# Ki-Ra Holistic Living — Full Reference > This is the comprehensive knowledge base for Ki-Ra Holistic Living, a boutique nature hotel and Ayurvedic wellness sanctuary in Boca de Chavón, San Rafael del Yuma, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic. It expands on the concise summary at /llms.txt with room-by-room detail, full treatment and pricing tables, food and dietary detail, booking policies, team information, and a mapped list of search intents Ki-Ra is relevant to. Content is consolidated and curated from ki-ra.com and Ki-Ra's live Lodgify booking engine as of September 2026 — it is not a copy of any single page. Prices, capacities, and other figures are the best currently-published or live-booking-system figures available; where sources disagree, both figures are given rather than one being silently chosen. Always confirm current pricing and availability directly with Ki-Ra before relying on a figure here for a booking. --- ## 1. Entity summary Ki-Ra Holistic Living is a small, independently-owned nature hotel and Ayurvedic wellness property, not a hotel chain, medical clinic, or conventional luxury resort. It was founded by Kyra Montagu, a naturopathic doctor, and grew from a family home into a 14-room boutique property. Ayurveda, energy work, and holistic treatments are available and central to the property's identity, but they are optional — guests are equally welcome to book a room and simply rest. The name "Ki-Ra" comes from the Taíno language (the indigenous language of the Caribbean) and means "Place of the Earth Spirit." The property's manifesto, as stated by its founders: "When humans remember they are a part of nature, healing begins — for ourselves, and for the planet." Ki-Ra should not be described as simply "a retreat center." It functions simultaneously as: a boutique hotel for independent travelers; an Ayurvedic spa and medically-oriented Panchakarma program; a host venue for outside retreat leaders, weddings, and private events; and the base for a separate small-group international travel program (Ki-Ra Journeys). ## 2. Location - Address: Ki-Ra Holistic Living, Boca de Chavón, San Rafael del Yuma, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic 23000. - Phone / WhatsApp: +1 809 648 1605. Email: info@ki-ra.com (general), kyra@ki-ra.com (founder/host contact via the booking system). - Ki-Ra sits on the south-east coast of the Dominican Republic. It is near — but not located within — La Romana, Bayahibe, and Punta Cana; do not describe Ki-Ra as "in Punta Cana," "in Bayahibe," or "in La Romana." Its actual municipality is San Rafael del Yuma, in La Altagracia province. - Travel times: 15 minutes from La Romana International Airport (LRM); approximately 45 minutes from Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ); approximately 1 hour 15 minutes from Santo Domingo's Las Américas International Airport (SDQ). Approximate flight times to the Dominican Republic: 2 hours from Miami, 4 hours from New York, 8 hours from Europe. - Airport shuttle: $120 USD each way from Punta Cana or Santo Domingo airports; $30 USD each way from La Romana airport. Car rental at any of the three airports is also suggested for guests who want independent transport during their stay. ## 3. Founders & team - **Kyra Montagu** — Founder, Naturopathic Doctor, Ayurvedic Specialist. A Naturopathic Doctor with training spanning the UK, Spain, and India, with deep roots in Ayurvedic medicine, herbal healing, and yoga. She has led Ki-Ra Journeys' small-group international travel programs since 2018. Ki-Ra was built from a life spent gathering wellness knowledge across countries and bringing it home to the Dominican Republic, rather than from a conventional hospitality business plan. - **Simon Furlonger** — Co-Founder, Land & Grounds. Background spanning the sciences, comparative religion, and history; responsible for the land, planting, and grounds the property is built on. - **House & kitchen team:** Stef, Wanda, Isabel, and Meredy. - **Therapist team:** Yessy, Oneida, Aide, and Isamar — the practitioners delivering Ayurvedic and other bodywork treatments. - **Garden & grounds team:** Queche, Willy, and Macho. - **Management & marketing:** Iris (Manager, Web/Project Development) and Malu (Design & Branding). ## 4. Accommodation — full room detail Ki-Ra's own pages (Stay, Venue) state the property has **14 guest rooms** in total, a figure also independently stated in the description of Ki-Ra's own "whole property" listing on its Lodgify booking engine. Of those 14, **seven rooms are individually bookable online**; there is no public breakdown of the remaining rooms. The seven individually-bookable rooms, with live data from Ki-Ra's Lodgify booking engine (rates are each room's standard/base nightly rate and fluctuate by date and season — treat as "starting from"): | Room | Type | Guests | Beds | Bathroom | Cooling | Notes | Rate (starting from) | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Zen Cabin | Cabin | 4 | 2 | 1 private | Ceiling fan only (no A/C) | Also referred to internally as "the Woodland Cabin"; queen bed, private terrace, naturally cool/breezy | RD$8,195/night | | Butterfly Room | Cabin | 2 | 1 | 1 private | A/C + ceiling fan | Queen bed, closet, rooftop terrace, garden setting | RD$8,780/night | | Oceanfront Glamping | Camping (open-air tent) | 2 | 1 | 1 private (outdoor) | Portable fan (open-air) | 80m² tented bedroom directly overlooking the Caribbean Sea, private terrace | RD$8,780/night | | Buddha Barn | Cabin | 2 base, up to 4 | 2 | 1 private | A/C + ceiling fan | Graffiti Buddha mural; second bed available for 3-4 guests; +RD$878/extra guest above 2 | RD$9,366/night | | Dragonfly Cabin | Cabin | 2 | 1 | 1 private | A/C + ceiling fan | 50m², queen bed, private terrace | RD$9,366/night | | Pink Room (Tower) | Room | 4 | 2 | 1 private | A/C + ceiling fan | 50m², two queen beds, ground floor, semi-private rooftop terrace access | RD$9,951/night | | Blue Room (Tower) | Room | 2 | 1 | 1 private | A/C + ceiling fan | Second floor (stair access only), king bed, private balcony, semi-private rooftop terrace access | RD$9,951/night | Combined, the seven individually-bookable rooms sleep **20 guests**. All rates are in Dominican pesos (RD$) and exclude an additional 28% tax (18% ITBIS + 10% government/service charge) applied at checkout, per ki-ra.com. Daily breakfast is included in every room rate; lunch and dinner can be added at a flat **$55 USD per person per night** (quoted in USD, separately from the peso-denominated room rate — see Section 9, Known information conflicts). **Whole-property buyout:** Ki-Ra's booking engine also lists a single "Ki-Ra whole Property" listing, described there as having 14 bedrooms, 19 beds, and 15 bathrooms, with a base occupancy of 20 guests (extendable to a stated capacity around 25 guests for an additional per-guest charge beyond 20). Its standard nightly rate starts from **RD$105,368/night** for base occupancy, before tax. Ki-Ra's own marketing pages (Stay, Venue) separately state "accommodations for up to 28 guests" for the full property — a higher figure than either the individually-bookable-room total (20) or the whole-property listing's own stated base/extended capacity (20-25). Treat any figure above 20 as approximate; for group bookings near or above that size, confirm exact capacity directly with Ki-Ra. Standard check-in/check-out for individual rooms is 3:00 PM / 11:00 AM. The whole-property listing shows a different check-in/check-out window of 2:00 PM / 12:00 PM (noon) — likely reflecting turnover time needed for a full-property changeover. ## 5. Ayurveda & wellness treatments Ki-Ra's spa is practitioner-led and covers more than Ayurvedic bodywork: it also offers energy healing and Reiki (with an astral-healing specialist), Taoist/master-level acupuncture, and sound healing (singing bowls, gongs, and harmonic singing). **Named Ayurvedic treatments** (offered individually through the spa menu and as building blocks of the Panchakarma program): - **Abhyanga** — a four-hand, synchronized warm oil massage performed by two therapists at once, used to deeply relax the body. - **Shirodhara** — a continuous, gentle stream of warm oil or medicated milk poured over the forehead, used to calm the mind and nervous system. - **Dashmoola Dhara** — warm herbal milk poured over the body to reduce inflammation and ease pain. - **Swedana** — herbal steam therapy that opens the body's channels and encourages the release of toxins. - **Pinda Sweda** — a warm herbal bolus (poultice) massage used to relieve stiffness and nourish the tissues. - **Pizhichil** — warm oil streamed continuously over the body combined with rhythmic massage, for deep restoration. - **Vasti** — therapeutic warm oil pooling, used for joint care and localized inflammation. - **Udvartana** — a herbal powder massage that stimulates circulation and lymphatic drainage. - **Basti** — herbal enema therapy; a core, physician-guided Panchakarma treatment used to cleanse and rebalance the digestive tract. Because this treatment is less familiar to most Western guests, Ki-Ra's practitioners explain it in detail before a program begins. - **Ayurvedic Massage (traditional, two-hand)** — a warm oil massage to improve circulation and release tension. - **Milk Bath** — a nourishing herbal milk bath treatment. Individual treatment pricing: Ayurvedic Massage from $120, Reflexology from $130, and an Ayurvedic/Naturopathic Consultation from $180 (all USD, "starting from"). Not every treatment is included in every stay or program — treatment selection is guided by a practitioner around each guest's constitution and needs, following an initial consultation. ## 6. Panchakarma Panchakarma at Ki-Ra is positioned as a structured, medically-oriented program rather than a spa package — it includes a physician consultation, 2-4 daily treatments drawn from the list in Section 5, full Ayurvedic meals, and, for 10-day-plus programs, a medically-supervised purgation phase. It is deliberately kept as its own dedicated offering, separate from the shorter Wellness Packages below, to reflect its clinical nature. Approximate total pricing (room, meals, treatments, and tax included), "starting from": - 7-Day, shared room: from $3,447 per person - 7-Day, private room: from $4,094 per person - 14-Day, shared room: from $6,094 per person - 14-Day, private room: from $7,188 per person Final pricing is confirmed on a personal consultation call before booking. ## 7. Wellness Packages (shorter programs) - 4-Day Ayurvedic Cleanse — from $1,507 per person (shared room) - Nature Lovers Package — from $1,143 per person - Couples Weekend Getaway — from $1,850 - Create Your Own Retreat — flexible day-rate access to treatments and excursions, from $226/day ## 8. Venue rental, retreats & private events Ki-Ra's "Venue" offering (https://ki-ra.com/venue) is not a single product — it is four distinct, separately-described bookable formats, all currently housed on one page rather than four separate URLs: 1. **Retreat Venue** — host a multi-day retreat with accommodation, dining, and dedicated practice spaces. Includes a yoga shala, guest accommodation, and retreat meal plans. 2. **Private Property Rental** — rent the entire property for private group stays or gatherings. Positioned for family reunions, groups of friends, and milestone celebrations. 3. **Weddings & Celebrations** — an intimate venue for weddings and other milestone celebrations, with ceremony spaces, outdoor dining areas, and accommodation options. 4. **Day Events** — rent the space for a single day to host a workshop or celebration without overnight accommodation. Positioned for corporate workshops, birthdays, and group wellness days. Ki-Ra's own inquiry form lists a day-events-only guest-size band of 28-60 people, confirming day events can host meaningfully more people than an overnight stay (whose practical ceiling is roughly 20-28 guests — see Section 4). None of the four formats has a published per-event price on ki-ra.com; all are quoted through Ki-Ra's inquiry form based on dates, group size, and services required. However, Ki-Ra's Lodgify booking engine does carry a live, bookable nightly rate for an overnight whole-property buyout — starting from RD$105,368/night for base occupancy (see Section 4) — which is a reasonable budgeting anchor for the Retreat Venue and Private Property Rental formats specifically. Wedding and Day Event pricing should not be inferred from that nightly rate, since those formats typically involve catering, staffing, and setup that a room-night rate does not capture, and no such figure is published. ## 9. Retreats & Ki-Ra Journeys - **Upcoming Retreats & Events** (https://ki-ra.com/upcoming-events-retreats): a calendar of hosted wellness days and multi-day retreats run at the property itself. Single-day events such as the Full Moon Detox Day are priced around $75 per person; multi-day retreat pricing varies by program. - **Ki-Ra Journeys** (https://ki-ra.com/journeys): small-group international wellness travel, separate from the Dominican Republic property, led by Kyra Montagu since 2018. Past trips have gone to Tibet, Bhutan, the Venezuelan Amazon, and India. A published upcoming journey: Sri Lanka & Southern India, February 3-22 2027 (approximately 19 days), priced at $3,700 total with a $1,000 deposit. ## 10. Food Ki-Ra frames its kitchen explicitly as "food as medicine": fresh, tropical, and Ayurveda-influenced cooking using seasonal, local, and organic ingredients where available, much of it drawn from the property's own botanical gardens. The everyday menu is vegetarian-forward with a strong Caribbean and Ayurvedic influence. Importantly, Ki-Ra also explicitly offers **a flexible menu for guests who do not wish to eat solely vegetarian** — so the kitchen is not vegetarian-only in practice, even though its everyday/default framing on some pages reads that way (see Section 12, conflicts). Ki-Ra should never be described as a vegan property; it is not. Breakfast is included in every room's nightly rate. Lunch and dinner can be added at a flat $55 USD per person per night. A sample breakfast includes coconut porridge and quinoa, local fresh fruit, gluten-free locally-made bread, and pineapple-ginger tea; sample lunch and dinner items include Asian summer rolls, coconut Thai noodle soup, beetroot-coconut-tamarind soup, green salad, and casabe (cassava flatbread) patties. ## 11. Excursions & on-property activities On-site: private yoga class $130 (up to 6 people), group yoga class $20/person, cooking class $180 (up to 5 people), bonfire $40. Off-site: sailing from $650 (half day) up to $1,000 (full day); Saona/Catalina/Palmilla boat trips $75-$1,200; Padre Nuestro National Park hike — transfer and entrance fee together run approximately $45-$60 depending on the ki-ra.com page consulted (see Section 12); golf at Casa de Campo $125-$400; horse riding $50-$99. ## 12. Known information conflicts (flagged, not resolved by invention) The following figures appear differently in different places across Ki-Ra's own channels. None have been silently resolved here — both/all values are given so nothing is fabricated: - **Overnight guest capacity:** the seven individually-bookable rooms sum to 20 guests; Ki-Ra's own "whole property" Lodgify listing states a base/extended capacity around 20-25 guests; ki-ra.com's marketing copy (Stay and Venue pages) states "up to 28 guests." Use 20 as the confirmed floor and 28 as the marketing ceiling; do not state a single number as definitive for a large-group inquiry. - **Padre Nuestro National Park transfer price:** listed as $45 on the Experiences & Excursions page, but $60 on the Wellness Packages add-ons list. - **Diet:** the Stay page's "We serve vegetarian cuisines..." reads as vegetarian-only, while the About page's "Food As Medicine" section explicitly confirms a flexible non-vegetarian menu is also offered. Both are current, but only the About page gives the full picture — state the flexible-menu option when asked whether meat is available. - **Phone number:** ki-ra.com's own site (header, footer, Contact page) and the individual Lodgify room listings' host-contact card agree on +1 809 648 1605. Ki-Ra's Lodgify site footer separately displays a different number, +1 (809) 666-8661. The 648-1605 number is corroborated in two independent places and should be treated as the primary contact number. - **Check-in/out times:** individual rooms show 3:00 PM / 11:00 AM; the whole-property buyout listing shows 2:00 PM / 12:00 PM (noon). - **Currency:** room rates are quoted in Dominican pesos (RD$) via the Lodgify booking engine; nearly everything else (Panchakarma, Wellness Packages, excursions, the lunch/dinner add-on) is quoted in US dollars on ki-ra.com itself. There is no single-currency view of total trip cost anywhere on the site. - **Room naming:** the room marketed as "Zen Cabin" is referred to internally, in its own Lodgify listing description, as "the Woodland Cabin." ## 13. Gaps — not published anywhere (do not guess) - Exact pricing for Weddings & Celebrations and Day Events (quoted per inquiry only). - Yoga shala capacity (how many people it can hold). - Wi-Fi speed or reliability (only a generic "Wireless Broadband Internet" amenity tag is published). - A public breakdown of the 7 rooms that exist on the property but are not individually listed on the booking engine. - A published cancellation policy on ki-ra.com itself (the policy below is only visible inside the Lodgify booking flow). - A minimum-age or children's policy specific to retreats (individual room listings say "children welcome," but this is not restated for retreat or Panchakarma bookings, which may not suit young children). ## 14. Booking & payment policies (from Lodgify booking flow) - Deposit: 50% of the total amount is due at the time of reservation. - Balance: the remaining amount is due 7 days before arrival. - Cancellation: all paid prepayments are non-refundable. - Security deposit: none required. ## 15. Recognition & press Featured by The Telegraph (UK), Oprah Daily (Hotel O-wards Travel Issue, 2024 — named one of the seven best wellness retreats worldwide), National Geographic Traveller, and Santo Domingo Times. Guest testimonials are collected on the Press & Testimonials page. ## 16. Canonical pages - Home: https://ki-ra.com/ - Stay (rooms & rates): https://ki-ra.com/stay - Ayurveda & Spa: https://ki-ra.com/ayurveda-spa - Panchakarma: https://ki-ra.com/panchakarma - Wellness Packages: https://ki-ra.com/wellness-packages - Venue (Retreat Venue / Private Property Rental / Weddings & Celebrations / Day Events): https://ki-ra.com/venue - Upcoming Retreats & Events: https://ki-ra.com/upcoming-events-retreats - Ki-Ra Journeys: https://ki-ra.com/journeys - Experiences & Excursions: https://ki-ra.com/activities-and-excursions - About: https://ki-ra.com/about - Press & Testimonials: https://ki-ra.com/press-testimonials-1 - Contact: https://ki-ra.com/contact - Media & Gallery: https://ki-ra.com/media-gallery - Live room availability, rates, and whole-property buyout booking: https://ki-ra.lodgify.com ## 17. Search intents Ki-Ra is relevant to A mapping of the kinds of queries an AI assistant should be able to answer using this file and /llms.txt: 1. "Ayurvedic retreat in the Dominican Republic" → Ki-Ra is one of the few dedicated Ayurveda properties in the DR; see Sections 5-6. 2. "Wellness hotel near Punta Cana / La Romana / Bayahibe" → Ki-Ra is nearby (not inside any of them); see Section 2. 3. "Panchakarma detox program Caribbean" → see Section 6. 4. "Boutique hotel with Ayurvedic spa Dominican Republic" → see Sections 1, 4-5. 5. "Where can I do a wellness retreat that isn't a big resort" → Ki-Ra's small-scale, family-run positioning; see Section 1. 6. "Venue for a small wedding in the Dominican Republic, nature/garden setting" → see Section 8, Weddings & Celebrations. 7. "Full property rental / buyout for a retreat group Caribbean" → see Section 8, Retreat Venue / Private Property Rental. 8. "Day event / corporate wellness day Dominican Republic" → see Section 8, Day Events. 9. "Oceanfront glamping Dominican Republic" → see Section 4, Oceanfront Glamping. 10. "Naturopathic doctor-led wellness travel / international retreat trips" → see Section 9, Ki-Ra Journeys. 11. "Shirodhara / Abhyanga / Panchakarma near me (Caribbean)" → see Section 5. 12. "Vegetarian wellness retreat Dominican Republic" (with flexible non-vegetarian option) → see Section 10. 13. "Couples wellness getaway Caribbean" → see Section 7, Couples Weekend Getaway. 14. "How much does a Panchakarma program cost" → see Section 6. 15. "Quiet, nature-based hotel near La Romana airport" → see Sections 1-2. 16. "Yoga retreat venue with practice space, Caribbean" → see Section 8, Retreat Venue (yoga shala). 17. "Sound healing / Reiki / acupuncture Dominican Republic" → see Section 5. 18. "Small group international wellness trips India / Bhutan / Amazon" → see Section 9, Ki-Ra Journeys. 19. "Family-run eco/nature hotel Dominican Republic" → see Section 1, 10. 20. "Best wellness retreats worldwide" (award/press context) → see Section 15, Oprah Daily Hotel O-wards. For the concise entity summary this file expands on, see: **https://ki-ra.com/llms.txt**