Exhale

Our signature retreat incorporating breathwork, contrast therapy, movement, mindful healing and massage. Our desire for this experience is to offer personal transformation through the foundations of the offerings of The Asa Maia. This package is our most physically active-oriented offering with morning, mid-morning and afternoon movement sessions. Feeling reinspired while you are here and after you leave is our intention with this fully immersive healing experience. A custom tailored mindfulness session with a healing practitioner will help you focus and learn more about your wellness journey.

Relax and Radiate

Our signature retreat focusing on your inner and outer beauty. Our desire for this experience is to offer rest, healing and a focus on your skin and muscles to fully release and reset. Transformation through relaxation with the offerings of The Asa Maia translates to an inward and outward glow that will have you feeling reinspired and radiating. If you select to join us for 3 days or more, additional a la carte healing practitioner sessions can be arranged according to your schedule and your desired journey. And as always with The Asa Maia bespoke approach, you can custom tailor your program with additional spa, movement or mindfulness sessions.

Rest & Reset

Our signature slow-down retreat focusing on enjoying The Asa Maia experience and having plenty of free time to rest, swim, sauna and explore Uluwatu. This package is a lovely introduction to the various offerings at The Asa Maia and creating time to see where your day takes you. Additional a la carte healing practitioner sessions can be arranged according to your schedule. And as always with The Asa Maia bespoke approach, you can custom tailor your program with additional spa, movement or mindfulness sessions.

Breathwork Technique Classes

Techniques to take away beyond your stay in Uluwatu

Our resident breathwork practitioner Syddarta believes in using breathwork to achieve profound self-transformation on both physical and mental planes, “by simply practicing our most basic instinct to survive”. Trained and certified in multiple breathing disciplines, he’s able to customize each classbased on participants’ experience and personal needs. In his deeply cathartic sessions you will learn how to fast track yourself into a deep meditational state through your breath. The teachings and their transformative powers don’t stop at the shala. Sy’s breathwork toolkit can be applied to everyday life and integrated into your routine, “[enabling] you to outperform yourself every day.”

A DIY Therapy

Our resort brings contrast therapy to Uluwatu, Bali

The Asa Maia’s 21st century take on this ancient healing practice is a luxury wet therapy version, courtesy of our subterranean 7.5°C cold and 40°C hot pools. The cadence and timing of each hot-cold session is important, as is keeping sufficiently hydrated. We recommend starting the therapy with heat and concluding with cold (unless you suffer from rheumatoid arthritis). Alternate between spending two minutes in the hot pool, followed by 60 seconds in the cold pool. This sequence should be repeated 3-6 times over a duration of 20-30 minutes. If you would prefer some professional guidance, our resident contrast therapist Sy is available for coaching sessions.

Pilates

Learn how to strengthen your core with confidence

A low-impact exercise focused on building core strength, balance and flexibility, pilates is suitable for individuals of all ages and fitness levels. By engaging the entire body, no muscle group is overlooked or underused. Not only can the practice stabilize your core, but it can improve body awareness, support postural alignment and bolster bone density as well. Best of all, the movements exert minimal stress on your joints. Our in-house pilates instructor and Uluwatu adoptee Daniela is a trained sports scientist from Brazil who’s coached professional dancers and surfers. Meanwhile, The Asa Maia’s more challenging Cadillac pilates classes are led by Daniela: a multi-talented therapist who also practices Thai Yoga Massage and Myofascial Release Therapy.

Types of Yoga

Choose a class according to your mood and energy

Our practices incorporate four main types of yoga that touch on everything from mindful movement to chakra balancing. A slower-paced session combining balance and strength-building holding poses, Hatha is a grounding style of yoga. The ancient healing practice of Kundalini, meanwhile, is designed to awaken your divine energy through a combination of breath (pranayama), mudras (hand movements), chanting and meditation. For a more aerobic and dynamic practice, we invite you to try Vinyasa, during which sequences flow from pose to pose with synchronized breathing. Focused breathwork is also a hallmark of Yin yoga. Rooted in Taoist teachings, asanas are held for anywhere from two seconds to five minutes to target your deeper connective tissues and fascia.