Healing
And a little bit of healing too – Shakti flying through Shiva’s hands…
How open to receiving are you and what happens when you let go? Harriet Gaffney shares her experience of flying and the coalescence that can occur when the mind lets go…
Adventures from the Healing Hut: Watsu
Imagine…Being able to climb into a comfortable, warm womb. (Yes, I said ‘womb’.) You melt into the softness and safety. You relax into the water that surrounds you. You float with a weightlessness that surprises you. You begin to breathe more deeply.
Adventures from the Healing Hut: Energy Reading
Even though I grew up in the land of woo-woo (Marin County, California), I’m still a bit of a cynic when it comes to a lot (but not all) of the ‘new age’ healing modalities. I really have to FEEL something to be convinced that it works.
So I signed up for a half hour ‘body energy reading’ at the Healing Hut at the Bali Spirit Festival with, I admit it, a bit of a smirk on my face.
While I waited for my session I found myself thinking, ‘yeah, yeah, another energy reading that leaves me feeling….nothing’.
Adventures from the Healing Hut: Dreamwork
By Kristin (Wayan) Morrison
If you think the Bali Spirit Festival is only about yoga and music you haven’t been to the Healing Hut. Got issues? Questions about your life path? Spiritual practitioners of all types are at the Healing Hut at the Bali Spirit Festival and ready to help. It’s easy. You simply schedule your [...]
BaliSpirit Fest – A Wonderland for the Soul
Bali Spirit is buzzing on the first day, with the healers setting up in the Dharma Fair, the food stalls full of fresh and tasty organic morsels, the auramator cranking up and all different styles of yoga classes in action over about 5 different venue spaces.
The Anti-Yogi’s Guide To Ubud
A few relevant facts about Ubud, our beloved home away from whatever: Ubud has changed quite radically in the past 5 years. Tourism has skyrocketed, rice fields are getting paved over at alarming rates, easy credit access has led to more cars and motorbikes on the road, and the expat demographic has gone through its own shift.
Once there were two cliques. The Yogis and The Drunks – with a few of us migrating between the two clans like buzzed or blissed-out diplomats. In 2004, there were far more Drunks than Yogis (I’d say something like 70-30 in favor of the marinati), but thanks to a massive Drunk die-off, in 2011 there are nearly 80% Yogis. Within this Yogi group are the Raw People (note the clear eyes and grayish teeth), the Yuppie Om-ers (to which I’m guessing a fair number of the festival attendees belong), the Hipster Yogis (see: young attractive women with svelte, firm figures, loud voices and a penchant for wearing yoga pants at all times, and 30-ish men who wear vests sans shirt and smell like Jesus), and the Leather-Feathers – a spectacularly cringe-worthy sub clan who dance to horrific House music and wear absurdist Jack Sparrow gear, lesbian haircuts (I’m talking about the men), and only mingle with one another.
In 2004, if you’d told me that we would be at 80% Yogis, 20% Drunks, I’d probably suggest that this was a good thing. Now, I’m not so sure. Does this mean I’ve metamorphisized from self-hating Jew to self-loathing yogi? Perhaps. Or does it simply mean that I believe in a few simple truths that I wish we all shared?
Life’s A Gift and Then Some – The Bali Spirit Is Surging!
With the opening to the Bali Spirit Festival only days away, Festival devotee and Ubud resident Harriet Gaffney shares the meaning of the Balinese greeting Om Swastiastu and how Sama Yoga teacher and Festival Presenter Sky helped her live its meaning…
