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Preparing your experience
You’ll wake to the cove or to the rising slope behind your villa. Tea at Shay Waard, if the morning calls for it. We think a Tea shouldn't be rushed. Or a quiet breakfast on the terrace after that. Your first session might be yoga on the Wellness Plateau, breathwork at dawn, or the mineral pools before the heat of the day. Your Wellness Advisor sets the order.
Treatments run through the morning. A traditional hammam. Watsu in the warm pool. A session in the Emoryi Sound Dome, or a bodywork treatment in a room that opens onto its own garden. We think treatments should have room to land. The pace is yours.
Saratoô on the cove runs a slow lunch - Asian-inspired, drawing from what the Farm Belt grew that morning. Loumi Rue holds the family side, Lebanese and Saudi, the black lemon at the centre of it. Both kitchens cook for restoration.
The black lemon, born into a family of citrus. Different. Misunderstood. Then a friendship with parsley, who carries the same confusion. The two of them found a friendship that comes from being misunderstood. The family restaurant sits inside that story.
Movement returns. Pilates, functional training, water-borne yoga at the Beach Hut, or an hour at Nakeha Studio with the chefs. No screens. Just the sights, sounds and scents of what you are making. Four to five pm holds something for everyone; this is when the family side and the adult side most often meet.
Heat, water, contrast, rest, and hydration, adapted to age, comfort, heat tolerance, and any health considerations.
1. Far Infrared Sauna. Gentle heat activation.
2. Waterfall Bathing. Short hydro-massage; lymph flow; release at the neck and shoulders.
3. Kneipp Walk. Warm and cool contrast walking; refresh in the legs.
4. Vitality and Mineral Pools. Soak; warm bubbles; mineral support.
5. Rest and Rehydrate. A planned pause.
6. Steam and Rasul. Gentle heat and a cleansing ritual.
7. Flotation. Quiet weightlessness.
8. Closing rest. Return to the body.
Phoenix Garden, the palm garden, after Phoenix dactylifera. Nigella Temple, the earth temple, after Nigella sativa, the black cumin. Yasmeen Night Garden, planted for the jasmine that opens after dark. Sound Gardens: five play-stations along the Farm Belt near the Wellness Plateau. Arch Wing wind chimes hold the entrance. Bamboo Grove invites contemplative walking. Sound Stone Lithophone plays tuned tones from rock. Ringing Stone responds to a poured handful of pebbles. Ocean Sound brings the rhythm of the sea into the hand. Svaram, the Auroville community enterprise, holds the craft. Colour Garden, chakra colours, one bed at a time. Buttercup Play Spaces for the youngest. Stonecrop Maze on the Wellness Plateau. Trails named for what grows along them (Khimp, Salvia, Saltbush); Vera Avenue, Jayana Lane, and Jayela Lane run through the property. Aromatherapy Garden, Wellness Plateau, and Wellness Village frame the day. Poa Garden Theatre: a semi-circular outdoor auditorium beyond the Jayela family reception, facing the cove. Health & Wellness Garden: medicinal plantings of Tree Germander, Texas Sage, Rosemary, and Dwarf Gardenia at the approach to the Health and Wellness reception.