New Delhi, 30 October 2024 – King Charles took a break on his way home from the royal tour of Australia and Samoa. With his wife Camilla spent three days in the exclusive resort Soukya, a Bangalore (India)famous for its yoga, wellness programs and Ayurvedic treatments.
According to what the Daily Maithere, His Majesty decided to break the long 35-hour return journey from the meeting of the Commonwealth heads of government in the South Pacific stopping in the renowned holistic centre: the exclusive 3,600 euro per week resort boasts customers such as Emma Thompson and the late South African archbishop Desmond Tutu. It is managed by Dr. Issac Mathaiwhich was the holistic advisor to King Charles for decades. The royals are “the least demanding of my guests“, Mathai confessed in the past.
The Soukya resort
Il Soukya center is set in 30 acres of lush tropical ornamental gardens and organic farmland, where fresh milk is milked daily from the herd of cows that graze there and home-grown vegetables are harvested to create delicious vegetarian meals (meat, sugar, alcohol and cell phones they are all bandits). Guests can enjoy a relaxing stayfeaturing yoga, meditation, massage and reflexology-based sessions ancient principles of Indian medicine. The resort also boasts of a daily morning dose of “Shirodhara“, a calming treatment that involves applying oil to the forehead to express one’s emotions, and massages with hot compresses soaked in herbs to relieve tension in the back and neck. The rooms are elegant but not sumptuous. It offers four-poster beds wooden, outdoor showers and hydrotherapy tubs.
The days and stay of the royals
The days of the king and queen began with morning yoga sessionsfollowed by breakfast and rejuvenating treatments before a healthy vegetarian lunch. After the midday meal, a second cycle of therapies follows which ends with one meditation session before dinner and with the lights turned off by 9pm.
Il Daily Mail underlines that the stay and the therapies have nothing to do with the oncological treatments to which the king is subjected. According to some sources, the spa break was simply theopportunity for Carlo to rest and regenerate after the very tiring trip abroad, during which the sovereign suspended, with the consent of his doctors, his cancer treatment. The tour was considered a success, so much so that doctors gave the green light for the king to undertake a normal one plans to travel abroad next yearsubject to checks on his health status.
The cost of the journey would be borne privately by the king and would be carried out with commercial flights.
