What is a chirayu?

The Chirayu program from Our Native Village, India’s First Holistic Health Retreat, is meant to do just that. Help you lead a long healthy life.

Making an attitudinal investment towards leading a life free of diseases and filled with good health for yourself and your family is imperative. Chirayu helps you commit if you believe that the time for you and your family is now!

Background
Most of our present behavior and ideas towards health care are reactive. Health insurance is an example. We know we have to react, so we want to be well prepared when we need to react, and so we get a health insurance.

All treatment incidents are reactive too. We go for treatments when we need to, because of a certain illness. Even the preventive health care checkups we enroll in are because of a certain incident that has prompted us to go for the check up – age, awareness of a genetic pre-disposition, fear, etc.

What do we do to break this reactive psyche and take control for our own health? The answer is Chirayu.

Toxin accumulation and coping mechanisms
The world that we live in is very different from the world that our parents or grandparents lived in. The demands on us compared to the demands made on the past few generations, have multiplied several times over. This has led to a series of lifestyle changes and demands that have overloaded us withtoxins- physically, mentally, and spiritually . We possibly know we should not have allowed them to accumulate – but we cannot help it. This excessive accumulation is a road to disease that we know will lead to an old age that will be fraught with problems, delivering a poor quality life.

Some of us have good coping mechanisms with this every day toxicity. However these are only coping mechanisms – which in itself is good, but not enough. We need to, on a regular basis, dump the accumulated toxins, rejuvenate and come back to face our world again. We know that this will go a long way as a preventive mechanism for rapid uncontrolled degeneration of our bodies. And most importantly, this will be one way in which we take back control of our health and our life.

Chirayu – where you become important
We spend most of our time looking after the interest of others - our spouses, our children, our companies, our bosses. We forget that we also need prioritize and make ourselves important. We need to dedicate time, effort and money to look after ourselves, so that we can then look after others in our life.

The Chirayu programme assists you in doing this. Off the 365 days in a year, you dedicate 7 days for yourself, and come to Our Native Village. In these 7 days, you will detoxify & rejuvenate your body and mind, learn a lot about stress, and go back to look after the world. And you do this every year for the next 10 years.

Chirayu - Features
An individual pays a sum of money upfront or through installment plans.
With this payment they can come and stay at Our Native Village,India’s first integrated eco retreat for holistic health for 1 week every year for the next 10 years.
There will be an inflation linked annual maintenance fee ..

Timing of the 1 week
You choose a convenient Quarter which remains fixed during the entire 10 year period.
Within this quarter you can choose your week.
However you will need to booking your week 2 months in advance.

What happens during the 1 week’s stay?
The experience for the 1 week at Our Native Village can be broadly categorized into three modules - assessment, intervention, education.

Assessment

1. A thorough consultation with a doctor along with Documentation will start the assessment phase.
2. This will be combined with a stress assessment to assess physical and psychological impact of stress.
   • The stress assessment will include heart rate variability (one of the earliest signs of cardiac ill health),
   • Monitoring other changes which occur when stressed (eg. breathing patterns) and
   • Triggers and flashpoints leading physical & psychological symptoms of stress and
   • Current coping methodologies for stress.
3. A detailed stress profile will be drawn using 5 parameters; Life Events, Psychometrics, clinical events, bio chemical markers and immunological markers.

Intervention

1. After the assessment, you will go through a customised detox and rejuvenation process.
2. The treatments will be a mix of evidence based functionally integrated traditional health systems like Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Yoga including pranayams, guided relaxation and Meditation
3. Each person will go through around 35 therapy sessions in the 7 days

Education

1. Understanding stress; good & bad lifestyle; healing and killing foods; importance of structured unwinding/de-stressing/leisure is critical for healthy & productive living
2. You will go through an hour long education module every day. This is for the following reasons;
   • Stress acquisition is an active process; therefore removal of stress (detox) needs to be an active process too. The education module raises awareness about the causes; triggers and consequences of stress, and knowing the difference between negative and positive coping strategies
   • It facilitates the questioning minds understanding the rationale for the chosen therapies which are proven and personalised for optimum clinical benefits

Compassionate food TM

1. You will go through the details of the Our Native Village proprietary food regime called Compassionate FoodTM
2. Sensitisation sessions will describe the role of food & nutrition in the origination and propagation of life style diseases along with the latest in nutrition research from around the world

Aim of CHIRAYU

1. To bring proactive focus on your health .Not just when you are unwell.
2. Accessing strategies to prevent disease.
3. To understand that lifestyle diseases like diabetes, heart diseases, hypertension and obesity can all be avoided and in most cases, reversed.
4. Enjoying a long, healthy and joyful life!

Overall experience of the program
While you are going through the programme, you will be having a lot of fun too. Laughter and smiles secretes endorphins in your brain that support and propagate healing. At Our Native Village we have focused on this as a part of the Chirayu process.

All the fun activities are simple and non competitive - like playing gilli danda, flying kites, going on bullock cart rides, dancing and singing around a fire to the drums of village drummers, are all part of the efforts to keep your energy high and your spirit smiling. You will enjoy personal interactions, delicious food, nature walks and inspirational films.

Cost & Bookings
– Please contact us on +91 80 4114 0909 or write to us on info@ournativevillage.com