Sources for Intaaya
Every line on the Intaaya record, with where it came from, what kind of source it is and the date we read it.
Back to the record- Current as of
- 5 Aug 2026
- Last reviewed
- 17 Aug 2026
- Strongest evidence
- Certified
- Coverage
- Documented across 8 of 8 pathways.
Your stay at a glance
Cooking oils: Cooking without seed oils
The property record describes this kitchen practice during the 17 August visit. Specific cooking oils and an ingredient-by-ingredient audit are not recorded. Specific oils to confirm.
Organic food: Organic farm sourcing
The property record describes organic farm sourcing during the visit. The property’s website identifies the farm as nearby. The share of all food that is organic and an organic certificate are not recorded. Whole-menu share not recorded.
Drinking water: Well supply · reverse osmosis
The property record describes reverse-osmosis drinking water from a well, confirmed by Jordan Lineham, Human Garage, on 10 September 2026. This is a system confirmation, not a laboratory result. No test report published.
Sleep setting: Blackout & warm evening light
The visit record describes blackout provision, daylight access and evening lighting in guest suites; individual room identifiers and measured light values are not included. Room-specific controls to confirm.
What this place offers
Bamboo yoga shala
Manta Yoga Shala · confirm session schedules and access.
Private beach access
Beach access is documented; confirm the route and conditions for your stay.
Ocean-view terraces
The property describes an ocean-view terrace for each tent suite.
Practical details and location
The practical details and the map point, -8.7346, 115.5378
Safely managed drinking water, Indonesia, 2024: The World Health Organization reports 30 per cent of the population nationally, 35 per cent in urban areas, 24 per cent in rural areas using a safely managed drinking water service. This describes the country, not this property, and says nothing about what reaches a guest room here. It is recorded because it is the background against which a property's own treatment is worth publishing.
Regional data is context about the location. It does not establish conditions inside a room.
Ambient PM2.5 and PM10 near Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia, 30 days to 2026-08-17: Modelled ambient air over this location averaged 10.6 micrograms per cubic metre of PM2.5 and 15.7 of PM10 across the 720 hours to 2026-08-17, peaking at 21.1 PM2.5. The World Health Organization annual guideline for PM2.5 is 5. This is the outdoor air over the area, modelled rather than measured on site, and it is not a reading of the air inside any room.
Regional data is context about the location. It does not establish conditions inside a room.
Evidence by area
All eight areas, in the order this index reads them. Every line was read and placed by a person.
Air Ecology
In the Shell Restaurant, a communal building rather than a guest tent, Pablo Luna Studio publishes passive strategies for ventilation, orientation and shading as reducing energy demand. No ventilation rate is published.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Shell Restaurant Bali, bamboo construction case study Archived copy
In the Fish Tail Tea Room, a communal building rather than a guest tent, pivoting windows framed in reclaimed timber are published as regulating cross ventilation, with a south-east orientation stated to assist airflow and rammed earth walls stated to stabilise temperature.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Fish Tail Tea Room, bamboo structure in Bali Archived copy
In the Manta Yoga Shala, a communal building rather than a guest tent, curved forms and strategic openings are published as maximising air circulation. No system, product or method is named.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Dezeen reports that the majority of the retreat's communal spaces are left completely open to the elements, with only the tea room and spa enclosed by rammed earth walls and glazing.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Sea creatures inform sweeping bamboo roofs of Intaaya Retreat in Indonesia Archived copy
Guest suites verified in person as open sided canvas with no fixed glazing, ventilated by cross breeze off the ocean rather than by a sealed and conditioned air path.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
In their words: “Assessed by Jordan Lineham, Certified Spaces, 2026-08-17, verified in person on site over 1 stay. No instrument reading was taken; this records what was established by being there. Disclosure: we know the owners and this property is a Certified Spaces client.”
Water Integrity
Pablo Luna Studio publishes that the site draws water from deep wells and rainwater harvesting and treats wastewater in Wastewater Gardens developed with the Biosphere Foundation, with treated water reused on site.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Shell Restaurant Bali, bamboo construction case study Archived copy
The Wastewater Gardens system on site is published as using plants, microbes and natural filtration to treat greywater for use on the landscape.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Intaaya Retreat, design and construction Archived copy
Luxury Travel Magazine reports that general water is supplied by rainwater collectors and freshwater wells and that drinking water is produced on site by an atmospheric water generator.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Intaaya Nusa Penida, Bali's most off-grid luxury retreat Archived copy
The 17 metre infinity pool is published as salt chlorinated. No pool water chemistry is published alongside it.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Intaaya Nusa Penida, Bali's most off-grid luxury retreat Archived copy
Seen in person by Jordan Lineham, Human Garage, on 17 August 2026, and written up on 10 September 2026: the whole property's water is filtered by reverse osmosis, and the source is a natural well. This is an operational observation, not a laboratory water-quality result; no test panel is published.
In their words: “Assessed by Jordan Lineham, Certified Spaces, 2026-08-17, verified in person on site. Written up in his message of 2026-09-10. Disclosure: we know the owners and this property is a Certified Spaces client. His message: whole property water filtration reverse osmosis natural well”
Light Rhythm
The Manta Yoga Shala is published with a central skylight positioned to admit midday sunlight into the core of the space.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
The Fish Tail Tea Room is published with pivoting windows framed in reclaimed joglo timber and a roof that rises at the centre and descends at the sides, controlling daylight and outlook.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Fish Tail Tea Room, bamboo structure in Bali Archived copy
The Shell Spa, a communal building rather than a guest tent, is published with an oval plan opening at its centre to a single sweeping curved window. No glazing type, area or light transmittance is published.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Shell Spa, Intaaya Retreat, Nusa Penida Archived copy
Designboom reports that the Shell Restaurant's spaced tree-like bamboo columns at the front elevation are arranged to filter natural light into the interior. This describes a communal building rather than a guest tent.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Pablo Luna Studio sculpts Shell Restaurant from expressive bamboo Archived copy
Guest rooms verified in person to have no overhead blue-white lighting after dark, blackout provision at every bed, and daylight reaching each sleeping space.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
In their words: “Assessed by Jordan Lineham, Certified Spaces, 2026-08-17, verified in person on site over 1 stay. Disclosure: we know the owners and this property is a Certified Spaces client.”
EMF Harmony
Luxury Travel Magazine reports that the property has practically no wireless coverage, with a weak signal available only in the open-air lobby, and no mobile service on site.
Read it: Intaaya Nusa Penida, Bali's most off-grid luxury retreat Archived copy
A listing platform states that Starlink wireless is available on request alongside the digital detox framing. The network topology in the sleeping areas is therefore not settled by the public record, in either direction.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Wireless provision verified in person across the property, including where access points sit relative to guest sleeping areas. No field measurement was taken, so this is recorded as specified rather than measured: EMF Harmony is the one pathway where a site visit without an instrument cannot reach the top tier, because measurement is the whole of what the pathway claims.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
In their words: “Assessed by Jordan Lineham, Certified Spaces, 2026-08-17, verified in person on site over 1 stay. No instrument reading was taken; this records what was established by being there. Disclosure: we know the owners and this property is a Certified Spaces client.”
Materials and Textiles
Pablo Luna Studio publishes the structural bamboo of the Shell Restaurant by species, as Dendrocalamus asper and Petung.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Shell Restaurant Bali, bamboo construction case study Archived copy
The Fish Tail Tea Room is published as using bamboo treated and crafted in Bali, with a ceiling of handwoven bamboo.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Fish Tail Tea Room, bamboo structure in Bali Archived copy
Dezeen reports the roofs as clad in shingles of native ulin wood, and the tent suites as canvas stretched over timber and rammed earth structures.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Sea creatures inform sweeping bamboo roofs of Intaaya Retreat in Indonesia Archived copy
Luxury Travel Magazine names Escape Nomade as the supplier of the tent suites. No canvas specification for this property is published.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Intaaya Nusa Penida, Bali's most off-grid luxury retreat Archived copy
The Shell Lobby floor and entrance pathway are published as limestone blocks sourced and shaped on site with a lime based finish, alongside Dendrocalamus asper bamboo and individually carved wood shingles.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Shell Lobby, Intaaya Retreat, Nusa Penida Archived copy
Rammed earth is published as the wall and floor material substituting cement or concrete, alongside reclaimed teak from old joglo buildings in Java and Bali.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Intaaya Retreat, design and construction Archived copy
Luxury Travel Magazine reports that the tent suites are dressed with organic linen bedding and furnished with reclaimed wood pieces made by regional artisans. No fibre certification is named.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Intaaya Nusa Penida, Bali's most off-grid luxury retreat Archived copy
Timber, stone and textile surfaces in guest rooms verified in person against the build specification, with the operator naming each material on site.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
In their words: “Assessed by Jordan Lineham, Certified Spaces, 2026-08-17, verified in person on site over 1 stay. Disclosure: we know the owners and this property is a Certified Spaces client.”
Seen in person by Jordan Lineham, Human Garage, on 17 August 2026, and written up on 10 September 2026: the laundry products in use are non-toxic, in Jordan Lineham's words. Product names, ingredient lists and safety data sheets are not on this record.
In their words: “Assessed by Jordan Lineham, Certified Spaces, 2026-08-17, verified in person on site. Written up in his message of 2026-09-10. Disclosure: we know the owners and this property is a Certified Spaces client. His message: intaaya laundry is non toxic as well, all confirmed with hgcs”
Food and Kitchen
Luxury Travel Magazine reports 6,000 square metres of organic permaculture farmland a short drive from the retreat, not on the site itself. The share of kitchen produce it supplies is not published.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Intaaya Nusa Penida, Bali's most off-grid luxury retreat Archived copy
The kitchen is reported as plant-based with locally caught fish available, and the property is reported as serving no alcohol.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Intaaya Nusa Penida, Bali's most off-grid luxury retreat Archived copy
Produce verified in person as grown on the property's own farm, with the kitchen and growing beds walked and the sourcing confirmed against what was served.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
In their words: “Assessed by Jordan Lineham, Certified Spaces, 2026-08-17, verified in person on site over 1 stay. Disclosure: we know the owners and this property is a Certified Spaces client.”
Biophilic and Healing Design
Pablo Luna Studio publishes biomimicry as the stated design method, with the five communal structures each derived from a marine form: the Shell Lobby, Shell Restaurant, Shell Spa, Fish Tail Tea Room and Manta Yoga Shala.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Read it: Intaaya Retreat, design and construction Archived copy
Dezeen reports that each tent suite opens onto a dedicated terrace facing the sea, and describes the masterplan as a descent from the arrival point at the site's highest elevation to the cliff edge.
Read it: Sea creatures inform sweeping bamboo roofs of Intaaya Retreat in Indonesia Archived copy
The Shell Restaurant is published at 265 square metres, with thirteen bamboo trusses that free the interior from intermediate supports, and tree-like bamboo columns carried on steel pillars at the front elevation.
Nobody has confirmed this one yet.
Open-sided guest and dining structures verified in person as giving direct outlook, cross ventilation and planting contact from every occupied space.
In their words: “Assessed by Jordan Lineham, Certified Spaces, 2026-08-17, verified in person on site over 1 stay. Disclosure: we know the owners and this property is a Certified Spaces client.”
Sound and Sensory Ecology
Verified in person across the whole property: no amplified music anywhere, no piped audio in guest or dining areas, and no mechanical plant audible from a sleeping space. The only ambient sound is the sea and the surrounding vegetation.
In their words: “Assessed by Jordan Lineham, Certified Spaces, 2026-08-17, verified in person on site over 1 stay. Disclosure: we know the owners and this property is a Certified Spaces client.”
Certifications
Seen in person, 17 Aug 2026, air, water, light, EMF, materials, food, design and sound.
Human Garage Certified Spaces, issued by Human Garage
Awarded: Not stated. Valid until: Not stated.
Disclosures
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