![]() ![]() For this session we simply lie on the ground cocooned in soft blankets while a sound healer walks around the room singing and playing gongs, wind chimes and who knows what else. I enjoy the post-dinner sound healing session much more. ![]() I've always been a shy singer and so just say mine, and blush a little when everyone joins me in chanting it over and over again. There's not that much free time though, as we're kept busy with workshops, excursions, spa treatments, talks and meditations.Ī few days later, on throat chakra day, I struggle my way through a throat workshop, where we have to sing our affirmations out loud followed by everyone joining in. Technology use is not allowed and I struggle with no email and Facebook access, but I slowly get used to it and spend more time walking around the gardens perusing the huge quantity of books on display in the library writing in my journal I even become a regular at the apothecary, a staffed haven of garden-picked medicinal herbs that we are encouraged to use to craft our own teas and herbal elixirs. To a sceptic like me, healing is a strong word and for the first few days I find I'm a little resistant. "I wanted to create a place where people could heal." "I wanted to help others and so the Aja dream sprouted," she explains one morning when we meet in the Om room (the aptly named meditation room) for our morning meditation and daily chakra introduction. Magick spent decades studying plant medicine and spiritual philosophies, first looking to heal herself (she was a sick child and sought out traditional remedies after not finding respite in modern medicine), and then to help heal others. And it's not a holiday in a traditional sense – more of a process – a regeneration of "self", founded around the seven chakras (energy systems on the body that are considered to connect to an individual's spiritual state). It's not an ashram because the Magick Process – the trademarked name for the wellness program offered here – is not based around one religious affinity instead, it's a mix of many philosophies from various ancient cultures. It's not a wellness retreat in the sense that it's all massages and pool time (although don't get me wrong, we have hours worth of treatments throughout the week and I do dip into the ozonized-water swimming pool). ![]() We'll be eating meals built around the philosophy of "living food" for the next seven days, with much of it coming from the biodynamic gardens, (almost all of the more than 200 plants growing on the nine-hectare property are edible).Īja Malibu is like no place I've ever been to. Everything tastes incredible and for a while I forget that it's organic, raw and completely plant-based. There are three kinds of seed-based cheeses served alongside sprouted buckwheat crackers chunky tomato tartare topped with nettle pesto and beet olive oil avocado-nettle smash inside little lettuce cups and velvety cacao and seed energy balls. ![]()
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