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
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