

The pair, who met at a monastery in India, have pooled their combined resources to create this now hugely popular retreat with its brilliantly unique blend of East meets West. To ask ‘why am I doing this?’ and give people tools so that they don’t repeat the pattern.’ĭo you feel relaxed just looking at this?įounded by a doctor of Chinese Medicine, Karina Stewart and her partner John Stewart, who spent 16 years devoted to a life of spiritual studies in a Himalayan community before setting up Kamalaya. ‘There are two ways to look at this, one is very physical, with diet and liver supplements. Like me, 30 per cent of their guests come to detox. ‘People come here when they are at a cross-roads in their life, when they want to make a change or need to recover,’ says Sylvia Marsden, My Wellness Consultant looking over the results of my medical exam with the nurse, all normal, but that’s before the results of the liver function test has come back from the lab. As I deliver a brutally honest account of my lifestyle excess Sylvia doesn’t so much as bat an eyelid, she has heard it all before. Either sounds appealing.įortunately, the Kamalaya is just the place to break the cycle, a world-famous retreat for the mildly toxic and thoroughly burnt out, they run specialised programmes in Detox, Stress & Burnout and Embracing Change. Fancy a dip? Or maybe just take a stroll along Kamalaya’s stunning shoreline.
