Sreedhari – A Place of Warmth and Prosperity

Here is a link to a video of my room at Sreedhari. There are lots more posts and pages about ayurveda and the food and more. Click around.

This Ayurvedic Resort/Retreat Center is set in rural Kootalla in an ideal, lush, green space, on an offshoot of the Peechi River by a bridge. All elements combine in symbolic ways to create a place of healing and rejuventation: sounds, smells, trees, birds are ahdeepolii. (“fantastic” in Malayalam)

Vasudevan founded Sreedhari with the vision of an Ayurvedic healing space for Indians and Westerners alike; a service.

A trained pharmacist himself, he comes with a rich family history and impressive credentials.  His father was a famous Ayurvedic physician, Malayalam poet and writer and Sanscrit scholar. His father’s brother was also an Ayurvedic physician. (both are pictured on the right).  This is a family affair with Vasudevan’s brother running an Ayurvedic medicine factory about an hour away where farmers and gatherers bring herbs and oils and where high quality medicines are prepared.

The medicines and oils at Sreedhari are the freshest and best of Kerala. Many are picked locally on the resort grounds.

Vasudevan’s sister is an alopathic doctor and she has also visited Sreedhari for treatment.

His son, a physiotherapist is married to Dr. Seena, the resident Ayurvedia doctor at Sreedhari. (pictured at right)

Dr. Seena serves the poor for part of the day as part of a government program and makes the rounds at Sreedhari daily. Her insights are edicated, thoughtful and customized for each person’s experience and healing process. Medicines and treatments are constantly adjusted and determined on an individual basis.

One gets a sense that Dr. Seena can evaluate how you are accepting the healing during her daily visits.

The staff is a well-oiled, finely tuned machine. (bit of a pun). As a team they work interdependendly to produce the healing journey for each person.

We are cared for, guided and fed and given medicines and treatments on a customized and tight schedule daily starting at 6am and ending at the final medicine at dark.

See the page on panchakarma to see a daily schedule at Sreedhari.

Pictured to the right below is the amazing staff.

Ayurveda presents the possibility of a healing journey. It involves a committment. If you decide to come to Sreedhari you wll be part of a total experience that can be life changing Vasudevan isi pictured on the left at the bottom of this page.

In history, before the colonization of India, the Rajas, or kings, glued the country and its diversity together. Ayurvedic doctors were given the land needed to sustain them but they gave their services for free.

Taking money was not part of their ethics. Theirs was an honored role in their community, part of their family legacy and history, a tradition that they proundly fulfilled in their community.

I see this same  sense of committment, community, kindness and non-judgemental generosity in the staff at Sreedhari.