Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

21 - 27  May 2023 at Bali Mountain Retreat Centre

This unique retreat will be led by Will and Angela McGee and held at Bali Mountain Retreat Centre located high on the slopes of Mount Batukaru in Central Bali. This idyllic retreat environment will enable you to relax and unwind and provide the opportunity to inquire into what it means to live in a free and liberated way. Go to registration form.

Bali Mountain retreats offers an opportunity for participants to fully immerse themselves in the retreat experience, including a strong emphasis on meditation and Dharma Inquiry as well as Yoga philosophy and practices.

In 2023 we will continue this combination with Angela McGee teaching the Yoga.
Angela strongly believes that the ancient practices and teachings of the Yoga sutras are completely alive and relevant to contemporary life and can in combination with the Buddha’s teachings act as a guide to the potential for our liberation and freedom from suffering.   

2023 will mark the 8th annual Bali Mountain Retreat, with a greater inclusion and emphasis on Balinese spiritual culture, including:

• Welcoming ceremony with a local priest;
• the making of traditional ceremonial puja offerings to take to the local forest temple;
• participation in traditional Balinese ceremony led by Balinese priests;
• a night of Joged Bumbung dance; and
• the full Joged Bumbung dance includes at least 12 musicians and 2 dancers.

Mt Batukaru is the second highest mountain in Bali and Bali Mountain Retreat Centre set amidst coffee, cocoa and spice plantations has panoramic views down to the ocean. The air is fresh, the water is directly fed from a spring on the mountain and the creeks and waterways are pristine. You will welcome the refreshing and revitalizing mountain air, sparkling spring fed water and rural Balinese culture.

Insight Meditation, known as Vipassana in the Theravada Buddhist tradition engages in the practice of ethics, mindfulness, depths of meditation, opening of the heart and wisdom teachings. Insight Meditation allows a deep inquiry into this unfolding life, with all its difficulties and joys.  An inquiry into our relationship to what arises in our day to day; be it pleasant or unpleasant and the freedom that is available when we bring understanding and awareness to each experience.

Yoga

Angela McGee began Yoga teaching 23 years ago after training in the Sivananda tradition. Shortly after she came across the teachings of Krishnamacharya and studied in Australia and India with Krishnamacharya's son, T.K.V Desikachar. Angela believes the ancient wisdom teachings of the Yoga Dharma are completely alive and relevant to contemporary life and to freedom and liberation.

Angela teaches Yoga therapeutically with an emphasis on one - one teaching, discovering how Yoga can fit the individual rather than the individual fit the Yoga. She also teaches in corporate and community settings and has trained and guided teachers and leads a sangha in the Krishnamacharya lineage.

Alongside her Yoga path, Angela is also a Dharma teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition.

Meditation and yoga program

Sitting, walking & guided meditation

Meditation instruction

meetings with the teacher, inquiry sessions and daily Dharma talks

2 daily Yoga sessions

Cost

$850 AUD Twin share accommodation

$1050 AUD single room accommodation  (limited single room acc. first in)

Inclusions

6 nights accommodation at Bali Mountain Retreat with daily housekeeping 

Twim share accommodation, (single rooms available at extra cost)

Pick up and drop off transfers to/from Bali Mountain Retreat 

Complimentary arrival drink & refreshments

Balinese blessing ceremony upon arrival at Mount Batukaru

Traditional Joged Bumbunhg dance performance

All meals (vegetatian) and include breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks

Full hot buffet breakfast : typical breakfast  includes eggs (any style), sautéed green vegetables and mushroom, curried tomatoes, toast, potato cake, fresh tropical fruit salad and yoghurt, tea, coffee and orange juice, homemade muesli and/or cereal

Buffet Lunch: typically a mix of Indonesian styled dishes e.g. crispy tempe, Ayam Bakar, Nasi Kuning, Cap Cay, and organic raw foods dishes, quiches and salads fruit platter, teas, coffee and mountain spring water

Buffet Dinner:  4 vegetarian dishes, soup and rice, followed by a choice of 2-3 desserts e.g.  fried bananas and ice cream, chocolate cake and cream or ice cream

Refreshments are offered twice daily for morning and afternoon tea. This includes fresh fruit, homemade slice/biscuits and a cake e.g. banana cake as well as teas and coffee

Complimentary drinking water for the duration of the retreat-fresh mountain spring water which is UV filtered

Free WIFI Access (use own laptop)

Complimentary Balinese massage (1 hour)

Guided walk to the local Bali Hindu temple in the mountain forest

Exclusions

Airfares and travel insurance are not included in above price.

Important!

Please remember to email your flight details when known so that transfers can be arranged.

To register

Please download the registration form below and email it to Will.

Registration form (RTF)

Further information

Will's Mobile: 0499 829 504

Photos and testimonials from previous retreats

Bali Mountain Retreat has been held every year since 2013. Photos, information and testimonials from previous retreats may be found here.