NORTHERN THAILAND RETREAT
December 1 – 7, 2026
Embodied Movement | Yoga | Breathwork | Mytho-Somatic Inquiry
Cole Chance – Persia Juliet – Em Smedegaard
As humans, we are prone to forgetting.
It is not a flaw but part of our nature. Attention drifts and comes back, breath leaves and returns, we lose our way and find it again and again.
Across time, cultures, and mythologies, there are stories of leaving and returning, of descent and reemergence, of worlds that unravel and are reimagined – mirroring how we move through our own lives.
The Soft Return is an invitation to honor this rhythm.
Rather than trying to stop the leaving by forcing our way back, we practice making space for it and softening into the return. By practicing meeting the natural ebbs and flows of this body, this existence – we can carve gentler and more compassionate ways to reorient toward center.
“These times are urgent,let us slow down.”
BAYO AKOMOLAFE
The Invitation
Set in the lush and verdant landscapes of Northern Thailand, we will gather for six nights and seven days for a collective unfurl.
Through embodied yoga, free movement, breathwork, meditation, mytho-somatic inquiry, nature connection, and relational practices, we will explore how to listen more closely to the nature within and around us – re-membering, re-weaving, and returning ourselves into the slipstream of life.
