Jivita Ayurveda

Friday Morning Meditation and Breakfast
2025-03-14 08:45 - 09:30 UTC | Jivita Ayurveda, Kensal Rise NW10, Jivita Ayurveda, 89 Chamberlayne Road, Kensal Rise, London, NW10 3ND, United Kingdom
Focused group meditation and breakfast

Time: Monday 8.15am - 9am, Friday 8.45 - 9.30 amPrice: £10

Start your day with tranquillity and warmth at our weekly morning Meditation Sessions, designed to foster focus and mindfulness that lasts throughout your day. Each session begins with calming techniques inspired by Dandapani, guiding participants into a deep state of focus. Unique every week, these sessions often include guided visualisations and the soothing vibrations of healing humming (Bhramari Pranayama), which enhance mental clarity and relaxation. After meditation, enjoy a delicious serving of home-brewed chai and nourishing porridge, perfect for grounding yourself before stepping into the day ahead. The informal setting encourages community connection, reflection, and the sharing of insights, helping you integrate the tools learned into your daily life. Whether you’re new to meditation or seeking to deepen your practice, these sessions offer a restorative and uplifting start to your day while equipping you with practical strategies to stay centred and focused beyond the session itself.

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Ayurvedic Cooking Class
2025-10-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Justine, 69 Keslake Road, London, Nw10
Wellness Wednesday:
Ayurvedic Cooking Class
15th October
6.30pm
London, NW10
Join us for a nourishing evening where food becomes medicine and the kitchen transforms into a place of balance and healing. In this Wellness Wednesday session, you’ll explore the principles of Ayurvedic cooking : learning how to assemble the combinations of flavours, spices, and seasonal ingredients which can bring harmony to body and mind.
Through hands-on, practical guidance, we will prepare time-honoured recipes designed to support digestion, immunity, and vitality. Together, we’ll make a season-appropriate bone broth, discover the versatility of healing kitchari, a gentle yet powerful dish for cleansing and renewal and learn the traditional process of creating golden ghee, celebrated for its nourishing qualities.
Whether you’re new to Ayurveda or deepening your practice, this class offers both wisdom and practical skills to take home. Come ready to cook, taste, and connect with the timeless rhythms of food as medicine.

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Monday Morning Meditation and Breakfast
2025-09-22 08:15 - 09:00 | Jivita Ayurveda, Kensal Rise NW10, Jivita Ayurveda, 89 Chamberlayne Road, Kensal Rise, London, NW10 3ND, United Kingdom

Wellness Wednesday with Mike Standish - What is Meditation
2025-09-24 18:30 - 20:00
If you’ve been curious about meditation, or tried before without lasting success, I invite you to join us for Wellness Wednesday on 24th September in Kensal Rise.
Mike and I will explore the essence of meditation and expose the pitfalls of starting on your own or and the benefits of a guide, a teacher who can lead on the path of spiritual development.
We share details about our upcoming Vedic Weekend Retreat. This will be your opportunity to be initiated into the tradition, receive your own mantra, and learn the practice through a powerful four-day process.
The participants are entitled to 15% discount on our Vedic meditation retreat in November.
Price £20 including a cup of chai
Time: 6.30pm – 8pm
Place: Jivita Ayurveda, 89 Chamberlayne Road, NW10 3ND

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Vedic Meditation Rounding Weekend
2025-06-06 08:00 - 2025-06-08 17:00 | Wraxall Yard, Lower Wraxall, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 0HL
Vedic Rounding Retreat – Invitation from Michael Standish
We warmly invite you to a rejuvenating weekend dedicated to deepening and consolidating your meditation practice in the serene and nourishing surroundings of Wraxall Yard at the height of its summer beauty.
Time & Place: Friday 6th – Sunday 8th June 2025 (two nights)
Wraxall Yard, Dorset
Deposit: £300
Price: £450-550 per night (depending on choice of accommodation)
Price includes: Rounding Tuition with Michael Standish, accommodation, nourishing ayurvedic food, seaside sauna & evening entertainment
Ayurvedic massage treatments available at extra cost on request

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Invitation from Michael Standish
Dear Meditators
Jai Guru Deva
Firstly, I hope you are enjoying your meditation practice.
With our twice daily practice of meditation we release stress incrementally in a way that we can engage in our everyday lives smoothly. Also benefitting with better sleep, a clearer mind and that feeling of stability within ourselves making us more relevant for ourselves and others.
We can accelerate these benefits and our evolution by undergoing a wonderful, simple process called Rounding. This process involves some simple asanas (yoga postures) a breathing technique (pranayama) and then we dive into our meditation. We then repeat this process and with a carefully constructed timetable observed by myself one can release stress on an industrial level and bring even more stability and understanding.
One weekend on a rounding retreat can equate to between 3-5 months of twice daily meditation. Deep stresses are released in an atmosphere of calm and restoration. On the weekend you will listen to the vibratory sounds of the Veda being sung and understand deeper the foundations of this knowledge. The combination of the Rounding, Ayurvedic food, treatments, knowledge talks deepens the connection with the self and your evolution.
You will also be able after this weekend to take the rounding practice and use as per instruction at home. The minimum requirement for this course is 6 months consistent meditation practice.

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June Residential: 7 Day Routine Reset
2025-06-02 - 2025-06-11
7 Day Routine Reset
Integrating healthy habits takes an embodied experience of wellbeing
If you’ve ever found it challenging to adopt new habits in your daily life, it’s often because their benefits have yet to be fully experienced. This retreat is designed to inspire confidence and motivation by fostering an environment where you can tangibly feel the profound and lasting effects of enhanced wellbeing, making it easier to sustain and embrace new routines with ease.

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Who can benefit from this retreat?

Those who snack

Evening eaters

Chronically inflamed

People with unresolved reoccurring pain

Under, mal- and overnourished

Fatigued bad sleepers

Unrecovered from Covid

What’s Included?
A five-day retreat journey is an intense program, however it is full of wonderful healing and health promoting activities. Relaxation is the main focus in order to promote self-regulation, the body’s own innate ability to heal itself. From morning until evening and overnight, all we do is create different experiences and learning opportunities to bring the body in a state of safety and comfort.
What’s included:

Fully catered modern luxury lodge with modern amenities in an eighteenth century barns setting,
Full health consultation
Diet and lifestyle plan for the life after the retreat
Daily massage treatments and herbal remedies
Delicious Ayurvedic food
121 Diet and Lifestyle coaching
Yoga, pranayama, yoga nidra and meditation classes
Area of outstanding beauty

Add ons with no extra charge:
Visits to see farm animals, nature walks, farm activities such as hedge laying
Add ons with extra charge:
At request we can add services that make your stay even more comfortable such as…five

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How much does it cost?
£3,500
7 days
Payment plans available (see FAQ below)

A Typical Day
A typical day might consist of

6am wake up and morning routines (intake of water and herbal medication)
Exercise (appropriate to the condition)
7am Massage therapies
Personal hygiene routines
9am Light breakfast
Classes, Walks, Self-Study
1pm Lunch (as per individual needs)
Nap
Afternoon activities (e.g. classes, yoga nidra, light movement, arts)
5pm Light supper
Evening Yin Yoga, pranayama, meditation
Lights off 10pm

Watch a Free Webinar on Ayurvedic Nutrition

Wraxall Yard
Wraxall Yard is a state of the art, beautifully renovated eighteenth-century dairy farm in the picturesque village of Lower Wraxall, Dorset
The space has been designed to cater for holiday makers in search for easily accessible luxury experiences within natural surrounding of the English countryside. With great attention to detail, its owners have designed a place which is not only functional in terms of accessibility but where the nature blends in with the interiors seen in custom made furniture and natural building materials and soft furnishing. Promoting sustainable, organic and local living, Wraxall Yard is a perfect match with Jivita Ayurveda’s ethos. We are proud to be collaborating with them, creating unique and authentic ayurvedic healing experiences, unparalleled to anywhere in the UK.
Wraxall Yard Website shows details of their estate, lodges and nature. It gives mores details of their mission to cater for those in need of relaxation and healing.
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June Residential: 10 Day Weight Loss Retreat

10 Day Weight Loss Retreat – June 25 Enhance your body’s ability to use and burn fat and feel good in your bodyThe most effective way to lose weight is in an environment that fosters safety and comfort, as the body naturally sheds weight in a healthy manner only when it feels secure and at ease. Stress, on the other hand, can hinder this process by encouraging the retention of fat and toxins. During this retreat, you will discover a gentle yet efficient approach to help the body release excess weight and eliminate waste, promoting a state of balance and…

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About Your Ayurvedic Practitioner Anu Paavola (B.Sc. Hons) Ayurveda, MAPA
Trained in Clinical Ayurveda in UK and India, Anu has dedicated over a decade in promoting ayurvedic living from her London clinic and spa Jivita Ayurveda.
She is the founder of Jivita Academy of Ayurveda and the author of Ayurveda Detox: How To Cleanse, Balance and Revitalise Your Body where she focuses on daily and seasonal cleansing practices that are the key in keeping healthy especially before and after a panchakarma program.
Anu realised soon after starting her clinical practice that to get results with clients they needed first fundamental education on basic healthy living. Ayurveda is mainly about self-care and most of the times clients need help in understanding what is in their power to do and what has taken them to the current state of imbalance or ill health. She believes that healing needs to be a journey of self-discovery by insights that arise during programs such as panchakarma.
Anu has developed her approach to educate Ayurveda from a need to have a very easy and approachable entry to the most practical way to manage health and disease.
Her passion in education is also visible in client work. Anu loves being creative in finding ways to apply ancient wisdom of healing into modern context. She empowers her clients to take charge of their own health by increasing awareness in nutrition based on their individual needs. Incorporating her fifteen years of practice and teaching of yoga Anu’s approach to healing is almost unique to anywhere in London or the UK.
Anu has created a community of enthusiasts by teaching that health in its right form brings about joy in life. Healing and recovering in her opinion do not exclude fun and enjoyment but are an extension of balanced and abundant life.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Payments – How do I pay and are there payment plans available?
There are a few options when you plan for your payments, which come with benefits the sooner you pay. Long term payment plans have an additional cost.
Deposit
To hold your reservation you will need to pay a non-refundable deposit of £500 unless you want to make a full payment immediately.
Full payment
Full payment needs to be paid 30 days before the start of the retreat.
Payment plans:
You can arrange a payment plan according to the time that is left between the first installment and the retreat. Full payment has to be made a month before the payment.
Other options: Longer term plans carrying over the retreat time e.g. for six months can be negotiated but will increase the full price with 10%
Our prices include VAT.

What happens after I pay the deposit?
After booking in, you will receive a welcome email and request to fill in the consultations forms and a a meeting set-up in zoom for the initial consultation.
You should also read the terms and conditions on our website.

Why book with us?
This program is designed to be a state-of-the-art experience of Ayurveda offered only by Jivita Ayurveda in the UK. The uniqueness of this program consists of an embodied and empowering experience of healing in Nature’s bosom with authentic clinical ayurvedic methods.
We design the program to match the exact needs of the client. We also have a conventional medicine doctor available for consultation to support the healing journey should clients already be on medication or undergoing treatments provided by NHS.
Added therapeutic services can be arranged at an extra fee.
The location, Wraxall Yard is custom made for wheelchair users with opportunities to enjoy many aspects of the English countryside classified as an area of outstanding beauty.

Why stay in UK and not go abroad?
The cleansing body needs to feel relaxed, safe and comfortable. A nice lush resort can certainly provide that but there are a few things that need to be considered, factors that can put the body out of balance: travel, climate, bacterial exposure and jet lag. It is highly recommendable to reserve time for acclimatisation in the new location before and after the actual detox. Many clients return from overseas retreats only to see the benefits disappear soon. Detoxing and re-establishing a good routinely daily detoxing rhythm require stability. Travel and all its dimensions can be counterproductive for this purpose.
Detox carried out as close as possible to home environment is a better choice. The new diet and lifestyle habits learned during detox should be adopted for a long term and applied in life after detox. Aftercare of a strong detox program is as important as the detox itself. It should be a fortifying experience of building strength and resilience onto a new level. Traveling can seriously disrupt the recovery from panchakarma and opens the gate for toxicity to settle in again.
The initial assessment of toxicity and strength determines the ideal detox program and its location. If the choice is to go abroad for example to cure a chronic long-standing health issue, it is recommend booking at least a week off on both sides of the actual cleanse. A successful panchakarma increases vitality and tolerance levels and consequently the travel back home might not be a problem after all. There is, however, a clear risk if acclimatisation, preparation and aftercare are ignored.

How to prepare?
Every detox program is uniquely designed and might already start before the actual residential stay starts. The clients will undergo a thorough assessment before the retreat and will be prepared to start on the first morning of the residence.
The arrival is on the preceding evening. We can arrange a pick up from the nearest train station such as Crewkerne from London arrivals.
Generally speaking, be prepared to eat simple yet delicious foods. For this reason, it would be good to avoid heavy evening meals towards the start of the arrival.
You will need comfortable season appropriate clothing for day and night, toiletries to cater for your most basic needs. Bring books to read with light content, unlikely to create upset or induce negative mindsets. Do not bring work with you and prepare to minimised online presence as much as possible. Bring a daily journal to write down your healing experiences.
The journey of healing is a full day activity. Come with an open and motivated mind, with an attitude of acceptance of what is and the potentials of when healing start manifesting. The program can bring up feelings and emotions that are lodged in the tissues and their release might be necessary for the recovery of the bodymind. The aim of our massage treatments is exactly that. Release the patterns that have set in the physical self so that energy flows, nutritions is received and toxins come out.

How do I get there?
Wraxall Yard is located in a picturesque village of Lower Wraxall right in the heart of West Dorset.
Wraxall Yard, Lower Wraxall, Dorchester, DT2 0HL
The closest towns with train stations are Crewkerne, Dorchester and Weymouth.
We can arrange for the pick up (add price) from the station or you can drive there by car, with normal traffick about 3h drive from London. The best route from London is on M3 – M27 – A31 to Dorchester – A37 – A356 past Maiden Newton – Turn right to Cattistock.
Alternatively, you can take the western road A303 to Ilchester and further, come off the road A356 towards Crewkerne.

What do I get out of this?
After five days of healing diligently with diet, stress management, massage treatments, herbs and cleanses you can expect to be in a different place from when you came in. Having gone through a journey of learning through experience you should be able to carry the teachings with you to the life beyond the retreat with confidence. You are indeed learning a whole new way of managing your health and wellbeing. Our aim is to prepare your bodymind to be more resilient and adaptable in the varying life situations, not just be well in the retreat but to thrive in everyday life situations.
If treatment protocols have been followed to the letter you can expect more vitality and energy, good digestion, more focus and improved cognitive functions, confidence and competence in understanding what is good for you as an individual. You should be able understand how to take charge of your own health and not depend so much on others for advice.
Free On-Demand Workshop
Not quite ready to commit? Check out our free on-demand workshop where you learn to use food as a medicine.
In this training you will learn a fresh model that allows you to practice and apply authentic Ayurveda by syncing with the seasons and timing your activities right. Anu will lay out the Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle into an easy and fun everyday practice without complicated food lists and doshas to think about. There’s no obscure terminology and – if you stay to the end – there’s even more more free learning material.
Send me the free training

Get the Ayurveda Detox book
How To Cleanse, Balance and Revitalise Your Body

Your practitioner Anu is the author of Ayurveda Detox: How To Cleanse, Balance and Revitalise Your Body, available from Amazon, Waterstones and Blackwell’s.
Her book will inspire you to try pace your daily and seasonal rhythms in a way that additional detox programs become almost redundant. Ayurvedic living is detoxifying per se and if you haven’t experienced it yet, learn from this book and create a new detox program for yourself that not only cleanses you but teaches you habits of a lifetime.
Find out more about Anu’s Ayurveda Detox book.

June residential: 5 Day Pain Management
2025-06-02 - 2025-06-11 | Wraxall Yard, Lower Wraxall, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 0HL
5 Day Pain Management Retreat – June 25
Choose your dates between 2nd-11th June
THERE IS A WAY TO MANAGE CHRONIC PAIN
Pain comes in different forms. Headaches, digestive discomfort and inflammation, joint pains, back aches, stiffness, spasms, burning sensation in addition to mental discomfort of hypersensitivity, anxiety, depression and stress can be efficiently reduced in intensity or resolved all together with the right kind of approach. Ayurvedic healing methods are compatible with conventional medicine and aim eventually to reduce and stop intake of pain relieving pharmaceutical, if appropriate. The premise in Ayurveda is to restore the state of self-regulation, the body’s ability to heal itself by returning to a place of safety and comfort. Our peaceful retreat environment, series of treatments, yoga practices and healthy diet give the nervous system time to re-educate itself and return to normalcy. We aim for the pain either to disappear or become easier to manage.
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Which conditions can benefit from this retreat?

Chronic reoccurring pain

Chronic Inflammation

Gut disorders

Long covid

Chronic fatigue

Skin problems

Insomnia

Stress disorders

What’s Included?
A five-day retreat journey is a well scheduled program full of wonderful healing and health promoting activities. Relaxation is the main focus in order to promote self-regulation, the body’s own innate ability to heal itself. From morning until evening and overnight, all we do is create different experiences and learning opportunities to bring the body in a state of safety and comfort.
What’s included:

Fully catered modern luxury lodge with modern amenities in an eighteenth century barns setting,
Full health consultation
Diet and lifestyle plan for the life after the retreat
Daily massage treatments and herbal remedies
Delicious Ayurvedic food
121 Diet and Lifestyle coaching
Yoga, pranayama, yoga nidra and meditation classes
Area of outstanding beauty

Add ons with no extra charge:
Visits to see farm animals, nature walks, farm activities such as hedge laying
Add ons with extra charge:
At request we can add services that make your stay even more comfortable such as…
How much does it cost?
£2,500
5 days
Payment plans available (see FAQ below)

A Typical Day
A typical day might consist of

6am wake up and morning routines (intake of water and herbal medication)
Exercise (appropriate to the condition)
7am Massage therapies
Personal hygiene routines
9am Light breakfast
Classes, Walks, Self-Study
1pm Lunch (as per individual needs)
Nap
Afternoon activities (e.g. classes, yoga nidra, light movement, arts)
5pm Light supper
Evening Yin Yoga, pranayama, meditation
Lights off 10pm

Watch a Free Webinar on Ayurvedic Nutrition

Wraxall Yard
Wraxall Yard is a state of the art, beautifully renovated eighteenth-century dairy farm in the picturesque village of Lower Wraxall, Dorset
The space has been designed to cater for holiday makers in search for easily accessible luxury experiences within natural surrounding of the English countryside. With great attention to detail, its owners have designed a place which is not only functional in terms of accessibility but where the nature blends in with the interiors seen in custom made furniture and natural building materials and soft furnishing. Promoting sustainable, organic and local living, Wraxall Yard is a perfect match with Jivita Ayurveda’s ethos. We are proud to be collaborating with them, creating unique and authentic ayurvedic healing experiences, unparalleled to anywhere in the UK.
Wraxall Yard Website shows details of their estate, lodges and nature. It gives mores details of their mission to cater for those in need of relaxation and healing.
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June Residential: 10 Day Weight Loss Retreat

10 Day Weight Loss Retreat – June 25 Enhance your body’s ability to use and burn fat and feel good in your bodyThe most effective way to lose weight is in an environment that fosters safety and comfort, as the body naturally sheds weight in a healthy manner only when it feels secure and at ease. Stress, on the other hand, can hinder this process by encouraging the retention of fat and toxins. During this retreat, you will discover a gentle yet efficient approach to help the body release excess weight and eliminate waste, promoting a state of balance and…

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About Your Ayurvedic Practitioner Anu Paavola (B.Sc. Hons) Ayurveda, MAPA
Trained in Clinical Ayurveda in UK and India, Anu has dedicated over a decade in promoting ayurvedic living from her London clinic and spa Jivita Ayurveda.
She is the founder of Jivita Academy of Ayurveda and the author of Ayurveda Detox: How To Cleanse, Balance and Revitalise Your Body where she focuses on daily and seasonal cleansing practices that are the key in keeping healthy especially before and after a panchakarma program.
Anu realised soon after starting her clinical practice that to get results with clients they needed first fundamental education on basic healthy living. Ayurveda is mainly about self-care and most of the times clients need help in understanding what is in their power to do and what has taken them to the current state of imbalance or ill health. She believes that healing needs to be a journey of self-discovery by insights that arise during programs such as panchakarma.
Anu has developed her approach to educate Ayurveda from a need to have a very easy and approachable entry to the most practical way to manage health and disease.
Her passion in education is also visible in client work. Anu loves being creative in finding ways to apply ancient wisdom of healing into modern context. She empowers her clients to take charge of their own health by increasing awareness in nutrition based on their individual needs. Incorporating her fifteen years of practice and teaching of yoga Anu’s approach to healing is almost unique to anywhere in London or the UK.
Anu has created a community of enthusiasts by teaching that health in its right form brings about joy in life. Healing and recovering in her opinion do not exclude fun and enjoyment but are an extension of balanced and abundant life.
Frequently Asked Questions

Payments – How do I pay and are there payment plans available?
There are a few options when you plan for your payments, which come with benefits the sooner you pay. Long term payment plans have an additional cost.
Deposit
To hold your reservation you will need to pay a non-refundable deposit of £500 unless you want to make a full payment immediately.
Full payment
Full payment needs to be paid 30 days before the start of the retreat.
Payment plans:
You can arrange a payment plan according to the time that is left between the first installment and the retreat. Full payment has to be made a month before the payment.
Other options: Longer term plans carrying over the retreat time e.g. for six months can be negotiated but will increase the full price with 10%
Our prices include VAT.

What happens after I pay the deposit?
After booking in, you will receive a welcome email and request to fill in the consultations forms and a a meeting set-up in zoom for the initial consultation.
You should also read the terms and conditions on our website.

Why book with us?
This program is designed to be a state-of-the-art experience of Ayurveda offered only by Jivita Ayurveda in the UK. The uniqueness of this program consists of an embodied and empowering experience of healing in Nature’s bosom with authentic clinical ayurvedic methods.
We design the program to match the exact needs of the client. We also have a conventional medicine doctor available for consultation to support the healing journey should clients already be on medication or undergoing treatments provided by NHS.
Added therapeutic services can be arranged at an extra fee.
The location, Wraxall Yard is custom made for wheelchair users with opportunities to enjoy many aspects of the English countryside classified as an area of outstanding beauty.

Why stay in UK and not go abroad?
The cleansing body needs to feel relaxed, safe and comfortable. A nice lush resort can certainly provide that but there are a few things that need to be considered, factors that can put the body out of balance: travel, climate, bacterial exposure and jet lag. It is highly recommendable to reserve time for acclimatisation in the new location before and after the actual detox. Many clients return from overseas retreats only to see the benefits disappear soon. Detoxing and re-establishing a good routinely daily detoxing rhythm require stability. Travel and all its dimensions can be counterproductive for this purpose.
Detox carried out as close as possible to home environment is a better choice. The new diet and lifestyle habits learned during detox should be adopted for a long term and applied in life after detox. Aftercare of a strong detox program is as important as the detox itself. It should be a fortifying experience of building strength and resilience onto a new level. Traveling can seriously disrupt the recovery from panchakarma and opens the gate for toxicity to settle in again.
The initial assessment of toxicity and strength determines the ideal detox program and its location. If the choice is to go abroad for example to cure a chronic long-standing health issue, it is recommend booking at least a week off on both sides of the actual cleanse. A successful panchakarma increases vitality and tolerance levels and consequently the travel back home might not be a problem after all. There is, however, a clear risk if acclimatisation, preparation and aftercare are ignored.

How to prepare?
Every detox program is uniquely designed and might already start before the actual residential stay starts. The clients will undergo a thorough assessment before the retreat and will be prepared to start on the first morning of the residence.
The arrival is on the preceding evening. We can arrange a pick up from the nearest train station such as Crewkerne from London arrivals.
Generally speaking, be prepared to eat simple yet delicious foods. For this reason, it would be good to avoid heavy evening meals towards the start of the arrival.
You will need comfortable season appropriate clothing for day and night, toiletries to cater for your most basic needs. Bring books to read with light content, unlikely to create upset or induce negative mindsets. Do not bring work with you and prepare to minimised online presence as much as possible. Bring a daily journal to write down your healing experiences.
The journey of healing is a full day activity. Come with an open and motivated mind, with an attitude of acceptance of what is and the potentials of when healing start manifesting. The program can bring up feelings and emotions that are lodged in the tissues and their release might be necessary for the recovery of the bodymind. The aim of our massage treatments is exactly that. Release the patterns that have set in the physical self so that energy flows, nutritions is received and toxins come out.

How do I get there?
Wraxall Yard is located in a picturesque village of Lower Wraxall right in the heart of West Dorset.
Wraxall Yard, Lower Wraxall, Dorchester, DT2 0HL
The closest towns with train stations are Crewkerne, Dorchester and Weymouth.
We can arrange for the pick up (add price) from the station or you can drive there by car, with normal traffick about 3h drive from London. The best route from London is on M3 – M27 – A31 to Dorchester – A37 – A356 past Maiden Newton – Turn right to Cattistock.
Alternatively, you can take the western road A303 to Ilchester and further, come off the road A356 towards Crewkerne.

What do I get out of this?
After five days of healing diligently with diet, stress management, massage treatments, herbs and cleanses you can expect to be in a different place from when you came in. Having gone through a journey of learning through experience you should be able to carry the teachings with you to the life beyond the retreat with confidence. You are indeed learning a whole new way of managing your health and wellbeing. Our aim is to prepare your bodymind to be more resilient and adaptable in the varying life situations, not just be well in the retreat but to thrive in everyday life situations.
If treatment protocols have been followed to the letter you can expect more vitality and energy, good digestion, more focus and improved cognitive functions, confidence and competence in understanding what is good for you as an individual. You should be able understand how to take charge of your own health and not depend so much on others for advice.
Free On-Demand Workshop
Not quite ready to commit? Check out our free on-demand workshop where you learn to use food as a medicine.
In this training you will learn a fresh model that allows you to practice and apply authentic Ayurveda by syncing with the seasons and timing your activities right. Anu will lay out the Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle into an easy and fun everyday practice without complicated food lists and doshas to think about. There’s no obscure terminology and – if you stay to the end – there’s even more more free learning material.
Send me the free training

Get the Ayurveda Detox book
How To Cleanse, Balance and Revitalise Your Body

Your practitioner Anu is the author of Ayurveda Detox: How To Cleanse, Balance and Revitalise Your Body, available from Amazon, Waterstones and Blackwell’s.
Her book will inspire you to try pace your daily and seasonal rhythms in a way that additional detox programs become almost redundant. Ayurvedic living is detoxifying per se and if you haven’t experienced it yet, learn from this book and create a new detox program for yourself that not only cleanses you but teaches you habits of a lifetime.
Find out more about Anu’s Ayurveda Detox book.

June residential: 3 Day Quick Gut Detox
2025-06-02 - 2025-06-10
3 Day Quick Gut Detox Retreat
Powerful realignment for the the gut-brain axis
The gut is able to renew it’s lining in three days. This retreat is designed to harness the power of regeneration from the root of the wellbeing on the bodymind, the second brain. Harnessing the body’s own ability to heal itself the program is perfect for winding down from stress, creating clarity, cooling down inflammation and calming down random aches and pains. Kickstart a longer lifestyle management program or conclude an extended healing and rejuvenation process this retreat fits seamlessly into our residential retreat schedule. Check out our next residential session and choose your best three days.
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What is this retreat good for?

Poor digestion

Stress

Inflamed gut

Puffiness and congestion

Lack of rest

Low energy

Random malaise

What’s Included?
A three-day retreat journey is an well scheduled program full of wonderful healing and health promoting activities. Relaxation is the main focus in order to promote self-regulation, the body’s own innate ability to heal itself. From morning until evening and overnight, all we do is create different experiences and learning opportunities to bring the body in a state of safety and comfort.
What’s included:

Fully catered modern luxury lodge with modern amenities in an eighteenth century barns setting,
Full health consultation
Diet and lifestyle plan for the life after the retreat
Daily massage treatments and herbal remedies
Delicious Ayurvedic food
121 Diet and Lifestyle coaching
Yoga, pranayama, yoga nidra and meditation classes
Area of outstanding beauty

Add ons with no extra charge:
Visits to see farm animals, nature walks, farm activities such as hedge laying
Add ons with extra charge:
At request we can add services that make your stay even more comfortable such as…
How much does it cost?
£1,500
3 days
Payment plans available (see FAQ below)

A Typical Day
A typical day might consist of

6am wake up and morning routines (intake of water and herbal medication)
Exercise (appropriate to the condition)
7am Massage therapies
Personal hygiene routines
9am Light breakfast
Classes, Walks, Self-Study
1pm Lunch (as per individual needs)
Nap
Afternoon activities (e.g. classes, yoga nidra, light movement, arts)
5pm Light supper
Evening Yin Yoga, pranayama, meditation
Lights off 10pm

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Wraxall Yard
Wraxall Yard is a state of the art, beautifully renovated eighteenth-century dairy farm in the picturesque village of Lower Wraxall, Dorset
The space has been designed to cater for holiday makers in search for easily accessible luxury experiences within natural surrounding of the English countryside. With great attention to detail, its owners have designed a place which is not only functional in terms of accessibility but where the nature blends in with the interiors seen in custom made furniture and natural building materials and soft furnishing. Promoting sustainable, organic and local living, Wraxall Yard is a perfect match with Jivita Ayurveda’s ethos. We are proud to be collaborating with them, creating unique and authentic ayurvedic healing experiences, unparalleled to anywhere in the UK.
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June Residential: 10 Day Weight Loss Retreat

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About Your Ayurvedic Practitioner Anu Paavola (B.Sc. Hons) Ayurveda, MAPA
Trained in Clinical Ayurveda in UK and India, Anu has dedicated over a decade in promoting ayurvedic living from her London clinic and spa Jivita Ayurveda.
She is the founder of Jivita Academy of Ayurveda and the author of Ayurveda Detox: How To Cleanse, Balance and Revitalise Your Body where she focuses on daily and seasonal cleansing practices that are the key in keeping healthy especially before and after a panchakarma program.
Anu realised soon after starting her clinical practice that to get results with clients they needed first fundamental education on basic healthy living. Ayurveda is mainly about self-care and most of the times clients need help in understanding what is in their power to do and what has taken them to the current state of imbalance or ill health. She believes that healing needs to be a journey of self-discovery by insights that arise during programs such as panchakarma.
Anu has developed her approach to educate Ayurveda from a need to have a very easy and approachable entry to the most practical way to manage health and disease.
Her passion in education is also visible in client work. Anu loves being creative in finding ways to apply ancient wisdom of healing into modern context. She empowers her clients to take charge of their own health by increasing awareness in nutrition based on their individual needs. Incorporating her fifteen years of practice and teaching of yoga Anu’s approach to healing is almost unique to anywhere in London or the UK.
Anu has created a community of enthusiasts by teaching that health in its right form brings about joy in life. Healing and recovering in her opinion do not exclude fun and enjoyment but are an extension of balanced and abundant life.
Frequently Asked Questions

Payments – How do I pay and are there payment plans available?
There are a few options when you plan for your payments, which come with benefits the sooner you pay. Long term payment plans have an additional cost.
Deposit
To hold your reservation you will need to pay a non-refundable deposit of £500 unless you want to make a full payment immediately.
Full payment
Full payment needs to be paid 30 days before the start of the retreat.
Payment plans:
You can arrange a payment plan according to the time that is left between the first installment and the retreat. Full payment has to be made a month before the payment.
Other options: Longer term plans carrying over the retreat time e.g. for six months can be negotiated but will increase the full price with 10%
Our prices include VAT.

What happens after I pay the deposit?
After booking in, you will receive a welcome email and request to fill in the consultations forms and a a meeting set-up in zoom for the initial consultation.
You should also read the terms and conditions on our website.

Why book with us?
This program is designed to be a state-of-the-art experience of Ayurveda offered only by Jivita Ayurveda in the UK. The uniqueness of this program consists of an embodied and empowering experience of healing in Nature’s bosom with authentic clinical ayurvedic methods.
We design the program to match the exact needs of the client. We also have a conventional medicine doctor available for consultation to support the healing journey should clients already be on medication or undergoing treatments provided by NHS.
Added therapeutic services can be arranged at an extra fee.
The location, Wraxall Yard is custom made for wheelchair users with opportunities to enjoy many aspects of the English countryside classified as an area of outstanding beauty.

Why stay in UK and not go abroad?
The cleansing body needs to feel relaxed, safe and comfortable. A nice lush resort can certainly provide that but there are a few things that need to be considered, factors that can put the body out of balance: travel, climate, bacterial exposure and jet lag. It is highly recommendable to reserve time for acclimatisation in the new location before and after the actual detox. Many clients return from overseas retreats only to see the benefits disappear soon. Detoxing and re-establishing a good routinely daily detoxing rhythm require stability. Travel and all its dimensions can be counterproductive for this purpose.
Detox carried out as close as possible to home environment is a better choice. The new diet and lifestyle habits learned during detox should be adopted for a long term and applied in life after detox. Aftercare of a strong detox program is as important as the detox itself. It should be a fortifying experience of building strength and resilience onto a new level. Traveling can seriously disrupt the recovery from panchakarma and opens the gate for toxicity to settle in again.
The initial assessment of toxicity and strength determines the ideal detox program and its location. If the choice is to go abroad for example to cure a chronic long-standing health issue, it is recommend booking at least a week off on both sides of the actual cleanse. A successful panchakarma increases vitality and tolerance levels and consequently the travel back home might not be a problem after all. There is, however, a clear risk if acclimatisation, preparation and aftercare are ignored.

How to prepare?
Every detox program is uniquely designed and might already start before the actual residential stay starts. The clients will undergo a thorough assessment before the retreat and will be prepared to start on the first morning of the residence.
The arrival is on the preceding evening. We can arrange a pick up from the nearest train station such as Crewkerne from London arrivals.
Generally speaking, be prepared to eat simple yet delicious foods. For this reason, it would be good to avoid heavy evening meals towards the start of the arrival.
You will need comfortable season appropriate clothing for day and night, toiletries to cater for your most basic needs. Bring books to read with light content, unlikely to create upset or induce negative mindsets. Do not bring work with you and prepare to minimised online presence as much as possible. Bring a daily journal to write down your healing experiences.
The journey of healing is a full day activity. Come with an open and motivated mind, with an attitude of acceptance of what is and the potentials of when healing start manifesting. The program can bring up feelings and emotions that are lodged in the tissues and their release might be necessary for the recovery of the bodymind. The aim of our massage treatments is exactly that. Release the patterns that have set in the physical self so that energy flows, nutritions is received and toxins come out.

How do I get there?
Wraxall Yard is located in a picturesque village of Lower Wraxall right in the heart of West Dorset.
Wraxall Yard, Lower Wraxall, Dorchester, DT2 0HL
The closest towns with train stations are Crewkerne, Dorchester and Weymouth.
We can arrange for the pick up (add price) from the station or you can drive there by car, with normal traffick about 3h drive from London. The best route from London is on M3 – M27 – A31 to Dorchester – A37 – A356 past Maiden Newton – Turn right to Cattistock.
Alternatively, you can take the western road A303 to Ilchester and further, come off the road A356 towards Crewkerne.

What do I get out of this?
After three days of healing diligently with diet, stress management, massage treatments, herbs and cleanses you can expect to be in a different place from when you came in. Having gone through a journey of learning through experience you should be able to carry the teachings with you to the life beyond the retreat with confidence. You are indeed learning a whole new way of managing your health and wellbeing. Our aim is to prepare your bodymind to be more resilient and adaptable in the varying life situations, not just be well in the retreat but to thrive in everyday life situations.
If treatment protocols have been followed to the letter you can expect more vitality and energy, good digestion, more focus and improved cognitive functions, confidence and competence in understanding what is good for you as an individual. You should be able understand how to take charge of your own health and not depend so much on others for advice.
Free On-Demand Workshop
Not quite ready to commit? Check out our free on-demand workshop where you learn to use food as a medicine.
In this training you will learn a fresh model that allows you to practice and apply authentic Ayurveda by syncing with the seasons and timing your activities right. Anu will lay out the Ayurvedic diet and lifestyle into an easy and fun everyday practice without complicated food lists and doshas to think about. There’s no obscure terminology and – if you stay to the end – there’s even more more free learning material.
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Get the Ayurveda Detox book
How To Cleanse, Balance and Revitalise Your Body

Your practitioner Anu is the author of Ayurveda Detox: How To Cleanse, Balance and Revitalise Your Body, available from Amazon, Waterstones and Blackwell’s.
Her book will inspire you to try pace your daily and seasonal rhythms in a way that additional detox programs become almost redundant. Ayurvedic living is detoxifying per se and if you haven’t experienced it yet, learn from this book and create a new detox program for yourself that not only cleanses you but teaches you habits of a lifetime.
Find out more about Anu’s Ayurveda Detox book.
