Past Retreats Log
The cycle of life keeps flowing. What's gone is gone. But here is a chance to look back at previous retreats and courses as they came up in our schedule at Samahita Yoga Thailand.
Awakening your power, purpose and passion
Transform your yoga practice and find freedom within it using elements of gentle Yoga Therapy and identify your mental and emotional patterns which keep you limited.
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Expand Your Awareness: Yoga Asana, Pranayama & Philosophy
Pranayama
During this session you will be introduced to different yogic practices and breathing techniques to purify the body and the mind. You will come away from this week with a daily routine in which we encourage you to continue on your own once this week of intensive yoga practice is finished. If you've already been practicing pranayama in the tradition of Kaivalyadham then you are encouraged to do your self-practice under the guidance of Gerald & Linda.
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Ashtanga Yoga as a Spiritual Path
Get the chance to practice with Kino and Tim in a beautiful beach front setting with world class service and amazing vegetarian food and fresh seafood. Kino and Tim travel the world sharing their message of Ashtanga Yoga as a spiritual path, join them at Samahita Yoga Thailand for two amazing weeks of study together. Being so busy they rarely teach together, but when they do their unique styles compliment each other perfectly--get the chance to be immersed in two world-class teachers of Ashtanga Yoga.
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Total Immersion Yoga - Easter Holiday Week Retreat
Retreat is the perfect opportunity to take a pause from the usual demands of life and to relax, reflect and go inward. This special retreat will focus on making our yoga mat practice a "life practice." Using both traditional and contemporary Ashtanga techniques, you will be guided through the complete practice of yoga postures, breathing, and meditation.
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Yoga and Your Health - The Practical Approach to a Balanced Lifestyle
The Yoga and Your Health retreat offers a practical approach to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. This retreat is for those wishing to make positive changes in their lifestyle to combat the pressures of today's modern living and its impact on our health.
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Special Advanced Training: Philosophy and Pranayama - Pranayama and The Bhagavad Gita
A subject close to Tiwariji's heart is the Buddhist dharma, its place in the history of philosophy in India, its connections with yoga and its similarity with Vedantic philosophy. This area, along with all of your great questions, will be covered in the afternoon discussion sessions.
This course will touch a new level of study and practice, and will be an intensive internalizing period. The primary focus will be Pranayama practice with in-depth pulse reading of each student, varying as necessary. Mantra recitation will also be practiced. Some evenings will include tratak practice.
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A Transformative Week of Yoga
This wonder-filled week will offer two classes daily, with Jeff and Simon alternating the teaching, with additional assistant teachers for every class. Jeff and Simon are opening this week to all who wish to come for a fun and transformative yoga holiday at this fabulous location on beautiful Koh Samui. Come and deepen your practice and understanding of yoga over this special week.
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7 Day Detox and Yoga Retreat - Detoxify Body and Mind while Building a Yoga Practice
The seven day detox and yoga retreat program is the ultimate opportunity to take your wellbeing to a new level. This fully supported detox program will lead you through a transformative process both on a physical and mental level to leave you feeling light, energetic and uplifted. This detox retreat can help you to normalize your weight, balance your eating habits and transition into a healthful way of living.
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Yoga and Healthy Diet - Finding Balance
The Finding Balance with Yoga and Healthy Diet retreat is designed to help you find vibrant health using yoga and a balanced approach to nutrition. During this retreat you will learn simple and practical ways to incorporate yoga and a healthy diet into the demands of modern life. You will learn a dietary approach that is grounded in modern scientific research and can be adapted to the individual from the legacy of Ayurveda. The retreat emphasizes how yoga can help you to find the deep inner strength and mental clarity necessary to make lifelong changes.
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Bringing Art and Soul to the practice of Ashtanga Yoga
This is a totally unique opportunity to study with these deeply experienced and inspirational teachers.
They offer a blend of Ashtanga Yoga, Yoga philosophy, Mantra study and practice, Kirtan, Restorative yoga and Meditation... with the intention of each practice as an awakening to our inner Wholeness.
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Deeping Your Practice: Finding Balance in Surya and Chandra Nadi's
To truly deepen our yoga practice, we need to find the balance between the heating and cooling energies which form the basis of all Hatha Yoga Practices. The Solar (heating) and Lunar (cooling) subtle nerve channels need to be balanced to feel a unified flow of energy and consciousness.
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Yoga Practice and Buddhist Thought
Join John Campbell, Certified Ashtanga Yoga practitioner and scholar of Sanskrit, Indian Philosophy and Tibetan Buddhism for a week of yoga and meditation practice. Drawing on his rich background in the body-mind transformative traditions of India and Tibet, Professor Campbell will be giving instruction in the Ashtanga Yoga system in the lineage of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. The emphasis of the retreat will be on the "outer" bodily practices of asana linked to their "inner" components of mental and emotional development.
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Open 2012 Yoga Retreat - Yoga and Daily Life in the Face of Change
There has been a lot of hype around the year 2012, specifically the date of December 21. For sure there is some energetic shift which has already begun. As with any shift or change the level of awareness and preparation of each person can help determine the growth or difficulty we come under due to the shift in circumstances. Both yoga and Buddhist philosophy offer tremendous clarity, wisdom and support for everyone. They are of course built on practice. Both John and Paul share this common bond in practice and deeper understanding. The start of any endeavor is highly important and this short week is a great opportunity to explore practice, either from being exposed to it at a new level or looking to immerse into it.
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Christmas & New Year Yoga Retreat - All About the Breath and Philosophy
The first week will place an emphasis on Asana in the workshops, with more on the Philosophy by the second week, apt for an understanding to contemplate closing the old year and opening the new, with both weeks focused on the breath. Keeping things fluid Paul will still entertain questions on all subjects over the different weeks.
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Christmas & New Year Yoga Retreat - All About the Breath and Philosophy
The first week will place an emphasis on Asana in the workshops, with more on the Philosophy by the second week, apt for an understanding to contemplate closing the old year and opening the new, with both weeks focused on the breath. Keeping things fluid Paul will still entertain questions on all subjects over the different weeks.
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Christmas & New Year Yoga Retreat - All About Asana and the Breath
The first week will place an emphasis on Asana in the workshops, with more on the Philosophy by the second week, apt for an understanding to contemplate closing the old year and opening the new, with both weeks focused on the breath. Keeping things fluid Paul will still entertain questions on all subjects over the different weeks.
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Classic Practice and the Study of Yoga Taravali
One week is just not enough so this year Richard comes to Samahita Yoga Thailand for a special two week program on the practice of yoga and its study through the aid of the text Yoga Taravali. Richard Freeman has a wealth of knowledge through direct experience of dedicating his life to the practice of yoga. Known for both his depth and humor, this is a rare opportunity to spend two delightful weeks gaining greater understanding of practice and its philosophy, all at, what he calls, an idyllic location for it. Yoga Taravali is a 1200 year old text from Adi Shankaracharya, loved by both Krishnamaharya and Pattabhi Jois. It details the yogic process of enlightenment. This combined with Richard's translation and insightful commentary.
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7 Day Detox and Yoga Retreat - Detoxify Body and Mind while Building a Yoga Practice
The seven day detox and yoga retreat program is the ultimate opportunity to take your wellbeing to a new level. This fully supported detox program will lead you through a transformative process both on a physical and mental level to leave you feeling light, energetic and uplifted. This detox retreat can help you to normalize your weight, balance your eating habits and transition into a healthful way of living.
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Yoga: Develop a Self-Practice and Deepen Your Understanding
Elonne will help students build a self-practice of yoga asana and breathwork - pranayama while they gain a clear idea of what yoga is in its entirety, where the practice of yoga comes from, and why we practice yoga to begin with.
It is misunderstanding and lack of knowledge that causes rigidity. With a concrete understanding of tradition, students can then take away with them a solid practice based on an open-minded and liberal approach, which is characteristic of Samahita Yoga Thailand and Paul Dallaghan's teaching.
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Tibetan Buddhism, Yoga and Psychotherapy - The Gradual Path to Awakening
Join Miles Neale, Psy.D. and Emily Wolf, Ph.D. (cand.), psychotherapists from the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science, for a week of meditation, yoga and personal inquiry. The emphasis of the retreat will be exploring the Gradual Path (lam rim) teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, a comprehensive and systematic approach of self-healing and self-mastery designed to lead individuals from distress to full awakening. Drawing on his background in psychotherapy and Buddhist meditation, Dr. Miles Neale will present the Gradual Path teachings through the contemporary lens and language of clinical psychology and neuroscience. He will also provide daily instruction and guidance of the three major types of Buddhist meditation: deep mindfulness, analytic contemplation and visualization.
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Special Continuing Education Training: Philosophy and Pranayama - Pranayama and the Upanishad Shvetashvatara
Sri O. P. Tiwari is one of the most recognized and accomplished masters of yoga, its practice, and its meaning. He comes to us humbly, not trying to prove anything but only to pass on the thought and practice as it has been done by adepts over the centuries, and done so with integrity, where the practice bears fruit. He is a part of this living tradition and carries this energy with him as he lives and practices it.
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Principles of Ashtanga Yoga and Ayurveda - Basic Understanding and Application
Our senior resident teacher Elonne Stockton teams up with a well known EFT practitioner Shalini Joshi Yamdagni in a unique yoga retreat to support your personal development. Elonne will help students develop and/or deepen their self-practice of yoga asana and breathwork - pranayama.
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Continuing Education Pranayama Training Course - Pranayama and the Energetic Body
This course is inspired and blessed by Tiwariji, Paul's direct teacher and one of the few living knowledgeable authorities on Pranayama and its place in the field of yoga today. It is a living tradition. Paul has learnt the full practice in a special one-to-one capacity over the past ten-plus years with Tiwariji. Tiwariji learnt directly from his teacher, Swami Kuvalayananda, who was an adept and highly accomplished in Pranayama and the science of yoga. He was also a devotee and spent his years in practice and training with his teacher, Madhavadas, on the banks of the Narmada river, also being taught this exact practice of Pranayama. In this way it has been passed on very personally and effectively. Such a tradition survives all books as it is only experience that ultimately counts.
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Continuing Education Asana Training Course - Second Series Asana and Sankhya Philosophy
Life around us changes at each moment, whether we like it or not, our bodies also change on a daily basis. You have a choice: embrace and welcome the change or resist and struggle.
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Continuing Education Anatomy Training Course - Yoga Anatomy - Understand and Adjust
David Keil returns to Samahita Yoga Thailand to teach his highly respected Yoga Anatomy series. David teaches these programs worldwide and is internationally acclaimed as one of the experts in anatomy for yoga. He has the groundbreaking Anatomy for Yoga DVD series.
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Natural Therapies & Yoga - A Holistic Approach to Balanced Wellbeing
How to take care of yourself and your wellbeing in a natural and holistic way by exploring a variety of complementary therapies and re-evaluating our approach to how illness and wellness are created.
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Continuing Education Training Course - Evolving with Ayurveda: Radiant Health
Life around us changes at each moment, whether we like it or not, our bodies also change on a daily basis. You have a choice: embrace and welcome the change or resist and struggle.
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Taking Our Practice To The Next Level
In this weeklong retreat with Govinda Kai, we will focus on dynamic discussion and reflection on the deeper meaning of yoga practice. We will challenge ourselves physically, mentally and emotionally to take our practice to the next level in an atmosphere that is both focused and full of joy and humor. This will be done through asana practice, lectures and lively discussions and structured activities, all designed to deepen experience of our lives and practice.
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Yoga and Detox Retreat, a complete and supported naturopathic detox program
Designed for practitioners of all approaches to yoga, this retreat offers a highly effective detox program that not only targets physical blockages but also mental and emotional obstacles, allowing for spiritually transformative experiences. Led by Graeme and Carole Bradshaw, this retreat will significantly improve your vitality and well-being, enhance your yoga practice, and facilitate positive, lasting changes in your life.
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Yoga from the Tradition: Asana, Pranayama, Meditation, Chanting and Philosophy
Elonne will help students develop and/or deepen their self-practice of yoga asana and breathwork - pranayama while they gain a clear idea of what yoga is in its entirety, where the practice of yoga comes from, and why we practice yoga to begin with.
This retreat is open to all levels of practitioners. It is for students who are either new to Yoga or who have been practicing; it is for any student interested in developing or going deeper into their practice and understanding of the practice.
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The Deeper Dimensions of Yoga: Asana, Alignment & Pranayama
A one-week Intensive course (35 hours of on-mat). This workshop, which focuses on Asana and Pranayama, is aimed specifically at the dedicated yoga practitioner. As part of an ongoing series, this module will deepen your knowledge of asana, by looking at detailed physical and energetic alignment, how to make effective modifications, how to use props to make adjustments, so that the practice grows towards independent freedom.
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Ashtanga Yoga & Active Isolated Stretching: Wisdom & Science
The morning program will include a mixture of Guided and Mysore Style Ashtanga Class.
Afternoon Program will focus on Anatomy of Yoga and Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) Workshops. For each session we will draw from variations of basic, intermediate and advanced yoga postures, giving yogis a useful tool in the refinement of their practice. Students will apply the AIS techniques to a large variety of postures including twists, back bends, forward bends, side bends, standing, inverted, and arm balancing.
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Yoga: Develop a Self-Practice and Deepen Your Understanding
In this retreat, through clear and understandable philosophical discussions and plenty of actual practice, we will go beyond the confines of individual techniques and theories to discover the essence of all our practices. Elonne will encourage personal exploration and introspection so that each student may come to their own discoveries and insight of his/her relationship to the practice. Elonne aims to give students a realistic and maintainable practice to take home with them, as well as to encourage students to gain their own unique understanding.
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Yoga and Your Health - The Practical Approach to a Balanced Lifestyle
The Yoga and Your Health retreat offers a practical approach to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. This retreat is for those wishing to make positive changes in their lifestyle to combat the pressures of today's modern living and its impact on our health.
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Easter Holidays Yoga Retreat Special - Yoga for Body, Breath & Mind
Paul and his team will share in the task of teaching and guiding. The retreat will offer a mix of Asana and Pranayama practice, along with practical workshops on philosophy and integrating yoga into daily life. Our intention is for you to feel uplifted and clear in what to practice by the time you end the retreat.
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Finding Balance: The Intersection of Asana, Pranayama, Meditation & Ayurveda
Yoga practice all seems to fall easily into place in a retreat setting. The question always remains as to how to bring it back into our daily lives with our daily obligations and stresses. This workshop will explore how to balance the practices of asana , pranayama, and meditation in our very modern lives within the context of an Ayurvedic lifestyle
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Spanda Yoga Music: Experience Yoga Through Vibration, Music and Sound
A Spanda Yoga Music Workshop with Jack Harrison is an innovative combination of Yoga, breathwork, music and mythology.
Spanda, a marvelous concept from Tantric Yoga, can be translated as "Shimmering Delight". It is a Sanskrit term for the subtle, creative pulse of the universe and means vibration, movement or motion. Everything in nature consists of Vibration and we are all manifestations of it.
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Special Continuing Education Training - Philosophy and Pranayama - 100 hours
Sri O. P. Tiwari is one of the most recognized and accomplished masters of yoga, its practice, and its meaning. He comes to us humbly, not trying to prove anything but only to pass on the thought and practice as it has been done by adepts over the centuries, and done so with integrity, where the practice bears fruit. He is a part of this living tradition and carries this energy with him as he lives and practices it.
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Yoga and Nutrition
Taking on the hatha yoga tradition you are automatically starting a cleansing process for body and mind. A process that is meant to help create and also maintain health and growth on all levels.
To support this process food has always been important to consider and improve in a natural and individual way.
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7 Day Detox and Yoga Retreat - Detoxify Body and Mind while Building a Yoga Practice
The seven day detox and yoga retreat program is the ultimate opportunity to take your wellbeing to a new level. This fully supported detox program will lead you through a transformative process both on a physical and mental level to leave you feeling light, energetic and uplifted. This detox retreat can help you to normalize your weight, balance your eating habits and transition into a healthful way of living.
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Yoga Retreat Chinese New Year - Yoga for Body, Breath & Mind
Our approach to yoga is a holistic one. Yoga can uplift each and every person when it is learned correctly and practiced sincerely. During this retreat, we will work with the body, channel the breath, and center the mind.
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Ashtanga Yoga, Practice and Theory - Learn from a senior certified ashtanga teacher and Tibetan Buddhist and Indian Philosophy scholar
Join John Campbell, Certified Ashtanga Yoga practitioner and scholar of Sanskrit, Indian Philosophy and Tibetan Buddhism for a week of yoga and meditation practice. Drawing on his rich background in the body-mind transformative traditions of India and Tibet, Professor Campbell will be giving instruction in the Ashtanga Yoga system in the lineage of Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.
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Continuing Education Training Course - Accessing the 8 Limbs
Through the classical Yoga philosophy according to the sage Patanjali , we will explore the practice on many different levels and implement the profound depth of the total practice to allow the unfoldment of higher states of awareness.
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Swaha Yoga: The Art and Soul of Ashtanga Yoga
They offer a blend of ashtanga yoga, philosophy, mantra study and practice, kirtan, restorative yoga and meditation... with the intention of each practice as an awakening to our inner Wholeness.
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Open 2011 Yoga Retreat. All about the Breath and Yoga Practice
Paul and his team will share in the task of teaching and guiding. Our expanded yoga shala space allows us to handle all students in different classes, as necessary. The retreat will offer a mix of Asana and Pranayama practice, along with practical workshops on philosophy and integrating yoga into daily life. Our intention is for you to feel uplifted and clear in what to practice by the time you end the retreat.
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| Dates | Yoga retreats | Teachers |
| December 10 - 17, 2008 | Special Pre-opening Retreat,
Be the first guests at the new Samahita Yoga Thailand |
Paul |
| August 9 - 23, 2008 | Pranayama - A Way to Spirituality | Sri OP Tiwari and Paul |
| August 2 - 9, 2008 | Adjustment Clinic | Paul & Neil |
| July 20 - August 2, 2008 | Anatomy & Physiology of Muscular Myofascial Meridians | Paul & Neil |
| June 14 - 21, 2008 June 28 - July 5, 2008 |
Ashtanga Mysore Yoga Retreat | Adarsh and Heleen Williams |
| June 7 - 14, 2008 | Prenatal Yoga Intensive for Yoga Teachers | Sonja |
| May 3 - 10, 2008 May 17 - 24, 2008 |
Yoga Retreat | Clayton Horton |
| March 8 - 15, 2008 | Yoga Retreat with Ashtanga yoga, music and chanting | Ron Reid & Meenakshi |
| March 1 - 8 , 2008 | Optional Reiki Training Session | Kanjini Devi |
| February 9 - 22, 2008 | Pranayama - A Way to Spirituality | Sri OP Tiwari and Paul |
| January 12 - 26, 2008 | Advanced Anatomy and Ashtanga Vinyasa | Paul & Neil |
| August 25 - 31, 2007 | A unique Yoga Retreat in Ashtanga and more...!! | Richard Freeman |
| June 2 - 9, 2007 | Ashtanga Yoga & Ayurveda Retreat | Dr. Shantala, Jessica and Paul |
| February 17 - 24, 2007 | Yoga, Food & Anatomy | Paul, Jessica and Neil |
| January 6 - 13, 2007 January 13 - 20, 2007 |
Ashtanga & Musicfest | Paul and Jack Harrison & his band |
| Pranayama and Ashtanga Yoga Retreat | Paul and Jack Harrison & his band |
