Yoga retreat

Find empowerment and open your heart!

Two powerful traditions, two amazing teachers, one goal: to transform our hearts and minds to benefit all living beings. Through yoga and meditation, we can develop our hearts to transcend all limitations and separations and come to a sense of freedom incomparable to any other experience! In this retreat we will overcome our limiting mind patterns and start on the deep path of self realization.

Our two incredible teachers will demonstrate how their different traditions can complement each other and can bring your body and mind into deep unity. They offer fresh and inspiring ways of teaching the old traditions and make it accessible for everyone to transform their life. Vipassana Meditation and Yoga have long been proven to offer powerful ways for healing and awakening. Together they offer a unique learning and growing experience!

Located in the beautiful nature of Northern Thailand, this retreat will take you on an incredible journey where Yoga, Meditation, Pranayama, nutrition and sustainable living form a holistic approach to life.

You will also have once in a lifetime opportunities like darkroom meditation, sleeping in a Thai monastery for a night, celebrating Buddha day with the Thai community and other authentic cultural experiences.

Reconnect your heart with nature and find your inner truth and authenticity! With radical simplicity and being in deep connection with mother earth, we can transform our separate way of living.

   Daily schedule

 

The schedule will vary day to day and can be adjusted to suit the needs of the students.

  Teachers

Swami Atma Jnanananda Giri

Swami Atma Jnanananda Giri is a homeopathic doctor from Kerala, who studied meditation techniques from the great Himalayan master Swami Veda Bharati. He completed the Yoga & Vedanta course from Sivananda ashram and studied Vedanta under the great Acharya Swami Dayananda Saraswati.

He deeply is in love with the environment, reminding us of the healing power of highly charged natural places. He has very humble way of being, leading with love and compassion.

Swami teaches Yoga, Meditation and Yoga Nidra both in Rishikesh and internationally.

He will share his wisdom about yoga and yoga philosophy, such as the Bhagavat Gita. Talks about the great yogis will inspire you to see yoga is a path to help you find balance in the most difficult situations. Swami Atma sees yoga as tool to help you let go of stresses and strains and also to help you understand the purpose of life. It is a path of complete liberation that leads to a calm and peaceful mind, full of joy and happiness.

Venerable Dr. Ajahn Somchai Kantasilo

Venerable Dr. Ajahn Somchai Kantasillo, Abbot of Wat Po Monastery, Director of the Sangha College of the Mahachulalongkorn University, Khon Kaen, is a very innovative dharma teacher and initiator of the Mindfulness Eco Project.

He became a novice at the age of 15 and since then he stayed ordained. On his path he became a disciple and the successor of Long Po Poh, one of the great monks from the forest tradition. His teachings express his deep wisdom and knowledge of the scriptures and meditation practice. His wish is to support his disciples to wake up to their full potential.

His teachings include retreats in nature, with very basic facilities to create a feeling of being closer to the environment. This can create a humble and strong mind. Being able to let go of comfort from the outer world helps us to turn inward and find our true nature, a liberated heart and mind. He goes beyond the “I, me, mine” self-centred thinking of the modern world, as it creates stressed feelings of separation and competition.

  The location

You can never solve a problem with the same mind state which caused the problem – Albert Einstein

The Mindfulness Project in the north of Thailand is a monastery project which uses ancient philosophies in conjunction with modern scientific developments in the fields of integrated agriculture, green building, alternative energy and recycling, to create a revolutionary system of sustainable living. It became one of the most ambitious projects in Thailand to transform the hearts and minds of the people who come here! A unique learning experience is offered including yoga, meditation, psychological teachings, nutrition, health awareness and so much more.

Unique earthen buildings are in the making and gardens are developing in this only one year old site. We offer radical simplistic living in deep connection with nature.

What people say about the Mindfulness Project:

“I had the time of my life here!” , “I am traveling for 8 months now and this was by far the best experience I had!”

  Accommodation

The Mindfulness Project is in its very early stage, so the facilities are super basic! We have open dorms and you will sleep in close connection with the environment, next to our gardens and ponds. Enjoy waking up to the beautiful sounds of nature!

We have composting toilets and open air showers. Mattresses, bed sheets, pillows and mosquito nets are provided. Beds in Thailand are usually hard and on the floor. The yoga will be in a beautiful outside setting in nature.

  Food

We serve large and tasty vegetarian meals. The Mindfulness Project is known for it’s extremely delicious and healthy food. This will boost your immune system and puts you on a path to reinvigoration!

We can accomodate most of the food intolerances. Please let us know in advance!

  Additional Offer

Healing Journey 20/11/17 – 24/11/17

Swami Atma is a natural healer and naturopath. Together with him we will visit one of the most amazing palliative care and healing temples in Thailand. Learn about natural forms of healing and detoxing, as well as seeing pranayama and Yoga Nidra for healing. But on this journey you will not only be a bystander. We encourage you to bring in all your creativity and skills. This can be teaching an easy dance, making music, painting, singing together, games, role play, etc.

Arokhayasan temple is the last station in life for some people, but is full of life energy. It is run by the abbot Luang Ta, who has cured himself with meditation, praying and natural Thai herbal remedies from cancer. Laughter, jokes, music, arts, healing arts are all part of the treatment. If you are deeply interested to share your love from heart to heart, you are most welcome to join our activities at Arokhayasan.

After breakfast on the 24th of November the journey will end.

Individual transport can be arranged to the bus terminal or airport, to get to Bangkok (at own cost).

  What is included

Yoga retreat

• Twice daily Yoga
• Daily Pranayama
• Daily Yoga Meditation
• Yoga Nidra
• Daily Vipassana Meditation
• Dharma talks
• Satsang
• 1 night at the local Thai temple
• 1hr Meditation in the Darkroom
• 1 Evening Chanting at Buddha Day at the temple
• 1 Thai Massage 1 hr
• Simple accomodation
• Vegeterian and Vegan Food
• Lemon Water Detox Drink in the Morning
• Pick up from Khon Kaen on the 11th of November at 2 pm at the Roma Hotel in Khon Kaen
• Collective Transport to the Temple in Khon Kaen
• Donation for the temple

Healing journey

• Collective transport after the event at Wat Po back to the project.
• Free day: food and accommodation at the project. If you like to spent free day in Khon Kaen, the accommodation and transport to the project is on your own.
• Transport to Arokhayasan
• 4 Morning Yoga Classes
• 2 times Yoga Nidra
• 1 Satsang, possible about Yoga Nidra and Self healing
• Accommodation at Arokhayasan
• Food at Arokhayasan
• Activities with patients
• Dinosaur Museum
• Donation for the Temple. All patients receive treatment on donation base. This allows everybody to come and get the treatment

  What is NOT included

• Transport to Thailand and to Khon Kaen
• Transport from Arokhayasan to Bus terminal or Airport in Sakhon Nakhon. You will get all the support to arrange transport however.
• All bank transfer fees

  Costs

The course fee is 350 EURO. We ask you to pay a 200 Euro deposit to reserve your spot. The rest is payed at the beginning of the course. The deposit is non-refundable. Please note that the money transfer fees (like Paypal) will be charged in addition.
We offer a 50 EURO early bird discount untill August 01st 2017. In this case we ask you to pay the full fee before hand. Refunds are only given 4 month before the starting date of the course.
The costs for the Healing journey is 150 Euros and only in combination with the retreat.

We offer a special discount for all former volunteers of the Mindfulness Project. The total price for former volunteers is only 299 Euros!