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SAMITIVEJ

HOSPITAL GROUP LAUNCHES

“AGING WELL CAMPAIGN”

CW: mentions of assault and misconduct
FOUNDED IN 1979, Samitivej Hospital is one of the leading
private hospital groups in Thailand. Today over 2,000 health
professionals, practicing in seven Samitivej hospitals, are treating
he breath is one of the most extraordinary patients for problems ranging from minor outpatient illnesses
superpowers that human beings have lost to major procedures. The main campuses, Samitivej Sukhumvit
sight of. It is a gift and an innate ability Hospital and Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital both have Samitivej
we are born with, yet one that we take Children’s Hospital inside. Samitivej Sukhumvit campus is
for granted. In the past, our ancestors located in the heart of Bangkok in Sukhumvit area, is recognised
knew how to modulate and train their breath to heal, as one of the leading private hospitals in Southeast Asia. Only 15
calm, and rejuvenate themselves, harnessing its full minutes away from Suvarnabhumi International Airport, there
potential. Somewhere between then and now, the is Samitivej Srinakarin campus where travelers can undergo
cacophonous and oversaturated experience we call personalised wellness consultations with dedicated doctors.
modern life has led to these breathing practices being After analyzing blood test results, a specialised “Vitamin-Drip”
largely forgotten. Last week, I was able to visit one of is prepared to recover and boost their immune system, allowing
the few remaining ashrams of conscious breathwork,
Lotus Wellness Bangkok. Here, I met a member of them to maintain optimal health while efficiently managing
my community who has been on a journey of raising both their busy business schedules and travel commitments.
her own consciousness as well as the consciousness Additionally, the hospital offers facial treatments under the
of those around her for over seven years. Her name supervision of professional doctors, ensuring
is Amora Pasricha, a breathwork facilitator and travellers can also rejuvenate and take care of both their
sound healer. face and body during the visit.. Apart from internationally
JCI-accredited professionalism, the hospital boosts a multi-
Walking up the steps into the studio, I instantly felt
my body relax. You could see the beautiful garden lingual workforce and provides international services such as
out in the yard through the large windows, and more interpreters and immigration services, offering the highest level
plants in each corner of the studio. Colourful sound of care and convenience for both foreigners and expatriates
bowls were spread out in a semi-circle, placed in living in Bangkok and the region. On September 12, 2023, the
front of a giant golden gong. Amora poured me a Royal Thai Consulate-General, Mumbai and Tourism Authority
glass of floral water and lit a candle before sitting of Thailand (TAT), Mumbai led an Indian delegation to Samitivej
down and beginning to play the sound bowls. Each Srinakarin Hospital to take a glimpse of luxurious experience
one resonated at a different frequency that se emed for “Aging Well” campaign with its aims to boost confidence
to flow seamlessly to the next one. I felt tingles from my scalp all the way down my from the inside and gain a better looking appearance for the
spine, as I closed my eyes and let any and all thoughts rush into my mind. When I point of all this? The experience showed me that life can change in seconds. There outside while maintaining a healthy life.
opened my eyes again, I felt grounded and ready to ask Amora about breathwork was so much suppressed within me at that time, that made me see people around me Samitivej Esthetics Institute has been providing premium
and her journey on this path. quality skin care and aesthetics surgery and treatment for years
who were suppressing too, because they didn’t know how to express these emotions.
“When we do breathwork, we send high vibrational prana energy to different parts Sometimes, we wait for things to get really bad, for us to hit rock bottom, or things to both domestic and international patients and striving towards
of our body. Where it hurts, is where the work needs to be done. Your kidney holds to get out of control to make that change. But I want to show people that we don’t the goal of becoming “Gateway of Beauty” domestically and
your fear, your guilt, and your shame. Your stomach holds your worries. Breathwork have to wait for those things to happen. We can change it right now. We can change internationally. samitivej hospitals.com
is a body hack that brings your brain waves to the theta stage, waves which are only it right here when we’re in a good, happy state.
normally produced during deep sleep. This is how it soothes the mind, helps you What are the main problems facing our community?
accept fear as your teacher, and allows you to finally learn from it.”
A lot of people, and a lot of my clients who come to me say they’re suffering from one
You used to be called Anmol - what made you decide to change your name, and of three things: stress, insomnia, or suppression. For example, they tell me, “I’m not
what significance does your new name hold? able to sleep, I can’t take sleeping pills anymore. Stress is a huge factor, right?” As
I went to Cambodia with three strangers in 2016, and when I introduced myself as human beings, we don’t even know it, but we are addicted to stress. We want things
Anmol to people that I was meeting, I didn’t feel very connected to it. It’s almost like to be stressed about because it makes us think we already have things that matter.
it was my name only because it was given to me. And then I came to think about it, Surrender is such a foreign language to us. The mind will say, “hell no, you’re not
and I wondered why it had to be my name? I didn’t choose this name. What energy do surrendering.” So we get stuck with the same friends talking about the same things,
I want to represent moving forward? I feel very connected with Amora, which means getting the same drinks, looking at the same people. And it’s just like waking up with
‘love’ in Italian. My Thai name is still Mo, so that stayed the same. the same hangover. I was in a loop: it was like everywhere I was going, people were
just talking about who’s getting married next. And I thought to myself, there’s got
Most of us want to be less stressed, less repressed, and emotionally regulate in
healthy ways. For someone like me, learning is enough. But what made you want to be more to life. I know that feeling of not knowing where to start, of knowing
to show people the ropes and become a breathwork facilitator? there’s more, but not knowing what to do about it. So, what I want to say here is, if
anyone reading this today feels like there is more to this life, I promise you that there
When I was in Cambodia doing my research for my thesis for a month, I was interviewing is. But it all starts with awareness of where to begin. We all live lives of ticking boxes,
a lot of people at that time as well. And then I came home, and I unpacked, and and we hold on to the identities and roles that are thrust upon us. We are chained to
packed again the next day. I went for a Vipassana, which consists of 10 days of silent these roles with the threat of ruining the family reputation. It takes great courage to INTERNATIONAL
meditation. So, it’s like two extreme worlds from talking all the time, staying in break that cycle, and create your own identity.
hostels, drinking, being with people; to nothing, just me, myself and I. Talking to a VIEW VIDEO ASSISTANT
tree felt like a privilege; being able to touch a tree was my love language for 10 days. Amora is a breathwork facilitator constantly on the move.
And then I came back to one of my close friend’s graduation ceremony after Vipassana. She is a part of Bangkok Breathwork Weekend, travelling Scan here to retrieve
That night, I didn’t feel like drinking alcohol because I’d just came out of that headspace. across the city from Ari to Thong Lo for private and special offers for
Something really traumatic happened that night to me - someone took advantage of group sessions. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6:30pm, you IV Vitamin Therapy
me and things went really wrong. The only way that I could sleep after that without can join her for a guided pranayama-based breathwork and Facial Treatment
reliving the experience was if I was practicing Vipassana. It’s almost as if the universe session at Lotus Wellness Bangkok, in Sathorn Soi 1.
forced me to practice what I learned. Otherwise, I would have just gone back to the From 11-15 December, she is organising a ‘Start Here’
world. And after that happened, it made me ask myself, what’s the point of just workshop on how our environment impacts us, how to
looking forward to every weekend to go drink with my friends? And what was the be self-aware, and how to hack our brains with theta
waves using breathwork.
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