Self-healing

This program is a tailored made program to enable participants to practice the basic skill of self-healing

based on Balinese healing practices. The training includes herbal medicine knowledge, making herbal medicines, and how to apply the medicines for healing.

Melukat ceremony or Holly water cleansing

This is a very special program regularly offered for those who wish to clean themselves through a Balinese cleansing ceremony using holy water purified by a Balinese high priest. The program is available for those who are willing to visit our place in Bali to enjoy the Balinese atmosphere.

In this workshop, we also will learn how to prepare the offering for the melukat mejaye jaye, in the Balinese tradition we called.

Springwater cleansing

This program is available for everybody who wishes to visit the holy spring water temple in Bali and enjoy the cleansing program to purify body, mind, and spirit. In this cleansing ceremony, we also will prepare the offering and bring the offering to the water temple as one of the prayer facilities. 

Tour to the temple

This program is offered to everybody who wishes to join the temple visits and pray in the Balinese way.  A short course on how to pray in the Balinese way will be provided for beginners. The participants are required to wear Balinese prayer outfits.  The outfits may be prepared by participants or our teams as the organizer for the program.

Sweatlodge

This program is a very special program for those who wish to join the purification ceremony as acombination of Balinese prayers and native Americans. The purification ceremony or simply sweat is conducted in a low-profile hut, typically dome shape. Several fired volcanic stones from mount Agung are used to purify our body, mind, and spirit.

Inipi / Sweat Lodge


Dayu is also regularly doing an Inipi or sweat lodge ceremony, in a unique way that combines the Indian and Balinese traditions.

In October 2009 the first Inipi Ceremony was held in Bali, at Pantai Mas, led by the much respected and beloved Mexican medicine man Alfonso Perez and his wife Andrea, with Martijn Plooij as Fire Keeper. Alfonso has, in his teachings of the sweat lodge, given Pantai Mas and the people of Bali a beautiful gift, for which we feel very grateful and blessed. During his stay, Alfonso blessed Dayu in front of the Fire - with the Great Spirit, the Grandfathers, and the participants of the Ceremony as witnesses - to lead future Inipi Ceremonies at Pantai Mas or where ever they live.

The sweat lodge or Inipi (as it is called by the Lakota Indians), is an important part of the age-old traditions of the American Indians and is still used by the Indians today. Each tribe has its own stories, myths, of how the first sweat lodge came to be, sometimes even before creation.

Inipi has been and is used as a cleansing or purification ceremony, it’s depending on the intention of the lodge, for example preparing to go to war, initiation, healing, etc.

For the Indians, Inipi is a holy place, a place of spirit, where one goes to clean to purification body, mind, and spirit. This powerful ceremony, that calls on the four fundamental elements of the universe - Fire, Earth, Water, and Air, goes to the very core, cleaning and renewing all parts of our being. It is a way to feel one with and listen to the Great Spirit (God).

Inipi is like a spiritual sauna. One feels reborn, renewed, and strengthened by the mingling of one's lifeblood, sweat, with the lifeblood of the planet. These mixed waters are carried further outside the lodge by the four winds, the four directions. The lodge itself allows one to experience a special closeness with Mother Earth.

In the sweat lodge ceremony every aspect, from the building of the lodge to the ceremony itself, has a spiritual meaning and every action is performed with respect and prayer.

A dome-shaped structure is made with young branches (usually willow) tied together. This is covered with hides, canvas or blankets. A fire is made in line with the door of the lodge. The Fire Keeper looks after the fire, where lava stones are laid in until they are red hot. The hot stones are brought into the lodge, where the people sit inside. The door closes and the medicine man or woman who leads the ceremony pours water over the hot stones, so steam is created. The people sing and pray guided by the one leading the ceremony. Usually, the ceremony consists of four rounds.

In the Inipi Ceremony at Dayu do is mix the old Indian tradition and the Balinese tradition, with the intention to bring about harmony, balance, respect, gratitude, a humble attitude, and to make the four nations of people living on this planet - the Black, the Red, the Yellow and the White - become one, United

Dayu use to build the sweat lodge with bamboo. The lodge is covered with traditionally woven ikat blankets and the top is covered with a drawing of the nine weapons of God which, according to the Balinese tradition, protect the nine directions. The stones come from the foot of the volcano Gunung Agung, the holiest mountain and the spiritual center of Bali. We wear a sarong (traditional wrap) when we enter the lodge. There is water around, with Tirta - Balinese holy water with flowers that symbolizes purity - passed round. We may drink from the cleansing and refreshing water or pour some over ourselves. We smoke a peace pipe with locally grown sweet tobacco. Songs are sung from the Indian and Balinese traditions, we also pray Balinese Hindu prayers. Andrea has taught us the sacred Indian songs.

Alfonso taught us about the Indian tradition and way of life. His message is one of brotherhood, peace, respect, and dignity. For him and for the Balinese people, it was amazing and often touching to discover the similarities between both traditions and their symbols and rituals.

With the Inipi Ceremony in Bali, we have started off on a collective new journey. The ritual is growing and taking shape, with the loving contribution of many people - teachers, guests, friends, members of the Pantai Mas family - and of the land, plants, flowers, animals, stones, ancestors, the Balinese tradition, the Indian tradition, the water, etc., etc.

May Inipi bring everybody that comes into contact with it many blessings, love, strength, and healing. May it make us brothers and sisters, the Black, the Red, the Yellow, and the White people, from all corners of the world. We all are one, united.