Love Potions, Sacred Charms and Guna Guna with Made Surya continues a series inspired by a talk presented by Made Suryasa at Usada Bali. Through stories, cultural context, and traditional teachings, Made explored the Balinese understanding of love charms, sacred symbols, spiritual protection, and the ethical dimensions of esoteric knowledge. Rather than presenting these subjects […]
Cucu Betutu: When Tradition Finds a New Table. In Bali, food has always carried meaning. Many traditional Balinese dishes were not originally everyday meals. They appeared during ceremonies, family gatherings, and important moments, prepared with time, knowledge, and a connection to place. The opening of Cucu Betutu brings an interesting shift. Food that was once […]
A Conversation on Resilience, Balance, and Modern Life with Dr. Krisna What Does it Mean to be Well? is written by By Dian Dewi Dr. Krisnawan. Co-Founder of UbudCare Wellness, General Practitioner and Pranic Healing Practitioner and Instructor. Dr.Krisna shares his knowledge and experience through talks and workshops at Usada, Bali. A recent evening discourse at Usada explored […]
When conversations turn to black magic in Bali, images of Rangda masks, mysterious rituals, haunted cemeteries, and whispered stories often come to mind. For many visitors, these stories sit somewhere between folklore and fascination, feeding a long-standing Western appetite for the exotic and unexplained. Yet as cultural educator Made Suryasa recently shared during a captivating […]
A World on a String: Susan Tereba Comes to Usada Bali There are dragons and scarabs, chickens and eggs, frogs and dragonflies, cats, mermaids, snakes, eagles, tiger angels, green men, mamulis, and ancient feminine forms. Spread across a table, they appear less like a jewellery collection and more like the inhabitants of an imagined world. […]
Blessing Ceremony for Paon Usada and Cucu Melaspas, Usada and a New Hearth. Today we gathered at a new extension of our Usada hearth in Campuhan. For a Melaspas ceremony to mark the beginning of the next exciting chapter for Usada Bali. In Bali, a Melaspas ceremony purifies and consecrates a newly completed building before […]
