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The Stillness Within
MillionaireAsia sat down with Monk Duke, the founder of iRETREAT, to trace his path from a life of privilege, supercars, London School of Economics, and Bangkok high society, to ten years of silence inside a monastery.
In this feature, writer Toh Mu Qin explores how that decade of near-total renunciation reshaped his understanding of happiness, and how it led him to build iRETREAT as a gift for his mother that grew into a philosophy for the modern world: the Sati & Sabai method, the Monk Life Project, and a sanctuary in Pak Thong Chai designed not as an escape, but as a way home to yourself.
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When the World Paused
MillionaireAsia covers the inaugural World Awareness Day, held on 21 May 2026 in Singapore and presented in collaboration with Great Eastern Private, where Monk Duke, founder of iRETREAT, led a room of executives and professionals through a 21-minute guided meditation and a reflection on modern exhaustion. “People are not suffering because they have too little,” he told the audience. “They are suffering because they have too much.”
From there, the day expanded into conversations on neuroscience, consciousness, and preventive health, closing with the unveiling of an EEG headset designed to help people track their mental wellbeing the way they already track their physical health, all circling back to the same idea Monk Duke opened with: meaningful change begins within.
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Destination Self-Care
In its May–June 2022 wellness tourism report, TTG Asia spoke with Anthony Tan, founder and managing director of Bangkok-based wellness consultancy AJT Wellity, about why Thailand has become a magnet for mindful travel, and its combination of affordable, internationally accredited healthcare, natural landscapes, and rich culture.
The piece highlighted the iRETREAT group’s growing footprint across Thailand, then expanding from Pak Thong Chai near Khao Yai into new locations in Chiang Mai and Koh Yao Noi, with a shared focus on helping guests build proper techniques for mental clarity and lasting wellbeing.
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Searching Within
In its Asia Focus section, Bangkok Post profiled Anthony Tan, founder of AJT Wellity and iRETREAT, exploring how a personal, deeply held interest in wellness shaped the business he chose to build, one where he could live out his own beliefs about mindful living rather than simply sell them.
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