Tropical Sports &
Traditional Healing
Sport first, to test what the body can do. Then healing, learned from the people who carry it.
The next intake is Mid Year Session 2027, 28 June to 24 July, on the Early Bird fee until 31 Dec 2026.
Where sport
turns into healing.
Tropical sport gives way to the Balinese healing canon, taught by the people who practice it. Scroll, and watch the page cross over exactly where the program does.
- Surfing at Kuta
- Stand-up paddleboarding
- Bakti Negara martial arts
- Mindset & NLP
- Anti-gravity yoga
- Sunrise hike, Mount Batur
- Balinese massage
- Jamu making
- Energy & sound healing
- Melukat purification
- Visit to a balian
- Market & temple ceremony
Balinese bodywork, jamu and a melukat purification, learned in a spa lab and in a healer's compound, not from a slide.
Surfing, paddleboarding and Balinese martial arts at Kuta Beach and Tenganan, with the heat, hydration and recovery the climate demands.
Two five-credit sections you can take singly or together, with a Certificate and transcript from PIB College.
Info Pack · PDF
Everything about Tropical Sports & Traditional Healing in one PDF.
Modules, campus, housing, visa, fees and dates. Read it later, share it with your parents, come back when you are ready.
Send me the Info Pack →Sport first,
then the healing canon.
Taught, examined and credited by PIB College. Two two-week sections, Tropical Sports and Traditional Healing, five ECTS each. The academic documents come from PIB College; we help you provide them to your home registrar.
The demands of sport in a tropical climate. Surfing, stand-up paddleboarding and Balinese martial arts (Bakti Negara), with a focus on heat, hydration and recovery. Section: Tropical Sports, weeks 1 and 2.
How mindset shapes performance: NLP, goal setting, visualization and positive self-talk, plus yoga and breathing techniques for focus and recovery. Section: Tropical Sports, weeks 1 and 2.
The core of Balinese healing: massage and acupressure, energy and sound healing, herbal medicine and jamu, and the melukat purification. Hands-on throughout. Section: Traditional Healing, weeks 3 and 4.
Traditional Balinese nutrition, herbal remedies in modern wellness and yoga for recovery, with market visits and healthy cooking workshops. Section: Traditional Healing, weeks 3 and 4.
Balinese culture, spirituality and the arts, through temple and village visits, ceremony and dance workshops and social evenings. Counted at 1 ECTS in each section, 2 in total.
ECTS, a credited short course. Certificate and Academic Transcript from PIB College travel home with you.
Practical bodywork
and 10 ECTS.
A working knowledge of Balinese massage, acupressure, jamu and energy healing, practised hands-on across the healing section, not just read about.
Certificate and Academic Transcript from PIB College, with final grades and 10 ECTS. Your home institution alone decides recognition, so sign a Learning Agreement first.
Take Tropical Sports, take Traditional Healing, or take the full four weeks. Five ECTS per section.
Heat, hydration, breathwork and rest as a system. Sport and healing stop being separate things.
Mid Year Session 2027
fees and dates.
The next intake is Mid Year Session 2027, 28 June to 24 July, on the Early Bird fee until 31 Dec 2026. This intake includes the student visa.
All figures are the total program fee and include the €350 registration, refundable when you cancel more than 8 weeks before intake, minus a €100 processing fee. Accommodation, flights and food are extra. The 2026 sessions charge the visa separately too; from Mid Year Session 2027 the visa is included. Prices and dates come from the current published CRM snapshot.
Early Bird is open.
Mid Year Session 2027 runs 28 June to 24 July 2027 at PIB College. Early Bird is the first of three fee phases for this intake, and the fee includes the student visa.
Get the
Info Pack.
Modules, tuition, housing, visa and how to join. The full four weeks, laid out page by page. We reply by email with the full overview.
Five minutes
from the beach.
PIB College, Politeknik Internasional Bali, is a private higher-education institute recognized by the Indonesian ministry since 2017. Its green campus in Tabanan sits about five minutes from the beach and fourteen from Tanah Lot, with a student cafe, coworking spaces and campus-wide WiFi. Classes run on campus and at field sites across Bali. Your modules are taught, examined and credited here, and PIB College sponsors your student visa.
Good
to know.
Housing, the C9 visa and funding for the course.
on this programBook with or without accommodation. Options run from an on-campus dormitory to the Graha Wiyata Hotel on campus or a riverside retreat near Canggu. You get a personal booking link after confirmation.
VisaWhat about the visa?→A student visa (C-9), sponsored through PIB College, not a visa on arrival. From Mid Year Session 2027 it is included in the fee; the 2026 sessions charge it separately. You send passport scans and a photo, and the process starts after full payment.
FundingCan I afford this?→Early Bird saves against the Regular and Late phases, the €350 registration is refundable when you cancel more than 8 weeks before intake, minus a €100 processing fee, and you can take a single two-week section if the full month is too much.
Questions about
this program.
Background, booking options, credits, cultural protocol, visa and accommodation.
Do I need a sports or health background?
Can I take just one half?
Will my home university accept the 10 ECTS?
Are the traditional healer visits respectful?
Do I need a student visa for four weeks?
What does the fee cover, and where will I live?
Apply for this
program.
Mid Year Session 2027 is open now, Early Bird until 31 Dec 2026. Five minutes to apply, a personal decision by the next working day.
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