Programme · Mid-tier

The Long Pause

Five nights · £1,680 per person · the working professional's week

The programme designed for a guest who can take one clean week away from work. Short enough that it doesn't disrupt the rest of life; long enough for full Ayurvedic intake, a proper diagnostic baseline, daily Ayurvedic bodywork, and a thirty-day post-stay protocol that carries the work forward.

Length 5 nights

Programme fee £1,680 per person, programme guest only · bundled all-in

Full board stay £768 room + £450 food 5 nights · £192/night double room (incl. breakfast) with 20% loyalty discount · £90 lunch + dinner per person per night

Single occupancy · total ~£2,898 programme fee + room + food, one guest alone

Double occupancy · total ~£3,348 programme guest + partner sharing the room; ~£1,674 per person

What's included

Five nights, complete.

Full Ayurvedic intake and personal prescription — sixty-minute consultation with Dr Prasanna, including dosha typing, medical history review, and a written personal prescription for the stay and beyond.
Four signature Ayurvedic treatments across the stay — drawn from the Ayush menu, typically including abhyanga (full-body oil massage), shirodhara (continuous oil pour to the forehead), udvartana (herbal powder massage), and one additional therapy chosen by Dr Prasanna based on the arrival consultation.
An introduction to panchakarma principles — daily warm oil self-application (snehana) and herbal steam (swedana), the preparatory phase of the classical protocol. A gentle opening onto the deeper work available in the Long Week and Long View.
Arrival diagnostic panel — DEXA scan, VO2 max (portable metabolic cart), grip strength, balance, HRV baseline, cognitive screen.
Medilab Tier 2 blood panel — the Longevity Baseline — a meaningfully deeper panel than the Long Weekend's, drawn on arrival. Includes advanced lipids (ApoA, ApoB, Lp(a)), fasting insulin with HOMA-IR, an extended thyroid read, full nutrient work-up, and sex-specific hormone panels — markers an informed guest expects to see and that an NHS GP typically does not run. Bundled with a thirty-minute Medilab clinician consultation covering results, written protocol, and onward recommendations.
Eight Sleep Pod 5 cover — dual-zone temperature control and contact-free nightly tracking from the first night. Protocol designed around your arrival sleep data.
Sauna, steam, hot and cold plunge pools — part of the evening wind-down ritual in the Ayush Spa wing, paired with the sleep protocol.
Daily contemplative practice — guided pranayama, breathwork, and mindfulness woven across the five nights, drawn from the Ayurvedic tradition and paired with the cold-exposure and sleep work. Five nights is long enough for the HRV baseline taken on arrival to begin shifting by departure; the sleep report at the end captures the change alongside the dietary and treatment effects.
Two health coaching sessions across the stay — one on arrival to shape the week, one mid-stay to adjust.
One Long Walk — a guided walk on the Jersey coast, with a member of the team. Most guests take more than one.
Take-home sleep and lifestyle report at departure, with the sleep section auto-generated from the five nights of Eight Sleep data via our Terra-based sleep reporting software, and the lifestyle section drafted by the Health Coach from the week's coaching sessions.
Thirty-day post-stay protocol with one video check-in at the two-week mark.
Full-board at Kitchari, with the longevity menu available every service.

Who it's for

The Long Pause is the programme we recommend most. It works for a guest who cannot take two weeks away from work but wants a stay that is clinically meaningful rather than a longer weekend. It also works as an annual return for guests who begin with the Long Week.

What to expect

Arrival Sunday or Monday; departure Friday or Saturday. The stay is deliberately pitched just below clinic intensity — enough clinical contact to anchor the week, enough downtime to rest. Most guests describe it as the first week in years they have both rested and changed something.

Ladder up

Guests who book the Long Week within a year of their Pause stay receive a £500 credit against the programme fee.

Programme economics

Where each part of the £1,680 actually goes.

The Long Pause is sold as a single bundled fee — £1,680, all-in. Inside that fee, the money flows in three directions. £834 flows through to Ayush as the existing spa retail value of the included treatments. £185 flows through to Medilab as the indicative pass-through cost of the Tier 2 Longevity Baseline blood panel and clinician consultation. The remaining £661 stays with the hotel and funds the new programme delivery — the additional clinical time, the on-site diagnostic panel, the DEXA, Eight Sleep tracking, two health coaching sessions, the take-home protocol, and the post-stay follow-up. After costing those new items at £388, the hotel keeps £273 per booking — a 41% margin on the new-investment portion of the fee. The Pause is a genuine contributor rather than a ladder step waiting to convert.

The Long Pause 5 nights · bundled all-in £1,680

Pass-through to Ayush — existing spa treatments

Full Ayurvedic Consultation (60min, priced as 50min full)

£115

Follow-up consultation — mid-stay (20min)

£65

Follow-up consultation — departure (20min)

£65

Abhyanga — Four Hand Full Body Oil Massage (80min)

£199

Shirodhara (80min)

£160

Udvartana — Herbal Body Massage (55min)

£115

One selected signature treatment (mid-range)

£115

Subtotal — paid to Ayush at existing retail £834

Pass-through to Medilab — clinical bloodwork

Tier 2 Longevity Baseline Panelsingle arrival draw covering advanced lipids (ApoA, ApoB, Lp(a)), fasting insulin with HOMA-IR, extended thyroid, full nutrient work-up, sex-specific hormones; thirty-minute clinician consultation

£185

Subtotal — paid to Medilab at indicative pricing £185

Bundled fee − pass-throughs = net to hotel £661

Cost of new programme delivery

DEXA scan

£60

On-site diagnostic panelVO2, HRV, grip, balance, cognitive

£80

Eight Sleep Pod amortisation (5 nights)

£25

Terra auto-generated sleep reportincludes optional wearable linkage pre-stay for baseline

£3

Panchakarma prep products (snehana oils, swedana)

£30

Two health coaching sessions (~90min each)

£90

Take-home protocol drafting

£30

One post-stay video check-in

£15

Guided Long Walk

£20

Movement, philosophy, cooking sessions (amortised)

£35

Total cost of new programme delivery £388

Net contribution to new investment £273 41%

The bundled fee is shown in three blocks. The first two are pass-throughs to third parties — Ayush spa treatments at current retail (May 2025 brochure) and Medilab Tier 2 bloodwork at April 2026 indicative pricing — neither of which carries hotel margin. What's left is the new-programme-delivery portion that funds the new clinical time, diagnostic infrastructure, sleep tracking, coaching, and post-stay follow-up. The 41% margin on that residual is what the board's investment case rests on. Full per-tier panel detail is on the Medilab partnership page; the four-programme comparison and full methodology is on the Longevity page.

Guest itinerary

How a Long Pause would run.

Five nights, arriving on a Sunday evening and leaving on a Friday afternoon. Designed so that a guest can take one clean week away from work without it disrupting the rest of life. The shape settles into a rhythm by the second day: treatment in the morning, clinical or coaching touchpoint before lunch, movement and rest in the afternoon, early supper, full sleep protocol overnight.

Sunday

Day one · arrival

AfternoonArrive at the hotel. Welcome and orientation. Eight Sleep set up on the programme-dedicated bed; baseline wearable-free tracking begins night one.

EveningAyurvedic supper at Kitchari. Early night.

Monday

Day two · intake and baseline

MorningFull Ayurvedic intake with Dr Prasanna — sixty minutes, prakriti and vikriti assessment, written prescription for the week. Breakfast at Kitchari.

Late morningDEXA scan — the body composition baseline. Arrival diagnostic panel: VO2, cognitive screen, HRV, grip, balance.

AfternoonFirst Ayurvedic treatment — usually abhyanga, paired with the spa circuit afterwards.

EveningFirst Long Walk with a member of the team. Dinner. Philosophy session: Introduction to dosha and dinacharya, followed by a short guided pranayama and mindfulness session to set the practice for the rest of the week.

Tuesday

Day three · rhythm

MorningMovement session — zone 2 or longevity strength, matched to the prescription. Breakfast. Second Ayurvedic treatment — shirodhara.

AfternoonHealth coaching session one — working through the areas of life the programme is addressing. Spa circuit. Long Walk or rest.

EveningDinner. Early bedtime; cooling curve on Eight Sleep now calibrated to the arriving-night HRV patterns.

Wednesday

Day four · mid-programme

MorningMid-stay review with Dr Prasanna — thirty-minute check-in, protocol adjustment where needed. Third Ayurvedic treatment.

AfternoonLongevity cooking session — one hands-on cooking class in the Kitchari kitchen. Afterwards, free time on the coast or in the library.

EveningGuided breathwork paired with a cold-exposure session in the hydrotherapy wing — the two practices sit naturally together, both physiologically and traditionally. Followed by a long sauna. Early dinner.

Thursday

Day five · deeper work

MorningMovement session. Breakfast. Fourth Ayurvedic treatment — Dr Prasanna selects based on mid-stay review.

AfternoonHealth coaching session two — shaping the thirty-day post-stay protocol. Long Walk.

EveningDinner. Philosophy session: how Ayurveda and modern longevity medicine converge.

Friday

Day six · departure

MorningFinal treatment and departure consultation with Dr Prasanna. Written thirty-day protocol handed over. DEXA reviewed (single scan, for baseline).

AfternoonDeparture. First post-stay coaching check-in scheduled for two weeks later.