While Bali is famous for her beaches, the culture, night life of Kuta, shopping, the islan'd life nuturing energy also attracts other kinds of visitors. It has inspired healer and worker body to come and people who want to improve their life quality and health. From spas to all kind of alternative energy worker to meditation and health retreats, Bali offers huge number of wellness options. And it can be mixed with your regular holiday, adding another dimension.
Bali's own healer or balian can also work miracles. Put this together with readily available organic vegetables, plenty of healthy resorts, sea, sun, and clean air, not to mention the mountain and forests, and it makes Bali look like enormous health farm.
Guests can choose something as simple as a spa treatment or two or delve deeper, to discover dozens of esoteric treatments that can make a difference to quality of your life. The options are endless.
The balian or healer work with energy and intuition and a deep knowledge of local herbs that has been passed down through their family. Others, get a calling as they teach a mature age and discover how to access their secrets of energy. Treating first, their village neighbours, some gain a reputation, attracting people from all over the island, and sometimes, international visitors as well.
even today, most Balinese visit a balian long before they think of going to see a western trained doctor.
Apart from being an interesting experience, visiting balian can improve both health and well being and in some casesto work more effectively that western allopathic medicine where chemicals and body altering subsatnces like chemotherapy can be very harmful to the body.
Several hotels offer treatments with balinese healer and here ate few others. If you visit a healer, you news to take offerings and donation,becaouse authentic healer don't charge. You could ask your guide to help you.
Selasa, 19 Mei 2009
the mask dance
in ancient Bali masks are something sacred. Even up the modern time some particular masks are blessed in religious ceremony and some mask carvers are still looking for a "good" day to carve and of course, some dancer still do the blessing ceremony before they use the mask to dance. It is believed that the mask has mystic power that influence their performance.
Masks or topeng are they called can be made from wood or fabric that are transform into various shapes such as Gods and Goddesses, human faces, animals, demons, etc. The masks dance in Bali. Take stories from ancient tales or epics. Some mask cover the whole of the dancer's face while some only cover half. Some of the dances have dialogs and some routines. The dialog use to be spoken only in ancient traditional Balinese language but now the dancer's mixed the language with Bahasa Indonesia even the English to better communicate with the audience.
Each mask represents a character and the routine and the dialog strengthen the audiences belief in the caracter. Depending on the story, the dance van be done by one person or even a group of dancer.
Masks or topeng are they called can be made from wood or fabric that are transform into various shapes such as Gods and Goddesses, human faces, animals, demons, etc. The masks dance in Bali. Take stories from ancient tales or epics. Some mask cover the whole of the dancer's face while some only cover half. Some of the dances have dialogs and some routines. The dialog use to be spoken only in ancient traditional Balinese language but now the dancer's mixed the language with Bahasa Indonesia even the English to better communicate with the audience.
Each mask represents a character and the routine and the dialog strengthen the audiences belief in the caracter. Depending on the story, the dance van be done by one person or even a group of dancer.
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