Yoga and wellness places near Hiriketiya

Around Hiriketiya and Dikwella there are several places to practise yoga as a drop-in guest, a few retreats where you stay and practise, and a house of sauna and cold water. Here are nine of them, what each offers and who each one suits.

How to read this list

This guide is written by Ohana. We are on the list, and we say where we think we fit.

We have left out prices and class times of other places on purpose. They change, and each place's own page or Instagram is the only thing that is right. Every place here showed signs of being open in 2026 on its own website or in recent guides. Before you walk over, send a message and ask for this week's schedule.

Where can you drop in for a class?

• Arise, Hiriketiya. A yoga space on a hill in the jungle, up a path from the main road, looking over a village temple. It offers yoga, breathwork and sound healing, with several classes on most days, from slow to strong. It suits people who want a full timetable and a room made only for practice. Ask whether you need to sign up in advance.
• Ohana, Turtle Beach, Dikwella. Ours is the Ohana Shala, the open upper floor of a beach restaurant, facing the ocean, less than five minutes by road from Hiriketiya. The classes are vinyasa, hatha, slow flow, yin yang, and yin with sound, and there are workshops and circles. The shala is being reorganised, so the days are on our events page. We are not a full-time yoga school. We suit people who want one class beside the open sea and then breakfast, a swim and a quiet day in the same place. No alcohol is served here.
• Salt House, Hiriketiya. A guest house with a cafe, a pool and a yoga space it calls the Jungle View Yoga Shala. There is daily yoga in different styles and mat Pilates, and it hosts retreats and teacher trainings. Walk-ins are welcome. It suits beginners and regulars alike, and people who like brunch after class.
• Jasper House, Hiriketiya. A small hotel a short walk from the bay, with a yoga shala on the roof. Its own pages speak of gentle morning sessions for all ages, and it hosts retreats. If you are not staying there, ask whether you can join.
• Dots Bay House, Hiriketiya. A hostel and hotel on the bay with a rooftop yoga shala and daily yoga and fitness classes. It is also one of the lively places of Hiriketiya, with a bar, music and a weekly pool party. It suits people who want a class and company in one address.

Where can you stay and practise?

• The Salty, Hiriketiya. A surf and yoga camp beside the surf break, with several yoga classes a day as part of its packages. It suits people who want surfing and yoga planned for them for a week. The classes are for its own guests, as far as we could find.
• Talalla Wellness Resort, Talalla. About twenty minutes west of Hiriketiya by tuk-tuk. A large resort with several shalas, daily yoga, Pilates, an Ayurvedic spa and a bathhouse with sauna, steam and cold plunge. People who are not staying can book single classes. It has a restaurant and a bar. It suits people who want everything inside one garden.
• Sen Wellness Sanctuary, Rekawa. Further east, on the Tangalle side, between the ocean and a lagoon. A small retreat for Ayurveda with a resident Ayurvedic doctor, with yoga, meditation and breathwork, in stays of several days. It suits people who want a whole programme more than a class. If Ayurveda is new to you, read Ayurveda for travellers in Sri Lanka first.

Where is the heat and the cold?

• Maha Sauna, Hiriketiya. A house of hot and cold on Hiriketiya Beach Road: a wood-fired sauna, an ice plunge, a steam bath and a magnesium bath, with a spa and a cafe upstairs. It suits people who want the full round of hot and cold in one visit. Before you go, read cold plunge and ice baths explained, which says who should ask a doctor first.

There are also small massage places in Hiriketiya that recent guides name. We have not listed them, because we could not check them well enough ourselves.

Which place for which wish?

• Many classes a day, and teachers to choose from: Arise or Salt House.
• A teacher training or a long retreat: Salt House, Talalla, or Sen for Ayurveda.
• Surf in the morning, yoga in the afternoon: The Salty, or any drop-in class in Hiriketiya after your surf lesson.
• Yoga, then people and music: Dots Bay House.
• Sauna and ice: Maha Sauna or the bathhouse at Talalla.
• A class by the sea, then a calm day with good food, with children or parents along: that is where we fit.

For surf, for nightlife and for the widest choice of teachers, Hiriketiya suits better than we do, and we say so gladly. It is less than five minutes away.

What do we offer at Ohana?

Regular classes cost 4,000 LKR, and residents join for 3,000 LKR. Workshops, the Ocean Treasures Workshop and the Mindful Painting Workshop, cost 5,000 LKR. Women's Circle and Cacao, a special, costs 6,000 LKR. "Vinyasa for the Street Dogs" is our charity class, and 100% of contributions go to two street-dog charities, WECare Worldwide and The Dziko Project. Residents are people who live in Sri Lanka, locals and expats, and our regulars: just tell us. Nat teaches yoga and sound healing, Kristina leads breathwork and the cacao circle, and Anaïs leads the painting and jewellery workshops. The shala's week is being set up anew, so we print no fixed days here. What is on, and when, is on our events page.

At times there are also sessions of ecstatic dance and qigong. A cold plunge for four to six people starts in the middle of November 2026, and massages are coming soon.

Each class is explained in yoga in Dikwella. The classes are on the page of our oceanfront yoga shala in Dikwella, near Hiriketiya.

Good to know

• We are at Turtle Beach, Dikwella, less than five minutes by road from Hiriketiya.
• Regular classes cost 4,000 LKR, workshops 5,000 LKR, specials 6,000 LKR.
• Join any activity and you get 10% off the whole restaurant menu.
• Breakfast is served from 08:00 to 11:00, lunch and dinner from 11:00 to 21:00.
• No alcohol is served. Filtered water is on the house.