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.
Banahaw Circle Nature Retreat
At the foot of Mt. Banahaw, the Philippines' sacred mountain. DOT Mabuhay accredited. Traditional hilot healing, slow food, sacred pilgrimages, retreats held in reverence for the living Earth. Banahaw Circle is a bed and breakfast retreat in the Holy Trinity Compound, Barangay Santa Lucia, Dolores, Quezon. Guests sleep in the Nature Villa or the Art House, in rustic rooms from singles to dorms. Up to 80 percent of the food is farmed in the rainforest by local partners. Hilot massage comes through The Hilot Hub, accredited as a hilot healing and training centre. Guests can walk the Banahaw pamumuesto, the pilgrim's route to the mountain's sacred sites. The calendar runs yoga and astrology circles, a sacred sound and ceremony retreat, family and dog companion retreats, student packages and corporate workshops. Co-founder Jeannie Javelosa teaches astrology and the Enneagram.
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.
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.
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.
Pyramids of Chi
A sound healing temple built to the geometry of the pyramids. Moon ceremonies, breath and voice, and vibration journeys that move the body without moving the feet. Pyramids of Chi is at Jalan Kelebang Moding 22, Bentuyung, Ubud. Peter and Lynn McIntosh founded it in 2013. The pyramids are built to scale with the Great Pyramid of Giza, with a 52 degree base angle and one wall aligned to true north. A newer AMA Multisensory Dome sits alongside them. Sessions run all day on a fixed timetable: Ancient Sound Healing, Scalar Healing Energy, Light Sound Vibration and the dome. Around them are moon ceremonies, breathwork, meditation, yoga, tea and cacao ceremonies, workshops and 1:1 sessions. There is a gluten free vegan cafe, a gift shop, gardens, group bookings and a practitioner residency. First time meditators and seasoned practitioners both come.
Avasthanam
Kundalini awakening through Kriya yoga, meditation, and spiritual healing. Quiet, disciplined, and pointed at one thing: the energy that was always yours to raise. Avasthanam is a yoga academy and retreat centre in Ubud, registered with the International Yoga Organisation in Karnataka, India. It teaches from the Himalayan Siddhas lineage, with Vishnu Guruji and Shakti named as teachers. Retreats include kundalini, kriya yoga and silent Vipassana formats. The 10 day 3-K workshop (karma, kriya, kaya kalpa) starts at 4:30am and moves through kundalini kriya, asana, philosophy, written introspection, pooja and evening meditation, with lights out at 8:30pm. It also runs 100 and 200 hour kundalini yoga teacher training. No prior kundalini experience is needed. It suits people who want a strict daily schedule.
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.
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.
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]
Jourdi Bleu
Jourdi Bleu is a breathwork coach, yoga teacher and speaker based in Sydney, Australia, originally from Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She is operations manager, mindset coach and instructor at This Is Yoga, which has studios in Clovelly and Randwick.[1][2] A car accident at fifteen set off an addiction that took in oxycontin during the opioid epidemic; she was in rehab at eighteen, and she lost a partner to an overdose during a later relapse.[3] Yoga was her way out, and the wild nights gave way to early mornings and sobriety.[4] In March 2024 she gave the Women's International Day keynote at an i-DIAS Global Conferences event in Paris.[6] She is a co-author of the anthology Dream to Rise, and in 2022 she appeared as a charter guest in the first season of Bravo's Below Deck Down Under.[1][5]
Adam Klecheski
Adam Klecheski is a movement coach certified by Functional Patterns, the biomechanics-based training system, as a Human Biomechanics Specialist Level 2. He completed the course in Las Vegas in August 2025, and the certification runs to August 2027.[1] It is an advanced tier, above the Human Foundations course that first qualifies a graduate to train others.[5] He came to the work through his own body. Chronic pain in his lower back, shoulders, wrists and knee ended his basketball, and in 2018, in the Philippines, he set about rehabilitating himself.[2] That led him through yoga, Animal Flow, Ido Portal's movement practice and general mobility training to Functional Patterns in 2022.[2] He coaches through BodyFlow, with private monthly coaching and single online sessions built around posture screening, video feedback and gait retraining.[2] He is also a trainer at Project Function's facility in Santa Monica, California.[4]
Kelly Phoenix Rose
Kelly Phoenix Rose is a medicine woman, shadow worker, integrative therapist and spiritual guide who works with women's health, cancer and chronic illness.[1] She is also a colonic hydrotherapist, a yoga and breathwork facilitator and a ceremonialist, with more than twenty-five years of training behind her.[2] Her own health is where the work comes from. She lived with chronic menstrual disorders for more than fifteen years before a cancer diagnosis, which she calls the initiation that woke up what she now teaches.[1] She reached remission within six months and has been in remission for eleven years.[2][3] She works through one-to-one consultations, a seasonal detox, an online yoga and breathwork membership, and a course of her own, Sacred Feminine Energy Training.[1][2][5] She also hosts the podcast Cancer & Sacred Feminine Energy Truths.[4]
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]
Joshua Webb
Joshua David Webb is a Filipino yoga teacher and breathing coach, and a former professional basketball player.[1][2] He was born on 14 November 1989 and played as a guard at 188cm.[2] Joshua came up through De La Salle Zobel and joined the De La Salle University Green Archers in 2008, and in 2013 he was the first Green Archer taken in the PBA draft.[3][4] The professional career that followed was brief. He then came to yoga, mindfulness and breathwork, and it redirected his life.[1] He trained as a yoga teacher in Dharamsala, in the Indian Himalayas, and holds two breathing certifications: the Oxygen Advantage, taken under Peter Lakatos, and Dana Santa's Breathe Better programme, built on Postural Restoration Institute principles.[1] He teaches a hybrid of Vinyasa, Yin and breathing protocols, for stress regulation and for performance.[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.
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.
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]
Jeannie Javelosa
Jeannie E. Javelosa is a Filipina astrologer and yoga teacher. She has given soul destiny readings for 38 years, teaches astrology through the Banahaw Astrology Circle, and is certified in Ashtanga Vinyasa and Pranayama.[8][10] She is also a social entrepreneur, artist and writer. She co-founded the communications firm EON in 1998, the sustainable retailer ECHOstore in 2008 and the GREAT Women brand for women micro-entrepreneurs, and she is director of the Yuchengco Museum.[1][2][3][4] The GREAT Women brand began as a Philippine government programme and grew into an ASEAN initiative with Canadian funding.[3][5] Before any of the businesses she worked as a visual artist and art writer, and she has run the museum for twenty years.[6][7] She also runs Banahaw Circle Nature Retreat on Mount Banahaw in Dolores, Quezon, set up around 2020.[9] She writes a column for the Daily Tribune under the name Bridging Worlds.[11]
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