Be With Yourself - The Unplugged Version
A Relatively Silent Retreat with Nicky Kassapian
13th – 19th November 2025 (6 nights)
Reset your body, mind and spirit through silent meditation & mindfulness, dyads and movement.
This is an immersion retreat for the adventurous. It is largely conducted through simple classical Buddhist silent meditation practices; allowing a greater sense of aware presence to arise through, mindful sitting and walking, combined with a daily inner contemplation and an empathic listening practice each evening.
This allows you to become more familiar with yourself. There is space to observe yourself, watching what you are thinking and saying. Simply being with yourself, is to start knowing yourself better. From there everything begins to transform.
Disconnect to Reconnect
This is where you step away from the external world and literally unplug from the projections of who and what you think you are. Disconnecting from the roles you play, and the things that appear to run your life.
This retreat is also for the courageous, as it takes courage to sit with yourself in contemplative silence and unplug from all your personal and professional roles, your responsibilities, your gadgets and the identity you have been projecting onto yourself and out into the world.
If you’re longing to begin to reconnect to yourself then this retreat is for you. For those who want to develop techniques for being with yourself more mindfully each day, so that you can operate with greater efficacy in your world, you will be returning to the world with easy to use daily practices.
In brief it is for people who want to develop a daily practice
- Press pause and stop being directed by external distractions – So you can become more aware of what you have been being and doing, and let go of that which is impeding you from being and doing, who and what you would prefer.
- Connect with themselves more fully, in the here and now, in nature – So you can feel something real, remembering how your own heart beats and experience your breath leaving and entering the body.
- Listen to the resounding sounds of silence – So you can develop a daily practice of meditation, mindfulness & grounding, using techniques to become more comfortable and better at being with the unplugged version of yourself, in the stillness of the moment.
- Drop out of the head and fall into the heart – So you can start aligning with your inner knowing and bigger dreams, creating the space to bring them in.
14.00 – 17.30 - Arrival
17.30 - Unplug from all devices
18.00 - Dinner
19.00 - Introduction to Be With Yourself & Dyads
Morning
06.00 - 06.50 - Sitting ( 20 mins sitting, 10 mins walking, 20 mins sitting )
06.50 – 07.10 – Mindful Tea
07.10 – 08.00 – Sitting ( 20 mins sitting, 10 mins walking, 20 mins sitting )
08.00 – 09.30 - BREAKFAST
09.30 – 10.20 – Sitting ( 20 mins sitting, 10 mins walking, 20 mins sitting )
10.20 – 10.40 – Mindful Tea
10.40 – 11.30 – Sitting ( 20 mins sitting, 10 mins walking, 20 mins sitting )
11.35 – 12.35 – MOVEMENT SESSION
Afternoon
12.35 – 14.00 - LUNCH
14.00 – 15.00 - INDIVIDUAL REST TIME
15.00 – 15.50 – Sitting ( 20 mins sitting, 10 mins walking, 20 mins sitting )
15.50 – 16.20 – Mindful Tea
16.20 – 17.10 – Sitting ( 20 mins sitting, 10 mins walking, 20 mins sitting )
17.10 – 18.30 - INDIVIDUAL REST TIME
18.30 – 19.30 - DINNER
19.30 – 20.30 – Dyad or Guided Process
20.30 – Winding down
Schedule as during earlier days, with conclusion after the session that ends at 10.20am followed by a final Dyad and closing.
Your Accommodation Options
- All rooms have a kitchen with stove and oven, lounge, and dining area
- All apartments and bedrooms have air-conditioning and fans
- All lounge areas have a TV
- Filtered water, tea and coffee
- Ground-floor apartments have an outside sitting area, first and second floors have small balconies and if you have access to a rooftop there is an outside seated area
- The resort has free wifi access
One Bedroom - King Suite (Private)
Ideal for solo travelers or couples, featuring a spacious bedroom and modern amenities.
94.2 sqm
Max 3 adults
1 King bedroom
1 Bedroom + 1 Living Room + 2 Bathrooms
Two Bedroom – Suite (Sharing)
Perfect for small families or groups, offering two bedrooms and a comfortable living area.
94.2 sqm
Max 5 adults
1 King bedroom + 1 Twin bedroom
2 Bedrooms + 1 Living Room + 2 Bathrooms
Retreat Inclusions
Price includes
- 6 x nights’ Accommodation including breakfast
- Return airport transfers
- 6 x Vegetarian Lunches to include tea, coffee and water
- 6 x Vegetarian Dinners to include tea, coffee and water
Optional Extra Add-on offer
- 3 extra nights’ Accommodation including breakfast
- $540 per person single occupancy
- $375 per person based on 2 sharing
- Full Day Angkor Wat temple tour including English speaking tour guide + transport + 1 day Angkor pass
- $160 per person
- Additional Tours available upon request
Meet your facilitator
Nicky Kassapian
Nicky Kassapian is a classical Buddhist meditation practitioner and facilitator. She is also a transformational mentor, coach, energy healer and author, who creates and facilitates bespoke retreats.
Nicky has dedicated her life to assisting and supporting people to reveal themselves to themselves, opening more and more to the truth of who they be, in clear, grounded, gentle ways.
Nicky invites you to disconnect from the everyday, to create space and truly connect with your essence self, from a place of greater clarity, compassion and love.
FAQS
Frequently Asked Questions
This is 6 night 7 day introduction for beginners or more seasoned practitioners alike.
Gracefully melding the wisdom traditions of Shamatha Vipashyana* meditation and mindfulness practices, with Dyads, a fresh contemplative practice of the modern age, using heart led, easy to follow practices, Nicky has drawn on decades of experience and created a retreat, which allows experiential clarity to arise from within.
Nicky invites you to disconnect from the everyday, to create space and truly connect with your essence self, from a place of greater clarity, compassion and love. Emerging refreshed and rejuvenated, into a life of greater ease, and with a daily practice that you can continue with confidence.
*Shamatha is often referred to as calm abiding and the development of ease. This is generated through the practice of allowing the mind to focus naturally on its object, whereby the mind starts to relax and there are more frequent moments of stability.
*Vipsahyana is often referred to as insight meditation. Once we have a steady mind and a sense of relaxation, and the ability to focus then we’re available for insight meditation.
Therefore, developing Shamatha is typically how we begin to practice.
November 13th – 19th, 2025, at Angkor Grace Wellness Resort in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Angkor Grace Wellness Resort is a luxurious 5-star resort in Siem Reap, Cambodia. It offers spacious suites, two expansive swimming pools (including a 33-meter adult bio-pool and a kids bio-pool), a well-equipped fitness center (Meru Gym), and the Mahalaya Wellness Spa offering traditional Cambodian treatments. There’s an Aum Yoga Studio and dedicated Yoga Shalas. Dining options include a family-friendly restaurant with diverse cuisines and a MERU Juice Bar. Other amenities include a Ponleu Kids Club, meeting rooms, complimentary parking, and pet-friendly spaces.
Are you ready to join us?
We look forward to welcoming you on this journey of rest and renewal.