LIGHTNESS OF BEING

THERE ARE SPAS, wellbeing retreats and health resorts — and then there is Vana. Everybody who has been agrees it is sui generis, quite unlike the conventional notion of a wellness holiday.

Set on a hilltop in Mussoorie, some 240 kilometres northeast of Delhi and close to the ancient Hindu holy city of Rishikesh, Vana is surrounded by eight hectares of deep green woodland. Vana itself means ‘forest’, and a belief in the power of nature