Adisorn Kukarja at a laptop and mixing desk in an ornate hall with a gilded ceiling and columns.

Founder of Stayfly and Awakenest

Adisorn Kukarja, known as Eddy

อดิศร กุการยา

Koh Phangan, Thailand

Adisorn Kukarja, known as Eddy, founded Stayfly and Awakenest on Koh Phangan. His background spans audio engineering, music production and live event production, alongside training in yoga, sound healing and breathwork.

He brings these interests together through music, creative projects and community gatherings, working with artists, facilitators and local collaborators.

Eddy Kukarja on LinkedIn Connect

Two names

Stayfly and Awakenest

Stayfly

Stayfly Studio Co., Ltd. is the Thai company on Koh Phangan that owns the property and provides the land, spaces, technical systems and organisational base through which Awakenest is developed and produced. It runs the Music Lounge, a recording and production space, and develops its own projects, including the platform this website runs on.

About Stayfly

Awakenest

Awakenest is the cultural project developed at Stayfly: music, sound, breath, movement and regenerative culture in the Gulf of Thailand. The concept was developed from 2019, the first edition ran in 2024, and the festival, the community programmes and the spaces are described on its own site.

About Awakenest

Sound

Background in sound

Audio Engineer and Production Manager at JSS Production from February 2011 to February 2020, working on concerts, festivals and events.

Audio engineering credit for Hucky Eichelmann's 2014 charity concert in Pattaya, held for the benefit of underprivileged children, as reported by the Pattaya Mail.

The Pattaya Mail report

Practice

Training

  1. April 2020

    200 Hour Multi-Style Yoga Teacher Training, Hatha and Vinyasa

    Wonderland Healing Center

  2. December 2020

    50 Hour Intensive Sound Healing Training, Integrative Vibrational Therapy

    Koh Yao Noi

  3. 2021

    50 Hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training

    Orion Healing Centre

  4. May 2026

    Trauma-Aware Breathwork Mastery Training

    Kenaz, Patricia Udipti, Koh Phangan

    150 hours completed. The six-month supervised practicum is in progress.

Study

Education

2009 to 2010
Master of Creative Industries, Music and Sound
Queensland University of Technology
2003 to 2007
Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing
Mahidol University

Contact

Connect

Eddy welcomes conversations about partnerships and collaboration around music, wellbeing, regenerative culture and community.