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Who’s behind Alkaline Bathing

We measure instead of making promises. Four years now, under the palms.

Alkaline Bathing is the brand, Bathtime the bathhouse on Koh Phangan, Gunther Stange the Bathmaster — and behind them a small team who are bathers themselves. What we pass on is experiential knowledge from more than 1,000 guided baths. No medical advice, no promises of healing.

Koh Phangan, Thailand
Eight pools under a palm-leaf roof
For over five years

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The Bathtime bathhouse team dressed in white in front of palm trees and a bamboo fence — The team at the Bathtime bathhouse, Koh Phangan

Who guides you

Gunther Stange. Bathmaster, not a doctor.

My path into the water wasn’t a straight one. Five stations, each of which left something behind — above all, a feel for it.

Gunther Stange, close-up in a white shirt — Gunther Stange — Bathmaster at the Bathtime bathhouse

Training
Electronics technician
Anyone who works with electricity learns early on: measure first, then touch. The rule has stuck — these days with test strips and a thermometer instead of a multimeter.
Entrepreneur
IT entrepreneur
Building systems, troubleshooting, documenting processes. I still bring that way of thinking into every bath.
On the road
Coaching and world travel
Working with people, then the journey. The question of how the body really regenerates travelled with me — and in the end it brought me to an island.
Growth
Personal development
Years of personal transformation: coaching, my path as a psychonaut and my work with Amanita muscaria — combined with the knowledge of modern psychology and trauma processing. That is what turned the technician into someone who can hold space: the Gunther of today.
Today
Koh Phangan, for over five years
This is where the Bathtime bathhouse came into being — and the protocol I pass on in the webinar, the Homebathing course and the Bathmaster training.

Who else is there

A bathhouse needs more than a Bathmaster. The team.

The people who work at the bathhouse are bathers themselves. The roles as they are today — without titles nobody needs.

Bathmaster

Gunther

Runs the bathhouse, guides guests in the water himself and leads the webinar, the course and the training. Bathmaster, not a doctor.

Gunther’s No. 1

Melanie

Takes the load off Gunther — with organisation, private appointments and support.

The voices you’ll hear on the phone

Steffi & Lisa

They hold the organisation together behind the scenes and look after our Homebathing and Bathmaster customers. When your phone rings and a warm voice asks how you’re getting on in the water — that’s Steffi or Lisa.

Kitchen · our good soul

Aye

The good soul behind our food and drink: 5-star food, every dish freshly prepared — teas, juices and the alkaline meal by the pool.

Female point of contact · Women’s Day

Victoria

Female point of contact who studied Transpersonal Psychology. She hosts the Full Moon Women’s Day — the bathing day that is open to women only.

External shaman

Vadim

Accompanies transformations and deep journeys when they’re needed. Our spiritual teacher and companion — a partner in the Amanita Academy.

Therapy dog

Bonny

Our dog — a therapy dog and support at the bathing spot. Anyone who bathes for a few days gets to know her.

The bathhouse team in front of the bamboo fence at the bathhouse — **At the bathhouse** — taken on the Bathtime grounds

How it began

From juice fasting to the bathhouse. Five stations, one trail.

The story of Alkaline Bathing wasn’t dreamt up at a desk. It’s a search that began with juices and ended in eight pools under a palm-leaf roof — for now.

How bathing works

Juice fasting
It began with a simple question: what happens when the body gets a break from digesting? Juice fasting was the first answer — and the first hint that taking things away does more than adding them.
Naturopathy
From there into naturopathy — and to the question of how the body gets rid of acids.
Personal transformation and psychology
With Amanita muscaria and the Amanita Academy: personal transformation and psychology as part of the path — and the realisation that deacidification doesn’t only happen in the body.
The teachers
Dr. Peter Jentschura, Kurt Tepperwein, Bioleo, the Polish bath practitioner Robert and several other bath practitioners gave the practice a system. We still go by it today — and measure for ourselves, every bathing day.
The bathhouse
The search became a bathhouse: Bathtime on Koh Phangan. Today, eight pools under a palm-leaf roof, where people have been bathing for four years.

What we hold to

Three values. None of them is a slogan.

They don’t hang on a wall; they’re part of the routine of every bathing day — from the code word to the closing reflection.

Radical simplicity

Water, carbonates, time. No device, no supplement, no twenty-step programme. What you need fits into a tub — and into three levers you can measure yourself.

pH · temperature · time

Personal responsibility

You adjust the pH and temperature with us, and you decide when to get out. We hold the space and tell you what we see. The responsibility stays with you — a hundred per cent, not ninety.

100% yours

Care

Smudging, house rules, code word, closing reflection: for us, care isn’t a feeling but a routine that’s the same every day. That’s exactly why you can let go in the water.

Sacred Care

What we count

Four numbers. No promises.

We don’t make claims, we count.

8poolson Koh Phangan, under a palm-leaf roof

4yearswith guests in the water

1,000+bathsguided

>20Bathmastersin training

What we don’t count: effects. We measure pH, temperature and time — not what a bath has changed in you. You observe that yourself, with photos, your weight and your own log.

If you still have questions

Write to us. We reply personally.

A question about the bathhouse, the course or the training — every message reaches us, not a ticket system.

Get in touch

Use the form, or email us directly at info@alkaline-bathing.com. For stays in Thailand, there’s a separate enquiry with your preferred date.

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We measure instead of making promises. Four years now, under the palms.

Gunther Stange. Bathmaster, not a doctor.

Electronics technician

IT entrepreneur

Coaching and world travel

Personal development

Koh Phangan, for over five years