Ubud, Bali 2025 - Amori Villas
~Divine Human Embodiment~
Planting Our Hearts Back Into the Earth
March 23-30, 2025
nestled in the Rice Terraced Hillsides
and Mystical Landscape of the ‘island of the Gods’.
welcome
TOGETHER WE ASPIRE TO OUR…
‘Divine Human Embodiment’
Planting Our Hearts Back Into the Earth
Amori Villas, Ubud, Bali
AWAKENING TO THE DIVINITY WITHIN OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER. ALIGNING OUR LIFE PURPOSE WITH THE LIFE WAVE OF PLANET EARTH. LEARNING HOW TO CLAIM OUR UNIQUE SPIRITUAL CALLING AND GROW IT INTO ITS TRUE GLORY WITH OUR IMPASSIONED DEVOTION. STEPPING INTO THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PERSONAL SOVEREIGNTY. LOCATING OUR INNER GUIDE AND AUTHORITY. TAKING OUR RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE CO-CREATION OF OUR COLLECTIVE REALITY.
BUT FIRST…LET’S BREATHE
LET’S EXHALE AND RELEASE SOME OF THE BUSY-NESS OF OUR THOUGHTS. LET’S PAUSE AND DARE TO INTERUPT SOME OF THE PATTERNS AND HABITS OF OUR LIVES TO SCHEDULE A MUCH NEEDED DATE WITH OUR DREAMING INNOCENCE. YOU KNOW…THE ONE WITH THE SHY VOICE THAT NEEDS THINGS TO QUIET DOWN BEFORE WE CAN HEAR THEM SPEAK. YOU KNOW THAT MESSY, NOISY, PUSHY VOICE OF OUR INNER CHILD THAT IS STARTING TO DOUBT WHETHER WE ARE EVEN LISTENING ANYMORE! YOU KNOW…THAT ANGEL OF OUR SOUL THAT IS INFINITELY PATIENT WITH US, THAT LOVES US MORE THAN WE CAN IMAGINE AND IS CONSISTENTLY WHISPERING ENCOURAGEMENT TO BE BRAVE AND TAKE THE NEXT STEP. WELL, THIS IS IT…
THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER WITH LIKE MINDED SOULS IN THE BEAUTIFUL AMORI VILLAS IN UBUD, BALI ON MARCH 23-30, 2025.
OUR OPPORTUNITY TO GET STILL AND LISTEN, TO BE GENTLY GUIDED INTO THE CENTER OF OUR HEARTS TRUTH, TO PRACTICE USING OUR VOICE TO SAY THOSE THINGS WE NEED TO SAY, THE THINGS THAT WILL CHANGE OUR LIFE AND THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE AROUND US WHEN WE SPEAK THEM OUT LOUD. WE WILL SUMMON THE COURAGE TO ASK FOR WHAT WE WANT. WE WILL BEGIN TO BRAVELY EXPRESS THAT PART OF US THAT THERE IS NO WORDS FOR YET. WE WILL ASK OUR ANCESTORS FOR THEIR HELP TO MAKE MEDICINE FROM OUR BLOODLINES. WE WILL CALL UPON THE HEAVENS AND THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH TO WITNESS US CLAIM WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE HAVE COME HERE TO DO.
An 8 DAY LUXURY RETREAT THAT TAKES YOU ON A JOURNEY THROUGH THE ELEMENTS & YOUR SENSES,
BACK TO YOUR HEART, BACK TO YOUR DIVINE ESSENCE.
OUR SACRED PLACE OF REST FOR THE WEEK WILL BE AMORI VILLAS, A LUXURY RETREAT HAVEN NESTLED IN THE RICE TERRACES JUST OUTSIDE OF UBUD, BALI, IN A MYSTICAL & PEACEFUL VALLEY ABOVE THE PICTURESQUE PETANU RIVER.
YOU WILL BE HELD IN LOVE & INTUITIVE SUPPORT WHILE YOU ARE CARRIED BY THE SURROUNDING ENERGY OF THE LAND.
Offerings
SEVEN DIRECTION PRAYER: Opening & Closing
INNER TEMPLE MEDITATION: Sunrise
GENTLE YOGA INTRODUCTION: Mornings
ALTAR OF CREATION with TOBACCO and ROSE: Air
WATER CEREMONY - Invoking the spirit of water for personal healing
FIRE CEREMONY - Tending our Inner Light
CLAIMING YOUR UNIQUE SPIRITUAL CALLING: Week Long Theme
AWAKENING ‘The SACRED TREMOR’ with BOUNDARIES & CONSENT: Earth
ANCESTRAL HEALING AND MEDICINE MAKING
CHANNELING YOUR HIGHER SELF
OBSERVANCE OF NYEPI, BALINESE NEW YEAR
Amori Villas
Our Home for the week!
RETREAT LAYOUT
WELCOME - ARRIVAL DAY
ARRIVAL DAY - AFTER 3PM
Day 1 - Sunday/ Movement
CHECK IN & ORIENTATION
GROUP MEET & GREET AT THE BEAUTIFUL AMORI VILLAS
BALINESE WELCOMING CEREMONY
LONG TABLE DINNER
SOUND BATH
ALOHA - BREATHING, LANDING, PRESENCING
element: air // direction: north
Day 2 - Monday/ Communication
offerings: breath and embodied movement/sensorial communication/Seven Direction Prayer/gathering of your life purpose and intention/Altar of Creation ceremony with Tobacco and Rose
themes: Introducing ourselves into space and place/ accessing body wisdom and communication/ hosting ourselves into Presence/ locating the desire of our innocence/ impassioned devotion
SACRED WATER CEREMONY. FEMININE WISDOM.
element: water // direction west
Day 3 - Tuesday/ Completion/Endings/Letting Go
wisdom and the alchemical womb. exploring our relationship with water. we will gather around the flowing waters of the land for ceremony. invoking the spirit of water to touch and cleanse our deepest wounds. presence-ing ourselves within emotion to experience the healing.
offerings: sunrise meditation / ashtanga yoga/ excursion to waterfall / blue lotus tea / water ceremony-invoking the spirit of water / medicine making with the blue lotus
themes: the feminine mysteries / moon blood / hearing and channeling the voice of the water / intuition / letting go / tears / cleansing / maternal bloodlines & ancestral healing / blue lotus medicine & the dreamtime
PRIMAL FIRE CEREMONY- TENDING OF THE LIGHT BODY
element fire // direction east
Day 4 - Wednesday/ Inspiration/ Power
offerings: Sun Rise meditation / ashtanga yoga / inner fire explorations / channelling our higher selves / Nyepi festivities / all night fire ceremony
themes: new moon, new year intentions / building and tending a ceremonial fire / sovereignty / alignment / embodying our Divine light / Shiva-Shakti / sacred rage / activation / creating structures for passionate expression/ removing blockages to creative flow / desire / Tantric masculine energy and male lineage / rising into empowerment / Durga / Tobacco
SETTLE & SURRENDER…
element earth // direction south
Day 5 - Thursday/Touch/ Connection/ Belonging
What are we here to learn from the Earth? Why have we incarnated into these bodies?
offerings: sunrise meditation with the rose / embodied movement practice / boundaries & consent / journeying with the senses / sensorial pathways to the Divine / cacao ceremony / drumming / planting our hearts into the earth / earth mandala /
themes: aligning our own heart frequency with the heart beat of mother earth / recognizing that they are one of the same thing / activating our life prayer in this field of awareness / the golden path to the Beloved / surrender / presence-ing with the sensorial / tattvas / touch / nourishment.
CONNECTING SELF WITH PLACE
elements: ether, consciousness // directions: above, below
Day 6 - Friday/ Light/ Sound/ Right Relation
offerings: sunrise meditation / ashtanga yoga / Balinese cultural day / temple visits / Nyepi preparations
themes: spirits of the land / group consciousness / purification / finding our place in time and the cosmos / awakening ancestral memory / clarity of life prayer
NYEPI - BALINESE NEW YEAR
element spirit // direction within
Day 7 - Saturday/ Inner Divinity/ Presence
OBSERVATION OF THE BALINESE NEW YEAR
AND PERSONAL INTEGRATION OF OUR WEEK TOGETHER
FEEL THE QUIET AND STILLNESS OF THE LAND
AND THE PEOPLE ALL AROUND YOU
A DAY DEVOTED TO SILENCE,
PRAYER, MEDITATION &
FASTING
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS FESTIVAL CLICK
CLOSING CEREMONY & DEPARTURE
Day 8 - Sunday/ Rebirth/ Purpose & Direction
claiming & honoring our unique soul gifts.
a sunrise meeting to say our final goodbyes and to close our transformative journey with the 7 direction prayer.
departure after breakfast to airport or your onward destination
Retreat Pricing includes
7 NIGHTS ACCOMMODATION AT AMORI VILLA, A SANCTUARY IN UBUD, BALI
GREETING AT THE AIRPORT BY PERSONAL DRIVER TO BRING YOU TO AMORI VILLAS IN AIR-CONDITIONED VEHICLE
RECEIVED ON SITE BY SHANE AND BECKY ALONG WITH AMORI VILLA STAFF AND SHOWN TO YOUR PRIVATE ROOM
WELCOMING CEREMONY, FOLLOWED BY LONG TABLE DINNER AND A SOOTHING, GROUNDING “SOUND BATH”
THEMED DAILY OFFERINGS WITH PERSONAL SPACE & TIME BUILT INTO THE DAY/WEEK
UNLIMITED BOTTLE WATER AND FRESH COCONUT DRINKS AND JUICE
MORNING GUIDED MEDITATIONS IN YOGA SHALA OPEN AIR PAVILION
INTRODUCTION TO GENTLE YOGA - CONNECTING BREATH & MOVEMENT
DAILY FULL BREAKFAST/BRUNCH
A ONE HOUR RELAXING, STRESS RELIEF MASSAGE
DAILY AFTERNOON TEA, COFFEE AND BANANA BREAD(OR FRESH GINGER MINT TEA)
LUNCHES AND DINNER PROVIDED BY 3 “IN HOUSE” CHEFS AND SERVED IN OPEN AIR RESTAURANT & LOUNGE
RELAXATION BY THE INFINITY POOL AND JACUZZI(OPEN ALL HOURS)
SACRED WATER CEREMONY - INVOCATION AT THE WATERFALL
ALL NIGHT FIRE CEREMONY - TENDING OUR INNER LIGHT & RE-KINDLING OUR PASSION
GATHERING YOUR LIFE PRAYER & CHANNELING YOUR HIGHER SELF
GUIDED WALKING TOUR OF LOCAL TEMPLE, SACRED SPRING AND NYEPI FESTIVITIES
ALL YOGA SHALA MATS, CUSHIONS & PROPS PROVIDED
AIRPORT/HOTEL RETURN TRANSPORT
Optional Extras:
Spa and beauty treatments – Amori has four spa treatments rooms. Ancient stone therapy session, etc…
PRICING + ROOM OPTIONS
Tree House Villa - $2,500 US
(Shared with 2 other guest)
Tree House Villa: Comprised of a large open room living area, an indoor-outdoor bathroom (with bath tub plus indoor/outdoor showers), a king-size bed split into two double-sized beds and a verandah with a daybed. Ceiling fans and air conditioning.
Kingfisher Villa - $2,500 US
(Shared with 2 other Guests)
Kingfisher Villa (One of Two Classic Villas): Traditional 100-year-old Javanese gledags (wooden houses), with all modern features included. The bathrooms are expansive with both a shower and a bathtub. The bedrooms have ceiling fans and air-conditioning. They have a king-size bed split into two double-sized beds plus another single daybed. These two villas have views to the river and are blessed with the sounds of the water and the birds.
Heaven Spring Villa - $2,500-$2,950
(Shared with 1 other Guest)
Heaven Spring Villa (One of Two Classic Villas): Traditional 100-year-old Javanese gledags (wooden houses), with all modern features included. The bathrooms are expansive with both a shower and a free standing bathtub. The bedrooms have ceiling fans and air-conditioning. This room has one king-size bed plus one single daybed. The higher price is for the person who wants to have the 4 post King-size bed all to themself! These two villas have views to the river and are blessed with the sounds of the water and the birds.
Poolside Suite - $2,950 US
(Shared with 1 other Guest)
Poolside Suite: Boasting views, a terrace and a small valley-viewing balcony. This is a large open space bedroom with a lovely marble floor, and a private bathroom with free standing tub. Your room is close to the pool and Jacuzzi as the name suggest. Air-conditioning and ceiling fan. A King-size bed split into two double-sized beds.
Garden Villa - $2,950 US
(Shared with 1 other Guest)
Garden Villa: Offering privacy within a garden courtyard with a terrace and day bed. This is a spacious bedroom with a King-size bed split into two double-sized beds. Marble bathroom with garden-facing shower. This villa is fully enclosed with ceiling fan and air conditioning, located close to the restaurant.
Honeymoon Suite - $4,444 US
(Private Villa all to yourself!)
Honeymoon Suite: Indulge yourself! Privacy, sweeping views, a king-size 4-post bed, walk-in dressing room, indoor-outdoor bathroom with open-air terrazzo bathtub. Air-conditioning plus a ceiling fan.
Valley View Suite - $5,555 US
(Private Villa All to Yourself!)
Valley View Suite: This suite has it all! Expansive views of the valley, private 'star gazing' balcony, desk in open bay window, large bedroom with a traditional vaulted ceiling, elegant king-size bed, beautiful indoor-outdoor bathroom with sunken bath, a fishpond water feature and choice of indoor and outdoor showers. Essential air-conditioning with ceiling fan and sound dock and more features than we can list... Prices are per person and include accommodation, all retreat offerings, transport to and from Amori Villas, food & beverages.
A $555 non-refundable deposit is required to hold your spot.
Full balance due by February 2, 2024.
INTERESTED…
BUT HAVE MORE QUESTIONS?
Book a Free 20 Minute Discovery Call With Your Hosts
Our ‘Home’ for the week, Amori Villa. Visit there website here: https://www.amorivilla.com
RETREAT FACILITATORS
Rebecca Gibbs and Shane Alexander. Our love story began …
…on Bowen Island, B.C., Canada in 2019, where we hosted our first retreat together called, “Seeding the Sacred.” We went on to host, our “Inner Temple Awakening” retreat in Italy in 2020 and our third retreat called “Light Bodies Rising” in Portugal in 2021. We have just celebrated our 4th year together as a couple and we are excited to invite you into the warmth of our relationship as the foundation for the space we will hold together in a ceremonial way during our week together in Bali. Below is a short bio for each of us, followed by a carousel of pictures from our previous retreats!
SHANE OSHORUAH ALEXANDER
Shane studied for over 10 years to be an ordained minister, before leaving the religion of his youth to journey into the search for his own truth. First drawn to the Ashtanga Yoga tradition and meditation, he later sought solitude in nature and has partaken in long periods of intentional silence and solo hikes. Unlearning the rules of what has been taught and exchanging it with what can be directly experienced and known.
He has dedicated years of study to many other faiths and spiritual teachings. Travelled, sought out and studied indigenous cultures still living in harmony with the earth. Sat with men and women elders of Polynesia, North, Central and South America, partaken in their ceremonies and learned from their traditions. Many of which consult plants as teachers and the elements as elders to be learned from. A consistent thread of meaning that has ran through all of these teachings was how to learn through relationship and how to honor the beautiful dance of the masculine and feminine energies at play within us all.
He continually seeks new ways to nurture his own spiritual connection in life and enthusiastically encourages this in others. He believes in our responsibility to each other, right here, right now as one human family, and believes in the strength of connecting small communities to affect global change.
Shane has facilitated Men’s Circles(Wu Wei Brotherhood) both in person and online, along with Inner Temple Meditation events, Tribe of Humankind gatherings and Altar of Creation medicine ceremonies. He facilitates retreats, workshops and immersions. Shane also offers coaching and healing through his Spiritual Evolution Consultancy program.
REBECCA ELLEN
Rebecca’s own awakening journey began in 2001 as a student of the Ashtanga Yoga tradition. For over 10 years she studied with a variety of spiritual teachers worldwide and completed a 200 hour yoga teacher training in Indonesia in 2011. A creative nomad at heart she has been guided by her own spiritual and creative study, traveling and living within a variety of different cultures and communities.
As a soul doula, her calling and subsequent earthly manifestation is to create Sacred space for people to remember & return to their Truth. To show them their unique Soul beauty within and assist them in birthing the manifestation of that in their life here on Earth.
Through meditation, yoga, breath work, ritual and ceremony she weaves together experiences that gently guide others in their journey towards a deeper presence within. To access their unique inner Truth. To lead them to hear their own true Soul voice within. To empower them to embrace the healing path that will lead them to their most expressed, integrated selves.
Rebecca is passionate in assisting others in their healing journey and in the reclamation of their sovereign power within. She aims to awaken, challenge and activate, to assist you in finding a deeper gravitas within your own core centre and with that the ability to stand authentically in your Truth as you activate the inner warrior energy. To reclaim the power of the feminine with Grace, whilst radiating fiercely.
Rebecca approaches this with a sense of compassion & nurturing. Her devotion lies in igniting that sovereign light within others and assisting them to birth their own unique creative, embodied expression. Unfiltered. Raw. Divine. Beauty.
We are all here to shine our brightest. barefootnomad.life
Previous Retreats…
