Maggie Tulliver
Bali is known to attract crowds focusing on spirituality and healthy lifestyles. Retreats and resorts are offering something different for travellers looking to experiment and try out various types of holiday experiences.
For those of you who are looking into a holistic experience then try a Seminyak Bali Resort that offers spiritual tours. You will be meditating at different energy and power sources, which are chosen due to their unique spiritual significance. Along with their experienced healers, you will definitely emerge from the tour more spiritually enriched. You can also get deeper into it learn about self-healing, chakra cleansing and better self-acknowledgement. A journey that will also be using other personalised methods such as numerology and palmistry, tarot and energy work.
Anantara Seminyak Bali Resort & Spa offers yoga lessons for guests. You can request for the yoga style you like, among them are Hatha Yoga,Vinyasa Flow, Ashtanga, Vinyasa or Sivananda Yoga. The resident Yoga instructor Pak Made conducts classes for small groups of people who are interested to relax their mind, body and soul.
If you feel guilty from all the food you care freely consume during your holidays or regret the binge drinking session that you down at a night’s party try a holistic cleanse. That is all you need in making yourself look well rested than ever and from all the toxics that you accumulate during holidays.
Qigong is one of the oldest meditation techniques that have proven to be highly effective for those who seek balance in both physical and emotional wellbeing. The word “Qigong” means cultivating energy, and was first invented 5000 years ago by a legendary Taoist master. Today, Qigong has been perfected with the practice of Tai Chi or Yoga, with the focus on the fundamental of “Yin” and “Yang”. By implementing this belief on its practices, you will be able to live in harmony in your health, mind and the natural word, while maintaining a high sense of spiritual awareness within yourself. Regular practitioners of “Qigong” have also included enhanced quality of life as part of the benefits, and this will inevitably have similar effects on those around them. Try it when you are in Bali.
The Shihodara treatment is a world famous treatment originally used by Indian yogis to enhance self-awareness. Bali is one of the best places on earth to do it, where massages and spas are part of Balinese culture, you will find some highly trained therapist to perform this spa treatment in the most intimate comfort. During this experience, your therapist will massage vital karma points as a golden stream of medicated oils cascades off your forehead. At this same moment you will reach your ultimate serenity.
This is an ideal way of starting your holidays in Bali, going back home for a joyful life with a peaceful mind. This is one of the best introductions to positive thinking. This mediation and yoga method will give you an insight on Buddhism way of thinking. You will learn breathing and relaxation techniques as well as how to purify thoughts, speech and actions. Once tried, you might want to practice it back home!
