Green Blessings: Rituals of Renewal
Bathed in flowers, offerings, and magic on the FullMoon!
Teachers : Micha Merrick
Dates : February 8 - 14, 2025
Location : Mimpi Resort, Menjangan, Bali
Join us in Bali for a week of herbal magic and sensory delight, held by a culture that reveres water, Tirta the source of all life! Experience flower baths in hot spring waters on the full moon, somatic herbal education and energetics, herbal poultice bodywork rituals, water temple blessings from the roots of a sacred Banyan tree and a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Queen of the Ocean.
The space of ritual is a space of flow and openness. We welcome you into the soft energy of this island to reawaken your magic and refresh your connection to earth and spirit. Ritual is a practice, a pathway to realignment with the natural rhythms to which we belong. And, it can also be a carefully crafted sensory experience… a time so infused with intention, so sublime, so beautiful, that embodied shifts take place naturally. You’ll emerge from this week with a clear sense of your own magic and purpose connected to the earth.
We will rise with the sun for meditation, somatic movement, and dance to awaken our creative flow. Afternoons will be filled with exquisite experiential education, flower baths, aquatic sound healing, song and spiritual pilgrimage. Our nighttime rituals are guided by the full moon.
Experience:
Daily Meditation, Movement and Dance
Full Moon Flower Bathing
Herbal Clearing Ritual: energetic herbal poultice bodywork practice
Traditional Balinese herbal medicine: Boreh and Jamu
Aquatic Sound Healing
Blessing at Pura Sakti Water Temple
Pilgrimage to the grotto-shrine of the Queen of the Ocean
Flowers and water are central to spiritual life for the Balinese. Water is honored as the source of life and blessing. Flowers are gestures of offering and gratitude. You’ll be introduced to many healing plants, local to Bali and harvested from my garden in Big Sur, awakening your intuitive connection to these beautiful living beings. Working with the plants directly through touch, smell and taste. Experience pounding roots with a mortar & pestle, working with herbs with your hands and sprinkling drops from the petals of a flower.
We will receive a purification water blessing at Pura Sakti temple. A sacred spring emerging from deep beneath the roots of a holy Banyan tree, carrying the energy of the divine mother, bestows the ability to activate our prayers and intentions. A pilgrimage to the shrine of the Queen of the Ocean gives us a chance to give our gratitude to water as a beautiful and powerful force of nature.
Come away from this retreat with:
Tools and meditations to revitalize your spirit, in harmony with the earth
Initiation into the practice of flower and water blessings and offerings
Ability to create your own flower baths and herbal poultice bundles
Rituals to honor and align with the forces of nature around us
This week will be an initiation into the practice of blessing your life with herbs, flowers and the element of water.
Regardless of your life path this retreat is designed to refresh and reconnect your spirit, so you can walk your unique expression of life. If you are a massage therapist, yoga teacher, doula or wellness practitioner and feel called to bring more ritual into your work, this retreat can be beautifully inspiring and informative. Our time is structured as a retreat, not a professional training, however, depending on your level of experience, these blessings can be shared in your own practice with ease. In-depth professional training in herbal poultice massage is forthcoming, this retreat can be used as an immersion for further bodywork study.
Sublime beauty awaits…
Teachers
Micha Merrick
Micha Shares embodied herbalism as a heartfelt communion with our living ecosystem.
Mentored by womans' healers in Thailand, spiritual midwives in Bali, and wise-woman herbalists in New England, Micha facilitates mind-body healing through herbal bodywork rituals, doula services, intuitive counsel and transformational retreats worldwide. Micha is a faculty member of the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur California, where she creates a weekly ritual flower bath and shares an energetic healing practice combining sound, touch, herbs and intention. Her clients find sanctuary and grounding in connection with the earth.
Venue & Accommodation
For this program, accommodation is available at Mimpi Menjangan, Bali. Contact Us for information on private accommodation upgrades or any further information about Mimpi Menjangan, Bali.
On the North-West coast of Bali in the village of Banyuwedang, Mimpi looks out towards the Menjangan Island. The area is notorious as a hot-spot for diving and snorkelling and just a little further down the coast a regular dolphin hangout.
Pricing & Payment
Shared Courtyard Villa with Hot Spring
$ 3,000
A Court Yard villa features two twin/double beds with a mezzanine, private garden area, and tub which may be filled with hot spring water. All-inclusive. This is the best option for friends or solo travelers - if you are a solo traveler, we will do our best to put you with another roommate of the same sex. If we are unable to do so, then we can explore private options for you.
All Inclusive (Full use of property, Tuition &
Half-board Meal)
Shared Patio Room
$ 2,850
The rooms are spacious and very comfortable, making them Twin patio rooms are spacious and comfortable to stay with two people. We will aim to pair you with someone most compatible based on your registration form.
All Inclusive (Full use of property, Tuition &
Half-board Meal)
Private Courtyard Villa with Hot Spring
$ 3,950
For a taste of luxury, enjoy a CY Villa to yourself for maximum comfort and privacy. Enjoy your own spacious area with a garden and hot spring bath for total relaxation. All-Inclusive.
All Inclusive (Full use of property, Tuition &
Half-board Meal)
Private Patio Room
$ 3,200
The rooms are spacious and very comfortable, making them easy to share with another guest whilst maintaing plenty of personal space.
All Inclusive (Full use of property, Tuition &
Half-board Meal)