Held

October 7-15
 A retreat for women who are ready to rest, release, and be gently restored.

Held is a 9-day, trauma-informed retreat set in a quiet pocket of Sayan, Ubud — created for women who are emotionally depleted, holding too much, or seeking a softer way to return to themselves.

Blending traditional Balinese purification rituals, therapeutic support, and body-based practices, this experience is designed to help you regulate your nervous system, clear emotional residue, and reconnect with your internal sense of safety and self.

You’ll be supported to:

  • Release stored emotion through the body

  • Regulate your nervous system through movement, stillness, and sacred ceremony

  • Let go of what’s no longer yours to carry

  • Feel spiritually reconnected and physically grounded

  • Rebuild a sense of calm, clarity, and quiet self-trust

This retreat is designed to be accessible for a range of budgets, with a simple all-inclusive base package and the option to add on deeper healing experiences and personalised support.

Held is a fully curated, done-for-you experience — a rare chance to step away from life admin, decision fatigue, and emotional overload.

This is not about fixing yourself.
It’s about letting yourself be looked after.

 
 
 

Who Is It For?

This retreat is for women who are carrying more than they can name — and are ready to set it down.

You might be coming alone, seeking space to soften and recalibrate.
You might be coming with someone — a sister, a close friend, a partner, or your mother or adult daughter — because healing alongside someone you trust can open things in a different way.

Whether you’re untangling emotional burnout, relational patterns, or just the quiet ache of disconnection, Held offers space to rest, restore, and begin again — in your body, your boundaries, and your internal world.

You don’t need to explain what’s heavy.
You just need to be willing to let some of it go.

 

What Will Shift

This retreat isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about giving you space, tools, and support to shift what isn’t working. You’ll leave more resourced, more centred, and more able to relate from a place that’s grounded — not survival-driven.

  • Through structured therapy, body-based tools, and ritual, you’ll begin to:

    • Understand and soften the patterns that keep you stuck in relationships

    • Regulate your nervous system so you can respond — not react

    • Release the emotional charge of grief, hurt, and unresolved attachment

    • Rebuild self-trust, self-expression, and clear personal boundaries

    • Feel safe in your own body again — and supported by something bigger than you

    • Take home a toolkit for continued emotional clarity and grounded connection

 

The Healing Framework

The healing approach behind Held blends modern nervous system science with sacred Balinese tradition. This is a retreat designed not just to soothe, but to gently support meaningful change — in your body, your emotions, and your sense of connection.

Nervous System Regulation
Movement, massage, rest, and breathwork help shift you out of survival mode and into a more grounded state. This physiological safety becomes the foundation for deeper emotional release.

Body-Based Emotional Healing
Through touch, ceremony, and structured spaciousness, stored or suppressed emotion is met in the body — not bypassed or intellectualised. You don’t need to explain it all to let some of it go.

Balinese Ceremony & Ritual
Purification rituals, blessings, and traditional healing are offered with cultural reverence. Practices like Melukat, and a private Mangku healing reconnect you to something larger than yourself — without performance.

Optional Therapeutic Support
While not a therapy retreat, Held includes the option for 1:1 trauma-informed sessions with a qualified therapist, woven into your personal itinerary.

Curated Rest & Integration
This is a fully managed retreat. Meals, money, transport, laundry — it’s all taken care of. You get to fully exhale and focus on what matters. Integration time is built in, not squeezed in.

Spiritual Containment
More than a venue, Held offers a sacred container: a held, blessed, intentional space where healing is invited — and never forced.

SOBER & DIGITAL-FRIENDLY

There will be no alcohol served or supplied in the residence. We ask that any consumption is managed privately out of respect for sober participants.

If you are on prescription medication, please ensure it is legal in Indonesia. [Link to check legal status]

Optional Digital Detox:
You are invited to hand in your phone and fully disconnect. We’ll store it securely and offer daily 1-hour check-in windows.

Phones are welcome in your room and during rest days, but not in ceremonies, sessions, or shared meals.

This is about presence, not perfection.

 

Optional Extras


These experiences are here to support you — not overwhelm you.
While we offer a rich menu of healing and cultural options, we encourage you to choose only what feels genuinely supportive. Held is designed with spaciousness in mind; downtime is not just allowed, it’s part of the work.

  • 🧠 1:1 Therapy Sessions with a qualified Australian therapist via zoom $250 p/session - Best arranged in advance.

  • 🔮 Tri Desna Healing Experience - Balinese blessing for inner clarity, card reading for intuitive insight, vocal release for emotional clearing $230 - $250 with photographer. Must be booked 3 weeks in advance.

  • 🦄 Human Design & Astrological Chart Reading - Permission slip to be yourself! Pre prepared personalised 90 minute reading - $190. Best booked 1 week in advance.

  • 🔔 Pyramids of Chi Sound Healing – Group immersion in a purpose-built acoustic sanctuary $45

  • 🥘 Balinese Culinary Tour – Taste your way through Ubud’s most nourishing offerings $95

  • 💃 Ecstatic Dance Session – Release and re-energise through intuitive movement $35 - Saturdays and Tuesdays only.

  • 🚿 Colonic Cleanse at a trusted local wellness centre for total release $90

  • 💆 Spa Services – Body scrubs, facials, traditional hair treatments, and more from $25

  • 🧊 Sauna + Cold Plunge Therapy – Reset your nervous system and support emotional integration $30

 

Indicative Pricing
This is a fully inclusive, carefully curated 9-day experience — covering everything from healing rituals to daily movement, stunning accommodation, and chef-prepared meals.

Pricing starts from $2347 AUD for shared options, with upgraded room tiers available.

Early bird rates and flexible payment plans will be offered to those on the interest list first.

 
 

WHAT'S INCLUDED

  • 9 days / 8 nights accommodation in Sayan, Ubud

  • Intimate group experience (limited to 3 rooms)

  • Private retreat grounds

  • Daily movement practices (yoga, rice field walks, swimming)

  • Therapeutic massage

  • Private healing with a Balinese Mangku (priest) — traditional dress provided

  • Melukat water purification ceremony at a sacred temple — with Balinese guides

  • Custom-made protection gift

  • All meals provided (plant-rich, alcohol-free, all dietary needs catered)

  • All local transport including airport transfers

  • Laundry service

  • All life admin handled for you

  • Optional digital detox (phone-free support offered)

  • Sober retreat environment (no alcohol or recreational substances)

For full booking terms and conditions please click here.

WHAT’S EXCLUDED

  • Flights to and from Bali

  • Visa fees

  • Travel insurance (required)

  • Optional extras (e.g. therapy sessions, excursions, treatments)