8 Day Coaching, Yoga, and Mindfulness Retreat in Bali, Indonesia

Why this retreat matters

There comes a point in every leader’s journey where more effort is not the answer — greater clarity is. This retreat is designed for seasoned professionals, founders, executives, and emerging leaders who want to step away from daily pressure and gain perspective on their path forward. In a world of relentless “doing,” this experience gives you space to reflect, recalibrate, and act with intention — grounded in your own strengths, embodied presence, and systemic insight.

Over the course of this week, you’ll move beyond routine strategy or productivity frameworks. Instead, you’ll explore how to lead with greater clarity, confidence, resilience, and presence — not only in your work, but in your choices, priorities, and relationships.

• This isn’t a holiday.
• This is a strategic reflection with movement — intellectual, somatic, and contextual.
• This retreat transforms how you show up, not just how you perform.

Who This Retreat Is For

This retreat is designed for people who are already capable, committed, and engaged — and who sense that their next step requires clarity rather than acceleration.

Many participants come with full lives and meaningful work: leadership roles, creative responsibility, or a phase of transition where familiar ways of operating no longer feel sufficient. Not because something is broken — but because the context has changed. The questions are more nuanced, the stakes higher, and the need for a grounded perspective greater.

From Here, Forward is for those who want to pause deliberately, reflect honestly, and realign how they lead, decide, and move forward — in work and in life.

You may recognize yourself if you are:

• Navigating complexity, responsibility, or transition
• Seeking direction without noise or pressure
• Wanting to lead with more steadiness and presence
• Ready to integrate insight into action, not theory

No experience required — just an open heart.

Phase 1 - Orientation and intention

Before arriving in Bali, you begin with a private virtual 1:1 coaching session with Susanne, focused on strengths-based reflection and orientation.

This session supports you to:

• Explore your Gallup CliftonStrengths and leadership patterns
• Clarify personal intentions and guiding questions
• Identify themes, decisions, or transitions you want to work with
• Arrive grounded, prepared, and focused

This phase ensures the retreat begins with awareness — not from zero, but from clarity.

Phase 2 - Immersion and presence

The in-person retreat in Bali is the heart of the experience. Over seven days, leadership work, embodied practices, and cultural immersion are woven into a spacious yet intentional rhythm.

During the retreat, you’ll engage in:

• Conscious leadership and strengths-based coaching workshops
• A second 1:1 private coaching session with Susanne
• Daily embodied practices supporting presence and integration
• Group dialogue, reflection, and individual quiet time
• Cultural and nature-based experiences rooted in place

This phase creates the conditions for insight to emerge through presence and experience — supported, unforced, and deeply contextual.

Phase 3 - Integration and forward movement

After returning home, you’ll complete the journey with your third 1:1 integration coaching session with Susanne.

This session supports you to:

• Reflect on key insights from the retreat
• Translate awareness into concrete next steps
• Integrate learning into leadership, work, and daily life
• Move forward with clarity, confidence, and intention

This final phase ensures that what you explored in Bali continues to live and evolve beyond the retreat itself.

What you’ll work on

While the retreat unfolds organically, the experience is guided by a set of clear focus areas. These themes run through the entire week — shaping coaching sessions, embodied practices, dialogue, and moments of reflection.

Conscious leadership and strengths coaching

At the core of the retreat is Gallup© strengths-based and systemic leadership work. Through guided sessions, dialogue, and reflection, you’ll explore how you lead — yourself and others — especially in moments of complexity, responsibility, and change.

You’ll work with:

• Your Gallup CliftonStrengths and natural leadership patterns
• Conscious leadership tools for clarity, decision-making, and direction
• Reflection on roles, dynamics, and recurring patterns
• Questions around responsibility, influence, and next steps

The focus is not on fixing or optimising — but on strengthening alignment between who you are, how you lead, and what the moment requires.

Daily yoga, mindfulness, and embodiment

Embodied practices support presence, regulation, and integration — allowing insight to settle beyond the cognitive level. Sessions are accessible, grounding, and adapted to the group’s energy.

Throughout the retreat, practices include:

• Morning yoga flows and mindful movement
• Meditation and breath awareness
• Intuitive and restorative practices

Sessions take place on a covered yoga platform overlooking the jungle and valley, offering a calm, protected space to reconnect with body, breath, and attention.

Sound healing and voice activation

Sound and voice are used as gentle tools for integration and expression. Alchemy crystal bowls and guided vocal practices support deep rest, nervous-system balance, and a deeper connection to self.

These sessions invite:

• Emotional release without analysis
• Inner quiet and spaciousness
• Embodied resonance and expression

No prior experience is needed — the emphasis is on listening, sensing, and allowing.

Cacao ceremony and reflective rituals

Ritual moments throughout the retreat create space to slow down, reflect, and integrate what’s emerging. They are held with simplicity, care, and clear intention.

You’ll experience:

• A cacao ceremony
• Guided journaling and intention setting
• Sharing and integration circles

These rituals support clarity and connection — individually and within the group — without performance or spiritual pressure.

Space for rest, silence, and nature

Equally important is what is left unscheduled. The retreat offers generous space for rest, silence, and time in nature — allowing insights to land naturally.

This includes time to:

• Enjoy the cooler mountain air
• Walk through gardens and rice fields
• Sit with estate-grown coffee or tea
• Read, journal, or simply be

This spaciousness is essential — creating room for clarity, perspective, and ease.

Honoring place, culture, and relationship

This retreat is shaped by a genuine, lived relationship to Bali. Selena’s father is Indonesian and lives on the island with his Balinese wife. Parts of the retreat are informed by long-standing personal connections and an ongoing presence in local life.

Cultural elements are included with care and context — not as performances, but as lived practices shared through relationship. This includes traditional ceremonies, time in nature, and an optional Balinese dance class led by a local dancer and teacher.

At the same time, this retreat is guided by clear ethics. They invite participants who are open to meeting the place and its people with respect, curiosity, and humility — and who understand that presence in Bali is not something to be consumed, but something to be received in relationship.

The intention is to create an experience rooted in mutual respect — where guests are welcomed not as spectators, but as thoughtful participants.

What this retreat is not

This retreat is intentionally designed — and it may not be the right fit for everyone.

• It is not a wellness holiday, a party retreat, or a place to escape responsibility.
• It is not a performance-driven leadership training or a productivity bootcamp.
• And it is not a space for consuming culture, spirituality, or a place without awareness or respect.
• This retreat is for people who are willing to slow down, listen, and engage thoughtfully — with themselves, with others, and with the context they are stepping into. They ask participants to arrive with openness, humility, and consideration for the people and culture that host them.
• If you are seeking quick fixes, constant stimulation, or a curated version of Bali designed for consumption, this experience will likely not meet your expectations.
• If, however, you value depth, presence, mutual respect, and intentional growth, you will likely feel at home here.

Example daily rhythm

Each day follows a gentle yet intentional rhythm, balancing structure with spaciousness. While the exact flow may vary depending on the group and the moment, days typically unfold along these lines:

• Morning (from around 07:00) - Silent morning practice, meditation, and gentle yoga and sound — followed by breakfast.
• Late morning - Strengths-based coaching sessions, leadership workshops, or guided group dialogue.
• Midday - Lunch and time for rest, reflection, or individual integration.
• Afternoon - Individual coaching sessions, embodied practices, or curated cultural and nature experiences — such as guided walks, rituals, or time on the land.
• Evening - Sound healing, voice work, ceremonies, or integration circles held in a calm, grounded atmosphere.
• Night - Shared dinner followed by unstructured time — for conversation, quiet reflection, or rest.

The rhythm is designed to support depth without pressure, allowing insights to emerge naturally while leaving space to breathe, integrate, and simply be.