Our Gallery
Welcome to our little image gallery. Here is where we share some of the most important moments of our life with you. Whether it’s little snapshots from our retreats, photos form events or videos and teachings, you can find it all right here. We invite you to dive deep and explore the unique world of our Meditation Center here in the beautiful south of Thailand.
Another month, another retreat. This was such a lovely group, with great connection. We had so much fun together releasing into ever deepening spheres of stillness. Loved every bit of it - thanks to all for maintaining an open heart throughout the process. ❤️🙏
The center will be closed for the month of April! See you all after the break. Much Love from Tobi and Parn ❤️
Another awesome retreat this month has just finished. We spent 4 days together, practicing hard to consistently bring ease and relaxation into this body and mind. Releasing tension, time, thought and - gradually - even the senses to some degree. All participants had really good experiences, really opened up a lot. We are very thankful for this week and having met those wonderful people - two of them have been returning since many years. 🙏
Amazing evening with the one and only Andy Mack @dissolvetherapy ! Thank you very much for sharing your experience so generously, sincerely and openly.
Besides, it was great meeting so many of the good folks who are training very hard under the skillful guidance of Sifu Adam Mizner. @discovertaiji
Thank you all for coming and blessing our space with the energy of your dedication and sincerity. It was a pleasure and honor to meet many of you for the first time in person. 🙏
It goes to say without a doubt, that the Sangha (community of dedicated and well-integrated practitioners/friends) fuels the entire path and brings it to life within one who seeks to develop skill.
We feel truly blessed and so very happy to learn from those who have gone above and beyond the imaginable with their own training. People like Andy Mack are rare gems, shining very bright with the light of sincerity.
Very few have embodied and integrated the path to such a degree! It is refreshing (and sometimes a bit terrifying) to be in the presence of such a tangible state of spaciousness and release.
Most so-called "spiritual people" these days wouldn`t even begin to comprehend the sacrifice that is required in order to enter this beautiful path and abide on it.
It is all the more uplifting to be guided and corrected by wizards like Andy Mack, who are doing the work tirelessly for the benefit of others.
Video will be up on our Youtube Channel soon! :)🙏
The Retreat last week was pretty special. It was an unusually big group, coming into the experience with an open mind and curiosity and a sincere willingness to practice properly. All of the members had their special moments of insight and is now working on integrating and embodying them further. Great times. We absolutely love our job! 🥰
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❗️WE`RE ON A SHORT BREAK!
This week there will be no free class on Thursday evening, 2nd February at 7PM. We start again next week. Looking forward to see you all again after the short break!
Love,
Tobi and Parn
Sunday morning well spent in good company. Always a pleasure hanging out with the crew. It’s been especially nice seeing both, Andy and Paul again after so many years! ☺️🙏
We wish you all a happy Chinese New Year of the Water Rabbit. May you experience steady progress on the spiritual path and be blessed with everything that supports the process of release. We send you much love! ❤️
Ah, so good to be back with our regular classic retreats ❤️ These pictures are from our last two retreats around new year. Looking forward to the next ones coming up.
Unfortunately we will have to remain closed for next week. There will be no free group sessions on Tuesday and Thursday. We start again next week, from Jan. 17th on. Thanks for your kind understanding and sorry for any inconveniences 🙏
HAPPY NEW YEAR dear Friends! We wish all of you the very best for the coming time. May you stay true to the practice and achieve great results on this beautiful path. This picture was taken during our first retreat last week. We haven`t been out there doing retreats with groups for about last two years now. It was super nice starting it all up again. Would be great to see you and sit together with you again soon!
How are you doing? We hope this mail finds you in good health and happiness. The year 2022 is coming to an end and it’s the time for a little review. You might be looking back reflecting on who you have become and on how your personal investments, decisions and moves have played out so far.
Perhaps you’re looking into the past year, wondering what has happened. Where has the time gone? Maybe you feel down, complaining about the state of affairs in this world. Or you look back in gratitude, knowing that you have invested your mental and physical energy well, regardless of circumstances. We certainly hope that it’s the latter (or something similar) and you feel a sense of warmth, self-respect and happiness as you review your actions and the formation of new healthy habits.
This brings me right into an interesting reflection…
In each and every moment we perform little actions within our mind. We direct our attention, tap into databases of memory and respond to various events in accordance with our tendencies. It’s the flurry of these (mostly unconscious) inner activities that gives rise to our predominant emotional moods and states, our habits and eventually the creation of our character.
These tendencies and feelings are a type of coded language, consolidating formless, abstract, mental information into a heavier, more “sticky” substance. Directing our attention to certain thought formations and feelings repeatedly will nourish them. That’s especially true if we are invested in these thoughts and feelings, if they matter to us. As long as we cling to these states, we keep them alive and allow them to shape our reality. What matters, becomes matter.
And if we do this often, these states materialize in our bodies. It’s as if our mind is like vapor, our emotions like water and our bodies like ice. The mental tendencies condensate into the water of feelings and emotions as long as we cling to them. The water of emotions and feelings eventually hardens into ice as we keep fueling this process.
...more in the comments 🙂
During the past two years, we’ve been pretty withdrawn, not so active on social media. We`ve been mostly focussing on our own practice, our new program and on doing some work online with close students. Phuket Island got really quiet and a lot of people have lost their basis for income. Many left and during the worst times the island even felt a bit post-apocalyptic.
Now finally it seems like some life is returning. People are outside, families and friends are re-connecting with one another and there’s a fresh, vibrant energy in the air. It’s quite beautiful to see! We have long been hesitant when it came to reopening our retreats, but now it just all feels well aligned and so we are going for it again. (You can see the retreats here: https://phuket-meditation.com/retreats-in-phuket/ )
We really missed connecting with people, going out together, sharing space in meditation and going through the meaningful inner process with our guests while they are on retreat.
How has it been for you? Was the time difficult? How did you get through it so far? Did your spiritual practice serve you when the times were difficult?
We are back after our break and classes are running again. You can find out more about the regular free classes on our website. We will link them in our bio and look forward to see you there soon! ❤️
Join us for our upcoming Meditation Retreat in the beautiful south of Phuket @lansabai. This one is organized by @andamanwellnessphuket and we are looking forward to provide the teachings and guided meditations! Would be great to see you there!
New upcoming events are online! 🎉 Have a look at our website and see what`s up and coming in July, August and September. You can find the link in our bio. Would be great to see you here soon!
We had a great time on our last one day retreat, learning how to let go of suffering and cultivate actions and habits that are highly beneficial on the long run. Great place @chivitrwellnessretreat and well organized by @andamanwellnessphuket. Many thanks also to @daosethi for her relaxing singing-bowl session in the afternoon! 🙏
The Last Few Years
As you can see, we organize our galleries so that the most recent pictures are on top. The further you go down, the older the pictures are. On this page, we go a long way back. We even have albums that reach all the way back to the year 2012. To see those, go to the bottom of this page, where we introduce more albums.
2021 has been a rather introverted and quiet year, due to the Covid situation worldwide. We didn’t actually conduct many retreats or public classes. Most of the year was spent in lockdown. However, we were really busy with our Meditation Mentorship and Spiritual Counseling Program and mostly stayed in touch with our dedicated longterm students for one-on-one online sessions.
Most of us experienced a lot of lockdowns, uncertainty and worldwide instability during 2020. It was an interesting year, showing just how fast things can change and turn upside down. For those of us, who are practitioners on the spiritual path, it was an interesting opportunity to go within and detach a bit more from the global madness of fearful thoughts and ideologies that were revealed in the face of Covid. Fortunately we had our practice to keep us grounded. In the beginning of 2020, there were still some events and retreats until the world shut down completely. Then we started with our new Mindfulness and Meditation Online Events later in the year – and it was great to reconnect with our students worldwide!
2019 was a special year for our teacher Tobi Warzinek. In March he had a major heart surgery, and so there were not so many events, workshops or retreats during this year. We were basically only active until March 2019 – then we started again in January 2020, just before the world shut down in response to Covid. Tobi used this year to focus on recovery and personal practice. We are thankful that all went well and he survived the complicated procedure.
2018 has been a wonderful and very active year for us. We are very thankful! We were fortunate to sit with many people from allover the world during our Meditation Retreats here in Phuket. We also met so many new faces in our regular group meditation sessions. Below, we share our highlights with you, but there is so much more material. It would definitely be too much for this page.
Phuket Meditation Center Fotos
All the pictures above were taken during the actual retreats, classes, morning excursions and events of the Phuket Meditation Center. This image gallery was recently updated. We will regularly upload new pictures, so you can see what we’re up to. You will see, that a lot of the fotos are from our retreats. We begin each morning with our amazing morning excursions, where we meditate, drink tea and explore the path together. It’s definitely the highlight of each day. It would be nice to meet you one day and share some of those meaningful moments.
Wanna see more Images, Videos and Media Options?
We have pictures that reach all the way back into the year 2012 – that’s 10 years of history! Feel free to have a look at our community, our events and activities on our public Photo Albums on Facebook. If you are looking for guided meditations or regular teachings online, we highly recommend you to visit our Youtube Channel. While we offer a lot of videos on Youtube (more than 400!) we are also active on Soundcloud. This is particularly helpful if you love podcasts and want to download the material in order to listen to it offline. Above all we are committed to helping you out on this beautiful journey.
If you are simply looking for updates, news and recent pictures, our facebook and instagram channels are surely the best. In case you have ever joined one of our events or classes, you can also join our group on facebook. This is a great spot to receive direct guidance and ask questions. We certainly do our best to discuss all of your questions in our upcoming events.