Nature impressions
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Article about Jiwa Damai
/One of our guests, Simon Bradley, who stayed with us for 3 weeks wrote a beautiful article about Jiwa Damai, which is published on the website 'weekend notes'.
What a find to unwind
Our needs were simple. We required a break in a secluded location to relax, meditate and detox. We had three weeks to spare but didn't want to break the bank. Our search led us to
located about 20 minutes from Ubud, Bali.
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Read more at: www.weekendnotes.com/jiwa-damai-bali-retreat/
Jiwa Damai's pool
with a little help
/...from our friends... Jiwa Damai is developing and blooming. ;-) One of our great volunteers, Justin from Chicago, gave a wonderful contribution to Jiwa Damai.
Justin helped us very much to improve our website and to promote our organic products. He designed a new label for our products, for our product line, and photographed all the items. He then uploaded all pics, along with new product descriptions to our website.
TERIMA KASIH !!
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Check out the excellent work he's done: www.jiwadamai.net/our-products
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TERIMA KASIH !!
Health room at Jiwa Damai
/At Jiwa Damai we offer holistic body therapies, individual therapy sessions as well as massages and body care.Our guests enter this beautiful room through a traditional Balinese carved wooden door. Come in and relax!
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Balinese Passion Fruit
/This is one of our lumbungs, located in the middle of our permaculture garden, surrounded by fields with organic veggies and fruit. A passion fruit plant has grown over the roof of our garden Lumbung and by now it covers the whole straw roof.
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The plant carries plentiful fruit, but they are not ready to harvest yet. The fruit needs to get more yellow.
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The ripe passion fruit, after cutting it open, contains juicy brown seeds with a sweet-sour taste. Very refreshing!
Permaculture Design Certification Course
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We at Jiwa Damai are extending an invitation throughout the world in hopes of reaching people interested in joining us in Bali for our Permaculture Certification Course, from February 24th to March 12th. Jiwa Damai is an agro-permaculture center located fifteen minutes outside of Ubud in the district of Mambal. The lush surroundings of the retreat center include a diverse array of flora and fauna that make it an ideal environment for students to be exposed to many different learning opportunities.
In addition, we are also offering a 4 week internship, Permaculture Through The Heart, from May 1st - 29th. Participants have the option of taking each of the first two weeks separately if desired. Week 1 covers classical permaculture techniques. Week 2 is unfolding the HeartSelf-intelligence; an experiential transpersonal psychological approach to self exploration. These core principles will be combined for the final two weeks in the form of group and individual environmental projects.
If you would like a more detailed description of our program, we invite you to visit our website through the link provided below.
For more information visit: http://jiwadamai.net/activities---seminars/
Warm regards, Dr. Margret Rueffler and the team at Jiwa Damai
Cleansing of the lotus pond
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Recently we had to clean the lotus pond at Jiwa Damai, since it was overgrowing with weeds.
Aitor and Justin, our two volunteers, as well as Wira, Jiwa Damai's coordinator, were getting ready to get into the mud of the lotus pond. To avoid possible skin irritations they covered their legs with large plastic bags, which are held at the top of the legs with tapes.
Preparation to work in the mud
However once they were in the pond, they found the mud quite agreeable and liked to walk and work in it, more like a mud bath.
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The growing weeds were pulled out and then the roots separated from the leaves which are used as mulch for our garden. In the ponds also grow large amounts of cancun, Balinese spinach which we use in our kitchen. Most probably we will eat Balinese spinach for the next three days. ;-)
Morning Yoga at Jiwa Damai
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Join us for yoga class !
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Organic market Ubud
/On sunday mornings, we now have a small table at a local market in Ubud, where we are selling our organic products.
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At this market we sell fresh vegetables from our organic garden like lettuce and peppers. We also produce dried fruit at Jiwa Damai, with our special raw food drying oven. Furthermore we sell our own hand-made coconut oil and coconut flour.
We just recently got certified for our organic products.
Jiwa Damai Organic certificate
If you happen to be in Ubud on a sunday morning, check out the Jiwa Damai table at the organic market!
Lagu Damai Foundation
/All income that is generated at Jiwa Damai retreat center is returned to the community through projects and programs run by The LAGU DAMAI Foundation, based in Bali, Indonesia. The Lagu Damai Foundation provides opportunities for youths and adults in education and conceives and develops socially responsible projects. For more information on the Lagu Damai Foundation, please visit:
All projects incorporate the following values: unfolding the HeartSelf–Intelligence, consciousness of joy, empowerment leading to increased self-esteem and self reliance in co-operation with the environment, community, earth and humanity as a whole.
These are psychological principles that are developed by The PsychoPolitical Peace Institute and its international projects are focused on the longterm prevention of collective violence and dynamic cooperation to initiate peace.
Dr. Margret Rueffler is the founder of both organizations.
Please feel free to donate to our various educational projects. For more information please contact: contact@jiwadamai.net
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