CURRICULUM
108 ways to integrate nature & holistic living into your lifestyle with back-to-the-land basics
Decide over 6 months, what resonates with you. We’ll do our best to develop the logistics for it. You get to create your own experience.
- Animal husbandry of chickens and ducks
- Aroma therapy in nature
- Bazillion ways to make soil
- Bee keeping in the tropics
- Brick making and building
- Build an outdoor kitchen
- Building with bamboo
- Chocolate or Coffee: grow, harvest, process, enjoy
- Coconuts — harvesting from trees
- Coconuts — making coconut oil, palm sugar, medicine juices
- Community service in a Balinese village
- Compost: destruction & reconstruction
- Cooking foraged foods and Balinese style
- Create your own toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant
- Destabilizing plastic in sunshine
- Find your relationship with nature and live it
- Fishing for eels in rice fields
- Forage & Harvest fresh food- Wash it, Cook it, Eat it
- Grow Chemical Free food — REAL organic – no commercial fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, fungicide
- Heritage vs Hybrid seeds for sustainability
- How to start a garden
- How we might live if everything goes sideways
- Impact of meditation on vegetables
- Integrate an intimate spiritual relationship with nature
- Learn and share with other ‘Sustainable Seekers’
- Medicine plants and herbs
- Moon planting
- Mulch for soil health
- Off-the-Grid (solar, hydro, wind)
- ‘Old-school’ farming techniques
- Propagation system
- Rice: grow and harvest
- Rodent management with owls
- Scavenger hunt for medicinal plants
- Share your ideas, experiments, and experiences
- Simple sustainable living at home
- Snakes, insects, turtles, critters
- Soil: good, bad, beautiful, ugly
- Star Gazing
- Subak: the famous Bali watering system
- Sustainability as a REAL possibility
- Tri Hita Karana: Balinese integration of human, planet, spirit
- Trips to other parts of Bali – (travel costs add-on)
- Walk barefoot in the muddy rice fields, planting rice
- Watering systems in dry season and wet season
- Weaving bamboo and coconut mats & walls or baskets or grass roofs
- Zero Chemical Farming techniques (owls, chickens, cats, birds, bats, bees)
Or … Do only these required commitments and decide as you go, what you want to do.
- 15 min/day asanas
- 15 min/day meditation
- 15 min/day journaling
- 1 hr/day garden tasks
- 1x/wk labyrinth walk
- 1x/wk jungle walk
- 1x/wk hot spring soak
- No smoking on site
- No eating meat on site
- No drugs of any kind anywhere on island.
(It’s the death penalty in Indonesia, even after you’ve spent a lot time in jail and money in the legal system.)
WHAT YOU GET
Housing and Food
Location
- 1 hr NW of Ubud at Pertiwi House (adjacent to Bali Silent Retreat)
- ½ hectare of organic gardening space, near the base of Mt. Batu Karu.
- Pertiwi House is a large comfy 4 bedroom – 5 bath home on ½ hectare, with a Great Room for cooking, dining, and lounging, as well as, a large mezzanine room for yoga/meditation/meetings, etc. It’s on a hill with views of Mt. Agung to the east, Mt. Batu Karu to the north, and the ocean to the south. A separate guest house is available for visiting teachers.
Rooms
4 private rooms with bathrooms are available.* A mini food-facility can be added to your room (toaster oven and water kettle) for the option of staying in your own privacy.
*One of these rooms can be a shared room situation with 2 people
Note:
No Air Con. We believe that it’s Not responsible to using electricity for convenient temperatures. The temperatures here are cool at night — everyone has a down comforter. The temperatures in the day are hot, but usually with breezes.
Food
1 meal/day, (from the famous Bali Silent Retreat kitchen) is delivered to Pertiwi House . You are expected to grow the rest of your food or forage it, as part of your sustainability experience. However, additional BSR meals or organic vegetable can be purchased and delivered to Pertiwi House.
Bali Silent Retreat Facilities
INCLUDED
- Library
- Grounds (labyrinth, water meditation, jungle path)
NOT INCLUDED
- Meals at BSR Lodge
- Scheduled BSR Programs (yoga, meditation, agnihotra, hotsprings, temple tours etc.)
The Costs
Costs are being revisited due to Covid’s international impact. We’re establishing scholarships and cost effective programs. Send us an email at moreinfo@sustainablelivingbali.org with your WhatsApp details.
INCLUDED:
- Project materials and transport costs for curriculum related activities.
- Private room with ensuite bathroom in a lovely group home.
- 1 meal/day from Bali Silent Retreat famous foods kitchen.
REQUIREMENTS and COSTS NOT INCLUDED:
- Transportation to and from Bali or Bali Silent Retreat.
- Transportation for personal activities.
- Travel insurance, which includes hospitalization and repatriation to your home country in the event you get sick or injured.
- International Driver’s License if you decide you want to drive.
* Scholarships available. Shared room (2 persons in 1 room) is 50% discount. Inquire about the Hidup Lestari Non-Profit organization for Land Trust and Sustainable Education.
Interested?
If this sort of experience resonates with you and you want to discuss it further, send an email with your WhatsApp number to moreinfo@sustainablelivingbali.org — or simply fill in the form below.
Penatahan, Tabanan 82152
Bali — Indonesia