JUSTIN SHARES WHAT MAKES HIS RETREATS MAGICAL EVERYTIME AT SOULSHINE
Justin Williams, a Teacher of meditation and shadow work first came to Bali in June 2021 as an escape from a very difficult time. Casually having found Soulshine as a referral from a friend, he extended his 2 nights to 3 weeks, and decided to come back and spend 3 weeks here to write his book How We Ended Racism. He then went on to book and sell out 3 retreats. We look forward to welcoming him back for his 4th retreat in March of 2026. Watch why he loves Soulshine so much below and check out his upcoming retreat Renew Retreat Bali: A Music and Mindfulness Experience, March 14-21 2026.
“WHEN YOU ARE IN A SPACE OF BEAUTY AND AWE AND WONDER, IT ACTUALLY HELPS US CONNECT MORE DEEPLY WITH OURSELVES”
Video Transcript:
Hi, I’m Justin Michael Williams. This is my third time hosting a retreat in Bali at Soulshine.
Soulshine is my absolute favorite place to bring people internationally in the world. I teach meditation, shadow work, and I use music in all of my work as the sugar that makes the medicine go down. I love hosting retreats at Soulshine Bali. It’s honestly my favorite place in the entire world to bring people internationally. The venue and the surroundings here are a big part of the success of the retreat.
So what we know is that when you’re in a space of beauty and awe and wonder, it actually helps connect us more deeply with ourselves. This is actually scientifically proven. And so one of the most important things about this experience is getting to go from the busy kind of hustle and bustle of your life and getting to drop in so deep to a space that is so beautiful. This is a big part of the magic that happens at Soulshine. One of the things I love about Soulshine the most is that it’s a music and wellness experience and music is such an important part of our experience, of our emotions and being well. And so my favorite part of being able to host retreats here is to get to incorporate live music and karaoke nights and DJs and singing and have people dancing and do all this incredible things that you normally wouldn’t think of doing at like a wellness retreat, because wellness is not just about sitting and being zen and om and all this stuff. Of course, that’s a part of it. But the deeper part of it for me is having joy.
When healing can bring joy, this is when we really step into our healing process much more deeply, and that is one of the big tenets of what we get to do here at Soul Shine.
The atmosphere and vibe at Soulshine is like home. It feels like family, like you come right in and everybody says to you, welcome home, and you’re like, welcome home, but then you get here and you see why. You really feel like you can take this backpack of stress off, this weight off of you, and really drop in and let yourself be taken care of. The staff makes me smile here. It becomes family and they memorize your names, they welcome you by name, and then you start to say like things in Balinese like, everyone’s saying good morning, and just the sense of real community and family and care here is what makes me smile.
Everything is brought with so much love and that the staff and what you all do here is really the most incredible thing to me. I mean, this place is like the most beautiful place you’ve ever been. I’ve actually lived here for a period of time for like nine months of my life. Stayed here because I kept saying I was gonna be here for two weeks and I just kept extending and extending, extending because it really does feel like home and that’s why it’s so special for me to share this place with so many people. In the embrace of nature, with the beautiful swimming pool, the most amazing staff, and these beautiful grounds, it allows us to drop in in a really really special way and create a retreat that’s unlike anything else that I’ve been able to do anywhere in the world.
If you are thinking of coming to Soulshine for a retreat let me just say there is no better place to come in Bali than Sol Shine. Get here, get here now, take off your shoes, go down the water slide, jump in the pool and heal your heart.
