Indriya Retreat Vipassana

Meditation centre offering silent intensive 7-day, 14-day and 21-day vipassana retreats on Koh Phangan. Welcome to the Indriya Retreat Vipassana community!

We are a dedicated meditation center offering silent 7-day and 14-day Vipassana retreats throughout the year. Our programs are designed for both beginners and experienced meditators seeking a transformative experience in a peaceful environment. What's New:

Flexible Retreat Dates: Now offering more frequent start dates for 7-day and 14-day programs.
• Experienced Teachers: Guided sessions led by c

ertified instructors with international expertise.
• Supportive Community: Connect with fellow meditators, share insights, and maintain your practice beyond the retreat.
• Comfortable eco-huts: Fully renovated in 2024, with double occupancy. Single occupancy available upon request.
• Easy Registration: Reserve your spot directly via our website or write us PM.
• Additional Spiritual Retreats & Workshops: Occasional workshops on mindfulness, yoga, and holistic wellness are included. Join us to experience deep silence, inner growth, and lasting peace. For updates, registration information, and support, stay tuned to this group.

14/08/2026

Stop Pushing the River: What’s Meant for You Won’t Pass You By 🌊🪷

Are you waking up with clenched fists, trying to micromanage everything?

Forcing life is like trying to push a mountain stream forward with bare hands. The river flows anyway—while you are left exhausted.

2,500 years ago, the Buddha taught that suffering (dukkha) comes not from reality, but from our desperate resistance to it.

What Vipassana reveals:
🌿 Drop the struggle: You can’t teach water how to flow. Align with life instead of forcing it.
🌿 Stop the chase: Peace is like a butterfly. The harder you chase, the farther it flees. Sit still, and it lands on you.
🌿 Trust silent growth: Like bamboo building roots in the dark for years, your inner transformation takes time before it blooms.

What belongs to you carries your name.

🌴 Ready to return to stillness?

Drop a comment below or send us a DM to get our retreat calendar and dates for Indriya Retreat (Koh Phangan, Thailand). 🧘‍♂️✨

11/08/2026

🌿 The August retreat at Indriya has come to an end.

On August 9, we completed a 9-day Vipassana retreat with Anthony Markwell — nine days of silence, meditation, and deep inner work.

For many participants, a retreat becomes much more than a meditation practice. It’s an opportunity to pause, step away from the usual rhythm of life, listen to yourself, and reconnect with what truly matters.

One of our returning participants shared:

“This was my third Vipassana retreat at Indriya. I’m always impressed by how smoothly everything is organized here. The food, accommodation, and care from the team allow me to completely focus on myself.”

He also shared that before his first retreat, he knew very little about meditation or Buddhism. Anthony’s teachings gave him the confidence to continue his journey of self-discovery.

This is exactly the kind of space we strive to create at Indriya — a place where you don’t have to worry about anything except your own inner journey. 🧘‍♂️

✨ September retreat — only 2 special-offer spots left.

Book shared accommodation and receive a complimentary upgrade to a private room.

If you’ve been feeling that it’s time to pause, step away from your usual routine, and dedicate some time to yourself — perhaps now is the right moment. 💚

07/08/2026

✨ Awakening the Body of Light ✨
10-Day Retreat for Consciousness Expansion & Inner Transformation

📅 November 20–30, 2026
📍 Indriya Retreat, Koh Phangan, Thailand

What if transformation begins not by becoming someone new - but by remembering who you truly are?

Join Jarka Kristinova, with 15+ years of spiritual practice, for a deep experiential journey into expanded awareness, subtle perception and inner awakening.

🌿 You will explore:
✨ Consciousness Expansion & Awareness
✨ Mystery School Teachings
✨ Multidimensional Breathwork
✨ Energy Purification & Transmutation
✨ Kundalini Awakening Foundations
✨ Dream Yoga & Astral Preparation
✨ Pillar of Light Meditation
✨ Subtle Body & Light Body Activation
✨ Spiritual Mentorship & Integration

A space to slow down, reconnect with yourself and explore deeper dimensions of consciousness - surrounded by the tropical nature of Koh Phangan.

🌱 Included: accommodation in eco-bungalows, vegetarian meals, daily meditation & breathwork, and the full retreat program.

🌅 Early Arrival & Orientation: November 19

📩 For questions and registration, please send us a DM.

05/08/2026

Мы привыкли искать любовь, страсть и счастье снаружи. Но что, если источник всего этого всегда был внутри?

Когда тело перестает откликаться, исчезает легкость, а энергии хватает лишь на то, чтобы прожить очередной день — это не значит, что с вами что-то не так. Иногда это просто знак, что пришло время вернуться к себе.

Для многих первым шагом стал онлайн-курс «Божественная сексуальность» от Наташи Будниковой и Анаэль Гор. Он помог тысячам людей открыть сексуальную энергию не как тему отношений или интимности, а как источник жизненной силы, творчества, любви и внутренней свободы.

Но есть опыт, который невозможно получить через экран.

Его можно только прожить.

Именно поэтому с 19 по 26 октября 2026 мы собираемся на острове Панган, чтобы провести 7 дней глубокого путешествия к себе.

Это ретрит, где ты сможешь:
🤍 расслабить тело и отпустить накопленное напряжение;
🤍 вернуть чувствительность, живость и контакт с собой;
🤍 глубже почувствовать свои желания и внутреннюю опору;
🤍 открыть источник энергии, который помогает любить, творить и жить полной жизнью.

🌿 Панган станет пространством, которое поддерживает этот процесс: теплое море, джунгли, закаты, тишина и атмосфера, в которой так легко отпустить привычную суету и услышать себя.

Ретрит открыт для женщин, мужчин и пар. Здесь не нужно соответствовать ожиданиям или играть роли. Можно просто быть собой.

Проведет программу Анаэль Гор — ведущая трансформационных программ, исследователь телесных практик и соавтор курса «Божественная сексуальность». На ретрите вы сможете прожить этот опыт лично, в безопасном и поддерживающем пространстве.

💛 Если чувствуешь, что пришло время сделать следующий шаг — будем рады пройти этот путь вместе.

📍19–26 октября 2026, Koh Phangan, Thailand

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04/08/2026

🌿 7-Day Vipassana Retreat with Anthony Markwell
📍 Indriya Retreat, Koh Phangan
📅 September 1–9, 2026

🎁 Free Private Room Upgrade — Limited Offer for September.
FREE upgrade from a shared room to a private room. Check room availability on our website.

During the retreat you’ll experience:
• Daily meditation guidance
• Recorded Dharma talks by Anthony Markwell
• Noble silence
• Peaceful accommodation surrounded by nature
• Nourishing vegetarian meals

Benefits of the practice:
✨ Reduce stress and mental overload
✨ Develop clarity and focused attention
✨ Restore inner balance
✨ Build emotional resilience
✨ Reconnect with yourself
✨ Bring mindfulness into everyday life

Anthony Markwell is a former Buddhist monk with more than 11 years of training in Thailand and Myanmar. Today, he is the founder of Indriya Retreat on Koh Phangan, where he shares authentic Vipassana practice with students from around the world.

If you’ve been feeling the need to slow down, reset, and reconnect with yourself, this retreat may be exactly what you’re looking for.

📩 Send us a direct message for the full program, pricing, and to reserve your place.

31/07/2026

Every Vipassana retreat is different.

But after years of hosting retreats, we’ve noticed something remarkable: people from different countries, backgrounds, and professions often describe the same inner discoveries.

Not enlightenment.
Not mystical experiences.

Just simple, honest realizations that quietly change the way they live.

Which insight resonated with you the most?

If you’ve been thinking about experiencing a Vipassana retreat, we’d be happy to answer your questions. Feel free to send us a DM. 💛

You can also find our upcoming retreat calendar through the link in our profile.

28/07/2026

Why is one Vipassana retreat free while another is paid?

This question often creates unnecessary debates.

The truth is: both traditional donation-based courses and modern retreat centers can offer a meaningful experience.

One preserves accessibility and simplicity.

The other creates a structured environment with additional support, comfort and guidance.

The most important thing is not the price.

It is the depth of the practice, the experience of the teacher and your own commitment to the journey.

24/07/2026

The teachings of Anthony Markwell continue to reach new corners of the world. 🌍

We know that not everyone has the opportunity to travel to Thailand to practice at Indriya Retreat Center. That’s why we’re happy to see Anthony’s teachings becoming more accessible, giving more people the chance to experience Vipassana closer to home.

This August, our European community is warmly invited to join an 8-day silent Vipassana retreat at BoHo Experience in the Netherlands, inspired by Anthony Markwell’s teachings.

From August 19–26, 2026, the retreat will include around 2 hours of Anthony’s recorded Dhamma talks each day, with on-site guidance and support from his long-time student, Ivan Torres, who has practiced with Anthony for many years.

Participants will experience a peaceful environment for deep meditation practice with:

🧘 Sitting & walking meditation
🙏 Noble silence
📖 Daily Dhamma teachings
🥗 Nourishing vegetarian meals
🌿 A beautiful retreat venue in Kockengen, between Amsterdam and Utrecht

As part of the Indriya community, you can use the discount code INDRIYA to receive 5% off your booking.

📍 BoHo Experience, Kockengen, The Netherlands
📅 August 19–26, 2026

If you are in Europe—or have been waiting for the right opportunity to deepen your meditation practice—this retreat may be the perfect chance to reconnect with Anthony’s teachings.

Register here:
https://vipassana.boho-experience.nl

If you have any questions, feel free to send us a direct message—we’ll be happy to help. 🙏

With Metta,
Indriya Retreat Team

21/07/2026

One thought can change the way we experience an entire day. A repeated thought can shape our beliefs. And a belief we carry for years can become part of our identity — something we never stop to question.

But what if the voice in your head is not who you are?

One of the deepest insights of Buddhist practice is this:

You are not your thoughts. You are the awareness that is able to observe them.

Thoughts come and go, like clouds passing through the sky. The sky does not fight the clouds. It does not hold on to them. It simply allows them to pass.

Meditation is not an attempt to stop thinking or create a perfectly silent mind. It is the practice of learning to see your thoughts clearly — without immediately accepting them as truth, automatically following them, or becoming identified with them.

When you learn to observe your thoughts with compassion rather than judgment, something begins to change. The mind becomes quieter. The heart becomes lighter. And a space appears where there is more freedom, peace, and clarity.

It is in this space between you and your thoughts that inner transformation begins.

17/07/2026

Retreat Schedule

🗓August 2026

•1–9 August — Vipassana Retreat with Anthony Markwell (English)

🗓September 2026

•1–9 September — Vipassana Retreat with Anthony Markwell (English)

🗓October 2026

•1–9 October — Vipassana Retreat with Anthony Markwell (English)

🗓November 2026

•1–9 November — Vipassana Retreat with Anthony Markwell (English)
•1–9 November — Vipassana Retreat with Katrin Sanfirova (Russian)
•13–20 November — Freestyle Vipassana Retreat with Jeff Oliver (English)
•13–23 November — Home in My Body: A Wild & Safe Journey through Somatic Release (English)
•20–30 November — 10-Day Retreat for Awakening the Body of Light with Jarka Kristinova (English)

🗓December 2026

•1–16 December — 14-Day Vipassana Retreat with Anthony Markwell (In Person, English)
•18–27 December — Meditation Retreat with Rosemary & Steve Weissman (English)

🗓January 2027

•2–13 January — New Year Vipassana Retreat with Katrin Sanfirova (Russian)
•2–10 January — Vipassana Retreat with Anthony Markwell (English)
•25–31 January — Insight Vipassana Silent Meditation with Dmitrii Glazkov (English)

🗓February 2027

•2–12 February — Vipassana Retreat with Igor Budnikov (Russian)
•18–25 February — A Couples Retreat with Igor & Natasha Budnikov (Russian)

🗓March 2027
•2–9 March — 7-Day Vipassana Anthony Markwell (In Person)
•18 March – 9 April — 21-Day Vipassana Retreat: Express Train to Nibbana with Anthony Markwell (In Person)

Registration link in bio ✅

For more information write us PM 💫