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Serene

Come in from the day.

Massage, facials and long rituals in a limestone studio built around the light.

Morning. The rooms are cool and the light is low.Midday. The stone holds the heat; the rooms stay quiet.Evening. Long light across the courtyard.After hours. The lamps are low until morning.

Pune, India · India Standard Time
A plastered room in soft light, with a low bench and blocks of dark, weathered timber against the wall.

Quiet is designed, not found.

Serene is planned around a single idea: that calm is a matter of detail. Rooms are lit from one side and kept a few degrees cooler than the day outside. Nothing is rushed between treatments, because the schedule leaves room for preparation and rest.

Every treatment begins with a conversation about pressure, products and anything we should know, and ends with time to sit before you go back out.

Nine treatments, unhurried.

Massage, facials, body treatments and long rituals. Choose a category to see every treatment, its lengths and prices.

A pale plaster wall with an arched opening, a heavy linen curtain drawn across it.

Massage

Unhurried bodywork, from a slow, even pressure to focused deep tissue.

1 hr to 1 hr 45 min · from ₹4,800

  • Slow massageLong, even strokes at a pace that never hurries.1 hr ₹4,800 · 1 hr 30 min ₹6,600
  • Deep tissue massageFirm, focused work on the back, shoulders and legs.1 hr ₹5,600 · 1 hr 30 min ₹7,800
  • Warm stone massageSmooth basalt stones, heated and used as an extension of the hands.1 hr 15 min ₹6,900 · 1 hr 45 min ₹9,200
Massage: compare lengths and prices

Facials

Cleansing, hydration and calm, in a room built for quiet.

45 min to 1 hr 15 min · from ₹4,200

  • Hydrating facialCleanse, gentle steam, mask and a long facial massage.1 hr ₹5,200
  • Calm skin facialA light, cooling facial with no steam and very little product.45 min ₹4,200 · 1 hr 15 min ₹6,400
Facials: compare lengths and prices

Body

Polishes and wraps in the stone wet room.

45 min to 1 hr 15 min · from ₹3,900

  • Salt and oil polishA full-body exfoliation followed by a warm shower and oil.45 min ₹3,900
  • Clay body wrapMineral clay, a warm wrap and a scalp massage while it rests.1 hr 15 min ₹6,200
Body: compare lengths and prices

Rituals

Two treatments joined into one long, slow appointment.

2 hr · from ₹9,800

  • Evening unwind ritualA salt and oil polish followed by a slow massage, in the courtyard suite.2 hr ₹9,800
Rituals: compare lengths and prices

Packages

A half day with one therapist and the courtyard suite to yourself.

3 hr 30 min · from ₹15,500

  • Half-day resetPolish, warm stone massage and a hydrating facial, with tea in between.3 hr 30 min ₹15,500
Packages: compare lengths and prices

An evening, hour by hour

The evening unwind ritual, followed from arrival to the walk home. An example evening; times are illustrative.

  1. Arrive

    Tea in the courtyard while your room is warmed and the linen laid out.

    Early light through a linen curtain, the shadow of leaves moving across the folds.
  2. The polish

    Fine salt and warm oil, worked slowly over the whole body, then a rinse in the suite's own shower.

    Hard midday sun casting the shadow of a window frame and a leafy plant across a pale wall.
  3. The massage

    A slow full-body massage at the pressure you chose, in the low light of the suite.

    Low golden evening light making a window-shaped patch on a warm wall.
  4. Rest

    Time to sit with a warm drink before going back out. Nobody will hurry you.

Five therapists, one pace.

The team works long shifts with breaks built in, so nobody arrives at your treatment from a rushed one. They are fictional, and so are their stories; their weeks below are the real schedule the booking engine uses.

  1. Meera Venkatesh

    Lead therapist

    Meera trained in classical massage and leads the team's rituals. Guests know her for slow, deliberate pacing.

    Usually here Tuesday to Saturday

    Works on Massage, Deep tissue, Warm stone, Rituals and packages

  2. Kabir Saldanha

    Massage therapist

    Kabir specialises in deep tissue and warm stone work, and in explaining exactly what each part of a treatment involves.

    Usually here Monday, Wednesday and Friday to Sunday

    Works on Massage, Deep tissue, Warm stone

  3. Anaya D'Souza

    Skin therapist

    Anaya runs the north light studio. Her facials are quiet and methodical, with every product explained before it is used.

    Usually here Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday

    Works on Skin care

  4. Rohan Iyer

    Body treatment specialist

    Rohan looks after the stone wet room: polishes, wraps and the occasional slow massage on busy evenings.

    Usually here Monday, Tuesday and Thursday to Saturday

    Works on Body treatments, Massage

  5. Tara Bhattacharya

    Senior therapist

    Tara moves between the facial studio and the wet room and hosts the half-day reset most weekends.

    Usually here Wednesday to Sunday

    Works on Skin care, Body treatments, Rituals and packages

Meet the team and who offers what

Stone, plaster, linen, light

The materials Serene is built from, in places that share its light. These are photographs of real buildings chosen for their atmosphere; Serene itself is fictional.

A sequence of whitewashed stone arches receding to a dark timber door.
Arches that slow the walk in.
Smooth plaster steps rising between warm white walls towards a clay pot on the landing.
Plaster softened at every edge.
Rounded plaster piers in a quiet colonnade, sun falling across a terrazzo floor.
Rooms opening onto shade.
Bands of sunlight across a travertine wall and a long, low travertine bench.
Travertine, warm under the midday sun.
Close detail of pale, pitted limestone meeting a smooth plaster edge.
Limestone, left honed rather than polished.

Keep an hour for yourself.

Choose a treatment, a therapist or anyone free, and a time that suits you. In this demonstration the booking is a simulation: it stays in your browser, and no one will expect you.