Sponsors: Seminar Participants

MadeWidia'sGirl2011When we met Made Widia, he was only 19 years old. I still remember the day, when I used the Holographic Imaging method to help Made deal with his anxiety about this future and his work. Interestingly enough to this day I still recall the image that resulted from our work together that one afternoon in UBUD.

In subsequent years Don and I funded his training as a travel agent for one solid year. Today he earns three times the daily wage of other well-paid daily workers.

Meanwhile he has gotten married to Iluh, and produced two girls and finally a little boy. His wife stays home and takes care of the children while he goes to work.

During one of our visits to his house with our seminar group the group decided to collect some funds to help with the schooling. They collected 300 Euro, which have gone to the annual 850,000 Indonesian Rp (75 Euro)  for the school uniform, which luckily enough he was able to use twice in a row, and the monthly fees of 4 Euros per child per month in the lower grades. Keep reading »

Sponsor Brigitte Jahnke

PutuLookingUpWhen Brigitte Jahnke contacted me to sponsor a child, that same day Putu Dharma Yasa told me of the troublesome burden to pay for his child’s school uniform and books, a payment that was still outstanding. It seemed like divine coordination to have Brigitte contact me that very day!

Putu lives with his oldest boy age 9, his wife and his youngest son of six-month in one single room, as part of the family compound, room that is no larger than two mattresses. No windows, and therefore no circulation, and instead moldy walls, he shares his compound with his father and his stepmother, and all her male children. Keep reading »

Sponsors Lilia Congemini

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The father, Gede Widnyana, a man who gives his best in his work as a gardener, shining forth from his eyes like a saint, is supporting his three children and his wife as well as his parents on one salary. Keep reading »

Sponsors Gabriella Davalos

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SHANTI child of KOMANG MUDASIH and WAYAN

Sharing one is a bedroom and living room the mother and father had to send the eldest of the two daughters to live with the grandparents, who are now helping to pay for schooling.

Shanti’s father is of Chinese descent, and, although already third-generation Balinese, he’s still ostracized for his back.

He is one of the few males who followed his wife to her hometown. His wife could not bear the thought of leaving her family, and out of pure love he decided to stay with her in a town that did not exactly welcomed people of Chinese descent, which is also the reason why the shares such small accommodations.

Shanti, about 10 years younger than her elder sister, loves to sing, and has been studious and desiring to learn and excel in school, ever since she was five years old. However her parents worry about schooling, as they are trying to do their best to make ends meet, and send money to help the grandparents , who are taking care of  the older girl. Keep reading »

Sponsors Robert & Marion Monden

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The father of these two children, Made Arsa, had a very interesting blessing happen in his life:

A sponsor from Holland/the Netherlands had found him as a teenager working, carrying fruit, instead of going to school when he was still in his early teenage years. When the friendly Dutch couple asked him why he was not in school, he replied, that his father simply did not have the money. Keep reading »

Sponsor Chiem van Houwelingen

Children of Komang Ayu

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KADEK Tisy Avirjian

Komang Ayu had a job in housekeeping when she got pregnant with her 3rd child. She was very much hoping for a  BOY, which she got!

In Bali it is essential to have a baby boy, because it is  the boy that takes care of the parents in old age, where is the girls went into the household of the husband.

Because of the lack of energy and due to the necessity of taking care of three children now, she had to stop working.  However, she had been able to purchase a washing machine during her previous job, and now runs a small laundry business out of her living room while her husband works at an underpaid rate at a nearby Villa. Raising a family of four on his income of roughly €70 however presents a problem. Keep reading »

COMPOSTING makes MIRACLES happen

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at ShangriLa we separate the trash into PLASTIC, PAPER and ORGANIC trash and produce our own living GOLD

Here in Bondalem we still don’t have any trash pickup service. This is true for most of Bali except in the larger cities. this means that each household somehow has to take care of their own trash.

Of course in Bali that means, that most of the trash winds up either in the river, which is the convenient trash conveyer belt, which is then finally dumping the trash into the ocean, or were being dropped on the side of the street into one of the gutters, which eventually also should run down to the ocean. Keep reading »

Mantra’s from the Staff of Shangrila

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This is a beautiful collection of mantras sung by the staff of ShangriLa Oceanside Retreat and Spa in Bali, Indonesia.

Uplifting and joyous voices sing mantras and circle songs from around the world. Added flute and guitar by Ilona Selke and Don Paris.
The proceeds from the sale of this CD will go directly to all the staff at ShangriLa.

listen to a sample at this link: CLICK HERE

Gentle Births heal the Earth

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Los Angeles (CNN) — Robin Lim, an American woman who has helped thousands of poor Indonesian women have a healthy pregnancy and birth, was named the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year on Sunday night.

Through her Yayasan Bumi Sehat health clinics, “Mother Robin,” or “Ibu Robin” as she is called by the locals, offers free prenatal care, birthing services and medical aid in Indonesia, where many families cannot afford care. Keep reading »

Lilia Cangemi with Ilona Selke in WATERDANCE

BannerWATERDANCE2011Dolphindance with Lilia Cangemi and Ilona Selke at Shangrila, in the heat-able Pool

Photos by Robert Sannes

ABOUT DOLPHINDANCE: LILIA CANGEMI

Inspired by Watsu, Waterdance and Healing Dance, a Dolphin Dance Healing indvidual session starts on the surface of the water and then leads the receiver (upon request) into the mesmerizing world of the underwater universe, as nose clips enable effortless breathing between air and water, creating an easy interface between the two elements. The physiological dive reflex allows longer and longer submersions and an almost magical breath suspension, which become vehicle for deep states of relaxation and immersion into a profoundly healing space. The pre-natal and womb consciousness become available in the reality of the present, often generating an experience of rebirth that can be nurturing and integrative of past traumas.

ABOUT ROBERT SANNES:

I like to use the word FLOW to describe some of the magic I often seek within photography. We have a peculiar tradition of fighting both nature and ourselves, simply by attitude of life. Our strong IDEA of individualism, with its sepparation between nature and man, between the idea of the physical and nonphysical, between each of us, -has in my opinion become too extreme.

The feeling of natural FLOW, or if you want, more holistic and harmonious abilities, are qualities to embrace in a world that speeds towards ecological limits, that produces loads of human stress, lack of meaning and wars of horror. The FLOW is to me something wich is already there, but has to be opened for. It is something that affects abilities of inner BALANCE, of compassion, of creativity,
of our own perception of BEAUTY.
How can we prevail it?

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