A New Definition of Spa Therapy

Amy Reiley

Planning a trip to London and in need of something more than your normal body treatment? The Metropolitan’s Como Shambhala Urban Escape program offers a unique approach to holistic healing. In addition to shiatsu, reflexology, and other bodywork, the boutique hotel offers one-on-one intuitive counseling sessions with guide Susan King. King, a self-discovered intuitive who has been training her gift since the age of nineteen, brings an ability to ‘heal people’s emotions’ to the bodywork-based Urban Escape.

King’s one-hour sessions deal with what she calls, ‘the reality of people’s lives’ King guides clients through their current emotional state to help them find answers within. Sessions will not shy away from the unpleasant, but they do not focus on the negative. Instead, King’s work helps to balance that which is weighing on her clients’ minds in the present with the days and months to come. Not surprisingly, many one-time hotel guests turn into regular clients, working with King to reduce the stresses of their daily lives. For those looking to travel a little closer to home, King does periodic residencies with the Como Shambhala Parrot Cay, Turks and Caicos. For more information visit www.metropolitan.co.uk or www.como.bz.