Released on: May 23, 2008, 6:24 am

Press Release Author: Dr M M Shah

Industry: Healthcare

Press Release Summary: Zen Resort launches an integrated wellness deal for yoga
group leaders and teachers to hold their training workshops in combination with the
resort's programs of pranayama, meditation, ayurveda and cultural and recreational
activities for living in harmony with one's inner self as well as the outer world of
society and nature.

Press Release Body: Zen Resort is a luxury boutique hotel and holistic wellness
destination Spa, situated in a peaceful location, surrounded by rice fields,
vineyards and natural forest and with wide open sea views in north Bali. The
holistic design of the resort, blending in a beautiful natural and landscaped
environment, and the integrated wellness facilities to practice yoga, experience
ayurvedic treatments, reside in luxury accommodation with Zen simplicity, consume
healthy food and participate in a wide range of cultural and eco-recreational
activities all amount to an ideal environment not only to relax and rejuvenate from
the stresses and stains of modern lifestyles but also to think of the changes in
one's way of life for a healthier, sustainable, satisfying and happy future.

There are three serene venues for yoga at Zen Resort, namely a 120 sq meters yoga
pavilion surrounded by landscaped tropical gardens, a sunrise tree tops mediation
center overlooking rice fields and a sunset yoga deck overlooking natural forest
with views of the Sea of Bali.

The Ayurvedic health and beauty spa at the resort offers over 30 authentic
treatments as well as traditional Balinese massage, healing baths and beauty
treatments by qualified ayurveda professionals from Kerala, India together with a
team of trained Balinese therapists. The resort's resident yoga master also offers
special pranayama and meditation classes based on the principles and practices of
Swami Ram Dev, a world renowned practitioner and exponent of easy to do yoga,
pranayama and meditation exercises that have been proven to be highly beneficial in
not only achieving and sustaining good health but also curing many diseases and
ailments. The teachings of Swami Ram Dev have influenced millions of people across
India and every morning tens of millions join in his daily television exposition of
yoga, pranayama and meditation exercises and advice on healthy eating.

The architecture throughout the resort is traditional Balinese with each building
resembling a Balinese temple. The fourteen air-conditioned sea view villas look out
onto verdant landscape and down to the sea with sunset and sunrise views. The mature
landscaped gardens and skyline infinity swimming pool merging into the rice fields
below and the marine landscape beyond are hypnotic in their tranquility. Each of the
villas includes an elegantly furnished double bedroom with a private terrace and a
parlor leading to an open air designer garden bathroom.

Zen Resort's talented chefs present a variety of nutritious dishes featuring Asian,
European and Ayurvedic vegetarian cuisine as well as catering for individual dietary
requirements. All meals are served in the tropical gardens with spectacular views
over natural forest, rice fields and the sea of Bali.

The resort's serene and beautiful landscaped tropical and Zen gardens offer an ideal
environment to read, slumber, think and dream. An hour's nature walk through an
eco-forest rich with indigenous herbal and medicinal plants leads to Banjar Natural
Hot Springs for a rejuvenating bath and on to a 6th Century Vihara Buddhist temple
for some sacred meditation. There are also two temples in front of the resort
dedicated to the Moon and the Goddess of the Sea. The resort's expert guides are
also available to advise and to organize visits to local villages to experience the
ceremonies and the Balinese culture and traditional ways of life and living.

Just a 200 meters walk along a paved pathway with vineyards on one side and rice
fields on the other leads to the secluded Puri Jati seashore with one of the world's
richest micro marine environment to snorkel and dive and a place at take off at dawn
for a sunrise dolphin sail. Within an hour's drive from the resort there is
spectacular scuba diving at Menjagan Island, eco-forest nature walks and rice field
trekking around Munduk, Gitgit Waterfall and Ulundanu Temple of Bedugal and a day
trip to the active Mount Batur volcano and the temple of Tirta Empul and Goa Gajah,
the elephant temple.

Bali is an ideal destination for yoga workshops and retreats with unique
opportunities to experience culture, ceremonial traditions, art, architecture, a
wide range of ecological diversity, pristine rice fields and tropical plantations as
well as the genuine Balinese hospitality and human solidarity. All these aspects
combined with integrated ayurveda, yoga, pranayama and meditation at Zen Resort Bali
makes for an ideal destination for yoga group training workshops.

Caroline Klebl, a renowned and dedicated yoga teacher with a long philosophical and
practical study background in Ashtanaga and Iyengar Yoga, Tibetan Buddhism and
Jungian Psychology as well as Kerala Ayurveda and Pancha Karma will be holding an
Ashtanaga Yoga Teacher Training Certification Course at Zen Resort Bali during the
whole month of August 2008. This intensive program is inclusive of accommodation and
special ayurvedic cuisine, daily some 7 hours of yoga training and philosophy
classes, ayurvedic treatments and guided cultural and eco-recreational tours as well
as airport transfers.

Yoga group leaders and teachers are invited to contact Zen Resort Bali to discuss
their specific retreat and workshop requirements towards mutually designing an all
inclusive package for an unforgettable integrated yoga group training experience in
Bali, the Island of the Gods.


Web Site: http://www.zenresortbali.com

Contact Details: Zen Resort Bali
Desa Ume Anyar
Seririt, Singharaja
Bali, Indonesia
Tel +62 3627005305
Fax+62 36293579
contact@zenresortbali.com