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That it's pretty unique can be seen from a glance at the long list of celebrities who have passed through the gates, including Dame Emma Thompson, cost of taxi in athens greece Sting, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and, piraeus bus to Dion at the end of last month, Queen Consort Camilla, on her seventh visit. Soukya combines authentic ayurveda - the ancient Indian medical system - with homeopathy and complementary therapies to tackle everything from stress and weight management to arthritis and rare diseases in one holistic package.
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The herbs originate from the medicinal garden with its 130 varieties of plants, from red-berried serpentine to treat hypertension to leafy water hyssop to improve memory. Huge vats of oil are heated with herbs stored in a jar-filled room that resembles an old-fashioned apothecary.
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Finally, warm poultices filled with herbs are applied to ease back and neck tension. It's followed by an amazing ayurvedic massage with two therapists slathering you with oil, leaving you feeling like a chicken that has been buttered for the oven.
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Women work the organic vegetable patch, and whatever they pluck that day is turned into the tastiest of low-spice, low-oil, low-fat meals at the restaurant, where neither meat nor alcohol is served. It's sustainable too, with enough solar, wind and private day tours in Katigiorgis greece biogas energy produced to put a smile on King Charles's face.
Spacious and comfortable, with a shower in the peaceful garden, it's not opulent in a five-star or even a regal way.
Although it has a four-poster with floaty curtains, an enormous bathroom with a hydrotherapy bath and a large sitting room, it feels relatively simple, decorated with traditional Indian heavy-wood furniture. During her previous trip, Camilla was accompanied by the then Prince Charles, and stayed in the same suite as mine.
The questions he asks all his guests are probing, stripping them back to bare emotions. Do you cry easily?
How has grief affected you? What work stresses are you going through? Did you fear the dark when you were a child?
There's no gym (they discourage too much activity as it interferes with the treatments) but there is a pleasant trail to amble round, past sandalwood trees, grazing farm animals and through a bamboo grove.
And at the end of languorous afternoons involving acupuncture and reflexology, where pressure is applied to various parts of the foot that correspond to different body parts, guests head to the changing room for eye, mouth and nasal washes (pouring the contents of a small watering can into one nostril and, somewhat bizarrely, letting it trickle out of the other).
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