Ingrid Solheim

Ingrid Solheim is Norwegian and lives in Chiang Mai. She writes about retreats, temples, yoga studios and quiet places to stay in northern Thailand, Bali and Japan. She cares more about the rules of a place than its promises: wake-up time, silence policy, food, who leads it, and what happens if you want to leave early. She prefers a simple room and a garden to a spa menu, and she is wary of retreats that sell transformation. She writes slowly and recommends a lot of walking. Her readers are people who are tired and want a straight answer about what a week of quiet will really look like.