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Saiko Ohsara (20/04/2018 23:24)
There were healing stays and vegan cuisine, a hearty spa that have never been experienced.
Suastika Putra sandi (12/01/2018 08:05)
They provided many rooms, location easy to find, service are good.
Gurusev Uppal (14/08/2017 14:03)
Beautiful massage followed by a bath and totally worth it.
David SPAGNOLI (09/05/2017 07:04)
The best hotel I've seen! It's absolutely perfect!!!
Arkaitz Garro (10/04/2017 11:51)
The overall review would be: the most exquisite, welcoming and beautiful spa! Me and my wife had a full day experience at Fivelements. We were picked up from Ubud and taken on a private car to Fivelements, where we were welcomed with charm. We started our day with the Sakti ritual for two, including an incredible massage and a bath full of balinese ingredients. Then, we took part in a Agni Hotra fire ritual, which was the most healing, special and purifying ceremony. We then had a lovely lunch at the restaurant. Finally, we were returned by our driver to Ubud, and felt completely energised and healed after our experience.
Craig Glenister (12/03/2017 06:22)
Another day, another sunset..but just not any sunset.
Being the last full moon before Nyepi, and therefore highly important on the Balinese calendar, Val decided we should go to a Agnihotra ceremony. Like me, you probably ask, “What’s that?’ Being me, there is a four letter embellishment to the question.
It turns out that aginhotra is a ceremony for attracting, and surrendering, to the divine energies, plus, as it happened, getting the chance to meet a young six-foot blonde from Torquay, Australia. Female..need you ask?
Off we trot to the delightful Five Elements retreat just out of Ubud. We take our best friend Johnny, who owns the equally delightful Bali Eco Stay. His wicked wit shoots holes in any semblance of false authority. I give him plenty of ammunition.
We are all resplendent in our finest ceremonial gear. Before leaving I paste a Made Wijaya photo over my regalia, and decide I am missing a man bag. I swear that guy’s spirit haunts our full length mirror. As soon as I put on Balinese garb, up he pops. Can’t find the right bag, so let it slide.
Now sitting cross legged on orange cushions under a bale is not everyone’s cup of tea. There are 80 or so people crowded into the bale, and the discomfort shows on many a foreigner’s face. I sit smug. I have mastered the art. It only took me six years.
Low and behold the master of ceremonies looks like he has just stepped out of Eat, Pray, Love. And he has a sense of humour. Better and better. We all chant, are blessed several times, throw chickpeas in the fire until I think my arm is going to fall off, and have a wonderful time.
Val is in her element, until it comes time to break the coconut. Everyone has been handed a de-husked coconut to break. The idea is to walk outside, smash it on a rock, and so smash your ego. Johnny smashes it, and the water goes all over him. I crack up.
“The water is supposed to go into the earth and nourish it.“ I say
“Apparently I need it more than the Earth” he replies.
Val’s coconut won’t break. “I mustn’t have an ego’ she says with a grin.
“Rubbish!” I reply “You’re not throwing it hard enough. Don’t drop it..hurl it hard on this rock.” She does so, and it smashes into a million pieces and the water goes all over me. We all crack up.
We then go back inside and are instructed to hurl the coconut shards into the fire on a given chant. Now this is a big fire, and the bale has an alang-alang or grass roof. I look at Johnny..Johnny looks at me. Eighty or so people, all hurling their coconut shards into a fire at the same time seems to be a recipe for disaster. What the hell..we are sitting at the back anyway..we hurl. Nobody catches fire..but now the chanting becomes faster and faster. A drum has been added and the five priests are joined by a woman singer. The energy intensifies..hands start clapping and it is magic. Palm sugar is handed around and we throw that in the fire. The sweet smell of palm sugar and roasting coconut fills the bale. It all ends too soon.
We retire to a set dinner in the restaurant and are surprised there are only a handful of us. Five Elements is a vegetarian restaurant, so that may have turned many off. Johnny mentions that their head chef had left to start up a fabulous vegetarian restaurant in Ubud, and he was interested to see if the restaurant had lost anything. Val had eaten there recently and thought that the food at her last lunch was not up to its usual standard. It is. The food was simple, but stunning, and we all agreed we need to beg, borrow or steal their recipe for tahini.
As I had mentioned, Jonny owns a resort, Val and I had recently opened Alassari Planation, we are all vegetarians, and so can be very critical. The menu was perfect, the staff attentive, and the gardens had grown in leaps and bounds since I had last been there.
It was a great night, carried off with aplomb by Five Elements.
Kazuhiro Obara (28/05/2016 14:45)
delicious vegetarian foods