, and digestion take center stage.

Our seasonal drinks are designed with intention, blending Ayurvedic wisdom, local ingredients, and gentle functionality.

Spices like ginger, cinnamon, and cardamom help kindle agni (digestive fire) without overheating the body.
Adaptogenic herbs such as tulsi and ashwagandha calm the system and strengthen immunity.

Fermented and probiotic beverages support gut health, while natural sweeteners like jaggery balance energy and taste.
From a cup of restorative herbal tea to a mildly spiced tonic, every blend is crafted to align with the rhythm of the season, grounding, nourishing, and easy to recreate in daily life.

08/11/2025

Sowa Rigpa, or Tibetan Medicine, is one of the world’s oldest living healing systems—rooted in the balance of body, energy, and mind.

At Six Senses Vana, it is offered in its complete and authentic form by trained doctors and therapists from Men-Tsee-Khang, the Tibetan Medical Institute based in Dharamshala, India.

This is a tradition that works gently and deeply. Rather than addressing only symptoms, it looks to the subtle origins of imbalance—emotional, energetic, and physical.
Here, health is not defined by the absence of illness, but by the ongoing harmony of three inner energies: Lung (wind), Tripha (bile), and Beken (phlegm).

Each session becomes a space to calm the mind, soothe the nervous system, and return to inner rhythm.

Few places in the world offer this lineage in its full expression—and fewer still hold it within a retreat experience that nurtures every layer of the self.

06/11/2025

Sustainability begins with small shifts in awareness— to use less, waste less, and live more gently with the natural world.

On Paper Free Day, we celebrate paper recycling at our Earth Lab - discarded paper finds a second life.

Pressed, shaped, and dried by hand, each sheet becomes more than paper—it becomes a quiet reminder that nothing needs to be thrown away, only reimagined.

Today, on Paper Free Day, we pause to celebrate these mindful choices that leave a softer footprint.

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Mussoorie Road
Dehra Dun
248001

Telephone

+911353511111

Website

https://www.sixsenses.com/en/resorts/vana

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Vana is a wellness retreat in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. A search for equilibrium, learning and the inner journey are at the heart of Vana. Vana means forest, and those that take abode within it are Vanavasis.

We have endeavoured to bring together the traditions of wellness, medicine and Indian wisdom with creative thought, deep commitment and personalised support. Ayurveda, Sowa Rigpa and Yoga have been thoughtfully integrated, yet rooted in their individual authenticity.