Kairali — The Ayurvedic Healing Village · Since 1908
Photo Gallery
Photographs of the hospital, its treatment rooms, villas, yoga hall, kitchen and the countryside around it — made on site and arranged by chapter.
59 photographs · 7 chapters · 4 videos
The hospital and its grounds
15 photographs
Kairali – The Ayurvedic Healing Village is a hospital campus of brick-and-stone treatment blocks, patient cottages and lawns threaded by a stone water channel. These photographs show the reception, the covered walkways and the gardens as a patient meets them on arrival.
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Reception lounge under a high beamed conical ceiling; exposed brick walls with founder portraits; antique seating on patterned red oxide tiles; curved timber reception counter. -
Aerial top-down view of the full free-form pool and deck with loungers at one end. -
Covered colonnaded walkway with timber-lined pitched roof. -
Reception lounge under a high beamed conical ceiling; exposed brick walls with founder portraits. -
Landscaped grounds with a herringbone-brick cottage; whitewashed palm trunks; stone footpath and curving water channel with garden lamps and flowering borders. -
Round brick pavilion with yellow crenellated roof band and a wooden chariot wheel feature; stepping-stone crossing over the water channel; Coreopsis plant label in the herbal garden bed. -
Landscaped grounds with a curving water channel over stones; coconut palms; lawns and brick cottages for patient accommodation in the background. -
Landscaped grounds with a curving water channel over stones; coconut palms. -
Corridor of treatment-block cubicles with frosted-glass partition doors in wooden frames; concrete ceiling with downlights; potted plant by the window at the end. -
Colonnaded pavilion with brick wall and stone mosaic medallion; red oxide steps and floor. -
Aerial drone view of a curved outdoor pool surrounded by dense coconut palms and trees. -
Curved veranda of the main block overlooking lawns; water channel and a colonnaded pavilion. -
Staff member in traditional Kerala sari lighting a tall brass nilavilakku lamp in the reception lounge. -
Wide view of lawns with curving lily pond reflecting stone-and-brick treatment blocks with circular window openings; tall coconut palms and cycad. -
Arched wooden footbridge with red railings crossing a stream in the gardens; croton shrubs and coconut palms around sunlit lawns.
Video
Inside the hospital campus, Palakkad
A walk through the hospital campus at Palakkad, Kerala, published on the Kairali Ayurveda Group channel on 26 May 2026. Press play to load the YouTube player; nothing is requested from YouTube before that.
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16 photographs
Treatments are given in brick-walled rooms on carved wooden therapy tables, with warm herbal oils, kizhi boluses and dhara vessels prepared by the therapists. Each caption names the procedure as the treatment record names it.
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Abhyanga: two therapists working herbal oil along a patient's legs. -
Treatment preparation still life: wicker baskets on a wooden therapy table holding herbal-bolus (kizhi) potlis. -
Janu Vasti: two therapists performing Janu Vasti on a patient lying on a wooden therapy table. -
Pinda Sweda: therapist applying a warm herbal bolus to the upper back of a prone female patient. -
Back Udwarthanam: two therapists rub herbal powder into a prone patient's back. -
Greeva Pichu: warm herbal oil streaming from a brass vessel onto a cotton pad placed. -
Female patient in traditional Kerala kasavu cloth seated on a wooden therapy table after an oil treatment. -
Treatment room interior showing the carved wooden therapy table with head recess. -
Pizhichil: close view from behind of warm herbal oil being poured from a brass vessel onto a patient's back. -
Shiro Pichu: reclining patient on a wooden therapy table receives warm herbal oil from a brass vessel. -
Shirodhara: warm herbal oil streams from a suspended brass Shirodhara vessel onto the forehead of a patient lying. -
Thakaradhara: Thakradhara in progress: a stream of medicated buttermilk falls from a suspended brass vessel. -
Thalapothichil: therapist in uniform applies herbal paste to the crown of the seated patient's head. -
Udara Abhyanga: close-up of Udara Abhyanga: therapist's hands massage herbal powder into the patient's abdomen around. -
Therapist in Kairali-branded apron stands beside a therapy table where dough rings are placed. -
Shiro Abhyanga: therapist in Kerala kasavu uniform drips herbal oil from a small brass vessel onto the crown.
Video
The quiet room and therapy area
The quiet room and the therapy area of the treatment block, a 47-second film from 2023 on the Kairali Ayurveda Group channel. Press play to load the YouTube player.
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11 photographs
Patients stay in tiled-roof brick and stone cottages set among the coconut palms, each with its own verandah. The rooms are shown as they are furnished: white linen, red-oxide or terracotta floors and a door opening onto the garden.
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Brick cottage-style Kairali centre building at dusk with warm light in arched windows; tiled roof draped in creepers. -
Kerala mural framed on wall; platform bed with white linen and red oxide flooring. -
Stone-and-brick patient cottage with tiled gabled roof set among coconut palms; landscaped lawn. -
Twin-bedded patient room with brick arch feature. -
Elevated view of a tiled-roof brick cottage with arched porch and red steps; surrounded by whitewashed palm trunks. -
Twin-bedded patient room in pink-toned finish with arched brick-trim windows; open carved wooden doors to a verandah. -
Elevated view of a yellow patient cottage with sweeping tiled roof and arched porch with cane chair. -
Double-bed room with exposed brick walls; low wooden bed with turned legs; hexagonal terracotta floor tiles. -
Stone cottage with bay windows and scalloped eaves beside a water channel; brick cottage roof in foreground. -
Double-bed room with wooden low bed and olive cushions; twin bedside lamps; terracotta gable ceiling with yellow trim. -
Front elevation of a laterite-brick patient villa with blue-trimmed arched porch and two cane chairs.
Yoga and meditation
3 photographs
Yoga sessions take place in the timber-roofed yoga hall, one patient with one instructor. These frames show asana practice with the instructor's guidance.
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Side profile of female patient in seated upward-facing backbend stretch on teal mat. -
Side view of female patient in crescent lunge with arms extended overhead on a teal mat in a bright glass-walled hall. -
Large yoga hall with exposed timber trussed roof and clerestory glazing.
Video
A few minutes of yoga
A short yoga film published for International Yoga Day, 22 June 2026, on the Kairali Ayurveda Group channel. Press play to load the YouTube player.
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5 photographs
Meals are vegetarian and served on wooden trays: red matta rice, sambar, thoran, coconut stew, idiyappam and fresh salads, with pink herbal water.
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Overhead shot of idiyappam (string hoppers) on a banana leaf on a white plate. -
A glass of pink herbal water on a red-checked woven mat. -
Close-up of a fresh vegetable and fruit salad with cucumber fans and nigella seeds on a white plate. -
Folded whole-wheat chapatis standing in a white cup beside a glass of pink herbal water. -
Angled view of a vegetarian meal tray: red rice; sambar; thoran and coconut stew garnished with curry leaf.
Daily life on the campus
6 photographs
These photographs show the traditional welcome in the reception hall, walks on the garden paths and footbridges, the organic kitchen garden and the therapists and staff who run the hospital.
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A woman in a cream handloom kaftan standing on a forest path with palms joined in a namaste greeting. -
A smiling woman in a cream kaftan holding freshly picked tomatoes in cupped hands beside a tomato plant. -
Smiling woman in a cream kaftan gently holds a small chick in her hands; farm shed and greenery blurred behind. -
Female therapist in Kerala kasavu attire standing in the therapy foyer holding a wicker tray of kizhi boluses. -
Over-the-shoulder portrait of a woman in a cream handloom kaftan with woven border on the treatment centre grounds. -
A woman stands in front of a garden fountain with backlit spray; planted borders and pond around.
Video
Onam: pookalam and tradition
The Onam flower carpet (pookalam) and the festival's traditions, a short film published on 25 August 2026 on the Kairali Ayurveda Group channel. Press play to load the YouTube player.
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3 photographs
The hospital stands among paddy fields and coconut groves in the Palakkad countryside of Kerala. Aerial and ground-level frames show the river, the fields and rice transplanting on the organic farm around the campus.
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High aerial of misty river winding through dense green canopy; paddy fields and scattered houses. -
Top-down aerial of paddy fields bordered by rows of coconut palms. -
Aerial of waterlogged paddy fields with tractor tilling patterns surrounded by palm clusters and hedgerows.
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