Karuna Retreats

Be it losing weight, IBS or relaxation you are after. Our mind body detox program can work for you. Your personal schedule is there to support you and you will be encouraged to do what is most appropriate for you. If you want to do it all, or if you just want to get lots of massages, walk, read and rest, then that is your program. Pampering and detoxifying Massage therapies are available to be booked on arrival.

Colonics are NOT essential to the program - our expert detox team will advice you on which additional supplements you can take and will support your choices. Most, but not all of our clients chose to have colonic irrigation. Listening to what the body wants and needs - that is what this week is about.

Juice Detox Diet includes Juices and supplements five times each day, including a fill-you-up fiber supplement. The juice is organic (combinatoins of carrots, celery, apple) diluted 50% with water to enhance your detox. Some detoxers naturally drop the juice and drink just water as their detox deepens. See detox supplements below.

Detox Supplements are used with the juice to support you and your detox. They fill you up, release toxic material and increase the productivity of the colonic irrigation. The supplements will be adjusted for each person if needed.

Psyllium Husks

provide fibre that keeps your digestive tract moving during your detox fast, sweeping away old debris and toxins that get released during your detox from the digestive tract. Also, it keeps the stomach full - curtailing any sensations of hunger!

Digestive Enzymes

effectively melt the old indigested material and toxins that get caught in old mucoid layers along the bowel wall. These enzymes work along with the psyllium (above) to eliminate this toxic material during the colonics.

Bentonite

Attracts free-floating toxins that are naturally eliminated during your detox, as a magnet would, and efficiently eliminates them via the bowel, by preventing their being reabsorbed into the blood stream via the bowels..

Lacto-bacteria

A complete course of good bacteria is supplied at the end of your detox retreat to reinhabit the bowel with healthy flora. You are advised to continue to top up throughout your life, especially after making one of the many nutritional mistakes common to our times (like alcohol or sugar consumption). More in the Nutrition talks..

Colonic massage & hydrotherapy

Safe and simple. The colon is the main elimination organ and cleaning it enhenhancing digestion, immunity and energy levels. Basically, you feel clean, clear, light and normally wnat to keep it that way. As colonics wash away both good and bad bacteria, leaving you with a clean colon, you will receive a course of lactobacteria to replenish our healthy gut flora. There is no need to worry if you have not experienced this before - The colonics are easy to learn, safe and even relaxing.
Want to detox without colonics ?

Daily Yoga sessions

Be you a beginner or a practiced yogini, you will learn something new. Use the retreat time to stretch and release joints, learn to correct your posture and 'lengthen' you body, thus relieving much strain on tired joints. Expect to increase your range of movement by the end of your retreat while revitalizing body and mind!

Though, by the end of the retreat, things get very relaxed!

Meditation

Meditation is that time and space, devoted to becoming more aware of yourself in the present moment. The more we know about ourselves the more opportunity we have to live our lives in harmony with our deepest desires.

Sho will lead you to connect with NOW, the time in which it all happens, and become familiar with your PRESENCE, the space in which it all happens.

Nutritious Detox Talks

These extremely popular daily talks are inspiring and empowering. Designed to be easy-to-grasp, and practical. You will understand why many food and lifestyle choices work against you instead of for you. Once you know your body's inner workings, it becomes obvious what fuel it requires.

Covering cosmetics, GMO, Addictive food triggers, health & label reading, how to use supplements, how to detox your cubbords...as well as Detox and Retox, Digestion and Indigestion, Organic foods and more!

Health checks

To give you feedback about how the process is affecting your system you may check your weight, Body Mass Index , understood further through actual Body Fat Percentage readings. Blood pressure and pulse rate readings and urine analysis to determine your ongoing pH balance. You will also receive information on how to prepare ahead of time for your detox and how to ease back into your life after your detox retreat.

Personal sharing

Designated sharing groups provide a safe space in which to express what one is experiencing. As with anything on the retreat, it is not obligatory, though it is known to create a special bond, and promotes emotional support between course members.
One or more of the facilitators are always on-hand to provide individual support if required. Though, it more often becomes a sharing of interesting information or a new philosophical view point that is exchanged.

A clean slate to write your new life upon

For many of our clients we provide a life-changing experience. A place in which to turn around their relationships to food, their bodies, and themselves.

We are offering a thorough bodily cleanse, and an experiential training in how to go about these procedures without the daily assistance of "professionals". This is done with the highest degree of quality, in both the attention and information given.

The most educational Detox retreat available

The result is that we are an educational resource for those who wish to detox, and understand how to look, feel and live healthy. Our detox venue is of the highest standard, and luxuriously equipped, yet we are NOT a luxury "Health Farm" and people experience genuine warmth and compassion of fellow fasters and staff. You gain much more than learning how to detox and how to lose some extra weight.