Insda Wellness Resort
Managed by Chiang Mai Wellbeing Social Enterprise. Mountain views, garden pool, spa, yoga, hydrotherapy, and wellness meals. Meditative atmosphere throughout. Insda sits in Ban Pong, Hang Dong district, in the green hills outside Chiang Mai city. It works as a resort and a retreat venue at once, with rooms that run from deluxe doubles to a three-bedroom Lanna house. The team behind the former Amaravati Wellness Center has operated here since March 2025. The core practice is Elements Harmonize: body preparation, Surya Namaskar, pranayama, chanting and Anapanasati breath meditation. Guests can add guided Yoga Nidra, a group cacao ceremony with intention setting and sharing, sound sessions with bowls and handpan (indoors or in the pool), and supported floating with guided movement in water. It takes individual stays, families, retreat groups and meetings, and it is pet friendly.
Amaravati Wellness Center
Built according to Vastu principles. The name means live, seed, and immortality. Five elements, Ayurvedic meals, herbal steam, cold plunge, sound therapy, ceremony, 360-degree mountain views.
The Cocoon
Twenty minutes south of Chiang Mai among the rice fields of Nam Phrae. Earthen domes built on sacred geometry, a herbal steam dome fed with fresh herbs from the garden, a wood-fired barrel sauna, saltwater pool, and ice baths. Part day sanctuary, part gathering place for breathwork, sound, and ceremony. The Cocoon is at 167 Moo 3, Nam Phrae, in Hang Dong. Its domes, round huts and open-air pavilions are built from clay, bamboo and stone, and the herbal steam room is shaped like a bell. Alongside it are a wood-fired dry sauna, ice baths and a saltwater pool, with food and drinks on site. It works as a walk-in day visit rather than a booked treatment, open from midday into the evening and later on Thursdays, so check current hours before going. It suits anyone who wants a long afternoon of heat and cold close to the city, and people who spend too long at a desk.
The Elements
At the foot of Doi Luang in Chiang Dao, where earth, water, fire, and air are the treatment menu. Sauna, herbal steam, outdoor hot tub, ice bath, and cold plunge in a garden that opens onto the mountain. Overnight stays available. Sister sanctuary to The Cocoon. The Elements is at 321 Chiang Dao, in Chiang Dao District. It opens Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 19:00 and needs no booking: guests walk in and bring only swimwear and slippers. Beyond the dry sauna, herbal steam room, wood-fired jacuzzi, saltwater pool and ice bath, there are indoor spaces to rest or work, and a cafe. Overnight guests sleep in bell tents, use the jacuzzi after sunset and spend the evening around the fire. It suits people who want a full day of heat and cold in the mountains, or a night away from the city.
Om Waters
A floating sanctuary on a still mountain lake in Sri Lanna. Breathwork, energy work, TRE, cacao ceremony, and meditation, held by facilitators who work with the whole being and not the symptom. Om Waters is five floating houseboats on Mae Ngat Somboon Chon Lake, reached through Sri Lanna National Park: about an hour by road from Chiang Mai, then 30 minutes by boat. It runs off-grid on solar power. The centrepiece is a 120 square metre floating yoga shala. Base Camp sleeps up to 22 in simple twin rooms, and three vegan and vegetarian meals a day come from the Cat House Chiang Mai kitchen. Kayaks are on hand. It works mainly as a venue: retreat leaders bring groups of eight or more for yoga, meditation, dance, massage training and healing workshops, November to February. Individuals can book unclaimed dates on Airbnb, released each August, and share the space as a floating homestay.
Suan Sati
A yoga retreat in the Chiang Mai hills where the practice opens inward. Breathwork journeys, evening ceremony, and the plain invitation to explore your inner and outer world at once. Suan Sati sits on five acres of rice fields in Mae Wang district, 45 minutes from Chiang Mai city. Co-founders Will and Lisa run it on solar power, in adobe mud-brick buildings. From October to February it runs six-day retreats: Hatha and Vinyasa in the morning, slow flow, restorative or yin in the afternoon, Anapanasati breath meditation, and workshops in pranayama, bodywork, philosophy and kirtan, framed by opening and closing ceremonies. Food is plant-based Thai and fusion. It suits beginners and experienced practitioners, and is not a dedicated silent retreat. Guests stay for the whole programme. May to September it runs as a guest house, and 200-hour yoga teacher trainings run several times a year.
Mala Dhara Eco Resort & Organic Farm
An eco resort, yoga retreat centre and working organic farm on the edge of Doi Saket, thirty minutes out of Chiang Mai. Earthen architecture, two yoga shalas, a salt water pool, a herbal sauna, and Kin Dee, the plant-based kitchen that cooks the rice the farm grows. Owned and run by Ploy. A venue that has held ceremony for visiting lineages. It sits among rice fields in Doi Saket, thirty minutes from Chiang Mai International Airport and ten minutes from the local natural hot springs. Guests stay in earthen villas that each have their own character, among them the Bamboo, Raindrop, Hobbit, Dhara and Jai Dee villas, and an adobe dorm is kept for event groups. Retreat leaders get two shalas that each take twenty mats, one beside the pool and one over the rice fields, both supplied with mats, cushions and blankets. Every retreat is catered by Kin Dee, and groups can add herbal steam sessions and plant-based cooking classes. It suits yoga teachers bringing a group, and guests who prefer simple, natural surroundings.
Mahasiddha Yoga
A Tantra and yoga school in Chiang Mai, and the ashram it built to teach in. Founded by Uriel Yariv and Blandine Wegener, who are both psychologists as well as teachers, and who wrote the four courses the school is known for: the Tantra Immersion, the Emotional Healing Course, the Path to Purpose programme and the Lucid Dreaming Course. The Tantra Immersion runs in four levels and people come back for the next one, which is the most useful thing you can know about a school. Residential work happens at Amrita Integral Yoga Centre, twenty five minutes east of the old city in San Kamphaeng, purpose-built on sacred architecture principles with a wooden practice hall, a garden, a pool, and rooms for about forty. They also run silent meditation retreats over New Year, women's circles, and a full online catalogue. The teaching is esoteric Tantra in the classical sense rather than the workshop sense: chakra by chakra, with lectures, and with the couples and continence material taught openly as part of the tradition.
Jason Ryer
Jason Ryer is the founder of Zen Strength, a breathwork, ice bath and nervous-system coaching practice in Chiang Mai, Thailand.[1] He has guided more than 2,000 people through breathwork and cold exposure, and has been working from Chiang Mai for more than five years.[1][2] He came to it from more than fifteen years in technology, including as a software engineer at IBM, followed by his own startup and consulting ventures.[1][3] That career ended in a health crisis: chest pains and a racing heart that doctors could not fully explain. Looking for answers, he went into fasting, nutrition and biohacking, and eventually trained with Wim Hof.[3][4] He is a certified Bulletproof and Human Potential Coach, trained through Dave Asprey's Bulletproof coaching programme, and his work pairs old breath and cold practices with the nervous-system science that explains them.[1][4] He coaches one to one, runs group ice bath and breathwork events, and teaches sleep masterclasses.[1]
Frances Carrington
Frances Carrington is a craniosacral therapist based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, practising since 2011.[1] She is a certified practitioner of Visionary Craniosacral Work, the method developed by Hugh Milne, and has been a long-standing assistant teacher to Milne himself.[1][2] She is also a Registered Craniosacral Therapist with the Pacific Association of Craniosacral Therapists, holds a BA in osteopathy from the National University of Medical Sciences in Madrid, and is certified in Chi Nei Tsang, the Taoist practice of working directly with the internal organs.[1] Alongside the bodywork she trained in Harner shamanic counselling.[1][3] Her sessions run sixty to ninety minutes and she works most often with neck and shoulder pain, headache and migraine, sinusitis, jaw pain and grinding, stress, depression, trauma and recovery from concussion. She works toward an open heart, a clear mind and a free body.[1]
Maxwell Honey
Maxwell Honey had to heal himself before he could help anyone else heal. Addiction and a debilitating sickness took his late teen years, and what changed the course of his life at 21 years old was an experience with kambo, an ancient medicine which is from the secretion of an Amazonian tree frog pressed into small burns on the skin. Since then, he has worked with indigenous medicine for more than fifteen years.[4] He is a trauma resolution coach, a breathwork facilitator and a plant medicine man, based out of Chiang Mai, but travels the world. He coaches one to one online and runs immersive retreats. When working with clients, Max does not work through the story of what happened. He works on the understanding that the imprint is in the body, so the body is where he works.[1] He is not going to march you back into the worst thing that ever happened to you.[1] What he aims to build for his clients is to bring them back to safety, connection and joy.[1] He trained in somatic experiencing, breathwork facilitation and earth medicine ceremony. He has his own style of breathwork called Satori Breathwork, in which the five modules work on nervous system fundamentals through to deep journey work.[1] The medicine is the other half of him. He was initiated into ayahuasca in the Amazon, iboga in Africa, and has the ability to hold space for many more.[2][3]
Jamie Wrate
Jamie Wrate is a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy practitioner and an IFS-informed, trauma-informed coach, working between the United Kingdom and Chiang Mai, Thailand.[1] He is listed in the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute's therapist directory, and he holds a law degree, a BA (Hons) and a postgraduate teaching qualification.[2] His approach puts the body first. Sensorimotor work slows and settles the nervous system, and inside that settled state he does parts work using Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems model.[1] Behind it sits a long apprenticeship: seven years with the Brazilian shaman and psychotherapist Alba Maria Nunes, including two and a half years living in shamanic community and a five-year initiation into facilitation, and training in Somatic Plant Medicine Integration under Atira Tan.[1] He has been doing men's work since 2009 and shamanic healing work since 2011.[3] He offers private sessions, men's circles and plant medicine integration circles,[1][3] and holds integration retreats in northern Thailand, the next two in Doi Saket and Pai in January 2027.[4]
Nicolas Schindler
Nicolas Schindler is a French clinical hypnotherapist and regression therapist who practises as WiZinYou from Chiang Mai, Thailand.[1] He works with clinical hypnotherapy, regression therapy, and family and karmic constellations.[4] He came to the work after two decades in corporate business-to-business and business-to-government roles, including as Business Development Director for government security solutions at SICPA Asia Development.[1][2] Burnout ended that career in 2017.[1] He has lived in Southeast Asia since 2011.[1] What followed was a thorough retraining. He took clinical hypnotherapy through all five levels of the EKAA Foundation's programme, starting in 2018, and trained in Transpersonal Regression Therapy, family constellations, NLP to Master Practitioner level, core shamanism with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies Asia, and Usui Reiki.[1][3] His method draws on Dr John Kappas's Theory of Mind, which holds that the subconscious makes up ninety per cent of the mind, and goes to where a present-day problem was first set.[1]
Uriel Yariv
Uriel Yariv is an Israeli Tantra and yoga teacher and psychologist who co-founded Mahasiddha Yoga and its ashram, Amrita Integral Yoga Centre, in Chiang Mai, Thailand.[1][2] He has given twenty years to the Tantra-yoga path, more than two of them in silent retreat.[1] He holds a master's degree in clinical psychology and has written many articles on spirituality and psychology.[1] With Blandine Wegener, his co-teacher and fellow co-founder, he wrote the school's four core programmes: the Tantra Immersion Course, the Emotional Healing Course, the Path to Purpose programme and the Lucid Dreaming Course.[1] He also teaches on the school's Amorous Erotic Continence Course and its 7 Chakras Retreat.[3][4] In 2018 he set out the origins of Tantra, the neo-Tantra movement and the dangers of Tantra on Zachary Stockill's podcast Humans in Love.[2]
Blandine Wegener
Blandine Wegener (Maria Blandine Wegener) is a yoga and Tantra teacher, a practising psychologist and coach, and co-founder of Mahasiddha Yoga and its ashram, Amrita Integral Yoga Centre, in Chiang Mai, Thailand.[1][2] She has spent fifteen years on the yogic path, "dedicating every day of her life to teaching, personal growth and selfless service."[1] With Uriel Yariv, her co-teacher and fellow co-founder, she wrote the school's four core programmes: the Tantra Immersion Course, the Emotional Healing Course, the Path to Purpose programme and the Lucid Dreaming Course.[1] Blandine grew up in communist East Germany. She has spoken at length about that childhood, her way into yoga and her path in Tantra, and about intimacy, sexual continence for women and tantric lovemaking in long-term relationships.[2]
Iris Smeets
Iris Smeets teaches yoga and Tantra at Mahasiddha Yoga in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and is a trained tantric massage therapist.[1] She studied philosophy and then peace and conflict studies, and spent years in conflict resolution at trauma centres around the world before she came to yoga and Tantra.[1] Before Thailand she spent seven years at a yoga centre in Denmark, teaching massage, Esoteric Tantra Yoga, Integral Esoteric Yoga for singles and couples, and dance courses for women.[1] At Mahasiddha Yoga she leads the school's women's circles and is one of five teachers on its Amorous Erotic Continence Course, alongside Uriel Yariv.[2][3]
Deshna Di
Deshna Di teaches yoga and Tantra at Mahasiddha Yoga in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and guides sound healing.[1] They came to the practice through Tibetan Buddhism and kinesiology, have taught yoga since 2015, and have guided sound healing since 2017.[1] In 2018 Tantra became the heart of their path, "opening the door to systematical practice, continuous transformation, and a life centered in love, devotion, compassion, and aspiration."[1] They are one of three teachers on the school's 7 Chakras Retreat, alongside Uriel Yariv and Iris Smeets.[2]
Chiang Mai Sacred Journey
Ten days in Chiang Mai, seven of them residential at Amrita Integral Yoga Centre, working through the chakras one a day with the Tantra teachers of Mahasiddha Yoga. Then a cacao ceremony and live kirtan at an organic farm, elephants and Lanna temples and the sticky waterfalls at Buatong, and Yi Peng, the night the sky over Chiang Mai fills with lanterns. Organised out of Manila by the Philippine Academy of Intuitives and framed around Kapwa, the Filipino word for the self you share with everyone else. Au Mayari facilitates the cacao ceremony. Numbers are held small, and Yi Peng is the most oversubscribed night in the city's year.
Integration Retreat, Doi Saket
Four days and three nights at Mala Dhara, the eco resort and organic farm in Doi Saket, built around integration rather than the ceremony itself. IFS sessions beforehand, then embodied and artistic integration through singing, dance, art and yoga, then sharing circles and individual integration sessions after. The premise is the unglamorous one: what you met is worth nothing until it is metabolised.
Todd B. Peyton, MA, LPC
Todd B. Peyton, MA, LPC, KYI, is an American psychotherapist with more than twenty years of practice in depth-oriented psychotherapy, Jungian dream analysis and somatic and energetic work.[1] He sees clients in Hang Dong, outside Chiang Mai, Thailand, and in Bangkok, the Philippines and Greece, with telehealth sessions for clients in the United States.[1][4] He trained at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California, taking a master's in counselling psychology with a focus in depth psychology.[2] Alongside the clinical training he spent extended periods ordained as a Buddhist monk at Kyiatisaung Monastery in Thaton, Myanmar, and studied dreams in analysis with the Jungian author Robert Johnson and with the Trappist monk Father Gregory Santos.[2] He is also a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor, and his offerings include Asclepian Detoxification.[1] He has brought that practice to the Henosis community directly, most recently leading a kidney kriya session for a Henosis group.[3]
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