Bayu Surya Yoga & Meditation with Mangku Mastra –
31/2 - Day Programme
Enlivening Inner Energy and Awareness
Enjoy greater freshness in your body
Grow in inner peace and stablity whatever you do
Enjoy better health in body and mind
Grow in your ability to tap into and enjoy the deep energy
within yourself
within nature
Become more dynamic and fulfilled in daily life
Price:
€ 566
Duration:
4 nights, 3.5 days, with 6 60-90 minute sessions over the 3 days.
Facilitator:
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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.
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.
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:
Meals, accommodation, tuition, and Pasupati Lan Pengurip ceremony
Options:
Room sole occupancy: additional € 80
Airport transfers, guided walks, massage, reflexology, Bayu Surya Chakra Massage, etc.
Exclusions:
Credit card charges,
bank transfer fees, govt taxes and fees.
Description
This shorter 3.5 day Bayu Surya Yoga and Meditation programme begins with a 2-21/2 hour traditional initiation ceremony 'Pasupati Lan Pangurip'.
The purpose of this ceremony is to prepare the student for study and practice of yoga and meditation. It helps purify the body and mind, and accelerates the student's opening energetically.
Mangku Mastra firmly believes from experience that starting with this ceremony gives results at least as good if not better than the 5-day programme to the student.
The materials used in this ceremony are quite costly, which is why this shorter programme is more expensive than the longer 5-day programme.
This ceremony should not be held for woman during menstruation.
Bayu Surya Yoga and Meditation
does not require prior knowledge or ability. Anyone can practise it
successfully with a little instruction, starting from wherever they are.
Mangku Mastra accompanies each session with a translator, leading the exercises and providing instruction and feedback.
Postural and stretching exercises stimulate the body's natural vital energy, opening connectednes, within ourselves, between each other, with Nature, and the Spirit of Life itself.
This process enlivens and readies the body and mind to enjoy deep meditation. This process is cumulative. Over the 3.5 days of the programme, participants' experiences and understanding deepen.
Two sessions per day, 60-90 minutes each (morning and evening)
Each session begins with a series of postural exercises and stretching to enliven inner energy and connect with our centre. The exercises are accompanied by processes to balance and deepen the breath, culminating in deep meditation.
Day Four
Breakfast and departure during the morning.
Reviews
'Manggku did great work helping me to focus on my essence and to feel unity with all beings and God. Rituals of purification and special meditation gave me strength and inner safety by connecting with Spirit and Divine Light. He did his work with clarity, joy, and love and was ready to help if there were physical or inner problems. As far as I practise this meditation at home I always feel the strength I got during the programme in Bali.'
– Friederike Weiss., April 2010
'I honour Mangku Mastra very much as a spirituel teacher. He is a priest in the Balinese tradition, but open to all religions and always talks about the One God. As a Balinese, he lives this in his ceremonies, meditations, and meetings in a powerfull and very concentrated, open and direct way.
He is never absent while with people. He feels and knows more than ordinary people do. He lives fully in the moment. He can be in a deep silence and concentrated in his energy and in the next moment, he is laughing and making jokes. I like this mixture very much.
He has a high spiritual consciousness and profound wisdom in his religion and culture - and lives this totally, he is authentic, he can teach what he knows and livies. He is a little bit shy in the beginning. He is never pushy, but always disciplined and expects discipline from his "pupils", yet in a friendly and humorous way.
For me it is a pity to live so far away, otherwise I would meet him more frequently for learning and meditation.'
– Iliona Fienemann, April 2010
'I experienced him as a very strong, clear and sensitive person with a great knowledge of the Balinese culture, tradition, religious celebrations and the philosophy of Buddhism and Hinduism. He offers his own form of meditation.
The greatest difficulty was communication because unfortunately he doesn't speak English or other languages. The translator was essential.'
– Petra Molls, April 2010
Contact Us
Dayu Mayuni
Nirarta Centre for Living Awareness Address: Sidemen, Karangasem 80864, Bali, Indonesia
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Payment Policy
Your booking is not complete until full payment is received.
Cancellation and Refund Policy
If you must cancel after registering, please notify us by email. The following cancellation fees apply: For Individual Programmes and Bookings to Scheduled Programmes:
30 to 16 days prior to arrival – 25% of contracted price.
15 to 7 days prior to arrival – 50% of contracted price.
6 days or less prior to arrival – 100% of contracted price.
For Group Bookings:
45 to 30 days prior to arrival – 25% of contracted price.
29 to 15 days prior to arrival – 50% of contracted price.
14 days or less prior to arrival – 100% of contracted price.
Quick Reference
Living Awareness
Awareness is
the source and ground of all our
experience.
the basis of our learning and knowing,
the key to accomplishment
in action,
our true nature, the Self itself, reflector of
all that is.
At Nirarta, we treat Self-knowledge, not as some distant and
ever receding goal, but our immediate birthright, here and now.
Together, we explore ways of coming home directly to this creative
source, so that we can enjoy peace and freedom within, while acting with
clarity, delight, and dynamism. This is Living Awareness – Awareness
that is both alive and lived, here and now.
Way of Unfolding
Things become what they are through the natural evolutionary
process we term 'Unfolding'
Sensitivity to pattern and growing alignment with
the deeper pattern of our lives help our personal unfolding to resonate with
the process or 'Way of Unfolding' in life as a whole.
When this happens, we enjoy and support fullness in life, both
in ourselves and in others. We flow with the stream of life, and are able
to accomplish much with minimum striving. Life supports us as we support
life.
Transformational Coaching
Transformational Coaching helps strengthen the key relationship
between:
Performance – what we are accomplishing,
and
Alignment – how we are approaching
our performance.
The Transformational Coach proceeds with a lot of sensitivity to the unfolding pattern of the client's life, helping him or her
identify and make simple internal changes,
deepen learning and understanding,
grow and develop as a whole person.
Awareness Meditation
Awareness is the source and ground of all our
thinking, feeling, and perceiving. It is the basis of our learning and knowing,
and hence the key to effectiveness in action.
The purpose of meditation is to allow mental activity to settle
into that simple and subtle Awareness which reflects all our experience.
At first this Awareness is glimpsed fleetingly, revealing itself eventually
as our true nature and Source of all that is.
Awareness Meditation involves gentle, innocent
settling into our own being, without effort or attempts to stop thinking
and ‘concentrate’.
Peter is a meditation guide with close to 40 years of experience
practising and teaching meditation.
Re•Patterning
In Re•Patterning we explore the patterns
of thought, feeling, and behaviour recurring in our lives, until core patterns
and assumptions about ourselves or our world emerge.
This process helps identify where our deep beliefs about self
and world are interfering with our general well-being and ability to function
harmoniously and successfully in daily life.
Through Re•Patterning, we can revise these unhelpful patterns
and assumptions, so as to bring them into harmony with our inner being. This
supports the natural process of unfolding in our lives.
In Seminars at Nirarta, small groups come together to support change, learning, and growth, in themselves and each other.
Generally, a short presentation by the facilitator is followed by an activity for pairs, trios, or the individual to seed experience.
Shared reflection in pairs, trios, and in the group as a whole helps deepen and integrate the change, learning, and growth that emerges.
While there is a conceptual component to our seminars, the emphasis is primarily on lived and shared experience, so that learning is embodied in the person as a whole.
Retreats
Since earliest times, people have taken time alone in silent vigils and
retreats to places of power, beauty, and silence, often in remote caves,
shrines, and hermitages in mountain, forest, and desert.
Retreats have helped them – and can help you, too – to:
• Resolve dilemmas
• Clarify purpose
• Attain a new vision
• Gain fresh energy, courage,
and strength
• Align heart, mind, spirit, and passion
• Connect with the Divine Other
• Listen to your small, still voice
• Know the true Self
Retreats, in short, are an ideal way to unleash the power of deep transformation,
accelerate inner awakening, and ease our path of unfolding.
Nirarta
Nirartais named after Danghyang
Nirarta, a great 16th century sage, who did much to shape Balinese Hinduism.
Teaching and founding temples on his many wanderings, he blended Shaivist
tradition with the Buddhist heritage received from his father, earning the
title of ‘Dwijendra’ or ‘Two
Paths’.
His name ‘Nirarta’ means literally ‘Wealth in that which
is not’. His name points to the knowledge that springs from the simplicity
of Unknowing, the abundance abiding in the silent source life itself.
The Nirarta Centre, too, brings two paths together. It aims to provide a bridge
between the knowledge and insights of the West and the deep wisdom woven into
the colourful fabric of Bali.
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.
