Consciousness, Culture, and Community in Bali

Consciousness, Culture, and Community in Bali:
Intercultural and Transcultural Dimensions to Physical, Mental, and Social Health

Blessing ceremony, Tebesaya

For an overview of the Unfolding In Action Seminar Cycle, click here.

For mental health professionals and those wishing to explore issues of individual and collective health and well-being, refracted through the illuminating lens of Balinese culture

Participants will:

explore the delicate fulcrum where individual and collective awareness and cultural practices mysteriously meet
enter a life-changing experience at the edge of knowing, where the encounter with Balinese culture rubs against our Western experiential filters and biases
investigate how the Balinese maintain social balance and well-being in community
gain insight into the traditional healing practices of Bali and their current expressions
develop fresh filters and skills for approaching new contexts and cultures everywhere

Price:	€ 1100 ($1,500)
Commences:	6-13 March 2010
Duration:	7 nights, 7 days
Facilitator:	click for bio Peter Wrycza, PhD Peter is founder of the Nirarta Centre for Living Awareness.. He has served as a trainer, consultant, and coach to organizations and individuals in many countries over the past forty years. He is skilled at leading groups as well as one-to-one coaching and counselling. He has been a meditation guide for almost 50 years and has trained extensively in NLP, Person Centred Expressive Therapy, and other forms of expressive work. He has been leading retreats at Nirarta since its inception in the 1990s. He is the author/co-author of a number of books on personal development, including Living Awareness: Awakening to the Roots of Learning and Perception, Moksha: A New Way of Life, (with Prof. Luh Ketut Suryani) Living in the Spirit (with Prof. Luh Ketut Suryani) When Performance Meets Alignment: A Compass for Coaching and Mentoring (with Jan Ardui) A gifted facilitator of deep transformation and awakening in individuals and groups, he is the developer of Conversations on the Edge of Silence for supporting growth and development in individuals, couples, groups, and communities through Generative Dialogue, as well as the in-depth holistic Re•Patterning process. For more about Peter, see A Word from the Founder of Nirarta Peter, Your Retreat Guide Peter has led many individual and group retreats since the founding of Nirarta over 20 years ago. He has been a meditation guide for almost 50 years and trained extensively in NLP, Person Centred Expressive Therapy, and other forms of transformational work. He has been absorbing the essence of Balinese philosophy and tradition for 25 years, drawing inspritation from its exquisite beauty and deep wisdom in supporting a balanced and whole way of life – in body, mind, and spirit. For many years, he has worked as a trainer, consultant, coach and mentor to organizations and individuals internationally. A gifted facilitator of deep transformation and awakening in individuals and groups, he is the developer of Conversations on the Edge of Silence for supporting growth and development in individuals, couples, groups, and communities through Generative Dialogue, as well as the in-depth holistic Re•Patterning process. For more about Peter, see A Word from the Founder of Nirarta Widé, Your massage therapist Gede Oka, known as Widé, has provided massage at Nirarta for a number of years. Widé is an accomplished healer, serving the Balinese for a range of problems, including difficulty in conceiving, with patients coming from as far afield as Denpasar. Widé provides two main services: Deep body massage, which has toning and healing qualities, and is highly recommended by people who know massage as among the best they have received. Reflexology for diagnosis and treatment of particular health problems. Widé tends to be very accurate and skilled in making a shift in health issues. Widé speaks good English. Dayu Mayuni Ida Ayu Putri Mayuni (Dayu Mayuni) is responsible for day-to-day operations and maintaining the spiritual energy and balance at Nirarta in the traditional way. Dayu is from a Brahmin family, with roots in Sidemen. She is Peter's wife and mother of Maya and Mira. Dayu Mayuni is assisted by Gusti Adi Putra, and other members of Nirarta staff. Dayu speaks good English. For more about Dayu, see here. Mangku Mastra Mangku Mastra is a healer, meditation and yoga teacher, and 'permangku' or temple priest/custodian from Tabola Village, close to Nirarta. After a period of searching and study of sources from both Bali and India, he received the elements of the current practices. He is the permangku or temple priest from our local Pura Dalem temple. He is married, with three children. Professor Dr. L.K. Suryani Professor Luh Ketut Suryani is a Balinese psychiatrist, meditation teacher, healer, university professor, social activist and mother of six. She is the co-author of a number of books, including The Balinese People, a critique of Bateson and Mead's perspective from the 1930s. She is also the co-author of Trance and Possession in Bali and two other books with Peter, Moksha and Living in the Spirit. Suryani is dedicated to helping people draw on the extra dimension of spirit in everyday life. Her own full life – including active participation in Balinese public life and a number of social initiatives for the elderly, students, drug abusers, and the prevention and treatment of pedophilia – is an example of what is possible when we draw on the extra reserves of the transpersonal in our lives. Her unique personality and perspective are deeply appreciated by groups she works with and have also been a pillar of strength for Nirarta since its inception. David and Carla Osgood Carla and David Osgood are practising clinical psychologists and teachers from Vermont, USA. They bring groups regularly to Bali to deepen their therapeutic and professional training with personal development and cross-cultural experience. From their experience in Bali, David and Carla have developed a highly sensitive approach to cross-cultural communication, which enriches both the groups they bring and the people whose lives they connect with during their programmes. Their work bridging consciousness, culture, and community is profoundly healing and transformative for individuals and groups they lead. It is an inspiration for what we aim to achieve with individuals and groups coming to Nirarta. David and Carla's programmes link the University of Vermont with Nirarta and other communities in Bali, as well as with communities in Belize and Samoa. Serena Olsen Serena, originally from New York, has been living in South East Asia since 2011. Highly intuitive since birth, Serena has always found solace and connectivity in nature. After attending university in New York City, arriving to the complexities of this urban matrix only two weeks prior to 9/11 and staying for 6 years, Serena was ready to re-immerse in forest living where she could begin to deconstruct much of the social matrices and underlying dissipative structures she found herself in observation of while living in NYC. This brought her to the San Bernardino National Forest where she facilitated experiential science-based ecology and environmental classes for thousands of children all across Southern California. Then, in June 2011, while participating in a Wilderness First Responder course in the mountains of Massachusetts, Serena was struck by lightning. While already having had a strong relationship with electricity before this event, this strange synchronistic moment catalyzed an intense ripple effect of varying phenomena that eventually led Serena to living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – a city with some of the most grounded lightning strikes on the planet. Exactly one year after the lightning strike, Serena experienced her first inner dance – which in it held electric vibrations three or four times stronger than the lightning strike itself. Transformation and hypersensitivity was nothing new for Serena, therefore leading her to deeply trust what her experience spoke and how it would continue to change her life in relation to the greater dreams of a planet and the visions she herself knew as real. Now, Serena combines her love of learning, healing, community, science, and integrative wholeness systems into all she is. Finding flow within the forms and the formless, life is no longer a doing but a remembrance of being while creating spaces for gifting each other with possibilities for resonant change and transformation.
Seminar	click for bio Peter Wrycza, PhD Peter is founder of the Nirarta Centre for Living Awareness.. He has served as a trainer, consultant, and coach to organizations and individuals in many countries over the past forty years. He is skilled at leading groups as well as one-to-one coaching and counselling. He has been a meditation guide for almost 50 years and has trained extensively in NLP, Person Centred Expressive Therapy, and other forms of expressive work. He has been leading retreats at Nirarta since its inception in the 1990s. He is the author/co-author of a number of books on personal development, including Living Awareness: Awakening to the Roots of Learning and Perception, Moksha: A New Way of Life, (with Prof. Luh Ketut Suryani) Living in the Spirit (with Prof. Luh Ketut Suryani) When Performance Meets Alignment: A Compass for Coaching and Mentoring (with Jan Ardui) A gifted facilitator of deep transformation and awakening in individuals and groups, he is the developer of Conversations on the Edge of Silence for supporting growth and development in individuals, couples, groups, and communities through Generative Dialogue, as well as the in-depth holistic Re•Patterning process. For more about Peter, see A Word from the Founder of Nirarta Peter, Your Retreat Guide Peter has led many individual and group retreats since the founding of Nirarta over 20 years ago. He has been a meditation guide for almost 50 years and trained extensively in NLP, Person Centred Expressive Therapy, and other forms of transformational work. He has been absorbing the essence of Balinese philosophy and tradition for 25 years, drawing inspritation from its exquisite beauty and deep wisdom in supporting a balanced and whole way of life – in body, mind, and spirit. For many years, he has worked as a trainer, consultant, coach and mentor to organizations and individuals internationally. A gifted facilitator of deep transformation and awakening in individuals and groups, he is the developer of Conversations on the Edge of Silence for supporting growth and development in individuals, couples, groups, and communities through Generative Dialogue, as well as the in-depth holistic Re•Patterning process. For more about Peter, see A Word from the Founder of Nirarta Widé, Your massage therapist Gede Oka, known as Widé, has provided massage at Nirarta for a number of years. Widé is an accomplished healer, serving the Balinese for a range of problems, including difficulty in conceiving, with patients coming from as far afield as Denpasar. Widé provides two main services: Deep body massage, which has toning and healing qualities, and is highly recommended by people who know massage as among the best they have received. Reflexology for diagnosis and treatment of particular health problems. Widé tends to be very accurate and skilled in making a shift in health issues. Widé speaks good English. Dayu Mayuni Ida Ayu Putri Mayuni (Dayu Mayuni) is responsible for day-to-day operations and maintaining the spiritual energy and balance at Nirarta in the traditional way. Dayu is from a Brahmin family, with roots in Sidemen. She is Peter's wife and mother of Maya and Mira. Dayu Mayuni is assisted by Gusti Adi Putra, and other members of Nirarta staff. Dayu speaks good English. For more about Dayu, see here. Mangku Mastra Mangku Mastra is a healer, meditation and yoga teacher, and 'permangku' or temple priest/custodian from Tabola Village, close to Nirarta. After a period of searching and study of sources from both Bali and India, he received the elements of the current practices. He is the permangku or temple priest from our local Pura Dalem temple. He is married, with three children. Professor Dr. L.K. Suryani Professor Luh Ketut Suryani is a Balinese psychiatrist, meditation teacher, healer, university professor, social activist and mother of six. She is the co-author of a number of books, including The Balinese People, a critique of Bateson and Mead's perspective from the 1930s. She is also the co-author of Trance and Possession in Bali and two other books with Peter, Moksha and Living in the Spirit. Suryani is dedicated to helping people draw on the extra dimension of spirit in everyday life. Her own full life – including active participation in Balinese public life and a number of social initiatives for the elderly, students, drug abusers, and the prevention and treatment of pedophilia – is an example of what is possible when we draw on the extra reserves of the transpersonal in our lives. Her unique personality and perspective are deeply appreciated by groups she works with and have also been a pillar of strength for Nirarta since its inception. David and Carla Osgood Carla and David Osgood are practising clinical psychologists and teachers from Vermont, USA. They bring groups regularly to Bali to deepen their therapeutic and professional training with personal development and cross-cultural experience. From their experience in Bali, David and Carla have developed a highly sensitive approach to cross-cultural communication, which enriches both the groups they bring and the people whose lives they connect with during their programmes. Their work bridging consciousness, culture, and community is profoundly healing and transformative for individuals and groups they lead. It is an inspiration for what we aim to achieve with individuals and groups coming to Nirarta. David and Carla's programmes link the University of Vermont with Nirarta and other communities in Bali, as well as with communities in Belize and Samoa. Serena Olsen Serena, originally from New York, has been living in South East Asia since 2011. Highly intuitive since birth, Serena has always found solace and connectivity in nature. After attending university in New York City, arriving to the complexities of this urban matrix only two weeks prior to 9/11 and staying for 6 years, Serena was ready to re-immerse in forest living where she could begin to deconstruct much of the social matrices and underlying dissipative structures she found herself in observation of while living in NYC. This brought her to the San Bernardino National Forest where she facilitated experiential science-based ecology and environmental classes for thousands of children all across Southern California. Then, in June 2011, while participating in a Wilderness First Responder course in the mountains of Massachusetts, Serena was struck by lightning. While already having had a strong relationship with electricity before this event, this strange synchronistic moment catalyzed an intense ripple effect of varying phenomena that eventually led Serena to living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – a city with some of the most grounded lightning strikes on the planet. Exactly one year after the lightning strike, Serena experienced her first inner dance – which in it held electric vibrations three or four times stronger than the lightning strike itself. Transformation and hypersensitivity was nothing new for Serena, therefore leading her to deeply trust what her experience spoke and how it would continue to change her life in relation to the greater dreams of a planet and the visions she herself knew as real. Now, Serena combines her love of learning, healing, community, science, and integrative wholeness systems into all she is. Finding flow within the forms and the formless, life is no longer a doing but a remembrance of being while creating spaces for gifting each other with possibilities for resonant change and transformation.
Leaders :	click for bio Peter Wrycza, PhD Peter is founder of the Nirarta Centre for Living Awareness.. He has served as a trainer, consultant, and coach to organizations and individuals in many countries over the past forty years. He is skilled at leading groups as well as one-to-one coaching and counselling. He has been a meditation guide for almost 50 years and has trained extensively in NLP, Person Centred Expressive Therapy, and other forms of expressive work. He has been leading retreats at Nirarta since its inception in the 1990s. He is the author/co-author of a number of books on personal development, including Living Awareness: Awakening to the Roots of Learning and Perception, Moksha: A New Way of Life, (with Prof. Luh Ketut Suryani) Living in the Spirit (with Prof. Luh Ketut Suryani) When Performance Meets Alignment: A Compass for Coaching and Mentoring (with Jan Ardui) A gifted facilitator of deep transformation and awakening in individuals and groups, he is the developer of Conversations on the Edge of Silence for supporting growth and development in individuals, couples, groups, and communities through Generative Dialogue, as well as the in-depth holistic Re•Patterning process. For more about Peter, see A Word from the Founder of Nirarta Peter, Your Retreat Guide Peter has led many individual and group retreats since the founding of Nirarta over 20 years ago. He has been a meditation guide for almost 50 years and trained extensively in NLP, Person Centred Expressive Therapy, and other forms of transformational work. He has been absorbing the essence of Balinese philosophy and tradition for 25 years, drawing inspritation from its exquisite beauty and deep wisdom in supporting a balanced and whole way of life – in body, mind, and spirit. For many years, he has worked as a trainer, consultant, coach and mentor to organizations and individuals internationally. A gifted facilitator of deep transformation and awakening in individuals and groups, he is the developer of Conversations on the Edge of Silence for supporting growth and development in individuals, couples, groups, and communities through Generative Dialogue, as well as the in-depth holistic Re•Patterning process. For more about Peter, see A Word from the Founder of Nirarta Widé, Your massage therapist Gede Oka, known as Widé, has provided massage at Nirarta for a number of years. Widé is an accomplished healer, serving the Balinese for a range of problems, including difficulty in conceiving, with patients coming from as far afield as Denpasar. Widé provides two main services: Deep body massage, which has toning and healing qualities, and is highly recommended by people who know massage as among the best they have received. Reflexology for diagnosis and treatment of particular health problems. Widé tends to be very accurate and skilled in making a shift in health issues. Widé speaks good English. Dayu Mayuni Ida Ayu Putri Mayuni (Dayu Mayuni) is responsible for day-to-day operations and maintaining the spiritual energy and balance at Nirarta in the traditional way. Dayu is from a Brahmin family, with roots in Sidemen. She is Peter's wife and mother of Maya and Mira. Dayu Mayuni is assisted by Gusti Adi Putra, and other members of Nirarta staff. Dayu speaks good English. For more about Dayu, see here. Mangku Mastra Mangku Mastra is a healer, meditation and yoga teacher, and 'permangku' or temple priest/custodian from Tabola Village, close to Nirarta. After a period of searching and study of sources from both Bali and India, he received the elements of the current practices. He is the permangku or temple priest from our local Pura Dalem temple. He is married, with three children. Professor Dr. L.K. Suryani Professor Luh Ketut Suryani is a Balinese psychiatrist, meditation teacher, healer, university professor, social activist and mother of six. She is the co-author of a number of books, including The Balinese People, a critique of Bateson and Mead's perspective from the 1930s. She is also the co-author of Trance and Possession in Bali and two other books with Peter, Moksha and Living in the Spirit. Suryani is dedicated to helping people draw on the extra dimension of spirit in everyday life. Her own full life – including active participation in Balinese public life and a number of social initiatives for the elderly, students, drug abusers, and the prevention and treatment of pedophilia – is an example of what is possible when we draw on the extra reserves of the transpersonal in our lives. Her unique personality and perspective are deeply appreciated by groups she works with and have also been a pillar of strength for Nirarta since its inception. David and Carla Osgood Carla and David Osgood are practising clinical psychologists and teachers from Vermont, USA. They bring groups regularly to Bali to deepen their therapeutic and professional training with personal development and cross-cultural experience. From their experience in Bali, David and Carla have developed a highly sensitive approach to cross-cultural communication, which enriches both the groups they bring and the people whose lives they connect with during their programmes. Their work bridging consciousness, culture, and community is profoundly healing and transformative for individuals and groups they lead. It is an inspiration for what we aim to achieve with individuals and groups coming to Nirarta. David and Carla's programmes link the University of Vermont with Nirarta and other communities in Bali, as well as with communities in Belize and Samoa. Serena Olsen Serena, originally from New York, has been living in South East Asia since 2011. Highly intuitive since birth, Serena has always found solace and connectivity in nature. After attending university in New York City, arriving to the complexities of this urban matrix only two weeks prior to 9/11 and staying for 6 years, Serena was ready to re-immerse in forest living where she could begin to deconstruct much of the social matrices and underlying dissipative structures she found herself in observation of while living in NYC. This brought her to the San Bernardino National Forest where she facilitated experiential science-based ecology and environmental classes for thousands of children all across Southern California. Then, in June 2011, while participating in a Wilderness First Responder course in the mountains of Massachusetts, Serena was struck by lightning. While already having had a strong relationship with electricity before this event, this strange synchronistic moment catalyzed an intense ripple effect of varying phenomena that eventually led Serena to living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – a city with some of the most grounded lightning strikes on the planet. Exactly one year after the lightning strike, Serena experienced her first inner dance – which in it held electric vibrations three or four times stronger than the lightning strike itself. Transformation and hypersensitivity was nothing new for Serena, therefore leading her to deeply trust what her experience spoke and how it would continue to change her life in relation to the greater dreams of a planet and the visions she herself knew as real. Now, Serena combines her love of learning, healing, community, science, and integrative wholeness systems into all she is. Finding flow within the forms and the formless, life is no longer a doing but a remembrance of being while creating spaces for gifting each other with possibilities for resonant change and transformation.

Inclusions:	Bed, breakfast, dinner, and most lunches in shared accommodation, course fee, airport transfers.
Options:	Room sole occupancy: additional € 240.
Exclusions:	Credit card charges, bank transfer fees, govt taxes and fees.

Themes

Seminar Themes

In this workshop, we
- consider new ways of approaching healing and development
- embrace non-cognitive processes that shed light on understanding the human condition
- explore ways in which more intuitive knowing – and an openness to ‘not-knowing’ complement cognitive intelligence
Participants will have opportunities to become more at ease in
- Being fully present
- Non-evaluative listening and observing
- Reflective awareness
- Tolerance for ambiguity and not-knowing
- Holding multiple perspectives
- Balancing the needs of self and others
- Deepening a sense community
- Working with the interplay of personal, impersonal, and collective awareness
- Intercultural communication
- Meditative and altered states of consciousness
Why Bali?

It is easy to assume that our own cultural biases are universal. Even when we recognize that cultural conditioning is relative, we may be unaware of how our usual context is skewing our interaction with the world.

Western education and thinking tends to emphasize the rational mind, categorization, analysing, splitting, and prominent elements in the foreground of our awareness.

In contrast, Balinese tradition, as with many Asian societies, tends to emphasize feeling, intuition, relationship, sensitivity to background context, complexity, balance, and a capacity to embrace change, while maintaining its core. In Bali the arts, healing, spirituality, and community are interwoven in daily life in a way that is unique in the modern world.

The Balinese perspective provides a compelling contrast to our own, but one that is complementary, with profound implications for the maintenance of individual and collective well being, and the resolution of imbalances in our societies.

Bali, thus, provides a context that will test and refine our assumptions, not just as an interesting cultural backdrop, but as a profound difference, through which we can probe deeper dimensions of well-being and inter-being, beyond empathy.

Approach

Our programme touches personal, interpersonal, transpersonal, intercultural and transcultural themes.

Our primary emphasis is not on assimilating conceptual material, but on culturing an openness to the seeding of new experiences that can ripen in a process of individual and shared reflection.

Our programme includes short presentations, individual and shared reflection, discussion, scheduled and impromptu visits and cultural encounters.

Participants simultaneously monitor their own responses while opening to new possibilities. As such, each day includes

periods of meditation and reflection
opportunities for discovery
attentiveness to relationships with ourselves and the larger context

In this way, a learning community emerges in which each person’s encounter with the edges of knowing provides an opportunity for the group to discover much that could not have been anticipated.

Our development as a learning community in relation to the Balinese context means that how we explore is as important as what we explore. In effect, the ‘goal lies in the way to it’.

A Typical Day at Nirarta:

07.30     Awareness Meditation
08.30     Breakfast
09.30     Morning Session
12.45     Lunch
14.15     Afternoon Session
16.30     Small Groups and Free-time
17.30     Awareness Meditation
19.15     Dinner
20.15     Evening Entertainment/Group Activities

Programme

Schedule

Part One at Nirarta begins with arrival and registration on 6 March 2011

Part Two in Tebesaya, Ubud begins Sunday 9 March 2011 and ends with Departure on Saturday 13 March

Week One: Setting the Context – Nirarta, Sidemen (5 full days)

Looking Within: Exploring consciousness and building community

Our first week at the Nirarta Centre, in the rice fields and green hills of rural east Bali sets the context for our journey, as we settle into the Balinese experience, taking time for meditation and reflection, recognizing the rural roots of the Balinese way, while introducing the themes of the seminar. We

consider some of the key frames that shape Balinese holism, as we explore the emergence of polarities, their resolution, and integration
encounter the spirit of Balinese prayer and offerings, with an opportunity to create the latter. enjoy a visit to, and blessings from, a high priest in the village
see village weaving, a local school, and
visit a Balinese master healer, with an opportunity to observe and experience his work

We will be joined by Balinese psychiatrist-healer and activist, Prof. Luh Ketut Suryani, with her rich experience combing both traditional and contemporary approaches to what she calls ‘bio-psycho-socio-cultural-spiritual’ well-being.

Part II: Entering the Context – Tebesaya, Ubud (5 full days)

Looking Without: Exploring family, culture, and community health and well-being in a traditional village, attached to Ubud

Centred in Tebesaya, a quiet traditional community ‘Banjar’, close to Ubud. Accommodation will be in Balinese ‘home stays’, permitting close contact with extended families, including the full range of generations from babies to grandparents.

In this community, where the arts are important primary or secondary activities, participants can feel connected to how the Balinese approach daily life, at work and relaxation, socially, organizationally, and ritually, while continuing to deepen and explore and embody the themes of Week One.

Photos

Making offerings with Dayu and her mother

Healer Cokorda Rai with Dana and Peter

Kim with mask dancer

Reviews

'"We worked from a canvas of honesty and self-exploration, into an accepting and loving group of individuals and healers. This environment created many opportunities conducive to self-exploration and healing".

– Krista Italiano

"From the Balinese, I learned that I need to cherish life, slow down, let go of worry and stress, and enjoy my loved ones more...I know in my heart that this journey has changed my life forever, and I am eternally grateful for the gifts that Bali has bestowed upon me".

– Siri Rooney

"I was surprised at how deeply I was able to delve into the place of not knowing...I really appreciated learning about trusting my own experience. I found that the more that I trusted my experiences the more that I was able to enjoy and learn from my experiences".

– Connie Coleman

"I believe that I awakened my spirit while in Bali...I finally opened myself up to my spirit. I was calm and patient enough to finally listen to myself..I feel as though I did a lot of healing as a result."

– Andrea Decoster

"While in Nirarta, the "power spot" was influential to my experience. I for the first time felt a surge of energy. ...It made me realize how much more in touch I want to be with this part of myself. I was able to find this also when meditating in Bali".

– Andrea Decoster

Contact Us

Drs. Carla and David Osgood
dosgood@uvm.edu
+1 802-899-3965

Dayu Mayuni

Nirarta Centre for Living Awareness
Address: Sidemen, Karangasem 80864, Bali, Indonesia

Tel:+62 811 388 0065 or +62 366 5551124

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Quick Reference

Meditation

Purpose of Meditation

Ultimately, the purpose of meditation is to help us awaken to our true nature, that subtle Awareness, which is the ground and Source, not only of our individual selves, but of all that is.

True meditation is not intended as an escape from this world. It is a key to practical living. As our consciousness awakens, so do our abilities and achievements. Meditiation helps us become truly present to our experience in the here and now. We find that our minds and bodies function better. We enjoy more happiness in daily life. We become more creative and enjoy better relationships with others. And in bringing peace into our lives, meditation helps bring peace to our world. The practical benefits of meditation in daily life are many and immediate, while the long-term benefits of regular practice to the quality of life are enormous.

Types of Meditation

There are many kinds of meditation. Generally, their aim is to expand awareness, enhance mental clarity and focus, reduce stress, refresh the body, bring harmony to our relationships, and peace to our world.

Although there are many kinds of meditation practice, they may be grouped into a few 'families' of method, according to how they influence mind-body functioning.

Awareness Meditation, as practised at Nirarta, uses a mix of these methods.

Mindfulness or presence meditation practices
Introvertive or contraction/absorption meditation practices
Extravertive or expansion meditation practices
Energy meditation practices

Mindfulness or presence meditation practices

These practices assume that we usually forget about the knower or even
the process of knowing to lose ourselves in the various objects of experience.

We live absent-mindedly, often barely conscious of what we are seeing,
hearing, feeling or thinking.

Mindfulness practices attempt to bring us to greater awareness by emphasizing simple attentiveness to what is actually happening in our awareness in the here and now.

Introvertive or contraction/absorption meditation practices

These practices assume that there is a transcendental ground to experience that is 'smaller than the smallest', in and beyond every atom of thought, feeling, and perception.

They involve turning the attention within, directing it towards a chosen object of attention, which becomes increasingly present, but also increasingly subtle, until we pass beyond it to enter and rest in the simple expansiveness of pure awareness itself, beyond all thoughts and sensory objects of attention.

Extravertive or expansion meditation practices

These practices assume that everything we experience is always within our own consciousness, which as such is always 'larger than the largest'.

These practices bring our attention to the ultimate container of knowledge, our own awareness beyond all the various contents of consciousness.

Energy meditation practices

Energy meditations assume that integrated functioning of mind and body depends upon the free flow of a subtle energy which connects the different parts of the body.

When our subtle energy is able to flow freely, we are better able to maintain and enjoy awareness in our lives. We also enjoy great strength, power, and insight.

Energy practices stimulate and direct the flow of energy in the body. This may be a subtle internal process or it may become quite active.

As energy moves in the body, it can encounter blocks or resistance, stimulating sometimes dramatic spontaneous movements and shifts in breathing.

Afterwards we find ourselves more open in awareness and relaxed in body.

Such practice accelerates the ability of the body-mind to purify itself, enjoy better health, and to maintain higher consciousness.

Peter Wrycza, PhD

Peter, Your Retreat Guide

Widé, Your massage therapist

Dayu Mayuni

Mangku Mastra

Professor Dr. L.K. Suryani

David and Carla Osgood

Serena Olsen

Peter Wrycza, PhD

Peter, Your Retreat Guide

Widé, Your massage therapist

Dayu Mayuni

Mangku Mastra

Professor Dr. L.K. Suryani

David and Carla Osgood

Serena Olsen

Peter Wrycza, PhD

Peter, Your Retreat Guide

Widé, Your massage therapist

Dayu Mayuni

Mangku Mastra

Professor Dr. L.K. Suryani

David and Carla Osgood

Serena Olsen

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Purpose of Meditation

Types of Meditation

Mindfulness or presence meditation practices

Introvertive or contraction/absorption meditation practices

Extravertive or expansion meditation practices

Energy meditation practices