Settling
Days 1–3
Finding the classes that suit you, and an honest assessment of what your practice can absorb daily.
- Schedule orientation
- Practice assessment
- Two to three classes daily
YogaAbsolute Sanctuary · Koh Samui, Thailand
Yoga immersion, 10 nights
A serious daily practice schedule at a third of what the flagship houses charge.
From · sharingUS$1,890
From · singleUS$2,280
Per person. Sole occupancy is not half a double, and we would rather you saw both now.
- Length
- 10 nights
- Group
- Max 16
- Intensity
- moderate
- Lengths
- 7 · 10 · 14 nights
- Discipline
- Yoga
What this actually is
The programme
A large, genuinely busy daily schedule — vinyasa, yin, Pilates and pranayama — with enough choice that an experienced practitioner and a relative beginner can both fill a day usefully.
It is the affordable one, and that is the point: the format spread from Samui because this house priced a serious programme at a third of the flagship rate.
Intensity: Moderate — you will notice it. Every programme here carries this line, because "restorative" and "demanding" are sold with the same photographs.
Read this part twice
Who this is for, and who it is wrong for
Read the right-hand column as carefully as the left. It is the half that decides whether this is a good fortnight or a wasted one, and it is published before the price for that reason.
✓Book this if
- Building a daily practice habit over ten consecutive days
- Anyone wanting volume and variety rather than a single lineage
- Guests on a budget who still want structure
- Sociable travellers — this is the friendliest house on the list
✗Do not book this if
- Anyone wanting a single-lineage immersion; the schedule is deliberately eclectic
- Guests who dislike a busy, compact property
- Anyone here for the detox programmes, which we do not sell
The shape of it
Day by day
Days shift according to how you respond — that is the point of a daily review. This is the structure, not a timetable.
Volume
Days 4–8
Three to four classes a day if you want them, with bodywork twice in the week to keep the load survivable.
- Three to four classes daily
- Thai bodywork twice weekly
- Pranayama daily
Consolidating
Days 9–10
A written home schedule that is realistic about the week you will actually go back to.
- Written home schedule
- Four-week follow-up
A day, hour by hour
What a Tuesday actually looks like
Nothing is compulsory. Most guests settle at two classes a day and add a third on good days.
- Morning vinyasaNinety minutes.
- Breakfast
- Pilates or a second practiceOptional, and about half the group goes.
- Lunch
- FreeBeach, pool, or sleep.
- Yin or restorative
- Pranayama and meditation
- Dinner
- Optional evening talk
Where you stay
Absolute Sanctuary
The house that made structured detox and yoga affordable — and the reason Samui became shorthand for the detox holiday.
Absolute SanctuaryChoeng Mon, north-east Samui · Thailand
The detox programmes are built on colon hydrotherapy and juice fasting, and we are on record that the evidence for the former is poor and the risks are real. We list the house for its yoga and its structure, not for the colonics, and we will say so if you ask us to book it.
The full profile →Who looks after you
Supervision, by qualification and number
You will not find a physician's name on this site. Staff move, and a page that names one is a page that quietly goes out of date — worse, it invites you to book a person no house can promise will be on shift. Assignment is made on arrival, from your examination, at every serious property here.
- Clinical supervision
- Wellness consultants and a large yoga faculty. There is no physician here and the supervision is lighter than at the medical houses — we would rather say that than let the page imply otherwise.
- The team around you
- Personal sessions are one to one; everything else is a timetable you can take as much or as little of as you want.
- Consultations
- An opening wellness consultation and a closing review.
Your consultation is with our clinical desk, not a salesperson. The free call before you book is about whether this programme is right for you at all — and often enough it ends with a recommendation to go shorter, later, or somewhere we do not sell.
Counted, so you can compare
What is actually in it
Most of this industry publishes inclusions as a bulleted list, which cannot be compared between two programmes at two prices. These can.
- 40+classes available
A very full daily timetable — yoga, pilates, muay thai, meditation and breathwork, all included.
- 5personal sessions
One to one, to correct what a group class cannot see.
- 2studios
Plus a reformer pilates studio, which very few houses at this price have.
- 15minutes from the airport
The shortest transfer in this atlas, which matters more than it sounds after a long-haul.
The money
Prices, by season and occupancy
Both occupancies in every band, before you enquire rather than after. Sole occupancy is not half a double and never has been — publishing only the sharing rate quotes the minority of this market and surprises the rest.
The length at which a practice changes rather than merely resumes.
| Season | Sharing | Single |
|---|---|---|
| Low seasonOctober to December | US$1,900 | US$2,300 |
| ShoulderApril to June and September | US$2,200 | US$2,600 |
| High seasonJanuary to March, July and August | US$2,500 | US$3,000 |
- Low season. Samui runs on its own monsoon calendar and takes its rain when the rest of Thailand is dry. Rates fall sharply and the island empties.
- Shoulder. Hot, bright and quiet. Very good value for a treatment stay.
- High season. The dry northern-winter months and the European summer. The island is busy and the rates reflect it.
What the price is. Per person for ten nights, including the room, all meals from the health kitchen, the full class timetable, the personal sessions below and return transfers from Samui airport, fifteen minutes away. Flights quoted separately.
Illustrative, and held for seven days once we have quoted you in writing. Nothing on this site costs more for booking it through us.
The detail
What the price covers
Included
- Ten nights
- Unlimited daily classes
- Two Thai bodywork sessions
- All meals
- Airport transfers from Samui
Not included
- Flights and insurance — flights quoted separately
- Detox and colonic programmes, which we do not sell
Cancellation. Free to 30 days before arrival. Half between 30 and 14 days. Inside 14 days we hold the full amount as a credit for twelve months rather than keeping it — a cancelled treatment is usually a health reason.
Questions
The ones we are actually asked
Will three classes a day break me?
It might, and the teachers will tell you so. Most guests settle at two and add a third on good days. The point of ten nights is consistency, not heroics.