Forest Bathing
Two hours of shinrin-yoku through deodar and oak with a certified guide, ending in silence at the ridge.
2 hrs Gentle ₹3,500
Reserve — Forest Bathing The Welcome
Reconnect with yourself where nature, wellness and luxury become one landscape.
Four acres of orchard and forest above the Shimla valley. Mornings begin with mist moving through the deodars; days are shaped by the season, the harvest and your own rhythm. Nothing here is hurried.
4
acres of orchard
42
Suites & Himalayan valley view rooms
6,600
feet elevation
Why Usshmaa
Twelve reasons to slow down here
Twelve reasons guests come back, in no particular order.
Experiences first
We do not sell rooms. We offer days worth remembering.
Every stay is built around what the mountain is doing that week — the bloom, the harvest, the first snow.
Apple Harvest Day
Pick, sort and press with the orchard team, then take home a bottle labelled with the day's date.
Half day Easy ₹4,200
Reserve — Apple Harvest Day Sunrise Yoga Deck
Hatha at 5:50 am on the cantilevered deck as the valley fills with light. Blankets provided.
75 min All levels Included
Reserve — Sunrise Yoga Deck Digital Detox 72
Three nights, devices surrendered at check-in, a paper journal and a host who plans nothing for you.
3 nights Committed ₹96,000
Reserve — Digital Detox 72 
Himalayan Stargazing
An 8-inch reflector on the upper meadow with an astronomer from Shimla. Blankets, kahwa, no light for miles.
2 hrs Gentle ₹2,800
Reserve — Himalayan Stargazing 
Village Walk & Chai
Down to Sanjauli Khurd for slate roofs, a temple courtyard and chai in a home kitchen.
3 hrs Moderate ₹2,400
Reserve — Village Walk & Chai 
Pahari Cooking Table
Siddu, madra and rajma cooked over wood with Chef Nayantara. You eat what you make, at the long table.
3 hrs Easy ₹3,900
Reserve — Pahari Cooking Table 
Kids' Explorer Club
Tree climbing, leaf pressing, bird bingo and a junior orchard badge. Ages 6–12, qualified minders.
Daily Ages 6–12 Included
Reserve — Kids' Explorer Club 
Ayurvedic Consultation
A ninety-minute reading with our resident vaidya that sets your meals, treatments and sleep for the stay.
90 min Restful ₹5,500
Reserve — Ayurvedic Consultation 
Bird Watching Trail
Monal, koklass and Himalayan woodpecker on the 6 am ridge trail. Binoculars and a checklist provided.
3 hrs Moderate ₹2,600
Reserve — Bird Watching Trail 
Bonfire & Folk Evening
Nati dancers from the valley, a cedar fire and hot buransh juice under the constellations.
2 hrs Easy Included
Reserve — Bonfire & Folk Evening Photography Walk
First light on the orchard terraces with a working landscape photographer. Any camera, phones welcome.
3 hrs Moderate ₹3,200
Reserve — Photography Walk Nothing in this category this season — try another.
The Stay
42 rooms, each turned toward the valley.
Every room opens to the valley.
| Room | Bed | View | Sleeps | Meal plan | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prakriti Nature Room | Queen bed | Orchard and forest | 3 | Room only to all meals, or wellness | ₹4,900 |
| Panoramic Valley View Room | King bed | Shimla valley | 3 | Room only to all meals, or wellness | ₹6,900 |
| Deodar Valley Room | King or twin beds | Deodar forest | 3 | Room only to all meals, or wellness | ₹7,900 |
| Himalayan Valley View Room | King bed | Himalayan range | 3 | Room only to all meals, or wellness | ₹8,900 |
| Churdhar View Room | King bed | Churdhar peak | 3 | Room only to all meals, or wellness | ₹9,900 |
| Ananda Wellness Room | King bed | Valley and sunrise | 3 | Room only to all meals, or wellness | ₹12,999 |
| Himachali Home | Two king beds | Orchard and valley | 6 | Room only to all meals, or wellness | ₹14,900 |
| Anantam Himalayan Wellness Suite | King bed | Full Himalayan panorama | 3 | Room only to all meals, or wellness | ₹16,900 |
Prakriti Nature Room
A quiet queen room on the orchard side, with the forest close enough to hear in the morning.
28 m² · OrchardFrom ₹4,900
Panoramic Valley View Room
A king room with the whole Shimla valley in the window, lit up at night and lost in cloud by morning.
30 m² · ShimlaFrom ₹6,900
Deodar Valley Room
King or twin beds and a balcony into the deodar canopy — the room most of our programmes are built around.
32 m² · DeodarFrom ₹7,900
Himalayan Valley View Room
Heated floors, a balcony and the Himalayan range in front of you from the moment you wake.
34 m² · HimalayanFrom ₹8,900
Churdhar View Room
A signature room facing Churdhar peak, with a writing desk at the window and heated floors for winter.
38 m² · ChurdharFrom ₹9,900
Ananda Wellness Room
Built for long programmes: a soaking tub, space for your own practice and the sunrise across the valley.
42 m² · ValleyFrom ₹12,999
Himachali Home
Seventy square metres in the Himachali style, two king beds and a fireplace — for families or friends travelling together.
70 m² · OrchardFrom ₹14,900
Anantam Himalayan Wellness Suite
The estate's largest suite: the full Himalayan panorama, a fireplace and a soaking tub for the evenings after treatment.
85 m² · FullFrom ₹16,900
Wellness
Mind, body and soul — three doors into the same practice.
Stillness is a skill. We teach it the way the mountain does — slowly, and by repetition.
Vipassana Basics
3 sessions · guided
Yoga Nidra
45 min · evening
Sleep Therapy
consultation + ritual
Stress Mapping
HRV assessment
Sound Healing
Himalayan bowls
Journaling Hour
daily · library
Ayurveda, movement and a kitchen that treats food as the first medicine.
Abhyanga
90 min · two therapists
Panchakarma
5–14 day programme
Mountain Fitness
trail-based · daily
Detox Cleanse
3 or 7 nights
Nutrition Plan
dosha-led menu
Hydrotherapy
spa · heated pool
The part of wellness that has no metric — ritual, silence, and the company of trees.
Fire Ritual
sunrise · riverside
Forest Therapy
certified guide
Tea Ceremony
afternoon · pavilion
Tree Adoption
lifetime · orchard
Silent Mornings
6–9 am · estate-wide
Gratitude Circle
weekly · bonfire
Wellness Assessment · 6 questions
Six questions, and we'll shape the stay around you
Signature · The Orchard
Nine hundred apple trees, and one with your name on it.
Adopt a tree on arrival and we send you its blossom in April, its harvest in September, and a bottle of its cider each winter — wherever in the world you are.
Mar – Apr
Bloom Festival
The whole estate turns white. Blossom walks, painting tables and a night of lanterns in the rows.
May – Jun
Thinning & Care
Learn the craft of the orchard year — grafting, thinning, and reading a tree's health by its leaves.
Jul – Aug
Green Monsoon
Cloud in the rows, mushroom foraging with the estate forager, and cider tastings indoors.
Sep – Oct
Harvest
Pick, sort and press. Every guest leaves with a bottle dated the day they made it.
Nov – Feb
Dormancy & Cider
Pruning by hand, the cellar at its best, and adopted-tree certificates issued by the fire.
Today at Usshmaa
The day, as it unfolds
05:50
Sunrise Hatha
Yoga deck
Ishaan Thakur
14 of 14 left
Book — Sunrise Hatha at 05:50
07:00
Silent Orchard Walk
Upper terraces
Self-guided
Open
Join — Silent Orchard Walk at 07:00
08:30
Ayurvedic Breakfast
The Long Table
Chef Nayantara
Residents
Reserve — Ayurvedic Breakfast at 08:30
10:00
Forest Bathing
Deodar trail head
Meera Bisht
10 of 10 left
Book — Forest Bathing at 10:00
12:30
Farm Table Lunch
Garden terrace
Chef Nayantara
Open
Reserve — Farm Table Lunch at 12:30
14:00
Abhyanga Ritual
Spa · Room 3
Dr. Latika Rao
4 of 4 left
Book — Abhyanga Ritual at 14:00
15:30
Village Walk & Chai
Sanjauli Khurd
Rakesh Negi
12 of 12 left
Book — Village Walk & Chai at 15:30
16:00
Kids' Explorer Club
Orchard clearing
Tara & Vikram
Open
Join — Kids' Explorer Club at 16:00
17:30
Tea Ceremony
Cedar pavilion
Sonam Dolma
8 of 8 left
Book — Tea Ceremony at 17:30
20:00
Chef's Pahari Menu
The Long Table
Chef Nayantara
26 of 26 left
Reserve — Chef's Pahari Menu at 20:00
21:30
Bonfire & Nati
Lower lawn
Valley troupe
Open
Join — Bonfire & Nati at 21:30
22:00
Himalayan Stargazing
Upper meadow
Dr. Anil Sharma
15 of 15 left
Book — Himalayan Stargazing at 22:00
22:45
Yoga Nidra for Sleep
Your suite
In-room audio
Always on
Dining · Farm to table
Grown within sight of the table.
Chef Nayantara Rawat cooks the Pahari kitchen of her grandmother with a nutritionist at her side. The menu changes with the terrace garden — sometimes the same morning.
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Jain
- Gluten free
- Ayurvedic
- Kids menu
Siddu, walnut chutney
steamed wheat bun, wood-fired
Orchard apple & buckwheat
estate apples, toasted kernels
Madra of black chickpea
Chamba style, hand-churned curd
Trout from the Pabbar
line-caught, cedar embers
Gatherings — weddings, boards and reunions.
Destination Weddings
Exclusive-use of the estate for up to 120 guests. Three ceremony settings, a resident planner, and a budget calculator that gives you a real number in ten minutes.
120 guests3 venuesexclusive use
Wedding enquiry 
Corporate Retreats
Leadership offsites where the agenda is written around walks. A 40-seat pavilion, fibre connectivity where you want it and none where you don't.
40 seatsteam buildingbrochure
Request the brochure Five seasons of the same view
April, and nine hundred trees come into blossom at once. The whole estate smells of it.
Long green afternoons at 6,600 feet — twenty-two degrees while the plains are at forty.
Cloud moves through the rooms if you leave the doors open. The best sleeping weather of the year.
Harvest. The light turns copper by four, and everything on the table came from within sight of it.
Snow to the doorstep, fires in every room, and the valley silent for weeks at a time.
Sustainability
The mountain was here first.
Eighty-one percent of our energy is solar. Every drop of rain that falls on the estate is kept. No single-use plastic has entered the property since we opened.
81%
solar powered
100%
rainwater kept
0
single-use plastic
1,500
trees planted
94%
waste diverted
40 km
sourcing radius
Guest words
In their own words
★★★★★
“We arrived exhausted and left on a different clock. Six months later we still keep the silent mornings at home.”
★★★★★
“I have stayed at Aman and Six Senses. This is the first Indian property that belongs in that sentence.”
Tripadvisor
★★★★★
“Our leadership offsite ended with a walk instead of a deck. Best decision we made all year.”
★★★★★
“Fifth stay. The trail conditioning respects the altitude instead of fighting it.”
Direct
★★★★★
“The kitchen alone is worth the road up.”
Tripadvisor
★★★★★
“Came for three nights, booked the fortnight before leaving.”
Direct
Begin
Your retreat begins the moment you decide.
Book direct for the best available rate, a complimentary wellness consultation and your own tree in the orchard.
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