Living Food makes a difference: Garden-to-Table cuisine
Here’s a posty note left by a guest and our perspective on why Garden-to-Table is cuisine is tops! Read more
Yoga as Meditation or Meditation as Yoga?
MEDITATION : This ancient method of physical to spiritual movement is now a globally popular technique for everyone, everywhere, all the time.
Thanks to the internet, pretty much anyone on the planet – teachers, practitioners, and seekers can easily obtain understanding and develop a yoga and meditation practice which tends to the health and wholeness of our spiritual self. We no longer need to travel by ship for months and archive ancient understandings with decades of research. It’s all easily available and perhaps we are living in the true age of enlightenment due to the ease with which spiritual awareness can be accessed. Read more
Meditation muda mudahan (Balinese for ‘hopefully’) – thanks to Harvard.
Harvard Medical is studying the benefits of meditation? Get on board, Harvard!!! Yippeee!!! Meditation has so-called mind-body techniques that can switch on and off links to stress and immune function, including metabolism, insulin secretion, and inflammatory pathways. Read more
Change And Renewal
Making change takes action and action is required to start the ball rolling and to follow through with it. Any type of change that is somewhere in the future is simply a passing thought until there is action. Take charge, change happens now. At Bali Silent Retreat we can assist with your process of change. Read more
Nature as Meditation
We have 6 hectare of gardens and jungle here at Bali Silent Retreat surround the property, attracting butterflies, caterpillars, and crickets, bees, frogs, etc etc etc. Many guests take meditating walks just to watch the smaller but larger world of nature which escapes us in the city. Read more
Yoga Yoga Yoga – what it means
Yoga, Yoga, Yoga, what it means, where and when.
I keep learning how different words inspire different understandings between individuals and cultures.
For example:
Yoga in the west implies the ‘asana’ aspect of the tradition; various physical positions and postures of stretching and body movement. Yoga in Bali (to the Balinese) I’ve observed, means much much more. Read more
Water
Water: Our bodies are born with 80% and die with 50%.
We can’t live without it for more than 3-5 days, depending on how hot it is.
How much, when, and what type are extremely important when we drink it. Drinking about 8 cups/day is the commonly accepted.
And it needs to be clean. The drinking water choices at Bali Silent Retreat are:
- Reverse Osmosis
- Solar distilled + remineralized
- Holy Water from Batu Karu temple, high on the mountain that’s been filtered
Banana Leaf cups at yoga room- disposable, sustainable, greeeeeeeen!
At Bali Silent Retreat we care very much about these issues of health, wholeness, environment, aesthetics (ugly plastic bottles), and also, is it really necessary? –Come on!!
We meditate and thoughtfully (as in ‘full of thought’) consider solutions in order to walk the talk. So we brainstormed over drinking fountains for the longest time, but alas, we have limited electricity (We’re Off the Grid – really off the grid – only 15KW of juice come in each day from our main solar panel source).
Sustainable Bamboo Time
They’re starting to build with Bamboo again. Edy has built a fence and the crew is discussing making a new roof for the ‘gudang tanki’ from bamboo (storage building for water water tanks). Click this photo and you’ll see a step by step video of our process, building a small bamboo shack built to keep the bibbitts (vegie babies) at Bali Silent Retreat. Our bamboo has not been treated, but just cut fresh from our jungle (with hacking knife, called a gergaji).
Wed & Thurs Indonesian magical fare by Asir – AGAIN!
On Wednesdays and Thursdays our amazing Indonesian Chef, Asire allows our pallets to dance with indigenous spices and taste combinations. Today’s abundant fare tempted us with:
