16 Days Pampering Wellness, Watukaru Yoga, Meditation, and Culture Retreat in Tabanan, Bali
Balitrees Retreats, Sesandan, Megati, Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia
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Pampering Yoga Retreat Bali
Do you want to learn and practice one of the oldest styles of yoga, traditional Balinese Watukaru Yoga? Do you want to deepen your yoga or meditation practice guided by our incredible teachers? Do you want to experience authentic Balinese Hindu culture and the unique hospitality of local Balinese people? Do you want to reconnect with yourself and find your inner balance? Join us for your very own journey of self-love, self-empowerment, and self-transformation. What awaits you is an authentic cultural experience into a spiritual world of self-healing with meditation, yoga, chakra opening and pranayama. To all of those who share this journey of life with us, we offer an experience of profound beauty, grace, authenticity, wholesomeness, human warmth, respect, and care. Balitrees Retreats is guided by love, peace, integrity, openness, and kindness. Just bring your lovely self and leave the rest to Balitrees Retreats!
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Highlights
- 16 days of practice
- Daily yoga classes
- Waterfall purification trip and pampering spa treatments
- Twice daily Village and Balinese cultural activities/excursions
- Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- 15 nights accommodation
- Yoga on the beach
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Yoga styles
16 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Indonesian
Group size: Maximum of 10 participants
Airport transfer available:
Ngurah Rai International Airport (US$35 per person)
Ngurah Rai International Airport (US$35 per person)
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
13:00
Check-out Time:
14:00
Facilities
- Shopping
- Spa
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Lounge
- Luggage room / storage
- Meditation garden
- Multilingual staff
- Smoke-free property
- Terrace
- Yoga shala
- Convenience / grocery store
- Free bicycle
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Ironing / ironing board
- Laundry
- Medical assistance
- Tour assistance
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor shower
Balitrees Retreats is a joint effort of the local ashram, Perguruan Seruling Dewata, and the villagers of Sesandan. Together with their business partner or your host of this retreat, Mind’s Garden, a wellness business based in the UK, they strive to offer you a truly memorable experience, support the local community, and contribute to sustainable eco-tourism in Bali. At Balitrees, you can choose to stay in a shared guest room or a private one.
The guest rooms are traditional Balinese style bungalows decorated with a unique bohemian touch. Each ensuite room has a flat-screen television, air-conditioner, bathtub, wardrobe, desk, and beautiful beds fitted with soft Egyptian cotton sheets. Each room has a garden-facing terrace surrounded by rice paddies and coconut trees that will take your breath away.
The private rooms are part of a beautiful traditional Balinese home. Each room has a flat-screen television, air-conditioner, wardrobe, desk, and beautiful beds fitted with soft Egyptian cotton sheets. Each room has a garden-facing terrace and a relaxing lounge area.
Program
This retreat is run only by local people in a traditional Balinese village away from other tourism. It is the perfect place for you to get away from busy tourist parts of Bali to unwind, recharge, and rejuvenate your body, mind, and soul.
Most importantly, this retreat is about you. It’s about taking time for yourself to observe yourself, to understand yourself, to reconnect with yourself, and to love yourself in a kinder way.
Take this incredible journey for yourself, and come to help Balitrees Retreats spread the love for Traditional Balinese Watukaru Yoga, share ancient Balinese wisdom, and support the local community!
Traditional Balinese Watukaru Yoga is one of the oldest yoga practices in the world. It is said that thousands of years ago, 13 yogis from India (each practice their own style of yoga) came to Bali to practice on the top of Mount Watukaru, also known as Batukaru Mountain.
The spiritual energy of Bali (the Island of the Gods) inspired the 13 yogis, who took the best of their own yoga practices and created Balinese Yoga. They gave it the name Balinese Watukaru Yoga to pay tribute to the beautiful mountain on which they practiced together.
Beauty, grace, spirituality, and strength are some of the stunning features of traditional Balinese Watukaru Yoga. It focuses on the mind and one's spiritual awakening, hence the emphasis on meditation and the inner flow of energy in its practice.
Held by traditional Balinese Watukaru Yoga practitioners that believe without meditation and chanting, yoga is just an exercise/sport and the physical practice of yoga is the preparation for meditation, which helps you to silence your mind and heal your body.
During this retreat, you will have access to one of the oldest spiritual ashrams in the world, Pasraman Seruling Dewata, which still conserves all of the original 13 styles of Yoga exactly how they have created thousands of years ago in the Himalayas.
Apart from your two daily yoga classes, you can take part in two village or cultural activities every day, such as rice farming, waterfall purification, coconut oil making, Balinese cooking class, Balinese language workshop, traditional Balinese dance performances, and so many more!
You will share these beautiful 16 days with likeminded people from around the globe, open your mind to the diversity and beauty of cultures, philosophies, practices, and beliefs. The spiritual energy of this peaceful village of Sesandan will elevate your spirit and renew your body, mind, and soul. A beautiful opportunity to experience authentic Balinese Hindu culture while practicing yoga and self-love!
Balitrees Retreats can't wait to welcome and grow with you!
Sample Program schedule
Day 1
- 14:00 - 15:00 Arrival and settle in
- 15:00 - 16:00 Afternoon Traditional Balinese Watukaru Yoga & Meditation session
- 16:00 - 18:00 Afternoon Balinese cultural activity
- 18:30 - 19:30 Dinner
Day 2 - 15
- 08:00 - 09:30 Morning Traditional Balinese Watukaru Yoga & Meditation session
- 09:30 - 10:30 Breakfast
- 11:00 - 13:00 Morning Balinese cultural activity
- 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
- 15:00 - 16:00 Afternoon Traditional Balinese Watukaru Yoga & Meditation session
- 16:00 - 18:00 Afternoon Balinese cultural activity
- 18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
Day 16
- 08:00 - 09:30 Morning Traditional Balinese Watukaru Yoga & Meditation session
- 09:30 - 10:30 Breakfast
- 11:00 - 13:00 Morning Balinese cultural activity
- 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 - 15:00 Departure
All of the amazing cultural/village activities are listed below:
- Local waterfall purification
- Trekking
- Trash Hero activity (join local folks to make their village cleaner and more beautiful!)
- Yoga and meditation on the beach
- Coconut oil making workshop
- Balinese drawing class
- Visit the village butterfly park
- Balinese music class
- Rice farming
- Balinese Hindu offering making workshop
- Balinese language class
- Visit the village swing
- Balinese pastry-making class
Instructors
I Gede Arya
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I Gede Arya started to learn Balinese traditional yoga and healing meditation by the age of 17 in 1993. He is a disciple of the ninth generation of Perguruan Seruling Dewata in Bali. He specializes in the Watukaru yoga tradition (Balinese traditional yoga) of Perguruan Seruling Dewata, Balinese traditional meditation, and snake style of martial arts (silat). He is committed to conserving the ancient Balinese yoga tradition, meditation, and silat by founding Balitrees Retreats.
Krishna
Krishna is a traditional Balinese Watukaru yoga and meditation teacher. She's been studying and teaching Balinese yoga, meditation, pranayama, and charka opening for the past ten years. Her hands-on approach, passion for teaching and loving smiles are mind-blowing and will certainly help you deepen your yoga and meditation practice. She's the kindest, most fun and passionate teacher and friend you'll ever meet!
Danai Siamou
Danai is a psychotherapist, yoga and meditation instructor from Greece. In search of a more peaceful mind, she travelled across Europe into the majestic landscapes of Finland, where she discovered her true passion—fluid body movements through yoga and dancing. Combining her psychology background with her certification in Vinyasa Yoga and guided meditation, she guides people through their individual paths of self-acceptance, transformation, overcoming of past trauma and better communication with their subconscious mind and inner voice.
Landy Yan
Landy is a certified Vinyasa and meditation teacher. She has a natural gift of listening in order to understand people on a deeper level and applies effortlessly her understanding and empathy to her teaching or as she prefers to call it, guided self-healing through meditation, pranayama, yoga and yoga therapy. She integrates her love for poetry, art and oriental philosophy & medicine into her teaching and has been a part of many people's positive self-transformation and journeys to happier and more fulfilling lives.
Claudia Wang
Claudia is a mathematician & statistician turned full-time yogi. She’s certified in both Yin yoga and Yoga therapy, while studying extensively Chinese traditional medicine and acupuncture. Her passion for understanding the intricacies of the human body especially its self-healing power guided her to discover a unique approach of teaching—she helps students to deepen and expand their practices through activating specific acupressure points in the body. She believes there’s infinite power held in our body, and we just need to learn to use the right key to unleash it.
Dewi
From a rice farmer and wife who worked over twelve hours in the rice paddies every single day in addition to taking care of a family of six, Dewi transformed her life by studying English and the practice of yoga. Now, she not only manages Balitrees, but teaches Traditional Balinese Watukaru Yoga to both western guests and women and children from her local community. She believes Yoga is a way of life that can lead us to find more peace and joy from within ourselves. When in a class, she teaches with her heart and soul, giving all of her love, warmth and authenticity to her students.
Retreat location
Balitrees Retreats is a peaceful sanctuary away from other tourism located in a spiritual village, close to Mount Watukaru, in the middle part of the magical island of Bali, Indonesia. They are about 30 minutes from Tabanan city, 45 minutes from Tanah Lot Temple, and around two hours from Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS).
Distances
- Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS), 2 hours
- Tabanan city, 30 minutes
- Tanah Lot Temple, 45 minutes
Food
To all of those who share this beautiful journey of life with Balitrees Retreats, they offer an experience of profound beauty, grace, authenticity, wholesomeness, human warmth, respect, and care. They are passionate about nutrition, healthy diet, and food as the medicine you need to eat healthy to be healthy. You know what your body needs, and they are here to provide the care and nourishment your body deserves.
Every day, Balitrees Retreats provides wholesome, abundant, and delicious vegetarian and vegan cuisine, made with only local and organic produce. What is more, with each meal, you will heavenly tropical fruits like dragon fruit, guava, or snake fruit. It is Balitrees Retreats firm belief that the key ingredient of amazing food is always love. If you have any allergies or special requests, please kindly get in touch with them before your retreat.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Lacto-ovo Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Raw food
- Pescatarian
- Hallal
- Seafood
- Naturopathic
- Fruitarian
- Lactose Free
- Whole food
- Paleo diet
- Yogic
- Other dietary requirements on request
- Ayurvedic
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
- Additional spa treatments
- Visit a traditional Balinese shaman healer for a blessing ritual
- Visit the village healer
- Visit the Penatahan hot spring
- Visit the Mont Watukaru Temple
- Visit Tamah Ayun and Tanah Lot Beach Temple
- Surfing lessons
- Sunset horse riding rising on the beach or rice paddies
Spa treatments
Enjoy a pampering personalized spa treatment to deeply relax, recharge, and rejuvenate your body and mind. You can choose from Balinese deep tissue massage, modern massage or traditional massage by a village healer.
What's included
- 15 nights accommodation in the middle of stunning rice paddies
- 3 heavenly Balinese meals each day
- Unlimited supply of fresh water, tea, and coffee
- Daily traditional Balinese Watukaru yoga and meditation sessions
- 2 village activities or Balinese cultural activities each day
- Trip to a stunning local waterfall for purification
- Yoga on the beach
- 2 pampering spa treatments
- 1 unique Balinese gift for everyone
- Internet access
- Bicycles free to use
What's not included
- Additional requested activities
- Airfare
- Airport transfers
- Insurance
- Personal expenses
How to get there
Recommended Airports
DPS
Ngurah Rai International Airport
34 km
Transfer available for additional US$35 per person
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS). Please kindly arrange your own transport to the retreat location. Grab is a very useful app to help you with transport in this local area. Alternatively, the driver of Balitrees Retreats can pick you up from the airport with an extra charge (450,000 IDR or 35 USD) or any other place in Bali (price subject to your location).
GPS
-8.4582900000, 115.0630000000.
Airport: Ngurah Rai International Airport
Airport transfer available:
Ngurah Rai International Airport (US$35 per person)
Additional charges may apply. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 15% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on departure.
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