Inside Sophie Choudry's Reset in the Alps: 'It’s Just Me, the Lake, and the Silence'

Each year, when the city begins to feel too loud, Sophie Choudry boards a flight that takes her to a lakeside village in southern Austria. “It’s literally silent,” she says. “You can drink water straight from the tap. The air feels cleaner than anything I’ve ever breathed.”

For the last seven years — since 2017 — the singer, actor and television personality has made a ritual of spending a week at VIVAMAYR, a medical wellness clinic in Maria Wörth, a postcard-pretty town by Lake Wörthersee, whose population barely crosses 2,000. The medical health resort is an hour-and-a-half away from Ljubljana, Slovenia, and is surrounded by rolling greens, mirrored lakes and Alpine calm — a far cry from the airports and spotlights that define the rest of Choudry’s year.

“I started going when I was dealing with terrible acid reflux that was making me lose my voice,” she says. “Being a singer, that was terrifying. But when I got there, I realised I was eating a lot of foods I was intolerant to. Once I changed that, it literally changed my life.”

Inside Choudry’s Reset Routine

● Wake-up: 6 a.m.

● No caffeine, sugar, gluten, or alcohol

● Aqua biking and Pilates

● Icarus VR training (a flight-simulation workout)

● Hypoxy (altitude) training for cell renewal

● Mineral infusions & osteopathy treatments

● Early dinner, lights out by 9 p.m.

A Few of Her Favourite Things

What began as a doctor-prescribed reset has since become a yearly ritual of stillness. At VIVAMAYR, guests surrender their caffeine and late nights in exchange for long walks, infusions, and early dinners that follow the body’s circadian rhythm. “You’re up by six, you eat your last meal by 6.30 p.m., and by nine you’re ready to pass out,” says Choudry. “You come out of it feeling like your system’s been rebooted.”

Beyond the regimen, it’s the Austrian way of living that keeps her coming back. “Everyone cycles or rows to work, the water is clean enough to drink from the tap, and there’s no noise, not even traffic,” she says. “After days of quiet, coming back to a dandiya event with 10,000 people was quite a shock to the system.”

When she does step out of the retreat, Choudry spends her time exploring Velden, a lakeside town often described as the Monaco of Austria. “In summer, the yachts are out, the restaurants are buzzing,” she says. Her picks include Falkensteiner Schloss Hotel (“a former castle with a bar overlooking the lake”), Restaurant Rose, and Fischerhaus Moosburg, which serves lake-fresh fish “so fresh they probably caught it minutes ago.”

She also loves browsing around Klagenfurt, the nearest big town. “It’s got lovely local stores — Biogena for vitamins, Sonnentor for herbal teas and organic food, and Humanic for great trainers,” Choudry says. Her last stop before the airport was Hohen Wirt Hotel in Keutschach am See, “where I had one of my healthiest, most peaceful meals surrounded by green hills.”

At the end of her stay, Choudry’s favourite ritual is the simplest one — a quiet morning walk by the water before her flight home. “It’s just me, the lake, and the silence. That’s when I know my reset’s complete.”

Choudry’s Travel Non-Negotiables

● Oversized shawl and tracksuit in hand luggage

● AirPods and iPad with a pre-downloaded show

● Miniature skincare kit

● Home-packed healthy snacks

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