Roots & Renewal
A Women Empowerment Retreat
A Pai Seedlings Foundation retreat · fully hosted, from Chiang Mai to Pai
“Six days to put the city down, reconnect with the land — and stand with the farmers who grow our food, on the frontline of climate change.”
Minimum group size 8 · 75% of the profit funds farmers through Pai Seedlings Foundation
Climate change is not just an environmental crisis. It is a human one.
Through experiences in nature, Pai Seedlings Foundation brings together change-makers and like-minded people — and turns their time on the land into support for the farmers who grow our food, on the frontline of climate change.
Why it matters
- Climate change disproportionately affects farmers and marginalised communities.
- Farmers play a central role in their families and communities — yet they carry much of the weight when harvests fail, water runs short, or seasons shift.
- Empowering farmers is one of the most effective ways to accelerate climate solutions.
Our mission
Empowering farmers on the frontline of climate change — helping them become leaders and agents of change, driving social and economic equity while supporting a healthy, thriving planet.
We do it by building a strong network: women from the city and farmers from the valley, learning from each other and working together.
You come to renew
Six days on the land at Seedlings Farm — soil, food, stillness, and guided empowerment work.
Your retreat gives back
75% of the profit funds farmers through Pai Seedlings Foundation.
Farmers grow stronger
Support for farmers in the Pai valley: emotional grounding, farm projects, income, and a network behind them.
Today, the Foundation works alongside farmers in the Pai valley. Our vision is to grow this into dedicated programs for women farmers — and every retreat brings that closer.
The retreat
Bangkok gives these women everything except stillness. Roots & Renewal gives them six days to put it down — real soil, real food, a slower pace — without giving up comfort, and with the knowledge that their time away supports the farmers who grow our food.
Who it’s for
Open to all women who feel the need to create more space for connection with nature and a sustainable lifestyle — Bangkok-based, urban professionals or entrepreneurs, financially able to invest in their own wellbeing. They are not backpackers — they want an authentic, hands-in-the-soil experience, but delivered with real comfort: a proper room, good food, no logistics to manage themselves.
Their stated need: distance from pollution and screens, a reset for body and mind, and space to think about their own life without an agenda from work or family — and, for many, to be part of something that matters beyond themselves.
What you’ll find
- Detox — from Bangkok’s air, noise, and screens.
- Reconnect — with nature, the land, and simple daily rhythms.
- Reflect — through guided empowerment work, not just relaxation.
- Give back — 75% of the profit funds farmers through Pai Seedlings Foundation.
- Return — cared for from Chiang Mai airport to Chiang Mai airport.
Who’s hosting you
Pai Seedlings Foundation
Pai Seedlings Foundation is an educational farm in the Pai region of northern Thailand, working at the intersection of permaculture, agroforestry, and community. Built alongside the Karen community of Muang Noi, the farm is growing into a regional hub for environmental education and regenerative agriculture — anchored by a new bamboo sala and kitchen — and supports the visibility of organic growers through the Regenerative Farmers Network. Roots & Renewal is one of the Foundation’s first steps toward opening this world to guests, not just students and partners — and a way to fund the Foundation’s work with farmers on the frontline of climate change, with the vision of creating dedicated programs for women farmers.
ลิซ คง
Founder & Retreat HostLyse holds a master’s degree in chemistry and spent ten years in the luxury cosmetics industry before leaving the corporate world behind. She began a second career as a photographer, then trained as a life and health coach — for the past ten years she has held space for women’s wellbeing, guiding them through transitions in their bodies, their relationships, and their sense of purpose. She founded Pai Seedlings Foundation to bring that same work onto the land: permaculture, community, and now this retreat. Married and the mother of two boys, Lyse leads Roots & Renewal from lived experience, not theory — she asks of her guests only what she continues to ask of herself.
Moona
Farm & Wellness CoordinatorMoona works alongside Lyse across the farm’s daily life, and leads the retreat’s garden, harvest, and cooking sessions — bringing guests straight from soil to table.
The essentials
Day by day
Chiang Mai → Pai
- Private van pickup at Chiang Mai International Airport
- Scenic 3.5–4 hour drive to Pai
- Check-in at The Quarter, welcome dinner at the hotel
Arrival at the farm — roots down
- Breakfast at The Quarter, morning transfer to Seedlings Farm
- Introduction circle, guided visit of the garden
- Harvesting & cooking class with Moona, shared lunch from the harvest
- Empowerment session 1 with Lyse — our role in society and as agents of change, our mission and values, and our feminine cycle, through visualization and coaching
- Dinner at the farm, return transfer to The Quarter
Rhythm & movement
- Qi Gong or meditation session, gardening / mud-building work
- Lunch at the farm, tea-making class, afternoon walk in nature
- Dinner at the farm, return transfer to The Quarter
Stillness & inner work
- Silent walk meditation, chakra harmonisation with high-quality organic essential oils
- Lunch at the farm
- Empowerment session 2 with Lyse — connecting with our feminine energy and rising up together
- Dinner at the farm, return transfer to The Quarter
Integration & closing
- Breakfast at The Quarter
- Morning journaling and relationship coaching session
- Lunch at the farm, time to browse farm & wellness products for home
- Healing water session at the end of the afternoon
- Free evening on Pai’s walking street — dinner on your own
Departure
- Breakfast at The Quarter, check-out
- Private van transfer to Chiang Mai International Airport
The Quarter Pai & Seedlings Farm
Comfort at The Quarter between days spent in the garden, the sala, and at the table at Seedlings Farm.
The Quarter Pai
Seedlings Farm
What’s included
Included
- Private van transfer, Chiang Mai Airport ↔ The Quarter Pai (round trip)
- Daily transfer, The Quarter ↔ Seedlings Farm (4 days)
- 5 nights’ private single-room accommodation at The Quarter Pai
- Breakfast daily at The Quarter
- Lunch & dinner daily at Seedlings Farm, except the Day 1 welcome dinner and the Day 5 free evening
- All workshops & sessions: Qi Gong/meditation, two women’s empowerment sessions, gardening, mud building, tea making, chakra/essential oils, harvesting & cooking, silent walk meditation, journaling, relationship coaching, healing water session
- Activity materials, including high-quality organic essential oils
- Healing water session
- Bilingual facilitation (English/Thai) throughout
Not included
- Flights to/from Chiang Mai (booked independently by each guest)
- Travel to the Chiang Mai pickup point
- Travel insurance
- Personal spending, e.g. at Pai’s walking street
- Farm & wellness products ordered for home delivery (priced separately)
- Optional spa/massage treatments in Pai
- Alcoholic beverages
Booking policy
Group size: minimum 8 women to run the retreat as scheduled; target 10–12.
Deposit: a 30% deposit secures a place at booking; the balance is due 30 days before departure.
Cancellation: deposit is non-refundable. Cancellations more than 30 days before departure receive a full refund of the balance paid beyond the deposit; within 30 days, the full amount is retained.
If the minimum isn’t reached: the Foundation may postpone or reschedule the retreat, with a full refund offered to any guest who cannot make the new date.
Stay rooted
The retreat ends at the airport — the sisterhood doesn’t have to.
After lunch on Day 5, guests can browse and order Seedlings Farm and Be LEAF products — teas, garden harvests, and the same high-quality organic essential oils used in the chakra class — shipped directly to their home address after they return to Bangkok (or abroad).
Every order supports the farm and the organic growers of the Regenerative Farmers Network.
After the retreat, you stay connected to the Foundation: you’ll hear how your retreat’s contribution was used, and how the farmers you supported are growing.
Product list, pricing, and shipping details available on request.
Ready to put the city down — and stand with the farmers who grow our food?
Spaces are limited to 10–12 women, minimum 8 to run. Reach out to reserve your place on Roots & Renewal, a Pai Seedlings Foundation retreat.
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