Consultation
Days 1–2
A wellness consultation, bio-impedance and stress assessment, and a programme assigned across the disciplines.
- Multidisciplinary consultation
- Stress and body-composition assessment
- Programme assigned
Burnout & sleep, 10 nights
The programme this house is genuinely best at — and the one we recommend instead of its detox.
From · sharingUS$5,630
From · singleUS$6,780
Per person. Sole occupancy is not half a double, and we would rather you saw both now.
- Length
- 10 nights
- Group
- Max 14
- Intensity
- gentle
- Lengths
- 7 · 10 · 14 · 21 nights
- Discipline
- Traditional Thai medicine
What this actually is
The programme
A wellness consultation on arrival assigns the programme, and a multidisciplinary team — traditional Chinese medicine, naturopathy, Ayurveda, Thai medicine and psychology — delivers it. Twenty years of running the same structure gives it an unusually long track record.
The house is built around a cave that Buddhist monks used for meditation retreat, and the meditation content is taken seriously rather than added on. The site is steep; ask for a room near the centre if stairs matter.
Intensity: Gentle — nothing dramatic. Every programme here carries this line, because "restorative" and "demanding" are sold with the same photographs.
Read this part twice
Who this is for, and who it is wrong for
Read the right-hand column as carefully as the left. It is the half that decides whether this is a good fortnight or a wasted one, and it is published before the price for that reason.
✓Book this if
- Sustained overwork that sleep no longer repairs
- Anyone who wants a multidisciplinary team rather than a single tradition
- Guests who will use the meditation content rather than skip it
- A first Asian wellness programme
✗Do not book this if
- Anyone with significant mobility limitation — the site is steep and stepped
- Guests who came for the detox; we do not sell the colon hydrotherapy and we will tell you why
- October to December, the island’s genuine wet season
The shape of it
Day by day
Days shift according to how you respond — that is the point of a daily review. This is the structure, not a timetable.
The work
Days 3–8
Daily treatments across TCM, Thai bodywork and naturopathy, with meditation, breathwork and a structured sleep protocol.
- Daily treatments
- Meditation in the monks’ cave
- Structured sleep protocol
Home
Days 9–10
A written continuation plan and a follow-up consultation at six weeks.
- Written plan
- Six-week follow-up
A day, hour by hour
What a Tuesday actually looks like
Four to five hours are fixed. The meditation content is the part guests skip and later regret skipping.
- Wake
- Meditation in the monks' caveTwenty minutes. This is the oldest thing on the property.
- Yoga or qi gong
- Breakfast
- Treatment blockTwo treatments across TCM, Thai bodywork and naturopathy, per your assignment.
- Lunch
- Free — or a consultation
- Breathwork or a second treatment
- Sunset sit above the sea
- Dinner, finished early
Where you stay
Kamalaya
The anchor property of Asian wellness travel — built around a cave that Buddhist monks used for meditation retreat, and the house most responsible for the modern programme format.
KamalayaLaem Set, the south coast · Thailand
The site is steep and built into a hillside, which is beautiful and hard work — ask for a room near the centre if stairs are an issue. The detox programmes include colon hydrotherapy, which we do not sell and whose evidence base is poor; the sleep and burnout programmes are the ones we would actually recommend.
The full profile →Who looks after you
Supervision, by qualification and number
You will not find a physician's name on this site. Staff move, and a page that names one is a page that quietly goes out of date — worse, it invites you to book a person no house can promise will be on shift. Assignment is made on arrival, from your examination, at every serious property here.
- Clinical supervision
- A very large practitioner team by the standards of this market, across dedicated general, traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic and consultation rooms.
- The team around you
- Programmes open with a wellness consultation and a bio-impedance assessment, and the treatment plan is written from those rather than sold in advance.
- Consultations
- An opening consultation, a mid-programme review and a departure session with a written plan.
Your consultation is with our clinical desk, not a salesperson. The free call before you book is about whether this programme is right for you at all — and often enough it ends with a recommendation to go shorter, later, or somewhere we do not sell.
Counted, so you can compare
What is actually in it
Most of this industry publishes inclusions as a bulleted list, which cannot be compared between two programmes at two prices. These can.
- 22+hours of treatment
Across naturopathic, traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic modalities, assigned from the consultation.
- 4hours of consultation
Wellness assessment, bio-impedance, nutrition and a life-coaching session.
- 70+practitioners on staff
Naturopaths, nurses, nutritionists, TCM practitioners, physiotherapists and yoga teachers — the largest clinical team in this atlas.
- 30+classes a week
Yoga, qi gong, meditation, fitness and the seminar programme, all included and all optional.
The money
Prices, by season and occupancy
Both occupancies in every band, before you enquire rather than after. Sole occupancy is not half a double and never has been — publishing only the sharing rate quotes the minority of this market and surprises the rest.
The length the burnout protocols are written for, and the one we book most.
| Season | Sharing | Single |
|---|---|---|
| Low seasonOctober to December | US$5,600 | US$6,800 |
| ShoulderApril to June and September | US$6,400 | US$7,700 |
| High seasonJanuary to March, July and August | US$7,400 | US$9,000 |
- Low season. Samui runs on its own monsoon calendar and takes its rain when the rest of Thailand is dry. Rates fall sharply and the island empties.
- Shoulder. Hot, bright and quiet. Very good value for a treatment stay.
- High season. The dry northern-winter months and the European summer. The island is busy and the rates reflect it.
What the price is. Per person for ten nights, including the room, all programme meals, the treatment hours below, the wellness consultation and bio-impedance assessment, the full daily class timetable and return airport transfers — which the house includes for every guest on a wellness programme. Flights quoted separately.
Illustrative, and held for seven days once we have quoted you in writing. Nothing on this site costs more for booking it through us.
The detail
What the price covers
Included
- Ten nights
- Arrival consultation and assessments
- Daily treatments per the assigned programme
- All meals
- Meditation, yoga and breathwork
- Airport transfers from Samui
- Six-week follow-up
Not included
- Flights and insurance — flights quoted separately
- Colon hydrotherapy, which we do not include or recommend
- Treatments outside the assigned programme
Cancellation. Free to 30 days before arrival. Half between 30 and 14 days. Inside 14 days we hold the full amount as a credit for twelve months rather than keeping it — a cancelled treatment is usually a health reason.
Questions
The ones we are actually asked
Why not the detox programme?
Because its core is colon hydrotherapy and juice fasting, and the evidence for the former is poor while the risks — electrolyte disturbance, dehydration, rarely perforation — are real. The supervised fasting has a better case. If you want a detox we will discuss it with the physician on site, but we will not sell you the colonics.
How steep is steep?
Genuinely steep. The property is built into a hillside above the sea and some rooms involve a hundred-odd steps. Say so at booking and they will place you centrally; do not discover it on arrival.