Vikasa Yoga Retreat

Yoga at Vikasa Koh Samui

Vikasa offers yoga classes on Koh Samui, Thailand in an inspiring yoga environment created by Konstantin Miachin. Yoga at Vikasa is taught by experienced international teachers in a variety of styles, including our unique Vikasa style. Vikasa is a certified yoga school where hundreds of students successfully pass intensive teacher training courses each year to receive a globally recognized 200-hour Yoga Alliance certificate. Our instructors are true experts with years of experience.

Our resident Vikasa yoga teachers teach most of the classes given at Vikasa Yoga Retreat, Koh Samui. Most of the resident teachers have successfully completed our Vikasa Yoga Teacher Training program. Our world class team is made of men and women with very diverse backgrounds and styles.They each give their own flavor to their classes based on their individual expertise. We also invite guest teachers who teach styles other than Vikasa Yoga. Classes are usually held in the big yoga sala overlooking the beautiful ocean water, offering fresh salt air and the sound of crashing waves as you practice.

Vikasa means evolution, or spiritual development, when translated from Sanskrit. The concept of “evolution of yoga” is based on the notion that everything in the world evolves constantly, including human beings. Our primary goal as a human race and that of any living organism is evolution, and yoga can be seen as a tool to facilitate such evolution in any given individual. However, as the practice of yoga itself changes with time and place, as new techniques are being introduced, as the approach is becoming more technical, precise and scientific – any definition of it as a system or style seems to be a limitation in itself. Therefore, the “Evolution of Yoga” approach has to be seen as an ever evolving process, which anyone can be a part of, rather than a complete static system. “Evolution of Yoga” approach is based on integrating deep core work with precise alignment, combining active dynamic exercises from different disciplines with static poses from classic hatha yoga schools, alternating dynamic and static, pressure and deep relaxation, therefore exploring ha-tha or the yin and yang concept to its maximum potential, using the principle of hyper compensation.

Yoga Retreat, Koh Samui

Vikasa is the ideal place to practice yoga, find like-minded people, eat healthy food and just chill-out in an amazing environment. Whether it’s your first time in Thailand, or you’re a regular who calls Vikasa home, we hope your stay here will be inspiring and transformational. Joining our community gives you access to daily yoga classes, yoga vacation packages, regular events, and training of teachers, as well as various healers and nutritional counseling. Vikasa is the creation of yoga pioneer Konstantin Miachin, who created this unique place for personal evolution. It’s the ideal place to practice yoga, find like-minded people, eat healthy food or just chill-out in an amazing environment.

Become a Yoga Teacher

If yoga is your passion, maybe now is the time to grow from student to teacher. Vikasa is a certified yoga school, hundreds of students successfully pass intensive training courses each year to receive a globally recognized 200 hours Yoga Alliance certificate. Our inspiring training is run by a group of outstanding and leading professional yoga instructors, and will satisfy even the most demanding and inquisitive mind. Our beautiful open-air and ocean front yoga salas offer a serene setting with soothing sounds of the ocean.

You’ll make a new network of peers, mentors, and friends that will open up opportunities and new experiences. If you’re feeling stuck in the rat race or like life is flying by too fast, training courses for teachers give you a space of time to focus on what you really want to be when you grow up. You’ll transform yourself to be a person that finds it easier to be happy, harder to be upset and all-round wiser and healthier. Training of teachers allows the student to become immersed in anatomical demonstrations and philosophical lessons.