Testimonials
Sivana has given us our son back: Version 2.0 – A happy competent lovely funny human! We were completely supported as distressed parents from the first moment of inquiry. Our son was put into the system within 3 days which was essential for his situation. He stayed 100 days and reached Step 8/9 of the 12 Steps Program. He has been to rehab 3 times and things were desperate for us all …. BUT Sivana has been given him excellent tools and support and love to start a new life of sobriety and now 160 days sober! Honestly Sivana has been life changing for him and his entire family. Thank you Everyone at Sivana – Love You Guys xxx If you are in this situation! Do not hesitate!
Ann-Maree O’Brien
Jul 10, 2024
A life changing experience!! I cannot thank the Sivana staff enough for all of their support and invaluable knowledge and skills that they gave me to finally overcome my alcohol addiction. To attend a rehab where the staff have life experience with alcohol and drug addiction themselves is something invaluable that you just don’t get at most rehabs. After struggling with alcoholism my entire life, I finally have the tools to remain sober and live the best life I can for myself and my family. Thank you so much to Marijke and the staff for all you have done for me, you really did save my life!
Naomi Woodward
Jun 07, 2024
I entered Sivana Bali a broken shadow of my former self. Full of self hatred and regret. During my stay, I learned how to begin to live again. I had my ups and downs, but utilizing the tools that they helped me develop I was able to pull through. I am still working on myself every day but with a new-found strength and spark for life. I arrived thinking the 12 step program was not for me, but quickly learned that was because I had never given it a chance. Just for today is my new favorite book. Sivana bali will always hold a special place in my heart.
The staff are amazing. They have all their bases covered. The chefs food is top teir and somehow gets better every day. The rooms are comfortable, and the atmosphere cozy. Every group expedition I participated in was a new joyful experience.
I am proud to say for the first time in over 20 years I genuinely feel happy, and clear.
Thank you for every day I have going forward.
Adam simpson
Jul 5, 2024
Sivana saved me and my life and given me the tools to creat a new happy future for myself, I couldn’t of done it without sivana, the staff are truely dedicated in helping you manage the disease of addiction. They have true empathy as they have first hand experience of successfully managing addiction and showing much compassion and support with a excellent education program Thankyou sivana
luke szolga
Jun 10, 2024
Words can’t describe how greatful I am for this rehab and the staff. Amazing councellors/coaches, amazing food, amazing facilities and medical staff. This place saved my life it brings a tear to my eye writing this. 3 months later and I can confidently say I am sober and love life. After so many years of struggling this places deserves the 5 stars and more.
Rebecca young
Jul 12, 2024
My experience at Sivana was life changing. The team are so supportive. They helped guide and educate me through what was a challenging but much needed 28 day stay back in May, 2023. I learned so much about myself and gained some valuable tools and insight to help me battle my addiction troubles.
The program itself was well balanced between group sessions, physical activity, educational sessions, one-on-one counselling and recovery meetings – all of which played an important part in my early recovery. I was literally knocking on death’s door 3 weeks before I checked in. I walked out a completely new man. Words can’t describe how grateful I am.
The program gave me the foundation I needed to commence my recovery. I highly recommend Sivana to anyone who is sick of being trapped in the painful cycle of addiction. They helped set my life off on a completely new trajectory. IF you are truly ready for change, are willing to surrender to the program, and are commitment to doing the inner work, they can change your life for the better too.
Dean
May 26, 2024
Being surrounded by the beautiful, tropical island of Bali and the spiritual nature of the Balinese really made a difference to me. In conjunction with this, the peace and tranquillity of the centre with its spacious communal areas and swimming pools plus the big private rooms with ensuites, made it so easy to relax here.
The other thing that makes this place so special is the staff who are so professional and kind, I really learnt a lot about myself and the things that I needed to do to recover. I would really recommend Sivana to anyone who is struggling with drugs or alcohol.
Christina, 28 day program
Mar 4, 2020
Sivana appealed to me because of the spiritual, 12 step based program because I had heard that this sort of abstinence based treatment was the most successful. I felt very comfortable in the environment here, the rooms are lovely, the place is just like a resort and the food was great and could be tailored to my preferences if required.
The weekend activities were really challenging for me but really necessary and actually I am really glad that they were there. The staff were just amazing, really kind, caring and professional. The team were able to adapt my program to include one on one counselling with my husband and this really helped me no end. I would highly recommend coming to Sivana as a great place to start your recovery.
Adrienne, 60 day program
Mar 4, 2020
Sivana Bali changed my life. When I arrived here, I was lost in denial and deeply traumatised but had no idea how to change my life on my own. After 90 days, I have found myself and have a calm and clear mind as well as a new perspective on my life. This program and the amazing environment has given me so much more than I could ever have expected. This was largely due to the highly qualified staff and the structure and content of the program. It is unfortunate that this program is designed for addicts only because it would improve the quality of anyone’s life.
Dagmar
Jan 15, 2020
Sivana have helped me to achieve the biggest goal of my life. They are so professional and really go above and beyond the call of duty, its more than a job to the people who work here. I’ve enjoyed different things: the camaraderie with other members of the group, feeling healthy, the exercise and being around that general sense of positivity that there is here. Sivana has given me a chance to get my life back and the rest is up to me.
Ben
Oct 18, 2019
After almost 20 years of significant and problematic Drug and Alcohol abuse I found myself to be be at yet another drug fueled rock bottom. It was finally time for rehabilitation, Sivana Bali was my choice of treatment centres and I am forever grateful for this selection.
From the extremely comforting admission phone call that was promptly made after inquiring online I knew this was the place to turn my life around. Upon arrival I was greeted by a senior staff member an a lovely indonesion man and taken to the centre. Not knowing what to expect I was pleasantly surprised from the get go. The accommodation, the relaxed nature of the centres perfectly manicured grounds, the pools even the transport was something a drug addict would not have thought they deserved yet alone was able to enjoy, the meals were second to none and I had everything I needed to start fresh.
Each and everyone of the experienced staff were loving, caring and more importantly understanding to my situation and needs. The benefit of the therapeutic community was amazing and probably equally as important to recovery as the staff. David R is a man who has given me the ability to forge myself and new and prosperous new life while living clean and sober. I genuinely could not be happier with my personal experience an Sivana Bali.
I’m currently back working, have a relationship with my family again that I did not have before, have friends back in my life and to this day my body is gratefully free from drugs and alcohol.
A very personal thank you to all the staff at Sivana Bali you have given me life again that I now appreciate and enjoy.
Deano
Dec 11, 2018
- A wonderful caring and loving environment, great follow up with the client once they go home!
- Amount of recreation of time incorporated into the program is perfect
- Amount of time for “TecTime” is just right
- All staff wonderful, Balinese staff gorgeous!!
- Accommodation lovely, pools beautiful, beds very comfortable
- Process + education great learning tools will remember + incorporate them into my life!
- Enjoyed all therapy sessions !!
Karlene from New South Wales
Nov 12, 2017
Thank you for a wonderful journey of recovery that I experienced at Sivana. Looking at my stay helps me to appreciate the beauty of what your job is: You’ve given strength and knowledge to deal with life challenges, and you’ve given me hope that I can live a better life.
Elene from Bangkok
Oct 19, 2017
- Great support from counsellor
- Good blend of activities, out of rehab events, meeting, counselling and free time
- Kind and supportive environment
- Good frameworks and education sessions
Anonymous from Sydney
Sep 12, 2017
Could not fault it, I love every one and everything about Sivana Bali.
Ben. T from Perth
Aug 10, 2017
Best decision of my life. You guys change the way I see life. From ungrateful drama queen to a very grateful person. Now I wake up in the morning with hope. Thanks Sivana
G. from Jakarta
Jul 28, 2017
Excellent all round
Darren from Brisbane
Jul 5, 2017
The decision to come to Sivana was the best decision I made in my life, as being an addict it’s not easy to go to rehab and understand that I need help. Sivana made this journey possible with much fun along the way, with taking more personal and almost like a family-oriented way to help me enjoy life in recovery, I’m very grateful to Sivana to make it possible to me.
Irene from Melbourne
Jul 7, 2017
I came into Sivana Bali a broken man, there was just a shell of a person. I was depressed, anxious, angry, selfish, self-centered and didn’t care myself or anyone else. Years of alcohol abuse had culminated into several suicide attempts before I made a last ditch effort to try and save my life. All my best efforts to stop ultimately ended in vain, I couldn’t beat this disease on my own. No way.
Then I did something that would change my miserable life around. I called Sivana Bali. It has turned out to be the best decision I’ve ever made. Right through from the initial assessment to entering the facility, everything was so professional along with a caring, compassionate attitude. You’re not just a number at Sivana, you’re a person. Believe me, I’ve been in and spoken to other rehabs and Sivana and their wonderful program puts these others to shame.
Now, onto to the program. It does involve working the 12 steps. It can be confronting, it can be emotional, it can be challenging but it was exactly what I needed. My only other option was to effectively drink myself to death or end my life at my own hands. It was a no brainer. This 12 step program combined with an informative and thorough education program made my journey back to being a functioning and responsible person so much easier and worthwhile.
Combining this with sessions of yoga, beach exercise in the mornings, and visits to the gym, tied the whole program together with a great balance.
The staff here are just amazing! My heartfelt thanks go out to the Clinical Director, Nev. You never stopped believing in me, challenging me when you knew I could give more and was there whenever I needed to lean on someone. You saw me at my worst and helped share your knowledge of addiction and the many tools to help me overcome this beast of a disease. Thank you.
The head counsellor, David, wow man, I’ve had many counsellors before but you are without doubt the best. You gained my trust from the start through your genuinely compassionate and understanding nature. The concepts we went through to address my many issues were empathetic and thorough. I’m amased at how far I’ve come emotionally. With your help. Thank you so much.
To all the recovery coaches, I can’t speak highly enough! Anytime I needed help with my step work or just a general chat, each of you were there, non-shaming and just so understanding. You all were my rock when I needed strength and inspirations continually.
Wayan our Chef, you were a gorgeous person as well as a fantastic cook. Nutrition plays such an important part of recovery and we all felt spoilt with your differing choices of cuisine.
Last but certainly not least are the ground staff and support workers. Always there with a smile and a hat, nothing we asked was ever a problem.
So, I leave Sivana Bali after 60 days. Within that time frame such a wide range of emotions. But for the first time in my life I have hope. I’ve attained a wide variety of tools and knowledge for my journey ahead. Most of all I am a man with his principals and morals back. I am sober. I’m glad I could put my journey so far in writing.
Thank you Sivana Bali, you’ve help put me back on the right path, one which I thought I’d lost. I will never forget your help and hope you have bestowed upon me.
Jeff
May 10, 2017
It is with deep gratitude that I write this letter of recommendation and thanks for my care during my time at Sivana, Bali.
I came to Bali with acute anxiety, suffering panic attacks, nearly house bound from fear and a rapid decline in my health. All my relationships were failing including that with my partner who could no longer cope.
I came in desperate as nothing else I had tried worked. I had a debilitating alcohol and drug problem that will power could not combat but I still felt I could control. The experienced staff were patient, tolerant, and understanding.
I learnt so much about who I am and my patterns of behavior, and was able to process the pain, grief and shame I had held onto for so long. I highly recommend the counselling and education sessions which have given me life tools to support recovery in the real world.
Supporting a 12 step program I am now exceptionally grateful that I was introduced to daily meetings as this is something that I was not open to and would not have attended by my own volition and has given me the gift of community, a loving sponsor and the personal growth afforded by working a 12 step program.
My life is very different today. I initially came for 28 days and stayed for 90 learning so much about myself, education on addition and feeling reconnected to myself and nurturing my spirituality which was dead before I came in. I am repairing family relationships. I don’t feel uncomfortable in my own skin and value my self- worth.
I now live with integrity, without fear and feel at peace and happy. I am in debt to this program and highly recommend this for loved ones seeking help or if you truly want to find a solution and get clean.
B.D
Feb 22, 2017
My name is Belinda, and at age 32 my mother came to pick me up to take me to the airport to yet another rehab. Sivana was the eleventh rehab I’d been too, my mother knew I wouldn’t make it to the airport on time, if at all if I were left to my own devices.
I didn’t hold out much hope for actual rehabilitation, not from ice anyway, but I needed so badly to rest and get my head clear from my latest addiction, GHB, which I had been taking daily for 6 months or so. I’d been on ice 24/7 , using heavy , for maybe 5 years, a ‘recreational’ drug user for a couple of years before that, and had spent my very early teens as a IV speed user.
I was clean for a couple of years and during this time I was married and had to amazing children but by the time I got to Sivana things had deteriorated to the point where I couldn’t look after my children, although they were still in my care, and I couldn’t look after myself. I had to hire people to do both for me.
I was a drug addict and also have extremely brittle bipolar disorder that was badly managed and barely contained. I had been written off by other rehabs, by psych hospitals and by everyone I knew.
So I had little hope and less faith that Sivana would be different than the other places I’d tried. I’m glad that the Sivana team chose to have faith in me, because the two months that followed were the most amazing , impossible, wonderful and agonising I’ve ever experienced, and when I left I’d learnt more than simply how to not do drugs, I’d also learnt quite a bit about how to be me.
I never ever thought I’d be able to say I’m clean, and working full time, and loving being with my kids, my friends, my family. I am living the kind of simple life I used to feel was always beyond my reach as an addict. I’m incredibly lucky that everyone I lost through years of addiction and all that comes with it have welcomed me back into their lives and homes. I have their trust and respect because I earned it. I know now that these things have value far beyond the easy money I made in active addiction. I have pride and dignity because of Sivana Bali.
I’m nearly 7 months clean, I have so many things to look forward to, and so many amazing memories of my time at Sivana Bali, where everyone is like a family that somehow loves you at your worst and gives you ideas about how to be your best.
I would be dead by now if my stars hadn’t aligned to get me on that plane but thanks to everything I learned from Sivana and the amazing team I’m finally feeling alive.
I’m immeasurably grateful to Sivana Bali.
Belinda
Jan 16, 2017
To say the least, coming to Sivana Treatment Centre saved my life. I had been struggling with drugs and alcohol for the last 17 years of my life to the point I did not know who I even was. I had done so much damage to myself and my loved ones that I had lost the will to go on.
I had previously been to 2 other rehabs but what Sivana offered me was the individual attention that I needed to see my true authentic self. This was one that was valuable and loveable. All of the staff from the Clinical, Management, recovery coaches, and Indonesian staff were there for me every single day.
I spent 3 months here and would recommend it to anyone who wants to get his or her life back. I can now have a life worth living and purpose. Bali is also such a spiritual place that I found peace in everyday living.
I can honestly say that without the tools, support, and care I received at Sivana I would not be here today.
Ben
Sep 16, 2016
When I arrived at Sivana I was quite simply broken. Physically shot, emotionally destroyed. My years of indulgence had led me to a place of realization. Who I was was a long way from who I ever wanted to be, where I was a destination I never planned on arriving at.
I was in so much pain, I’d lost a lot, I thought everything at the time.
What I received at Sivana was love, understanding, and conscious care from people that truly understood, and an unconditionally judgement free environment to heal and focus on rebuilding. I was absolutely able to do that. From go I was always staying for 3 months. Every day that went past just reassured me this was the right length of time for me – far out I’d spent 25 years getting myself there so 3 months seemed pretty reasonable to get myself out! I think one of the great things about Sivana for me was that is very personal. Yes there aspects of the program that will be helpful to everyone but I felt that that there was great attention to the circumstances of every individual that came through the various programs during my stay.
The location is perfect, Bali, a truly spiritual island that opens the mind and soul to the belief that change is possible. And the good folk that work at, and work with Sivana, who themselves are phenomenal examples, that people absolutely can alter their path and have truly fulfilling lives. I was dependant on so many things before I went to Sivana – alchohol yes, drugs, for sure, but so many things of no substance – status, worthless relationships, taking love from people and not giving back, focus on the material rather than the spiritual. Going to Sivana thinking I’d lost everything helped to realise how much I had and how much the world could offer and how much I could offer to others.
Through education, counselling, and general daily discussion I found a wonderful and true appreciation of my family , my children, my wonderful friends and I met so many people through my stay at Sivana that I will consider friends for life. The facility itself is purpose designed, functional and user friendly. The staff, from the kitchen to the office to the counselling room know what they need to do in all situations – sometimes I needed space, sometimes structure, and every situation was read to perfection. What can I possibly give to a place that gave me my life back? I will forever give Sivana my highest recommendation, I will always give my thanks, and I will always come back and say hi. Sivana is not just a place, it’s a feeling, it’s a way living with hope and a look at the bright side.
Chris T Adelaide
Aug 25, 2016
With Nev’s passion and experience in recovery, I was excited that he agreed to mentor me. During the next 2 years, my life changed dramatically. I learned how to be much more of a man, not run away from responsibility, but embrace it, and how to truly enjoy life to its fullest.
Istvan M
Sep 11, 2015
Nev always had time for me, and I always felt comfortable talking with him, even though at the time I was detoxing and paranoid. I guess I could describe him as one of the most REAL people I’ve met. I am sincerely thankful for the time I spent with him, it changed my life.
Eilidh A
Feb 4, 2015