Drop into silence, awaken joy within.
5D4N BHAKTI SILENT RETREAT
in Chiang Mai, Thailand
24 to 28 Sep 2025
Drop into silence, awaken joy within.
Our Main Explorations:
🧘🏻♀️ Yoga Asana & Pranayama
📿 Guided Meditations
🤫 Sacred Silence
📝 Lectures & Teachings
🎵 Music, Mantras & Heart Songs
💚 Storytelling & Connection in Sangha
Gift yourself the gift of peace, rest and connection in a sanctuary nestled in the hills of Chiang Mai 🍃
In this 5D4N Bhakti-Silent Retreat, we venture away from a conventional asana-focused retreat and we explore yoga through the themes of mouna (inner silence) and bhakti (love & devotion).
For 5 days and 4 nights, in the morning to afternoon, we’ll stow away our devices, hold our silence, and tune inward. A practice of ‘mouna’, a beautiful sanskrit word for inner silence.
From 3pm onwards, we shall re-surface to connect with retreat friends, nature, books, mantras, and journalling. To witness shifts and share reflections. To walk this path with like-hearted community.
This retreat is for you if you are:
- seeking rest and quietude
- looking to deepen your yoga practice beyond asana
- curious about deep, intentional silence but want a gentler experience compared to a 10-day vipassana
- open to exploring mantra and song in spiritual practice
- or simply desiring to give yourself some space & time to recalibrate, recenter and reconnect
Our intention is to make this experience accessible, fun, and meaningful for you. It is our invitation to you to come home to yourself, through inner wisdom and love.
We hope that you can join us ❤️
With love,
Shena & Shao Hao
Where we will be
Tucked away in the lush hills of Chiang Mai, our retreat will be held at Amrita Ashram located about 45 minutes away from the city. Being in a serene and peaceful environment, as compared to busy urban settings that most of us are familiar with, provides us with a conducive space for fully embracing the practice of silence, giving us a rare opportunity to experience its bliss.
Complete with modern facilities such as a swimming pool, air-conditioned yoga hall, dining room and comfortable accommodation options, we get to go deeper into our spiritual practice and personal journeys in comfort, all while being held in the lap of Mother Nature.
Mouna
‘Mouna’ is a beautiful sanskrit word for the practice inner silence. Revered in many yogic traditions as a gateway to inner stillness and truth, mouna at its core is practiced as the restraint of speech in order to cultivate a sense of inner quietude and peace, promote self-inquiry and experience the Self directly, beyond concepts or words.
Abstract as it is to put into words, mouna can only be truly experienced by the practitioner alone. In our modern lives that are filled with noise – from work, society, social media, etc. – mouna is a sacred space for our Spirit, within which we can find stillness, our hearts can open, and inner wisdom can be heard in its native tongue: silence.
Bhakti
Bhakti is one of the four classical paths of yoga, alongside Karma, Jnana and Raja yoga. It is the yoga of devotion, and focuses on bringing us into deeper connection with our hearts. In Bhakti yoga, love is seen not only as an emotion, but as a transformational force that sparks creativity, compassion, joy and wisdom.
In this retreat, we explore heart songs and mantra singing as our paths to love and connection. This provides us with what we feel is a good compliment to the practice of silence, for it offers us a gentle yet genuine way of connecting with others from our hearts with love, after we have connected with ourselves deeply.
Types of rooms available
Please note that all rooms must be reserved in their entirety. That means that if you’re travelling solo, please select the single room options. To encourage quiet time, we’ve marked down the single-room prices to be very friendly.
If you are deciding on either a twin-share or a triple-share, please invite friends to join you!
We may be able to help match you with a roomie if there are participants travelling solo who don’t mind sharing. If matching is unsuccessful, please bear the cost of a standard/deluxe single reservation. Thank you.
Standard Room
Single: S$1,100
Twin-share: S$875 per pax
($1,750 for two)
1 queen bed or 2 single beds, AC, towels, private ensuite toilet
Deluxe Room
Single: S$1,200
Twin-share: S$975 per pax
(S$1,950 for two)
1 queen bed or 2 single beds, AC, towels, private ensuite toilet
What’s Included:
- Accomodation for 5 days 4 nights
- All meals (day 1 begins with dinner, and day 5 ends with breakfast)
Please note: all meals are vegetarian. No coffee is provided at the ashram. You are welcome to venture out for coffee if you feel like it (: - Daily morning yoga sessions
- Daily morning meditation integration
- Daily afternoon lectures by ashram
- Daily evening bhakti activities
- Daily night events (optional)
- 2-way transfers to and fro Chiang Mai airport
Not included:
- Your flight/train tickets to arrive at and depart from Chiang Mai
- Travel insurance
Recommended Flights
We recommend taking these flights if your plan is to come to Chiang Mai from Singapore only for the retreat. Scoot has a daily direct flight which is around a 3-hour journey.
If you plan to lengthen your stay, please feel free to explore other flight options 🙂
Curious? Drop us a question and your contact details. We’ll get back to you ASAP 🙂
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In 2017, I was in New Zealand working at a friend’s yoga studio. I met a stranger who introduced me to the 10-day Vipassana. He said his daughter was attending vipassana every year, “she goes each year and comes back different.” I was curious.
So I signed up, was put on the waitlist, got a spot. The experience has deeply shifted my relationship with myself. I wanted to continue diving in deep, but I didn’t know how, so I reluctantly released it.
By the invitation of a friend in 2019 and 2020, I joined two 10-day retreats in India, during which my teacher Anouk held space for experiencing inner silence (‘mouna’ in sanskrit, as I first learned it then) for only the mornings. I felt I was guided back onto the path home—accessible and welcoming.
Mouna is now my way of mornings, to the best that I can. Living in Singapore means it’s not an everyday thing. But having dipped my toes in inner silence has had a profound impact on me. I wish not to further expound on it here, but to invite you to experience it your way in our Bhakti Silent Retreat 2025.
Love, Shena
Living in Chiang Mai for the past 3 years has been extremely healing for me, and I have a strong desire to share the beauty of this place with fellow friends from Singapore. Here, Mother Nature blesses us with tranquility, time and simplicity, giving us the space to pause, breathe and simply be.
Bhakti Yoga, or the yoga of devotion, holds a special place in my heart for it bridges a physical yoga asana practice with love and connection to one’s own heartspace. While music and mantra singing traditionally constitute a big part of a Bhakti Yoga practice, devotion in my view, extends far beyond a singing circle, and encompasses all aspects of our lives. We could even say that at the core of a Bhakti Yoga practice is essentially to cultivate loving devotion for Life itself – despite its ups and downs, pains and joys, through its myriad colours and flavours, to consciously find loving devotion for every moment of this miracle that is Our Life.
Being on this path has led me to many beautiful discoveries and realisations, and it is from this place of love and deep personal healing that I wish to share this retreat together with you.
Nourish Hearts, the vehicle through which my work pours forth, is birthed from these very intentions, to share, support and uplift. Together with Shena, we’re very excited to be sharing this experience with you!
With lots of love,
Shao Hao
If you have any questions, need more information or would simply like to speak to either of us, please feel free to reach out to us at
Shena: @shenayoga
Shao Hao: @nourish.hearts
or simply fill in the form above 🙂
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