Fire & Nectar Bali Retreat with Nataraj & Uma

Fire & Nectar is an eight-day yoga retreat in Bali, Indonesia, led by Nataraj and Uma Neave. It is made for genuine practitioners who want to deepen their understanding of yoga and are ready for something expansive: an embodied experience of Tantra and Bhakti, offered, in the teachers' words, "straight from our hearts to yours."

Nataraj and Uma teach yoga beyond asana, drawing on pranayama and breathwork, mantra and kirtan, and the philosophy behind them. If you are looking for a Bali yoga retreat that treats the practice as a living tradition rather than a workout, this is the kind of gathering it is.

What to Expect

The retreat is an eight-day immersion. Its focus is the two paths named in its title: Tantra, with its fire, and Bhakti, the devotional way, with its nectar. Expect breath practice, chanting and kirtan, and teaching that connects what happens on the mat with the older roots of yoga.

Nataraj and Uma also teach together in studios and lead kirtan evenings, trainings in pranayama, and pilgrimages to India. That body of work shows what their teaching stands on: devotion, breath, story and respect for where yoga comes from.

About Uma Neave

Uma Neave is a yoga and breathwork teacher who has been committed to the path of yoga for more than 20 years. She co-founded Both Yoga, where BOTH stands for "Breath of the Heart", and describes her practice as living devotionally, from the heart, one breath at a time.

Her first trainings were in a traditional ashram in India, where she studied yoga philosophy, pranayama and meditation at Samvit Sagar Ashram in Tiruvannamalai, South India. She has since studied with Western teachers including Sianna Sherman, Tara Judelle and Greg Kapps. She is a Registered Experienced Yoga Teacher (ERYT 500+) and says she always strives to share yoga with respect for its source and the roots of its teachings.

Uma is known for her love of Tantrik Shaivite and Shakta philosophy and mythology. She weaves stories into breathwork (pranayama) and moving meditation, so that practice reaches beyond asana.

Before You Go

The retreat is intended for genuine practitioners who want to go further into yoga, so it suits people with an established practice and an interest in Tantra, Bhakti, breath and mantra. Anyone who wants to know more about Nataraj and Uma's approach before committing can find it in their classes, kirtans and online courses.