Peter Wrycza, PhD

Peter is founder of Nirarta and of the International Academy for Transformational Coaching and Leadership. He has served as a trainer, consultant, and coach to organizations and individuals in many countries over the past thirty years. He is skilled at leading groups as well as one-to-one coaching and counselling. He has been a meditation guide for over thirty 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 the unique transformational Re•Patterning coaching and counselling 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 10 years ago. He has been a meditation guide for almost 40 years and trained extensively in NLP, Person Centred Expressive Therapy, and other forms of expressive work.

He has been absorbing the essence of Balinese philosophy and tradition for 15 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 the unique transformational Re•Patterning coaching and counselling 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.