BALI. A Journey with Meaning, “The Road Home”, 17-28 December.
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Bali is quite justifiably considered Paradise on earth.
An inner paradise, a sense of home – it is good to look for it right here. This island in Indonesia is famous for the fact that here, in a small area, a great many fantastic natural and cultural beauties are gathered: ancient temples, bright jungle, wonderful beaches, sleeping volcanoes, high-mountain forests and mighty waterfalls, the purest lakes and thermal springs. All these amazing landscapes are permeated with the spirit of “Balinese Hinduism” – the religion of living gods, ancient rituals, wonderful legends of the creation of the world, gratitude to life and reverence for death and for the spirits of natural places.
The islanders live in unity with nature, in dialogue with the Gods, in contact with spirits and in a blissful inner silence. On our journey we will meet some of their most striking personalities.
The legend says that this place on the planet once belonged to the Gods. The very land and climate here help you feel the point of paradise, the state of “home”. Here it is possible to remember the state of peace and timelessness, so thoroughly forgotten in the bustle of big cities, to allow yourself to slow down and remember “what I live for”; “where I am living to”; “how I live” and how long it is since I was “at home”.
Here we invite You to go through your own inner mystery “The Road Home”, to return to yourself, freeing yourself from the bustle, and open up to a High Destiny.
This journey is for those who:
Value silence, and the insights that are born in it. Who want a reboot and a reset to zero. Who are interested in opening themselves up and meeting an unknown world as I do not yet know it. In feeling the inspiration and the nerve of a discoverer and integrating this state into their life.
THE PROGRAMME
The first day.
- Day. Name and Meanings.
- Arrival. Settling in.
- Getting acquainted, choosing a Name of Power for the time of the Journey.
- A theory of names for different meanings.
- Day. Emotions.
- A gentle integration into the Balinese morning after a long flight. Morning yoga and Meditation.
- A visit to the Gunung Kawi temple
- Sacred springs. A descent into the “rabbit hole”. Cleansing practices in a temple deep in the rainforest between the rocks, meditation on the sound of falling water. The language of emotions. Lunch at the top of a canyon in the jungle with an extraordinary view of the canyon.
- Exploring the cultural and spiritual capital of the island – Ubud. The Monkey Forest. Free time.
- An evening practice.
- Day. Flow
- A morning practice.
- A bicycle descent from the foot of a volcano through the jungle and rice fields.
- A visit to coffee plantations. A tasting of different exotic varieties of coffee.
- A visit to a Balinese artist and Brahmin.
- A traditional Balinese lunch
- The Laboratory of Conscious Breathing
- An evening tea ceremony and sharing.
- Day. Unity.
- Greeting the dawn on the Batur volcano.
- Hot volcanic springs.
- Lunch
- A visit to a powerful Balinese monk at the Besakih mother temple.
- Day. Attention
- Practices in a botanical garden beneath the crowns of thousand-year-old trees, surrounded by exotic plants. Contact improvisation and Butoh dance.
- Optionally, for those who want to meet their fear face to face – an extreme rope park in the tropical jungle.
- A visit to high-mountain lakes, where the silence creates a space for diving into yourself.
- A night in a bungalow on stilts high in the mountains with a view of clove plantations and the rainforest.
- Day. Power.
- Morning practices.
- A visit to one of the most beautiful waterfalls of Bali.
- Practices of power.
- A visit to the Ulun Danu temple on Lake Bratan.
- A visit to a spa complex.
- A transfer to a hotel on the ocean coast.
- Day. Contact
- Greeting the dawn on the beach: yoga, surfing, swimming.
- Body practices on the beach. Contact improvisation.
- Meditations with singing crystal bowls in a cave
- A visit to the temple in the ocean, Tanah Lot
- A seafood dinner on the coast
- Day. The Path
- Morning practices by the ocean.
- A visit to the Tirta Gangga temple complex
- A pilgrimage (3000 steps) to the sacred Lempuyang temple on the mountain top and spending the night there in sleeping bags above the island beneath a dome of stars. The chanting of mantras. Practices. Greeting the dawn.
- Day. Delight.
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Dawn on the mountain top with a view of the island.
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A visit to one of the most beautiful and unspoilt beaches of Bali – Virgin Beach.
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Practices by the ocean.
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A seafood lunch on the beach.
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Day 10. Peace
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Spa treatments. A lounge club. An infinity pool on a cliff with a view of the ocean.
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A visit to the Uluwatu temple complex
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The Balinese ritual trance dance Kecak at sunset.
- Day 11. Celebration.
- Returning the names.
- Yoga. A morning sharing. Summing up.
- Free time. Souvenirs. The beach.
- An evening celebration ceremony
- Day.
- Departure of those who are going home for New Year.
- A free day for those who are staying for the celebration and ceremony on the Gili Islands.
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VIP PROGRAMME 29 December – 1 January
Gili. Transpersonal practices of the peoples of the world on the islands
Day 13. Immersion
- We cross by speedboat to the tropical islands of Gili
- Settling into bungalows on the ocean shore
- An introduction to transpersonal experience
- Beach relaxation (snorkelling, diving, canoeing)
- An evening of film about psychedelic immersions
Day 14. Ceremony
- Morning yoga. Greeting the dawn over the ocean
- Beach relaxation (snorkelling, diving, canoeing)
- A ceremony at sunset. A journey beyond the personality
Day 15. Crossing
- Morning practices
- A map of borderline states. The language of signs and symbols. Allies of the inner world
- A Ritual of Crossing
- Meeting the New Year
Day 16. Returning Home
- A transfer back to Bali
- Departure for home after 1 January – 18.00
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The programme of the inner journey:
What will become our tools for returning to the sense of “home”, for experiencing the state of one’s own resource, abundance and creative confidence:
- THE NAME.
Meeting and getting acquainted.
We will plunge into the mystery through the Name. First we will let go of the story of ourselves that is tied to our social name. We will let it go for a time, not for ever, in order to enter the journey new and to open up to what we perhaps would never have done within the frame of our social name.
In this way we will manage not only to renew ourselves deeply, but also to miss our role – so we will have a rest from our name, and our name will have a rest from you.
- THE LANGUAGES OF THE INNER WORLD
These are the languages in which the inner Universe speaks to us. Surprisingly, it turns out that they are not our thoughts at all. Thoughts are what we think about the signals of our inner system, the way we interpret what is going on inside and outside. But what is going on and the interpretation of what is going on are different things.
Also, we are what we reject in ourselves and in others. Fears, anger, sadness, hopelessness are doors to ourselves, to our hidden resource and to new qualities that we do not allow ourselves to show, and these qualities are the key to a new territory of life: events and opportunities.
Having mastered the languages of our inner world, we can live ourselves without judgement and with the interest of discovery. In any of our manifestations we can arrive at the constructive, realising our new possibilities and the deep meaning of our rejected feelings, and finding a resource in this.
- THE LABORATORY OF CONSCIOUS BREATHING
These are breathing transformational practices: Holotropic breathwork and Rebirthing in natural places of power, surrounded by total beings: trees, rocks, waterfalls – beings and phenomena that do not try to seem anything other than what they are originally. This leads to healing and teaches us totality: the inner truth of being yourself.
- MEDITATIONS IN PLACES OF POWER
A pilgrimage in inner contexts.
Practices of contemplating movement and stillness; the outer and inner landscapes. Practices of attuning to natural objects, with the aim of knowing yourself through merging and separation; fullness and emptiness. This leads to mastery of inner modes, the ability to hear the flows inside and outside, to make decisions from your inner response and to integrate this into life.
BODY PRACTICES AND DANCE.
The body practices will consist of:
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Skills of deep relaxation and bodily surrender, releasing energy from bodily clamps and blocks.
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CI – Contact Improvisation, a flowing interaction in pairs, an exploration of yourself and the world through movement, the point of contact and gravity – derived from the martial art of “aikido” and the dance of “contemporary”.
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Butoh – a Japanese metaphorical solo dance expressing the dynamics of life cycles: birth, development and dying; revealing the plasticity of natural objects and phenomena in living out your essence.
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SHARINGS.
This is our evening tea ceremony in a circle, where, listening to the person beside you, you can find pieces of your own processes in their story about themselves. It is an opportunity to see what is happening through many eyes and, discovering new facets, to put together a full picture of yourself and the world, making discoveries about new strategies and possibilities.
- THE RULE OF VOLUNTARINESS,
Taking part in all the proposed processes is only by wish, with the right reserved to limit or stop any process for yourself, just as to prolong it according to your need.
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THE LEADERS:
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Alexander Fedorov – a professional traveller, coach, leader of expeditions to hard-to-reach places on the planet: Papua and New Guinea, the Altai mountains and the Himalayas, author of the projects: the community “Cocreate.life”, “Bali is Full of Life”, “The Masters’ Marathon in Bali”, “The Laboratory of Conscious Breathing”
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Natalia Valitskaya – evolutionary psychologist, founder of the “White Wind” studio, author of the project “Me and the Shadow”, which generates a resource from the shadow sides of the personality; a specialist in transpersonal methods, researcher of ethnic traditions and ceremonies of the peoples of the world. A mountaineer and organiser of expeditions to big mountains: the Himalayas, Elbrus, Ararat, Kilimanjaro,. (www.valitskaya.com)
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PRICE: $1790 for 12 days of the programme in Bali from 17 December to 28 December. (without the New Year Ceremony on the Gili Islands.)
PRICE of the programme “The Gili Islands. Transpersonal practices of the peoples of the world”: $620 from 29 December 2017 to 1 January 2018
INCLUDED IN THE PRICE:
• Accommodation in all the locations of the programme:
o A fairy-tale villa with a huge pool, surrounded by tropical jungle
o A bungalow on stilts high in the mountains with a view of fruit plantations, clove trees and the rainforest
o A villa on the shore of the Indian Ocean
• Two meals a day in Bali
• Excursions and entrance tickets
• Transfers
• If you choose the option “New Year on the Gili Islands”:
Accommodation in a bungalow on the ocean shore
o Breakfasts
o A boat transfer to Gili and back
o The Ceremony
o The New Year celebration
NOT INCLUDED IN THE PRICE:
• Flights to/from Bali (we recommend Qatar Airways flights)
• Travel insurance (we recommend arranging it with PZU)
• Spa services, souvenirs, dinners
For all questions write to liogrita@gmail.com
call: skype: natavalitskaya
+38 096 3377 199 Natalia
+38 068 481 15 82 Alexander
