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 […]
There comes a point in many conversations around health where the discussion starts to move beyond the purely physical. The symptoms are still there, the condition still has a name, but another layer begins to enter the picture. In this second conversation with Dr. Krisna, we speak more directly about energy. Not in an abstract […]
An interview with the Co-Founder of Himba Raya Indonesia. Article by Dian Dewi. Himba Raya Indonesia is a non-profit organization that aims to raise awareness about environmental degradation, and the need for solutions that support local communities In Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. There are moments during interviews where a single sentence quietly reframes the entire conversation. […]
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Living, and the Launch of the Usada Supper Club At Usada, wellness lives at the intersection of practice, culture, and lived experience. This May, we welcome Ayurvedic author Ulli Allmendinger for the launch of her new book The Power of Ayurveda, alongside the introduction of a new experiential series, the Usada Supper […]
