*December 13-21, 2025*

 

Join Jaya for 9 days and 8 nights to come home into your body, while your Spirit soars amidst the beauty of the island. This Retreat will help you to understand and practice what it is to trauma-inform your life, and also provide Somatic tools to transform your health, that of your possible clients, family and friends. It will also invite you to reconnect with the profound healing power of nature, as your nervous system resets amidst this earthly paradise.

This Island of the Gods will feed you through the energy of the one million prayers offered each day at her 1,000 temples. It will wash you through its abundant waterfalls, pools and Water Temples. It will nourish you through her endless rice fields, beaches and sunshine, warming you from the inside out. Alongside the awe that Bali elicits, we will enjoy embodiment practices, engaged learning, nourishing food, beautiful community, and her unexpected blessings of Grace.

The Eco~sustainable resort where we will stay up in the mountains, within a luscious green valley, is surrounded by fresh water springs and mountain streams that cascade down into a twelve-meter waterfall and rock pool that we can swim in. There are multiple food forests and sculptured rice terraces, and welcomed 5 degree cooler temperatures at 480 meters above sea level. The resort thrives on permaculture principles and provides for 75% of the food in the restaurant (uses no chemical fertilizers or pesticides). The filtered spring water is sourced directly from nearby Mount Batukaru, likely the purest water you will drink in Bali (straight from the taps!)

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DAILY SCHEDULE:

8:30am – Embodied practice and/or yoga

10 am – Brunch

12-2:30pm – Somatic Session + demos

2:30pm – snack

3-5 pm – Nature time swimming in waterfalls or outing

5pm – Dinner

8-8:30 pm – Meditation and/or embodied practice

 

 

OUTINGS & SPECIAL ACTIVITIES:

• Visit Taman Beji Griya Water Temple and Waterfall on the way to the Eco Sustainable Resort in the mountains (one hour northwest of Ubud).
• Welcome by the village women who will teach us how to make Balinese offerings followed by a blessing with the local Manku (local Priest) in the temple.
• Visit to Pura Luhur Batukaru Hindu Temple on the December 1st New Moon where the Balinese bring flower and fruit offerings and pray to the light within.
• Visit to the nearby Pantai Kelecung beach.
• Visit and swim at the 2 waterfalls on the property.
• Enjoy a 2.5 hour trek through the surrounding villages, food forests and rice paddies.
• Take some afternoons and/or evenings off to enjoy hiking, swimming or spa treatments at the Resort.
• Our last evening, enjoy a ceremonial bonfire (weather permitting).

  

OFFERINGS:

Somatic Work:

• Discovering your Nervous System, the Vagus Nerve and how to self-regulate
• Finding our breath and syncing the 7 diaphragms
• Tracking thwarted fight, flight and freeze (FFF) responses through body sensations for integration
• Discharging engrained stress by grounding and regulating the Nervous System with somatic exercises
• Reconnecting with and trusting our intuition by strengthening interoception (gut sense)
• Accessing emotions through the body, e.g. fear, shame, anxiety, grief, healthy aggression + boundary setting
• How to work with implicit body memories and create new ones for the life we long for
• Identifying and integrating intergenerational trauma and cultivating ancestral resources to enhance vitality
• Rediscovering our inner rhythm through movement for trauma resolution
• Going beyond tension and pain by exploring expansion and contraction
• Seeing trauma-healing as a portal to connecting with the Self, and Spirituality as a resource for healing trauma
• Finding safety in the body, in order to go beyond it into embodied presence
• Reorienting to vital, free, easeful lives through aligned standing, seated and walking postures
• Demonstrating Somatic Experiencing sessions with various volunteers to illuminate live somatic healing and bring applicability

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.

 

INVESTMENT:

Private Bedroom Bungalow: $3,500 CAD or $2,450 USD

Private Bedroom Shared Bungalow: $3,200 CAD each or $2,240 USD

Shared Twin Bedroom Bungalow: $3,000 CAD each or $2,100 USD

Take $100 CAD off! Earlybird until September 10, 2025

Feel free to send payment by Interac e~transfer to Jaya’s email or via Wise to receive the above prices. If you prefer to send a deposit, cost is $1,000 CAD or USD. Payment can also be made via PayPal above (includes additional 3% surcharge). If you would like USD amounts for PayPal, please email Jaya and she can send you an invoice. *If the dollars fluctuate greatly, we will go with the value of the CAD dollar.

INCLUDES:

Beautiful Eco accommodation, healthy, fresh food, wonderful outings, 1 traditional Balinese massage, most transportation, including pick up in Ubud at 12pm on Saturday, December 13th and drop~off in Ubud on Sunday, December 21st around 12pm, and all transport during the Retreat.

 

TRAVEL:

Flights into Denpasar Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport and then take a 1-1.5 hour taxi ($30 USD or $40 CAD) to Ubud. We will pick people up from there and return them there.

You will also need a visa. The 30 day B213 Tourist Visa (Approx $35 USD and $50 CAD) should work well. Please consult with Jaya directly before purchasing.

 

PRAISE from Somatic Retreat December 2024:

 

 

Retreat Location

   

 

Waterfall Temple, Beach Visit and Water Temple Outings:

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