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.
Maia Earth Village
A conscious intentional village on Palawan, home to the innerdance energy school and a global family of facilitators. Life here is the inner process made daily and communal.
Bahay Kalipay
The house of happiness in the Palawan interior. Raw food, breathwork, and innerdance woven into a healing retreat that returns you to what was never sick in the first place. Daniw Arrazola and Pi Villaraza, the founder of innerdance, opened Bahay Kalipay in 2007 in Barangay Santa Monica, Puerto Princesa, among forest and a clear river. Pi's involvement ended in 2019. It calls itself the oldest raw food detox, innerdance and yoga retreat in Asia. The Deep Nature Cleanse runs 5, 7 or 21 days: three raw meals a day, gentle colon cleansing, daily yoga, breathwork and meditation, massage, a forest trek to the river, and one day a week of coconut fasting in complete silence. There is also a yoga programme and a three day raw food chef course. It suits people carrying burnout or a depleted body. No fitness or experience needed.
Spirit Camp
A retreat sanctuary in the Mendocino redwoods. Holotropic breathwork, somatic healing, and ecstatic dance held under trees that have kept time far longer than we have. Spirit Camp is a queer-owned retreat centre on 27 acres of coastal redwoods in Little River, 12 minutes from Mendocino town and three hours north of San Francisco. Co-founders Julian Cressman and Nathaniel Reagan run it. Most retreats are led by independent facilitators who rent the land and set their own programme. The calendar includes breathwork healer training, ecstatic dance, shadow work, fire ritual, cacao ceremony, kirtan, and women's and gay men's retreats. On site: seven cabins, seasonal bell tents, a Finnish sauna, a cold plunge and a redwood trail. The camp is substance-free: no alcohol, cannabis or recreational substances. It suits clear-headed group work, and not anyone planning to drink or use while there.
Pachamama Hampina Wasi
The house of Mother Earth's healing, in the Sacred Valley above Laguna de Huaypo, facing Apu Wanakauri. Founded 2017. Andean ceremony and ritual, healing of the five bodies, sacred plant medicine held with spiritual guidance, initiations, sound and energetic cleansing. The lineage is not imported here, it is the ground the place stands on.
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]
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.
Integration Retreat, Pai
The same four days and three nights, held a week later in Pai. Integration is the whole focus: IFS work beforehand, embodied and artistic integration through singing, dance, art and yoga, and sharing and individual sessions after.
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