When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.
– Brené Brown
Embrace Radical Receiving
Event details
Dates: 19-23 August, 2025.
Location: Basundari Retreat Centre, Ubud, Indonesia.
Earlybird price: $2,900 (Afterpay option available).
Includes: workshop over 5 days, twin-share accommodation, all meals and Balinese water purification ceremony at a sacred Bangli waterfall. Optional extras include Sound Healing, Yoga, Balinese Massage/Bodywork and Ecstatic Dance.
Group size: We value the intimacy and potency of a small group, maximum 14 ppl.
Payment: A non-refundable deposit of $500 is required to secure your spot in the workshop. Full payment must be received by 1st July, 2025.
Booking: To reserve a spot, please click the Express Interest button below and we’ll email you more details.
Holotropic Breathwork™: If this is your first Breathwork experience, we’ll have an introductory chat with you by phone before moving ahead with the payment process.
Holotropic Breathwork
Holotropic Breathwork
An adventure of self-discovery and healing
Holotropic Breathwork™ is an exceptionally powerful natural method of self-exploration and personal transformation through accessing expanded states of awareness. Drawing on profound knowledges of Earth-honouring and Earth-wisdom cultures, Holotropic Breathwork was founded by Christina and Stanislav Groff as a potent practice for healing past wounds and fulfilling our full potential.
This retreat is open to anyone interested and previous experience with Holotropic Breathwork® is not necessary. However, to ensure we can support you in the best way possible, new Breathers are required to have an introductory phone call prior to paying a deposit and will receive payment details after that initial chat.
Connecting to the healing power of Culture and Country
Honouring the deep generosity of the Balinese people and the gracious healing power of the mountainous land and water ways of Bali, our retreat will commence with an Opening Ceremony hosted by Balian (traditional Balinese healer).
Our journey of self exploration continues through combining ancient Indigenous traditions with modern practices of expanded states of awareness. During the retreat participants will experience:
Holotropic Breathwork
Traditional Balinese Healing teachings
Melukat (water purification)
Radical Receiving teachings
Astrological insight teachings
Nutritious meals & sumptuous accommodation
Sound Healing (optional)
Yoga (optional)
Balinese Massage/Bodywork (optional)
Ecstatic Dance (optional)
Water Purification Ceremony/Melukat at a sacred Bangli waterfall
We are delighted to include, as an important integration process, a remarkable experience called Melukat.
This is a sacred Water Purification ceremony.
Held in an ancient water temple, where the convergence of two rivers forms natural springs, you will be accompanied through the experiences by guides.
Stopping at each of a series of purification points and waterfalls, you will be blessed with holy water, which locals know provides therapeutic benefits on a holistic level.
If we never had it…. then how do we know what to ask for?
Radical receiving - Healing the pain of the deep void
In addition to Holotropic Breathwork® breathing and sitting, participants will be invited to explore their beliefs and patterns of receiving. Many of us report struggling to receive the support, care and attention that we need in order to live with vitality and a healthy balance between giving and receiving. For some of us it is a struggle to even identify what we truly want and desire. For others, we have a well defined psyche that may prefer to “do it by myself”.
Facilitators Ruth Langford and Martha Calhoun will share their deep experiential knowledge and practices to help us understand the impact of omission trauma, also known as neglect trauma which refers to the psychological and emotional consequences that can result from the absence of necessary caregiving, particularly during early childhood. This also extends to an absence of belonging or a felt sense of connection to that which can hold us when we are feeling lost or on the edge of the void.
During this retreat we will explore how we have learned to ignore our innate desires and needs and the harm caused when we do not honor our own limits or the limits of others. We will experience practice that returns us into a right relationship with our need for positive connection and how we can ask for that in healthy and meaningful ways.
Program outline
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Day 1, Tues 19 Aug
2-3pm Registration and arrival
3-5pm Opening Circle - Preparation Paying respects to Country and the Balinese people
This time includes Teachings by Traditional Balin Healer
6-7:30pm Dinner
7:30-9:00pm Introduction to the Principles of Holotropic Breathwork and Radical Receiving.
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Day 2, Wed 20 Aug
Morning Yoga (optional)
Breakfast
Radical Receiving teachings and practices
Lunch
Holotropic Breathwork
Dinner
Sharing Circle
Evening integration practice (optional).
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Day 3, Thurs 21 Aug
Morning Yoga (optional)
Breakfast
Radical Receiving teachings and practices
Lunch
Holotropic Breathwork
Dinner
Sharing Circle
Evening integration practice (optional).
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Day 4, Fri 22 Aug
Morning Yoga (optional)
Breakfast
Radical Receiving teachings and practices
Lunch
Water Temple
Dinner
Ecstatic Dance (optional).
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Day 5, Sat 23 Aug
Morning Yoga (optional)
Breakfast
Radical Receiving Closing Ceremony.
Facilitators
These experts will guide and support you throughout the retreat. Click + beside their name to learn more about each facilitator.
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With a diverse background in cultural arts, environmental & social justice, youth work and Indigenous Medicines Therapy, Ruth Langford divides her time into various projects. They all reflect her passion for uniting ancient traditions and contemporary innovations for optimistic action and healing for her People.
As a Song woman and StoryTeller, Ruth draws upon the cultural knowledge of her Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung mother and holds cultural responsibilities within Lutruwita’s Palawa community where she was born and has cultural responsibilities.
Ruth Langford holds a Masters of Indigenous Health & Wellbeing, is as a certified Holotropic Breathwork practitioner and has spent decades travellingthe world sitting with Indigenous Elders, Senior Knowledge Keepers and World Wisdom teachers. Ruth’s vision is to connect people to the ancient wisdom of Indigenous teachings in a contemporary and relevant context through the expression of cultural arts, ceremony and ritual.
As the founder of Nayri Niara – a Centre for the Arts of Healing – and creative director of Nayri Niara Good Spirit Festival, Ruth Langford has gained a reputation as a capable facilitator and coordinator of effective capacity-building programs which have, as their guiding principles, connection to Country, Culture and to the Sacred.
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With over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist, group facilitator, psychotherapy trainer and supervisor, Martha Calhoun holds profound respect for the deep wisdom innate within each person. Martha seeks to engage in practices that deeply empower those she works with to connect with that wisdom and allow this to guide the way forward into healing and wholeness.
Martha’s approach creatively combines learnings from psychotherapy, transpersonal psychology, psychology, nature therapy and social sciences. In addition, her own exploration of expanded states and psychotherapy and her interest in nature-based wisdom, body wisdom, and mythology, informs the presence, support and passion she brings to her work.
Basundari experience
Basundari is a serene retreat venue seamlessly integrated into the lush jungle and sweeping rice fields. The twin shared rooms, designed with eco-conscious elegance, offer a unique blend of comfort and sustainability, promising a tranquil stay to immerse yourself with the natural beauty of Bali.
Food is an essential part of your well-being journey. Basundari values sustainability, organic products, and health. Collaborating with local farmers, they source fresh ingredients, and offer nourishing dishes.
Our hosts prioritises sustainability, ensuring delicious meals while supporting a healthier planet. Their talented chefs Ketut and Andrea are, along with their dedicated team, at the heart of Basundari culinary experience. With their passion for cooking and meticulous attention to detail, they work together to create flavourful and delightful dishes for their guests.
Accommodation in a twin-share room and all meals are included in the cost of the retreat.
Right relationship
We are dedicated to ensuring we come to Bali respectfully and in right relationship. Our facilitation team is working with local Balinese Elders to ensure that we share the benefits of Holotropic Breathwork with the local community. Profits from the Retreat enables the training of local people in Breathwork as well as supporting local women's refuges.
Beyond the retreat
Bali is spectacular. Rich in culture, community and the Sacred. We are here to help make your experience as deep and connective as possible. We are happy to share our experience of Bali and how to navigate transport and share recommendations if you choose to stay longer and/or arrive earlier. If you would like more information or clarification please don't hesitate to email ruth.l@nayriniaragoodspirit.com
