The Ideal Destination for Your Life-Changing Wellness Retreat
For over 30 years, The Raj Ayurveda Health Center has been recognized as one of America’s leading Ayurveda health centers. By welcoming only a limited number of guests at a time, we provide deeply personalized Ayurvedic treatments, attentive care, and a truly restorative healing experience.
Purpose-built to offer authentic Panchakarma treatments in the United States, The Raj is set across 100 peaceful acres in Fairfield, Iowa — the Ayurveda capital of America.
Our serene wellness retreat features comfortable accommodations, dedicated treatment spaces, organic vegetarian cuisine, and tranquil natural surroundings designed to support purification, rejuvenation, balance, and long-term wellbeing.
Established 1993
More than 30 years devoted to authentic Ayurveda.
Purpose-Built for Panchakarma
A 36,000-square-foot health center created for the complete Panchakarma experience.
100 Peaceful Acres
A restorative natural setting in Fairfield, Iowa.
Limited Number of Guests
Personalized attention throughout each retreat.
Every treatment we offer traces directly back to those original protocols — nothing modernized, nothing simplified. Our approach is grounded in authentic Maharishi Ayurveda, rooted in the classical Ayurvedic texts and restored in its traditional form rather than adapted for a general wellness market.
Classical therapies are delivered by an experienced Ayurvedic team under established Maharishi Ayurveda protocols, with each program tailored to the individual guest.
Co-Founders & Owners — Champions of Authentic Ayurveda
For more than three decades, Candace and Rogers Badgett have been dedicated to sharing the healing knowledge of authentic Maharishi Ayurveda. In 1991, they founded The Raj in Fairfield, Iowa — a 36,000-square-foot health campus designed to offer traditional Ayurvedic purification, rejuvenation, and personalized wellness care.
Through their leadership, The Raj has become a pioneering center for Ayurveda in North America, known for preserving the depth, purity, and individualized approach of this ancient system of natural health. Their work continues through The Raj and through their broader service within the Transcendental Meditation organization.
Ayurvedic Doctors/Vaidyas
Our Vaidyas bring decades of combined experience in classical Ayurvedic diagnosis, herbal medicine, and Panchakarma — including Ayurvedic Pulse Assessment, clinical research, and training from India’s most respected institutions.
Thoughtfully designed surroundings, a culture of meditation, deeply attentive care, and research-informed credibility are part of what sets The Raj apart.
The Raj was designed according to Vastu, an ancient Indian architectural tradition intended to support harmony, balance, and deep rest.
Every practitioner and technician at The Raj practices Transcendental Meditation®, bringing a settled, attentive presence to each treatment. TM® is also available to guests during all of our retreats.
Published research has examined Panchakarma, Maharishi Ayurveda, toxicant reduction, cardiovascular health, and mind-body wellbeing.
Ayurveda teaches that health is not something imposed from the outside, but something the body is continually working to restore from within. At The Raj, our role is to support that natural intelligence and create the conditions in which deeper balance and renewal can unfold.
Your body already knows how to heal.
We help it remember.
