Warm oil flowing onto a guest’s forehead during a shirodhara treatment

Lanka Yoga & Ayurveda Resort · Hikkaduwa

Doctor-led healing

Panchakarma, written to your pulse

A resident physician, six therapy rooms, eight patients at a time.

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14 & 21 day programmes · from $3,600

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Yoga retreat Hikkaduwa

A short walk from the beach, and very little noise

Lanka Yoga & Ayurveda Resort sits in a quiet pocket of Hikkaduwa, a few minutes from the beach. Yoga, Ayurveda, and seven garden rooms — all within a short walk.

Guest rooms
7

Guest rooms

Minutes from the beach
5

Minutes from the beach

A sheer linen curtain lifting in the breeze at an open shuttered window
Frangipani flowers floating in a dark stone water bowl
Layered misty hills at dawn

The day starts before you do. Let it.

Before anything else

Take one breath with us

Four in. Four held. Six out. The same ratio we teach at 06:15.

4 · 4 · 6

ReadyPress to begin

Two reasons people come

Rest, or be looked after

Guests practising together in the open-air shala

Come to rest

A week of practice, meals, and long empty afternoons.

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A traditional Ayurvedic treatment room in warm light

Come to heal

Doctor-led Panchakarma, written to your pulse.

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One day, dark to dark

The rhythm you are stepping into

A wooden canoe on a still misty lake at first light

05:40

Water, and one distant bird

The lake has not woken yet

Mist at knee height. Nobody speaks.

When to come

The year has four moods

Misty tea-country hills in the early morning

Dec – Feb

The coolest air of the year, and the clearest light on the lake.

Best for Teacher training

A wide calm lake at dawn with distant layered hills

Three days in

You sleep by nine.

You stop reaching for your phone.

You notice the water changing colour.

The first day

Nothing is asked of you until you have rested

  1. A stone path curving through tall coconut palms
    First

    You walk in

    No lobby, no forms. Someone meets you on the path.

  2. A copper foot bath with frangipani petals and lime floating in warm water
    Then

    Warm water, petals

    Shoes off at the edge of the garden. A foot bath, then your cabin.

  3. A small clay cup of herbal tea steaming on a stone ledge
    Only then

    We begin

    A cup of something warm, and a conversation about why you came.

What you will hear

There is no music anywhere on the campus

Only this, on a loop, for as long as you stay.

  • Water against the jetty

    All day

  • Kingfishers over the lake

    Before six

  • Rain on banana leaves

    Most afternoons

  • One bowl, struck once

    Dusk

Drift through

Ten quiet corners of the campus

Drag sideways

An empty woven hammock between two palms above a calm lake at golden hour
The hour nobody schedules
Rumpled white linen bedding with morning light across it
You will sleep by nine
The empty shala at midday with mats rolled and bolsters stacked
Between practices
Tropical herb garden with dew on holy basil and lemongrass
Where the kitchen shops
Steam curling in a dark wooden Ayurvedic steam chamber
Herbal steam, after the oil
A rattan chair with an open book in dappled shade beside the lake
Nobody will look for you here
Silhouettes seated in a circle at dusk with clay lamps between them
The evening circle
A single white orchid bloom against a dark background
One flower, changed daily
A weathered stone lotus medallion with moss in its crevices
Older than the campus
Relaxed hands resting on crossed knees in a simple mudra
Ten minutes of nothing

Four senses

What stays with you

  • Taste

    Six tastes on one plate.

  • Smell

    Sesame oil, warmed with neem.

  • Touch

    Teak worn smooth underfoot.

  • Sight

    A lake that changes colour four times a day.

Before you fly

Stand in the shala from where you are

Drag to look around. Four spaces.

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120 m² teak platform, open on three sides to the water.
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120 m² teak platform, open on three sides to the water.

Next dates

Small groups. They close early.

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Clay oil lamps glowing along a wooden jetty at night

Lamps at dusk. Quiet before nine.

Ecology

The campus gives the land back more than it takes

92%
Food grown within 15 km
100%
Solar powered
2,400
Native trees replanted
31
Neighbours employed

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A yoga retreat in Hikkaduwa

Lanka Yoga & Ayurveda Resort is a short walk from Hikkaduwa beach — daily yoga, Ayurveda treatments, and seven quiet rooms on the south coast.

Search for a yoga retreat Hikkaduwa, or for Ayurveda in Hikkaduwa, and this is the place: rooftop practice, garden rooms, and the sea a few minutes away.

Name
Lanka Yoga & Ayurveda Resort
Address
25/1 Lionel Gunasinghe Road, Sarath Goonawardana Mawatha, Hikkaduwa 80240, Sri Lanka
Phone
+94 74 164 6377
Email
lankayogaayurvedaresort@gmail.com
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