Invest in your personal evolution
Time spent on vacation is always well invested.
Evolution on your terms
Enjoy the freedom and flexibility to create your own retreat. Enjoy unlimited access to all yoga and meditation classes, gong, sound, and ecstatic dance. Choose your own pace and path of transformation. Your schedule can be as full or as relaxing as you wish.
Meaningful ethical voyages
Discover your new home away from home at Vikasa where you can focus solely on your growth in an idyllic environment. Enjoy delicious healthy meals and opt for island adventures, spa treatments, healing therapies, or private classes.
Connection and community
Designed to bring like-minded people together. Interact with other guests in a safe community and enjoy the exotic culture and climate of Koh Samui. Explore temples, markets, an elephant sanctuary, or stunning waterfalls alongside new friends.
Enjoy a transformative yoga retreat in Thailand
A yoga vacation that leaves you in better shape – physically and mentally – than before.
How do you feel about your life? Is it a life of health, happiness, and personal evolution? How about your vacation? Are they meaningful experiences that leave you stronger, clearer, and more connected? Or do you tend to return home feeling like you need another escape? Meaningful holidays lead to personal growth.
Vikasa means evolution in Sanskrit. A vacation is the perfect way to take a deep breath from life and return home feeling more powerful and enlivened, reconnected to the most radiant version of you.
The Vikasa lifestyle allows you to reap the maximum enjoyment from your retreat journey. The benefits of a Vikasa retreat are often experienced within just a few days. You’ll discover energy and motivation you never knew existed. You’ll feel strong and vibrant from the combination of yoga, nature, healthy food, and community. Your mind, body, and spirit will evolve and you making choices that value your self-care feels easy and natural.
Self-transformation is part of every Vikasa journey. When you start making small changes, you’ll reawaken something deep within you. This means the benefits of your retreat aren’t limited, they are long-lasting.
A Vikation offers you the best of both worlds. It’s an invitation to retreat your way and choose your own retreat adventure depending on your goals. A Vikation combines deep relaxation with meaningful challenge. This lifestyle is not about limiting yourself, rather it is about abundance. After all, life is about having fun and experiencing people, food, culture, and adventures along the way.
Through your time at Vikasa, you will also discover that having a sense of self-motivation and curiosity is what enables you to grow. As humans, you thrive on patterns and rituals. This is an opportunity to discover what best serves you, and how to continue these practices and routines from anywhere in the world.
You will likely be inspired to introduce small changes like meditation, a few yoga poses, healthier eating, or writing a gratitude list, into your life. These simple techniques can completely change your mindset and the direction of your path setting you up to embark on a new chapter. Real transformation starts here.
Kosta Miachin created Vikasa as a place for transformation. This magical place has been a starting point for lifestyle change for thousands of people. Many of the guests return to Vikasa every year to brush up on their lifestyle habits, experience the beauty of Vikasa, take some much-deserved time out, and immerse themselves in a diverse community.
Lifestyle
- Rest: Wake up naturally to the sounds of the ocean and tropical birds, not an alarm.
- Nourish: Nourish your body with fresh, wholesome, delicious, mouth-watering meals.
- Community: Meet new friends and interact with like-minded people in a vibrant community.
Yoga
- Strengthen: Challenge your body and discover strength and agility in all-level yoga classes.
- Breathe: Experience the power of meditation and breathwork to help you focus within.
- Flow: Tap into your inner self and find flow and freedom both on and off the mat.
Benefits
- Self love: Empower yourself to take responsibility for your own health and happiness.
- Stress adaptation: Don’t just relieve stress, train your nervous system to be more resilient.
- Transformation: Discover what your body needs to thrive and effortlessly transform for the better.
Take a Vikation, take a deep breath from life
Evolution feels amazing. The classic Vikation is the perfect way to take a deep breath from life and return home feeling more powerful and enlivened than before. After a yoga vacation, your daily life will suddenly vibrate on a different level. You may start to branch out naturally into new circles.
The new people you will start to attract will be healthier and happier people. When you tap into your deepest energy, you’ll unlock a powerful force that is mirrored in those around you. You’ll have a spring in your step with more energy and enthusiasm to live your life the way it was meant to be lived. Your confidence will rise, your mind will clear, and you’ll feel a deeper sense of self-love.
The Vikasa lifestyle is about waking up and reconnecting to your most enlivened, radiant self. Sadly, many people in modern society are stuck in some kind of rut. They never get started on their path to evolution because they shelter themselves from change.
They stay trapped in old patterns and neglect their own health and well-being. They think yoga is about fancy poses and looking pretty on a mat. They make excuses to avoid wellness modalities and in doing so, limit their potential.
The Vikasa lifestyle is about waking up and prioritizing natural and simple ways to help you feel the most alive. It’s about getting back to basics and reconnecting with a lost part of yourself so you feel empowered to follow your truth and really live life to the fullest.
Your attitude towards life is what you call your life philosophy. Your inner view of the world creates your outer world as a mirror image. It all depends on the way your attitude is wired and how you think about your life. Your life philosophy is created by the thoughts you think and the beliefs that shape the reality around you. Wherever you put your intention is where your life grows. If you focus on your well-being, you will thrive.
Ethical adventures
Your free time on your Vikation is yours to fill as you please. Every week, several different adventures around the island that you are welcome to partake in will be offered. Come and hand-feed rescued elephants at Koh Samui’s Elephant Sanctuary.
Explore the underwater world of the island with an afternoon boat trip, finishing off with sunset happy hour. Or come and hike the majestic waterfalls and get back to nature, you’ll be rewarded for your efforts with a refreshing swim and cold coconut. Have your heart set on something else? Vikasa can help you arrange excursions, activities, or adventures. The island may be small yet it has plenty on offer to suit all tastes and preferences.
Holistic bliss
Prefer to stay onsite and surrender to the hands of their experienced massage therapists? Vita Spa has a wide range of holistic therapies on offer for you to relax and rejuvenate completely. Try a traditional Thai massage from one of the clifftop massage pagodas listening to the sounds of the ocean as you let any tension in your body melt away. Or opt for a complete oil massage inside the cool and tranquil spa rooms.
Private sound healing, reiki sessions, and other holistic options are available for you to indulge in that complement your yoga retreat journey. Not sure what’s best suited to your needs? Ask their team of therapists or the Vikation programs manager for their top tips.
Learn and connect
Every week in the Life Cafe, Vikation guests are welcome to join in the comfortable bean bag area to learn more about an interesting yoga topic or explore an element of yoga philosophy.
These are led by experienced Vikasa yoga teachers and are open to anyone to come and not only learn a little more about yoga, but connect with like-minded guests, ask any questions you may have, and immerse yourself within the Vikasa community. Many solo guests and these weekly evening chats are a perfect way to meet other guests and break the ice so you feel welcome and at home. Chances are you’ll find some new friends to lay your yoga mat alongside the next day.
Your daily schedule
The beauty of a Vikation is you choose your schedule to create your perfect yoga holiday. You have unlimited access to the yoga class schedule to pick and choose what classes work best for you. Sample different styles, teachers, and times to get a real feel for the Vikasa experience.
In between classes, you will enjoy a delicious buffet brunch and dinner in the Life Cafe. Your spare time is yours to fill as you please- join us for adventures around the island with a waterfall hike, elephant sanctuary visit, or sunset snorkeling boat trip. Lounge around the infinity pool, swim on the secret beach or relax with a Thai massage or holistic therapy at the Vita spa.
Evenings are yours to enjoy, several nights there are free talks and discussions in the life cafe, sound or gong healing, and ecstatic dance. Their Vikasa team is on hand to help you curate your dream escape if you need any support.
Vikasa Vikations sample week
Monday
- 09:15 - 10:45 - Align yoga class
- 10:45 - 11:30 - Brunch
- 15:00 - 16:00 - Vikasa method workshop
- 17:00 - 18:30 - Flow yoga class
- 18:30 - 19:30 - Dinner
- 19:30 - 20:15 - Meet and greet
Tuesday
- 07:00 - 09:00 - Vikasa complete
- 09:15 - 10:45 - Flow yoga class
- 10:45 - 11:30 - Brunch
- 17:00 - 18:30 - Chill yoga class
- 18:30 - 19:30 - Dinner
- 19:30 - 20:15 - Gong
Wednesday
- 07:00 - 09:00 - Vikasa complete
- 09:15 - 10:45 - Align yoga class
- 10:45 - 11:30 - Brunch
- 12:30 - 16:30 - Waterfall hike
- 15:00 - 16:00 - Advanced asana workshop
- 17:00 - 18:30 - Flow yoga class
- 18:30 - 19:30 - Dinner
- 19:30 - 20:15 - Mindfulness talk
Thursday
- 07:00 - 09:00 - Vikasa complete
- 09:15 - 10:45 - Flow yoga
- 10:45 - 11:30 - Brunch
- 17:00 - 18:30 - Chill yoga class
- 18:30 - 19:30 - Dinner
- 19:30 - 20:15 - Sound
Friday
- 07:00 - 09:00 - Vikasa complete
- 09:15 - 10:45 - Flow yoga
- 10:45 - 11:30 - Brunch
- 15:00 - 16:00 - Ice bath experience
- 17:00 - 18:30 - Flow yoga class
- 18:30 - 19:30 - Dinner
Saturday
- 08:00 - 10:00 - Vikasa complete
- 10:00 - 11:30 - Brunch
- 17:00 - 18:30 - Chill yoga class
- 18:30 - 19:30 - Dinner
- 19:30 - 20:15 - Ecstatic dance
Sunday
- 08:00 - 10:00 - Vikasa complete
- 10:00 - 11:30 - Brunch
Retreat will commence on your arrival day, there are no set check-in/check-out days. This is a sample schedule and all events are optional.
