Relationship Renew Bali Retreat

Six days program / Five nights accommodation, Sunday 13th - Friday 18th July

Venue: Eco-luxury Yoga Retreat Resort, 15minutes out of Ubud 

With a maximum of eight couples, this retreat will book out again in 2025: don’t wait to Register or express your interest (below)!

Come away next winter for a warming tropical escape in a stunning luxury yoga retreat resort, a 15-minute shuttle away from the colour and bustle of Ubud. A chance to combine holiday with intensive learning, this retreat will be nourishing, transformative, romantic and fun! Grounded in mindfulness, compassion, relationship theory and recent neuroscience, the retreat is an offering for all couples, whether things are going great in your relationship or perhaps a bit challenged.

Along with the daily four-hour workshops, experience some of Bali’s stunning scenery and culture with excursions to local sights, and enjoy a complimentary massage and daily relational yoga and mindfulness practice sessions. Also included are breakfast and either lunch or dinner each day, excursions, celebration cocktail on the last evening, and free shuttle bus to Ubud to explore the city during your downtime.

 Banner image courtesy of retreat venue. Above - the beautiful swimming pool day and night

Why Relationship Renew?

Because relationships are hard! Although we’re wired for love and belonging, our nervous systems have also evolved to react automatically to threat and danger. So loving well takes practice. Whether your relationship is in great shape or hitting some bumps, we can all learn more about how to respond skilfully, so that we don’t get stuck in a negative cycle. 

Relationship Renew shares what actually works. Maggie uses her many years of relationship psychotherapy, group-work and mindfulness experience to bring to life the new evidence-based understandings from the relationship field - including from: Sue Johnson (EFT-C & Hold Me Tight); Stan Tatkin (PACT); Brené Brown; Mindful Self-Compassion; and the Gottman Method.

Comprising six four-hour workshops, the sessions are structured in a way that allows you to listen to the theory in the larger group, but then share and practice just with your partner in structured, private exercises and conversations. Daily sunrise relational yoga and mindfulness sessions are also included, so that the learning feels more practical and embodied. In the afternoons, you and your partner choose whether to join a group excursion, take the shuttle bus to nearby Ubud for shopping, lunch or dinner, or simply relax around the pool and enjoy a spa treatment. You can also choose whether to join the group for sunset happy hour and dinner, or enjoy your own date for two. 

Find out more about Maggie here or for more relationship information & resources here.

What the workshop fee includes:

• 6 days program, 5 nights accommodation in a beautifully designed king-bed room. All rooms have A/C, full ensuite (most with large bath), balcony or deck, mosquito nets, wifi and more

• Daily Relationship Renew workshop sessions (24 hours total) and take-away notes

• All delicious breakfasts, and one additional vegetarian lunch or dinner per day 

• Sunrise relational mindfulness/slow flow yoga sessions each morning

• Complimentary massage for you and your partner in the venue’s beautiful spa therapy facility

• Celebration sunset cocktail on the last evening

• Excursions to nearby waterfall, authentic Balinese water cleansing ceremony, Balinese dance and more

• Walk alongside emerald green paddy fields to Kenderan village, visit Telega Wagu, an ancient Temple inside the rainforest   

• Afternoon shuttle bus to and from Ubud should you choose to do your own exploring

  
  

  Not included: Airfares, travel insurance (compulsory), airport transfers (approx. AUD $60 each way), additional meals/drinks/activities.

Fee

Earlybird $5,790 per couple ($2,895 per person), inclusive of GST (deposit paid before 15th January). Secure your place with first instalment deposit of $790 earlybird (or $990 after 15th January).

Payment, Refund Conditions, Travel insurance & other important information - please read before booking

Fee can be paid in full or in instalments. Second instalment $2500 is due 1st March (along with proof of your travel insurance), followed by final instalment $2500 due 1st May. You will be looking for return flights to Denpasar, Bali (Ngurah Rai International Airport) & as our first session will be 1pm Sunday 13th July, you will need to be flying into Bali by Saturday 12th July at the very latest. For best prices, it is recommended to purchase your flights several months before the retreat.

A full refund, minus your deposit, is available up to three months prior to commencement of retreat. After 13/4/24, no refunds can be provided for withdrawals or cancellations. At the time of booking, please purchase travel insurance that covers any conditions that might impact your ability to attend this retreat. If the retreat needs to be postponed or cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances, a full refund will be made or, if preferred, transfer to anotherMindfulPresence retreat offered.

On booking, we will provide an information document suggesting other areas and ideas for participants wishing to extend their Balinese experience with some additional nights. It is possible to stay on at the beautiful retreat venue after we finish, however we recommend staying elsewhere before the retreat starts - either in another part of Bali or in nearby Ubud.

Typical daily format:

6:45 – 7:45am – Sunrise yoga/movement practice outdoors 
8 – 9am – Breakfast
9am – 1pm– Workshop Session (including morning tea)
1 - 4pm Lunch, optional group excursion, or time for rest, swim, massage or your own exploring 
6 pm – optional Sunset Happy Hour or relax
7pm – Dinner

To secure your place, please submit the Registration form (above) and deposit.

Direct deposit details:
Account name: Margaret O'Shea
BSB: 633000
Account number: 145643953

Indonesia currently requires proof of 2 x Covid vaccinations. To check changing requirements, please go to SmartTraveller Indonesia: https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/asia/indonesia