Emily Bamber tries out the Rarinjinda Wellness Resort in Chiang Mai, Thailand
My image on the screen had a strange green hue around it, making me look disturbingly like an alien. “You have an excellent aura,” said the white-coated Dr Shuhil Rahul, in whose office I was sitting. “But you must look after your immune system, take more exercise and maybe think about colonic irrigation.”
Frankly my colon was the last thing on my mind when I arrived at the Rarinjinda Wellness Resort, a new property set around a beautiful teak Thai house near the river in Chiang Mai.
I was more in the market for a nice relaxing massage – or even a facial – but, while many guests do visit for pampering treatments, the centre is all about holistic healing and preventative health as well as the ‘emotional and spiritual wellbeing’ of its guests.
Spa takes on a whole new meaning here – every patient sees the doctor first for an aura and chakra reading and there are 70 treatment rooms.
The doctor suggested a personal programme, which also included time in an infrared sauna and the eight-station indoor hydrotherapy pool. In the end I got my relaxing massage – a heavenly hour in which I was pummelled to within an inch of my life.
And maybe, I told the doctor, I’ll leave that colonic until next time…
