Shaman Farm and Falls, Panauti
Story
Shaman Farm and Falls is part of the Shaman family — the same name, the same standard of care, carried into Panauti. Here, that name isn't borrowed: it's run on the ground by an actual shamanic healer.
The falls itself is a natural sound bath.
That's the owners' own way of putting it, and it's the idea everything here is built around. Panchakanya Waterfall, on the Roshi Khola — free, public, and already doing in nature what a sound-healing hall does by design. Everything we're building sits around that one fact.
Everything around a free wonder.
The falls are government property. They're free today, and they always will be — we don't own them, we can't charge for them, and we wouldn't want to. What we're building is what sits around that free wonder: a place to eat, to stay, to practice, to be — never a ticket to the water itself.
We're caretakers of this place, not its owners.
That's not a slogan, it's why we're building the way we are: around the falls, never on top of them; with the land, not against it. What that means in practice is simple — we tend what's here rather than use it up.
This water has a name and a story.
Local belief holds it under the protection of the Naag — serpent deities — and festival rituals are observed here. We say that once, plainly, because it matters: this isn't a backdrop, it's a place with its own significance that existed long before we did.
Run by a local of Panauti, and a genuine shamanic healer.
Basanta isn't a hired consultant or a brand ambassador — he's from this village, he's a shamanic healer, and he runs Shaman Farm and Falls on the ground. More often than not, he's the one who'll notice you've arrived and put the kettle on.
The farm underneath it all.
There is a working farm here too — organic, local, real — and it shows up in the food. It's a layer of this place, not the whole of it.
The vision
What we’re building toward
Today
Right now — what's actually here
The falls run exactly as they always have — free, public, and already a natural sound bath, with nothing to build and nothing to charge. Around it, three ropani of land are taking shape: some of what you'll eventually find here — shade, seating, a place to sit a while — is already coming together; a lot of it isn't built yet, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. What's growing here is real, too — the farm's produce, organic and local, is the food-showcase layer under everything else we're building. And there's already a way to spend real time here: a couple room and a group room for a night with the water within earshot, and a daycation for a day on the land — the first of the tiers, and open now.
Plan your visitVision, not an offer
What we're building toward — the vision, not an offer
A tiered destination for everyone — street food and a place to sit at the bottom of the hill, families with room to breathe in the middle, more ways to stay further up, and halls for meditation, yoga, and sound healing woven through it all. Chatpate at one level, a sound-healing session at another — and the same waterfall, and the same sound bath, running underneath every tier. This is the 25-year vision. The first tiers — a couple room, a group room, and a daycation — you can book today; most of what's described here, though, isn't built yet, and we won't pretend otherwise.