KAMALAYA "LOTUS REALM"
Kamalaya is a holistic spa and wellness sanctuary opening in November 2005 on the Thai island of Koh Samui, lauded by Condé Nast Traveler as one of the ten most beautiful islands in the world.
Centered around a cave temple that once served Buddhist monks as a place of meditation and spiritual retreat, Kamalaya means "Lotus Realm", an enduring image of the growth and enhancement of the human spirit.
Built at the edge of an idyllic lagoon, Kamalaya's white sand beach, cascading streams, and lush tropical gardens evoke remembered wellness and provide a setting where life's full potential can be rediscovered and health in all dimensions cultivated and enhanced.
Kamalaya's Holistic Spa & Wellness Sanctuary unfolds amidst waterfalls and towering boulders and offers customized treatment programs that address each guest's physical, emotional, and spiritual goals, inviting one on a journey towards sustained creativity and joyous wellbeing.
A world-class conference center , the Mantra Hall, will host speakers and seminars leaders throughout the year in a wide range of inspiring topics.
Kamalaya's Soma Restaurant and Amrita Café feature sumptuous cuisine with sweeping views of ocean, sky, and outlying islands. The adjoining Alchemy Bar serves ambrosial tonics based on ancient Taoist, Thai, and Ayurvedic recipes. |
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Other facilities at Kamalaya include lap, leisure, and plunge pools; a wood-floored Yoga Pavilion; the Shakti Fitness Center; a Library and Study Center ; and an Art & Antiques Gallery. Recreational activities range from sailing and sea kayaking to hiking, elephant trekking, and golf.
Whether you visit Kamalaya for its, its educational seminars and retreats, or simply to enjoy the invigorating energies of nature, art, healthful cuisine, and community spirit, Kamalaya offers a realm of unbounded possibilities in which to discover new levels of vitality, adventure, creativity, and joy.
KAMALAYA'S WELLNESS SANCTUARY
Kamalaya's Wellness Sanctuary & Holistic Spa offers an integrated approach to wellness that encompasses a diverse range of cultural and medical traditions and promotes the harmonious development of the whole person- physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
Wellness Consultations with each guest establish a foundation for co-creating unique, customized programs leading you towards radiant health and a creative and joyous engagement with all life.
Optional Life-Enhancement Programs focus on specific health and wellness issues, combining customized therapies, fitness, and nutrition to optimize wellbeing and synergistically restore a sense of connectedness to universal energies and rhythms - the ultimate source of all true healing.
Kamalaya's core wellness services: |
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* Consultations and treatments in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Naturopathy, Homeopathy and Western Medicine
* Diagnostic procedures, including biograph & bio-resonance evaluations, nutritional analysis, and comprehensive laboratory testing.
Customized Detoxification & Rejuvenation Program
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Colonic hydrotherapy with ozone
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Steam cavern, infrared sauna, hot and cold plunge pools
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Therapeutic massages, including lymphatic drainage, traditional Thai massage, chi nei tsang (Taoist abdominal massage ),t'ui na (acupressure), and craniosacral therapy
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Customized herbal formulas
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Yoga, chi gong, tai chi, and meditation classes
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Personalized fitness training including Pilates
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Recreational activities including sailing, snorkeling, rock climbing, hiking, and mountain biking.
"When Health is absent, Wisdom cannot reveal itself, Art cannot manifest,
Strength cannot be exerted, Wealth becomes useless, and Reason is powerless."
- Herophilus, 300 B.C.
KAMALAYA'S OPTIONAL LIFE-ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMS
Each of Kamalaya's Optional Life-Enhancement Programs focuses on a specific area of concern while working holistically to restore internal balance and ensure optimal health in body, mind, and spirit. Based on an initial Wellness Consultation to identify your priorities and goals, Kamalaya's professional team of practitioners will help you to customize your individual program in accordance with your personal needs and desired length of stay.
The following standard services are included in all of Kamalaya's Optional Life Enhancement Programs :
- Wellness Consultation
- Bio-impedance Analysis (BIA)
- Program Orientation
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner or individualized meal plan
- Yoga, Pilates, chi gong, tai chi, and meditation classes
- Use of Shakti Fitness Center
- Steam cavern & plunge pools
- Presentations and films on fitness, nutrition, stress management, and other subjects
"To recognize the elements in the natural world,
their beauty and interplay, to enter the sacred dance of the elements,
is to inhabit a living world full of mystery and potential."
- Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
| DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES
True health begins with knowledge of one's underlying constitution and the tools to correct both manifest and latent imbalances.
At Kamalaya, diagnosis becomes a process of self-discovery, beginning with an initial Wellness Consultation and protocols to determine blood pressure, heart rate, body mass index and nutritional status and establish parameters for optional testing for allergies, liver and thyroid disorders, hormonal imbalances, chemical and heavy metal toxicity, etc.
All diagnostic and treatment modalities at Kamalaya are backed by scientific research and overseen by experienced professionals.
Constitutional and Metabolic Typing according to Traditional Chinese Medicine help determine optimal treatment, fitness, and dietary guidelines.
Additional tests available at Kamalaya include: |
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Biograph Energy Assessment a assessment measures and assesses the energy flow within the Chinese meridian system, giving you a personal energy reading. Using bioenergetics we are able to detect under or over function of meridians and their corresponding organs, therefore useful in prevention to identify enegy disruptions before physical manifestations occur.
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Body Bio-impedance Analysis gives valuable information on cellular health, metabolism, toxicity to help create naturopathic, nutrition, or exercise programs suited to your individual needs.
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Holistic Fitness Evaluation based on exercise performance, flexibility, balance, and aerobic capacity.
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Blood and urine screening to evaluate cancer and heart disease markers as well as toxicity caused by parasites and chemical and environmental pollutants. These tests can also serve as a basis for establishing optimal levels of anti-oxidants and other nutritional factors.
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utritional Analysis based on gender, biochemical individuality, genetics, exercise and fitness levels, metabolic function, state of health, and place of residence to assess individual dietary needs. This evaluation helps establish specific needs for dietary supplements including vitamins, minerals, phyto-nutrients, pro-biotics, and essential fatty oils for restoring health and preventing illness.
Collectively, Kamalaya's optional diagnostic procedures evaluate the following factors to help determine an optimal program based on each guest's personal objectives and desired intensity level and drawing from Kamalaya's wide range of therapeutic modalities.
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Genetic influences
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Residual effects of past trauma
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Diet & nutrition
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Hormonal balance
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Effects of environmental toxins, radiation, etc.
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Lingering effects of previous nutritional deficiencies
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Past or current infection
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Stress effects
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Moods and emotions
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Past and current effects of each individual's socio-cultural, psychological, emotional, spiritual, and environmental context.
"The whole key to personal enhancement starts on a cellular level. It's about the rejuvenation of your cells. When we clear out and rebuild our cells they give us new messages . . . New cells don't follow the same old programming . . . but yield new physical, psychic, and spiritual energy."
-Dr. Robert Dozer, MD
HOLISTIC THERAPIES & SPA TREATMENTS
Kamalaya's experienced practitioners in Western Medicine, Naturopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as its yoga, chi gong, and fitness trainers offer an integrated approach to total wellness. Throughout the year, visiting consultants from as far afield as Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia, and India will further augment the Wellness Sanctuary's diverse offerings.
Kamalaya's wellness programs include the following modalities:
Naturopathic Medicine combines healing traditions of ancient India, China, and Greece with modern scientific principles and technology including nutrition, herbal medicine, and homeopathy, a medical system using dilute preparations of natural substances to stimulate the body's self-healing mechanisms. |
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Naturopathic consultations at Kamalaya draw on a wide array of diagnostic and natural healing techniques such as colonic hydrotherapy with ozone to promote optimal health and to treat as well as prevent illness.
 Traditional Chinese Medicine is the contemporary version of China's 3,000 year old medical practice, a comprehensive theoretical and therapeutic system that includes well established techniques such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, massage, nutrition, and chi gong, a Chinese form of internal alchemy for cultivating chi, or vital energy, and directing it towards the healing of self and others. Diagnostic procedures at Kamalaya include Biograph Energy Assessesment to measure energy in the meridian system and diagnose imbalances within related organs. Treatments include herbal remedies, acupuncture, deep tissue Tui Na massage, and Chi Nei Tsang, a classical Taoist abdominal massage.
Ayurveda, the 'Science of Life', is a holistic system of natural medicine first described around 3,400 B.C. in the Vedic texts of ancient India. Kamalaya offers a variety of Ayurvedic treatments including serotonin-releasing Shirodhara sessions, "Royal" Ayurvedic Traditional Massage, and Marma Point Therapy which works systematically on energy points along the body.
 Additional medical facilities at Kamalaya include full allopathic services through a resident MD as well as custom formulated herbal remedies based on comprehensive blood and urine analyses.
Therapeutic Body Treatments at Kamalaya include a wide variety of restorative massages including traditional Thai massage, lymphatic drainage massage, craniosacral therapy, and exfoliating skin treatments.
Kamalaya's Wellness Sanctuary also offers a spectacularly located steam cavern, far-infrared sauna, and hot and cold plunge pools to stimulate circulation and improve health.
The human body is designed to reach increasing levels of health and vitality, supported by diet, exercise, nutrition, and treatments that restore the organism's ability to heal itself and to reach its highest potential."
"In discovering health, we discover ourselves."
YOGA & FITNESS
Yoga means "union" and, in its original form, is a path leading to the integration and total fitness of body, mind, and spirit.
With extraordinary resources ranging from the Monk's Caveto the Yantra Hall, Yoga Pavilion, and surrounding nature, Kamalaya offers seminars, classes, and private instruction in various styles of yoga, including Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Anusara, in addition to classes in chi gong, tai chi, and dance.
Complementing the resources for yoga, Kamalaya's Shakti Fitness Center provides a well-equiped gym with personal instruction in Strength Training, Functional Resistance Training, Pilates and other exercise modalities.
Kamalaya offers guided hikes and also provides training in a variety of meditation and breathing practices to balance the emotions, illuminate the sub-conscious, and help enhance ordinary awareness into deepening levels of insight and joy. |
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" Kamalaya- Unfold Your Infinite Potential "
CONFERENCE & YOGA FACILITIES
The Yantra Hall, Kamalaya's hilltop conference center (pictured at right with its 189 square meter floor plan) is a spectacular architectural creation offering an inspiring setting for conferences, seminars, and special events that celebrate the diverse range of human imagination and intellectual tradition.
Kamalaya provides marketing for prospective conferences, seminars, and events and, when desired, offers private retreat accommodations.
Teachers of yoga and other mind/ body disciplines may also reserve Kamalaya's Yoga Pavilion (pictured lower left), an open-air, semi-circular, wood-floored building overlooking sea and mountains with a capacity of 40 for classes and up to 80 for lecture-style seating. |
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Kamalaya is now offering introductory offers for early bookings. Scheduling, costs, marketing, and special needs can be addressed to Kamalaya's "Conference, Seminar & Retreat Sales Executive" . We look forward to working with you in establishing Kamalaya as a sanctuary for holistic learning that nurtures each person's highest potential.
"Thus may one think of these symbolic flowers and their blossoming as referring either to the macrocosmic order, the flowering of the universe within whose bounds we dwell, or to the microcosmic opening of the individual's consciousness to its potential amplitude."
-Joseph Campbell
CONFERENCES, SEMINARS & RETREATS
Conferences, seminars, and special events are central to the Kamalaya Experience and are held throughout the year in Kamalaya's Mantra Hall. Professional speakers and world-renowned teachers in the fields of integrative medicine, yoga, and related disciplines are invited to Kamalaya to offer seminars and workshops for groups and individuals seeking personal or professional development in areas including health & alternative medicine, yoga and other mind/body disciplines, spiritual inquiry & practice, enhancement psychology, creativity and the arts, leadership training, and social and environmental issues. A calendar of forthcoming events is updated on a regular basis.
Kamalaya's educational programs and learning vacations complement the services of the Wellness Sanctuary and encourage guests to rediscover the creative diversity, possibilities, and enchancement of human life. They offer a context for deep play and intensive study as well as opportunities to expand one's sense of work and relationships and to rediscover connections between diverse cultural, intellectual, and spiritual traditions. |
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The Yantra Hall can also host film festivals, lectures, dance performances, and musical events to inspire the mind, delight the senses, and explore the multi-dimensional world of spirit and imagination.
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search for truth and perfection, is a poverty stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."
-Lewis Mumford
DINING AT KAMALAYA
Kamalaya's Soma Restaurant, Amrita Cafe, and Alchemy Bar offers tantalizing and nutritius cuisine based on the changing seasons.
Soma Restaurant derives its name from the "food of the gods" of the ancient Vedas and offers flavorful fusions of Oriental and Western cuisine. With magnificent sunset views over the sea and outlying islands, Soma accommodates a wide variety of dietary preferences, from tantalizing salads and raw food preparations to fresh seafood, organic poultry, and specially selected wines. A range of individually customized dishes will also be available at Soma for those undertaking Kamalaya's Detox and Rejuvenation Program.
Soma will also feature a "long table" where individual guests can unite as a group to sample a shifting assortment of Kamalaya's culinary delights.
Amrita Café lies at the edge of flowering lotus ponds that encompass a bathing and lap pool and refers to a divine substance described in Hindu mythology that confers immortality on all who taste it. Amrita Café serves fresh juices and salads as well as a variety of wok-prepared and vegetarian dishes. |
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 The Alchemy Bar emerges from Kamalaya's Art & Antiques Gallery and nourishes body and soul with ambrosial appetizers, cocktails, wines, and elixirs based on Chinese, Indian, and Thai traditions of herbal medicine and internal alchemy. Foremost among the Alchemy Bar's signature alcoholic drinks are the "Moon Elixir" for women and "Sun Elixir" for men, served in goblets of colored glass. An extensive selection of herbal teas is also available as well as different grades of oolong, jasmine, green, and pu-ehr teas from China and Taiwan, all served in a traditional manner in aesthetic surroundings.
In addition to its restaurant and cafe, Kamalaya offers specially prepared hampers for picnics on uninhabited outlying islands and private luncheons in Kamalaya's Elixir Garden teeming with medicinal plants, passion fruit, and tamarind, mango, and papaya trees.
"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot."
-Albert Einstein
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