Museum
Inner Peace Museum
An experiential museum rather than a collection - art, installations and planting arranged to be walked through slowly. It has its own building and its own website.
The Pearl · Kanha
Come for the stay. Leave with stillness.
Kanha Shanti Vanam, Telangana
What there is to do here, described as it is. A campus you can walk for a whole day, three kitchens, a garden that did not exist sixteen years ago, and the option of doing none of it.
What this page is
The day, not the programme.
Everything on this page is something you can decide on over breakfast. The programmes you book a stay for - retreats, teacher training, Ayurvedic therapy - are on Wellness & Retreats, because those need dates and a conversation first.
The Pearl is the hotel. The 340 acres around it were built by Heartfulness over sixteen years, and our guests have the run of them. Where a thing is theirs rather than ours, we say so - not as a disclaimer, but because it is the point.
Wellness & Retreats
Dining
Three kitchens, one of them ours.
The Pearl's restaurant seats forty. South Indian, North Indian and Continental, buffet or à la carte, and a welcome drink when you arrive. Breakfast is a complimentary buffet from seven to ten.
On the campus there are two more. The Dining Hall serves simple sattvic vegetarian meals three times a day, to residents and visitors alike - it is the room where you are most likely to end up in conversation with someone. Fausto's is an Italian terrace restaurant with a wood-fired oven. Suruchi Café does North Indian, South Indian and Chinese through the day.
Dining on the campus is vegetarian. That is not a restriction the hotel imposes; it is how Kanha eats, and it is worth knowing before you arrive rather than after.
- The Pearl restaurant
- Seats 40
- Breakfast buffet
- 7–10am, complimentary
- Wellness Restaurant
- 7am–9pm
- Buffet, per person
- ₹399 · ₹799 · ₹799excl. 5% GST
Nature & Outdoors
Before 2010 this was dry, open ground.
The forest you walk through was planted. So were the ponds, the water table underneath them, and the seven hundred and thirty-nine species in the nursery. It is the single most persuasive thing about staying here, and The Pearl did not plant it: Heartfulness has been at it since 2010, and a stay with us helps pay for the next sixteen years of it.
The Heartyculture nursery runs to 5.7 acres and holds more than two hundred thousand saplings across 739 species from 113 plant families. Trees marked for felling in the city - more than three hundred of them, and around a hundred lifted out of road-widening schemes - were transported here and replanted.
Twelve water-harvesting ponds and a set of man-made sarovars have brought the water table up by two to three hundred feet from where it started. All of the planting is under drip irrigation; all of the turf is under sprinklers.
Seventy bird species have been recorded on the campus. Shikra, black-winged kite, tailorbirds, sunbirds, bulbuls, weaver birds. There are no guided bird walks - there is a campus, early light, and whatever is out.
In 2019 Kanha took the Indian Green Building Council's Platinum rating, the first meditation centre in the world to earn it.
739plant species in the nursery
70recorded bird species
12water-harvesting ponds
IGBC Platinumawarded 2019
Kanha Shanti Vanam · Heartfulness Institute
Culture & Heritage
What the campus keeps.
Four of the fifteen-odd places a golf cart will take you. The full circuit runs four to six hours; the buggy is arranged at the desk.
Garden
Babuji Vanam
The world's first energy transmission garden: forty tree species chosen to absorb and radiate Pranahuti. Opened by the Governor of Telangana in April 2025, with the Ministry of Culture.
Architecture
The Meditation Hall
The world's largest meditation hall - a roof with no walls, opened by the President of India in January 2020. Meditation inside it is offered free, by a certified trainer, to anyone who asks.
Making
Pottery, books and the Goshala
A pottery studio with a large kiln and materials to hand. A multilingual library with sofas and daylight. A goshala with more than a hundred native cows and buffalo.
Celebrations
An anniversary, a birthday, a family that has not all been in one room for years.
The banquet hall runs to 3,041 sq ft with another 1,350 of pre-function space - 275 theatre, 325 standing at a reception, 180 on rounds. Small enough to feel like a family occasion, large enough that nobody has to be left off the list.
Catering is vegetarian, and the campus has an unpublished policy on alcohol that we are not going to guess at on your behalf. Ask us and we will get you a straight answer before you commit to anything.
Anything with a formal programme - a conference, a dealer meet, an institutional dinner - is on Meetings & Events, with the capacities set out properly.
- Banquet hall
- 3,041 sq ft
- Pre-function
- 1,350 sq ft
- Reception
- 325 standing
- Rounds
- 180 seated
Family & Group Stays
Children are genuinely welcome, and it is priced that way.
Under five stay free and eat free. Six to eleven stay free and pay half for meals. Twelve and over are charged as adults. An extra bed is ₹1,500 plus tax, breakfast included.
The campus does the rest of the work. There is a children's park. At the Heartfulness Institute of Sports Academy there is a twenty-five-metre temperature-controlled pool with a baby pool beside it, coaching on request, an air-conditioned gym, and fourteen badminton courts - among the largest such facility in the world. There is a girls' cricket academy. Sports facilities open seven to seven, Monday to Saturday.
For a group of any size, the buggy tour is the thing to book first: fifteen-plus stops, four to six hours, and it settles everyone into the scale of the place before anyone starts asking what there is to do.
- Under 5
- Free, meals included
- 6 to 11
- Free, 50% on meals
- Extra bed
- ₹1,500 + tax
- Pool & gym
- 7am–7pm, Mon–Sat
Around Kanha
Nearby, described honestly.
We are not going to print a drive time we cannot stand behind. Nobody publishes road distances from Kanha to any of these, and every figure circulating online is measured from the centre of Hyderabad, not from here. So: what they are, which direction they lie in, and a car when you want one.
Chilkur Balaji Temple
Temple
The Visa Balaji temple, on the bank of Osman Sagar. No hundi, no VIP queue - you walk the parikrama and that is the whole ritual.
Towards GandipetOsman Sagar & Himayat Sagar
Lakes
Two reservoirs built in the 1920s that still supply the city. Gandipet is the one people drive out to at the end of the day.
North-east, towards the cityAnanthagiri Hills
Hills & forest
Forested hills above Vikarabad where the Musi rises. A longer drive than it looks on a map, and worth starting early.
West, past VikarabadRamoji Film City
Day out
Two thousand acres of film sets, and by Guinness's count the largest studio complex in the world. A full day, and on the far side of the city.
East of HyderabadGolconda Fort & the old city
Heritage
The fort, the Qutb Shahi tombs, Charminar and Laad Bazaar. One trip, one long day, and better on a weekday.
Into Hyderabad
Questions
The things people ask first.
If the answer is not here, reservations will have it.
No. Meditation and yoga are offered on the campus every day and they are free. They are available to every guest and required of none. Plenty of guests come for the quiet and the gardens and never sit a session.
Next
Wellness & Retreats
Yoga accredited by the Ministry of AYUSH, meditation offered free, Ayurveda and Panchakarma, and four retreat programmes from one night to nine.
Next
Meetings & Events
A banquet hall, a conference hall and a boardroom of our own - and, next door, a campus that has hosted thirty thousand people in a weekend.
Plan a stay
Most of this can be decided after you arrive.
The buggy tour, the dining rooms, the gardens, the pool - none of it needs booking in advance. Rooms do.