Our Gardener Team

We take pride in the fact that all our staff participates in trash separation, which is rather unheard of in the most parts of Bali. We all participate in making compost, in the kitchen we separate the compostable kitchenscraps from the paper and the plastic, and in the garden we save all the garden clippings, grass to mix in with the kitchen scraps and shred the branches for mulch.

Our staff is teaching everyone at home as well, as they see how great clean beauty feels to the welbeing of the soul.

We have grown our garden from bare soil in 2009 to a full lush blooming, and fruitbaring garden in 2013 by using composting bins that produce soil in 3 weeks! All we use is organic compost for fertilzation, a fairly new concept in Bali.

Bees are hanging in the trees to help polination of all our fruit trees and to provide honey.

We have: mango, papaya, coconut, breadfruit and advocado trees, as well as tapioca plants, Bali spinach, lemnon grass, hibiscus, and healing plants.

We believe that to help the bees is to help humanity to survive!

Our SPA Team

It is our SPA team along with our Housekeeping staff take care of receiving guests with flowers and showering you with flowers and blessings when you leave.

Our Restaurant Team

Living in Heaven on Earth, which to me is embedded in the name SHAMBALA, implies the fact that we eat healthy food, food made with love, and of course vegetarian food, food where we did not have to kill another creature . As part of our mission we have dedicated ourselves to promote vegetarianism . When guests stay with us sometimes up to four weeks they are often surprised to discover, that they can live quite well without eating meat.

When we started to build Shambala back in 2008 the RAW or VEGAN movement was not yet in vogue as it is now. However we have learned many recipes and can cater to clients who request RAW or VEGAN food. We offer a milk substitutes such as coconut or soy milk, and if you let us know of any allergies, we can cater to your needs as well.

Furthermore you will find that we do not offer any food with garlic.
The reason for this is that we discovered that garlic may not be conducive to higher state of consciousness through the research done Dr. Bob Beck. Back in the seventies. While he was training C.I.A. agents in Remote Viewing (the ability to read documents remotely, without looking at them) decades ago.

What they found was startling:
What he discovered in these training sessions was that whenever his Remote Viewing students ate foods which contained garlic, they could no longer perform the Remote Viewing tasks, which they have been able to well before eating food with garlic .

After further research they discovered that it was the active ingredient of sulphone hydroxyl, which actually passes the blood barrier which is supposed to keep everyting out of the brain, that caused this effect.
Garlic usually desynchronises brain waves, he found. (And see article here http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/garlic-brain-toxin.html)
He also mentions that it reduces the brain speed reaction time.

In India It is also well known fact. Most monasteries and Ashrams do not allow their monks or students to eat any food that contains garlic, including onions and leeks, in order to ensure better meditation and focusing abilities.

Garlic also as many beneficial qualities as we know, and can be used as a medicine. But who wants to eat medicine all the time? If the monks in India don't eat it, why should we, especially in a place called Shambala!

BREAD BAKING:
Over the years we've been blessed with amazing people, who taught us their favorite recipes. There was for example Merlin from Germany who showed our staff how to bake bread, also Focaccia bread! If you smell that great waft of fresh baked bread floating through the air, you now know it is our kitchen faries. We even bake gluten free breads as well as gluten free sweet treats for our guest!

You may also be delighted to know but we don't use cheap oils for cooking and frying.
We splurge our budget on olive oil and for deep frying we use coconut oil!

CLEAN WATER:
All are salads and vegetables are washed with triple purified water, which in the end is also treated with UV light. This allows us to offer you raw food and salads.

We give away all the food in the evening to our staff if we have leftovers, and none of our food gets reused. We prefer to cook from scratch every single day to ensure your health and safety.

Besides the amazingly heartfelt staff working in the kitchen, seen or unseen, sometimes busy behind the counter and sometimes bringing you food, we offer the most amazing seating right by the ocean. We have covered outdoor seating for 22 people, where you can enjoy our signature coffee WHITE DOG, which is a fair trade coffee, made from selected beans, grown in Indonesia, while sitting on rustic wooden furniture hand made and carved by Bali people, and enjoy your Heaven on Earth with us gazing over the ocean.

Our Security Team

After the sunsets and the star as rise, the guests at Shambala go to sleep. What they may not know is, that two angels are watching over them. From sunset and sunrise our security team is available to you, if you ever have a special need.

Of course some guests arrive late at night and it is again our angels that will greet them.
And then there are the Dolphin excursions, which require that somebody wakes you up early in the morning and shows you to the dolphin boats. Again our security comes to help our guests in the wee hours of the mornings.

And we're blessed to say that in the north of Bali far away from any major roads we're nestled into a safe little haven.

Our Maintenance Genie

Our maintenance team as a one man show. We are so very blessed to have our super gifted AGUS ARIES, who works incessantly to keep up the many things that corrodes due to the salty ocean air. In the beginning I thought we would it get by with calling a person whenever we need it someone for maintenance. Did I have to learn in a hurry that there is always something to be fixed at a retreat center, especially living this close to the ocean.

When you're not watching he takes care of the computers, cleans the pool, fixes pumps, make sure the water towers are filled with water, changes the light bulbs, repairs the cables that have been eaten by termites, make sure the sound systems, to the projector the fans and the AC all work.
And when he has an extra moment he makes sure that he lacquers the tables after he sends them down.

It is unbelievable with the power of nature can do. Saltwater this close to the ocean penetrates almost everything, corrodes things and for example makes it necessary that we change the door handles almost every here if not every other year.