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Self-reward staycation: Recharging at Four Seasons Jimbaran

Join a Balinese cleansing ritual at a local temple, have a hair makeover and feel renewed at Four Seasons Resort Bali, Jimbaran Bay.

Risty Nurraisa (The Jakarta Post)
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Jimbaran, Bali
Fri, September 16, 2022

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Self-reward staycation: Recharging at Four Seasons Jimbaran Self-love: The beachfront Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay offers a variety of holistic activities for guests to find balance between the mind, body and emotions. (Courtesy of Four Seasons Jimbaran) (Courtesy of Four Seasons Jimbaran/Courtesy of Four Seasons Jimbaran)

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em>Join a Balinese cleansing ritual at a local temple, have a hair makeover and feel renewed at Four Seasons Resort Bali at Jimbaran Bay.

The sun was setting when Four Seasons Jimbaran’s resort-priest Ajik Ngurah began praying before the hotel’s temple on July 14. Five fire poles, covered with a fabric of different colors, and Balinese offerings laid in front of him.

“[Ajik] asked for permission for us to do the ritual,” said the hotel’s cultural ambassador and guest-experience manager, Ni Ketut Swartini, who also goes by Bunda (Mother) Atik. That day, The Jakarta Post was invited to watch the hotel’s unique fire-blessing ritual, created by priest Ajik himself. 

“This fire blessing is different from the others. We will focus on the five key elements in our body,” Ajik said as he finished praying.

“When the fire on the pole with red fabric is lit, [we] focus our energy on our liver. The yellow fabric is for the kidneys, the black one represents the gallbladder and the colorful one is [to connect with] the heart base. And the white fabric is for the heart.”

The sky turned dark when the ritual ended with a blessing using young coconut water, which, according to Ajik, is “pure and not contaminated by anything”.

The Four Seasons Jimbaran has numerous activities to help guests release stress, recharge energy and connect with themselves. The Post joined some of them during a media stay in mid-July.

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