WELCOME TO
Spirit
RETREATS
Custom retreats in Northern Thailand
for the work the body has been waiting to do.
Bring us to you — International Retreats Available.
Custom retreats in Northern Thailand
for the work the body has been waiting to do.
Bring us to you — International Retreats Available.
It's time to return to
yourself
Welcome to Northern Thailand.
The retreats are held in the mountains north of Chiang Mai, in a region the body recognises before the mind does.
The air is different here. The pace of the land is different. Distance from the life you've been holding together is part of what makes the work possible — the nervous system needs to register that it is somewhere else, somewhere it does not have to perform, before anything deeper can move.
This is land that has held people for a long time. Mountains, forest, water, sky. The kind of environment the body was designed to live in, and remembers as soon as it arrives.
What you've been carrying does not have to be explained here. It only has to be given the conditions to move.
There is a moment when the life you've been holding together starts to cost more than it gives.
Not a crisis necessarily. Sometimes just a stillness underneath the functioning — a sense that something in you has been waiting, that the pace you've been keeping has a price, and that somewhere beneath the competence and the care, something real is asking to be met.
The body has been holding it. All of it. And it stays held until the conditions exist for it to move.
That's what these retreats are built for.
"After surviving a plane crash, I lived with daily pain for five years. Nothing worked until I came here. For the first time, I felt safe enough to heal. What happened next changed everything.” — Tanja
Click the play button to listen to Tanja’s powerful healing journey.
Our Main Area of
Expertise
Chronic Pain
Pain is rarely what you think it is.
The boots did not cause the back pain. The exercise did not cause the shoulder. The injury you can name is almost never the whole story — it is the place the body has chosen to hold what it could no longer carry somewhere else.
Pain lives in the nervous system. Two people with the same injury will have entirely different experiences of it, because pain is shaped by stress load, emotional state, history, and the meaning the system has assigned to the sensation. This is why the same MRI can produce radically different pain levels in different bodies. It is also why managing the tissue alone so often fails. The signal is not in the tissue. It is in the system interpreting it.
Simba has worked with chronic pain and injury for twenty-five years. Internal Alchemy was developed out of that work, in collaboration with Dr. David Berceli, founder of TRE.
The work meets pain at its source. It restores the conditions the body needs to complete what it started — the unfinished response, the held tension, the protective pattern that has long outlived the moment it was built for.
What follows goes deeper than relief. A body that feels like yours again. A nervous system that has stopped bracing. Pain that stops being the thing you are trying to escape and becomes information you can read.
That shift is the work. The relief follows from it.
Sacred Relationships
The patterns that shape how you relate live in the body, not the mind. They live in how you breathe when someone gets close, in where you tighten when conflict arises, in what you do before you have decided to do anything.
The shutdown, the reactivity, the wall that goes up a half-second before you knew it was going up, the same argument running on a loop you cannot seem to step out of. These are nervous system patterns, built early, often before language, and running underneath every relationship you have.
You cannot think your way out of something the body installed before the thinking mind existed. Insight alone has its limits. Understanding alone has its limits. The pattern only changes when the body that holds it is given the conditions to complete what it has been carrying.
This work brings those patterns into direct experience rather than analysis. The same nervous system, fascia, and somatic processing that release pain in the body also release the protective shapes that have been running your relationships. What becomes available on the other side is presence — the capacity to actually be with another person without bracing, performing, withdrawing, or managing.
The work is the same whether you arrive alone, as a couple, as a family, or as an organisation. The container changes; the body's intelligence stays the same. Including, and often beginning with, the relationship with yourself.
Embodiment for Practitioners, Leaders & Entrepreneurs
The work you do runs on your body.
Holding space for a client, leading a team through pressure, staying present when something difficult is moving through the room — none of this is cognitive work. It is nervous system work. And the bandwidth of the body underneath it is what determines how much you can hold before something starts to give.
Most practitioners, leaders, and entrepreneurs are operating at the edge of what their system can carry. The fatigue that does not lift on a weekend off. The reactivity that arrives faster than it used to. The numbness that has crept in around what used to feel alive. These are signals from a system that has been giving without being resourced.
There is also another truth in this work: you can only take another person as far as you have gone yourself. Not what you understand. What you have lived. The people you work with feel the difference, even when they cannot name it.
Embodiment is what closes that gap — the movement from understanding something to actually living it in the body.
What becomes available is steadier presence under pressure, clearer decisions, and a body that recovers faster than it has in years. The depth you can meet in another grows because your own depth has grown.
Internal Alchemy was developed in part for this — for the people whose work depends on the state of their body, and who have rarely been met at the level they meet others.
Your Personalized Retreat Experience
No two bodies arrive carrying the same thing, and our retreats are shaped with that in mind.
You choose the length — a single day, a weekend, a week, or a longer immersion — and every retreat begins with a holistic consultation, where we map what is present in your body, your nervous system, and your life right now, and what you are here to meet.
From there, the schedule is built around what your body, your emotions, and your energy system are ready for, with the land, the meals, the pace of the days, and the depth of each session all held in service of the work.
What's Included:
When the body is doing this kind of work, it cannot also be managing logistics. Decisions about food, transport, where to sleep, what to wear tomorrow — small in isolation, but collectively they keep the system tethered to the surface. Removing them is part of how the depth becomes available.
Included in every retreat experience:
Opening Consultation.
Every conversation begins here, before anything is decided. A direct, unhurried call with us to explore what is asking to be met, what kind of support would actually serve, and what a retreat could look like for you. There is no cost and no expectation. Some people book from here. Others take what surfaced in the conversation and continue on their own. Both are welcome.
Holistic Assessment.
Before you arrive, we begin with a deep-dive consultation that maps your body, your nervous system, your current state, and what you are here to meet. This is the foundation the entire retreat is shaped around — what your body is ready for, what to prioritize, and what depth becomes available across the days you are with us..
Private Accommodation.
Your own quiet room at our partner venue in Northern Thailand, with air conditioning, fan, and private bathroom. A space to rest, to integrate, and to be alone with what is moving through.
Curated Meals.
The food will be shaped around your assessment, the depth you are working with, and the focus of your retreat — adjusted for any dietary needs or preferences you bring. All meals included.
Integration Space.
Time built into each day to be alone with what is moving — to walk, to rest, to be still, to allow what surfaced in a session to land before the next one begins. The integration is part of the work, not separate from it.
Practices Between Sessions.
Tailored practices and supporting materials, if needed, to take into the spaces between sessions, so the work continues moving in your body throughout the retreat.
Airport Transfer.
Pick-up and drop-off, so arrival and departure remain part of the held container rather than something to navigate alone.
Laundry Service.
Taken care of, so your attention can stay where it belongs.
Bonus Follow-Up Session.
A one-to-one session with us once you are back home, to support the landing — letting the work settle into your daily rhythm, your relationships, and the environment you are returning to.
This is your space.
Your journey.
Your healing.
Crafted by you. Supported by us.
Held by something far greater that wants you to come home to yourself.
“I came here burned out, medicated, and numb. I’m leaving radiant, pain-free, and finally alive. I thought I needed a holiday. What I found was soul rehab.” — Kim
Click the play button to watch her story of transformation.
How It Works
Every retreat is a co-creation between you and us.
It begins with you reaching out — sharing what is asking to be met, what you are wanting to explore, and any questions you have about our setup, availability, pricing, or process. From there, we offer an opening consultation to understand what would actually serve you, and to map out what a retreat could look like — the length, the depth, the focus, and the sessions that would shape it.
There are no strings attached in this phase. We are happy to provide quotes, talk through possibilities, and let you take what surfaced in the conversation into your own time. Some people return to book. Others continue on their own. Both are welcome.
You also have the option to bring us to you.
We can create a custom retreat for you anywhere in the world.
"As a clinician, I’ve been to healing centers around the world. But this—this was something entirely different. A rare fusion of professionalism and deep personal presence. My nervous system felt held in a way I’ve never experienced.” —Dr. David Berceli, Founder of TRE®
Click the play button to tune in to what made this experience unlike anything he’s ever known.
MEET YOUR HOSTS
Simba
CO-FOUNDER OF LIVING WITH THE SPIRIT
I have been working with the body for 25 years, as a bodyworker, a TRE® Certification Trainer, a craniosacral therapist, a martial artist, and an energy healer since early in life. I have over 100 certifications across somatic healing, bodywork, energetics, physiology, and TCM.
What I kept returning to was the same thing: the body already knows how to heal. The work is always about restoring the conditions that allow it to do so.
Internal Alchemy grew out of that understanding, developed in collaboration with Dr. David Berceli, and refined through years of practice with people navigating pain, trauma, disconnection, and the particular exhaustion that comes from holding space for others without knowing how to resource yourself.
This is the work I do. It is also the way I live.
Sara Marie
FOUNDER OF LIVING WITH THE SPIRIT
Sara Marie is the founder of Phoenix Rising, a living path of feminine awakening. Her work guides women through the fire of truth, shedding survival patterns, awakening life force, and remembering love as the greatest power.
Her own journey of healing and remembrance has led her to dissolve false conditioning, return to her body as a temple, and rise into sovereignty. This lived experience allows her to hold others with both depth and clarity.
Sara Marie weaves somatic practice, feminine energetics, and universal law into each retreat, creating spaces of remembrance. Her invitation is simple and profound: come home to yourself, embody your truth, and rise.
International Retreats
The retreat structure is fully mobile.
If you have a group, a location, or a community ready for this kind of experience, reach out.
The same depth of presence and personalised care is available anywhere in the world,
all that's needed is a space. Everything else comes with us.
Contact: simba.stenqvist@gmail.com
Our Credentials
By devoting our lives to the inner healing process, we have become experts in Stress Resilience, Trauma Treatment, Nervous System Regulation, and Holistic Detoxification. We believe in the art of teaching self-healing so that you can heal too.
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