09-Jun-2024, After a short introduction to both finca’s, meeting the large group and a warm-up yoga session yesterday, Sunday June 9th 2024, is the first official day of the yoga retreat in Mallorca. I have been looking forward to this day for over six months and I have not been disappointed. I am careful with getting high expectations but this retreat has been absolutely amazing for several reasons. It has been such a wonderful trip and experience that on Day…
My next adventure takes me to Mallorca, a beautiful Spanish island. A trip that I am looking forward to for a long time and one I am very excited about. With two of my friends; Anggina and Marina, we are going to do a 6-day yoga retreat Reconnect and Recharge by Svenja Berndt. I have been doing yoga on a regular base the last few years and I am enjoying the practice a lot, so it is time to do…
13-May-2024, Tired but very satisfied is what I am feeling when writing this post. After another four weeks (eight weeks in total) of hard work and endlessly fixing Pelupuh bamboo on the roof, which I thought would never end. I have reached a beautiful milestone, the final milestone. At the end of week eight I have finished the little bamboo house that I have been working on so hard. Here is a short day to day recap of this final…
06-May-2024, unbelievable, we are already in week 7 with the bamboo building now. We still have quite a bit to do and I was hoping to have another great working week, just like the previous one; Mr. Madé and I were on fire. But it was not meant to be I guess; this week has not been as fruitful. Mr. Madé had been absent most of the time and I pretty much did all the work myself. Don’t get me…
29-Apr-2024, Last week has been such a long and tiring day, that I am taking a different approach this week. I didn’t move to Bali to always be working, I also want to enjoy some time off. Instead of working 5 days, I’m going down to 3,5 working days. After all, I also need some time to work on this blog and editing all those videos I am making. Believe it or not but editing all these videos also takes…
22-Apr-2022, the photo at the top is where we left of many weeks ago. After more than two months of traveling to Europe and doing several business trips (installations), with a 12-hour flight, 3-hour transit and another 5-hour flight, I am finally back in Bali. Unfortunately, no business class flight this time, but Cathay Pacific is a very good airline and I had a comfortable journey. Even though being exhausted from the flight (lack of sleep), I am not going…
05-Feb-2024, The bamboo course has officially ended, but I am determined to finish the job on “my” bamboo house. Perhaps one more week would be enough to finish everything? Natalie welcomes me to come back and finish the job in the week after the course. But as it turns out, Made and Bapak (the older gentleman that has also been helping us a lot) are no longer available, they have other projects to attend to. From now on, it will…
29-Jan-2024, Monday – With sore muscles and the exhaustion from yoga handstand workshop last weekend, I am lacking the motivation to do any kind of work today. I have trouble finding my flow but we have a (soft) deadline, so I push through and still manage to do quite a bit of work. While I was away, the team did a little bit of work on the house and made arches for the front and back face. In the morning…
– image above: the local vegetable market on the move 😂 – 22-January-2024, the second week of the Bamboo course and I am very excited and full of energy to begin the actually build of the model we made last week. To give you guys an idea of the location of the course: it’s on a large plot of land and basically somebody’s backyard. It is pretty big and looks a bit like a jungle. On this plot of land,…
The time is finally here, something I have been looking forward to for many weeks. As long as I can remember I am fascinated by bamboo buildings here in the Eastern part of the world. We do not have a lot of bamboo buildings in the West, but there is an abundance of bamboo structures here in Bali. Moreover, I am always into learning new things and acquiring new skills, on top of that I am a very hands-on person…