Most guests arrive asking for a massage. What they need is a fixed dinner hour and no screen after nine.
In consultation I ask three things before anything else: when do you eat dinner, when do you put the phone down, and what time do you wake without an alarm. The answers predict almost everything else.
The three questions
Late dinner, screen until midnight, alarm at six. That triad appears in perhaps seven of every ten consultations, and no therapy resolves it while it continues.
Dinner by seven-thirty. Warm milk with nutmeg if you want it. Nothing lit after nine. Bed at ten, whether or not you feel tired. Four days before it stops feeling absurd.
What actually moves the needle
Routine, light exposure in the first hour of the day, and eating earlier. These are unglamorous and free, which is why they are unpopular.
Why massage still matters
Because shirodhara at dusk makes the ten o'clock bedtime possible for someone who has not managed it in years. The therapy is not the cure; it is what makes the cure bearable while the body relearns it.
Built around sleep, dinner hour and light — with the consultations and therapies that make the change stick.
Third generation of a Himachali Ayurvedic lineage; sets every guest's programme personally.
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Six months on: I sleep by ten, dropped the four p.m. coffee, and my HbA1c fell 0.6. The first four days were genuinely unpleasant.