The Samui Dharma Healing Center originally began as The Samui Language Intercultural Center founded in 1988 by Hillary and Greg Hitt. Classes in English and Thai languages, Yoga, Meditation, water movement were taught, along with nutritional and psycho/spiritual counseling.

In 1994 the fasting program was incorporated into our work by Shelley Fines, a guru in the fasting world. Shelley trained Greg and Hillary on the principles of fasting and after 6 months left Koh Samui to open a fasting program in Australia. Hillary and Greg then founded the Samui Dharma Healing Center, according to Buddhist principles and began offering a full course program with classes taught throughout the week. Over the years the program has changed and developed with more classes offered. Many of the classes are regularly updated with recent research.

Presently the Samui Dharma Healing Center is directed by Hillary Hitt, who has over 30 years of extensive experience in designing, directing and teaching Alternative Health Education and Self-Healing programs.

She has been a Nutritional Counselor in hospitals, clinics, seminars and health food stores during the 1970's and 1980's. She has utilized fasting since 1994 as a form of healing herself and helping others heal themselves.

Hillary was a student of the now deceased Venerable Buddhist Monk Scholar, Koon Ajahn Buddhadasa Bikkhu. She has been working on translations of several of the great teacher's Dharma texts. She teaches The Dharma of the Theravada tradition and teaches the Anapanasati (Mindfulness With Breathing) Meditation practice taught at Suan Mok, The Garden of Liberation, located in Chaiya, Surat Thani.

Hillary has a Masters in Education and Counseling from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her emphasis is Inner Child Work and Rebirth through fasting and cleansing, She designs curriculums for individuals and groups according to Buddhist principles in alternative health. She is also an Iridologist, Reiki Master, Yoga teacher, Qi Kung teacher, Raw Foods Chef, Foot Reflexologist and devoted swimmer, runner, hiker and bicyclist.

Since Hillary has been living on Koh Samui, she has offered classes in both thai and English languages, translating books, counseling and helping over 3000 people of thai and foreign nationalities; teaching calsses in culture, nutrition, fasting, Yoga, Meditation, Iridology, water movement and Dharma.

The Samui Dharma Healing Center is known for:

Being one of the few spiritual fasting retreats in the world according to Buddhist philosophy, believing in fasting and detoxification with colonic irrigation for holistic health and  spiritual transformation.

It is known for excelling in personal care, while providing personal counseling in nutrition and psycho/spiritual issues;  encompassing an holistic Buddhist philosophy of  positive change and spiritual transformation.

It is known for its alkalizing Chinese Herbal formula that promotes and supports fasting and cleansing, liver detoxification, fasting for weight loss, while eliminating parasites and establishing all over body, mind and spirit rejuvenation.

It is known for its simple and beneficial colonic irrigation procedure or high colonic irrigation and its promotion of colonic cleansing maintenance as a home healing method.

It is known for its emphasis on exercise, including walking, water movement, swimming, hiking, bicycling, Tai Chi and Yoga as a way of life and renewal of body, mind and spirit.