About Us - Bali Eling Spirit

Where It Began

Born from a Personal
Journey Inward

Long before Pasraman Bali Eling Spirit became what it is today, there was a man who sat quietly with his restlessness. Sri Bhagawan Sriprada Bhaskara — founder, teacher, and the living pulse of this place — did not arrive at this work through a tidy inheritance. He arrived through over two and a half decades of committed meditation, years of testing what actually moves the needle inside a human being, and a bone-deep desire to share whatever light he found.

The word pasraman itself tells you something. In Balinese-Hindu tradition, it describes an ashram — not a hotel, not a wellness spa, not a weekend escape. A pasraman is where real learning happens: slow, intimate, guided by a master, shaped by the specific student in front of you. That is precisely the spirit Bhagawan carried when he formally opened the gates in February 2018, first as a yoga teacher school, then expanding as more people showed up carrying burdens that yoga alone could not name.

His wife, Jero Ratni, joined not as a supporting cast member but as an equal architect. Her own encounter with meditation had already unlocked gifts she describes simply as sensitivity to energy — the ability to sit with someone's pain without flinching from it. She brought that sensitivity into practical form: spiritual counseling, Cognitive Alignment Therapy, 7-Chakra balancing, Tibetan Singing Bowl frequency healing. Together, Bhagawan and Jero Ratni built something that is harder to commodify than a five-star retreat: a home where people can be seen as they actually are.

"Eling means to remember. And the deepest remembering is remembering your own true nature." — Ida Sri Bhagawan Sriprada Bhaskara

25+ Years of Meditation Practice

500hr International YTT Certified

Serving students & seekers since February 2018, Tampaksiring, Gianyar.

The Name, Unpacked

Why We Are Called Eling

In the Balinese and Javanese philosophical tradition, eling carries a weight that the English word "remember" barely holds. It is not nostalgia. It is a present-tense awakening to what you have always already been.

Eling Raga

Awareness of the Body

Before the mind can settle, the body must be honestly inhabited. We begin every program here — in the physical form, through Bali Hatha Yoga and pranayama, learning that the breath is always the first teacher. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is forced.

Eling Hati

Remembering the Heart

Much of what holds people back lives not in the mind but in the chest — old griefs, calcified shame, the weight of things unsaid. Our healing work creates space where those layers can be touched, named, and finally released at a pace that each person sets for themselves.

Eling Jiwa

Reunion with the Soul

The deepest layer of the work — the recognition that underneath all the accumulated noise of a life is something that has never been wounded. Meditation, Dharma teaching, and the energy of this land conspire to bring that recognition forward.

Sacred Geography

Village Pejeng Kangin, Tampaksiring

Regency Gianyar, Bali — Indonesia

Elevation Highland forest, Sayan ridge

Nearby Ancient temple springs of Tampaksiring

The Land Itself is a Teacher

Rooted in the Highlands
of Tampaksiring

There is a reason the Balinese have long considered Tampaksiring among the most sacred districts on the island. The water here — filtered through ancient volcanic stone before surfacing at the royal bathing temples of Tirta Empul — carries a quality that is not merely poetic. Participants consistently report that simply arriving in this part of Bali shifts something. The altitude clears the head. The canopy insulates sound. The air, genuinely, is different.

We did not choose this location arbitrarily. The land chose the work, and the work chose the land. The rice terraces that step down beyond our practice space are not décor — they are a living demonstration of the Balinese philosophy of Tri Hita Karana: harmony between people, between the community, and between humanity and the divine. Every program that unfolds here is quietly in conversation with that philosophy.

The Pasraman does not currently offer on-site accommodation, and we think that is worth being honest about. It is not an oversight waiting to be fixed. Many participants have shared that the daily drive or walk through the village — passing offerings being laid, hearing temple bells — has itself become part of the practice. When accommodation within the grounds finally arrives, it will be built to honor, not override, that rhythm.

The Heart Behind the Practice

The Guides

Founder & Head Teacher

Ida Sri Bhagawan

Sriprada Bhaskara

When you spend twenty-five years sitting with yourself in meditation — genuinely, without performance — you begin to see things differently. Bhagawan will tell you that yoga was not something he came to because it was fashionable. He came to it because nothing else was honest enough. He completed his 500-hour international Yoga Teacher Training and emerged not just certified, but changed.

He designed the Bali Hatha Yoga methodology that anchors all programs here — a form that deliberately favors gentleness over acrobatics, recognizing that the nervous system heals not through effort but through sustained safety. His teaching has guided hundreds of students since 2018, many of whom describe their experience simply: "he sees what you came in carrying without you having to say a word."

500hr YTT 25yr Meditator Bali Hatha Yoga Creator Dharma Teacher

Co-Founder & Healing Practitioner

Jero Ratni

Practitioner & Spiritual Guide

Jero Ratni arrived at this work through her own interior reckoning. Meditation opened something in her she describes with characteristic directness as sensitivity — a felt knowing of where another person's energy is stuck, knotted, or simply not yet allowed to flow. Rather than suppress that sensitivity, she apprenticed it into form: into certifications, into practice, into a healing language others could receive.

Her work spans spiritual counseling, Cognitive Alignment Therapy, 7-Chakra balancing, and sound healing with Tibetan Singing Bowls. She brings a rare quality to the retreat space: she does not rush toward resolution. She is willing to simply be present with whatever arises, which is, in the end, the most healing thing one person can offer another.

Spiritual Counselor CAT Practitioner 7-Chakra Healer Tibetan Bowl Therapy

How We Think

The Philosophy
We Work From

Three convictions shape every program, every session, and every cup of herbal tea offered here.

Healing is Personal — and Inward

We do not heal people here. We create conditions where people can heal themselves — and we are rigorous about this distinction. The Master guides. The land holds. The practices provide structure. But the actual work of transformation is done by the individual, in their own interior, at a depth that no teacher can reach on their behalf. This is not a limitation of our programs. It is their entire premise.

The Three Bodies Are One Conversation

In our teaching we refer to Sthula Sarira (the physical body), Sukhma Sarira (the subtle body — mind and feelings), and Antah Karana Sarira (the causal body — the soul). The reason most wellness approaches produce only temporary relief is that they address one layer while ignoring the other two. We move through all three, always. A session that begins with physical yoga may end somewhere profoundly emotional. That is not a side-effect. That is the point.

Open to All, Rooted in One

Every program here is open to participants of all backgrounds, religions, and prior experience levels. We do not require you to be Hindu, to identify as spiritual, or to believe anything specific. What we do offer is a tradition — rooted in Balinese-Hindu philosophy, Dharma teaching, and the lineage practices passed through Bhagawan's own initiation. You are warmly invited to receive whatever resonates and let the rest pass by.

Honesty Before Marketing

We Are Not For Everyone — And That Is by Design

We Ask More of You

Every program involves some degree of internal confrontation. You may be asked to journal, to sit in silence, to observe yourself without judgment. If you are looking for a passive spa experience, we will warmly recommend one. If you are ready to do the actual work, come.

Small Groups, Real Attention

We do not scale by filling rooms. Groups are kept deliberately small so that Bhagawan and Jero Ratni can maintain genuine contact with each participant. If you have been to retreats where you felt invisible, you will notice the difference.

The Curriculum Is Living

The team at Pasraman regularly undertakes their own dharma yatras — spiritual journeys that bring new understanding back into the teaching. What you receive here has not been frozen into a product. It is still breathing.

Service Is Part of the Path

For those who feel called, karma seva — voluntary service — is offered. You can contribute through cooking, cleaning, or teaching (if certified). This is not a transactional add-on. In the Balinese tradition, giving and receiving are the same energy moving in different directions.

The door is open

Your Journey Inward
Can Begin Any Time

Reach out to ask which program fits where you are right now. The team will respond honestly — including if this particular moment is not the right one for you to visit.

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A Place ThatRemembers Who You Are

Born from a PersonalJourney Inward