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Time out in Thailand: Getting away from it all on a
far-out Far Eastern meditation holiday
Frankly,
I'm either worried or asleep. It's a common affliction for working women - and
when it comes to relaxation, I don't have an impressive history. In fact, I
don't have a history of it at all.
So
when a friend asked me to join an 'all-girls meditation trip to Thailand' it
seemed quite outlandish. Meditation? Doesn't that mean sitting cross-legged and
just thinking about something other than all the usual stuff?
My
husband was keen for me to go, which was a worry in itself, but somehow I
committed to leaving my three children for a few days and crossing the world to
spend a week with - my friend apart - a bunch of strangers.
When
I arrived, I was throbbing with guilt and a sense of impending doom - but then
the blissful, absurd, nannyish cosseting began. My room was like a nest in a
jungle tree house. It had a slide down to a pool and an outdoor shower room. If
I'd leaned over far enough I could have picked green bananas from a tree.
Some
villas are privately owned but can be rented. All are 'designer' decorated in
teak, bamboo and leather, with Empire-inspired furniture.
The
Soneva Kiri resort is on Thailand's fourth largest island, Koh Kood, but feels
like a palm-fringed dot on the edge of nowhere. The only sound is the roaring
of crickets.
It
is an expensively, unobtrusively airbrushed form of desert island. Each villa
has a 'Girl or Boy Friday' to bring you anything you need. The food is on a par
with the best restaurants in London, and within hours I was acclimatised,
padding around on wooden decking, swimming in the infinity pool or lying on
vast cushions, meditating, chatting or giant squirrel and gekko spotting.
There
was a lot on offer, from sunrise yoga, to waterskiing and fishing trips, but I
was so shocked at being able to sleep and read uninterrupted and, as far as I
could tell, pass out in the name of meditating, I did little else.
Every
day after breakfast we had a group discussion on something to do with
meditation. It was intriguing. The group was at different stages - some true
believers had been doing it for years, some were novices like me.
It
included exhausted mothers, career women, nomadic glamour girls, and those
trying to be all three. They bared their souls - failed marriages , troublesome
children, office politics and addictions - it came tumbling out in a way that
was both truly touching and highly entertaining.
The
more I knew about my holiday companions, the fonder I became of them. I found
the teacher's voice reassuring and soporific. She guided us on a visual journey
on the back of a bird or into a rose garden and afterwards I felt as if I'd had
eight hours sleep in 20 minutes.
Big
but beautiful: Though Thailand's fourth largest island, Koh Kood has some
wonderfully unspoiled shoreline
Then
we'd go to the white talcum powdery beach in buggies, swim in turquoise water
and have lunch in the outdoor restaurant. There was a sushi and salad buffet,
barbecue, homemade pizzas, and lots of coconut drinking.
The
Thais have a proverb, which is: 'Life is short, so we must move very slowly.'
Very true, but not exactly practical - unless you are lucky enough to be in a
tropical treehouse where the only demand on your time is to show up for
meditation.
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