Discover the meaning of Saraswati and Pagerwesi, two powerful Balinese Hindu ceremonies that honor divine wisdom and spiritual protection. A soulful guide for seekers drawn to Bali’s sacred rhythm.
Authentic Balinese Energy Healing
Authentic Balinese Energy Healing
by Jack van den Berg
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In Bali, healing is not merely physical — it is energetic, spiritual, and deeply interwoven with the harmony of the seen and unseen worlds. Authentic Balinese Energy Healing draws from ancient wisdom rooted in Balinese Hinduism and animistic beliefs. It honors the truth that illness, misfortune, or imbalance often arise from disruptions not only in the body, but in one’s energy field, relationships, or spiritual connection.
At its heart, Balinese energy healing is about rebalancing — restoring harmony between the individual and the five cosmic elements. This is achieved through prayers, mantras, ritual purification (Melukat), sacred offerings, and the guidance of a Hindu priest or a Balian, a traditional healer.
What is the difference between a Priest and a Balian?
Not all priests perform healing rituals, but when they do, they utilize their divine connection and cosmic energy to infuse healing energy into the body, mind, and soul of the person in need.
A Balian is not just a healer, but also a spiritual intermediary. Some are born into the calling, others are chosen through signs, dreams, or spiritual inheritance. Their role is not self-appointed; it is often said that the healing energy works through them, not from them.
Each Balian may work differently — some use trance states, herbs, massage, or energy transmission through the hands. Others receive messages from ancestral spirits or divine guides. What they all share is a deep reverence for the spiritual dimension of healing.
The Energy Behind the Practice
In Balinese understanding, energy (tenaga dalam) is not abstract — it is real and tangible. When disrupted by negative thoughts, karmic residues, or spiritual interference, a person may feel fatigued, emotionally unsettled, or even physically ill. The healer seeks to clear these blockages, restore alignment, and reconnect the person with the divine balance known as Tri Hita Karana — the harmony between human, nature, and spirit.
Emotions, Mind, and the Soul’s Alignment
In this worldview, emotions are not random or accidental; they are a natural part of human experience. They can be seen as the soul’s mirrors. Joy reveals alignment; sadness, stress, anxiety, or depression may reflect deviation from one’s truth or purpose. Yet between soul and body lies the mind—the interpreter, the filter, and sometimes the interrupter.
The mind can shape beliefs that color our emotions, suppress feelings to protect the soul’s vulnerability, or analyze sensations until they become disconnected from meaning. True healing invites the mind to soften, to become curious, and to return to its rightful place as servant of deeper awareness.
When mind, emotion, and body are realigned with the soul’s steady light, healing flows naturally.
A Living Experience of Healing
Healing, in the Balinese way, is not something imposed from outside — it is a process of remembering and rebalancing. The role of the energy healer is not to “fix” but to create sacred conditions where healing energy can flow once more. With reverence and intuition, they help dissolve — or gently dismantle — the energetic blockages that may have formed over years or even decades. These blockages, often rooted in unprocessed emotions or spiritual disconnection, begin to soften in the presence of prayer, touch, ritual, and divine guidance.
The healing itself is not mechanical — it is alive. It moves through the person like a sacred current, clearing what no longer serves, reconnecting them to their soul’s deeper rhythm. What many feel afterward is not simply “relief,” but often a return: to vitality, to inner confidence, to a sense of well-being that is both ancient and freshly born.
If this stirs something within you, take a moment today to sit quietly.
Place your hands over your heart. Ask inwardly, “Where might I be out of balance?” Then listen — with no need to fix, only to witness.
In Bali, healing begins not just with a ritual, but with a return to inner alignment.
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