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A tiny German-founded oceanfront eco-retreat on Bali's wild far-east coast at Seraya, with a handful of pool villas, an organic kitchen and a chlorine-free pool.
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Award Winner 2016
Southeast Asia’s Best Sustainable
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Our guests can order their meals in villas (at no extra charge), and can avail of a free 30 minute massage.
Need To Know
- A handful of villas, most with private pools
- On the cliff above the ocean at Seraya, far-east Bali
- Founded by two German therapists as a wellness retreat
- A chlorine-free infinity pool over the sea
- An organic, mostly garden-grown kitchen; in-villa dining included
- Open-air spa and yoga; remote, with a sister property in Sri Lanka
- Around two to two and a half hours from Denpasar airport
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The scale — just a handful of villas on a clifftop above the Indian Ocean, so few that you can pass a whole stay barely seeing another guest.
- The pool — a long chlorine-free infinity pool filled with filtered water, looking straight out over the sea, with smaller private pools at most of the villas.
- The kitchen — organic, largely garden-grown, cooked to order by a local chef, served in the restaurant over the ocean or brought to your villa.
- The setting — far-east Bali at Seraya, well beyond the crowds, with the fishing village, Tirta Gangga water palace and the Amed dive coast nearby.
- The wellness — yoga, massage and treatments in the open air, including a long Balinese massage, in keeping with the founders' therapeutic vision.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Jl. Pura Batu Telu, Seraya-Celagi 80851 Karangasem / Bali
Travel Info
Shunyata Villas is at Seraya, in Karangasem on Bali's far-east coast, around two to two and a half hours from Denpasar airport. It is genuinely remote, with the fishing village, Tirta Gangga and the Amed dive coast nearby.
Nearby Places
2-Hour drive from Ngurah Rai International Airport.
85km
Last Updated: 2026-06-22
Expert Review
Origins
Shunyata Villas is the work of Jürgen and Maria Neurohr, two German body- and psychotherapists who came to Bali looking for somewhere to build a wellness retreat and, stopping on the cliffs at Seraya on the island's far-east coast, found it. They describe the decision as answering an inner calling; the result is a small, deliberately remote eco-retreat built on a blend of Indonesian healing, wellness practice and a quiet, contemplative ethos. The name itself, Shunyata, is a term for emptiness in Buddhist thought.
It is tiny — a handful of villas spread along a clifftop garden above the Indian Ocean, most with their own pool, the rest a few steps from a long infinity pool that looks straight out to sea. That pool is one of the giveaways of the owners' thinking: it is filled with filtered, chlorine-free water rather than chemically treated, part of a low-impact approach that runs through the place. The kitchen is the other signature — organic, much of it grown in the garden, cooked to order by a local chef and served either in the ocean-facing restaurant or brought to your villa.
What defines a stay, though, is the remoteness. Seraya is far out in Karangasem, a good two hours and more from the airport and well beyond Bali's tourist belt, with little around but the fishing village, the Tirta Gangga water palace and the diving coast at Amed. There is almost nothing to do but slow down — yoga, massage, the pool, the sea, the food — which is precisely the point. The Neurohrs run a second property along similar lines in Sri Lanka; this one feels like a small, particular world of its own on a quiet stretch of Balinese coast.
Top Secret
Note the pool. The long infinity pool over the sea is filled with filtered, chlorine-free water — the owners' low-impact approach in plain sight — and most guests find they have it entirely to themselves, since the villa pools draw people away. Come at first light: Seraya faces east, and the sunrise over the Indian Ocean from the pool is the best moment of the day here, long before anyone else stirs.
The Review
Shunyata Villas is a tiny, owner-run eco-retreat on the wild far-east coast of Bali, and its appeal lies in two things most resorts cannot offer: real remoteness and a genuine guiding idea. Founded by a pair of German therapists, Jürgen and Maria Neurohr, on the cliffs at Seraya, it is a handful of villas built around wellness, a low-impact ethos and an organic kitchen, and it is among the more quietly original small stays on the island.
The villas are simple and comfortable, most with private pools, the rest sharing a chlorine-free infinity pool over the sea; the food, grown largely in the garden and cooked to order, draws as much praise from guests as the setting, as does the warm, family-run service. Days are shapeless in the best way — yoga, a long massage, the pool, the ocean — and the lights-off yoga under a full sky is the kind of thing the place does well.
The catch is the obvious one: this is remote, two hours and more from the airport, far from restaurants, bars and sights, and with only a few villas it is built for couples who want to disappear rather than for travellers wanting a base to explore. Taken on its own terms — seclusion, wellness, an honest eco ethos and a spectacular stretch of empty coast — Shunyata is among the most singular small retreats in Bali, and a world apart from the island's busier south.
