Tampah Reserve · A Living Vision

The founder brief · Rachel, 25 September 2026

Rewild the human spirit.

"To be a regenerative land project with retreat space and wellness that brings people to experience the potency of Lombok through its nature and the Sasak people."Rachel Pascoe · founder

Everything on this page grows from Rachel's own answers about what Tampah Reserve is becoming. She has held this land with patience and real devotion, and her clarity is the compass for the whole team: architects, project managers, operators and partners alike.

Vision

A reserve-led destination where retreat, wellness, hospitality and residential life are held in one coherent landscape. Restorative, alive and connected to the land, never overbuilt or generic.

Mission

A regenerative, land-based way of living that is prosperous without being extractive, bringing life, sustainability, prosperity and dignity back to both land and people.

And above allKeep the land as nature. Around half of the reserve stays wild and green, because nature has value, now and for the generations after us.

Goal one

Regenerative living

A place where people live close to nature, build homes with longevity, and feel part of the ecosystem rather than insulated from it.

Goal two

Wellness and hospitality

Retreat, hotel, spa, villa and experience-led revenue that expresses wellness through land, culture and design, not just amenities.

Goal three

Innovation and creativity

An ecosystem of innovators, creators and aligned operators pioneering new forms of regeneration, design, art and land-based enterprise.

The founder test, for every decision.

If a decision makes the project more extractive, more controlling, more overpromised, or more detached from the land, it is drifting from the brief.

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controlling
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Decided together · 12 October 2026

When sustainability and design conflict, sustainability wins.

High-end and sustainable can live together. When they cannot, we choose the land.

When you arrive, you should feel you are in Lombok: the Sasak culture alive around you, the land preserved, and experiences in nature and wilderness that go far beyond the surf and the beach.

"Rewild the human spirit."Rachel

"An ecosystem of creative innovators."Rachel

"We don't overpromise things."Rachel

Who it is for.

Not mass market. People who value privacy, land connection, sovereignty, creativity, wellness and a more conscious way of living. The project attracts alignment, not everyone.

Residents and landowners

A place to live and create

Families, entrepreneurs, creators and sovereign-minded people who want privacy, connection to land and like-minded neighbours. Most already capitalised, buying a life, not a speculation.

For planningHomes, rules, roads, drainage and management that feel premium, coherent and respectful of autonomy.

Guests

To be restored

Visitors seeking high-end wellness, retreat, hotel and nature-based experiences, held in the culture of the land.

For planningClear arrival, hospitality, circulation and experience sequencing in the public-facing parts of the plan.

Partners

To strengthen it

Aligned operators and investors who make the ecosystem stronger without pulling it off mission. Outside capital is welcome only if it does not distort the priorities.

For planningPartnership zones that are legible, bounded and value-aligned rather than opportunistic.

The land · master plan, September 2026

Ocean in front. Volcano behind.
Everything held between.

The latest site plan with the elemental zones drawn in. Hover or tap a zone to see what lives there. Positions are indicative; the land has the final word.

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Water · WestSacred Spring Sanctuary
The spring valley. Stone-dammed pools stepping down the gully, the heart of the Water zone.
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Water · WestBoutique Retreat Center
On the ridge above the spring. Tea temple, ocean-view lobby, cafe under the signature tree, fire lounge, yoga shala, 6 to 10 dwellings. Up to 24 guests.
3
ResidencesWellness Villas
One, two and three bedroom villas with living spaces and pools, beside the retreat and spring.
4
Village conceptTemple Hill
A village concept by Tampah Reserve for TR-J V01 (100 are): twelve forest homes and one common house. A concept only; Tampah Reserve may also sell this land.
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ResidencesOcean-View Home Sites
About 22 home sites on the ocean-facing lower slopes.
6A
Wind · North · partnershipStrategic Partnershipto be determined
The western fifth of the cliff top, held for a strategic partnership aligned with the reserve. Partner and program to be determined.
6B
Wind · NorthEagle Cliffs Resort
The cliff top, top left of the land. A luxury cliffside resort: a stone arrival that frames Mount Rinjani behind, the bays in front.
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Fire · EastWildfire Resortindicative
Directly above the retreat center. A wilderness-style lodge of around 20 rooms with a spa and restaurant, in two phases. Exact footprint to be confirmed.
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Earth · SouthThe Valley Floorindicative
A living thread along the whole bottom edge of the land, below the home sites and following the property line. Edible forest, horse and walking trails, river, Sasak berugak. Indicative.
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Residences · future phaseFuture Ocean-View Home Sitesindicative
The next phase of ocean-view home sites: along the western edge of the property, and running up the eastern slope above the valley floor.
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Operations · top and bottomBack of House and Servicesto be determined
Two service bases, both to be determined. At the top, staff facilities, parking and laundry behind the Wildfire Resort on leased forestry land. At the bottom, offices beside the lower estate road.
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Utilities · top and bottomElectrical Power Stationto be determined
Power at both ends of the land, both to be determined. At the top, a station and possible solar farm behind the Wildfire Resort. At the bottom, a station by the lower estate road. Sizing waits on lot counts per zone.
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Thrive · sister projectThrive Flat Landcoming soon
The flat land in the bottom right corner, part of Thrive, the sister project. Plans coming soon.
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Beyond the elementsThe Wilderness · 150 haindicative
Off the back of the Reserve, rising toward Mount Rinjani. Rewilding, rites of passage, trails, farmers.

Base: Tampah Reserve site plan, 28 September 2026. The Wildfire Resort, the Valley Floor, the future home sites and the wilderness boundary are indicative and still being walked. Download the zone map ↓

◇A concept, not an approved master plan. The zones show intent. Plots already sold are fixed constraints, and every zone is tested through legal and site verification before the master plan is frozen.

How the whole fits together

One reserve. Many ways to belong to it.

Tampah Reserve is a mix of what the Reserve runs itself, what owners hold, and a few carefully chosen partnerships. Rachel describes it as an exceptional piece of land where people live and build homes inside a wider reserve that also holds high-end wellness, retreat and hotel experiences, connected to nature and the Sasak people.

The one core productA resort and villas, held within the reserve.Everything else, the retreat, the spa, the trails, the experiences, grows around it. Home sites on the lower slopes help fund the reserve, so its heart can stay whole and green.

Limited land sales

A limited number of owners, building homes inside the reserve.

Reserve-led hospitality

Wellness, retreat and hospitality run by Tampah Reserve at launch.

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Selective partnerships

Only where strongly aligned with the reserve's values and long-term quality.

Retreat centercore · self-run at launch

DirectionThe heart of Tampah Reserve's own program, developed from Rachel's vision.

For planningA design language and service logic that can anchor the identity of the whole project.

Wellness villasinternal revenue

DirectionRun as part of the Tampah Reserve operating ecosystem.

For planningClose to, and connected with, the spa, the gardens and the experience areas.

Spa zonea connected cluster

DirectionSeparate but connected, focused on recovery, longevity, sound and high-end wellness modalities.

For planningA destination in its own right, never an afterthought.

Private residencespermanent · sold plots respected

DirectionA permanent part of the plan, with owner autonomy respected.

For planningPlots already sold are a hard constraint on roads, phasing and layout, not a footnote.

Homeowner careoffered, never forced

DirectionTampah Reserve offers to manage homes, and owners can choose another path as long as the rules are respected.

For planningA governance model that makes alignment attractive rather than compulsory.

Partnershipsaligned only

DirectionOpen where they strengthen the ecosystem: zone by zone, clearly bounded.

For planningPartner zones, such as the strategic partnership beside Eagle Cliffs, defined before the conversation, not after.

i · West · Water · the priestess

The Sacred
Spring Sanctuary.

The emotional heart of the whole land. One element, held in two movements: the spring below, and the retreat center on the ridge above it.

Two movements, one sanctuary

The spring in the valley. The retreat on the ridge.

The Water zone is two places that belong to each other. Below, a spring descends the forest valley through stone pools, a place for ceremony, bathing and silence. Directly above it, a boutique retreat center runs along the ridge, with the spring on one side and the ocean on the other. Guests sleep and gather on the ridge, and walk down to the water.

Concept section, not to scale. The spring sits in the valley on one side of the ridge; the dwellings step down the far side toward the sea.

A creek descending the mountain.

A spring rising in one of the forest valleys, with natural stone dams creating a pool at every elevation. Beside each pool, a place to meditate, to float, to rest in a hammock, to picnic among fruit trees. A silent walking trail runs alongside. Blue lotus blooms at the base. Herbs grow along the banks.

Inspired by the holy springs of the islands and melukat purification, by the Chalice Well at Glastonbury and the well maidens of Avalon, by ferns and moss and dripping limestone. Not a spa. Not a wellness facility. A place where grief softens, life force returns, and water remembers what modern life has made people forget.

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Spring pools cascading through the forest — Concept render · the spring pools, blue lotus at the lowest

Architecture brief · the spring

Grown from the earth, not built on it.

Spring valley concept plan. Positions are indicative and will be walked with the architect and a hydrologist, since the spring does not run all year.

materials

Earth, stone, water

Volcanic stone and limestone. Moss walls and flowing water channels. Dark reflective pools. Aged timber, bronze, carved stone. Bamboo gates. Candlelight after dark.

principles

Human, intimate, walked

Sound muted to birdsong and water. Light dappled through canopy. Full visual separation from villas and paths. Arrival walked, never driven. Scale human, never grand.

mood

Ancient and feminine

Grounded, elemental, timeless. Not polished spa aesthetics: sacred earth architecture, hanging vines, ferns, lotus pools, hidden alcoves.

Signature experiences

What guests do at the water.

The Purification Path

A guided sequence through warm spring pools, cool plunge channels, silence chambers and floating pools. The nervous system slows on entry.

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The Rose Well

A contemplative spring inspired by Avalon and feminine healing traditions. Quiet, still, reflective. The blue lotus pond is its embodied form.

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Moon Water Ceremony

A monthly night immersion under the stars, with candles and sound. Mist rising from the pools. The valley becomes a temple after dark.

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Grief and Renewal

Gentle ceremonial work around release, remembrance and new beginnings. A held space for those carrying loss.

Sacred Silence Mornings

No speaking in the spring zone until a certain hour. The whole valley becomes meditative, and guests slow their voices without being asked.

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The Water Blessing

Every guest crosses a water blessing on arrival, the doorway to everything that follows.

01 · ~10 min

Threshold

The water blessing at the gate

Melukat and the Celtic well blessing, woven.

02 · ~15 min

Walk

Land and intention

The silent path to the spring. Guided breath, slowing.

03 · 60 to 90 min

Sacred Spring

Priestess holding

Deep release work: grief, surrender, prayer.

04 + 05

Float, then tea

Somatic, sound, stillness

Held in the pool, then integration in the tea pavilion. They leave with a vial of blessed spring water.

Lineages woven: Sasak and Balinese water traditions, the Celtic well maidens of Avalon, modern water somatics. Facilitators: a water priestess, a sound healer, and a local practitioner as anchor.

The boutique retreat center

On the ridge, just above the spring.

Small enough to feel held, complete enough to run a full retreat. Up to 24 guests, one group, one arc. The retreat center runs along the ridge from south to north: you arrive at a tea temple, step into a lobby that opens to the ocean, gather at a cafe under a great signature tree, climb to the fire, and at the crown of the hill, practice in the yoga shala.

On the far side of the ridge from the spring, six to ten dwellings step down the hill, every one with an incredible ocean view.

Aerial concept of the retreat center on the ridge above the spring — Concept render · the ridge, the spring pools to one side, the dwellings to the other

24guests, up to

6 to 10dwellings

1 + 2bedroom homes

5places along the ridge

Walk the ridge · south to north

Five places, one ascent.

South · the threshold
The Tea Temple
Arrival
The Lobby, facing the ocean
Gathering
The Cafe under the Signature Tree
A little higher
The Fireplace
North · the crown
The Yoga Shala

South

The Tea Temple

Arrival begins in slowness. A small, precise tea temple at the southern tip of the ridge: shoes off, tea poured, the journey set down. Seating for six to ten, one tea station as the anchor, light diffused, the natural world as companion to the ritual. An architecture of pause, Lombok's own.

The dwellings

Down the hill, toward the sea.

On the side of the ridge opposite the spring, six to ten dwellings step down the slope, each in its own pocket of forest, no dwelling facing another. One and two bedroom homes, so a couple, a pair of friends or a small family all find their place. Every one has an incredible ocean view.

Minimal but beautiful: stone floors, lime plaster, timber and woven screens, an open-air bath where the slope allows, a deck in the trees, passive cooling first. A single ritual object in each: a small altar, a ceramic vessel, a carved stone.

Dwellings stepping down the hillside toward the ocean — Concept render · one and two bedroom dwellings on the ocean side of the ridge

The retreats already calling

Containers that have already asked to come.

Held, multi-day retreats rather than nightly hotel stays: one group, one facilitator team, one arc, three to seven nights. These formats have already signalled interest through the first gathering on the land and the circles around it.

Men's Wild Lands

The men from the first fire returning, with new men joining. Fire, full moon, vision work, the spring at dawn.

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Women's Rewilding

Sacred feminine, water work, wild listening. Held by facilitators from Rachel's trusted circle.

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Family Wilderness

Multi-generational. Earth practices, the food forest, fire stories with Sasak elders. The two bedroom dwellings suit families well.

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Yoga and Movement

Teacher-led immersions in the shala, open to the elements or held in containment.

Couples and Sacred Feminine

Reconnection and feminine leadership retreats, held by vetted facilitators in the co-created network.

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Rachel's own retreats

The consciousness work at the heart of the project, in a space built to hold it.

Sacred geometry

Orientation, threshold and axis drawn from Sasak cosmology. East for sunrise practice.

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Landform sensitivity

Buildings follow the ridge. Minimal cut and fill. Structures settle rather than impose. No mature tree removed without cause.

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Material honesty

Local stone, bamboo, reclaimed timber, lime plaster, alang-alang thatch. Every surface ages with grace.

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Threshold as architecture

Arrival is designed: from the road to the tea temple, from path to shala, from the world into stillness.

Water as ordering principle

The spring below anchors the whole zone. Water moves through the site as poetry and as utility.

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Light and shadow

Deep shade in the heat of day, filtered gold at sunrise and dusk. Night light low and downward, never upward.

ii · East · Fire · the unspoken jaguar

The Wildfire
Resort.

A boutique eco-luxury resort on one of the premium high points of the land, above the retreat center. Guests check in for a night or a week and are cared for completely, with the wild pressing in close.

From retreat camp to resort

A place you check in to.

What began as the Wild Lands Retreat has grown into something more complete: the most beautiful boutique resort on the land. Eco-luxury suites of stone and timber rather than tents. A lodge and restaurant around a great fire. A spa and bathhouse in the forest. Hotel-level care that is felt rather than seen: arrivals met, rooms tended, meals held, every need anticipated, nothing performed.

The working picture: a wilderness-style lodge of earth and adobe with around twenty rooms, a spa and a restaurant, built in two phases. Staff facilities, parking, laundry and services sit behind it on leased forestry land, tucked away from the prime views.

The glamping camp does not disappear. It moves to where it belongs, out in the 150 hectares of wilderness, as the base for rites of passage.

Working name. It sits directly above the retreat center, at the top of the land; the exact footprint is still being walked.

Lodge and restaurant around a central fire hearth — Concept render · the lodge and restaurant, one great hearth at its center

The resort, in five parts

Everything a resort offers. Nothing it doesn't need.

The Suites

Eco-luxury suites of volcanic stone and reclaimed timber, deep thatch overhead. Each with a private fire terrace, an open-air stone bath and a view that belongs to nobody else.

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The Lodge and Restaurant

One great hearth at the center. Long tables, food from the valley floor and the food forest, fire instead of floodlights.

iii.

The Arrival

The road narrows, the jungle thickens, the air cools. Guests leave noise, phones and roads behind before they reach the door. By the time they arrive, the city is gone from their bodies.

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The Bathhouse and Spa

Wild spring bathing in stone and forest, treatments, steam and cold plunge, candlelit at night, where the resort meets the reserve.

The Care

Nightly and weekly stays with everything a guest needs: housekeeping, dining, guiding, transfers. A service standard set by the finest wilderness lodges, with the texture of the wild.

eco-luxury suiteslodge + restaurantfire loungespa + bathhouseforest poolwildlife reserve accessguided experiencesnightly + weekly stays

The jaguar presence

Felt, never shown.

The jaguar is never literal. No branding, no themed motif. It appears through carved patterns, stone textures, artwork, stories, and a nocturnal atmosphere. Guests feel it rather than see it. The archetype becomes instinct, observation, silence, sovereignty, wild intelligence. Restraint is what makes it luxurious.

After dark, very low light. Fire instead of floodlighting, lantern pathways, the jungle's sound turned up. Guests whisper without being asked.

The land becomes the luxury. Not the architecture.

Architecture brief · the resort

Woven into the land, held by it.

Concept section, not to scale. Like everything at Tampah Reserve, the resort is incorporated into the land rather than placed on it.

materials

Stone, timber, thatch

Volcanic stone and reclaimed timber, deep alang-alang roofs, dark textures, open-air bathing in stone, low warm light. Sasak craftsmanship throughout.

incorporation

Set into the contour

Structures follow the terrain and are planted around, opening to the view. More visible than a hideaway, as a resort should be, and still quiet.

mood

Wilderness lodge, uniquely Lombok

Closer to the great African lodges and Aman-style restraint than to anything Bali offers. Not a flashy eco-resort.

The Jaguar Path

A silent jungle trail walked only at dawn or dusk, when the land is most awake. No talking, no phones, only listening.

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The Night Watch

Guided evening observation into the reserve. Hides, low red light, whispered storytelling. Owls, geckos, the occasional civet.

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Wild Spring Bathing

Mineral pools set into stone and forest where the resort meets the reserve. Open-air, candlelit at night.

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The Listening Deck

An elevated platform for sitting in silence at sunrise as the reserve wakes up. Guided once, then practiced alone.

Fire Story Evenings

Storytelling around fire on land, ancestry and nature. Sasak knowledge holders invited as honored guests, paid as elders.

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Into the Wilderness

Vision quests and rites of passage continue out in the 150 hectares, with the camp as their base. See the wilderness →

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iii · North · Wind · the eagle

The Eagle Cliffs
Resort.

A luxury cliffside resort at the top left of the land, designed around wind, breath and the long view. You arrive facing a volcano. You turn around to the sea.

The arrival · turn around

Rinjani in front of you. The bays at your back.

Facing north · Mount Rinjani Stone arrival lobby framing Mount Rinjani

An arrival built to be remembered: a lobby of hand-cut stone, one monumental portal framing Mount Rinjani across the hills, a still pool holding the volcano's reflection. From here you can see off the back of the property all the way to the mountain.

Turn around and the whole south coast opens up: Tampah Beach, the Mawun valley and Mawun Bay, the Indian Ocean beyond. The ocean was behind you the whole time.

Designed around the wind.

Most resorts design around views, pools and interiors. This one designs around airflow, sound, shifting light, the movement of fabric and trees. Long rooflines extending like wings. Cantilevered cliff pavilions. Elevated pathways and layered viewing decks. Eagle energy in the architecture, never as decoration.

Wind chimes tuned architecturally, bamboo resonance, breeze moving through stone corridors. Light designed around sunrise, sunset, moonlight and shadow. Space itself becomes the luxury.

A collaboration. This is the resort we are looking to create with a partner who shares the vision. What follows is the invitation.

The two views from the arrival. Diagram, not to scale.

Signature spaces

Where the wind lives.

The Stone Lobby

The arrival, designed to award standard. Hand-cut stone, a portal framing Rinjani, a reflecting pool. The first impression of the whole land.

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The Wind Pavilion

A soaring open-air gathering structure at the highest cliff point. No walls: roof, columns, wind, horizon.

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Eagle Deck

A suspended sunrise platform projecting over the cliffs. Used at dawn and dusk, empty for most of the day.

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Sky Baths

Open-air stone baths turned toward sunset and moonrise. Limestone, brushed bronze, candlelight.

The Flight Path Walk

A cliffside path shaped around changing wind and panoramic reveals. The view changes every few steps.

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Horizon Fire Lounge

A minimal fire circle with deep seating facing the ocean. The sunset gathering point.

Sun-washed and elemental.

Pale limestone, weathered timber, brushed bronze, soft sand plaster, natural linen, volcanic stone accents. Inspired by organic-modern cliffside architecture and Aman simplicity.

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Breath, vision, expansion.

Where Water works with grief and Fire works with instinct, Wind works with breath, vision and future. Breathwork, movement, meditation, creative clarity sessions, leadership retreats, fasting and reset. The atmosphere itself creates spaciousness.

And down by the ocean, the Innovation Beach: a co-working home for visionaries and creators in residence. Where the new world gets designed.

iv · South · Earth · the living thread

The Valley
Floor.

A living thread along the whole bottom edge of the land, below the home sites and following the property line down to the river. Earth is the fourth sanctuary and the thread that holds the other three: the place for walking, riding, eating, planting, and remembering how to live with land.

The river valley

The land underneath everything.

The valley floor has no ocean view, which is why earlier plans overlooked it. That is now its gift. The river runs through it, the floor opens wide and flat, and the trees rise into the hills that hold the Reserve. This is where the slow work happens: the grounding, the eating, the walking, the relationship with land.

Local farmers are contracted for the food forest. Sasak knowledge holders teach, and are paid as teachers. Regenerative principles guide every soil decision.

River valley with food forest, berugak and horse trail — Concept render · the river, the food forest, a berugak on the bank

Valley floor concept map. Indicative: the features will be placed with the farmers, the elders and the river.

What lives here

Ten ways to touch the ground.

Edible food forest

Pick mango, papaya, banana and herbs as you walk. Breakfast made from the harvest.

Horse trails

Quiet rides along the river trail in the early morning. No experience needed.

Walking trails

Through the botanical gardens, the herb beds and the shade of the valley.

The river

The thread through the valley. Barefoot on the stones, cool water after a walk.

Stone labyrinth

One quiet feature among many: a walking meditation ringed by medicinal herbs.

Berugak tea ceremony

An open Sasak pavilion over the gardens and the buffalo fields. Tea grown on the land.

Buffalo fields

Living symbols of grounded abundance, moving slowly through open grazing land.

Herb and jamu gardens

Ginger, turmeric, lemongrass and the medicine the village grandmothers still carry.

Clay studio

Hands in the earth. Pottery, clay body painting, planting in the herb beds.

Picnic glens and hammocks

No schedule, no facilitator. The earth's permission to do nothing.

Stone labyrinth in a ring of herbal gardens — Concept render · the labyrinth, one feature of the valley

Signature practices

i.The Food Forest Walk

A guided morning walk through the edible forest, picking as you go. Breakfast prepared with what the group harvested.

ii.Horseback to the River

A quiet ride along the river trail in the early morning. Sasak elders share stories of the land.

iii.The Labyrinth and the Herbs

Walk slowly to the center stone. Sit. Walk slowly out. Pick a sprig of medicine on the way back.

iv.Clay and Garden Work

Hands in the soil, planting in the herb gardens, forest bathing in the cool afternoon shade.

v.Sunrise Grounding

Barefoot on the valley floor at dawn, held by a Sasak elder when present. A way to begin the day in direct relationship with the land.

Beyond the elements · toward Rinjani

The
Wilderness.

150 hectares off the back of Tampah Reserve, rising toward Mount Rinjani. Not tied to one element, because it holds all of them. A land for rites of passage and rewilding.

150hectares of wilderness behind the Reserve, ocean to volcano

The front of Tampah Reserve faces the ocean. The back faces the volcano. The wilderness holds the rest: depth, mystery, exploration, and real ecological significance. Horse trails, walking trails and biking trails. Native planting and regenerative farming. Protection for the animals already living here, and support for the farmers who have always worked this land.

Few places hold this whole gradient, from ocean to forest to volcano, on a single landscape. Cared for well, it can grow into a regenerative and conservation destination that Indonesia is proud of.

Safari tents around a fire in the forest

Rites of passage

Vision quests, men's and women's initiations, fathers and sons, families. The safari camp lives here now: premium canvas tents in a forest clearing, a fire circle, the spring nearby.

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Trails

Horse trails, walking trails and mountain biking trails climbing toward the volcano, with sunrise viewpoints along the way.

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Farmers and growing

Agroforestry under canopy: cacao, coffee, vanilla, spices, fruit. Farmers supported and paid well; the kitchens fed from the land.

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Rewilding

Native trees, water retention, soil regeneration and protected corridors for wildlife. Measured, published, proven over years.

It has already begun

The first fire is already lit.

Eight men, three nights, one full moon over the ocean, May 2026. Bamboo, fire, spring water and listening. The men came in tired and city-bodied and left more themselves. It was not designed as a product; it was the land showing what it wants.

Flute by the fire on the first night — The first night

Already on this land

The wildlife we share it with.

Leopard catPalm civetNative birds + raptorsPollinators + beesWild boarReptiles

Canopy walkway through the forest — Elevated canopy walks

Circular food garden on a hillside — Food gardens feeding the kitchens

Children crossing a rope bridge to a bamboo treehouse — Treehouses and rope bridges for children

Buffalo and horses in a wetland meadow — Buffalo and horses in the wetland meadow

Leaf-shaped food forest — Living architecture in the food forest

Regenerative reserve

Reforestation, native planting, habitat restoration, water retention, soil regeneration. Measurable biodiversity uplift.

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Eco-tourism into the wild

Guided jungle walks, sunrise volcano viewpoints, biking, horse trekking, forest bathing, wildlife hides, night walks.

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Rites of passage camp

Low-impact safari tents and forest cabins in bamboo, stone and reclaimed timber. Passive cooling, solar.

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Regenerative agriculture

Vanilla, cacao, coffee, spices and fruit under canopy, feeding the retreat kitchens and wellness products.

Jute and Earth Collection

Natural fibres for textiles, uniforms, rope and packaging. A future Tampah Reserve Earth Collection.

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Wildlife restoration

Protected habitat for native South Lombok wildlife, with universities, NGOs and researchers as partners.

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Trails and infrastructure

Meditation trails, canopy walks, ecology paths, waterfall trails, volcano viewing decks, bamboo pavilions.

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Wellness and programming

Digital detox, breathwork, wilderness immersion, leadership retreats, permaculture education, family reconnection.

Five revenue streams

Tourism · stays, guiding, retreatsAgriculture · produce, coffee, cacao, fibreEducation · permaculture, conservationWellness · healing programs, corporateRetail · natural products, artisan goods

Tampah Reserve runs from the ocean to the volcano: ocean-view homes and villas, a sacred spring and its retreat center, resorts on the high edges of fire and wind, a village on the hill, and 150 hectares of regenerating wilderness climbing toward Mount Rinjani.The positioning sentence

A village concept by Tampah Reserve · TR-J V01 · 100 are

Temple Hill.

Twelve homes hidden in the forest. One common house by the pool. A green hill above two bays, booked one home at a time, or all at once.

ConceptAn idea for conversation, not a committed project. Tampah Reserve may also choose to sell this land.

Temple Hill aerial concept — Concept visualisation · Temple Hill from above, Tampah Beach and Mawun Bay beyond

A boutique village you can book one home at a time.

Temple Hill turns the 100 are at the top of the Reserve into twelve private one-bedroom homes, each tucked into its own pocket of forest and facing the sea, gathered around a single common house with a pool, a lawn and a gazebo.

On an ordinary night it is twelve separate stays for couples and solo travellers. On a special weekend it becomes one place: a family reunion, a small wedding, a birthday, a women's circle. The whole hill, with a home kitchen and living room instead of a hotel lobby.

12forest homes

1common house

24guests, whole hill

Temple Hill village plan — Indicative plan · final siting follows a topographic survey and a walk on the land

A forest home with a hammock — Each home in its own pocket of forest

Open-air bath facing the ocean — A bath that looks at the ocean

Bedroom interior — Wake up with the sea in the room

Common house by the pool — The common house, the heart of the village

Pool gazebo at sunrise — Tea at sunrise, yoga before breakfast

Celebration on the lawn at dusk — The whole hill, for the people you love

by the home

Twelve separate stays

Each one-bedroom home booked on its own, nightly, sharing the pool, lawn and common house.

the whole village

One private place

All twelve homes and the common house, exclusively. For families, weddings, birthdays and retreats of up to twenty-four guests.

what we add

Every home faces the sea

Forest between neighbours, a partly open-air bathroom with a tub turned to the ocean, gentle graded paths, quiet screened rooms.

The frequency the project is held in

Sasak essence. A quieter kind of luxury.

Most luxury wellness brands in Indonesia borrow the vocabulary of Bali. Lombok is not Bali. Tampah Reserve chooses Lombok: earth, simplicity, silence, and sacredness in ordinary life.

Three signature offerings

The Berugak Tea Ceremony

An open-air Sasak pavilion woven into the landscape, overlooking medicinal gardens and buffalo fields. Shoes off, phones away. Herbal teas grown on the land: ginger, turmeric, lemongrass, betel leaf, moringa, tamarind. Not doing wellness, but entering regulation.

"The healing begins when there is finally enough space to listen."

ii.

The Buffalo Earth Zone

In Sasak culture the buffalo is grounded abundance: fertility, agricultural strength, family, continuity. Guests sit on a berugak over open grazing land while tea is prepared slowly and the buffalo move quietly through the fields. Not spectacle. Presence.

iii.

The Feminine Wisdom Keepers

The Sasak feminine has always carried herbal medicine, weaving, water, postpartum healing, grief work and oral tradition. Woven through the land as healing waters, herb gardens, weaving circles, moon gatherings, mother and child spaces and feminine leadership retreats.

Tampah Reserve · Sasak essence

What we are.

Earth
Simplicity
Humility
Silence
Endurance
Ancestral grounding
Village connection
Practicality with spirit
Sacredness in ordinary life
Relationship to farming

What we don't import

The aesthetic of elsewhere.

Theatrical spirit
Ornament for its own sake
Temples everywhere
Layered symbolism
Visible devotion as decor
Spectacle

"Here, plants are not simply resources, but teachers. Water is not merely consumed, but revered. Healing is understood as a restoration of relationship, with self, community, spirit, and nature."Rachel Pascoe · the philosophy of the land

Shoes off. Feet on the earth. Phones down. Tea shared slowly. Buffalo moving through the fields. Stories around fire. Space to rest, to create, to feel again. Not escaping life, but returning to it.

The vision, read through eight lenses

Eight lenses, simultaneously held.

Four design lenses and four grounding lenses. Where they agree are the strongest signals. Where they disagree are the design conversations worth having. Open any lens.

i.Wellness Living ArchitectWhat makes a home actively heal

The design lens for the home itself: the materials, light, air, water and acoustics that make a home restorative rather than merely beautiful. The home as nervous-system architecture.

Asks: where does morning light fall on the bed? What does the floor feel like to bare feet? Where is the cold plunge? Where does grief have a place?

ii.Wellness Community DesignerDaily rhythms that turn neighbours into a network

The daily and weekly patterns that turn a collection of homes into a living community: third places, shared meals, the Daily Path, the named spots where life happens between events.

Asks: where do strangers become friends? What is the rhythm of the week? Where does the community gather without it being an event?

iii.Conscious Community ArchitectThe container for birth, growth, eldership, death

What holds the full arc of life across decades. Rites of passage, the seven stages, the places for weddings, blessings, milestones, eldership and memorials.

Asks: what does the land hold when someone is born here, grieving, coming of age, dying? The arc is what makes it multi-generational rather than transactional.

iv.Family-Focused Land ArchitectWhat a child grows up inside of

Children as full residents at every age, not an amenity. A property built for toddlers, children, teenagers and young adults.

Asks: where can an eight-year-old walk alone, safely? Where do teenagers gather away from parents? Where do families eat together? Where is the tree that holds a thirteen-year-old's rite of passage?

v.Sasak Indigenous Wisdom Keeper · the spineWhat the land says through the people. Rachel's strongest yes.

First among equals. The worldview Tampah Reserve is built inside of: the Sasak land calendar, Sasak names for every zone, ancestral protocols around the spring, the wider elder council, the Wetu Telu tradition that sees life as alive with spirit, and the feminine wisdom keepers.

Asks: what is already protected? Which days are not for opening? Whose grandmothers carry which medicine? What share of revenue returns to Sasak community ownership? When the lenses disagree, this one has the priority vote.

vi.Hospitality / Operator GMWhat makes a Wednesday in 2030 deliverable

The Aman, Nihi and Six Senses operator's eye: the arrival sequence, the first 24 hours, service rituals, staff training, back of house. The discerning buyer reads operations before they buy.

Asks: what is the welcome ritual? Where do staff live? What is the recovery script when something goes wrong?

vii.Permaculture / Regenerative DesignerThe flows of water, energy, food and waste

Every drop of water mapped, every kilowatt accounted for. The food forest cycle, the compost loop, soil indices, native species targets, carbon math.

Asks: where does each drop of water come from and go? What happens if the grid fails for 72 hours? The regeneration story has to be evidenced or it is decoration.

viii.Creators and Innovation CircleArtists, musicians, thought leaders and impact makers, living the vision

Rachel wants Tampah Reserve to attract creators and to be surrounded by thought leaders, artists and musicians, and by people who want to create impact on the land. This lens designs for them as residents of the vision, not visitors: residencies, studios, a stage, the Innovation Beach, and a circle that meets.

Asks: where does an artist work for a month? Where does a musician play to the whole community? Where do founders design what comes next? What does each creator leave behind for the land and the village?

Where all eight agree

01Creators need infrastructure, not invitations.

Residencies, studio space and a gathering stage turn visits into contributions. The Innovation Beach and the fire circles become where new work is born.

02The Sasak partnership needs a building.

Dedicated space for a Sasak Cultural House, paired with a structural funding mechanism, so the relationship does not depend on any one person.

03Daily life needs infrastructure.

The Family Hearth, the Daily Path, the named third places. Most guest satisfaction lives in daily flow, not peak moments.

04The body needs everyday places.

Movement studio, sauna and cold plunge, separate from the sacred spring. Daily practice, not only retreat moments.

05Name the life cycle on day one.

A tree planted at a birth fruits at adolescence and shades elderhood. Acknowledge the seven stages now and build for each over the years.

06Beautiful improvisation becomes beautiful operation.

Standards, training and documentation before scaling marketing.

Where they disagree

01Sasak protocols vs. the calendar.

Co-build a land calendar that names unbookable days, and run operations around it. It is the depth that makes the place real.

02Permaculture slow vs. buyer fast.

Year one we plant, year three we taste, year seven we feed the village. The trajectory is the story.

03Free-range families vs. held retreat space.

Time-based zoning of the spring, with visual and acoustic separation between family life and held work.

04Guest expectations vs. Sasak access.

Guests learn protocols at the Sasak Cultural House before they need to honor them.

05Natural flows vs. aesthetic control.

Permaculture first, aesthetic features as punctuation. No manicured tropical-resort look.

06Resort polish vs. wild rawness.

Zone the polish. The same service standard everywhere, different texture: the resorts and the hearth polished, the spring and the wilderness deliberately raw.

Tampah Reserve is not finance, but frequency. Not extraction, but relationship. Not ownership, but stewardship. The Sasak relationship is the spine, with a home, a structural place in the economy, the Berugak Tea Ceremony as our signature, and buffalo moving through the fields as living symbols of grounded abundance. And around it, a circle of creators, artists and thought leaders making work that serves the land.The brand sentence

Not a resort.A land that transforms people.

Rewild the human spirit.

Vision

Mission

Goal one

Regenerative living

Goal two

Wellness and hospitality

Goal three

Innovation and creativity

The founder test, for every decision.

Who it is for.

A place to live and create

To be restored

To strengthen it

Ocean in front. Volcano behind.Everything held between.

One reserve. Many ways to belong to it.

Limited land sales

Reserve-led hospitality

Selective partnerships

Retreat centercore · self-run at launch

Wellness villasinternal revenue

Spa zonea connected cluster

Private residencespermanent · sold plots respected

Homeowner careoffered, never forced

Partnershipsaligned only

Water. Fire. Wind. Earth.

Sacred Spring Sanctuary

The Wildfire Resort

Eagle Cliffs Resort

The Valley Floor

The SacredSpring Sanctuary.

The spring in the valley. The retreat on the ridge.

A creek descending the mountain.

Grown from the earth, not built on it.

Earth, stone, water

Human, intimate, walked

Ancient and feminine

What guests do at the water.

The Purification Path

The Rose Well

Moon Water Ceremony

Grief and Renewal

Sacred Silence Mornings

The Water Blessing

Threshold

Walk

Sacred Spring

Float, then tea

On the ridge, just above the spring.

Five places, one ascent.

The Tea Temple

The Lobby, facing the ocean

The Cafe under the Signature Tree

The Fireplace

The Yoga Shala

Down the hill, toward the sea.

Containers that have already asked to come.

Men's Wild Lands

Women's Rewilding

Family Wilderness

Yoga and Movement

Couples and Sacred Feminine

Rachel's own retreats

Sacred geometry

Landform sensitivity

Material honesty

Threshold as architecture

Water as ordering principle

Light and shadow

The WildfireResort.

A place you check in to.

Everything a resort offers. Nothing it doesn't need.

The Suites

The Lodge and Restaurant

The Arrival

The Bathhouse and Spa

The Care

Felt, never shown.

Woven into the land, held by it.

Not a resort.
A land that transforms people.

Ocean in front. Volcano behind.
Everything held between.

The Sacred
Spring Sanctuary.

The Wildfire
Resort.

The Eagle Cliffs
Resort.

The Valley
Floor.

The
Wilderness.