Find your higher self in Ubud

YOUbud to make blossoming your tree of Life

Literally, Ubud means « medicine » because according to the local tradition Ubud heals the body, the mind, and the soul. Ubud is the heart of Bali as Bali is the neuralgic center of Indonesia regarding spirituality. Every sensitive people will find special energy here, a high vibration matching actually with their higher self. We cannot dissociate Ubud from the spiritual dimension.

What to do in Ubud if you are looking for a deep spiritual meaning? Here are the three key inescapable places to visit integrating their symbolism:

1-Monkey forest:

It is a sacred forest dedicated to the Balinese tradition of TRI HITA KARANA. This principle is simple: to reach harmony there is a triptych to respect: to be in harmony 1-with humans (YOUman: inner and outer fullness), 2-with nature and 3-with the sky: the invisible world: the energies… Without this respect life is unbalanced.

The forest which embodies as a group the three of life is protected by the monkeys.

By monkey we can hear “Monk key”, the key to becoming a kind of monk to face your monkey mind here might be a subtle message of the magic forest. This is a key point of the success of meditation and the free mind.

2-Tegallalang Rice Terraces:

The rice field in the terrace is a kind of metaphor of the Egyptian wisdom saying: “True teaching is not an accumulation of knowledge; it is an awakening of consciousness which goes through successive stages”.

It reminds also that here in Bali local farmers still respect the spirit of nature with prayers, rituals, and deep respect of mother earth which feeds us.

Being able to be taught and to perceive the deep message of the rice field is an initiatory journey and an application of the principle of TRI HITA KARANA in practice.

3-Tirta Empul Temple:

This temple remains you that the main temple is you: it allows you to contemplate nature which is an inwards and outwards process but for that, the first step is to purify your body, your mind and then your soul. There is a precise rite to follow corresponding to a deep ceremony to be accompanied on your inner journey: cleaning your past and welcoming your harmonious future. The main subtle symbol is from The Source, you are purified and reconnected thereby to The Source: the deep connection with the multiple dimensions of the existence that often we missed or lost in our western cultures.

As a transition, it might be what Elif Shafak evoked with her deep question of the sense of life, the essence of life through her quest with “No matter who we are and where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It is like having lost something and experiencing the need to find it back. What is this “something”?

Actually identifying and finding the answer of this “something” is clearly the main reason for being of Shambali retreat. Shambali is a holistic wellbeing center proposing

We propose in Ubud at the core of nature to find back your true nature, your true self. This is based on the maieutic which is helping people to find themselves. We apply a T.I.P approach: Theoretical, Intuitive and Practical methodology.

During an unforgettable stay of 5 days we propose to our guest around 20 different activities:

• Meditation: Reconnect our mind with our body and with the universe with different tools
• Kundalini Yoga: The harmony of postures and breathing to activate your vital source of energy Kundalini
• Pilates: Connection in between breathing-posture-mind
• Holotropic Breathwork: Hyperventilation allowing to release some post-trauma and to reach harmony
• Reiki: re-energization of the flows (Ki, Qi, Prana) of the body through different meridians
• Qi Gong: the fluidity of the movement in the space, the balance between strength and weakness, firmness and flexibility, involvement, and detachment
• Sound therapy: Principle of cymatic: the positive effects of the sounds on our bodies and magnetic fields
• Bowl healing: Purification of the energies of the body and the mind through the sound and the Tibetan bowls
• Self-hypnosis: Autosuggestion progressively to enter in different layers of trance to reach to unconsciousness to reconnect with your Higher self
• Aquatic massage: Harmony of the gestures in the flow of water requiring trust in between partners, reactivation of the prenatal dimension. Reactivation of the safety of the womb and thereby trust the process of life.
• Floating: The release of the gravity: no weigh anymore allowing enlargement of consciousness
• Massages: activate all muscles in mindfulness to relax them after an effort to feel deeply one’s physical body
• Herbal & bath therapy: release your pain and take care of yourself: let people take care of you
• Sufi Music: Transcendental meditation by sipping to reach trance and dilution of the ego into the Universe through an unforgettable concert and workshop
• Ecstatic dance: release your inner animal to reach YOUnity by renouncing to your ego, redevelop your artistic dimension
• Anchoring Light Painting: the resonance in between the harmony of colors, your mind, your soul and your intuition: reactivating your artistic dimension.

There are a lot of other concepts and workshops like nutrition, mindfulness, inner child, enlargement of consciousness, reconnection to 4 (5) elements, reconnection to 5 (6) senses, disciplines of fullness…

The experience is unique and extremely deep and rich: nobody went home remaining unchanged to the SHAMBALI’s teaching and the availability of the 6 practitioners. They accompany the guests on their inner journey from 7:00 am to 10:00 pm. We provide also some bonus, tips, and even 25 hours of free courses at distance at the end of the retreat to make sure all information will be integrated and operational in their daily life.

The main objective is that our guests find their own way, what resonates the most within themselves to find a certain inner and outer harmony that we call “YOUnity or YOUniverse”. That is why we provide a maximum of tools in order to be in harmony during this retreat but also for them to be able to reactivate these high frequencies, their harmonious vibrations in their daily life.

Knowing also that SHAMBALI supports financially speaking a local orphanage in Ubud, meaning thereby our guests indirectly participate in a charity program thanks to the payment of the retreat.

Issa ~ AM