Going Beyond Survival: Somatic Retreat in Bali
A transformational 8-day somatic retreat where ancient Bali wisdom meets modern healing. Transform fatigue, tension, and survival mode into regulation, reconnection, and embodied freedom. Combining Somatic Experiencing, shadow and parts work, yoga and yoga nidra, plus sacred temple rituals in a luxurious Ubud cliffside sanctuary to invite deep rest, restore your nervous system, and reconnect with aliveness. December 11-18, 2026.
Going Beyond Survival:
A Somatic Retreat in Paradise 🌸
Ubud, Bali ~ December 11-18, 2026
Join Jaya for a transformational 8-day somatic retreat in the heart of Bali, where ancient wisdom meets modern healing. This immersive experience offers you the space to move beyond survival patterns and reconnect with rest, your body’s aliveness, and sacred wisdom.
Through nervous system regulation, shadow and parts work, and grounded yogic practices, you’ll be supported to transform ongoing fatigue, disconnection, and survival mode into embodied freedom, and vitality.
The naturally healing environment of the Island of the Gods amplifies this work. You’ll make offerings at an ancient water temple, absorb the reverberations of a million daily prayers, and enjoy relaxing Balinese massage. All while resting in a luxurious cliffside sanctuary, overlooking one of the city’s three main healing rivers, Petanu.
In a world that demands performance and pushing, this retreat is your invitation to come home and remember. Together, we’ll explore what it means to stop surviving and start coming back to life.
Give yourself the gift of paradise while cultivating lasting nervous system regulation, authentic self-connection, and embodied spirituality. ✨
What's Included
Over eight regenerative days, you’ll experience:
✨ 8 days of somatic healing work, yoga, and embodied practice for regulation, reconnection with self, and the sacred
✨ A luxurious cliffside sanctuary with panoramic views, multiple pools including a private pool, a yoga shala overlooking the river, spacious ensuite bedrooms, and abundant dining and resting spaces
✨ Locally sourced, nourishing vegetarian meals, with vegan options, prepared by our private chef who was just rated #3 chef in Indonesia
✨ A traditional flower offering making session with the Balinese village women
✨ A blessed ritual experience at Mengening Water Temple, with transport to the outing included
✨ One complimentary 60-minute Balinese massage onsite
✨ Some free afternoons or evenings to walk, swim, or simply rest at your own pace
✨ A somatic workbook with integration practices and take-home tools
✨ Support throughout your journey, plus one post-retreat Zoom call
Your Transformation Awaits
Somatic Experiencingâ„¢
Guided sessions using proven somatic and nervous system techniques to rediscover safety, regulation, and resilience, using your body's own healing wisdom.
Yoga Nidra, IFS parts & Shadow work
Experience yoga and yoga nidra that resets the body and nervous system to restore balance + IFS, Shadow work to integrate our unseen inner parts, while embracing the authenticity of your core Self.
Trauma as Portal to Awakening
Learn to transform your relationship with developmental, complex and acute trauma, embracing it as a gateway to awaken to your Self through the body, in an integrative way that steers clear of spiritual bypassing.
Community Connection
Share this profound journey with like-minded souls, that magnify each other’s healing, while creating bonds and support systems that extend far beyond the retreat.
Blissful Bali Setting
Immerse yourself in Bali's naturally lush healing environment, make offerings at an ancient water temple, and absorb the reverberations of a million daily prayers, that amplify your transformation.
Integration Tools
Leave with practical somatic tools and nervous system practices to maintain unbound energy, newly discovered resilience and embodied aliveness in daily life following the retreat.
Core Themes
Going Beyond Survival Patterns
Notice how constant exhaustion, a tight chest, shallow sleep, and feeling cut off from your own emotions live in your nervous system. You’ll learn to track sensations in the body and work in small, manageable doses (titration and pendulation), building the capacity to move out of chronic fight, flight, fawn, or freeze and into something steadier, including live Somatic Experiencingâ„¢ demonstrations.
Nervous System Regulation & The Vagus Nerve
Get to know your own window of tolerance, the range where you feel settled rather than wired or shut down. You’ll practice grounding, orienting, and vagal toning: simple, proven tools that calm your stress physiology, sharpen your sense of what’s happening inside you, and create change that lasts.
Access Emotions Somatically
Reunite with your body’s emotional signals and the inner wisdom underneath them. You’ll learn to feel and move through fear, shame, anxiety, and grief in the body, and to reach the healthy aggression that lets you set a clear boundary and mean it.
Deconstruct Protective Patterns & Remember Rhythm
Turn toward the parts of you that got exiled, your shadow, and stay with uncomfortable sensations long enough for them to integrate, using breath, attention, and movement. Set down the exhaustion of performing and people-pleasing, and find your natural rhythms again.
Integration & Ancestral Resources
See where intergenerational patterns show up in your body, and draw on ancestral resources that add to your vitality. You’ll build simple daily practices that keep your nervous system steady, supporting real resilience and authentic self-expression that goes beyond loyalty to ancestral patterns that no longer work.
Yogic Practices that Invite Rest & Trauma as a Portal to Awakening
Move past “love and light” practices that skip over the body, the emotions, and the psyche. Rest deeply, in a way that lets old trauma gently surface as a gateway to wake up through the body rather than rising above it; no bypassing the hard parts. What grows from this isn’t just relief, it’s post-traumatic growth: new possibilities, new relationships, and a restored sense of the sacred in ordinary life.
Retreat Location​
Our luxurious cliffside sanctuary in Ubud offers breathtaking panoramic views and thoughtfully designed spaces for deep nervous system reset. The property features:
✨ Spacious ensuite bedrooms with private bathrooms
✨ Multiple swimming pools overlooking the valley
✨ Abundant dining and resting spaces
✨ Dedicated yoga and practice studio
✨ Locally sourced, chef-prepared meals
✨ Natural healing environment surrounded by rice terraces
✨ One complimentary 60-minute Balinese massage onsite
✨ Sacred temple visits and cultural experiences
✨ Close proximity to Ubud’s spiritual heart
Sample Schedule
Daily Rhythm
8:30 am – Embodied practice and/or yoga
10 am – Brunch
12-2:30 pm – Somatic teaching & practice session
2:30 pm – Snack
3-5 pm – Nature time, swimming, or embodied practice
5 pm – Dinner
7:30-8:15 pm – Yoga nidra, meditation, or embodied practice
This isn’t a quick escape. It’s a compassionate re-patterning of your nervous system that lasts. We pace the work, avoid forced catharsis, and honor your window of tolerance, because safety and titrated interventions lead to sustainable transformation. You’ll be supported by seasoned practitioners using gentle and effective somatic practices that invite your systems to unwind on all levels.
Safety Measures Include:
✨ Boundaried sharing and trauma-informed facilitation
✨ Co-regulation support when challenging material arises
✨ Adequate rest time for integration
Please note this retreat is not intended for personal therapy, nor is it designed to train you as a therapist, but aims to provide experiential education to empower you to become trauma-informed in your life, to learn how to cultivate deeper safety within, as well as in the provision of support to others, partly through the cultivation of your own embodied presence.
Trauma survivors are very welcome; we ask that survivors of sexual abuse or rape, parent with addiction, family suicide or sudden death – have previously been in minimum of 6 months therapy. Your well-being is of utmost importance to us and we ask that those with a significant trauma history are resourced with the possibility of additional therapeutic support during the Retreat to ensure they are sufficiently held in the exploration of sensitive content. In cases of previous attempted suicide or psychiatric care/psychosis – medical professional declaration of suitability to attend is required.
Travel​
Flights into Denpasar Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport and then take a 1-1.5 hour taxi to Ubud. You can also taxi easily to and from our central Ubud retreat location.
You will also need at least a 30 day Tourist Visa. Please consult with Jaya directly before purchasing online.
Book your spot
December 11th – 18th, 2026, Ubud ~ Bali
There are 9 rooms available onsite. Once they sell out, you can book nearby accommodation (5-10 minute walk) to our Sanctuary!
Private Room
47,450,000
IDR
Deposit: 17,450,000 IDR
IDR is equal to Full: $4,000 CAD, $2,900 USD
IDR is equal to Deposit: $1,500 CAD, $1,069 USD
Onsite Early bird
2,299,000 IDR off until September 10th!
IDR is equal to $200 CAD ($140 USD)Â
Shared Private or Twin Room
41,450,000
IDR
Deposit: 17,450,000 IDR
IDR is equal to Full: $3,500 CAD, $2,539 USD
IDR is equal to Deposit: $1,500 CAD, $1,069 USD
Onsite Early bird
2,299,000 IDR off until September 10th!
IDR is equal to $200 CAD ($140 USD)Â
Staying offsite (meals incl)
29,450,000
IDR
Deposit: 11,450,000 IDR
IDR is equal to Full: $2,500 CAD, $1,800 USD
IDR is equal to Deposit: $1,000 CAD, $711 USD
Offsite Early bird
1,199,000 IDR off until September 10th!
IDR is equal to $100 CAD ($70 USD)Â
Early Bird Pricing Ends September 10th, 2026
For pricing and registration, please visit:
FAQ Section
Yes. I will briefly explain Somatic Experiencing fundamentals at the outset. I will email additional video content to people who are new to somatic work. The retreat will be paced to avoid overwhelm, including ample breaks to reset, alongside tools for nervous system regulation for all.
I don’t use spiritual language that requires specific beliefs. When I say “sacred” or “spiritual,” I mean connection to something larger than yourself, whether you call that: Self, soul, nature, universal consciousness, or the Creator. The practices are grounded in neuroscience and Jungian Shadow Psychology. If you’re secular and want to experience body-based shadow integration work, and are open to connection with something larger than yourself, you’ll find that support here.
Deep work can activate our subconscious patterns and unintegrated traumas. That’s different from being triggered or re-traumatized. We work carefully with resources, and you are invited to stay within your window of tolerance. You’re always in control of how deep you go. Myself or my assistant will be able to support people who require additional help with integration.
Unfortunately not, but you can book flights into Denpasar Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport and then take a 1-1.5 hour taxi ($40 CAD, $30 USD or 400,000 IDR) to Ubud by booking through the Grab app or by finding a taxi outside of the gate. We will send you the address to arrive at our Sanctuary in Ubud via email in the weeks before we begin.
Most nationalities will also need a visa. The 30-day B213 Tourist Visa (Approx $50 CAD or $35 USD), which can also be extended to 60 days, should work well.
Booking.com and Airbnb.com have many excellent options for booking hotels and villas on the island.
Absolutely, there is an option to pay a deposit to reserve your space. The remainder of payment is due [INSERT DATE]. If you require any other arrangements, please message us.
The refund policies for all retreats is outlined below:
- Cancellation up to 90 days before the event: full refund.
- Cancellation up to 60 days prior to event start date: 50% of your payment is refunded.
- Cancellation up to 60-30 days prior to event start date: 25% of your payment is refunded.
- Cancellation 30 days prior or less before event start date: no refund.
From survival into resourced energy
From disconnection into feeling again
From chronic activation into nervous system regulation
From tension into deep rest & remembering
Come home to your body in paradise.
Restore your nervous system, reconnect with your aliveness, and awaken embodied presence in the heart of Bali.
Still not sure?
Email me: info {@} jayahollohan.com with your questions
Write me to book a 15 minute WhatsApp call: +1 (613) 866-7091 for more clarity
Join the waitlist: email me if timing isn’t right but you want to be notified for future cohorts, trainings or retreats