Traditional treatments with practitioners we have worked with for years — most usefully after a day of climbing rock staircases.
Ayurveda has been practised on this island for well over two thousand years, and in this part of the country it is ordinary medicine rather than a spa treatment. The practitioners we work with are locally trained and have been seeing our guests for a long time.
The most popular treatment is straightforward: a full-body oil massage with warm herbal oils, followed by a herbal steam bath. If you have just come down off Sigiriya or spent five hours in a jeep, it is the single best thing you can do for yourself that evening.
Beyond that there are herbal baths, head and foot treatments, and guided meditation for anyone who wants it. A practitioner will ask a few questions about how you have been sleeping and what you have been eating before choosing oils.
Treatments can happen here on the property or at the practitioner's rooms nearby, whichever you prefer.
