Movement & Retreat Center

A Community For Movement, Mindfulness, Empowerment and Sustainability

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The Tipi Retreat and education center was developed in 2018 to inspire and enable movement, mindfulness, and sustainable ways of living. We help our tribe to dream big, and realise their visions.

We offer retreats, as well as workshops and classes for the public.

Play and Grow

We are determined and focused, but we like to have fun, feel good, and connect.

Relax and ground

Through a balance of practices like yoga, meditation, breathwork, and connection, we open our hearts, and bodies. We embrace stillness and peace, connect to divinity, and focus the mind.

Strengthen the body and Mind

We build inner-strength and fire while moving and building the body in playful, but challenging movement classes inspired by years of mixed study in martial arts, bodybuilding, calisthenics, animal movement, capoiera, and gymnastics.

Learn Sustainable Building and Practices

We share with our tribe, sustainable ways of living, and opportunities for self-reliance. The Tipi runs workshops for natural building, bamboo construction, and more.

Live abundantly through your gifts and talents

We encourge and support each tribe member to find their deepest gifts and talents, and to thrive in that unique expression.

Through workshops and retreats in abundance and vision, our tribe deepens their ability to have a path of purpose and value.

Connect with Tribe

We believe in community; in tribe! We share alot of knowledge, and live alot of experiences together. We also value personal time and self-reflection. We grow alot!

Join Us

Come try a class, join a workshop, or signup for a retreat!

We love meeting more people who are excited to grow, play, and share. We can't wait to meet you.

Upcoming Retreats

We are most excited to introduce you to our upcoming retreat:

6 Day Tipi Transformation Retreat

December 27th

Join us in this 6-day immersive retreat with people just like you, coming together to grow towards realizing clearer life path and dreams.

Tune your brain for success, and live a life more aligned with your passions.

Get excited and confident about physical fitness and super-charge your positive personal practices.

Come transform with us.

We have many exciting retreats all year. Subscribe to our email list to keep posted in upcoming retreats.

Workshops

Throughout the year, we run workshops in fitness, movement, mindfulness, natural building, yoga and more.

Subscribe to our email list to keep posted for upcoming workshops.

Our Recent Bamboo Building Workshop

Closing Circle from our last Natural Building Workshop

Classes

We are always expanding our classes. Subscribe to our email list to keep up to date on our schedule.

Here is our most current class schedule:

FITNESS MOVEMENT AND THERAPY

EXPAND YOUR STRENGTH

At The Tipi we appreciate fundamental strength development, and make a point to enable our students to be able to train and develop strength anywhere. We also like to stay open, mobile, fluid and playful!

We have an endless playbook of exercises to meet all abilities and levels, and help them navigate their limits, and expand beyond them!

FLOW AND MOVE

Playful movement means sustainable movement! You'll be excited and eager to come back for more, and curious what will unfold in the body. We combine elements of animal movement, capoeira, boxing footwork, and other martial arts and calisthenic / gymnastic style of practice, into some very creative and diverse classes.

To be diverse, we have to practice diverse. We value and invite more mobility, agility, playfulness, as well as strength.

PLAY AND EXPLORE

We incorporate partner games, and perspective-shifting exercises that'll have you laughing, sweating, and growing at the same time.

Through the connection, support, and guided-challenge of our peers, we help eachother to grow and expand!

OPEN YOUR BODY

Like a mandala, mindful training is a process of skilfully breaking down the body, to build it back up. We want to feel good during the process, and replace weakness with strength, tension with ease, and stiffness with flow!

We end our classes with slow, systematic stretching and deep-release techniques using some props. You'll be impressed with your quick improvements, and flexibility gains. You'll also note the more comfortable recovery that comes with this well-designed and balanced approach to fitness.

YOGA MEDITATION AND BREATHWORK

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Yoga

A daily yoga practice is an invaluable practice for a balanced being.

Yoga is one of the best tools we’ve found for finding connection to source. Flow from head, to heart, as we align with our highest-self, and the divine.

Expand bliss in the body, ease the nervous system to allow for a still, receptive, and perceptive mind.

Through our physical flow, we prepare the body for successful breath work, and deep connection and inspiration.

Breathwork

These select ancient breathwork techniques will empower you, and center you. Bring life to stagnant energy, awareness to the unconscious, and balance the brain-hemispheres.

Breathwork is a fundamental cleansing and focusing tool. We are excited to share with you these few key techniques to master the mind through the breath.

Meditation

In meditation, we access the deep power that is beyond our simpler experience!

Still the mind and tune in to your true calling. Slow down and reconnect to your truest self. Release your thoughts and shift from head, to heart. Restore a state of balance and equilibrium to your thoughts. Listen closely and unlock the secrets to reaching your limitless potential.

Anti-gravity Aerial

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Fly high with our Antigravity Aerial Trainings!

Classes with AntiGravity Aerial Makaranda incorporate Aerial Yoga and AntiGravity Choreography to encourage deep opening of the body and mind.

In these classes you will:

  • flow through core strengthening aerial yoga sequences
  • move into a more restorative practice
  • utilizing the hanging silks to reduce pressure on the spine
  • invite deeper flexibility with control.

Antigravity Fitness incorporates elements from yoga, pilates, barre & strength training techniques to provide a unique, well-rounded practice that is both challenging and supportive for every body.

Let go of what is weighing you down and defy gravity with us!

1 class - 250 Baht
2 classes - 360 baht

Head Coach

ABOUT SKYE

The Tipi is the brainchild of your head coach, Skye.

Skye owned, opened, and operated personal training studios, and martial arts schools growing up in Boston, USA.  He has been coaching and training all types and levels of people since 2002.

Skye’s perseverance, focus, and vision comes from his martial arts and strength training.  He holds a 3rd degree blackbelt in a mix of martial arts with a diverse movement practice including bodybuilding, and fitness for over two decades.

His playful and creative movement style is inspired by a plethora of other practices.  You’ll see him implement animal flow, capoeira, calisthenics, boxing, basic gymnastics, a lot of fun partner games, and more.

Meditation has been with Skye from the young age of 12 , with yoga entering and staying in his life since 16 years old.  These life-long mindfulness practices allow Skye to balance the masculine and feminine forces,

Skye brings discipline and focus mixed with play, connection, and exploration into a unique and fun experience.

A student of natural building, Skye loves working with natural materials like bamboo and earth, and aims to share, inspire, and empower others to live more naturally.

A lover of nature, and dogs, Skye is a highly motivated and passionate individual who can be found handstanding, coding, building, or hiding in corners playing guitar.

It motivates Skye to see people grow, and create a more beautiful world together.

A WORD FROM SKYE'S FRIENDS

Erik, Canada. Personal Training Client

Skye helped me learn the limits of my body and make steady progress to transcending them.

With him on my side I have managed to reach a new connection to my body that I never thought possible. It feels so great and I’m so happy to have him on my team!

ERIK, CANADA

Irina, Skye's friend

Skye, you make me realize that anything is possible, and that hard work and determination is a beautiful process to growth.

Also through your sharing of your learning, growing and understanding life and relationships process, you have Indirectly helped me see in a new different perspective. So thank you!

IRINA, MADAGASCAR

Pia, Skye's student in yoga and yoga alignment

Skye is very passionate about yoga, movement and training, and his deep knowledge and experience in these fields are obvious. He also has a fun and interactive way of sharing his knowledge.

As a person, Skye is genuine and caring and very open to learn more. I would highly recommend working with Skye either in a one-on-one setting or in groups.

PIA, SWEDEN

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Skye was really patient with me. I have lost 50lbs so far and am looking to lose another 50.

I look forward to our appointments and always feel great afterwards. I know that without Skye’s guidance, patience, and persistence I never would have come this far.

MEGHAN, USA

Julia, Skye's client from circa 2010 bootcamp classes

Skye is undoubtedly an expert in personal training, with immense knowledge in his field of exercise & nutrition accompanied with a great sense of attentiveness to each of his students.

He is unique from other personal trainers through the creativity he brings to each of his workouts, utilizing the basic materials surrounding our workout and constantly keeping the motivation high and the environment positive.

I can’t not say enough about how this work out experience has changed my life, not only the physical results, but the powerful emotional and mental impact it has had over the last few months, it has helped to find an inner strength as well as a calming, peaceful and refreshed sense of being.

JULIA, USA

Nikki, USA. Skye's client in body-weight exercise, personal training, and bootcamp

Awesome Workout! I highly recommend Skye – I loved our personal training sessions! I started to see results after only a few sessions, and started losing weight right away.

Skye keeps you motivated and pushes you that extra step you probably wouldn’t push yourself working out alone. Great way to get in shape, or stay in shape and have fun too!

Nikki, USA

accommodation

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On campus or off-site housing

We have a limited amount of houses here on campus, and there are many options nearby. Inquire early, if you’d like to stay with us, or let us know if you need help finding accommodation.

Located in SRITHANU, KOH PHANGAN

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PARADISE WITH PURPOSE

The Tipi is located in Srithanu, Koh Phangan. Know for its “conscious community”, our village in the west of the island is known for its heart-based people.

This if our favorite place in the world to focus on our self-development, and grow together!

We are blessed to spend down-time beautiful beaches, hiking in the jungle, or healing, playing, and renewing in the waterfalls.

Contact Us

FAQs

  • How do I get to Koh Phangan?

    Koh Phangan is easily accessible by boat from Surat Thani, Koh Tao & Koh Samui. The closest airports are Koh Samui and Surat Thani, and many trains travel to Surat Thani from other parts of Thailand. You can check out the best options on 12go.asia

  • How do I get to The Tipi from the pier?

    When you arrive at Thong Sala pier there will be taxis waiting there to take you to your destination. You can get a taxi truck for around 300 baht or a moto taxi for 200 baht to bring you to Sri Thanu.

  • Do you have a laundry service on site?

    We have coin operated washing machines at The Tipi which you can use for 30 baht per wash. You will need to provide your own detergent.

  • How do I travel around Koh Phangan?

    Renting a scooter is the most convenient way to get around Koh Phangan and rental costs on average 150 baht per day or 2,500 per month. There are plenty of places to rent them from nearby, just get in touch with us if you need any help.

    If you’re not comfortable driving a scooter, you can also rent bicycles or walk to the many cafes, restaurants and venues in our village of Sri Thanu.

  • What can I do in my spare time?

    Koh Phangan has so many amazing activities to get involved with on your down time. The island has countless serene beaches, waterfalls & hiking trails if you want to connect to mother earth.

    If you’re staying on the island after the retreat, there are also many events happening within the conscious community such as ecstatic dance, group meditations, culinary workshops, dance/music events - anything you could want really!

Have another question?

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