I’m lying on the lawn listening to a series of crystal bowls being played by a striking Brazilian woman. It’s 7.30am at Sun Ranch, a hotly anticipated new eco-lodge set on 22 hectares of former farmland in the Byron Bay hinterland, and I’m experiencing the coastal ranch’s “lucky star ritual”, which also includes a cacao ceremony and breath-work class.

It’s designed to raise my vibrations before I head off for a wood-fired sauna and ice bath by the dam, then wander up to the hillside Pool Club for another type of “healing”: drinking margaritas in the sun.