Welcome to my beautiful White Lotus!
This beautiful small house set in the Garden on the White Lotus is a complete house with an outdoors kitchenette, huge bathroom, king-sized bed with mosquito-net and a outdoor terrace furnished with a swing chair, table, bench and stool, hammock and the most beautiful view of the ravine, river and rice-fields.
To make your holiday more comfortable we build a plunge-pool in the Garden, which gives you a very refreshing feeling.
After an evening Heart of Chakra meditation class overlooking the rice fields, I sit across from a woman with glistening white hair, warm yet direct eyes who is relishing her bintang beer and avocado salad. Italian born but reborn in Puna, with the Sanskrit name Sandeh, one sentence lingers in the air: “My life began at 68 years old with this Ubud home.†And so the story unfolds….
Sandeh was drawn into meditation byn guru Osho. A German accredited psychotherapist, she learnt how to bring meditation into therapy in. She deeply believes that meditation is a tool to open the heart. Once meditation became a regular part of her life, her dream was to own a central meditation hall where groups could practice and grow together, with little houses to host practitioners. Her dream was so vivid that she drew it on paper and began the global search for the perfect location. She travelled all the continents seeking the manifestation of her vision. It wasn’t until many years later, having spent some precious time in the small central Balinese city of Ubud, that she found her oasis.
From the moment she walked onto the last bit of empty land on Jl Kajeng street, she knew she had found home. As Sandeh signed the lease, the name White Lotus and design of her house and studio came to her and her dream was realized.
Over dinner, I continued to be amazed with this woman who had so clearly visualized and actualized her dream, and was living a new life starting in her 60’s.
