South East Asia Escapade

After renting a scooter, the main mode of transport here, we made our way north of Ubud to see two beautiful Hindu temples, Pura Tirta Empul and Pura Gunung Kawi. We meandered through small roads lined by palm trees, temples and houses, surrounded by patches of rice paddies. What a heavenly ride!
The former is renowned for its fresh drinking water spring which is seen as holy and therefore people flock here to do a spiritual cleansing and pray to the hindu deities. It has become so renowned that we saw almost more tourists doing the cleansing ritual than locals.
The latter temple we enjoyed much more as it's much less renowned and therefore nice and quiet. It is built in a little valley surrounded by lushly vegetated hills giving it a feeling of an oasis.
On the way back we drove through towards the Tegalalang Rice Terraces and had to turn back as we encountered a road which had totally collapsed down into the valley below due to a landslide. Quite the experience to see whar monsoon rains can do!
The Tegalalang Rice Terraces are very accessible to the Ubud throng, and hence very touristy. The rice terraces had just been replanted (it's done 3 times a year), so they weren't covered in beautiful greenery. Nevertheless, it was still a lovely and impressive sight!もっと詳しく

So we rocked up at Radiantly Alive for a test Vinyassa Flow class and liked the place. Having seen the option, and wanting a physical challenge we decided to get a one week unlimited class pass, and what a surprise we were in for!!

We secured ourselves a lovely hotel with pool for the week where we spent time between classes.
Doing such intense work in such a hot and humid place, we found ourselves running out of sports clothes, so we went and bought Bali style yoga outfits.

The first few days consisted in a series of physical yoga classes which we very much liked. But soon we discovered all these different practices we had never tried and decided to give them a go. We embarked on a 4-5 day totally unexpected whirlwind of self-discovery and energetic fields. It happened to also coimcide with the full moon, which I felt more acutely than usual. There definitely is a stron energy force going on in Ubud.
Some of the practices we discovered were: Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra, Himalayan Kriya Yoga, Breathwork, Qi Gong, Embodied Connection, among others. Each and every one of thesr had a distinct and noticeable effect on us, allowing us to really feel, look in, see the shift and work through it. We traveled back into childhood and our life paths together sharing life paths, experiences, feelings, hurt, issues, etc. Laura and I got to know eachother infinitely more, to the core. And what beautiful cores! What a beautiful journey!

We met up with Kati twice, who happened to have just started her yoga teacher training in Ubud, although we didn't think to make any photos at the time!

We also happened to meet all sorts of people through the classes, lovely people we connected with, with their own story to share.もっと詳しく