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.
Founded by E. N. Sreepathy Embranthiri, who trained eleven years across both systems against considerable caste opposition, ENS remains one of very few kalaris teaching northern and southern styles under one roof. His children now run it.
Certificate courses run from one week to one year on a printed syllabus, with training twice a day at ninety minutes a session and an examination at the end. Accommodation can be arranged on request.
Uzhichil is the core treatment offered, alongside marma work.
A one-hour Kalaripayattu show runs daily, with Sunday viewing between three and seven in the afternoon, and a small boutique sells books and weapon models.
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.
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.
