I thoroughly enjoyed my month at Samahita and was sad to leave. As our (Simon Low) teacher training programme was intensive and very full on, I was very grateful to be staying in such a beautiful place with great people, food and atmosphere :) Thanks to all the lovely staff.

I spent 2 wonderful weeks at Samahita. Overall i was very satisfied with the place and with the service. Yoga classes were great, teachers are attentive and nice. The atmosphere is great for personal growth and education.

It was a well deserved rest from everyday life. Great that the meals are included and are available for those hours that they are. And the many new tastes the kitchen presented throughout the week was amazing.

Thank you the wonderful week in Samahita Retreat. Perfect place to concentrate in yoga practice, prayanama and ayurveda. Peaceful, functional, good dervice and teaching.

Samahita Retreat is a great combination of yoga, beach, sun & healthy food in a relaxed environment

Great accomodations, good & healthy food, very friendly staff, good course.

It is nice to do yoga and have many treatments at the same place. I feel myself almost different person because yoga and treatments have done so much for me. Food was excellent and it was variable. Room was comfortable.

This is the perfect place to feel free to pursue all kinds heathful interests, especially yoga and general well-being. The staff is very friendly, helpful and professional. The environment helps you relax which helps you focus!

Come here. Sink in . Breathe . Watch . Listen . Be tolerant . Smile . Let go . Live.

Samahita is a nuturing environment to encourage the study of asana and breating pratice. The atmosphere is fantastic but most importantly, all the courses are lead at a rigorous and highly qualified level by Paul Dallaghan – I am hooked!

Samahita is my sancturary. I come here every year , Amazing Teaching, courses, Energy, Food and People.

Apart from the beautiful setting, I once more enjoyed being taugh by Tiwariji and Paul, by their responsible, unagitated ways- and by the same time having a lot fun.

Wonderful yoga and detox retreat with high level of comfort. The warmest welcome awaits you to this peaceful retreat on the quieter southern coast of the island of Koh Samui. Immaculate well serviced rooms, delicious and creative vegetarian dishes, with some fish. No alcohol, TV or smoking- which is wonderful not to have to endure from others if you want to have a real detox break! Comprehensive yoga retreats from world famous teachers throughout the year as well as professional trainings held by the founder of the retreat Paul Dallaghan. Wonderful to see how everything has been thought of through to the smallest detail, and plenty of oppotunities for non-yoga partners and children to relax and enjoy a host of activities on the island. Maew and her wellness team are compassionate and professional offering a wide selection of spa treatments to complement your stay. I cannot find fault and look forward to a return visit before too long. Thank you to everyone who looked after me so well.

If you have a break to free your mind and body, try to spend your time to find an Extra-ordinary holiday in Samahita Retreat which will give you a different life style far from your usual urban life.

Samahita Retreat really fulfilled my expectations! Really yoga teacher, lots of good healthy food and beaitful relaxing environment. I really recommend this place for everyone.

Samahita’s yoga retreat was excellent. I’ve spent the must memorable and best holiday here enjoying yoga and pranayama practice, having fun, enjoying sun, sea and delicious and healthy food. I can warm heartedly recommend!

Chef Nui was amazing! She accommodated my gluten free + dairy free diet with the most tasty yummy food. I’ve ever had! Retreat center is beautiful and relaxing A+++++

Dear Tannie and Everyone at Samahita, This email is one of gratitude for an incredible time at Samahita the past two weeks at Richard’s retreat. It truly was such a beautiful time, my first in Thailand. Now that I am back in my NYC apartment, I am sitting here quietly with gratitude for everything and everyone. Please give my special thanks to NUI the chef (spectacular) and JEAB, who took great care of me in the Wellness Center. I left some extra baht at the end of the stay, and hoping that some it goes to them. Next time I will bring extra as I spent a little too much in the gift store at the end!

Great, I learned a lot during my week and would definitely come back (it was my 4th time at Yoga Thailand)

I have been a registered nurse for more than 26 years. A mother of 3 children and running a bussiness for 12 years. My work is a very stressfull. I became irritable and I even got sick for one year and due to this I have a residual effect on my muscles due to medication induced. After I have been to this retreat, I learned how to relaxed my mucle. My pin and needles on my mucles that I have for many years has gone. Maybe detoxing plays very important role on my health. I thanks all the staff for such a wonderful job and supported me to get through this process. More power to the samahita retreat staff……

A beautifully thought out yoga retreat. Amazing food, a place for everyone to find their own space and enjoy yoga to the max or simply to decompress from the daily grind!

Our time at Samahita Retreat was just wonderful. The food was exceptional, as we’re the staff and amenities. We both felt so relaxed and healthy and want to try to maintain this feeling of Wellbeing at home. Thank you to everyone who made our stayso beautiful.

I was doing my meditation and holding you in gratitude this morning, so dropping you a line. I did a drop in to a workshop last night, to take a look see, and for the first time that i can ever remember, i looked at the clock wondering, when this idiot would release me and stop wasting my time, (the only time i have ever looked at the clock with you, is when i need the bathroom and wondering if i can hold it, because i really dont want to miss anything!!!), and i remembered something you said the very first time i met you, you had been talking about starting Retreat, and that you and jutima, wanted to create a space of “authentic yoga”, so now i wanted to thank you both for doing just that. For the “clean and clear”, for not hooking into the mainstream because it is easier, for always giving me a foundation and strength to maintain an “authentic” practice, and for always keeping and holding the authentic corner, where we can come to you and be in the essence of pure yoga, and for your protection, i realised last night how much you protect us from the idiots and impurity that is out there, through you guidance and through the lessons of discernment that you have offered and somehow along the line i have imbibed.

Paul and all the teachers are not only knowledgable but are also very giving, I learned so much. Food was really yummy. General Manager is a nice guy, he knows his stuff. Truly appreciate everything.

This is a great place to stay, fantastic facility and friendly, helpful staff, with wonderful food served buffet style.

Retreat has a very peaceful atmosphere (even when it is full) with nice rooms and attentive staff. Yoga classes in the morning are very good. Detox in the Wellness Center is realy very good, massages are outstanding, I felt like a different person after completing my 7 day Detox.

I loved evertyhing about this place and the variaty of things available all in close proximity. I loved the thoughtfullness and detail is everything. Great food all freshly prepared. Nice room with large bathroom. Nurse in the Wellness Center was so kind and helful during my colonic. I loved my experiences, thank you so much for this.

Stayed in a beautiful deluxe room during Tiwari. Excellent food, good diversity and not too spicy. Thank you for a great stay.

Good retreat with great local and international staff. Nice rooms with amazing cleaning staff. Staff at juice bar very friendly with a great selection of healthy drinks. Food was delicious.

Dear Samahita Retreat, I visited you a year ago and somehow it happened that your perfect buffet turned this biggest-steak-eater into a vegetarian & I been since :) Thank you so much, this is one of the most positive changes I experienced in my life ?

Terrible teacher training experience Review of Samahita Retreat Pending review The exact opposite experience that I had hoped for. The good: The food is wonderful and so is the wait staff. The not so good: The beach is littered and boats that park leak oil onto shore. My colleagues rooms were moldy but mine was fine. The bad: The yoga teacher training was organized with the clear belief that most of us should not teach and most practitioners do not understand what yoga is. A disproportionate amount of time is spent on chanting. The anatomy is squeexed into a week and bogged down with unnecessary information (I will never say "calcaneus" to a yoga class) with too little focus on anatomocal application. Asana practice is led by a single teacher on a podium with little to no personal instruction/corrections given. Anyone who entered with bad form left with bad form. We were expected to use our one free day to instruct our classmates because so little time in the actual program was spent on teaching. We had to memorize sequences and were given little freedom to create our own. Actual teacher training was last priority. The ugly: I have never seen so much pretense in yoga. Harping on and on about "fake yogis" is an ironic preoccupation for a teacher training. The owner seems embittered by his financial and personal struggles, which he shared in disorganized rants during 5 hour long sessions that were supposed to be philosophy lessons. Sessions where no breaks were offered and when they were requested, the owner dictated naps or dance sessions--we were not encouraged to use the time for a break as we saw fit and criticized if we did not participate. It was an absurdly controlling display of ego that left many of us upset and some angry. The group became divided between the believers and the disappointed, and the energy was bad overall. So sad. To many in this training, this was just a long vacation. But for me this was a part of a long spiritual journey that I had looked forward to and was sadly disappointed by. It was possibly a once in a lifetime opportunity to take time off and spend a considerable amount of money to invest in knowledge I didn't receive, in a place where I did not feel cared for or even truly respected. I hesitated to write this but would hate for someone like me to make the same mistake. Go elsewhere.

Terrible teacher training experience Review of Samahita Retreat Pending review The exact opposite experience that I had hoped for. The good: The food is wonderful and so is the wait staff. The not so good: The beach is littered and boats that park leak oil onto shore. My colleagues rooms were moldy but mine was fine. The bad: The yoga teacher training was organized with the clear belief that most of us should not teach and most practitioners do not understand what yoga is. A disproportionate amount of time is spent on chanting. The anatomy is squeexed into a week and bogged down with unnecessary information (I will never say "calcaneus" to a yoga class) with too little focus on anatomocal application. Asana practice is led by a single teacher on a podium with little to no personal instruction/corrections given. Anyone who entered with bad form left with bad form. We were expected to use our one free day to instruct our classmates because so little time in the actual program was spent on teaching. We had to memorize sequences and were given little freedom to create our own. Actual teacher training was last priority. The ugly: I have never seen so much pretense in yoga. Harping on and on about "fake yogis" is an ironic preoccupation for a teacher training. The owner seems embittered by his financial and personal struggles, which he shared in disorganized rants during 5 hour long sessions that were supposed to be philosophy lessons. Sessions where no breaks were offered and when they were requested, the owner dictated naps or dance sessions--we were not encouraged to use the time for a break as we saw fit and criticized if we did not participate. It was an absurdly controlling display of ego that left many of us upset and some angry. The group became divided between the believers and the disappointed, and the energy was bad overall. So sad. To many in this training, this was just a long vacation. But for me this was a part of a long spiritual journey that I had looked forward to and was sadly disappointed by. It was possibly a once in a lifetime opportunity to take time off and spend a considerable amount of money to invest in knowledge I didn't receive, in a place where I did not feel cared for or even truly respected. I hesitated to write this but would hate for someone like me to make the same mistake. Go elsewhere.