It is said that after a visit to Kerala one is never the same.Ingeborg Schoener, the German television and film actress stands testimony to that.
The actress was recognized by a fellow guest at Coconut Bay resort, located at Mulloor where she has checked in for an intense ayurveda treatment. The word quickly got around and eyes follow her everywhere. She is touching 77, but her grace and charm holds one captive.
Schoener, who has been resort-hoping in Kerala for the past eight years, said she has been cured of intense knee pain by ayurveda treatments.
"A friend of mine, a stewardess with a foreign airline, mentioned about the place to me and I was intrigued. I've stayed at Somatheeram and Manaltheeram along the Vizhinjam coast and there is nothing like it in the world. I hear that there are plans afoot to develop this area into a port. It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. The last time I felt so strongly about something was when the Berlin Wall was demolished. I was on a bus touring with a theatre company but I broke down when I heard the news," said the actress who has given lectures on ayurveda to other Germans at trade marts at the behest of her travel company. She said her hope resides on the fact that everything happens slowly in India.
"Maybe it will take many more years to build a port. But who knows how many more years I can visit this beautiful coast."
Schoener, who seldom leaves the resort premises because she believes that could hamper the effects of the treatment, steps out only to buy a pant-suit material from a local shop at Powerhouse Road and gets them stitched at Duron, one among the leading tailors in Kerala. "I used to pay 150 EU three years ago now I pay almost double, but that is still cheap compared to bespoke shops in Germany."
About the bit that changed Schoener after her tryst with Kerala, she said she lives a life as prescribed by ayurveda doctors.
"I make ghee at home and I have stopped using oil to fry food. I do my yoga, drink a glass of hot water first thing in the morning and buy one-year worth of ayurvedic medicines. I have stopped allopathic treatments. I have travelled the world but I am now at a time when my voyages are inward. Thanks to ayurveda, I feel fantastic."
Source:TNN
The actress was recognized by a fellow guest at Coconut Bay resort, located at Mulloor where she has checked in for an intense ayurveda treatment. The word quickly got around and eyes follow her everywhere. She is touching 77, but her grace and charm holds one captive.
Schoener, who has been resort-hoping in Kerala for the past eight years, said she has been cured of intense knee pain by ayurveda treatments.
"A friend of mine, a stewardess with a foreign airline, mentioned about the place to me and I was intrigued. I've stayed at Somatheeram and Manaltheeram along the Vizhinjam coast and there is nothing like it in the world. I hear that there are plans afoot to develop this area into a port. It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. The last time I felt so strongly about something was when the Berlin Wall was demolished. I was on a bus touring with a theatre company but I broke down when I heard the news," said the actress who has given lectures on ayurveda to other Germans at trade marts at the behest of her travel company. She said her hope resides on the fact that everything happens slowly in India.
"Maybe it will take many more years to build a port. But who knows how many more years I can visit this beautiful coast."
Schoener, who seldom leaves the resort premises because she believes that could hamper the effects of the treatment, steps out only to buy a pant-suit material from a local shop at Powerhouse Road and gets them stitched at Duron, one among the leading tailors in Kerala. "I used to pay 150 EU three years ago now I pay almost double, but that is still cheap compared to bespoke shops in Germany."
About the bit that changed Schoener after her tryst with Kerala, she said she lives a life as prescribed by ayurveda doctors.
"I make ghee at home and I have stopped using oil to fry food. I do my yoga, drink a glass of hot water first thing in the morning and buy one-year worth of ayurvedic medicines. I have stopped allopathic treatments. I have travelled the world but I am now at a time when my voyages are inward. Thanks to ayurveda, I feel fantastic."
Source:TNN
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