newsletter issue 155

It’s early in the week, and the day marks a resounding onset of the monsoon in Mumbai—the kind of sullen, grey afternoon where light doesn’t permeate the clouds. After two episodes of Black Mirror the previous night, everything feels a little bleaker than usual. But the mood shifts almost instantly when I enter Dhun Wellness, a new wellness space perched on the seventh floor of a sleek commercial building in Bandra, Mumbai, on the frenetic Linking Road, where Mira Kapoor has managed to carve out a quieter world. Inside, the light is softer, the walls are lime-plastered, and there’s a calming scent that I can’t quite put my finger on that lingers in the hallways.

Dhun, which means ‘melody’ in Hindi, isn’t a prescriptive model of what wellness should look like. There are no LED-lit mirrors, no wellness slogans, no walls of products beckoning you to buy them. Instead, there’s silence—real silence—that’s hard to come by in the city. “I felt there was a huge gap when it came to wellness spaces,” says Kapoor. “Urban wellness has completely been ignored. So, I founded Dhun on three pillars: in the city, holistic, and luxury. Most wellness centres and resorts across India only have two out of three, if at all.”

At Dhun, those three pillars come together seamlessly. The space—open, airy, and warm at once—includes treatment rooms, locker and shower facilities, infrared sauna, cryotherapy, and more. The design language is musical, quite literally. Treatment rooms are named after musical terms—Duet, Harmony, Serenade, Reverb. “Music is a universal language of healing,” says Kapoor, who plays the piano. “There’s power in listening to certain frequencies… So, I wanted to create a place where you can harmonise with your body and find a beat of rest.”

Chloe Chou chats with Mira Kapoor about why Dhun Wellness is a movement toward city-integrated healing—one that doesn’t demand escape or disruption but folds into everyday life.