Time Out in Sri Lanka

Recharging your batteries is a necessity with today's lifestyles. Recently I went for a battery recharge, in Sri Lanka at the Barberyn Ayurveda Resort. Not having taken a such a break in over 20 years just to relax alone, rejuvenate my mind, body and spirit, I can say it was well worth the time. This is the perfect beach to learn to just 'BE' again.

Barberyn Resort is on the beach where the Tsunami devastated the beach and all surrounding life. But they survived, and rebuilt, making it a perfect place to think of impossible things and contemplate life.

Relaxing on this beach contemplating, just where I am heading, what I am doing and why, lead me to learn many things about myself that might have just slipped past my rattled brain and been lost in everyday minutia.


At night I slept snug in a mosquito-netted bed, fit for a princess, dreaming of impossible things only to wake up and hear Alice laughing, "There's no use in trying ...One can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." So back to sleep I went to dream of more impossible things.... I spent most of my week sleeping, finally succumbing to the sleep I really needed after the past stressful years. We all need this, but few of us take it -seriously.

The Barberyn Resort takes you seriously; prescribing Ayurveda treatments such as massages, acupuncture, facials, and cook all your meals according to your health needs and your preferences. Its' all inclusive. Barberyn is the perfect place to go where they take care of you while you're taking care of yourself.

Reflecting on my week of relaxation, I realize "you do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and embrace them with courage, faith and hope. (*Thomas Merton) ...and remember to 'ride things out'...