Ayurveda is practised across India, but Kerala has a particular association with it, and the reasons are more practical than mystical.
An unbroken practice
The Kerala tradition preserved a distinct repertoire of external therapies — Pizhichil, the various forms of Kizhi, Dhara — as a living, taught practice rather than a reconstructed one. The procedures are handed down in the doing.
The monsoon
Karkidakam, the Malayalam month that falls across the heaviest of the rains, is traditionally the season for treatment. The reasoning is environmental: humidity and cool air, a body less taxed by heat, and a slower month in an agricultural calendar.
What grows here
The Western Ghats rise immediately inland, and the materia medica of Kerala Ayurveda is drawn from that gradient — coast to hill forest within a short distance.
Thalassery and the Malabar coast
The group's own units sit on this coast: the clinic and hospital at Thalassery, the 1866 Judge Bungalow at Melur, and the 1945 bungalow on Boulevard Road at Mahe. It is a part of Kerala with fewer visitors than the backwaters further south, and a good deal of its own history.
a closing section on the group's own view of the region, to be written with the client.
