What is a SMILE Holiday?

SMILE is an acronym for Stress management and Intended Life Enhancement. A SMILE Holiday is a unique holiday experience. It is designed to impart traditional insights with scientifically proven techniques for stress management & life enhancement along with a pleasant holiday. The program is a structured holiday with a pleasant routine filled with stress assessment; health education; rejuvenating therapies; offered under medical supervision set in a holiday ambience.

What will I get at the end of a SMILE Holiday?
1. You will understand stress and its’ psychological and physical impact on your body & organs
2. You will be exposed to traditional insights on cause and manifestation of stress
3. You will learn scientifically proven yoga & meditation based stress management techniques
4. Most importantly, you will also enjoy a distressing holiday!

What is stress?
Stress is a response to a challenging situation. The word ‘Stress’ is defined as a ‘response pattern to a demanding physical or psychological situation’. The sources of stress are both external and internal. Unattended high intensity acute stress episodes and low intensity chronic stress leads to compromised performance and somatic [bodily] diseases which are known as ‘stress related disorders’.

Am I likely to be stressed, as I don’t really feel stressed?
One of the most vulnerable groups to these negative outcomes of stress are families where the husband and wife work, or in families where one partner works under stressful conditions. On the surface, everything looks glittering & attractive, but beneath that lies an unsettling world of long hours, strict deadlines, sleep deprivation, drop in physical activity, unholy alliance between fat-laden foods of convenience and vicious work stress loop spiraling into an abyss of stress related disorders, which you may not even be aware of.

We don’t have to be sitting ducks to stress, and wait for it to balloon into a full life style disease, because we do have the tools to avert this! The solution is to equip oneself with ‘better coping strategies’ which results in a mental state which is no longer in a reactive state.

- All participants would go through a consultation with an ayurvedic and/or a naturopathy doctor
- A stress assessment will be carried out to map individuals stress profile consisiting?? Stress life events; psychological impact; somatic symptoms;
  physiological [brain-heart-muscles] markers; biochemical markers
- A body composition analysis to know the percentage of muscle; fat and water in overweight or obese individuals

-Passive treatments [assisted stress relief] using:

• A combination of ayurvedic and naturopathy therapies
• Guided relaxations sessions
• Healing food called Compassionate Food
• Fun filled bullock cart rides
• Sound Healing (Music) therapy

-Active Treatments [participatory stress relief] using:

• Proven yoga based body-breath-mind work
• A scientifically tested stress management technique –Cyclic Meditation
• Health Education to develop positive coping strategies
• Health cooking lessons
• Play therapy

Will the overall experience be fun and enjoyable?

SMILE Holidays are about having fun and learning. A perfect combination of pampering treatments and learning stress management techniques for daily life.

The ambience at Our Native Village is meant to make you enjoy and fill you with energy - like pottery, bullock cart rides, playing folk games like gillli danda, flying kites etc. You will enjoy personal interactions, delicious food, bonfires, nature walks and inspirational films.

All this will give a different holiday experience – an enriching SMILE Holiday experience.

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