The purpose of our life is to be happy! In this retreat you’ll build, or hone-in on your dream-business or job that allows your deepest gifts to be shared with the world.
New Years Retreat
6 DAYS OF EMPOWERMENT AND TRANSFORMATION
DEC 27- JAN 1 2020
Koh Phangan, Thailand
Are you ready to make a meaningful and abundant living doing something you absolutely love?
Do you need some help clarifying your vision?
Could you use some guidance, direction & motivation in your fitness, and routines?
Are you ready to step into your strength and power?
Do you want to feel amazing and confident in your body?
Could you use guidance, support, and direction from exciting, and compassionate coaches?
Do you need some help clarifying your goals and visions?
Are you open to accepting an abundant mindset?
Join us
What if I told you...
...there is a group of motivated people just like you waiting to help you make your dreams come true.
...in six days you could gain momentum, confidence, and clarity in your own fitness practice.
...in six days you could move into a state of enthusiasm, action, and direction
Calling in a tribe of heart-based people
We invite you to join us on this transformational voyage, with a positive and powerful environment of heart-based people just like you growing 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.
Join us
What if I told you...
... there is a group of motivated people just like you waiting to help you make your dreams come true.
... in five days you could gain momentum, confidence, and clarity in your own fitness practice.
... in five days you could move into a state of enthusiasm, action, and confidence.
... together we will enter 2021 with clear direction, vision, connection, and momentum!
Calling in a tribe of motivated people
We invite you to join us on this transformational voyage, with a positive and powerful environment of heart-based people just like you expanding their inner and outer strength., and realizing clear life path and vision.
We will help you to realize your goals, and tune your mind and body for success, and live a life more aligned with your passions.
You will leave with the necessary tools to adopt a daily fitness practice that is fun, empowering, and dynamic!
Your energy of your new tribe will be there to support and encourage you in your new path.
Come transform with us!
The Retreat will close at 20 people; we'll open the waiting list for the next retreat once full.
Our 8 Steps to Transformation
These powerful workshops outline our step-by-step approach to help you live your dream life.
Supported by the experiences of the daily classes, these workshops can help you clarify your vision, align you to your personal path of success.
Our 8 Steps to Transformation
We have powerful training sessions in yoga every morning to prepare us for our day with a clear and balanced mind, free of stagnancies and tensions.
Our nightly fitness classes are exciting, fun, super dynamic and diverse, and very effective.
While our body is resting, we take the time to tune our brains, in this powerful workshop series.
These powerful workshops outline our step-by-step approach to help you live your dream life.
Supported by the experiences of the daily classes, these workshops can help you clarify your vision, align you to your personal path of success.
On the final day, we'll make sure you have all the tools to make your fitness a success, without any complicated equipment.
Identify your unique talents & abilities
We all have a unique purpose in life and acknowledging the passions we have and abilities we've been blessed with are key to unlocking yours!
You are uniquely you, made up of a rare combination of skills, talents and abilities that no one else has access to. There's no point trying to fit in to someone else's idea of a dream life. Uncovering these unique gems within yourself and realizing their true worth is the starting point to building your successful life path.
In this 2 hour workshop we'll use a combination of self reflection and group exercises to help you pinpoint where your unique abilities lie and realise how valuable they really are!
Design a life of joy & purpose
In this workshop, you will go through the same life-changing exercise that brought Skye to Thailand, and still guides him today! This priceless exercise has helped thousands of people like you to get clear on what brings them joy, and guides to a life-path that brings meaningful purpose.
If you are experiencing burn-out, not enjoying the work you do, feel the need to regroup in your business, lost track of your meaning, or are still searching for your direction, this workshop will help you find your flow state, and move towards purpose, passion, and positive action!
In this 5-step, guided writing process, we will help you illuminate your passions, point you to your dharma, motivate you to do something that makes you excited, and show you the fastest path to become confident in doing what you love.
Develop an Abundant mind
With an abundant mind, you can avoid the loop of tireless work, and step into limitless abundance.
Once you’ve designed your life path to align to your higher purpose, an abundant mindset will help you find your financial flow, and enable you to help more people.
In part 1 of this workshop you’ll learn all about the energetics of money. We’ll discuss how to cultivate a healthy relationship with money, both spending and receiving.
We will work together to identify what your money story is and what’s been blocking you from calling in more financial ease and abundance.
Once you’ve gained insight into your money blocks, we’ll use the emotional freedom technique (EFT) along with specific affirmations to shift you into a state of financial prosperity.
In the second half of this workshop we’ll get a chance to feel the state of abundance using the powerful practice of kundalini yoga.
Everything you are dreaming of is available to you, you just have to be open to receiving it!
We’re here to help you make the first steps to program your mind for abundance.
Overcome Limiting Beliefs
We all have deep conditionings that are holding us back from our highest version of ourselves, and our highest expression in the world.
But the reality is, we are each LIMITLESS, ready and perfect just as we are now!
In this workshop we will dive deep to uncover the root cause of some of your most self sabotaging beliefs and use a somatic breathwork practice to release these emotional codes & programs from the body and nervous system, realigning you with a state of limitless possibility.
You’ll learn how to identify these limiting thought patterns when they arise as well as tools and techniques to shift and reprogram the mind to choose empowering thoughts and beliefs.
Having these skills in your toolkit will help you move forward beyond self doubt and into realisation of your full potential!
Uncover the value and opportunity in your abilities
Now you have a clearer understanding of how you can help others, this workshop will help you become clearer on how to reach them. Discerning where the true value in your passion project lies, and becoming clear on who will benefit most from your offerings will help you focus your energy on targeting the people who will benefit most from what you have to give, freeing up the rest of your time to do what you really love!
In this workshop, Skye will share his expertise from almost 2 decades of entrepreneurship & marketing to help you find your unique tribe of customers and understand the best way to reach them. We’ll help you clarify the value in your unique skill set, understand who will benefit from them the most and establish the most effective methods available to communicate with them directly.
Co-craft your dream life in group Mastermind
Isn’t it exhausting doing everything alone and unsupported? Human-connection is one of the most powerful resources of the universe.
In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll learn how to run a peer-mastermind, breaking into groups and supporting each other to grow our business, overcome milestones, and retune our vision.
Everybody will have a chance to get the full focus, attention, and energy of their peers in the “mastermind hotseat” to address all of their goals, success, failures, and obstacles.
With the combined wisdom of the group of peers who are powerfully engaging in their path, you’ll quickly step past the mundane of your business or passion project, and move toward becoming more successful and helping more people by doing what you love.
Tune your mind and body with Yoga
A connection to your highest-self (or divinity / universe / god) and a clarity and balance of mind, lead to a blissful state.
From this blissful flow-state, we can live life with compassion, confidence, and abundance!
An unbalanced mind and body can lead to self-defeating habits that ultimately lead to burnout, poor choices, and weak direction.
Learn the techniques to guide yourself through a daily practice, including yogic principles and philosophies to align you towards your highest-self.
Develop tools to balance the mind, body, and energy systems with a basic meditation practice, powerful breathwork techniques like "Breath of Fire" and "Alternate Nostril Breathing" and cleansing techniques like "Nauli Kriya".
Connect with your deeper self, and through yourself, others and all things. Activate your blissful flow-state.
We find these to be some of the most powerful and positive daily habits and tools towards your personal growth, and purpose.
Develop strength and confidence in daily fitness practice
Do you want to have a confident control of your body, enjoy movement and exercise, and learn how to exercise anywhere without any complicated equipment?
Maybe you’re not comfortable or interested in flexing in a mirror and being "that guy" in the gym; but wouldn’t you like to know exactly what you’re doing, and be comfortable going to any gym, room, park, or anywhere, and know how to practice and move confidently?
In this workshop you’ll learn a daily practice for yourself from where you are now, and how to modify as you improve to keep the challenge present and appropriate to your growth.
Skye has been moving, playing, practicing, for a lifetime. He’s been training people like you since 2002. He’s owned, operated, and coached through his martial arts schools, personal training studios, bootcamp franchises, and now, The Tipi.
At The Tipi, we embrace you as you are, and are excited to guide you through deeper play and expansion of movement and body.
You’ll love the non-judgemental approach, in a culture of learning, where we embrace the daily path of transending together through play, focused effort, and listening attentively to our bodies.
You’ll gain more and more confidence as you safely find the limits of your body, and increase your fitness level, and burn off self-doubt, or stagnancies in the body and mind.
In this workshop, you'll learn how we structure our daily workouts, and why. With the information from this workshop, and the momentum of our daily workouts, you'll be well on your way to a personal fitness path to the best shape of your life!
Schedule
8AM
YOGA BREATHWORK MEDTIATION
10AM
LIGHT REFRESHING BREAKFAST
11AM
MORNING WORKSHOP OR ACTIVITY
1PM
Catered
Plant-Based Lunch
2:30PM
AFTERNOON WORKSHOP OR ACTIVITY
4:30PM
FITNESS MOVEMENT THERAPY
6PM
Dinner and Community
8AM YOGA MEDITATION AND BREATHWORK
Yoga
A daily yoga session 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.
10AM Light Refreshing Breakfast
After our morning yoga practice, we will nourish our bodies with a light & refreshing, plant-based breakfast. Each day we'll enjoy a nutritious selection of locally grown fruits, plant-based yoghurt, homemade nut butter, coffee, and coconut water.
We invite you to eat breakfast in silence, giving you the opportunity to tune in to the effects of the morning practice and use the time for self-reflection and connection to your unique path of purpose.
This light meal is the perfect fuel to provide us with energy of body and clarity of mind to sustain us through our first workshop of the day.
11AM Morning Workshop
After breakfast, we come together for our first powerful workshop of the day.
We will cover dive deep on topics like:
Setting a path of purpose
DEVELOP YOUR NATURAL GIFTS AND TALENTS
We’ll guide you through diving deep and discovering what gifts you’ve had all along, waiting to be shared with the world. There is no competition to your best self!
MOVE AND CONNECT
Move with us, and play your way through effective exercise. Connect with your retreat tribe. You will have fun with the group, and be equipped with the knowledge and momentum ready to keep going with your positive personal routines after the retreat!
...and more
1PM Catered Plant-based Lunch
After our morning workshop you'll be ready for a more substantial meal. Lunchtime is the perfect opportunity for us to come together and connect, sharing our experiences with the rest of the tribe over a hearty vegan feast!
This nourishing and delicious feast will provide us with all the energywe need to support our afternoon workshop and fitness practice!
2:30PM Afternoon Workshop
After lunch, we gather for our transformational afternoon workshop.
Checkout the tailored workshop list here.
Together, we will:
EXPAND EMPOWERING HABITS
These 6 motivating days of a balance of yoga, fitness, and abundance mindset training will give you the momentum and information you need to excel in positive lifestyle habits.
DEVELOP AN ABUNDANT MIND
Train your mind to receive massive wealth, and help a lot of people!
And much more...
4:30PM 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 each other 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.
6PM Dinner and Community
After fitness class, we break for shower, dinner, and personal time.
We understand some people have other things they might want to catch up on in the down-time, or may simply want to make different dinner plans.
Sharing meals is one of the best time for connecting, getting to know each other, and having casual conversation and personal connection. For those who want to get together, there are many amazing restaurants a short ride away.
We encourage you to leave time in the evening for journaling and reflection. After a productive and exciting day, you'll be ready to get some quality sleep.
Final Ceremony Day!
On our final day of the retreat together, we will head to the jungle, where you will instill your commitment to your path with refreshing water rituals and renewal at the waterfall.
We'll connect with nature, and enjoy our day and time together at the waterfall, with a vegetarian picnic.
To continue the renewal process, we jump into a cold ice-bath together back at Tipi HQ! We LOVE ice baths! An amazing way to cleanse, to strengthen the immune system, and bring alertness to the body and mind.
We finish our retreat with a traditional Native American style sweat lodge. Led by an indoctrinated shaman, this powerful voyage will bring us together, and through to our highest connected selves.
Finally we close around the fire at The Tipi for a renunciation process; letting go of all that doesn't serve us, and re-aligning to our highest path and purpose with the and fire rituals.
We offer up the highest benefit from the workshop to each other, and to all beings.
Now you are ready to step into the world renewed, recharged, and with powerful momentum, and amazing positive habits!
| 9AM - 11AM | Waterfall Adventure (we have rainy-day fallback plans) |
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| 11AM - 12PM | Picnic at the waterfall |
| 12PM - 1:30PM | [Return, shower, break] |
| 1:30PM - 3:00PM | Pushups, Breathwork & Ice bath |
| 3PM - 5:30PM | [Eat and rest / free time] think about renunciation etc journaling |
| 6PM - 8:30PM | Sweat lodge Temescal & Fire Renunciation Ceremony |
| 8:30PM - 9PM | Fruits & refreshments |
Head Coach
ABOUT SKYE
The Tipi is the brainchild of your head coach, Skye.
Skye has been coaching and training all types and levels of people since 2003. With a 3rd degree blackbelt in a mix of martial arts with a diverse practice including 17 years of yoga, and more than two decades of meditation, fitness and movement.
Skye brings discipline and focus mixed with play, connection, and exploration into a unique and fun class.
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.
A WORD FROM SKYE'S FRIENDS
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
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
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
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
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
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
THE TIPI CENTER
AN ENVIRONMENT FOR GROWTH AND JOY
The Tipi Retreat and education center was developed in 2018 for fitness, movement, mindfulness, yoga, and nature with a sustainable focus.
The Tipi Community embraces each individual as important and unique, with powerful talents to bring into expression.
Our goal is to enable people to come into their highest, happiest self, using the tools of self-inquiry, and physical and spiritual practice.
LOCATION: SRITHANU, KOH PHANGAN THAILAND
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!
Spend down-time on the beautiful beaches, take a hike in the jungle, or heal and expand in the waterfalls.
accommodation
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.
FAQs
Where is The Tipi located?
The Tipi is based in Sri Thanu, the spiritual centre of Koh Phangan, Thailand. Known for its “conscious community”, Koh Phangan is one of the best places in the world for you to focus on self-development, and grow together with like-minded people!
Our address is: 19 Moo 5, Sri Thanu, Koh Phangan, Surat Thani, 84280.
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.
What’s Included in the price of the retreat?
Your retreat cost is inclusive of all tuition, workshops, social events and yoga/fitness classes plus 2 x meals per day. You will also receive a free gift pack with some essentials to help you start your own fitness practices as soon as you finish the retreat.
Is Accommodation included?
We know many of you already have accommodation on Koh Phangan so we priced our retreat excluding accommodation. If you’d like to stay on campus we have a limited amount of houses here so get in touch with us early if you’re interested in those.
Otherwise, there are many affordable and luxurious accommodation options to choose from in the neighbourhood. If you would like any help finding accommodation, just get in touch and we’ll be happy to point you in the right direction.
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.
Where are my options for dinner?
We are spoiled for choice with an abundance of delicious restaurants to choose from on Koh Phangan with something catering to all tastes and dietary requirements.
Other than delicious local Thai restaurants, there are many vegan / vegetarian / organic options to choose from, as well as cuisines from all over the world. We can give you tips and let you know our favourites during the orientation.
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!
When does the retreat start/end?
The retreat starts at 4pm on Sunday, 27th December where we will gather to get to know each other and give you an orientation to The Tipi and an overview of the retreat.
December 28th - 31st we will follow our retreat schedule, with classes and workshops running from 8am - 6pm each day.
On the 1st January we will have a New Year ceremony, setting intentions together to grow the seeds of our dreams in the year ahead! The retreat will end around 9pm on Friday, 1st January 2021.
What do I need to bring with me on the retreat?
We suggest you bring a notebook (or laptop/other device for journaling), towel, changes of exercise clothes (we will sweat a lot!), some people may like to bring gloves for using the exercise bars and floor, but this is not required. We have yoga mats here you can use, but you are welcome to bring your own if you prefer.
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