We seriously believe that DREAMS DO COME TRUE! The most important part of realizing dreams is first to have dreams. It may sound simple, but it is the truth, how can an intention materialize if there is no intention to start with? A few years back, we had the dream of hosting retreats outside of Bali, we did our first retreat abroad in The Netherlands and it was a...

My favorite season in Bali has finally arrived, winter! Well, Balinese winter that is, here we call it the kite season. This morning the weather is perfect, a little breeze, clear sky and about 21 degrees, this will hopefully last for the next three months. Since my last newsletter, Iyan and I went to Montreal on a nice holiday in March (now that was more like the...

First and foremost, I want to send our warmest sympathy for our Australian friends that have gone through and still going through a difficult time because of the terrible floods in Queensland, and like it was not enough, just came a cyclone. Our thoughts and love are with you in a time where one wonders how to come of help in such circumstances. On a brighter note,...

Just incredible that we are already in a new decade, seems like we just celebrated year 2000 not so long ago…. I guess it has been 10 years! What a full on year 2010 we had, not complaining of course, in fact to the contrary, grateful of what is happening as it is our dream coming true! Yes, dreams do come true; it is a matter of having them first. My latest...

June… for our friends from down under, the challenge of facing winter has arrived… cold and shorter days, and wishes to be elsewhere like Bali is present in the mind. Then in the northern hemisphere, summer has arrived yesterday, warm weather, unfrozen lakes and campfire time. Here in Bali, well… the sun still gets up at about 6:00 and goes down at...