3-Day Ubud Reset
A short, soft on-ramp for the just-arrived. One or two things a day, the rest is yours.
Guides on this retreat
Practitioners who hold pieces of these days — known by name, found on the ground.
Ketut Arsana
ayurveda · bali usadha · massage
Opened Ubud Bodyworks Centre in 1987. Locally and internationally recognised for nature-based healing — a Mahatma therapist combining Ayurveda and Bali Usadha. Treatments are tailored to the individual, not a menu. The lineage carrier in the Ubud bodywork scene.
Slow is a practice. Slow is also strategy.
Three days. One anchor most days, one active day in the middle, an early night, a long breakfast. This isn’t a retreat — it’s the way you actually want to land.
We’ll point you at the right yoga class for the morning you arrive. The right cold plunge for the day you’re ready. A good massage and a good meal before you fly. The point is what we leave out.
Last refreshed 7 May 2026
What this retreat holds
One door, each day
Each anchor is a person, a place, or a circle you wouldn't find on your own.
Practitioners we trust
Healers, teachers, ceremony-holders we've worked with for years — not a directory.
Tables you'd never find
A welcome dinner, a long-stayer's home, a kitchen the scene actually eats at.
Real rest, not filler
Days with nothing planned. The integration is the practice.
Four to eight, hand-picked
A small cohort matched for fit. You arrive among strangers. You don't leave that way.
A field, after
Phone numbers in your pocket, faces you'll see again. The week ends; the access doesn't.
Where you stay — a quiet light-filled villa in Penestanan or Nyuh Kuning, walking distance to a slow breakfast and the morning anchor.
What we anchor — one welcome dinner at Hujan Locale, one body practice on day two (yoga or cold plunge, your pick), one closing massage with Ketut Arsana at Ubud Bodyworks, one farewell meal at Moksa.
What we leave open — afternoons, integrations, the unplanned conversation in a cafe.
What we don't do — schedule you back-to-back. The reset is the point.
The 3 days
The retreat is light by design — most days hold one good thing, with rest, food, and unplanned encounters around it.
Land
Don’t do anything yet.
Get to the villa. Shower. Sit on the porch for an hour. The first dinner is the only thing on the calendar — a slow one, somewhere walkable, where the kitchen is honest.
Welcome dinner
Plunge in
One body practice in the morning. The afternoon is yours.
Pick one — a yoga class, a cold plunge. The body knows what it needs first. Eat well. Walk somewhere. By sunset you’ll feel arrived.
A morning class — yoga, breath, or a slow flow
- Ritual
Five minutes of conscious breath
Before food, before phone, before anything else.
Or — the cold plunge
Optional- Ritual
Cold plunge — the simple version
Two minutes of cold water, every morning.
A sunset walk
OptionalCampuhan Ridge Walk · Ubud
Slow exit
Bookend with care.
A massage in the morning. A long breakfast. A final meal somewhere you’ll want to come back to. Before you fly, write the one line that’s true.
A massage to bookend the trip
A final meal
Before you fly
Optional- Reflection
Closing line — Reset
One sentence. Write it down before you leave.
Where you'll go
3 places you'll touch over this retreat. Drag, zoom, and tap a marker.
What people carry home
I had three days between flights and I needed to land before the next thing. The closing massage with Ketut was worth the trip on its own. I left feeling like I'd been given my breath back.
PNPriya N.
London · Day 3
The cold plunge on day two reset something I didn't know was offline. The afternoon afterwards — left open, no agenda — was when I actually arrived. Three days, one anchor a day, and it worked.
THTomáš H.
Prague · Day 2
The welcome dinner at Hujan Locale was the first proper meal I'd had in a week of travel. Honest food, walkable from the villa, and the kind of place where the kitchen is paying attention. The trip starts there.
FLFernanda L.
São Paulo · Day 1
What I appreciated most was what wasn't on the calendar. They under-promise on activity and over-deliver on space. By day three I felt held without feeling herded.
JWJames W.
New York
Honest questions, honestly answered
Who this is for
You've just landed. You're jet-lagged or overworked or both. You don't want to do Ubud — you want to arrive in it.
Slow over deep. Curious over committed. Three days that don't cost you the holiday you came for.
Practical
When — any time of year. Dry season (April–October) is easier on the rain, but the wet season has its own slower magic.
Budget — $40–120/night for the villa, $30–80 across three days for the anchors and meals.
Bring — a sarong, a notebook, an early bedtime, a willingness to do less.
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