Healing Week in Bali

Bring body, mind, and spirit into harmony while deepening your personal health and well-being in the peaceful beauty of Bali. This week is designed to nourish you in serene surroundings and invite you to open your heart to nature and to the deeper healing spirit of life.

During your week at Nirarta, you will:

• Experience deep rest through daily relaxation practices
• Enjoy the quiet of twice-daily group meditation
• Renew yourself in the gardens and grounds, with special places for inspiration and healing
• Open the heart and connect with nature and the divine in and around Nirarta
• Learn simple yet profound Balinese healing devotional practice
• Help prepare simple offerings and an offering basket for your cleansing ceremony
• Enjoy wholesome vegetarian and semi-vegetarian meals made with produce from the gardens and the local market

The package includes:

• Three healing massages from a gifted local healer, including a highly accurate reflexology diagnosis and treatment
• A visit and check-up with one of the island’s most respected traditional healing practitioners, known for understanding the connection between mind and body and balancing the human subtle energy system
• A cleansing blessing from a High Priest near the traditional family home
• A purifying bath in the holy waters of a temple with many natural springs
• A final visit to the powerful healing energy of Pasar Agung temple

Programme

Day 1

• Arrival, lunch
• Short Balinese blessing and prayer to begin the programme in the traditional way
• Brief introduction to Nirarta and orientation
• Healing massage and deep relaxation
• Awareness meditation practice, then dinner

Day 2

• Theme: Setting intention and direction
• Meditation, devotional practice, and breakfast
• Preparing the offering basket with Dayu
• Purification ceremony (melukat) at the High Priest’s family compound
• Reflection in nature on where you are and where you are heading
• Setting intention
• Deep relaxation, devotional practice, and Awareness Meditation

Day 3

• Theme: Connecting with the source of inspiration and creativity within
• Meditation, devotional practice, and breakfast
• Healing massage with a focus on reflexology
• Reflection inspired by the Nirarta meditation cave
• Visit to Beringin Temple for meditation, reflection, and inspiration
• Deep relaxation, devotional practice, and Awareness Meditation

Day 4

• Full day out
• Visit to Watu Klotok Sea Temple for devotional practice, energy-flow meditation, and breakfast on the beach
• Visit to renowned Balinese healer Tjokorda Gede Rai for a health check and body response to treatment
• Picnic lunch in Tampaksiring, followed by a purification bath in the holy springs of Tirta Empul
• Visit to the sacred springs of nearby Pura Mengening
• Return, meditation, dinner

Day 5

• Theme: Connection, attention, and attentiveness
• Meditation, devotional practice, and breakfast
• River meditation
• Opening awareness and connecting to the world
• Healing massage/reflexology
• Nature walk to practice open awareness: connected to Self and World
• Deep relaxation, devotional practice, and Awareness Meditation

Day 6

• Theme: Action, expression, and commitment
• Meditation, devotional practice, and breakfast
• Free time to reflect on the week and clarify direction
• Work with the mandala to support achievement, balance, integration, purpose, and direction
• Deep relaxation, devotional practice, and Awareness Meditation

Day 7

• Closure
• Awareness Meditation and breakfast
• Visit to Pasar Agung Temple high on Mt Agung to express gratitude and set intention for the return
• Final prayer, formal closure, and lunch

Other options - may be available on request

• Re•Patterning with Peter Wrycza
• Session with Prof Dr Luh Ketut Suryani
• Check-up with an Ayurvedic doctor (clinic 1 hour from Sidemen)