From the boardroom to the yoga mat: Adrienne Everett brings her method to Thailand

The former finance and technology executive will take over the mat at Chiva Som Hua Hin this November, bringing a career change shaped by her own experience of yoga to one of Thailand’s longstanding wellness retreats.

Adrienne Everett did not begin her career in a yoga studio. Before becoming an international instructor and wellness entrepreneur, she worked at senior levels in finance and technology, an environment some distance removed from the slower rhythms of the profession she eventually chose.

Yoga initially became a means of finding resilience and clarity within that life. It ultimately prompted a more substantial change of direction.

This November, that journey takes Everett to Chiva Som Hua Hin, the Thai wellness resort on the Gulf of Thailand, where she will lead a three day residency from November 7 to 9.

The programme will introduce guests to the approach she has developed since leaving corporate life, moving between physically demanding strength work and considerably slower practices concerned with mobility, breathing and concentration.

Strength and softness

Everett is now the founder of HWH Studio Dubai and the creator of The Adrienne Method, an approach to yoga that combines strength, fluid movement, breath, music and what she describes as emotional intention.

There is a deliberate contrast at its centre. Her classes can be physically challenging, but the objective is not simply exercise. Everett has built her method around the relationship between strength and softness, and around using movement as a means of creating greater awareness of the body.

That philosophy will be explored through four sessions during her stay at Chiva Som.

The residency begins on Saturday morning with Power Sculpt, combining controlled resistance work with movement to develop strength, endurance and stability.

Sunday brings Everett’s signature Adrienne Method class in the morning, followed later in the day by Yoga Stretch, a gentler session concentrating on mobility and releasing tension. The residency concludes on Monday with Slow Vinyasa Flow, allowing more time between postures and placing greater emphasis on breathing.

All four sessions are complimentary for guests staying at the resort, with adaptations available for different levels of yoga experience.

A different idea of the wellness holiday

Everett arrives at a resort that has spent more than three decades building its identity around personalised wellness rather than conventional spa tourism.

Chiva Som, whose name translates as “Haven of Life”, offers 16 retreat programmes covering areas including fitness, physiotherapy, nutrition, holistic health, spa treatments and aesthetic beauty. Guests work with a Health and Wellness Advisor to construct an individual programme rather than following an identical schedule.

It is an approach that reflects a wider change in the luxury wellness market. The modern retreat is increasingly expected to offer more than temporary relaxation. Guests are being encouraged to leave with habits and practices that can survive the flight home.

Everett’s own story makes her an appropriate addition to that model. Her route into wellness came not from a lifelong career in the industry, but from discovering that movement could provide something her previous professional life did not.

The three days in Hua Hin are therefore less about introducing another exercise class to a luxury resort than examining the role movement can play outside the studio.

For Everett, yoga was significant enough to change the direction of her career. At Chiva Som this November, the proposition is more modest but perhaps more useful: that guests might take at least some of it home with them.

Adrienne Everett’s residency takes place at Chiva Som Hua Hin from November 7 to 9, 2026. The four yoga sessions are complimentary for resort guests.