Living with the spirit
Chiang Mai, Thailand · Since 2018
A decade of practice. Two people. One consistent question, what does it actually look like to live in full alignment, body, mind, energy, and spirit, and to help others do the same. What began as a retreat center in Chiang Mai now moves forward as three distinct expressions of the same work.
The origin
Founded 2018, Chiang Mai
High standards. Real support. Because great teaching is built over time.
Living with the Spirit was founded by Sara and Simba Stenqvist as a retreat center in Northern Thailand, built around the Internal Alchemy modality Simba developed in collaboration with Dr. David Berceli, founder of TRE® and neurogenic tremors.
For nearly a decade it has been a place where practitioners, healers, and conscious leaders come to go deep, through the body, through energy, through the full spectrum of what it means to be human.
The work has always moved through physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual layers as a single unified process. That foundation remains. What has changed is the form it moves through, now three distinct brands, each with its own door into the same field.
One source, three expressions
Three doors into the same field
Body, mind, energy, and spirit. One unified process, three ways in.
Simba Stenqvist
Twenty-five years working with the body, as a bodyworker, TRE® Certification Trainer, craniosacral therapist, martial artist, and energy healer, with over 100 certifications across somatic healing, energetics, physiology, and TCM. Internal Alchemy, developed with Dr. David Berceli, integrates breath, fascia, nervous-system regulation, energy work, and neurogenic tremors into one complete practice.
Work with Simba
For practitioners and individuals ready to go deep into the body and beyond its limits. His Certification Training teaches the full Internal Alchemy methodology, personal mentorship brings that depth one to one, The Wellspring is his ongoing somatic membership, and his travels and workshops carry the work to communities worldwide.
Spirit Alchemy Retreats
Over a decade of retreat experience, physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual, refined into one clear alchemy process. Every retreat is built around the individual. No fixed programs, no generic structures, just a full arc designed around the person, their body, and what this moment in their life is asking for. We work with beautiful partner spaces across Chiang Mai, and we also travel. If you have a home, a venue, or a piece of land, we come to you.
Our deepest offer : The Spirit Home Alchemy Retreat
Come and live with us in our home in Northern Thailand for three full days of total immersion, everything aligned around you and your body in real time. For one person or one couple at a time.
Sara Marie
Sara works through the body as the primary instrument, the spine, the fascia, the nervous system, the breath, as the ground where real and lasting change happens. Her work is rooted in Internal Alchemy and shaped by her own embodied understanding of somatic practice and energetic transmission. She documents her process publicly through daily live practice on YouTube.
Work with Sara
An Alchemist and Energy Architect, opening the body so life can move through it fully. 108 Days of Internal Alchemy is a free daily live practice on YouTube that anyone can join. From there her Masterminds and Deep Body Connection Programs offer closer proximity, and her private mentorship brings the work into direct personal contact.
Body, mind, energy, and spirit. One unified process, three ways in.
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