Ayurveda and nature healthy mind the glerock hotel

Destination

Living longer is meaningful if only we are happy enough and healthy enough to enjoy it. Using simple practices that has worked from time immemorial for the traditional Sri Lankan villager, the glenrock Arogya WELLNESS helps reset your mind to its born resilience, while Village Herbal Medicinal Organic Delicacies prescribed by the Hela Vedaduru (Village Sinhalese Physician) works on your system repairing as well as rejuvenating your body in and out with meditation, yoga, natural therapies, working hand in hand. The natural healing prowess of the immunity system so strengthened, you are well on course to the destination ‘longevity with good health’, when you leave the glenrock.

Mind

A new born baby has a serene smile, so pure like a Clean White Cloth. We all are born with such purity and Inner Peace. As we grow up, dirt in the form of myths, fears, wrong values, wrong thinking, wrong social and cultural beliefs, taboos, dogmas and ideologies soil such a Clean White Cloth. Such dirt particles trigger electro chemical reactions in the Nervous System resulting in bitterness, anger, sorrow, negativity etc and all such bad feelings add up to unhappiness.

Cleansing the Mind

The effect is Unhappiness and the cause is Wrong Thoughts. Through Dhamma discussion, Arogya WELLNESS work with you in regaining the original resilience of the mind you were born with coaching you to find your way to Right Thoughts (Samma Sankappa). Buddhism per se is not a religion as Instead of promoting worshipping or blind following, Gautama Buddha showed the path to Inner Peace through right thinking (‘Samma Ditti’) (The supreme form in this process is The Enlightenment(‘Nirvana’) or Total Bliss that is achievable through monasticism). Read More

Body

Depending on the thought, good or bad, our organs releases good or bad chemicals such as hormones. Bad chemicals make the body sick. Therefore, physical activities, therapies, good food and medicine alone cannot give us a healthy body. Arogya WELLNESS accordingly works on many fronts in reaching the goal.

Mind On Body – Creating a happy and healthy mind (details are given above) ensures good chemical secretion, which gives the curing effect on the already damaged system in addition to minimizing further damage.
Hela Vedaduru (Village Sinhalese Physician) – Village herbal medicinal organic garden-fresh food items prescribed by our Hela Vedaduru (Village Sinhalese Physician) will be turned in to delicacies by our able chefs and village ladies. (Scientific information on the effects of the medicinal properties of such food and how they work on your system will be given) – Read More
(Food with medicinal values will be prescribed that will be provided at the glenrock ( e.g. Cancer preventing food such as Anoda and Manioc, Akkapana for kidney diseases and purification). Unless the Ayurveda physician may restrict some food items from our normal food habits during the treatment period, will not prescribe drastic food changes as sudden and few days of drastic changes could shock our internal mechanism and create more damage to the organs and the system. Extreme approaches could worsen your health instead of improving. Therefore, Arogya WELLNESS will only introduce certain local food supplements with medicinal values to your normal food habits. Traditional medicine will also be given in right measure to cure already existing illnesses and also to negate health complications in the making inside the body and waiting to surface in time to come.)
1. Healing Spa – Spa therapies with village herbs, medicinal oils and techniques prescribed by Hela Vedaduru (Village Sinhalese Physician) work physically on the damage done through physical wear and tear as well as bad chemicals. Such therapies work as preventive treatments as well by strengthening muscles, tissues, organs and skin. The sound and the sight therapy our valued guest will get at our Healing Spa set amidst nature by the river will give you a holistic therapeutic experience, you probably can only be experienced at the glenrock.
2. Natural Therapies as a cure for Nature Deficit Disorder Read More
  The human is just another animal. Naturally, there is a subconscious animalistic urge in all of us for greenery , to feel the nature just like an animal thirst for water. The artificial environment we live while denying us quenching this need, make the mind and the body develop a disorder called ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’. This is why we run to a cottage or a countryside holiday whenever we can get a break from the rat race. Only immersing ourselves in nature could quench this ‘lust’ for greenery )
  Short/long walks as prescribed by the Hela Vedaduru through the mountainous village and nature trails inhaling the freshest air on earth, cooling freshwater bath, water therapy on the river, natural fish therapy, empowering mind through relaxation amidst nature( on the river, by the river, inside lush greenery, within the village), bird/butterfly/lizard/monkey watching, cook your own medicinal meal, working in the farm, visiting the village school and ancient cave temple and doing nothing amidst nature( let the nature heal you)
3. Simple Yoga and meditation sessions ( Rigorous ‘feel hard’ extreme methods are not applied in line with the Gautama Buddha’s teaching ‘Majjamapatipada’( Middle Path – Read More
  ( aththakilamathanuyoga (self-mortification) and extreme pleasure (kamasukallikanuyoga) are two extremes that should be avoided. Instead, in line with majjamapatipada ( middle path), Accordingly, as per Hela Vedaduru (Village Sinhalese Physician) and other established village practices, Arogya WELLNESS does not use extreme treatment methods as most such methods are harmful to the non- south Asian guests, for their genetic set up. Accordingly, Arogya Wellness only applies extensive and lengthy meditation, yoga, herbal medicines, herbal foods, natural therapies, and spa treatments only in the right proportion as prescribed by the Hela Vedaduru(Village Sinhalese Physician) or the established village practices.
  1. Ayurveda physicians at the glenrock will go through your medical history, examine you and treat you accordingly in the following manner. However, Arogya WELLNESS will not use extreme treatments in line with the teachings of Guatama Buddha. Gautama Buddha used experimented extreme methods such as aththakilamathanuyoga (self-mortification) and extreme pleasure (kamasukallikanuyoga) and concluded that majjamapatipada (middle path) is the right approach. In line with that, Arogya WELLNESS does not prescribe extreme treatments to our guests as such extremism is not in fact required to maintain a healthy mind and body.
  2. Hela Vedaduru (Village Sinhalese Physician) medical Examination & her/his food and drinks prescription according to the medical history and examination, yoga session a day( up to forty five minutes ) , alms giving and meditation at the ancient cave temple, nature walks, nature excursions, bird watching, water therapy on the river, medicinal canoe bath, Sauna, cook your own meal and learn village food cooking( pick available items from our garden and cook them with our cooks), – In addition to this critical healing process, herbal and spa therapies will be applied to provide cure to existing pains and aches and more importantly as preventive treatments.

Soul

‘Happiness is the ultimate wealth’ ( Santhushtin paraman Dhanan)

– Gautama Buddha

kehel kole bath

Arogya wellness – menu-1

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Three- night program – Learning the techniques – While there will only be a basic curing and preventive effect , this short program will however give you the knowledge and the training you can take home and practice

Ten-night program – Curing the mind and the body with long term effects and learning the techniques you can take home and practice with confidence

Per person $ 150 per day on top of the BB room rate

Food Prescription for a Sample Guest Vegan( As prescribed by Hela Vedaduru based on the medical history and the medical check-up of the guest)