Training is key at Jari Menari to maintain standards and consistency. We
see Guests are often deeply
touched and impressed with the ‘intuitive dancing fingers’ of the
Practitioner they receive a session
from and will request the same Practitioner again and again. It is
delightful how the Staff names are
remembered by guests for many years.
So, the Senior Staff last year, begun a coaching program to enhance
requests from all Practitioners.
Dividing them into 5 teams, the 10 Leaders are responsible for enhancing
the knowledge of anatomy,
application of techniques and understanding Jari Menari philosophies in
their colleagues.
In the first seven months of the program we saw a huge increase in staff
requests and to celebrate the
success of the program, (and birthdays of Melsa and Nyoman) we went out
to celebrate over lunch.
Team work is what makes the Jari Menari Family unique and successful!
The program continues in the
next year with a bonus for the team that has generated the most requests
in the following 12 months,
combined. The spirirt of competition to enhance guest requests is a good
program that you can partic-
ipate in; we will honor and welcome
your
request at any time.
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Friends since joining Jari Menari, we celebrate meeting
again!
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Welcome back Vincent!
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A Jari Menari Team member when we first opened
and a Super
Star Massage Practitioner,
Vincent is now living and practicing his healing
arts of
massage in Rotterdam. It was a treat for
the newer Team members to meet Vincent and hear
stories of
what Jari Menari was like in 2001,
when he was learning English, anatomy and
massage skills.
Thank you for the memories and
advise shared, it is a heart-felt thrill to see
you again!
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Behind the Scenes;
Dreaming, Creating and Making New Staff uniforms
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If you’re a regular at Jari Menari, you may have noticed that twice a
year, we select new designs and
colors for our staff uniforms. We like to honour the Balinese and
Indonesian culture by showcasing the
Indonesian textiles and the hand-worked techniques of the local
artisans, many of whom operate
home industries within some of the island’s remote villages.
We are proud to support these highly skilled craftsmen and women – our
pattern maker, screen printer,
tailor and seamstresses – to design and create our top quality uniforms,
sarongs, bathrobes and bags,
which are produced from traditional screen printed and batik processed
fabrics. For our recent new
uniforms, we have chosen predominantly blue motifs on white backgrounds
to reflect the nature and
vitality of the island.
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Even the paper dressmaking patterns are handmade, by Geok, our expert
patternmaker. Ensuring that
there is minimal wastage of the fabrics, our tailors and seamstresses
then cut and immaculately sew
and stitch the cotton and best-quality rayon materials, using vintage
treadle sewing machines in their
spotlessly clean workshops.
The famous batik process is one of the many remarkable techniques that
make the Jari Menari
uniforms, bathrobes and sarongs so distinctive. Batik designs are
created by covering part of the fabric
with wax and dyeing it. The dye doesn't penetrate the wax, which is then
melted away, before being
repeated to leave behind intricate multi-colored patterns. Motifs drawn
with a ‘canting’ or wax-filled pen
are called ‘batik tulis’. Alternatively, the wax is applied with a
copper stamp, known as a ‘cap’ (pro-
nounced
chap). If a marble effect is desired, the wax is deliberately cracked
before being placed in the
dye bath. The dye seeps into the tiny cracks, which create the fine
lines that are characteristic of batik.
Natural fabrics such as densely woven cotton is selected for the cloth,
so that it can absorb the wax
during the dye resisting process.
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Our screen printer uses the hand-worked technology of his homemade
manual machine, which com-
prises
a lot of moving parts that must fit perfectly together in order to
achieve the best end result. Phys-
ical
effort is required to rotate the carousel and lift and lower the print
heads, while he pushes different
colored inks through the six, paddle-shaped, stenciled mesh screens, one
color at a time. Jari Menari’s
“full hand” logo is screen printed onto our shirts, and additionally, we
have just started making Jari
Menari bags, which broadcast an important environmental message “The
team at Jari Menari is keep-
ing
Bali clean and green” to promote awareness. The message is printed on
both sides of each bag, one
side is in English and the other is in Bahasa Indonesia.
Visit us at Jari Menari and
become part of our story.
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