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Workshops - with our Local Community

Choose a workshop, guided by our talented local community.

All our workshops aim to give you an authentic experience, while offering you a chance  for you to  "give back"

to our community & place importance on the incredible skills our locals have to share.

Our workshops are available for longer duration or a more indepth experience, if your interest has been peeked.

Learn to play the Balinese flute - suling

learn from our village musician how to play a Balinese tune on the suling

Time : 2 hours

Price Rp250.000

Balinese cooking class lessons at Sarinbuana, Vegan cuisine restaurant in bali

Balinese Cooking Class

Choose from our menu what you’d like to learn — with many delicious vegan options available!

🍲 What’s Included:

  • Personalized hands-on cooking experience

  • Flexible menu with local favorites

  • Vegan-friendly dishes

  • Meal included in the price

🕓 Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
👥 Pricing:

  • 1 person: Rp 350K

  • 2–3 people: Rp 250K p.p

Cook, learn, and enjoy the meal you create!

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Balinese Wood Carving

Wood Carving with Pak Ketut
A Hands-On Cultural Experience.
Join Pak Ketut, our self-taught village carver, and learn to create your own traditional Balinese design to take home.

🪵 What’s Included:

  • Guided carving session with Pak Ketut

  • Introduction to Balinese carving techniques

  • Create and keep your own handmade piece

🕒 Duration: 3 hours
💰 Price: Rp 450K p.p

No experience needed — just bring your creativity!

Join a seasonal farming workshop at Bali ecolodge, Sarinbuana Eco Lodge harvest rice and cacao

Seasonal Farming Experience

Join a local farmer for a Hands-On Garden Experience
Get your hands in the earth and discover the rhythm of local farm life!

🌾 Activities may include:

  • Planting or harvesting rice

  • Picking or pruning coffee or cacao

  • Planting ginger or turmeric
    (Activities depend on the season and what’s needed during your stay.)

🕒 Duration: 3 hours
👥 Pricing:

  • 1 person: Rp 350 K

  • 2 or more people: Rp 200K p.p

Come prepared to dig & learn.

Learn traditional weaving at Bali ecolodge

Balinese Traditional Weaving

Create with Natural Materials
Learn how to make traditional Balinese designs using natural, locally sourced materials.

🌿 What You’ll Do:

  • Hands-on session with natural fibers, leaves, and flowers

  • Make offerings, decorations, or simple crafts

  • Discover the cultural meaning behind each design

🕐 Duration: 1 hour
💰 Price: Rp 200K p.p

A fun and creative way to connect with Balinese tradition!

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Traditional Plant Medicine

Join Ibu Meisa for a Traditional Balinese Healing Experience
Learn the ancient art of natural healing using local plants from our garden.

🌿 What’s Included:

Hands-on body scrub preparation

Herbal tea crafting

Making and applying a healing poultice

🕒 Duration: 2 hours
👥 Group Size: 1–4 people
💰 Price: Rp 350K total per session

Reconnect with nature and traditional wisdom in a peaceful garden setting.

Sarinbuana Eco Lodge, learn wood carving at Baliecolodge, carve soft limestone lessons

Limestone carving

Create Your Own Masterpiece


Learn to carve soft limestone into an animal or any design you like — and take your artwork home!
Its been amazing to see what has been created over the years.

🪨 What’s Included:

  • Step-by-step guidance

  • All tools and materials provided

  • Keep your finished piece

  • Great activity for children and beginners

🕑 Duration: 2 hours
💰 Price: Rp 400K p.p

This is a Fun & creative experience - perfect for all ages!

flute making at Sarinbuana Eco Lodge, Balinese suling flute

Make a Bamboo Flute - Suling

Make & Play a Balinese Bamboo Flute 
 

Sit with Pak Made as he guides you in crafting a traditional suling and gives you an introduction to playing it.

🎶 What’s Included:

  • Hands-on flute making from bamboo

  • Basic lesson on how to play

  • Take your handmade suling home

🕑 Duration: 2 hours
💰 Pricing:

  • 1 person: Rp 300K

  • 2 or more people: Rp 150K p.p

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Learn to play a composition on the Rindik

A Traditional Balinese Music Experience


Learn to play a Balinese arrangement on the bamboo Rindik with guidance from our talented local musician.

🎼 What’s Included:

  • Introduction to the Rindik, a traditional Balinese bamboo instrument

  • Learn to play a simple Balinese arrangement

  • No prior musical experience needed

🕑 Duration: 2 hours
💰 Price: Rp 350K p.p

Immerse yourself in the melodic rhythms of Bali!

Sarinbuana Eco Lodge balinese traditional costume dressup, Balinese sarong

Balinese Traditional Costume

Balinese Ceremony Dress & Sarong Significance
Dress in traditional Balinese ceremony attire and learn the cultural meaning behind sarong designs and how they’re worn.

👘 What’s Included:

  • Try on full ceremonial dress

  • Learn how to properly wear a sarong

  • Discover the symbolism in patterns and colors

  • Great for photos and cultural insight

🕐 Duration: 1 hour
💰 Pricing:

  • 1 person: Rp 250K

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Make Palm sugar syrup

From Palm to Plate – Discover Arenga Syrup Making
Join us for an immersive experience learning how syrup from the Arenga pinnata palm is collected and made — the same syrup we serve with your breakfast and use in our desserts as a natural sugar replacement.

🌴 What’s Included:

  • Guided explanation

        (with interpreter)

  • Take part in the traditional cooking process

  • Taste the finished syrup

🕑 Duration: 2 hours
🗣️ Interpreter included
💰 Pricing:

  • 1 person: Rp 400K

  • 2 or more people: Rp 450K total

A sweet, hands-on journey into Balinese culinary tradition!

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Learn Indonesian language

Learn the basics of the Indonesian language, focusing on essential components like the alphabet, greetings, and specific vocabulary tailored to your interests.
🌴 What’s Included:

  • Guided instruction

  • Paper/ pen 

  • Samples of Indonesian alphabet

🕑 Duration: 1 hour
💰 Pricing:

  • 1 person: Rp 200K

  • 2 or more people: Rp 150 K p.p

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Balinese Calligraphy

An introduction to Balinese writing. 

There are around 560 regional languages in Indonesia. Of all these languages, only 11 regional languages have their own literacy system. One local language that has is Balinese. Balinese script has a vital function in the effort of documenting and transmitting various systems of knowledge found by Balinese people from the past to the present.

Learn the characters & translate your own words into Balinese.
🌴 What’s Included:

  • Guided instruction

  • Paper/ pen 

  • Samples of  Balinese Hindu calligraphy

🕑 Duration: 1 hour
💰 Pricing:

  • 1 person: Rp 200K

  • 2 or more people: Rp 150Kp.p

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