Yoga holiday in Bali
| country: | Indonesia |
| location: | Bali |
| departures: | 2008: 29 Nov, 27 Dec |
| price: | From €559 (8 days) excluding flights. Optional single supplement €316, limited availability. Price includes return transfers, meals, 2 x daily yoga classes, 1 x daily meditation class, 1 full body massage |
the amazing things you'll be doing
Our Bali yoga holiday is held in a beautiful secluded seaside location on the East of the Island. The centre is peaceful and remote and is the perfect place to get away from it all. Wake in the morning to the sound of the waves gently lapping on the shore and enjoy your first yoga class looking out to sea with a gentle breeze on your face. Watch pods of dolphins swim past 20ft from the shore. Our yoga and detox retreats provide you with the perfect setting to revive, rejuvenate and restore.
The Island of Bali has long been a favourite for travellers across the globe. It has stunning scenery, a colourful culture and beautiful people. With great weather, warm clear waters for diving and snorkelling and delicious food it is easy to see why. Offering gorgeous beaches, coral reefs, volcanoes and terraced rice paddies there is much to see and do.
Your week will involve yoga classes twice daily, use of the steam room and three meals daily, all healthy and locally sourced. Also included are two massages, a daily meditation session and local information on trips available while you are there, including diving and trekking. In addition to this we offer detox programs and a range of therapies and treatments.
The yoga classes are held in our yoga sala with views down to the crystal clear sea. With open sides, the ocean breeze will keep you cool and the sun rises right over the sea. There is little in the way of distraction here which allows you to focus completely on yourself for a few blissful days.
Activities:Diving - There is world class diving all around the island of Bali and divers flock here every year to experience the colourful tropical waters.
Snorkelling - Right outside the centre is an amazing snorkelling reef and you can explore it all day long.
Hiking - Mt. Agung, Bali's highest and most sacred volcano is a great hike for the adventurous. Allow at least 6 hours for the ascent and 4 - 5 hours for the descent.
Accommodation: The accommodation is in exclusive Balinese style villas set on two levels. The bedroom is upstairs with the living area and bathroom below. All rooms in the house look out to sea with open walls. There is plenty of room to stretch out and relax. The beautiful Balinese Villas offer luxury and style with amazing views.
The Island of Bali has long been a favourite for travellers across the globe. It has stunning scenery, a colourful culture and beautiful people. With great weather, warm clear waters for diving and snorkelling and delicious food it is easy to see why. Offering gorgeous beaches, coral reefs, volcanoes and terraced rice paddies there is much to see and do.
Your week will involve yoga classes twice daily, use of the steam room and three meals daily, all healthy and locally sourced. Also included are two massages, a daily meditation session and local information on trips available while you are there, including diving and trekking. In addition to this we offer detox programs and a range of therapies and treatments.
The yoga classes are held in our yoga sala with views down to the crystal clear sea. With open sides, the ocean breeze will keep you cool and the sun rises right over the sea. There is little in the way of distraction here which allows you to focus completely on yourself for a few blissful days.
Activities:
Accommodation: The accommodation is in exclusive Balinese style villas set on two levels. The bedroom is upstairs with the living area and bathroom below. All rooms in the house look out to sea with open walls. There is plenty of room to stretch out and relax. The beautiful Balinese Villas offer luxury and style with amazing views.
how this holiday makes a difference
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The retreat centre is in tune with local Hindu traditions and adopts a no drinking or smoking policy. The traditional Balinese buildings were built from local materials and they fit in well with the local surroundings. We are delighted to be bringing tourists back to this beautiful island whose industry suffered so much in recent years.
Set remotely in a quiet part of the island, the retreat centre provides jobs for 11 people in the local area. All the food is locally sourced and is prepared by locals. All our excursions are done through small local businesses which generates revenue to the locality. We also donate 10% of our profits to tsunami affected areas of which Indonesia is one. The nature of the holiday: healing and yoga, means we are bringing guests with a higher sense of awareness and we brief all our guests on how to be respectful in this very spiritual and cultural place. The retreat has donated money to help build a road to the local school and have donated money to all the local religious festivals. The centre was built by locals and with the least environmental impact possible. Though there are continuing endeavors to introduce recycling plants to this developing island the centre handle the situation by not producing any waste. All food is sourced locally, therefore eliminating any packaging and the centre has its own well. The large drums of drinking water come in recycled containers, there isn’t a plastic bottle in sight. For every guest who attends one of our yoga holidays, we will plant a tree in a new forest we've started in Niger, Africa to conquer desertification. Guests will receive a certificate and will have the opportunity to learn more about the project and to monitor their tree, which will be named after them. As of September 2008, we will off-set the carbon emissions for return flights within Europe, and we will off-set the emissions for the outward flight of any Europe to Asia flights if the guest offset the return journey. Guests will also receive a certificate for this. |
Tourism can be good and bad for destinations & local people. We carefully screen every holiday against our criteria for responsible travel. 'Look behind the brochure' to find how each holiday makes a difference (see left). We don't claim to be perfect - there is no global accreditation - but we've led the way since 2001 and screened 1000's of holidays. We invite every traveller to write a review about their experiences and responsible tourism. This valuable feedback is sent to the people who run the holidays. We keep a very close eye on it and take off holidays that don't live up to our standards. |