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A health-conscious mother and daughter duo have revealed how they built one of Sydney’s most exclusive wellness clubs from the ground up after becoming disillusioned by how hard it was to locate good holistic services in one place.
Lara Rose, 48 and her daughter Isabelle Lakin, 21, from Seaforth on Sydney’s North Shore are the founders of Tsavo – a rejuvenation centre in Mosman which offers guests the opportunity to ‘switch off’ and heal by listening to their body’s needs.
The women told FEMAIL they came up with the idea to build their own rejuvenation clinic after they found themselves on yet another disappointing wellness holiday after travelling the world for years to find treatments for Isabelle’s chronic illness.
Lara Rose, 48 and her daughter Isabelle Lakin, 21, from Mosman on Sydney’s north shore are the founders of Tsavo – a rejuvenation centre which offers guests the opportunity to ‘switch off’ and heal by listening to their body’s needs
The duo use all of the treatments available at the centre – but say three minutes of cryotherapy can fix everything from arthritis to a gnarly hangover
Isabelle suffered with the debilitating symptoms of Lyme disease for years including exhaustion and debilitating explosions of pain – only to be told by doctors in Australia she was ‘making it up’.
While doctors in South Africa and America confirmed the diagnosis before giving her a doom and gloom outlook which led her to shut down and ‘stop looking after herself’.
‘I was so sick of hearing from these people about how bad it was and all of the horror stories. Ok, they have seen bad things happen but I was like that’s not going to happen to me,’ Isabelle said.
‘I got over it and lost faith in trying to help myself get better.’
But it wasn’t just the negative health forecasts which caused Isabelle to stop chasing a cure or even relief from her symptoms: it was the charlatans the family came up against.
‘There is so much bullsh*t and fluff out there when it comes to treatments. I didn’t know why feeling good had to be so hard and was sick of all of the fake hocus pocus jumbo,’ Isabelle added.
Lara, right, is from Kenya – so the country has a special spot in her heart, and that of her children, Henry 23, and Isabelle
This experience paved the road for Tsavo, as the pair and their highly trained staff are armed with extensive knowledge and experience with what works, what doesn’t and what makes things worse.
Lara said they would often be charged $500 for an appointment to be asked to ‘tell their story’ and to be given the same tired information, if anything, in return.
‘We were crossing the road to see another of these $600 a visit specialists one day when Isabelle, who was in her late teens, told me she couldn’t walk. Her knees were frozen and she had shooting pain.
‘We were in the middle of the road – it was a traumatic experience for us,’ Lara said.
It took years for Isabelle to get back on the wellness bandwagon – now they are on the same page, but the youngster gets a lot of sway.
Cryotherapy is Isabelle’s favourite – the young woman suffered with extreme Lyme disease symptoms for years before becoming well and embracing health
‘She is the harshest critic, as soon as I bring something new in she is the first to call it out,’ Lara said.
Before Isabelle added: ‘I took me getting really burnt to get like this. I want each new machine to be proven and I trust my core feelings about it.’
But it isn’t just Isabelle’s sickness, which has since become very manageable, that has influenced the business which offers hypobaric treatment, lymphatic massages, cryotherapy and an infrared sauna, among other services.
Every touch has some kind of personal meaning to the women, the very African theme stems from Lara’s childhood in remote Kenya.
Tsavo has a lymphatic draining massage treatment, left, and a hypobaric chamber, right
The mother of two ‘grew up wild’ with a pet monkey and a wooden hut.
The town Tsavo is in the foothills of Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, a snow-capped giant in the middle of the sweltering savannah.
‘It seemed fitting, from the cryo of the top of the mountain to the sauna on the plains, leaning on nature and our environment for healing,’ she said.
‘We choose to live in the city but we shouldn’t have to worry about not having access to the right magnetic fields or environments for wellness, that’s what we offer here.
The business logo is the acacia – the most recognisable African tree.
‘To me that is the tree of life,’ Lara explained.
The women are excited they have been able to provide science backed treatments in such a relaxing space.
Adding that the university students who work at the centre often head in to ‘soak up the magic’ when they are stressed or need somewhere to do their homework
‘You see people walk in and their shoulders drop,’ Isabelle said.
And they are happy their patients no longer have to suffer.
‘We had this 80-year-old lady come in and try our Airpod and cryo, she had terrible arthritis and was in a lot of pain,’ Lara said.
‘She ended up coming three days in a row afterwards, with plants from her garden, and explained she loves gardening but had been in too much pain to do any until she came to us.’
The plants now fill the reception area of the centre.
Not only does it make clients feel good, but their families don’t have to worry about whether their loved ones will ever enjoy a quality of life again.
‘We see the mums come in here, with their kids, and we hold space for them – sometimes for ninety minutes while their children have treatments.
Isabelle pictured on safari – her mum’s African roots can be seen throughout the clinic
‘These mums aren’t here to spend on themselves but they aren’t just going to drop and run when it comes to their children either.’
Lara remembers worrying Isabelle ‘wouldn’t make it through year 12’ after she got so sick, but their tireless searching for a cure made Isabelle feel like a burden.
‘It isn’t a good feeling, it is horrible to watch your family go through that,’ she said, mentioning her older brother Henry, who is 23.
But Tsavo isn’t just for the sick, Isabelle said.
Their therapies cater for anyone who wants to feel better.
‘We had a party of boys come in after a 21st, looking worse for wear, we got them sorted out and they were fresh in no time.’
Isabelle says cryotherapy is her secret hangover cure – with the three-minute treatment making her feel like new every time.
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