8 Day Vitalize Program and Yoga Retreat in Phuket, Thailand
Vitalizing Yoga Retreat Thailand
The retreat is perfect for you if you want to slow down, rest and reconnect with your body, and restore wellness. The results of the program include increased lung quotient, oxygenated blood, and better eating and digesting, keeping the body active and immune. Beautifully supported by healthy meals, a serene atmosphere, and encouraging instructors, you will come away from this retreat with a heightened sense of balance and harmony.
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- 2 daily yoga sessions
- Soul healing meditation practices
- Booster wheat grass shots with Triphala
- Shuttle service to the beach and to local markets during free time
- Daily spa massages and body treatments (55 min per person per day)
- Access to herbal steam bath and Himalayan rock salt infrared sauna
- 7 nights accommodation in luxurious Mangosteen Villa
- Daily nourishing meals
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Yoga styles
7 days with instruction in English
Accommodation
Facilities
- Gym
- Hot tub / Jacuzzi
- Sauna
- Shopping
- Spa
- Steam room
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Bar
- Concierge desk
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Lobby
- Lounge
- Luggage room / storage
- Multilingual staff
- Poolside bar
- Restaurant
- Special menu request
- Terrace
- Yoga shala
- Car rental
- Currency exchange
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry
- Medical assistance
- Meeting room
- Parking lot
- Tour assistance
For your retreat, you can choose between the resort's four different rooms types. From the basic Superior Garden Villas (but still 58 square meters) to their most famous Superior Jacuzzi Villas including a Jacuzzi hot tub. All villas lay amidst the lush tropical gardens with the Deluxe Jacuzzi and Royal Jacuzzi Villas having a partial sea view and being the most spacious and luxurious room types.
The size of the rooms ranges from 58 square meters to 94 square meters, and provide guests with spacious, large, and private space. Each villa features a comfortable seating area, spacious al-fresco bathrooms with an outside garden rain-shower and a terrace, all designed to ensure an enjoyable stay. %The rooms are well fitted out with a variety of unique interior features, designed by John Underwood. Warm tones, rich colors, heavy wooden furniture, and mostly natural materials used and combined to an almost timeless design make you feel comfortable right away.
Mangosteen Ayurveda & Wellness Resort's villas have been designed to be naturally cool, with very high insulation and air ventilation through the roof. Even without air-conditioning, you will feel comfortable and relaxed. The air-conditioning is working quietly, the temperature control is precise, and you can reach it from your bed.
Mattresses are first grade for a very comfortable sleep and sweet dreams. The tropical gardens are kept natural, cultured but not overdesigned, attracting local animals such as geckos, birds, frogs, and butterflies, also a result of environmentally friendly pest control systems.
Program
This retreat program is a unique combination of meals and drinks, spa treatments, yoga and meditation sessions to allow you to achieve your targets in a very relaxing, luxury environment. During this retreat, you will enjoy deep activation of energy points with massages and warm wraps with the herbal sauna to improve blood circulation.
To revamp your energy, your body needs nourishing in the right dose with precise bodily activities. This will help your lung quotient to oxygenate the blood.
Sample of the daily schedule
Day 1
- Check-in Introduction to the resort and program
- Afternoon yoga or meditation
- Wheatgrass shot
- Fresh and light dinner
Day 2
- Morning yoga session
- Healthy breakfast buffet
- Body scrub
- Herbal steam sauna
- Wholesome lunch
- Afternoon yoga or meditation
- Evening veggie drink
- Fresh and light dinner
Day 3 - 7
- Morning yoga session
- Healthy breakfast buffet
- Body wrap/massage
- Herbal steam sauna
- Wholesome lunch
- Afternoon yoga or meditation
- Evening veggie drink
- Fresh and light dinner
Day 8
- Morning yoga session
- Healthy breakfast buffet
- Body massage
- Check-out
- Wholesome lunch
Instructors
Dr. Nezeem Kadavil Uthuman
Dr. Nezeem was born and brought up in an Ayurveda background in Kerala, inspired by his father who was a Gov. Ayurvedic Medical Officer having experience of over 50 years. From childhood until now he has been influenced by the success of his father in his Ayurveda practicing skills. He decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and successfully studied “Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine & Surgery (BAMS)” and also got a “PG Diploma in Hospital Management”. To further enhance his skills, he specialized in Marma Therapy.
Daosuk Dao Sethi
Dao is an enthusiastic yoga instructor who is proficient in Yin, Hatha yoga, and Vinyasa yoga. She started practicing yoga in 2015 and hasn’t stopped since. In 2018, she traveled to India to master the arts of yoga teaching where she received her first training certificate from Satyam Vedic Yoga School in Rishikesh. Aside from yoga, Dao is also a crystal bowl therapy spiritual coach. Dao teaches yoga focusing on her students. Having instructed students from a wide range of skill levels, she is very experienced with figuring out what is best for her students and helping them reach their goals.
Koong Jiraphorn
Koong has been passionate about yoga for a long time. She had the opportunity to train as a yoga teacher in Rishikesh, India, and received the certificate from Satyam Vedic Yoga School with Yogacharya Somdutt Amoli. She is now living in Phuket to teach yoga at different yoga centers. When she had the opportunity, she went to many workshops to gain new knowledge, because she thought that learning was endless. Since 2017, she has taught Vinyasa yoga at the Mangosteen Resort.
Orlando Matos Abreu
Hatha yoga instructor, specializing in Yoga Therapy and Spine Rejuvenation. With a predominant background in Hatha yoga, Orlando has also incorporated Vinyasa and Yin yoga, creating different therapeutic sequences suitable for all ages and levels! Combining different breathing techniques and mental focus, this relaxing yet dynamic therapeutic approach continues helping many with not only flexibility but also chronic pain balancing mind and body! Orlando passed the RYS-500 Yoga Shiromani Teacher Training with Dr. Om Prakesh in Uttarakhand, Himalaya, India, in January 2018.
Kirstin Gourlay
Kirstin has been living in Thailand since 2015 and teaches yoga and meditation. She is an Access Bars Energy Healing Practitioner, as well as a holistic wellness consultant. At Mangosteen Resort, she is teaching Restorative and Yin-based yoga classes, suitable for all levels, and helps her guests to find that this is where their mind, body and soul can find balance and peace.
Ann Kunticha
Ann Kunticha is a yoga instructor, specializing in Hatha, Vinyasa, and Arail yoga. In 2014, she took a yoga training course at Lanna yoga Chiang Mai learning Hatha and Vinyasa yoga. In 2017, she completed 100-hour yoga training at Hari Om Yoga Vidya in Rishikesh. In the same year, she also received an Aerial yoga certificate of completion (10-hour workshop). The following year, she completed 200-hour Hatha Ashtanga yoga teacher training, continuing her previous 100-hour from Hari Om Yoga (Yoga training at Satyam Vedic Yoga School).
Nuya Laksanachan
Her yoga journey began 2006; after the 1st class she became instantly hooked, and soon after travelled to India to study more for in-depth self-practice. Since qualifying as an instructor in 2014, she's now completed further qualifications in Aerial Yoga, Acro Yoga, and Acroyoga Fit. In classes she combines creative sequencing, playfulness, and inspiration to help students to deepen their practice, to find a harmony within themselves, to thrive in life by nurturing body, mind and soul with yoga. Her hope is that all students step off the mat feeling refreshed, nourished and balanced.
Retreat location
The Mangosteen Ayurveda & Wellness Spa is located in the south of Phuket on a private hillside, offering spectacular ocean views over four bays and many surrounding islands. The location is ideal for travelers looking for peace and tranquility but is still not too far from the busier beaches. Nearby attractions include Big Buddha of Phuket, Chalong Temple, Promthep Cape Sunset Viewpoint, Rawai Beach with a seafood market and the famous Chalong Pier, the starting point for almost all Phuket boat excursions.
Distances
- Kata Beach - 10 to 15 minutes
- Big Buddha of Phuket
- Promthep Sunset Viewpoint
- Chalong Temple
- Phuket International Airport (HKT) - 60 minutes
Unique features
Activities
- Art classes
- Cooking classes
- Gym
- Massage
- Sauna
- Spa
- Swimming
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
General
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Hammock
- In-room safe
- Mini bar
- Terrace
Services
- Free bottled water
- Hair dryer
- Internet access
Food
The price includes daily breakfast buffet, a wholesome lunch, fresh dinner, booster wheatgrass shots with Triphala, and immune evening veggie drinks. Mangosteen Ayurveda & Wellness Resort has gluten free bread available at their restaurant. The meals included in the packages are all vegan but there is a non-vegan option available free of charge.
The following meals are included:
- Brunch
- Lunch
- Dinner
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
- Detox juices
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Organic
- Ayurvedic
Things to do (optional)
Phuket offers an enormous choice of tours and excursions, from snorkeling trips to scuba diving, Island hopping, canoeing in Phangnga Bay, visiting temples and the famous Phuket Big Buddha, shopping malls, markets, cultural shows, natural exploration, like hiking and elephant sanctuaries, of course, various water sports and golfing.
The Mangosteen is located close to most of Phuket attractions, like Nai-Harn Beach, Ao Sean Beach, Ya Nui Beach, Kata Beach and the Kata Viewpoint, the famous Promthep Cape Sunset Viewpoint, Rawai Seafood Market, the Big Buddha and Chalong Temple and also Chalong Pier is only a few minutes away, the main pier from where all Phuket boat trips are starting.
An ideal location for those who wish to explore Phuket!
Diving
During Monday afternoons at the pool, Sea Bees Diving, one of Phuket’s best dive operators, located at Chalong Pier, are offering free diving lessons for everybody to try. Come and try yourself. Of course, if you like to try it out in the sea, Sea Bees are also highly recommended. Explore the corals, the colorful fishes of the Andaman Sea.
Phuket Fantasea show and Phuket Fantasea cultural theme park
Inspired by Thailand’s exotic heritage, Phuket FantaSea not only showcases the charm and beauty of Thailand but also enriches ancient Thai traditions with the wonder of cutting-edge technology and special effects.
The result is a stunning 140-acre cultural theme park that has become the ultimate in night-time entertainment on the resort island of Phuket. Created at a cost of over 3500 million THB, Phuket FantaSea offers a multitude of attractions not found anywhere else in the world.
Phang Nga Bay sea canoe
Phangna Bay with its beautiful limestone rocks and islands is one of the most stunning must-see attractions of Phuket. The bay is best to be explored by sea canoe. Watch the wildlife, paddle through narrow bat caves and fantastic lagoons. The bay can be explored at almost any weather condition, it is well protected from waves and sunshine is not absolutely necessary.
Since Mangosteen Resort has opened, the best sea canoe trip is always recommended, John Gray Hong by Starlight. John’s trip is the best to recommend and an experience not to be missed.
Salt-water swimming pool
The large free form swimming pool is salt-water treated and the heart of the property. It is open 24 hours with water temperatures around 30 degrees. There is generous space for everybody and even with the resort fully booked, the pool area will not feel crowded.
Thai cooking classes
Thai food is famous around the world and with Asia shops mushrooming in almost every country and city worldwide, more and more people like to cook some of the tasteful and spicy dishes at home. Book a Thai cooking class with the resort's chef and learn by doing.
Spa treatments
You will be provided with daily spa massage and body treatments that include body scrub with herbal steam, vitalizing mud wrap, body toning massage, balancing massage, and Thai massage.
What's included
- 7 nights accommodation in the chosen room type
- Healthy, home cooked welcome drink (Rosella Flower Juice), homemade local sweets, cold towels upon arrival
- Drinking water provided in the villa, refillable copper bottles
- Daily breakfast buffet, wholesome lunch, and fresh dinner (all meals are vegan but a non-vegan option is available free of charge)
- 7 immune evening veggie drinks or wheatgrass shots
- 2 daily yoga sessions (60 min each, including meditation breathworks, morning and afternoon)
- 1 Coffee Citric dynamic scrub (45 minutes)
- 1 vitalizing mud wrap (45 minutes)
- 1 green tea wrap (45 minutes)
- 1 Toning coconut oil massage (55 minutes)
- 2 Thai Energy massage (55 minutes)
- 3 herbal steam sauna (15 minutes )
- 1 balancing massage (55 minutes)
- Access to Himalayan rock salt infrared sauna
- Shuttle service to the beach and to local markets during free time
- Intro diving at the Mangosteen Pool (once per stay per person)
- Free Ayurveda consultation
What's not included
- Airport transfer (can be booked additionally)
- Excursions and sightseeing tours (can be booked at the hotel)
- Extra yoga classes (available on request at 500 THB per person per hour)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer available for additional US$ 80 per person
Phuket International Airport
35 km away from your destination
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 20% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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