The program includes:
16 Hours Balinese Massage Course
8 Hours Sound Healing Course
3 Aroma Psychology Workshops
2 Massage Services
4 excursions and cultural activities
During the last years the global transformation brought the value of Human Health to the highest position. When traditional medicine is stumped, people refer more and more to ancient knowledge and wisdom.
This retreat is open to everyone: any age, gender, or physical state - we will find a personal approach for everyone. The program starts every Saturday or Sunday.
Massage course
Massage is the study of anatomy in braille. Learning massage will give you a lot of skills and virtues: giving love, sharing energy, taking care about someone, developing intuition and sensitivity. Even it will not become your main profession, it is always useful to know how to make massage.
You will learn to perform traditional Balinese relaxing massage. Balinese massage is a full-body, deep-tissue, holistic treatment. Traditional Balinese massage uses a combination of gentle stretches, acupressure, reflexology, and aromatherapy to stimulate the flow of blood, oxygen and "qi" (energy) around your body, and bring a sense of well-being, calm and deep relaxation. Balinese massage uses a variety of techniques including skin rolling, kneading and stroking, and pressure-point stimulation, combined with the aromas of essential oils.
Sound healing course
In sound we are born, in sound we are healed. Learn to work with the resonant vibrations of healing sounds. The ancient art of sound therapy will be introduced to you in this course.
Sound Healing is a powerful way to reduce stress and calm the mind, allowing practitioners to sink into deep states of relaxation – which sounds like something that would be amazing to add to your yoga class!
During the Sound Healing Course you will learn:
How sound changes the frequency of your brain;
Different types of sound healing instruments;
How to use them for deep relaxation and healing;
How to use instruments in group and individual sessions;
How to perform a sound massage for a person correctly;
How to use your voice and combine voice, sound, words and instruments to help a person deeply relax and recover, rejuvenate;
How to integrate instruments into nidra yoga and savasana.
Yoga & meditation
Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
The program includes a combination of active yoga and meditations. Morning sessions are based on Hatha yoga and focus on physical body awareness and acceptance. Evening classes offer more meditation techniques and have the purpose of emotional cleansing, calming down your mind, and developing virtues and skills.
Hatha Yoga
Many popular modern yoga styles came from classic Hatha Yoga. Hatha Yoga means balance between Sun (Ha) and Moon (Tha) energies, which gives it the power to transform you into a more balanced and strengthened being.
Hatha yoga is an ideal starting place for people who are new to yoga. One of the more challenging aspects of a yoga practice is combining movements with breathing control, or pranayama. Hatha yoga works on increasing flexibility and strength, improving breathing and calming down the mind. Hatha yoga purifies the body in preparation for meditation.
Meditation
Discover your inner self through ancient Balinese healing yoga Markandeya! Combination of movements, static positions, breathing, and meditations will bring you to another level of awareness about all the blocks in your physical body.
Your body keeps the memory about your life experience, emotions of the past, traumas, and self-disconnection. Yoga and meditation is the best way to work on it and release whatever limits you. Practicing kriyas and meditations is a challenging experience. You always choose how deep you want to delve in.
During the practice, you can experience a lot of resistance and tension, but passing through it, will bring you to the inner world where you will meet with your soul, find answers to your questions, and discover your original personality. You will start feeling how your energy is moving, and you will understand that you are more than just a physical body. Attending meditation classes at our Retreat will give you a deep spiritual experience you have never received.
Sound healing
The most beautiful and relaxing experience is waiting for you in a PERSONAL sound healing session.
Sound Healing is a powerful way to reduce stress and calm the mind, allowing you to sink into deep states of relaxation. Usage of different ancient instruments will trigger different emotions inside you. It will be your personal journey, that will give you awareness about your inner state and will help release deep subconscious blocks.
The practice of sound healing uses sound waves and harmonic vibrations that affect the body through different tones and instruments, including the human voice. These specific sounds help to harmonize our brainwaves through a technique called Entrainment. Entrainment stabilizes fluctuating brainwaves by providing a stable frequency with which the brain can synchronize. By using rhythm and frequency, we can entrain our brainwaves and facilitate a shift from our normal brain state to relaxed levels of consciousness, which is where deep healing can occur. We typically operate in beta brain states and sound healing can move us into theta and delta brain states. These brain states are associated with the unconscious, deep relaxation and connection to the universe.
Self-awareness
The most important conversations you'll ever have are the ones you'll have with yourself.
We all are playing the Game of Life. We are wearing different masks and show a wide range of emotions.
Who is the original you?
What is serving you and what is draining your energy?
All answers are inside us, we just need to become aware about our own wisdom.
Self-awareness Leela Game
Leela Game has been used for many centuries for clearing up negative mental tendencies and developing a higher conscience. Playing this game opens the awareness of the mind patterns and as a result can change your life and destiny. It is not a simple game, but a transformative psychological and spiritual practice.
In a few hours of play, you may learn MORE than you would during years of spiritual or psychological practices. You will find out where and how you are limiting yourself, you will expand your perception, and your consciousness, and discover and eliminate stereotypes, thinking patterns, and subconscious programs that constrain you.
During this game you will develop a deeper understanding of:
What's going on in my life "here and now"?
Where and why am I stuck?
What obstacles are preventing me from achieving my goals?
How do I achieve more clarity, awareness, and harmony?
What and how should I change?
Who drains my energy in the journey of life?
Where can I find the strength to accumulate energy to achieve my goals?
Metaphorical cards personal session
Metaphorical associative cards extract from the subconscious thoughts and feelings, the real motives of your actions and the causes of problems. You will meet your unconscious and dive into yourself. After identifying the problems, you will create an intention for healing, by establishing the desired situation and the steps you have to take in order to achieve your goals..
Your intention for the metaphorical cards can be connected to:
Problems in relationships (existing or lack of relationship)
Life circumstance that you want to change
Problem of choice
Financial difficulties
Career
Health problems
Personal numerology reading by your birthday
Numerology reading will help you to find out what you must break through to be successful in your relationships with yourself and with others, and to live a fulfilled life by understanding who you are and why you are here on this planet.
Tantric Numerology is simply a useful tool for understanding one's strengths and weaknesses - allowing us to work on the weaknesses and utilize the strengths more effectively. If you are aware of a weakness or imbalance in one particular area of your energy structure, you can focus on strengthening and balancing using the tools of Yoga and meditation.
Aroma Psychology
Aroma psychology is a technique that allows you to determine the characteristics of a person's psycho-emotional state. This is the answer to many questions related to you. If most of the time you live in captivity of negative emotions, depression, irritability, you cannot find yourself or your purpose. If you want to improve your life and open streams of abundance in all areas, then this diagnostic is for you.
Your subconscious mind will choose exactly those essential oils that can destroy negative attitudes and open harmony. Based on the results of the Aroma diagnostic, an individual resource blend will be created, which you can use for 21 days.
Essential oils have access to the limbic system of the brain, also called the "emotional brain." It is there that the feelings and emotions of difficult and traumatic situations that we cannot control are blocked and stuck. These feelings negatively affect our health, relationships and destiny.
Essential oils are able to penetrate the limbic brain and break down the blocks that keep you from being happy. Scents have subconscious or unconscious effects on our mental states, help to show more positive personality traits, and therefore make us happier. This is an amazing tool of self-knowledge for talking with your subconscious and Soul, from which you will receive answers to exciting questions that are hidden in ourselves.
Your experience on the retreat will include participation in 4 workshops.
Excursions to the Places of Power
Discover the healing power of NATURE! Santhika Retreat has prepared unforgettable tours to the most beautiful spots in the North of Bali. Every trip is a journey into your heart.
What emotions can you find there?
What source of energy will you feel at these PLACES OF POWER?
Santhipala - purification and meditation at the holy waterfall.
Our highlight tour is to the secret and holy Santhipala Waterfall, where we will conduct Malukat - a purification ceremony to clean your body, mind, and spirit on 7 chakra levels. Surrounded by powerful nature, we will practice meditation at the waterfall. At the end of the trip we will have lunch in the middle of beautiful rice fields at the organic farm.
Dolphins - marine adventure tour with snorkeling in dolphins area and coral reef.
Only on the northern coast of Bali can you get this unique and unforgettable experience - watching dolphins in the wild! The tour starts in the morning, a bit after sunrise to avoid the crowds. Dolphins come very close to the boats at this time of day. Such an amazing experience is waiting for you when you get into the water and swim with the dolphins!
Banjar - the biggest Buddhist temple and holy hot spring.
Your mind will stop running immediately after you enter the holy space of the biggest Buddhist Temple in Bali, Brahma Vihara. Such a nice place to meditate!
The Pagoda of the Temple is a replica of the world's largest Buddhist archeological site, Borobudur. Holy Hot Springs are located nearby. You can swim in the hot baths, make a hydromassage, and bring deep relaxation and healing into your body.
Secret Garden - waterfalls trekking in a beautiful surrounding of Sambangan village.
Secret Garden trekking tour will bring you to the beautiful green hill area between Sambangan and Ambengan villages, where you will visit Blue Lagoon, Aling-aling, Kroya, and Pucuk waterfalls. You can do sliding, jumping, swimming and just enjoy the beauty of the stunning nature.
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A place where you can share lifelong experiences with like-minded people from all around the world. All levels, backgrounds, and physical states are welcome and encouraged to join us. Whether you want to start yoga, improve your practice, simply need respite from your busy life, or feel the need to release emotions of your past... our retreat is a safe and supporting center to do so.
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Things to keep in mind
FAQ
Do I need a visa to come to Bali?
If you are traveling for a short time, you can get a Visa on Arrival (VOA) at the airport upon arrival. The price is $33 USD. VOA is issued for 30 days, with the possibility of a one-time extension for another 30 days at the immigration office.
If you are planning to stay in Bali for a long time, it is better to pre-arrange a long-term eVisa B211, which is issued for 60 days and can be extended 2 times for 60 days each time. So you can stay in Indonesia for 180 days in total.
If you want to safe time at the airport upon arrival, you can apply for e-VOA in advance molina.imigrasi.go.id
Which airport do you fly into Bali?Please book your ticket to Ngurah Rai International airport in Denpasar, Bali.
How long does it take to come from the airport to Lovina?
Depending on the traffic, usually, it takes 3-4 hours.
Is the transfer included in the retreat package?
Transfer on arrival and on departure is included in all our programs. If you travel to the Retreat from another location in Bali, we can organize transfer from your hotel.
Do you organize transfer from other parts of the island (not airport)?
Yes, please let us know your location via your retreat program request.
Are the flight tickets included in the package?
No, flight tickets are not included.
What meal options are available during the retreat?
Daily buffet for breakfast, lunch, dinner includes a vegetarian, pescetarian meal. If you have any allergies, please inform us.
Can I stay shorter or longer?
We can customize duration of your program, but we do not guarantee that you will be able to complete all activities that are included in the standard package. The price will be calculated according to customized package.
Do you provide yoga mats or should I bring mine?
Yes, we provide all the necessary equipment for yoga practice. But if you prefer to use your own mat, you can bring it.
Do you provide shampoo, soap, towels?
Yes, all toiletries are provided.
What should I take with me?
We recommend taking comfortable shoes, loose clothes for yoga, long sleeves jacket for swimming, sunscrean, mosquito repellent, sarong, bottle for aqua refill.
What time the retreat program starts and ends?
Check-in time is from 2 pm. On the day of arrival, the retreat program starts at 5 pm with yoga practice. You can check-in your accommodation according to your flight ticket at any time. Also, you can book an extra night before the retreat program starts if you arrive late and don’t want to miss activities on first day. On the day of departure, your program ends after morning yoga classes and breakfast. Your check-out time is before 12 pm. If you need to spend more time before your transfer, you can leave your luggage in the common area.
What accommodation do you provide?
We provide different accommodation with different facilities. You can read about it more on the page "Accommodation". We organize transfers between your accommodation and Retreat Center.
How much is the deposit for the retreat program?
We require 20% deposit to secure your spot.
Can I have more spa treatments during my stay? How much does it cost?
Yes, you can have additional spa treatments during your stay. Prices depend on spa treatment.
What I need to enter Indonesia?
Apply for visa in advance
If you are going to use Visa On Arrival (VOA) to visit Bali, apply for e-VOA in advance. It takes only a few minutes, and you don't queue too long to pay for visa in arrival terminal buildings.
Fill out the electronic custom declaration
The customs declaration can be completed online through the official website 2 days before arrival in Indonesia. It is also taking a few minutes only and save your time upon arrival.