Bali’s Sacred Water Connection: Journey to COMO Shambhala Estate

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Award-winning author Levison Wood bears witness to the inalienable connection to the element of water at COMO Shambhala Estate.

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• Award-winning author Levison Wood bears witness to the inalienable connection to the element of water at COMO Shambhala Estate.
• Water plays an important part in all our lives, but few cultures worship our inalienable connection to that element more than the Balinese.
• I recently found myself as an unexpected guest in the company of one of Bali’s most revered high priests, Jro Mangku, at a Hindu shrine set in the enchanting grounds of COMO Shambhala Estate.
• For centuries, this ancient spring has marked the beginning of a journey of transformation for people in search of balance and healing.
• The sacred water flows from The Source through the entire Estate, filling its hydrotherapy pool, feeding its kitchens, supplying the showers in every room.
• Quite aside from my own physiological reliance on water, I have always been drawn to those places from which it flows.
• In my work as an author, explorer and documentary-maker, I once walked the length of the River Nile, starting at its furthest source in the verdant hills of Rwanda.
• I’ve traipsed to the furthest reaches of the Amazon, ridden to the headwaters of the Oxus in Afghanistan, and dived into the mysterious sinkhole cenotes of Mexico’s Yucatán, often in search of treasure, though usually it comes in the form of a spiritual shift.
• Back in 2012 I led an expedition to walk across Madagascar, a probable first from coast to coast.
• It was here that I cemented a firm friendship with Dr Kate Page.

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