Six rooms, each doing one thing well.
Six rooms elsewhere in the hotel that do not sit inside Sama Clinic or Bala Gym as specialist streams, but that a programme guest, member, or partner will use across the course of a stay: Aruna for red-light therapy, Hima for whole-body cryotherapy, Ninada for the recorded sound-bath room, Vipani for the take-home retail floor, Artha for the wealth-manager partnership meeting room, and Kala for the ~1,000 sqft artist workshop room (paired with a small content editing studio elsewhere in the building). Each is scoped tightly to what it is for. Each is a Sanskrit-named room in keeping with the wider hotel's naming thread. The three wellness rooms are available as part of programme schedules or as an à la carte booking for hotel guests; Vipani is open across the guest journey; Artha is partner-first and not publicly bookable; Kala hosts artist-in-residence workshops (open by ticket or programme inclusion) and doubles as the hotel's group-scale content-creation room between residencies.
Six spaces, each with its own page.
Each room has its own detailed page — what it is, how it is used, and how it integrates with the programmes and the wider hotel. The overview cards below are the summary; follow each link for the full picture.
Aruna (अरुण) · reddish, dawn-coloured
Aruna — the red-light therapy room →
Clinical-grade LED panels delivering red (630–680 nm) and near-infrared (810–850 nm) light for photobiomodulation. Fifteen-minute sessions, guest-supervised, three-to-five times per week for the trial cadence. Evidence supports muscle recovery, skin collagen density, wound healing, and localised joint pain. Full page covers benefits, ideal use, what we do not claim.
Hima (हिम) · snow, cold, frost
Hima — the cryotherapy room →
Clinical-grade LN2 chamber at −140°C, two-to-three-minute sessions with a trained operator every session. Evidence supports post-exercise recovery, short-term inflammation reduction, mood benefit, and sleep-quality improvements. Full page covers benefits, ideal use, contraindications, the Cryo Add-on standalone product (£180/month subscription · £40 drop-in), and the Phase 02 capex commitment.
Ninada (निनाद) · sound, resonance, murmur
Ninada — the recorded sound-bath room →
A quiet room with a high-quality surround-sound system and a curated library of pre-recorded sound-bath sessions. Thirty-to-forty-five-minute sessions or fifteen-minute mid-day resets. Evidence supports acute stress reduction, small HRV increases, and improved mood scores immediately after a session. Full page covers benefits, ideal use, what we do not claim (no chakra alignment, no healing-frequency claims), and why we deliver recorded rather than live.
Vipani (विपणि) · shop, marketplace
Vipani — the retail room →
A small, tightly-curated retail floor along the guest journey between Ahara and wellness reception. Not a boutique or gift shop — a take-home extension of the products clinicians and therapists actually use inside the programme (Ayush oils, Ahara ferments, Kanti skincare, clinician-prescribed supplements, a small considered longevity library). Primary role is take-home continuity; retail revenue is a modest secondary. Full page covers what is sold, staffing model, commercial expectation, and renovation scope.
Artha (अर्थ) · wealth, prosperity, purpose
Artha — the wealth-consultation room →
A single private meeting room set aside for the wealth-manager partnership channel. Jersey-based wealth managers and family-office partners have access to a discreet, well-appointed room to meet HNW clients in a considered setting; in exchange, The Long Hotel gains a warm acquisition channel into exactly the demographic the programmes are built for. Partner-first, not publicly bookable; also available to residential-programme guests on request. Full page covers the partnership logic, the room specification, booking model, and renovation scope.
Kala (कला) · art, craft, skill
Kala — the artist workshop room →
A dedicated ~1,000 sqft workshop room for the artist-in-residence programme — musicians, movement teachers, chant leaders, sound artists rotating through the hotel across the year. Sized for up to thirty guests, with variable acoustics, sprung timber floor, 3.5m+ ceiling, blackout with tunable lighting, and discreet ceiling AV. Not a repurposed conference room — a specific room where a visiting artist can bring their practice into the acoustic and lighting conditions the work actually needs. Full page covers the specification, how the room is used across the year, and renovation scope.
Adjacent to the specialist streams, not competing with them.
Aruna, Hima, and Ninada are the three wellness rooms — deliberately small in scope, each a specific modality with a specific evidence base, together covering recovery (Hima), targeted tissue and skin support (Aruna), and evidence-based relaxation (Ninada). Vipani is the take-home retail extension of the programme; Artha is the wealth-manager partnership meeting room; Kala is the ~1,000 sqft artist workshop room for the artist-in-residence programme (paired with a small content-editing studio elsewhere in the building). None of the six overlap with the specialist streams inside Sama Clinic or Bala — they sit alongside as additional touchpoints.
Location and footprint. The wellness rooms (Aruna, Hima, Ninada) sit on the lower and upper ground floors — close enough to Bala that a post-training Hima or Aruna session is a natural handoff, and separated enough from Sama Clinic that they do not feel medical. Vipani sits on the ground-floor spine corridor between Ahara and the wellness reception, capturing the natural guest walk-through. Artha sits away from the main guest-flow paths, closer to the wellness reception back-of-house, for the discretion the wealth-conversation use demands. Kala sits lower-ground or wing-end, away from bedroom stacks — thirty people chanting at 8am is a delight if you booked it and a complaint if you did not — with the paired editing studio in the former Alexa Kerr office next to Bonita.
Renovation cost. Aruna LED-booth fit-out ~£10-20k · Hima cryotherapy room fit-out ~£15-25k (chamber capex separate, ~£70-100k on Equipment) · Ninada acoustic-and-audio fit-out ~£15-30k · Vipani retail fit-out ~£20-45k · Artha private-meeting fit-out with acoustic partitioning + AV ~£15-30k · Kala bundle (workshop room + paired editing studio) ~£107-195k, with live-stream AV + editing suite hardware ~£33-66k on Equipment. All six sit inside the "Other new wellness spaces" line on the Renovation page. Only Hima (chamber), Aruna (LED panels), Kala (AV + editing suite) and Siksa (furniture and teaching kit) carry equipment-page capex — Vipani, Ninada and Artha are renovation-only.