 A practitioner and advocate of Ayurvedic healing medicine and therapies, Baskin visited India with a friend in 2001 and discovered a property in Kerala which had been built in 1868 and inhabited for more than a century by the Raheem family, which she turned into a heritage guest house and hotel.The property opened for business in 2003, with 10 bedrooms, offering yoga and Ayurvedic treatments.Baskin is fluent in Irish and worked as a teacher of the language at the beginning of her career.