News, Events & Seminars

Have a look at our Calendar of Events to be informed about upcoming courses and seminars held at Gaia-Oasis.  More information about the courses can be found in Open Groups and Seminars. Please contact the course leader directly for additional details.

In addition to group seminars & courses, Gaia-Oasis offers a daily healing session (usually incorporating mind & body awareness) free of charge 5 days a week.  To see what is available, please look at our Yoga, Healing & Awareness section.

We also offer other sessions, some on a donation basis, depending on which practitioners / members are resident.  Donations go mainly to Gaia-Oasis social and environmental program in Tejakula, which have just been launched. 

Under Festivals you will get a list of major celebrations to be held in Bali in 2010.  These celebrations are generally very colourful and communal affairs, and are a good opportunity to see Balinese cultural life closer up.

Actual News:

• "Nyepi" Balinese New Year and Tejakula Arts Festival

March 12 – 19, 2010

Come join us to sense the unique and magical atmosphere when Bali celebrates the Saka New Year, known locally as Nyepi.  Extend your stay and witness the inaugural Tejakula Arts Festival, held over 3 days beginning the day after Nyepi.

Enjoy organic meals, yoga, Melasti beach ceremony, Ogoh-ogoh parade, Nyepi and the unique arts, music and dance of North Bali.

For more information on events, please click here.  We also have a special offer for BaliSpirit Festival attendees. Bookings can be made at paradise@gaia-oasis.com

• Gaia-Oasis Special Packages : Balinese Spirit -- Tropical Culture & Nature -- Wellness & Vitality
  

Please click here for more information, or email to paradise@gaia-oasis.com

• Gaia-Oasis is becoming a Foundation or Yayasan!

At the last Gaia-Oasis member meeting in 24 - 29 October, members voted unanimously to make Gaia-Oasis a nonprofit foundation or Yayasan.  This means that Gaia-Oasis will continue to offer accomodation and other services to members and guests, but a large part of our profits will go towards social, cultural and environmental programs for the people of Tejakula and the surrounding villages.

Our Yayasan is in its infancy; however we have exciting plans for a reef restoration project, and we have already started to sponsor a mountain school in Tejakula for primary school children, as well as provide funds to help the temple singers in Tejakula perform (by invitation) on Bali TV.  We are also starting a pilot project in our Abasan hillside retreat, to move from monocultural farming to organic farming utilising permaculture principles, while reforesting the hill with native Balinese trees and introducing a greater variety of fruits, trees and vegetables. 

For more information about our foundation activities, please contact yen@gaia-oasis.com