Living with The Spirit - A Peaceful Retreat in Chiang Mai

Thank you Sara for facilitating a warm and safe space. It allowed me to embrace my fears and difficult emotions while surrendering into the process. Our breathwork sessions helped me to open up to new insights and shine new light on old beliefs. Thank you! Blessings!
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Living with the Spirit was a transformational experience and I will always be grateful for the grounded support that I received. Sara created a safe space where I felt nurtured and secure. She intuitively helped me along my detox and fasting journey, something I had never undertaken before, and had quit a bit of anxiety…
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In this video our great friend and client Paula Shields shares about her journey throughout 2020, about her motorbike accident and her stay with us during the time that she was recovering from the injuries. Paula had a motorbike accident on her way to work one day that resulted in an open compound fracture, four…
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I am extremely grateful to both Simba and Sarah for providing me with a safe and healthy space to work through some my personal troubles. I had been experiencing severe insomnia for around 6 months and signing up to their unique combination of spiritual healing and physiotherapy sessions was the best decision I made. Sarah…
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Working in the field of Behavioural Healthcare I often have the opportunity to engage with other professionals and providers in support of my clients. The team at Living with The Spirit in Chiang Mai are wonderfully creative and generative in their approach to supporting healing and wellbeing, which is why I was excited by the…
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It’s  a lovely space you have here, it’s good. I feel really nice and relaxed. I enjoyed all the treatments and certainly the food is just wonderful. Thank you!    
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Sarah and Simba were the most important people in my journey of healing and growth! As a teenager I took drugs, ran away from home, became a criminal and so on. Years later I stopped and turned my life around 180 degrees. As time went on I realized that I was still struggling to overcome…
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I visited Living with The Spirit after my brother committed suicide and I needed help to ground, to get emotional support and to support my over all health. I also needed support for emotional eating, moving forward with my life and to work on the pain in my hip. This is my video about my…
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Proud to share a big supporter in my physical and mental wellbeing. Living with The Spirit – A big part of what they do is slapping some common sense into. Sports are a big part of my life and when injuries happen it can always be scary. If you’ve ever been suffering from an injury,…
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I’m deeply grateful that I chose Living With The Spirit be my home away from home on my healing journey in Thailand. Upon arriving the first day, my immediate impression was a feeling of safety, ease and acceptance in the presence of Sara and Simba. They embraced me with open arms and a kindly smile…
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I have had a professional relationship with the team at Living with The Spirit for over two years. I am also a client. Sara and Simba are the embodiment of what a top level holistic service practice delivers. They truly meet their clients where they are at and build from a strength perspective allowing for…
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I was heading to Chiang Mai for a ten day Vipassana retreat and was looking for a place to stay before and after the meditation. Luckily enough I found Living with the spirit. Arriving there I immediately felt welcome, totally safe and taken care of. It was a perfect place to unwind; the treatments, the…
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I spent 3 months at the Living with The Spirit Live In Retreat and I have continued to work with them for almost 2 months for private sessions after I moved out. I originally came for post surgery physiotherapy due to a full hip replacement at RAM Hospital in Chiang Mai.   What does this…
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Living With The Spirit has been contracted to work with our MENA clients who’s needs can be different to others. Simba and Sara, both understood the intersectionality that comes with this demographic and were able to develop customised programs to suit their cultural and individual needs. Sara and Simba, were incredible with securing our clients’ confidentiality,…
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I had many 1-2-1 sessions with Simba to keep my body in working order so I could train and compete in triathlon. Without him my body would surely have failed me. Not only is Simba a great body worker he and his partner Sara are some of the nicest people you will ever meet. The…
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I was really in a desperate situation after having a motorbike accident and being stuck in a place with no physical therapy. Simba reached out to me after I made a Fb post. We had an initial free online consultation and immediately I felt that he understood what my body needed. He gave me a…
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I cannot recommend Simba and Sara enough. Their philosophy, loving approach and knowledge create a wonderful safe space and if you get the chance to stay with them, amazing food, energy and comfortable accommodation! They inspired me to make changes I didn’t even know I wanted to make. Real angels in this world.    My…
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A few weeks ago I attended a cupping course with Simba and Sara. They have created such a beautiful space called “Living with The Spirit”. Both Sara and Simba are extremely caring and knowledgeable. They definitely have the ability to hold space for others while creating a safe container for healing. The rose water was…
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First and foremost, Thank you. I felt valued as part of the temporary family Sara and Simba create and host in their home. I felt valued as part of a giving and receiving process – I was receiving the retreat time, the healing, listening, guiding, facilitating that Sara and Simba offered me. At the same time I…
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When I arrived to Living with The Spirit and started to work with Sara & Simba my life was very messy. I felt that many things in my life was very unclear in multiple aspects. I was struggling with my professional life, my social life, my relationships with friends and boyfriend and my family relationships.…
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I want to take a moment to express my sincerest appreciation and inner thoughts for all that Living With The Spirit is as a wellness haven and all that you gave as two wonderful spirits sharing your space for the well-being of others.   My recent stay was amazing from comfortable accommodations to a complete…
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Ready, set, stuck… After years of living abroad, exploring my inner self and the World around, I finally feel I have a purpose. What is important to me is clear. Yet, I am still stuck.   I’m trying to move toward that direction but it feels like I am dragging a 10-wheelers along with me.…
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I have spent the last seven and a half months living at “Living with the Spirit”.  When I first arrived, I had spent over seven years and thousands of dollars trying to regain my health and to feel good.  In spite of working with 4 nutritional specialists, trying numerous diets, taking over $500 a month…
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It all started with an amazing Chi Nei Tsang massage where the lady told me there were still things to release and the therapeutic work should be associated with psychological and holistic approach, that is the first time i’ve heard about Sara, Simba and Living with the spirit. I was in Thaïland since a few…
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Sara and Simba inspires me to take good care of my body, my mind and my Spirit. I am an untrained, retired 68 year old woman who has decided to become stronger and feel better. 
I have been joining their group workouts, taken private personal training sessions and also massage treatments. This place has inspired…
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I started to work with Sara and Simba in November last year. I can say, life is treating me good in general. I love Chiang Mai, I got a great job, good people and a high quality life. I would describe my childhood as happy, full of abundance, growing up with a horse, two brothers,…
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I stayed with Living with The Spirit for 3 months. Looking back it’s hard to remember the details. Though I do remember that the trip was not what I had expected beforehand. All I can do is to sink into the moment and reflect on whatever comes to mind when I think about my trip…
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