Tropical Retreat near Bali
Relaxing Tropical Wellness Retreat: Gili Islands near Bali
WE STILL HAVE PLACES LAST FOR LAST MINUTE BOOKINGS!
We are running 5 consecutive, 2 day retreat courses. These can be booked as either a one day or two day event. - see below for details
There will be a series of tropical wellness retreats on the wonderful Gili Islands, next to Bali. The Gili Islands are the little islands immediately to the east of Bali in Indonesia. The Gili Islands are featured in the New York Times best selling book by Elizabeth Gilbert entitled Eat Pray Love. In the section on love she visited Gili Meno as a venue for for own self healing.
IN 2008 WE HAVE 5 COURSE DATE OPTIONS:
COURSE 1: Day 1 - 23 July Day 2 - 24 July
COURSE 2: Day 1 - 25 July Day 2 - 26 July
COURSE 3: Day 1 - 27 July Day 2 - 28 July
COURSE 4: Day 1 - 29 July Day 2 - 30 July
COURSE 5: Day 1 - 31 July Day 2 - 1 August
Any Day 1 can be booked as a single day event.
Any Day 2 can be booked as a single day event if you have already attended Day 1
(We will be organising some 7 day retreats in July/August 2009 - dates to be confirmed)
Timothy Marris Course Leader
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How will the 2 day Tropical Wellness Retreats benefit me?
If you answer 'yes' to any of the following questions, read more to see how our relaxingTropical Island Retreats can significantly help you:
Do you want to improve your health and well being?
On the retreat, you will learn very powerful techniques which will enable your health to improve. These unique approaches have been developed by Timothy Marris based on his 30 years as a health practitioner and practitioner trainer in the field of 'cranial osteopathy'. When you have learned these easy methods, you will start feeling the benefits immediately. You will also learn how specific areas of your body are working continually for your overall health, and how to enhance these processes. By learning additional techniques on how to make your posture more effortless and comfortable, you will be able to apply these methods to any activity in your life. This retreat will help reduce many of your aches and pains.
If you are feeling stressed or have sleep problems?
It is ideally suited for anyone looking to reduce stress and 'recharge the batteries'. You will learn how to become more 'centred' and how to find your inner resources. This is a very relaxing process and has a powerful calming effect on the mind and body.
Does your life feel rushed?
Many of our problems in life come from our thinking being too rushed. This can lead to anxiety states and then on to physical health issues. On this retreat you will be learning how to re-balance your thinking process with respect to time, getting into the 'now'. This has a powerful effect on the whole of your life, and achieves a powerful sense of peace and inner harmony, creating more time in the day from greater time efficiency.
Is your life going through a time of change?
We will be exploring our life's direction and looking at our goals, to enable us to achieve the life we are truly seaching for. Using a unique process to significantly empower our goals, this retreat will be a powerful key step in taking your life in the direction you want to achieve.
Are you looking to develop your true inner potential?
If you are a 'seeker' then this retreat will be extremely powerful for you. you will find yourself experiencing who you truly are, and the fullness of your true amazing potential.
Like Bali only very much smaller the Gili Islands are famed for their beauty, tropical sunrises, sunsets, beautiful white beaches and amazing sea life.
Due to the amazing coral seas the marine life is abundant and beautiful (see photo below) making the islands a keen destination for divers and snorkel enthusiasts alike.
Day 1: (this can be attended as a one day course if you wish)
Morning (start at 10.00 ):
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Learning about centring and its benefits
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The automatic self healing process
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Enhanced self healing
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lunch and discussion (12.30 - 13.30)
Afternoon:
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tensegrity and effortless posture, developing effortless action
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finish here at 15.00 for those leaving on the last boat off the island
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Mild addiction cures through understanding our basic needs
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Finish about 17.00
Day 2: (this can be attended as a one day course, if you have already attended day 1)
Morning (start 10.00)
- Past, present and future - being in the now!
- Time balance technique
- Resolving problems
- The problem resolving technique
- Lunch and discussion 12.30 - 13.30
Afternoon:
- Empower your future
- Finish here for those leaving on the last boat from the island.
- The power of decision
- Integration, questions and answers
- Finish about 17.00
Retreat Prices for both adults and children over 12 years of age (correct as of 12 July 2008)
The one day course is $115.00 (US dollars) per person
The cost of the two days if booked at the same time is $190.00 (US Dollars) per person.
(We cannot take bookings for children under the age of 12 years).
We are limited to a small group per day, so we encourage booking as soon as possible if you wish to attend.
The venue is located on the Gili Meno Island just off the North East of Lombok, Indonesia.
How to find it? Go to ‘Google Maps’ and type in ‘Lombok’. Look to the North East of the island and you will see 3 small islands just off shore. These are the ‘Gili Islands’. The temperature that time of year is about 30 degrees Celcius and is in the dry season.
The venue is one of the best sites in the world for snorkelling and diving (see web links below).
About Gili Meno:
There are no cars on the island - so boat, horse and cart or walking; are the means of travel, adding to that wonderful feel to your holiday and retreat.
The beaches are white sand...
Accommodation can be booked in traditional bungalows. See links to www.gilimeno.info
The area is renowned for its atmospheric sunrises and sunsets.
Island Life on the Gili's
One can notice the newly arrived visitors as they walk at a fast pace along the harbour but within a couple of days people slow down to island life and are content to sit on the barugas (shaded platforms) and slowly sip fresh tropical juices, read a book, have a massage, take a cimodo (horse and cart) to watch the sunset or lay in a hammock.
You will arrive by local boat where you will step off barefoot in to warm, shallow, tropical waters, and here the journey back to yourself will begin.
The retreat is to be held on a tiny island with limited tropical island facilities. You will be going back to nature. This means you are most likely able to return to your true self. Island life is not full of western conveniences. After a few days of being here you will be able to relax and find that you don't notice, or no longer care that there are less conveniences. You may find you leave your shoes somewhere on the island and come across them a few days later as you wander barefoot along the sands. You may find you stroll to a beach side restaurant for lunch and find yourself still there for the sunset. You may be quite happy in swimwear and a sarong from sunrise to sundown.
When on the Gili's you can take a sunrise boat trip to go dolphin watching with Deedin or go between the 3 small islands on "the island hopping shuttle boat".
We do not arrange transport, as they are not included in the price (see below).
We hold the right to alter prices in the event of significant exchange rate changes.
Meals: these are not included in the fee but there are plenty of very economical 
places to eat nearby.
Participants will need to arrange theirt own travel to Gili Meno. Please phone Michelle Lockett who is in the Gili Islands for advice on travel to the venue. Michelle can be contacted on: 0062 (0) 81- 353 -019441
For full photo gallery click here or go to:
NB: ALL PHOTOS ARE COPYWRIGHT OF MICHELLE LOCKETT OF befreetodream.com http://www.befreetodream.com/
More information about the Gili Islands and also on diving can be seen at:
good websites for diving at the Gili Islands are: www.bluemarlindive.com www.karmakayak.com and www.oceanforstdivers.com
If you can see yourself joining us in this wonderful opportunity feeling the benefit of the amazing retreat content, whilst enjoying the sound of the beautiful tropical seas only a few metres away...
WE STILL HAVE SOME PLACES FOR LAST MINUTE BOOKINGS SO PLEASE
phone Michelle Lockett in Indonesia on 0062 (0)81-353 -019441
and then
VISIT OUR ONLINE BOOKING PAGE