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.
Lubaina teaches the traditional central style with a stated position worth knowing before you enquire: no short-term or crash courses, on the founder's view that a lifetime is barely enough. The main Edapally centre trains year-round, branch centres three days a week, and the Bengaluru branch at weekends.
Pink Shields, its self-defence programme for girls, has trained over a thousand students through schools and colleges.
Students planning consistent long-term practice rather than a visit. Foreign students do train here, from France, Malaysia and elsewhere, on those terms.
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.
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.
