Power, Without Armor
Bali Retreat 2027

A Trauma-Informed & Shadow Work Retreat

Power, Without Armor is an immersive retreat for professionals, leaders, practitioners, founders, and change-makers who are ready to stop relating to life through survival alone.

It offers a carefully held space to meet what has gone unprocessed beneath competence, productivity, caregiving, and the long habit of abandoning yourself in order to keep going.

An opportunity to detox your nervous system, your authentic leadership story, and your self-worth in a magical village nestled among rice fields, where dragonflies dance by day, fireflies glow by night, and a wild symphony of crickets and frogs holds your healing.

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Retreat Details

Over seven days in Ubud, Bali, you’ll join a small cohort of peers inside a magical village, with space intentionally structured for deep rest, honest inquiry, and nervous system repair.

After exploring this page take some time to sense whether this timing, this place, and this level of depth are right for you.

Date: March 2- March 9, 2027

Location: Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

Cohort size: Max 11 participants (7 spots left)

Application process: Application + Short conversation

Facilitator: Maria Marc | Trauma Integration Practitioner

Why this retreat

Moral Injury is what happens when you have to live, work, or lead in ways that violate your values, often because of power dynamics, systemic injustice, or relational betrayal. Over time, the body carries what the mind has had to normalize: over-functioning, numbness, urgency, perfectionism, collapse, and the slow erosion of self-trust.

This retreat is for people who sense that what looks like burnout may be something deeper. Not just stress, but a rupture between your body, your truth, and the ways you have had to adapt in order to survive the systems, roles, or relationships around you.

This is not about becoming more polished. It is about becoming more coherent - someone whose leadership, choices, and inner life no longer depend on betraying what they know to be true.

Inside peak

This work is trauma-informed, relational, somatic, and precise. It draws from trauma integration practices, nervous system repair, Compassionate Inquiry, and deep relational attunement to help you recognize the adaptations that once protected you, but may now be shaping your life in ways that no longer serve who you are becoming

During our time together, you will be supported to:

Slow down enough to hear what your body has been carrying beneath competence, caregiving, and performance.
Understand the patterns beneath over-responsibility, emotional inhibition, collapse, control, or chronic self-override.
Explore the implicit memories, protective beliefs, and automatic responses your nervous system never forgot.
Restore regulation before strategy, felt safety before performance, and presence before productivity.
Rebuild trust in your body as a source of intelligence and inner authority, not just a site of symptoms.
Bring your values, boundaries, voice, and actions back into relationship with one another, so how you live and how you lead begin to feel more congruent.

Who this is for

This retreat may be a fit if you:

Are navigating leadership, transition, or increased visibility while privately running on fumes.
Hold space for others but rarely feel deeply held yourself.
Sense that what looks like burnout, over-functioning, or collapse may also be moral injury and chronic self-abandonment.
Know your next level of leadership, practice, or life requires more truth, embodiment, and inner repair - not just better strategy.
Are ready to stop confusing survival with strength, and to let your body have a say in how you move forward.

This may include leaders, founders, practitioners, helpers, facilitators, caregivers, and change-makers whose bodies have been adapting to impossible environments for far too long - and who are now ready to relate to themselves with more honesty, authenticity, and self-respect.

What you could walk away with

Real change is often quiet. It begins through small, steady shifts as your nervous system recalibrates and your inner world becomes a more trustworthy place to live.

You may begin to notice:

More space between stimulus and response.
Less urgency, less bracing, and less internal fragmentation.
A greater capacity to tell the truth without immediately abandoning yourself.
Clearer boundaries, with less guilt and less over-explaining.
More discernment about what belongs to you and what does not.
Leadership that feels less performative and more rooted in integrity.

The shift is not toward perfection. It is toward coherence - toward becoming someone whose life no longer depends on betraying what you know to be true.

Why Bali

Some truths become easier to hear when you are no longer surrounded by the environment that taught you to mute them. Stepping away from those systems gives your nervous system a chance to loosen its grip on urgency, control, and constant adaptation.

Bali offers beauty, spaciousness, rhythm, and sensory relief - a felt experience of slowing down that many people have never fully allowed themselves. In that atmosphere, it becomes easier to sense the gap between how life has looked on the outside and how you have actually been living on the inside.

This setting is not the point of the retreat, but it matters. It quietly supports the kind of slowing down required for deeper listening, more honest contact, and a more trustworthy relationship with yourself.

And yes, I might be a bit biased... I love the place I’ve chosen for our experience together, and I trust it to hold the depth of this work.

Accommodations

We will stay in century-old antique bungalows, original wooden houses brought over from remote villages in Java, decorated with beautiful carvings, 100% recycled teak wood. All balconies are facing the rice fields, with its own private outdoor garden. Dragonfly Village is all about conscious living – rooms are equipped with ceiling fan, there is no AC in all our bungalows – Ubud is slightly cooler at night.

Each bungalow has an attached mud-wall bathroom, passion fruits & vines climbing over the natural roof, semi-open to the nature. Clean finishing. Hot shower is available. All rooms are supplied with natural organic shampoo, soap and insect repellent. See room samples below.

Single Room Bungalow

This fan-cooled room is fitted with wooden interiors, mosquito net and a private semi open bathroom with a shower. It has a seating area on the front terrace with it’s own garden facing the open rice fields.

Shared Room Bungalow

Accommodating up to 3 guests, this fan-cooled room is fitted with wooden interiors, mosquito nets and a private semi open bathroom with a shower. It also has a seating area on the front terrace with it’s own garden facing the open rice fields.

Private Nook in Large Bungalow

Each corner is semi enclosed with added privacy of drop-down curtain separation.

2 bathroom facilities attached. Outside terrace (14m2) with rice field view.

Best comfort level is 4 pax.

Mango Bungalow

Single or Shared Occupancy

Papaya Bungalow

Shared Occupancy

Blue Moon Bungalow

Quadruple Occupancy

Investment

Power, Without Armor Retreat - Bali, Indonesia
7 Nights | March 2 - 9, 2027
Single-occupancy Bungalow $2,300
Double-occupancy Bungalow $2,000 (per person)
Private Nook in the large Bungalow $1,900
(Min non-refundable deposit $700 to reserve your place
Remaining balance due by January 11, 2027

What's Included

Your Experience

Over the course of the retreat, you will be guided through a carefully held blend of:

Trauma-informed group facilitation.
Somatic and nervous system practices.
Reflective and relational inquiry.
Creative Play.
Surprises.
Spacious integration time for rest, contemplation, and embodiment.
Meaningful connection with other thoughtful humans who are also ready to live and lead with more integrity.

The pace is intentional. There is room for insight, but also for digestion... room for honesty, but also for beauty; room for depth, without pressure to perform transformation.

Transportation

Bali Airport Pickup to retreat drop-off point - Dragonfly Village is not accessible by car the last 700m.

Luggage motorbike transfer during check in and check out from & to taxi drop off point (pack light so you can enjoy your experience). It will be fun!

Bungalow Style Rooms

Single Room and Shared Room occupancy with daily housekeeping (natural soap, shampoo, insect repellent, drinking water refill set up in each bungalow).

Sebatu Tour Experience

Sunrise Trekking Mount Batur

Meals

3 buffet style vegetarian or vegan meals/day in a combination of Balinese cooking and fusion.

~ Typical breakfast menu:

daily mix fruits salad plus a main option of rice flour pancake / oats porridge / brown rice savory porridge / omelette / scrambled tofu, and many more. Dragonfly Village has an organic garden and they bake their own 100% gluten free bread. How fabulous is that :)

~ Typical lunch / dinner menu:

big green salad with different dressings / soups (vegetable, lentils, pumpkin, raw thai coconut, gazpacho) / Balinese nasi campur / curry mix vegetable / mung bean curry / grilled veggies hummus wrap / tempe steak with spinach / mixed dish served in dragonfly bowl and many more...daily dessert.

Note: smoothies / fruit juices are not included but can be ordered at extra.

One 60-min Traditional Balinese Massage

Other Amenities

~ Two-floor wooden studios (for movement & workshops).

~ Salt water pool.

~ Herbal steam sauna (3 times a week regularly open to Ubud community as well). Best for soothing tired muscles, for detoxing your skin and lung.

~ Unlimited drinking water refill, Dragonfly herbal tea and

organic Balinese coffee.

~Fiber Optic WIFI and night security guard.

What's Not Included

Airfare to Bali

Visa on Arrival (official fee: 500,000 IDR per person for a 30‑day tourist visit visa (VoA or e‑VOA)/ $32-$35 USD

Drop-off service to the Airport on the last day ($20 per car - fitting up to four passengers and luggage)

Additional Massages and Tours

Traveler's insurance

Alcoholic beverages and/or any extra meals

Interested?

YYou do not need more force to become who you are. You may need a space where what has been carried alone can finally be met with enough safety, precision, and compassion that it becomes workable, instead of something you have to keep managing in isolation.

Power, Without Armor is an invitation into that kind of space. A place to loosen the grip of survival, restore your relationship with your body and your values, and begin living and leading with greater somatic and moral integrity, without having to abandon yourself to make it happen.

The deposit is $700 to reserve your spot.

Your deposit allows us to put down non-refundable deposits on lodging, excursions, and ground transportation.

Deposits are non-refundable unless we are able to find someone to take your spot.

Cancellations 90 to 45 days in advance are eligible for a 50% refund.

Fees are non-refundable 44 days before the start of the event.

If you would like to enquire more about this retreat please email contact@schoolforhumanity.org, fill in a contact form, or book a call.