Ayurveda wellness house,
Kovalam, Thiruvananthapuram
പകലിന്റെ താളത്തിൽ, പതുക്കെ.
Pathila is a small Ayurveda wellness house in a coconut grove at Kovalam. Eleven rooms, a herb garden, a kitchen that cooks for each guest, and a day that starts at dawn and ends early. Every stay begins with a conversation with our physician.
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ഞങ്ങൾ രോഗചികിത്സ നടത്തുന്നില്ല.
Pathila offers rest and wellness routines rooted in Kerala's Ayurveda tradition. We do not diagnose, treat or cure any disease, and a stay here is not a substitute for your doctor's care. If you live with a health condition, keep seeing your own doctor, keep taking what they prescribe, and tell us before you book.
ആദ്യം, ഒരു സംഭാഷണം
On your first day you sit down with our physician for about 45 minutes. She asks about your sleep, your food, your work, the medicines you take and what you hope to get from the stay, and checks your pulse and blood pressure. Then she writes your plan: which therapies, on which days, and what you eat. You read it with her, and you can say no to any part of it.
A short form and a 15-minute call or video call, free. If a wellness stay is not right for you just now, we say so before you book a flight.
The full consultation, about 45 minutes, and your written plan. You read it together and agree it before anything starts.
A ten-minute check at 8.30 am. Sleep, appetite, how the massage felt. The plan changes when you need it to.
A closing talk and a one-page home routine to take with you: when to wake, what to eat, which practice to keep.
Therapists are women for women and men for men. If a therapy is not right for you on a given day, it is left out, and we tell you why.
കാര്യക്രമങ്ങൾ
Each programme is a daily routine of rest, a simple diet, yoga and oil massage. What changes with length is how slowly we go and how much of the routine you learn to take home. Prices are per person and include your room, all meals, the consultations, the daily therapies your plan sets out, yoga and taxes.
വിശ്രമം
A week to slow down.
From ₹72,000 or US$ 980
ലഘു
A light-diet routine.
From ₹1,36,000 or US$ 1,840. Airport transfers included.
ദിനചര്യ
The whole day, learned.
From ₹1,95,000 or US$ 2,640. Airport transfers included.
Your days, one square each. Choose a day to see it from dawn to night.
Day 3
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Arrive Tuesday 12 January 2027. Leave Tuesday 19 January 2027.
Sample prices for the 2026 to 2027 season. A 30% deposit holds your room. Full refund up to 30 days before arrival; after that we move your dates once, free. Two guests sharing a room each pay 15% less than the single price. A companion not following a programme pays ₹5,500 or US$ 70 a night, with meals and yoga. Your focus shapes the day, not the price; the physician sets the final plan on day one.
ദിനചര്യ
The clock stays the same every day of your stay. Your plan decides the therapies; the bell, the meals and the quiet hours do not move.
5.45 am
A soft bell in the courtyard. A copper jug of warm water is at your door.
6.15 am
An hour on the east verandah facing the grove. Slow, seated and standing practice, suited to beginners.
7.30 am
Rice kanji or steamed puttu, a little fruit, a cup of herbal water.
8.30 am
How you slept, how you ate, what changes today.
9.30 am to 12 noon
Usually an oil massage by two therapists working together, then steam and a herbal bath. Which therapies and on which days is set by your plan.
12.45 pm
Red rice, a leaf thoran, a mild curry, vegetables from the garden.
2 pm to 4 pm
No therapies, no classes. Sleep, read, sit on the verandah.
4 pm
Through the grove and the herb garden with our gardener on Mondays and Thursdays. Cooking lessons on Tuesdays and Fridays.
5.30 pm
Forty minutes, mostly lying down.
6.30 pm
The brass lamp on the front verandah is lit at dusk. A short walk to the shore on Sundays, with a guide.
7.15 pm
Soup, a little rice or kanji, cooked vegetables. Nothing heavy after dark.
9.30 pm
The house goes quiet. Wi-Fi in the reading room switches off at ten.
അടുക്കള
Our kitchen is vegetarian and cooks three times a day for the guests in the house that week. Greens, herbs and bananas come from our own garden; rice, lentils and vegetables from farms and markets around Thiruvananthapuram. The physician's note for each guest goes to the kitchen, so your plate may differ from your neighbour's.
Kanji, red rice, thorans, mild curries, steamed vegetables. Little oil, little salt, no deep frying.
Meals at the same time every day. Herbal water through the day; tea and coffee at breakfast only.
On the light-diet routine, food is simplified in stages and brought back slowly before you leave.
Tell us about allergies, gluten, nuts or a vegan diet. We cook for them.
Across the house and grounds, for the length of your stay.
Curry leaf, tulsi and the greens for the thoran come in from the garden on the morning they are cooked.
The kitchen garden
Laterite beds behind the kitchen hold curry leaf, tulsi, aloe, adathoda, banana, and the greens for the thoran. Walk round with the gardener at 4 pm on Mondays and Thursdays.
The house takes its name from the garden: pathila means ten leaves, after the ten-leaf thoran Kerala kitchens cook in Karkidakam.
മുറികൾ
6 rooms
22 square metres on the garden side of the house. Double or twin, fan and air-conditioning, a rain shower. Opens onto the herb garden.
Included in the programme price
3 rooms
26 square metres in the old house around the central courtyard. Teak ceiling, a high four-poster bed, a sit-out on the courtyard.
Plus ₹2,000 or US$ 25 a night
2 cottages
34 square metres, a laterite cottage in the coconut grove with its own verandah and a bath open to the sky behind a bamboo screen.
Plus ₹4,500 or US$ 55 a night
Every room: cotton linen, a mosquito net, filtered water in a copper jug, a cotton robe, no television. Wi-Fi works in the reading room and on the verandah, so the rooms stay quiet.
കർക്കിടകം
Karkidakam is the last month of the Malayalam calendar, from about mid-July to mid-August. It rains most days. In Kerala it has long been the month for rest, simple food and oil massage, and many families still cook marunnu kanji, a rice gruel with herbs, at home. In 2027 it runs from about 17 July to 16 August; we confirm the exact dates each spring.
At Pathila
Eight rooms open, not eleven.
We open only eight rooms, so the house is quieter. The Laghu routine runs at its usual price, with the season's kanji and pathila thoran on the menu. Rooms for Karkidakam book out early, so ask by April.
The year at Pathila
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One visiting senior physician and two resident physicians share the consultations, with a team of fourteen therapists, yoga teachers and cooks. A physician is on the premises every day from 7 am to 7 pm and on call at night.
Affiliation and approvals
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എത്തിച്ചേരാൻ
Kovalam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
+91 00000 00000 stay@pathila.example
Office hours 8 am to 8 pm, every day (India time)
ചോദ്യങ്ങൾ
No. Pathila is a wellness centre. We do not diagnose, treat or cure any disease. If you live with a health condition, tell us before you book, keep seeing your own doctor, and our physician will tell you plainly whether a stay suits you now.
Yes, exactly as your doctor prescribed. Bring them and a written list. We never ask anyone to stop or change a prescribed medicine.
We do not run therapy programmes during pregnancy. Write to us about a quiet stay with yoga and meals instead.
Yes. A companion pays ₹5,500 or US$ 70 a night, with meals and yoga.
Guests following a programme are 18 or over. Companions from 12.
A 30% deposit by bank transfer or card holds your room; the rest on arrival. Guests resident in India pay in rupees, foreign guests in US dollars.
You can, in the reading room, but the routine does more for you if you don't. Wi-Fi is off from 10 pm to 6 am.
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