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.
Ibrahim Gurukkal, student of Muhammed Gurukkal of the Northern Kalari trinity, runs Shifa as a thara kalari with no Poothara, no deity and no propitiatory rituals: the art taught purely as self-defence and health practice, open to anyone regardless of religion. His son, an Ayurvedic doctor, assists.
Training is designed around the student's stated aim, from weight and concentration to championship preparation, with classes twice a week and higher-level training for competitors. Foreign students have come from Italy, Germany, France, South Africa, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Russia.
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.
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.
