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.
Heart Space Bali
An Ubud sanctuary of sacred sound and Balinese ritual. Cacao ceremony, yin, and vibration used to restore the harmony that was always underneath the noise. Heart Space is at 1 Nyuh Kuning Road in central Ubud. Amanda Ashleigh Tylor founded it in 2020 and runs it with co-owner Wieland Stolzenburg. It calls itself a sound based space for nervous system healing, not a typical yoga studio. The timetable, 6:30am to 10pm daily, covers yin and restorative yoga, sound healing, yoga nidra, breathwork, meditation and cacao ceremony. Balinese healers give Balinese healing massage and pranic healing massage, alongside acupuncture and chakra healing. Next door is Flourish, a fully gluten free restaurant. The five day Nervous System Reset retreat adds sound immersions and massage, with no expectation to fill every hour. Classes are open to all levels, and some suit kids and teens.
Collective Awakening
A breathwork and meditation retreat center in the Sierra, home to the SoulFlow method. Inner healing pursued in common, because no one wakes up alone. Collective Awakening is the practice of founder Mahsa Ghafourian in Truckee, California. She offers meditation, breathwork, energy healing, Akashic record reading, integration support and spiritual coaching, and runs Grof Breathwork retreats. SoulFlow Breathwork is her method: deep, rapid breathing to reach an altered state, music that moves from intense to calm, hands-on bodywork only if the breather asks, then a sharing circle and drawing or journaling. Retreats add hiking, cold plunge swimming and kayaking. The breathing is built to bring up repressed memories and strong release, so it suits people ready for cathartic work. Private integration sessions support people processing psychedelic experiences and spiritual emergencies.
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.
The Conscious Self
Inner awakening retreats led from the heart and the nervous system. The work is plain: meet what runs you, and remember what you are underneath it. Founder Aaron Parker describes himself as a qualified breathwork guide, coach and leader in meditation and nature therapy, with more than ten years in the work. He has shared breathwork and forest bathing on BBC's Robson Green's Weekend Escapes. Much of it happens outdoors: wild sauna sessions that pair wood fired heat with cold water and breath, nature retreats and therapy walks, and adventure days with paddleboarding, cliff jumping and cold water immersion. Yoga, breathwork and meditation classes run in the Conscious Hub Dome. There is also 1:1 coaching, training courses, and private and corporate bookings. It suits people who feel stuck or disconnected and are willing to get cold and wet to shift it.
Breathing Space
Trauma informed, conscious connected breathwork on the edge of Dartmoor. Retreats and training for those who want to breathe all the way to the bottom of it. Breathing Space was founded by Benedict Beaumont, and its approach is shaped by his wife Jennifer Nolan's own healing. Retreats run at Eden Rise Retreat Centre near Totnes, close to Dartmoor National Park: daily conscious connected breathwork, yoga and gentle movement, time outside, sauna and rest. Beginners and working facilitators both attend. Training is a large part of the work: a 50 hour Breathwork Coach Certification, a 400 hour Breathwork Facilitator Training, advanced CPD, self paced online courses and a membership. Anyone with schizophrenia, bipolar, epilepsy, a heart condition or low blood pressure, or who is pregnant, is asked to see a doctor first.
Conscious Flow
Somatic trauma therapy and breathwork in the Byron Bay hinterland. Transformational retreats that treat the body as the door and not the obstacle. Conscious Flow is the practice of Sophie Sämrow. She lists her training as somatic trauma and EMDR therapist, breathwork facilitator, NLP master practitioner, sound healer, meditation teacher and cacao ceremonialist. She runs private sessions and group breathwork in the hinterland, plus an online 21-Day Nervous System Reset. Ceremony sits beside the therapy: cacao, rapé, shamanic breathwork and plant medicine integration. The Vision Quest runs four days and three nights of fasting without food or water, alone in the hills, with daily sweat lodges, led by Heriberto, an elder from Mexico trained in a Lakota and Mexica lineage. Overseas retreats go to Peru's Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu and Ausangate.
The Breath Haus
A modern breathwork movement with immersive studios across Australia. Science forward in its language, ceremonial in its effect, pointed at the state beyond the thinking mind. The studios are in Balaclava, Victoria, on Carlisle Street, and at Bondi Pavilion in Sydney, with Burleigh announced as coming next. Events also run at 1 Hotel in Docklands. Classes come in three formats: LSD, a slow flow breathwork into deep meditation; Release, a dynamic, activating session; and Somatic, conscious breathing with subtle guided movement. Mat pilates and sound sessions fill out the timetable. There are also 1:1 sessions, an app, group and corporate bookings, and facilitator training. It suits city people who want breathwork on a weekly schedule for stress, sleep and focus. It is a studio, not a residential retreat.
Leaders Performance & Wellness
A five-storey performance and wellness complex in Pinklao, Bangkok, run by Leaders Wellness Company Limited and built on sport science since 2001. A performance gym and lab on one side, reformer pilates, bouldering and a VO2 max studio through the middle, and a clinic, bodywork and contrast therapy including a rapid chiller on the other.
Structure In Motion
A private structural bodywork practice in Bankers Hill, San Diego, held by Henry Kagey since 1995. Rolfing and Structural Integration in a direct line from Ida Rolf's own hands, through Kagey's fourteen years alongside Edward Maupin, one of her first students. Sessions run ninety clinical minutes in a single room with the floor kept clear, because the movement work happens standing as often as it happens on the table. The ten series is the long form of it. Alongside that he builds single and multi-session protocols for one person's problem: repetitive stress, recurring sprains, herniation, scoliosis, plantar fasciitis, tendonitis. Rates come down by a fifth for active military, first responders, teachers and full-time students, and one client is carried at all times who cannot pay at all.
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]
Dr Lorraine Levy, PhD
Lorraine May Levy holds a PhD in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, awarded in 2020, and teaches as adjunct faculty in the Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology programme at Sofia University.[1] Her teaching focus is trauma survivors, approached through Jungian and archetypal theory.[1] She came to all of it the hard way. She returned to formal education at thirty, as a single mother of five, and worked her way from an associate degree at West Valley College to a doctorate.[1] Her dissertation brought together the image of the goddess Persephone, underworld trauma, and the practice of providing clothing to victims of sexual assault.[1] Outside the university she works as a depth psychologist, educator, integrative wellness guide, and retreat and therapeutic process facilitator.[2] Her clients come to her with addiction recovery, anxiety and other life transitions, and she works with them through art, dreams and storytelling.[2] She is based between Thailand and Italy and works with clients worldwide.[2]
Atira Tan
Atira Tan is a somatic trauma specialist, expressive arts therapist and humanitarian, and the founder and chief executive of Art to Healing, a registered Australian charity providing trauma recovery and mental health care to women and children who have survived gender-based violence and sex trafficking.[1][2] She has worked on the front line of trauma for more than twenty years, from the brothels of Nepal to refugee camps on the Burma border, and the charity has supported thousands of women and children since 2005.[1][2] She was born in Singapore, raised in Melbourne, and works internationally.[3] Her clinical training is in expressive arts therapy and somatic work: an MA in expressive art therapy, a graduate diploma in transpersonal art therapy, certification as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and a 500 hour senior yoga and meditation teaching registration, with a PhD in expressive art therapies in progress.[3] She spoke at TEDx Byron Bay in 2013 on ending child sex slavery.[1]
Nsharâh
Nsharâh is a certified Somatica coach working in somatic sex and intimacy, based in Nairobi, Kenya, and practising in Accra and London too, online and in person.[1][2] He was born in Accra, raised in Tottenham, London, and left the UK to rebuild his life in Nairobi.[1] Much of his work is with men.[1] Growing up, he saw the men around him "emotionally closed, unable to express vulnerability, and struggling in their relationships."[1][2] He coaches individuals and couples of all genders, runs intimacy events and retreats from Nairobi to Chiang Mai, and hosts All The Feels Conversations, a podcast of anonymous conversations with men about how they feel.[1][4] In November 2024 he co-led the Men and Masculinities space at Sexual Utopia in Nairobi with the Kenyan journalist, podcaster and author Kevin Mwachiro.[3]
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]
Marleni
Marleni is the founder of Pachamama Hampina Wasi, an Andean ceremonial centre near Lake Huaypo in Maras, Urubamba, in Peru's Sacred Valley, where she leads ceremony, initiation, sound healing and retreats.[1][3] She is also a clinical psychotherapist, qualified in 2012, who specialises in transgenerational and personal trauma.[2] She calls herself "hija de la Pachamama", a daughter of Pachamama. She was born in Huancayo, Junín, with ancestors from Puno and the Pukina line, and grew up in a household where her parents spoke Quechua and Aymara.[2] Her knowledge of plants came from her mother.[2] In 2005 she won permanent residency in the United States through the visa lottery and moved there to pursue a second master's degree, in international business.[2] The call to come home and build a healing centre came in 2016. She was guided to the land in 2017, and in March 2023 she returned to build it.[2][3]
Henry Kagey, PhD
Henry Kagey is an American practitioner of Rolfing and Structural Integration, in private practice in San Diego since 1995.[1][3] He learned the method from Dr Edward Maupin, one of the first students of its originator Ida Rolf, and worked closely with Maupin for fourteen years as his protege.[2] He also holds a PhD in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, which he took in order to understand the body as a structure.[1][2] With Maupin he built the Structural Integration internship at IPSB in San Diego and co-wrote A Dynamic Relation to Gravity, a two-volume classroom manual still used to teach the ten sessions.[2][4] He taught at IPSB from 1998 to 2010 and led workshops in Ohio, at Esalen, and in Japan and China.[2] Separately from the bodywork, Henry was a nationally ranked Taiji athlete, winning gold at national and international level in Chinese internal martial arts between 2000 and 2002.[1][2] Since 1998 he has kept one low-income client on his books at all times who cannot meet his session rate.[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]
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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