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Earth
Prithvi
Mud packs and mud baths — grounding, drawing out heat, quieting inflammation.
Vol. LXXX · No. 01 · Uruli Kanchan
Healing in the
rhythm of
the five elements.
A residential nature cure ashram founded by Mahatma Gandhi on 1 April 1946. Eighty years of mud, water, air, fire and silence — for the body, and for the country.
Plate I · Dawn, Uruli Kanchan
Founded 1946·By Mahatma Gandhi·Nisargopchar Gramsudhar Trust·Panchamahabhoota·Sattvic Diet·Residential Care
80
Years, since 1946
6
Elemental therapies
30
Acre garden campus
₹0
Turned away for means
I · About
Our Inspiration
Gandhi, Manibhai Desai and the founders who made healing a village vocation.
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II · Therapies
The Catalogue
Panchamahabhoota — mud, water, air, fire and space, timed to the body.
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III · Stay
A Day at the Ashram
The bell at 4:30, rest at 21:00, and every hour in between.
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Plate II · Khadi, hand-woven
I · Our Inspiration
"The real seat of taste is not the tongue,
but the mind."
— M. K. Gandhi
On 22 March 1946, Gandhiji arrived in Uruli Kanchan and, over eight days, treated hundreds of villagers alongside Dr. Dinshaw Mehta, Balkoba Bhave, Manibhai Desai and Dr. Sushila Nair.
On 1 April, on land donated by Shri Mahadev Tatyaba Kanchan and other villagers, he founded the Nisargopchar Gramsudhar Trust — a place where nature would be the only physician, and the poorest villager the first patient.
II · The Catalogue
Six elements.
One quiet method.
Every therapy at the ashram is drawn from the five great elements — earth, water, air, fire, space — and the sixth: the food you eat.
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Water
Jala
Hip baths, spinal sprays, enemas and wet-sheet packs, timed to the body.
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Air
Vayu
Pranayama and breath work in open pavilions, morning and dusk.
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Fire
Agni
Sun baths, chromotherapy and therapeutic warmth from a low winter sun.
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Space
Akasha
Silent meditation, prayer and long unstructured rest.
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Diet
Ahara
Sattvic vegetarian meals — grown on the land, cooked and served with care.
IV · Residential Stay
Come for a week.
Leave lighter.
Stays start at a minimum of seven nights. Simple rooms, garden light, all meals and therapies included.
Plate III · Courtyard, afternoon
V · Visit
Thirty acres,
two kilometres from town.
Urulikanchan, on the Pune–Solapur highway. Thirty minutes by cab from Pune airport, five minutes from Uruli railway station.
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