A wellness room at The Pearl: two beds, lounge chairs and framed botanical prints under warm cove lighting.

The Pearl · Wellness

Wellness begins where hurry ends.

Kanha Shanti Vanam, Telangana

What is ours, what is not

A second hotel, built for one reason.

The Pearl Wellness opened in 2022 beside the flagship: thirty rooms, an Ayurveda centre, a yoga studio and a restaurant open seven to nine. The yoga is the Heartfulness Yoga Academy's. The meditation is Heartfulness's, and free. The Ayurveda and Panchakarma belong to Wellness by Heartfulness, who take their own bookings. We run the rooms, the kitchen and the day.

Saying that plainly costs us nothing and saves you a misunderstanding. We will arrange any of it, and we will tell you whose it is.

Wellness by Heartfulness

Rooms

Thirty rooms, sized for a week.

Two types over two floors. Both have split beds, central air conditioning, a personal electronic locker and a sofa set - the specification of a room someone lives in rather than passes through.

A Wellness Deluxe room: two beds, armchairs by the window and warm cove lighting. — photo 1

A Wellness Deluxe room: two beds, armchairs by the window and warm cove lighting. — photo 2

Wellness Deluxe

The standard room and twenty-seven of the thirty. Split beds, a sofa set and a study table, with a calm, unfussy interior and a bathroom finished in stone. At 420 sq ft it is nearly twice the size of the flagship's standard room.

Size420 sq ft

Sleeps2 adults, or 3 with an extra bed

BedTwin, split beds

Bathrooms1

Of this type27

Central air conditioning
Mini-refrigerator
Electric kettle and tea kit
Electronic personal locker
Study table and sofa set
Hair dryer
Wi-Fi and cable internet
Intercom
Television

A Wellness Deluxe Extension room: two beds, lounge chairs and a seating area. — photo 1

A Wellness Deluxe Extension room: two beds, lounge chairs and a seating area. — photo 2

Wellness Deluxe Extension

Three of these, and the reason to ask early. At 610 sq ft with two separate washrooms and two beds, it is the room for a family or a group travelling together - the only one on the property that takes five adults.

Size610 sq ft

SleepsUp to 5 adults with an extra bed

BedTwo beds

Bathrooms2

Of this type3

Two separate washrooms
Central air conditioning
Mini-refrigerator
Electric kettle and tea kit
Electronic personal locker
Study table and sofa set
Hair dryer
Wi-Fi and cable internet
Television

Facilities

What is here, and what is a buggy ride away.

The hotel's own facilities first. The pool, the gym and the sports academy are on the wider campus, five minutes away by golf cart - we say which is which rather than counting someone else's facilities as ours.

In the hotel

24-hour receptionComplimentary
Ayurveda centreConsultation and therapies
Heartfulness yoga studioOn site
The Wellness Restaurant7am–9pm, lobby level
Conference facilitiesShared with the flagship
Wi-Fi throughoutComplimentary
Laundry and dry cleaningChargeable
Airport transfers and car hireChargeable
Parking and golf cart
24-hour in-room diningChargeable
Room for differently abled guestsOn request
Currency exchangeComplimentary

In the room

Central air conditioning
Television
Electric kettle and tea kit
Mini-refrigerator
Electronic personal locker
Study table and sofa set
Hair dryer
Shower kit and bath towels
Wi-Fi and cable internet
Intercom

On the campus

25-metre temperature-controlled poolWith a baby pool, at HISA
Air-conditioned gym7am–7pm, Mon–Sat
Sports academy and coaching
Gardens, cycling and nature walks
Library and bookshop
Children's park

Pearl Restaurant dining at Kanha Shanti Vanam. — photo 1

Pearl Restaurant dining at Kanha Shanti Vanam. — photo 2

Pearl Restaurant dining at Kanha Shanti Vanam. — photo 3

Dining

Food as part of the programme.

The Wellness Restaurant is on the lobby level, open seven in the morning to nine at night, and it cooks to your plan rather than to a printed card.

Meals are prepared to complement each guest's wellness programme, and dietary requirements are agreed with the wellness team rather than guessed at. Buffet breakfast is complimentary, from seven to ten.

Across Kanha Shanti Vanam, dining is vegetarian. That is not a restriction the hotel imposes - it is how the campus eats, and it is worth knowing before you arrive rather than after.

Hours: 7.00am – 9.00pm
Breakfast: 7–10am, complimentary
Buffet, per person: ₹399 · ₹799 · ₹799excl. 5% GST
Seats: To confirm

ASK ABOUT DINING

The Pearl Wellness gallery and spaces — slide 1

The Pearl Wellness gallery and spaces — slide 2

Getting here

Close to the airport. Nowhere near the noise.

Twenty-seven and a half kilometres from an international airport, eleven from Kothur. Transfers are arranged by reservations.

Hyderabad airport

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport

27.5km~45 min

Sedan ₹1,600, Innova or XUV ₹2,000, Innova Crysta ₹2,500, excluding 5% GST.

Nearest railhead

Hyderabad Deccan (Nampally)

43km~72 min

Kacheguda is 47 km and about the same. Shadnagar, the nearest halt, is 18 km.

The city

Hyderabad city centre

52km80–110 min

Shamshabad is 28 km and Shadnagar 18 km, both thirty to forty minutes.

Business corridor

The Kothur industrial corridor

8–20km15–35 min

MSN Laboratories, Natco Pharma, P&G, Johnson & Johnson, Vamsi Pharma, Horizon Industrial Park and Amazon at Penjerla.

Why this hotel

Built around the programme, not around the room.

An Ayurveda centre in the building

Traditional Kerala Ayurvedic therapies, a wellness consultation and Polarity Healing - so the treatment and the bed are in the same place, not a drive apart.

Yoga accredited by AYUSH

The Heartfulness Yoga Academy is accredited by the Ministry of AYUSH through the Yoga Certification Board, and by Yoga Alliance at RYS 200 and 300. Guest classes are free.

A restaurant that cooks to your plan

The Wellness Restaurant builds meals around each guest's programme, with dietary requirements agreed with the wellness team rather than guessed at.

Rooms sized for a longer stay

420 sq ft as standard and 610 in the Extension, with split beds, a sofa set and a personal locker. Built for a week, not a night.

A modern two-storey courtyard building at Kanha, colonnade and planting along its front.

Yoga

A gentle rhythm for body, breath and mind.

The Heartfulness Yoga Academy is on the first floor of the Wellness Centre, a few minutes from the hotel. It is accredited by the Ministry of AYUSH through the Yoga Certification Board, and internationally by Yoga Alliance as a Registered Yoga School at both the 200 and 300-hour levels.

For a guest, that mostly means the free daily community classes - Heartfulness Yoga, which sets asana alongside meditation rather than after it. There is therapeutic yoga for people working around an injury or a condition, and kids' yoga.

For anyone who wants to go further, the academy runs the 200-hour and 300-hour teacher trainings, a Yoga Protocol Instructor course, mudra certification and a free introductory course. Those are the academy's programmes, on the academy's calendar; we will put you in touch.

Accreditation: Ministry of AYUSH · YCB
International: Yoga Alliance RYS 200 & 300
Guest classes: Daily, free
Class times: On request

A colonnaded courtyard at Kanha with a narrow water channel and stepping stones down its centre.

Meditation

Offered to every guest. Required of none.

Heartfulness meditation is taught free of charge by a certified trainer, to anyone who asks, whether or not they are staying with us. That is not a promotion. It is how the practice has always been given, and it is the reason a hotel can sit inside a campus like this one without the two things being in tension.

The practice is four simple things: relaxation, meditation, cleaning, and prayer. A trainer will take you through them in a first sitting that lasts under an hour. You are not signing up to anything, and nobody follows up.

The Main Meditation Hall was opened by the President of India in January 2020 and is, by Heartfulness's own account, the largest in the world - a roof with no walls, with eight satellite halls around it. Sitting in it when it is nearly empty is a different experience from sitting in it when it is full, and both are worth having.

Guests who would rather not sit at all should feel entirely comfortable saying so. It comes up less often than you would think, and nobody minds.

Freewith a certified trainer

Jan 2020opened by the President of India

World's largestmeditation hall, by Heartfulness's account

Heartfulness Institute · Kanha Shanti Vanam

Ayurveda & Natural Therapies

A therapy centre, not a hotel spa.

This section was briefed as two - Ayurveda, and Spa & Therapies. There is no spa at The Pearl and none published anywhere on the campus, so we have made it one honest section instead of inventing a second. If a spa opens, this page will say so.

A bathroom at The Pearl Wellness, finished in dark stone with a round mirror and walk-in shower.

Retreat Programmes

Time at The Pearl moves differently.

Four programmes, from a single night to nine. Names and durations are the client's own rates are quoted at enquiry because they depend on room category, therapy and the time of year.

An avenue of trees at Babuji Vanam beside a long stepped water channel.

2 days · 1 night

Stillness Escape

One night. Arrive in the afternoon, sit once, eat twice, sleep properly, leave after breakfast. The shortest useful version of this place.

Rate on enquiry

A circular paved garden at Babuji Vanam, brick-edged beds and young palms around it.

4 days · 3 nights

Wellness Reset

Long enough for a consultation to turn into a course of therapy, and for a yoga class to stop feeling like an event.

Rate on enquiry

A garden path at Kanha curving away between clipped hedges, lawn either side.

6 days · 5 nights

Inner Balance Retreat

The middle length, and the one most guests are pointed towards. Practice, therapy and rest arranged around each other rather than stacked.

Rate on enquiry

A long wellness bathroom in dark stone, with a twin vanity and walk-in shower.

10 days · 9 nights

Immersive Kanha Journey

The full Panchakarma-length stay, with the campus becoming ordinary around you. Booked well ahead, and worth planning around.

Rate on enquiry

A wellness room with a desk and armchair beside the bed, lit for working.

Corporate Wellness Retreats

Where leaders pause, reflect and realign.

A leadership offsite that is genuinely quiet, forty-five minutes from an international airport, in the middle of a pharmaceutical and manufacturing corridor. There is no other property nearby that can say all three.

Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, MSN Laboratories and Natco Pharma all run plants in the Kothur and Nandigama mandals - the same ground Kanha sits on, or the next one over. Horizon Industrial Park is in Kothur too. For a team that would otherwise burn a day travelling to a hill station, this is a short drive.

The shape that works is two nights: a working session in the conference hall or boardroom, a yoga class that people actually attend because it is fifty metres away, a sitting for anyone who wants one, and dinner without a bar to migrate to. What the campus does to a room full of people who arrived tense is the part that is difficult to put in a proposal.

Conference hall: 840 sq ft
Boardroom: Seats 24
Airport: 27.5 km · ~45 min
Corporate corridor: Kothur & Nandigama

Meetings & Events

Plan Your Wellness Stay

What to expect, and who to write to.

Two enquiries, two places. The room is ours. The therapy is not. Send both and we will make sure they line up.

A day, roughly

Early: Yoga at the academy, free, or the gardens before the heat
Morning: Consultation or therapy at the Wellness Centre, by appointment
Midday: Wellness Restaurant, or the campus dining hall
Afternoon: Rest. This is the part people underestimate
Evening: A sitting in the meditation hall, if you want one

The practical part

Check in: 2.00pm
Check out: 12.00 noon
Breakfast: 7–10am, complimentary buffet
Wellness Restaurant: 7am–9pm
Wellness Centre: 8.30am–5.00pm
Sports & pool: 7am–7pm, Mon–Sat

Worth knowing before you book

Dining: Vegetarian across the campus
Therapy: Prescribed after consultation, not chosen from a list
Practice: Everything is optional, including the meditation
Bring: Walking shoes, loose clothes, less than you think
Programme rates: On enquiry

Sacred Botanical Groves

Babuji Vanam

Forty sacred native tree species chosen to absorb and radiate tranquility, arranged with circular brick clearings and peaceful shaded walks.

Architecture & Silence

The Meditation Hall

The world’s largest meditation hall with a soaring lattice roof. Free guided sessions open daily to every guest with certified trainers.

Art & Contemplation

Inner Peace Museum

An experiential museum of meditative art, installations, and serene exhibits arranged to be walked through slowly.

Conservation & Saplings

The Green Nurseries

Millions of indigenous saplings nurtured across sprawling campus beds, driving vast ecological restoration across the region.

Rural Heritage & Sanctuary

The Goshala

A traditional shelter and ethical sanctuary home to more than a hundred indigenous cows and calves cared for with devotion in peaceful pastoral surroundings.

Literature & Curated Craft

Books & More

A sunlit bookstore and library with comfortable reading lounges, offering literature on meditation and wellness alongside handcrafted artisan keepsakes.

Woodland Nature Trails