Wellness Wonder Woman, Karina Stewart At Kamalaya

Karina Stewart is a globally respected authority on holistic health, healing and wellbeing and founder of the award-winning Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary in Thailand.  An acclaimed speaker, and innovator, Karina has more than 40 years of experience in the study and practice of diverse Asian healing and spiritual traditions. Karina has spent her entire life studying and learning about health from both Eastern and Western philosophies, so she is incredible informed and literate and the ideal person to know what the world needs now, in 2023.  She has a Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Yo San University in California, with training across structural therapies including Hellerwork and Cranial-Sacral Manipulation, yoga and Taoist philosophy and practice. She has a B.A. from Princeton University in Cultural Anthropology with a focus on Asian religions. Karina and her John Stewart conceived and created Kamalaya Wellness  Sanctuary  in 2005, after meeting, falling in love, then relocating from the Himlayas.  Here she opens up to Renae about Eastern vs Western healing philosophies, the one thing every western person needs to master, and how and why everyone should invest in a retreat in 2023.  Kamalaya has won more than 47 awards, most recently being named ‘Worldwide Health & Wellness Destination of the Year’ at the World Spa & Wellness Awards 2022 in London.