Presentation Sekar Jagat Spa School Bali at Ryubi International Beauty School Okinawa

Sekar Jagat Spa is a well established spa company. It was founded in 2000, so we have been running for around 12 years. Our location is at Jalan By Pass No. 96, Mumbul, Nusa Dua, on Bali Island - Indonesia. A strategic location since close to Nusa Dua Hotel Area (10mins), Jimbaran (10mins), the airport (20mins) and Kuta (30mins).

We have 17 rooms including 14 twin rooms, 2 triple rooms, and 1 quartet room. It is naturally designed with Balinese concept. Most of the rooms have half open access and a small garden, some of them are fully air-conditioned. Our premises have a large exotic Balinese beautiful garden and a big parking area. The spa is also completed with Balinese healthy cuisine.

Our therapists are professionally trained by Mrs. Putu Indri Artini Arta as the owner as well the director of the company. She has been traditionally spa practitioner for many years and she also graduated in spa diploma of local and international from CIBTAC (Confederation of International Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology) London in the subject of Anatomy and Physiology, Body Massage and Spa Therapy. She also joined intensive training from Guy Dumont (French) in the subject of lymphatic drainage massage. She has a lot of experience of restaurant service, food production and hotel management. And she has been the tutor of Sekar Jagat Spa Course, especially for overseas students. So that there would be no doubt about her knowledge to make Sekar Jagat Spa nominated as the best quality and service spa rated by the customers at tripadvisor.com and some International magazines.

Sekar Jagat Spa offers a balanced menu of traditional body treatments including mask, wrap, massage and many kinds of beauty care and packages for honeymooners and pre-weddings, birthdays and anniversaries, as well as the ones who want to find rejuvenation, energizing, balancing, and indulgence after being stressed and fatigue of the daily routine. Devoted to Balinese and Indonesian traditional treatments based on old recipes and ancient techniques Sekar Jagat Spa offers very effective therapies for indulging body, mind and spirit. 90% of the products we use is our own recipe and is our own product, so we can guarantee the best fresh quality without any chemical ingredients.

For around 10 years until now we have been holding short courses of Balinese esthetic, massage, body treatment, face and hair treatment. All tutors have a long experience and diploma certifications.

Sekar Jagat Spa has been facilitated with a restaurant called Bawang Merah Restaurant adjacent to the spa. The restaurant has been established since 2006 to serve our in home guests (spa customers) and the Internet bookings. The concept of the restaurant is open-air with a healthy diet of authentic Balinese cuisine, seafood and vegetarian. The restaurant has a total capacity of 80 seats.

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Instructors

Premises

Premises

Spa Restaurant

Spa Course

Course Participants

Balinese Massage and Spa School

You get practical lessons in Balinese spa techniques in individual massage training at our original spa premises with

authentic material and equipment. Our students are professional spa therapists, masseurs and masseuses, beauticians,

spa trainer and instructors, physiotherapists, doctors, nurses, midwives, and ambitious amateurs and film stars, they

come from all over the world to enjoy qualified training at our place.

Balinese Esthetic Short Courses (2 -15 days)

Balinese Body Massage

Body Lulur (traditional soft exfoliation)

Balinese Boreh (warm healing pack)

Balinese Traditional Facial

Stone Facial

Balinese Traditional Hair Cream Bath

Warm Stone Massage

Face Massage

Foot Massage

Head, Neck and Shoulder Massage

Body Wraps (seaweed, aloe vera, chocolate, strawberry)

Body Masks (honey milk, aloe vera, wild yam)

Ayurveda Massage Courses

Abhyanga Massage

Indian Head and Shoulder Massage

Ayurvedic Shirodhara

Balinese Esthetic Short Course Packages

A. 2 Days Package Material: The history of Balinese massage and SPA Theory and practice of Balinese massage Include: Free pick-up for Nusa Dua, Jimbaran, Kuta, Sanur Hand-out of course material, pen and paper and clipboard Model and instructor Lunch break: Grilled fish or grilled chicken with Balinese sambal, or fried rice or fried noodle (with free flow of aqua, soft drink, juice) Certificate: At the end of the lesson “awarded certificate” given Duration: From 10:00 to 15:00, 4 hours intensive training, one hour lunch break

B. 3 Days Package Material: The history of Balinese massage and SPA Theory and practice of Balinese massage Theory and practice of Balinese lulur/murut and body boreh Include: Free pick-up for Nusa Dua, Jimbaran, Kuta, Sanur Hand-out of course material, pen and paper and clipboard Model and instructor Lunch break: Grilled fish or grilled chicken with Balinese sambal, or fried rice or fried noodle (with free flow of aqua, soft drink, juice) Certificate: At the end of the lesson “awarded certificate” given Duration: From 10:00 to 15:00, 4 hours intensive training, one hour lunch break C. 4 Days Package Material: The history of Balinese massage and SPA Theory and practice of Balinese massage Theory and practice of Balinese lulur/murut and body boreh Theory and practice of traditional Balinese hair cream bath OR Head neck shoulder and foot massage Include: Free pick-up for Nusa Dua, Jimbaran, Kuta, Sanur Hand-out of course material, pen and paper and clipboard Model and instructor Lunch break: Grilled fish or grilled chicken with Balinese sambal, or fried rice or fried noodle (with free flow of aqua, soft drink, juice)

Certificate: At the end of the lesson “awarded certificate” given

D. 5 Days Package Material: The history of Balinese massage and SPA Theory and practice of Balinese massage Theory and practice of Balinese lulur/murut and body boreh Theory and practice of traditional Balinese hair cream bath OR Head neck shoulder and foot massage Theory and practice of traditional Balinese facial Include: Free pick-up for Nusa Dua, Jimbaran, Kuta, Sanur Hand-out of course material, pen and paper and clipboard Model and instructor Lunch break: Grilled fish or grilled chicken with Balinese sambal, or fried rice or fried noodle (with free flow of aqua, soft drink, juice)

Certificate: At the end of the lesson “awarded certificate” given Duration: From 10:00 to 15:00, 4 hours intensive training, one hour lunch break

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

OF BALINESE MASSAGE AND SPA

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Bali has been known widely for the strong spiritual life and their unique way of life compared with other

nations. They are all bound in tradition and culture, which all that is coming from the nature and inspiration

from the mighty god Ida Sang Hyang Widi Wasa. They have a strong and prime relation to the god, the nature

as well as to the human, which they actualize in many ways like making daily offering of what we normally eat

and drink after finished cooking in the morning, conducting many kinds of ceremonies range from ceremonies

for the god like temple festival and ceremonies for certain important days like Galungan, Kuningan and full

moon and so on. Ceremonies for humans range from the three-months-ceremony for the baby, tooth cutting,

marriage, then ended with cremation ceremony.

To show respect and thanks to the nature and of what grow and live in it they also make ceremonies which

already give very importance and a lot of meanings to their life. All this is mostly prepared and made by

women with or without the help of the husband. Realizing how big and important the duty and burden is,

carried on the shoulders of the Balinese especially woman, which is really playing an important role in

the family to keep their tradition and culture, that is why they should try to keep healthy and prima by using many

materials or ingredients that come from the nature like rice, turmeric, ginger, kencur, clove, pepper, coconut, salt,

sandalwood, flowers, cardamom, cinnamon and many others in which they trust it can protect them from

disease, release from tiredness, tension and pains and get relaxation and energy, and for beauty rituals. They use

it either as a preventive or curative which they compose in one healing herbalism recipe called Boreh. So Boreh is

a body mask or scrub made of herbs and other ingredients like sandalwood, coconut, candlenut, leafs and

flowers, and the base is always rice used for preventive and curative treatment (healing) by the Balinese people.

Massage is always the prior treatment before the application of herbalism.

Massage and Boreh as a Balinese healing herbalism is already become a way of their life in which they can live

according to the philosophy of Hindu Tri Hita Karana (three concepts in balance of harmony). It tells about

Parahyangan (our relation to the god), Pewungan (to keep in harmony and balance between human and human),

and Palemahan (harmonic relation with the nature).

Balinese massage and Balinese spa have been used and found in Bali from the prehistoric for centuries and

becoming more popular which is known as herbal medicine (boreh, jamu, loloh, minyak urat) which made of rice

flour and mixed of natural herbs according to the Lontar Usada Bali (the Hindu Sanskrit - the ancient knowledge

of medicine). On the other hand the massage itself was famous with the name “Meurut” done by tukang urut. This lontar

is giving a poof to us as well to the rest of the world that Hinduism in Bali herbal healing already exists as old as the

Balinese Hindu civilization itself. According to the historical evidence Bali healing herbalism and massage are influenced a

lot by Indian, Arab and Chinese culture. Further historical proof can be found in the stone relief of the biggest famous

Buddhist Borobudur temple, in the 8th - 9th century in Central Java, in the carving of depicting massage, Kalpataru leaf and

other ingredients. Bali is a part of Indonesia and before the whole islands of Indonesia were Hindu and the main base is

Java and Bali. The Hindu from India arrived in Indonesia about 400 A.D. which introduced Ayurvedic medicine using

scented oil for massage and herbal/plants for medicine. Later on trading here the Buddhist monks brought knowledge of

Chinese medicine, accupuncture and reflexology. Some massage techniques also got influenced by trades from Arab, China

and India who sailed throughout the islands for herbs and spices.

Later after the end of the first millennium the influence of the Java culture spread to the neighboring to the island of Bali.

Links were established between Java and Bali. The Muslims arrived in Java around 1450. When the Islamic religion break up

Majapahit Empire in the 15th century during the King Hayam Huruk, many Hindu from Java fled to Bali, they brought their

books, culture, custom and knowledge of healing to Bali. All this blended and enriched of what already existed and

developed in Bali. 1908 when the Dutch occupied Bali Island they took many of the Sanskrit books, hence also Balinese

herbalism and healing spreading in Europe. Hence the Balinese healing frequently mirrors Java’s healing tradition 400

years ago. Many similarities can be seen from this, for example in Bali called boreh is in Java called parm. Bali’s herbalism

drink called loloh is in Java called jamu. The Balinese body exfoliation is called murut in Java, is lulur. Now the word lulur is

the common term in Indonesia.

The massage and the spa ritual mostly developed in the royal family for the king and the queen and is a must ritual

ceremony for the pre-wedding for the royal family with the hope the god will bless bride and groom to get good

descendant and future welfare and luck. The ritual spend for few days, starting with massage, luluran (as cleansing

process) and ended with scented fragrant flower bath, then continued with hair cream bath and facial. Most palaces have

huge water spring baths and ponds with cold and hot water, completed with Balinese architecture and stone statues like

in Tirta Gangga (belongs to Karangasem kingdom) , Tirta Empol (Gianyar regency), Taman Kerta Gosa (Klungkung regency).

These rituals also spread among the people’s lifes in the cities in villages. Since the booming of spa in Bali starting 1980,

Balinese spa and massage have been adopted and commercialized in most hotels in Bali as well as all over the world

including luxury cruising ships and 5-star hotels.

That’s why there are many similarities between Balinese massage spa and the one from Java. The main differences are

found in melody, rhythm and terms. So Balinese masage and spa is very rich of techniques and knowledge which can be

explained scientifically and have been proved of having many benefits and indications to all systems of the body. It can be

relaxing, releasing, restoring, reenergizing, healing and balancing the body, mind and soul.

DEFINITION OF BALINESE MASSAGE

A Balinese massage is a full body experience that adopts a number of different techniques and

include a series of stretching (Thai), accupressure (Shiatsu), reflexology and aromatherapy. This is

normally a deep massage in which the therapist uses skin rolling, muscle kneading, hacking and

chopping to rid muscle tension, pain, loosen inflexible joints and ultimately relieve stress. A Swedish

is also a full body massage that is primarily relaxing , employing long effleurages with medium

pressure whereas deep tissue uses much of the same techniques but works deeper with strong

pressure to breakup knots and chronic muscle tension.

Indications / Benefits of Balinese Massage

• Soothing and relaxing / anti-stress

• Balancing body, mind and soul

• Calm the nerve system

• Improving flexibility of the body

• Reenergizing and rejuvenating

• Release tension, pain and muscle cramp

• Improve both blood and lymph circulation (in eliminating waste of metabolism, bacteria, virus, toxin,

and fat)

• Assist in sports injury

• Asssist in the recovery of in-muscle injury happen through accident

• Improve the work of heart, lung, kidney, and digestive system

• Removes toxic waste and brings oxygen and nutritents to the tissue

• Improving temperature of skin and muscles

• Removes surface dead skin cells and helps the skin becoming supple and soft, use of high-quality oil

plays also an important role

• Giving nutrient to skin and muscle

Contra-Indications of Balinese Massage

• Area of body that has extra hair can show irritations causing redness or discomfort

→ use powder instead of oil

• Recent wounds (cuts, bruising, new surgery scras)

• Bacterial inflammations

can spread the bacteria

• Internal inflammations (rheumatism, arthritis, gout)

• can worsen the condition

• Neuritis or neuralgia

• Varicose vein

• Very high blood pressure or very low blood pressure

• Cancer, diabetes, HIV, hepatitis

• Malignant tumor

• During first two days of menstruation avoid stomach