Cities
Seven decades of training and treatment at Puthiyara, with board and lodging on site and a dedicated women's Kalaripayattu team.
The Kozhikode CVN, founded by K. Narayanan Gurukkal, known for film choreography from Thacholi Othenan to Bajirao Mastani and for its in-patient treatment ashram.
A kuzhi kalari at East Hill with resident and day students, and a steady stream of theatre artists from France, Italy and Canada on three-to-six-month stays.
The unusual case of a southern-style kalari in the north, under S. K. Rajesh Gurukkal, with a treatment practice Kozhikode knows it for.
The Thiruvananthapuram institution, training in a kuzhi kalari since 1956, with ICCR-recognised courses and daily morning performances visitors can watch.
A fifth-generation southern-style school at Nemom under Dr. S. Mahesh Gurukkal, running everything from daily traditional training to structured fitness and mindfulness programmes.
Southern-style training and Kalari Chikitsa on a single ashram campus founded by Guru Balachandran Nair, with an Ayurvedic healing centre and a Hanuman temple on the grounds.
Training and traditional treatment together at Pappanamcode since 1974, now under Dr. Gowthaman Gurukkal, with morning classes and evening slots arranged for foreigners.
A Siddha-marma lineage centre near Kovalam with government accreditation for Siddha medicine, short self-defence courses, and online teaching that has reached students in 23 countries.
The Nettoor kalari teaching northern and southern systems side by side since 1954, with certificate courses from one week to one year and a daily performance visitors can watch.
The Edapally school of the mid-Kerala style, teaching since 1959 across ten Ernakulam branches and one in Bengaluru, with a deliberate refusal of crash courses.
One of Kerala's most documented family kalaris, in Chavakkad since 1957 with roots in the Vettathunadu commander lineage, taking stay-based trainees for a month or more.
A kuzhi kalari in the backwater district, teaching northern and southern systems to a broad local intake with short customised programmes for visiting foreigners.
A kuzhi kalari near Kumarakom and Vagamon in the CVN line, with daily morning and evening classes and treatment during Karkidakam.
A Vadakara-lineage kalari on an organic farm at Mananthavady, teaching students from more than forty countries with training, treatment, yoga and a daily show.
A forty-year-old thara kalari at Kalpetta run on the gurukulam system, teaching self-defence stripped of ritual, open to all and shaped to each student's aim.
The rare kalari teaching all three regional styles, at Paravanadukkam near Bekal, with evening classes three days a week.
A performance centre rather than a training school: a seven-man team staging one-hour Kalaripayattu shows in a kuzhi kalari for Thekkady visitors.
The Hindustan Kalari Sangam offshoot near Auroville, with residential training that bundles stay, food and two daily classes, plus online classes, a diploma course and treatment.
The Bengaluru branch of the Chavakkad Vallabhatta lineage, teaching city classes under Master Krishnapratap.
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