Set in 21 acres of Sal forest above Dehradun, Six Senses Vana has assembled something genuinely uncommon: four living healing systems under one roof, each represented by a resident specialist of the highest calibre, including one of the world’s very few accessible alumni of the Men-Tsee-Khang for Tibetan Medicine and Sowa Rigpa, a Head Ayurveda Clinician trained in Kerala with deep therapeutic yoga expertise, and a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner with a master’s degree from Beijing University. Every stay arrives already structured around guided nutrition, daily retreat activities, wellness screening, and one private treatment per night per person, making transformation not an option but the architecture of the stay.
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One of the world’s most seriously structured healing retreats, where four medical traditions — Ayurveda, Tibetan Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Healing — are practised by resident specialists in a Sal forest above Dehradun.
Vana means forest, and the name is instructive: this 21-acre retreat above Dehradun is not a luxury hotel with healing amenities but a modern ashram where every dimension of the guest experience has been designed around transformation. Conceived by owner Veer Singh as a vehicle for ancient Indian wisdom, and built in serene contemporary architecture by Barcelona’s Esteva i Esteva, Six Senses Vana operates on the principle that healing is not optional. Every guest receives a wellness consultation and screening on arrival, one private treatment or session per night, full-board meals calibrated to their dosha and wellness intention, daily retreat programming including yoga, meditation and functional fitness, and attire to wear throughout their stay. The extraordinary depth of the resident expert team is what separates Vana from every comparable property: Dr. Tenzin Sopa, an alumni of the Chagpori Tibetan Medical Institute, brings Sowa Rigpa diagnostics and therapy to one of the very few settings outside a Tibetan medical institution where it is genuinely available. Dr. Jayachandran, trained in Kerala and with clinical experience across India, Malaysia and Bali, leads Ayurvedic medicine. Dimple Raghuvanshi holds a master’s degree from the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and brings nineteen years of TCM practice. These are not visiting practitioners on rotation. They live and work here.
Sleep Programme. Detox Programme. Weight Management Programme. Yoga Programme. Ayurveda Programme. All programmes are layered on a Foundation (included in every stay), with optional Elevation (additional treatments: Subtle Energies, acupuncture, reflexology, realignment) and Intention (programme-specific diagnostics and targeted guidance).
The Tibetan Medicine offering via Sowa Rigpa is among the most rare and significant aspects of any healing property in the world. Raag Therapy, the therapeutic use of classical Indian musical ragas in healing sessions, is a signature offering found nowhere else at this level. The SLOW cuisine principle (Sustainable, Local, Organic, Wholesome) combined with dosha-based personalisation and the Anayu restaurant's Sanskrit framework of nourishment-as-medicine makes the dining here inseparable from the therapeutic programme. The Bodhi Suite's private meditation room and the Vana Suite's private treatment room and plunge pool represent accommodation designed specifically for the healing experience, not merely for comfort.
For those who are ready to be genuinely changed by their time away, and who want that change to be rooted in systems of medicine that have been practised for centuries, Six Senses Vana is one of the very few places in the world that can honestly make that promise.
Vana
Luxury wellness retreat India
Mussoorie Road
Dehradun – 248001
India
Asia
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