Shanti Toya Ashram

An hour from Denpasar airport and a mere twenty minutes from Ubud lies the beautiful and serene Shanti Toya. A wonderfully peaceful retreat that is perfect for anyone seeking some quiet and yogic solitude. During your week (or more) you will have twice daily yoga sessions consisting of vinyasa, hatha and yin. Three delicious vegan meals are provided every day, and the rooms are spacious and very clean. The surrounding area is a lush green of rice fields, trees and vegetation. On site there is a large spring water swimming pool. Relaxing massages, for a small cost, are also provided just a few steps from your room in cool and calming surroundings. Daily trips and activities are also arranged, including a fantastic Balinese experience tour around the local area of Badung. A wonderful place that I would happily stay at again.

Shanti Toya is a hidden gem snuck into a lush natural setting. The place is simple in the most lovely way. The yoga is accessible and challenging. The teachers were amazing and were so natural in their approach. Kalina was so welcoming and Tarah ability to create a little community there with the guests for a week was magical. If you’re lucky enough to go to this lovely place do it.

A serene and beautiful place - the retreat at Shanti Toya was amazing! Refreshed and recharged my mind, body and soul 🙏🏽Kalina, Widi, Putu, Ketut, Dalia and the whole team are kind and generous souls, organising our daily activities and tours, and sharing Balinese culture and traditions. The vegan meals were bountiful and delicious, the massages by Bu Agus were sublime! The yoga classes offer different styles and the teachers are awesome - modifying and adjusting the pace to suit us all. I met some wonderful ladies and made new friends. I highly recommend this retreat to anyone in need of complete rest and relaxation and I hope to be back again soon. Suksma 🙏🏽

Incredible place with wonderful people! It was one of my best experiences I ever had. So inspiring! The local yoga teachers were very professional and the classes have been so good and for all levels (I am a beginner), the food was amazing and we had a lot of other attractions. It felt like a family, all in all it was perfect.

I am very blissful for this amazing retreat! The hosts are so welcoming, friendly and helpful. The programme is perfect with different very good teachers and differents yogas, excellent massage and local insights such as balinese dancing lesson, cooking lesson, preparing and doing offerings, ricefields.. The venue is breathtaking due to its location, jungle surroundings and pool with source water. The accommodation is just what you need. The food is so delicious! This week was just what I needed to fully reload my batteries in a laidback area and be with a great bunch of people. I'll be back, Suksama ! :)

Enjoyable and PEACEFULL yoga retreat in a beautiful place surrounded by nature, a nice village and ricefields. The food was delicious, all the people and yoga class were very nice... and that wonder springwater swimming pool !!! We also learnt a lot about balinese culture thanks to the team member and village. Although our room was verry basic with old furniture (the standard double room with AC and private bathroom) we did sleep well. We surely will remember this week forever.

I have been to Shanti Toya 4 times! Each time I go to Bali is where I stay. I am a yoga practitioner, a nature and healthy food lover, a traveler seeking for authentic experiences and like minded people with whom to have meaningful conversations. In Shanti Toya I always find this all. On top of it, it's run by lovely genuine people that will go beyond in order to deliver an unforgettable experience. The yoga classes cover many styles and this is fun, all of the teachers are balinese, there's also a sound healing and a Kirtan in the program; during the day you can join cultural experiences they organise for the guests or chill by the pool immersed in a beautiful tropical garden, walk around the village and rice fields, catch a Gojek to Ubud if you need to (is only 25 minutes away) or relax getting a wonderful massage. If you are looking for a place where to recharge, nourish body and soul and just be, away the pricy fanciness, traffic and pollution of other nearby destinations, that's the place to be!

This place is a true haven. I arrived feeling pretty beaten down after a hard year, and within a week, I was already feeling stronger, saner and healthier. Kalina and all the people running the ashram are so friendly and kind. The yoga is great, tailored to all abilities, and takes place on an open platform right in the jungle canopy. The food is vegan and delicious (especially breakfast!), and there’s always tea and snacks available. If you’re feeling up to it, there’s a daily activity to take part in, but you can also just relax in the beautiful pool. The best thing about this is that you are joining a wonderfully supportive community of staff and fellow guests. It’s not a luxury retreat, but that’s not the point - it’s clean, comfortable and excellent value. It’s also a joy to be out in the countryside if you’ve just been battling the traffic of Ubud or Canggu. I cannot recommend Shanti Toya highly enough.

Wonderful experience. If you are looking for a yoga retreat, this is the place for you. The staff are wonderful, helpful, attentive and kind, the food is beautiful and in abundance, the location is serene and immersed in nature. The yoga practise was beautiful, twice a day Yin and Yang styles. The friends I made were amazing. Also the price is extremely cost effective for what you get. Also I was a solo female traveller and felt very safe! If you are feeling the call, go go go xxx