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6 Day Silent Retreat with Yoga in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Mahasiddha Yoga, 100/1 Moo 10, On Tai, San Kamphaeng district, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Thailand Wellness Retreat
Have you ever wondered what life with a peaceful mind truly feels like? This retreat is an invitation to step beyond words and into the stillness where true clarity, presence, and connection unfold.
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Uriel & Blandine
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Highlights
- 6 days of silence
- Daily Hatha yoga and meditation practices
- Insightful lectures
- Soulful teachers and community
- 5 nights accommodation
- Daily healthy meals
6 days with instruction
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
13:30
Check-out Time:
16:00
Facilities
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Dining area
- Garden
- Lobby
- Luggage room / storage
- Meditation garden
- Smoke-free property
- Terrace
- Yoga shala
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry
- Outdoor shower
Experience deep transformation in a serene and comfortable environment. The retreat offers a range of accommodation options to suit different preferences and budgets. Whether you seek solitude, shared connection, or a touch of luxury, each room is designed to support your journey with comfort and tranquility.
Program
Bringing meditation to life in a heart-centered way. In this six-day silent retreat, you seek to discover the capacity to remain fully engaged in life while staying firmly centered in inner silence. The retreat will include a combination of activities, from Hatha yoga and meditation to workshop-like interactive exercises. In your lectures, you will touch on the Tantric view of meditation, and you will learn how to bring meditation to life, meditating on the essence of emotions, desires, and inner experiences. You will have days in which you will speak and days spent in silence.
Your approach will combine the traditional methods of concentration (the eight-fold stages of Patanjali - focusing mainly on) with methods taken from the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra. From the moment you learn to speak, you rarely stop. Unless done consciously, you never take a break from words, and over time, your perception of reality becomes deeply conditioned by them. It is difficult to even imagine that reality exists beyond language that you can experience thoughts, emotions, and the world around you without automatically labeling them with words. This is why choosing silence is so powerful.
In this retreat, silence - combined with yoga, meditation, and insightful lectures - will guide you toward a direct experience of reality beyond words. You will reconnect with something deeper: inner peace, happiness, and joy, always present but often obscured by the constant chatter of the mind. You will enter silence on the first evening and remain in silence until the last day. Each day will be enriched with Hatha yoga, meditation, and lectures, as well as interactive exercises to deepen your practice.
While the schedule is immersive, there will also be time for rest - three-hour breaks around midday to reflect, read from the library, or simply enjoy the garden, pool, and sauna. While this retreat may remind some of Vipassana due to the silence, it is fundamentally different. You enter silence on the first evening and break it on the last morning, dedicating much of your time to meditation. However, unlike Vipassana, you also practice yoga, keeping the body energized, awake, and vibrant.
Though you remain in silence, you consciously cultivate a deep heart connection with one another, fostering a warm and supportive spiritual group rather than isolation. Here, silence is not just an absence of words but a space where sweetness, connection, and inner depth flourish - embracing stillness while keeping the heart open. Mahasiddha Yoga offers free transportation from a designated spot in the city on the first and last days of the retreat.
Is this the same as Vipassana?
There are similarities but also differences. It is similar from the perspective of the fact that you go in silence in the first evening and come out of silence on the morning of the last day, and you respect silence, devoting a lot of time to meditation. It is different because you do yoga, keeping the body fresh, awake, and with a lot of energy. Even if you will be in silence, you aim to be deliberately heart-connected to the others, and not isolated, creating a warm and sweet spiritual group. Also unlike Vipassana, you are allowed to silently embrace and keep the sweetness in the heart as a support of your meditative practice.
A typical day
Each day will include yoga practice, meditations, lectures, and exercises. A usual day would look like this:
- 08:00 - 09:00 Hatha yoga
- 09:00 - 09:30 Meditation
- 09:30 - 10:45 Breakfast
- 10:45 - 12:00 Lecture or teachings
- 12:00 - 13:00 Meditation
- 13:00 - 16:00 Lunch break
- 16:00 - 16:30 Meditation
- 16:30 - 17:30 Lecture or teachings
- 17:45 - 18:30 Short Hatha yoga and meditation
- 18:30 - 20:15 Dinner break
- 20:15 - Meditation or interactive exercises
Disclaimer for people with mental health issues
Kindly note that people who suffer from mental health issues or are currently on antidepressants or other psychiatric medications are strongly recommended not to join this program. Those who do, however, decide to join, do so on their own responsibility.
Instructors
Uriel Yariv
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Uriel is a Tantra, Yoga, and Meditation teacher based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. For the past +20 years he has devoted himself to the path of Tantra Yoga with great enthusiasm. He has spent more than 2 years in silent retreats, practicing meditation and yoga passionately. Uriel co-founded Mahasiddha Yoga and the Integral Yoga Center Amrita in Northern Thailand. He has a master degree in clinical psychology and has written many articles about spirituality and psychology.
Blandine Wegener
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Maria Blandine Wegener is a teacher and life coach for applied yoga and Tantra, implementing elements from a variety of yoga traditions, Ayurveda, and psychology. She gathered her first teaching experiences between 2007 and 2009 teaching Tantra for women courses in Berlin and Copenhagen. From 2009 to 2014 (after four years of extensive teachers education in Denmark), she integrated as yoga and Tantra teacher in Deutsche Akademie fur traditionelles Yoga in Berlin, Germany.
Location
This retreat will take place in Mae On, a 40-minute drive east of Chiang Mai, Thailand. This is a beautiful and tranquil countryside area. The retreat center is located at the foothills of the Mae Takhrai mountains, surrounded by picturesque rice paddies and farms.
Distances
- Chiang Mai - 40 minutes drive
Features
Activities
- Swimming pool
General
- Garden
- Yoga shala
Food
All meals are deliciously prepared by a skilled Thai chef and are 100 percent vegetarian. On the first day, Mahasiddha Yoga will serve a welcome drink with fruits, along with lunch and dinner. From the second to the fifth days, they will provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the final day, breakfast and dinner will be served. Throughout the whole retreat, you will have fruits, snacks, tea, and water available at all times to keep you refreshed and energized.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
Conscious healing
Take healing sessions with a certified and experienced physiotherapist and yoga teacher in the making equipped with vast knowledge about physical and subtle anatomy and specialized in pain science and management. Mahasiddha Yoga combines methods of the Hatha yoga system with those of physiotherapy and pain science for maximized and lasting results. Treatments are highly recommended for:
- Chronic pains, tension, discomforts, and/or systemic diseases
- Athletic or sports injuries or performance enhancement
- Finding and treating root causes of issues rather than symptoms
- Supporting any healing process you might be going through (inner or outer)
- Suitable also for children and elderly people
The first session (90 minutes) costs 2700 THB.
What's included
- Teachings
- 5 nights accommodation
- 3 vegetarian meals per day
- Drinks
- Transportation from Chiang Mai to the location and back
What's not included
- Airfare
- Airport transfers
- Extra activities
How to get there
Recommended Airports
CNX
Chiang Mai International Airport
28 km
Transfer not provided
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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