In Koh Samui, a prototype for the future of ?wellness?

by Jim Algie

As a yogi connected to an ashram at the foot of the Himalayas, John Stewart and his cohorts spent seven years hauling rocks to build plots of land for vegetable gardens and fruit orchards on reclaimed riverbed.

All the work was done by hand. His guru and taskmaster, Babaji, said, ?We don?t wait for miracles. We create them.?

Those experiences in India, where Stewart also met his wife and business partner, Karina, provided much of the heft behind the Kamalaya Wellness Retreat and Holistic Spa on Koh Samui.

Kamalaya's design is part earthy, part otherworldly. Set among the boulders and palm trees of the sparsely inhabited southeast corner of the Thai island, Kamalaya?s construction was a Herculean undertaking that dwarfed even Stewart's previous endeavors at the ashram.

The result illustrates the founders? desire to create a nature retreat with upmarket designer smarts.

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