Thursday, September 24, 2026

Update 3 (of 3)

January 26, 2024 Phatsamon and I married by law and had a small party to celebrate.

Main step 3 of the process was to create our main house.
We are living in it now for over a year. It really offers a private space for the two of us including our dogs. Yoga & meditation I/we practice at the first floor Sala. Most of the time our dogs accompany me upstairs. 

For our family, friends, guests we offer our amazing pyramids for short stay. Our TED's offer the small central meeting area and our (in the near future) big garden, with pond, island and forest, the place to relax outside on our private property.  

For this third step we again asked (and got) all kinds of legal official government permissions. Just to follow all the Thai laws and standards related to our process. And not at least, not to worry for me in relation to do all the construction work by ourselves. 

As one of the pictures below shows, we got checks of the immigration and local government. Happy we arranged everything right and in the Thai legal way so everything worked out to be fine.

During this next (third) phase, step by step our 'livestock' of animals expanded (very sadly by thrown away young animals by people living around here). Most 'girls' because they give 'problems' in the village in 'reproducing'. 

So first we found six weeks old thrown away puppy "Singto". After that we got three kittens "Benjaa", "Chamnong" & "Damrong". We found two very young puppies "Baijka" and "Taffy" thrown away against a wall next to the provincial road through the village. Then a kitten thrown away by a man driving a scooter "Meechok". Last but not least, around two month ago, a stray kitten we called "Boinki". (To see pictures of them all from that time (Dutch Blog) click here). 

So all together now, our livestock counts four dogs and five cats. The cats so far living at a big room at my mother in law's house in our village. End of the year these five will be living at our place. 

At the moment we are creating the carport annex catio. 

Next steps will be:
  • Creating the sun-blinds and rain protection around the house. 
  • Placing the outdoor Thai kitchen.
  • Installing a good quality fence around the total land area just for our animals to be free to walk around so they will not disturb people passing by or wildlife.
  • On the lower part of the land (present around 7000 m2 rice-field) dig a big pond with a small island in the middle to create a small sala to relax.
  • Create a forest area with walking trails to offer the magnificent birds some place to live in peace and to have some shadow.
  • Possible get some water buffalo's to walk around free in the area as well.   

We stay in the mood to live on our own private and peaceful place. A good 'escape' to stay healthy in the ongoing changing in our opinion more and more negative energy in the world around us. 

Our ideas can change and will never stop. It's a matter of being happy, healthy and strong enough to go on creating new and, in our opinion, nice things in freedom. 






First floor Sala space




Frans Captijn (Gangey Gruma Báisjá)

Captijn Insight. 
Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work (again).

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Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Update 2 (of 3)

After creating the work and structures mentioned in the former blog, we got government permission to build our two guest pyramids. 

We created them as comfortable, energetic and peaceful guest rooms for my children, some family members, and (bicycle) friends.

After the first pyramid was finished, we changed our temporary living place from the shipping container to the first pyramid for around two years. 


April 20 2022 we got another dog, puppy Cupid, a daughter of Phatsamon's mother former dog, named Joke. 

Still going strong, doing on a daily base very early in the morning my around one hour yoga & meditation combination. First at the veranda of the shipping container/TED's. After that at the entrance area of our main house and already half a year at the first floor special created sala above the entrance of our house.

Animals always around us. Great energy to be honest and... indeed... sometimes disturbing as well ;). 

Building permission step 2 (pyramids)




Kadhow & girl Cupid best friends.


Hard to exercise in the morning in front of the TED's

Temporary exercise space in front of our main house



Frans Captijn (Gangey Gruma Báisjá)

Captijn Insight. 
Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work (again).

Ban Na Sam, Na Bua, Mueang Surin, Surin, Thailand
email: captijninsight@gmail.com
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RdQezE2CeiPcw5yq6

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Monday, August 31, 2026

Update 1 (of 3)

As promised, a quick update first. Parts of this story are already in earlier published blogs but just to make it easy to 're-connect' again. 

I had to stop working at The Pavana Chiang Mai (holistic wellness) Resort, before The Spa Resort, because it closed it's doors. I felt and still feel very sad about that. Working and sharing insights and talents there with so many, often returning, international guests and groups made me really happy. I still feel energy connection with many guests I was able to work with.

I met my, nowadays, wife Phatsamon on a dating site while I was still working at the resort. She was born in Surin, North-East of Thailand 900 km away from Chiang Mai, but lived and worked that time in Bangkok. 

After I lost my work at the resort, we decided to create a small private spiritual place at one of the four pieces of land in Surin she got as a gift from her parents. Together with my biggest friend that time, dog Kadhow, we chose the one Kadhow felt the most happy and comfortable energy. And he was right! 

It is a plot of 9.372 m2 rice field land (about 52 x 180 m). My girlfriend’s dad, over ten years ago, heightened about 2.250 m2 of that plot for about 2 meters with good soil. This heightened land looks and feels as a kind of terrace above the lower rice field. A pond of about 400 m2 is part of this raised area.

Monday March 2, 2020 we got building permission for the first part (Knock down home / temporary living place / shipping container) of the process. Also my name was added on the landpaper paper of Phatsamon. Not to get owner of the land (for a foreigner in Thailand that's never possible) but to get legal lifelong use of the land. The place also got a formal address. 

First things we had to organize were electricity and water for our place. 
Because our chosen land (ricefield with permission to build) is about 500 meters from the village, we had to organize electricity input (lines) by ourselves. At December 31 2019 we got the first electricity poles to our land. 
Short after that we got our own private 5 inch, 60 meters deep water well. We created a "control-room" with electricity switch boards, pumps, water storage and a generator for basic energy supply in case of a power-break, all already ready to serve every building we had in mind. 

After that we designed a shipping-container on stilts as our temporary living area and created a veranda at the east side. 
At present this place is our TED's (Talk, Eat and Drink place). The bar, relax and breakfast area. 

To get and keep the right energy, directly after having water, electricity and our temporary place to live, we created a "Petit-Chartres" labyrinth (opened October 4 2020) in the garden and a campfire place. 
As usual the entrance of the Labyrinth is at the East-side. At the West-side we put the, in my opinion, beautiful Buddha bust. This bust origins from Indonesia. It travelled to my house in The Netherlands, after that to Chiang Mai in Thailand and now it's final location is at our place in Surin. 


Kadhow, September 2019, crazy happy discovering and 'choosing' our land.



Building permission on my (Frans) name and including my name
at the land paper of Phatsamon to make it for me legal to
build (work) on our own land on a retirement visa. 





















Situation January 2024

Present TED's




Note:
I think all my guests still remember my friend Kadhow, he sadly passed away on May 15 2025, because of a terrible and unexpected blood disease at the age of nearly 13 years old.  


Frans Captijn (Gangey Gruma Báisjá)

Captijn Insight. 
Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work (again).

Ban Na Sam, Na Bua, Mueang Surin, Surin, Thailand
email: captijninsight@gmail.com
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RdQezE2CeiPcw5yq6


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Tuesday, August 25, 2026

After more than 5 years back again

It took over five years to start up this blog again. And...

Here we are again!

June 4, 2021 we took a time out because of several reasons.
The main reason was we started our building process to create a private small spiritual center in Surin Province, Thailand.

I am happy and thankful still several former guests I worked with as a life- & talent coach and meditation/Kundalini yoga/tantra teacher stay in touch or only once asked or mirrored me something related to their private situation they were or are in.
Some only asked or replied on their personal outcomes working with 'The Game of Gifts' (discovering talents and life-mission) or their Numerology session.

Don't get me wrong, these contacts are not 'regular' stuff at all, but it's heartwarming people still know to find you for some personal reason.

The Spa Resort / The Pavana Chiang Mai resort where I worked, till now on, closed its doors. So, I could not and was not allowed to work there anymore and lost my work-permit and work-visa.
Still I am happy living and retiring in Thailand but now in Surin province.

Together with, now, my wife Phatsamon, I picked-up my basic profession as an architect and constructional engineer.
At a nice piece of land, Phatsamon got from her parents we started to design, calculate and develop our ideas. After all formal permits and permissions, she stopped working in Bangkok to become a daily 'construction worker' with me.
We created (building as meditation), as the only two workers, our plans.

During the years we regularly shared our progress and hick-ups at our 'Pyramidhouse Thailand' blog (link below).

Not a project but an ongoing process that, till for whatever reason we cannot work anymore, will never end.
The main buildings, although we use them all already, will be totally finished in around three quarters of a year.

We called our private place (location see link below as well):

"Pyramid Retreat Thailand, Surin" 

Going on with this blogs again:
I don't intend to write blogs on a weekly base anymore.
Depending on construction workload, experiences, inspiration and insights, slowly, I will share my thoughts again.

As everywhere and for everyone, a lot of changed appeared in the last couple of years. So also with us.
So the next few post of the new series of the "Captijn Insight Thailand blogs" I will share some more explanation of our place here, the changes of our lives, living with all our animals here, and other things that happened. All just to 'close' the information 'gap' a bit of the last years you possibly have.

I promise you, I keep you posted again.


Frans Captijn (Gangey Gruma Báisjá)

Captijn Insight. 
Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work (again).

Ban Na Sam, Na Bua, Mueang Surin, Surin, Thailand
email: captijninsight@gmail.com
Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RdQezE2CeiPcw5yq6
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Friday, June 4, 2021

Time out

For three months now I did not publish weekly a Captijn Insight blog. Sorry about that. 

I take a temporary time out because we are too busy with building (and still I publish in Dutch my week blog and our building blog in English). 

Building will take some time (years) but hopefully that does not say there will not be a blog in English for years.

I hope and think things will work out fine and the 'Captijn Insight Thailand' blogs will be back some time. 

If you have any questions about former blogs (or former guests of The Spa Resort or The Pavana Chiang Mai resort, about retreats, yoga, meditation or other classes of me they once joined) feel free to write me an email. 

Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)


Captijn Insight. Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work again.

 


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Friday, March 5, 2021

The message and the messenger

"Do you sometimes find yourself rejecting the message along with the messenger?"

It was a sentence I came across in a document last week. It got me thinking. Because yes, when I thought about it for a moment, I caught myself there.

At school, at work, at meetings in past days, and even at church, the message stopped coming because I did not feel any connection (sometimes even more an aversion) to the messenger.

Communication is about sending and receiving. And there are a lot of disturbances on that line. We often use the time others send to prepare our own story. We think that others are waiting for that and listening to it, but often they use your conversation time to make their story again. So many times, nobody is listening at all. A waste of time. I wrote a blog about it before.

And indeed. Teachers, managers, board members, politicians, but also for example, a priest or pastor appeals to you (you feel a connection) or does not appeal to you at all. And if he or she does not address, it sometimes happens that you throw away the (often good) message with the bath water (or, for example, no longer visit the church). And that is actually a shame and yet also very human and natural.

In communication technology a lot of attention is paid to how to communicate and present your message well, but not or hardly to that, I call it biological, preference or disapproval of the messenger who certainly plays a very important role.

Do you ever find yourself rejecting the message through the messenger? No more than normal in my opinion and to say ... "nothing missed" can be a bit too short-sighted.


Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)


Captijn Insight. Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work again.

 


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Friday, February 26, 2021

Miraculous life path. Not a movie but reality ...

It is sometimes said that just before you leave life here, you see the movie of your life flash by one more time.

Well, first of all I wonder why you should wait for that moment. In addition, such a ‘flash moment’ is certainly not long enough for me. I think I would need a several hours lasting (flash) moment. Last week, again, I took the time to look back on my life path so far. 

I had to laugh. If you had told me this beforehand, neither myself nor anyone else would have believed this. And yes, I will certainly have had an influence on it myself, but it feels more like going with the flow of many many changes that were waiting for me. I also hope that quite a few are still ready to receive. It's miraculous.

In 2010 my Dutch book “Speurtocht naar persoonlijk meesterschap” (Quest for personal mastery) was published. For close friends I had added a thick supplement with my life path up to that point. It has grown fantastically for more than ten years now. 

And indeed, people who know me better know, I was and am a little "different". Different in the sense that my basic talent of "jester" is quite dominant in my life. It makes things a little light, so to speak. 

But my upbringing, the schools I could and was allowed to visit, the jobs I had, not to mention my relationships. Two world citizens of children. The places where I have lived in the Netherlands and abroad. The total life change after the one-sided accident I had in 2010 with that deep burnout as the cause.

From hospitality branch to construction and architecture (in Saudi Arabia), to management jobs in the fire-service, crisis & disaster manager and director of a safety region. And from 2012 meditation teacher with afterwards the qualifications for yoga and Tantra teacher. It's all something different.

And now, for almost nine years in Thailand, the building with our own hands of a small spiritual private center of pyramids. So, actually back in construction again. 

I have now built four labyrinths in my life. In fact, with all the changes that entails, an image of a life path in the seasons of your life. You just have to walk it. 

And although this blog is very, very brief, of course everyone knows the miracle of his or her own life path. The earth is a school of learning and I think it is good to look back on your life path every now and then, to learn, to be grateful, and to build that labyrinth of your life while you walk it step by step.



Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)


Captijn Insight. Catalyst in developing tranquility & in-sight to get in a sustainable way real connection, purpose, pleasure and flow in life, love, family, business, career and work again.


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