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<\/p>\nA few years ago, Elisabetta, Caraccia who\u2019s originally from Italy, together with her partner of nineteen years, Hollywood actor Ray Stevenson, totally revamped a former run-down site close to Ses Salinas Natural Park, the area of special cultural and physical significance, into a boutique eco-retreat. \u201cWe just kind of stumbled across it\u201d she tells me. The spirit at The Boutique Hostal La Curandera De Salinas, celebrates nature, family, music, and at its core imbues the amazing couples love for life, the planet and its protection. As an environmental activist and member of the Ibiza Preservation Fund, Elisabetta has an innate understanding of this.<\/p>\n
How are you feeling?, I slowly ask her. \u201cOur three boys were eight, twelve and fifteen when it happened. Ray\u2019s essence is here with us in Ibiza more than ever\u201d. Her beloved partner, the incredible Hollywood actor and father passed away unexpectedly one year ago. Ray Stevenson portrayed\u00a0Baylan Skoll\u00a0in\u00a0the Ahsoka (Star Wars) television series, as well as appearing in many other action and adventure films. \u201cHe was our gentle giant. His essence was greater than life. In 2019, he tattooed on his forearm the symbol of the Celtic Warrior, with one foot in this world and one in the other. And he is managing exactly that. We still feel him, he\u2019s always with us, guiding us\u2026 he even helps us find a parking spot\u201d says inspirational Elisabetta with a giggle. \u201cWe are getting ready for a special celebration in his honour called\u00a0The Ray of Light Awards.\u00a0It was actually all Ray\u2019s idea, he wanted to create a film and TV festival in Ibiza\u201d.<\/p>\n
When Elisabetta first met Ray Stevenson who is Northern Irish-\u00a0English\u00a0by descent in\u00a02004, he was living in London but had been in Italy filming the historical drama TV series\u00a0Rome (produced by the BBC and HBO). \u201cI was his apartment landlady at the time\u201d she said smiling. The encounter led to them becoming proud parents to three boys. \u201cWe knew we didn\u2019t want to raise our kids in a city, but we didn\u2019t want to be isolated. Ibiza was like the missing piece of the puzzle. By the time he was four, Sebastiano was speaking four languages! Italian with me, English with his father, Spanish with his friends and he went to a French school\u201d.<\/p>\n
Hostal Salinas\u00a0has become an extension of their family home, a space for positive affirmations and is a shining example of creativity and social responsibility on the island. \u201cWe gave it a whole face lift. There\u2019s eleven bedrooms and each was carefully reinvented with recycling and up-cycling by\u00a0eleven artists chosen out of thirty local artists, during an up-cycling event competition in November 2021. They have the same mindset as us,\u00a0respect for Mother Nature\u2026 putting human creativity and talents at her service\u201d.\u00a0The future existence gifted to the unwanted and old broken objects evokes a refreshing and soulful experience at the Ibiza retreat – not to mention the kids play area and stream pool.<\/p>\n
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n addition to sustainable accommodation, Elisabetta\u2019s place is a beautiful community with a wonderful menu of healing services such as deep massage, reflexology, Reiki, and sound healing to therapeutic tarot, astrology readings, shamanic healing, and yoga classes. During the day, guests can enjoy a relaxing meditative experience inside the gardens sacred Tipi and by night some live oriental music accompanied by the best cous cous you\u2019ll ever try, by Fatima Boughaza, the amazing chef that comes directly from kitchen of the King of Morocco.\u00a0Elisabetta tells me about the women\u2019s meditation circle she inherited over ten years ago. \u201cI started to sit in\u00a0Valerie\u2019s\u00a0circle once a week. It was one Wednesday when she was found in bed, with a big smile on her face.. her hands up in the air.. she had flown away. The following Wednesday us women met in her Tipi at Santa Gertrudis like.. we can\u2019t let this circle go, just because Valerie is gone. Since then, the circle is under my supervision. Every Wednesday at 12 noon, it\u2019s for free, no need to reserve, we are open to everyone and from this year, even to men. It\u2019s beautiful to feel the balance in between male and female energies in a circle, when the egos are removed from the equation\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Anthropologist, busy mother, retreat founder, island sister, founder of The Ray Of Light Awards and so much more, loves to\u00a0welcome people from all walks of life into her holistic bubble, although, she\u2019s more connected to native American indigenous people, in comparison to westernised societies and their excessive buying culture. On the challenges of running a sustainable business and lifestyle she says \u201cI love the planet, of course, I have travelled so much, but I admit it\u2019s challenging. If you want organic ingredients from local suppliers, often it\u2019s not one that can bring it, you have to contact several, so it can be more expensive. It\u2019s sad when fruit and vegetables are transported across the world; we have raw ingredients our island produces. Sure,\u00a0it\u2019s easier to buy from big distributors and big corporations, compared to finding a local producer or craftsperson and perhaps waiting for your piece to be made, but it pays off to be patient. The vibration it carries is incomparable to something mass produced.\u00a0Ibiza is lucky to have so many wonderful Artisans and they all struggle to survive…like all Artisans around the world. If people would source from what\u2019s around them, we\u2019d create a better environment for everyone\u201d.<\/p>\n
I heard a whisper that Ibiza veterans often say they feel the real essence of the island at Hostal Salinas, which can be hard to come by in the South\u2026I could not agree more.<\/p>\n\n\t\t