Consultation
Day 1
A wellness consultation and physical assessment, then a programme assigned for the week.
- Consultation and assessment
- Programme assigned
- Hydrotherapy circuit introduced
YogaCOMO Shambhala Estate · Ubud, Indonesia
The residential week, 7 nights
A consultation, then an assigned programme in steep jungle above the Ayung — the model that made Bali serious.
From · sharingUS$3,700
From · singleUS$4,450
Per person. Sole occupancy is not half a double, and we would rather you saw both now.
- Length
- 7 nights
- Group
- Max 12
- Intensity
- moderate
- Lengths
- 7 · 10 · 14 nights
- Discipline
- Yoga
What this actually is
The programme
You are consulted on arrival and assigned a programme rather than handed a menu — the model COMO built here in 2005 and has since exported across the group. Ayurvedic-influenced, yoga-anchored and heavily hydrotherapy-based.
Five residences in steep jungle above a river gorge, reached on foot. The terrain is genuinely part of the programme, and genuinely a consideration if you have knees.
Intensity: Moderate — you will notice it. Every programme here carries this line, because "restorative" and "demanding" are sold with the same photographs.
Read this part twice
Who this is for, and who it is wrong for
Read the right-hand column as carefully as the left. It is the half that decides whether this is a good fortnight or a wasted one, and it is published before the price for that reason.
✓Book this if
- A first residential retreat
- Anyone who wants the decisions made for them
- Guests who will actually use a hydrotherapy circuit twice a day
- Travellers who want Bali without Ubud town
✗Do not book this if
- Anyone with significant knee, hip or mobility limitation — the site is steep and stepped
- Guests wanting a single tradition; the approach here is deliberately eclectic
- November to March, the wet season
The shape of it
Day by day
Days shift according to how you respond — that is the point of a daily review. This is the structure, not a timetable.
The programme
Days 2–6
Daily bodywork or Ayurvedic treatment, twice-daily practice, hydrotherapy, and a kitchen that treats food as part of the assignment.
- Daily treatment
- Twice-daily practice
- Prescribed nutrition
Continuation
Day 7
A written continuation plan and a follow-up at four weeks.
- Written plan
- Four-week follow-up
A day, hour by hour
What a Tuesday actually looks like
Four hours are fixed; the hydrotherapy circuit is open all day and most guests use it twice.
- Wake
- Morning practiceYoga or a guided walk down to the river.
- Breakfast
- TreatmentPer the assignment made at your arrival consultation.
- Lunch
- Hydrotherapy circuitVitality pool, plunge, steam. Twenty minutes, twice a day.
- Second treatment or a class
- Restorative practice
- Dinner
Where you stay
COMO Shambhala Estate
The property that made Bali a serious wellness destination rather than a yoga town — a residential health retreat in jungle above the Ayung.
COMO Shambhala EstateBegawan, Payangan, above the Ayung river · Indonesia
It is expensive for Bali, the terrain is genuinely steep — a real consideration if you have knees or a hip — and the wellness is contemporary and eclectic rather than rooted in a single tradition. If you want a lineage, this is not it. If you want the best-run residential retreat on the island, it probably is.
The full profile →Who looks after you
Supervision, by qualification and number
You will not find a physician's name on this site. Staff move, and a page that names one is a page that quietly goes out of date — worse, it invites you to book a person no house can promise will be on shift. Assignment is made on arrival, from your examination, at every serious property here.
- Clinical supervision
- Resident wellness practitioners, nutritionists and movement specialists, with Ayurvedic and traditional Balinese therapists alongside.
- The team around you
- Every stay opens with an assessment that sets the programme, rather than confirming a package chosen in advance.
- Consultations
- An opening assessment, a mid-week review and a departure consultation with a written plan.
Your consultation is with our clinical desk, not a salesperson. The free call before you book is about whether this programme is right for you at all — and often enough it ends with a recommendation to go shorter, later, or somewhere we do not sell.
Counted, so you can compare
What is actually in it
Most of this industry publishes inclusions as a bulleted list, which cannot be compared between two programmes at two prices. These can.
- 14+hours of treatment
Bodywork, hydrotherapy and Ayurvedic or Balinese therapies as the assessment directs.
- 7hours of personal training
Movement, pilates or the outdoor circuit, one to one.
- 3hours of consultation
Assessment, nutrition and the departure plan.
- 2kitchens
Glow for the nutrition menus and Kudus House for Balinese cooking — the rare wellness kitchen you would eat at by choice.
The money
Prices, by season and occupancy
Both occupancies in every band, before you enquire rather than after. Sole occupancy is not half a double and never has been — publishing only the sharing rate quotes the minority of this market and surprises the rest.
The house's standard, and the length its programmes are designed at.
| Season | Sharing | Single |
|---|---|---|
| Low seasonFebruary, March, October and November | US$3,700 | US$4,500 |
| ShoulderApril to June and September | US$4,200 | US$5,000 |
| High seasonJuly, August, December and January | US$4,900 | US$5,900 |
- Low season. The wet months, which in Ubud means an afternoon downpour rather than a washout. Green, cheap and quiet.
- Shoulder. The best combination of weather and price on the island, and the months we book most.
- High season. European and Australian holidays. Excellent weather, full houses, and the highest rates of the year.
What the price is. Per person for seven nights, including the room, all meals from the nutrition kitchen, the assessed programme of treatments and movement, use of the hydrotherapy facilities, the daily class timetable and return transfers from Denpasar. Flights quoted separately.
Illustrative, and held for seven days once we have quoted you in writing. Nothing on this site costs more for booking it through us.
The detail
What the price covers
Included
- Seven nights, residence room
- Arrival consultation and assessment
- Daily treatments per the assigned programme
- All meals
- Twice-daily practice and hydrotherapy
- Transfers from Denpasar
Not included
- Flights and visa — flights quoted separately
- Insurance
- Treatments outside the assigned programme
Cancellation. Free to 30 days before arrival. Half between 30 and 14 days. Inside 14 days we hold the full amount as a credit for twelve months rather than keeping it — a cancelled treatment is usually a health reason.
Questions
The ones we are actually asked
Is it worth the price for Bali?
It is roughly three times a good Ubud retreat and it is not three times better. What you are buying is the setting, the consultation-led structure and a two-decade operating record. If the budget matters more than the address, Fivelements gives you a great deal of the same for far less.