Questions, Honestly Answered.
The things people tend to want to know first: what KIKI is, how far along it is, and what a stay here would be like.
In the Sahyadris, near Pune, in Maharashtra. The land is at Kadadhe.
No. KIKI is still taking shape, and is still in design. Some of the most important decisions are happening before the first guest arrives, and the Journal will follow those decisions as the retreat becomes a real place.
We would rather say so plainly than let a drawing imply otherwise. The land, the water and the trees are what already stands here. The cottages are studies rather than finished buildings, and how the water is shaped, where the kitchen sits and how the gardens are laid out are still design work. Anything still subject to final design or approval will be described that way, and never as a finished feature.
No. KIKI isn't a resort with wellness activities. Modern hospitality often treats wellness as a facility, something booked for an hour between breakfast and dinner. Here land, water, architecture, food, wellness and silence are not six departments but one system.
No. The purpose is not medical treatment. KIKI is a place for restoration, conscious living, guided wellness and a temporary reordering of everyday rhythm.
A stay is meant to run from about two days to seven, with room for longer programmes as the retreat matures. The length is less important than the coherence of the experience. The retreat is meant to be understood through journeys rather than room categories: a stay with a beginning, a middle and a return.
Each stay is built around a programme: structured enough to create change, flexible enough to stay humane, with unprogrammed time in every day. Stays are being shaped around an intention such as rest, reset, movement, mindful living or sleep rhythm, not packages counted by activities. Nobody here is behind.
Yes. A guest who prefers to eat alone and speak to nobody has not missed the point. Unprogrammed time is part of the design, not time left over.
Satvik, vegetarian and connected to the land. Herbs and vegetables are planned to be grown on site, and the season is meant to shape the menu where practical. Satvik here means simple, not sparse: generous portions, food that leaves you feeling cared for rather than judged, and nothing served as a lesson.
In cottages, dispersed within a continuous landscape rather than gathered into a hotel block. They are being conceived as private places for deep rest rather than conventional hotel rooms, and the current studies explore organic forms, natural materials, shaded openings and planted edges. A small number of places, with more space around them. A cottage should allow you to exhale for three days.
Write to us, and we will arrange a quiet walk on the land. There is no hurry from us, and none is needed from you.
