Art, Creativity and Expression Retreat

Carlos Benito Gall ‘el pelito’ is a clown by vocation and profession. Born in Barcelona in 1973, he has been a clown for over 20 years. Believing in empirical and collective formation, he loves comics as a reader and cartoonist. Not only has this indulgence influenced his comprehension of the scene, but it has also triggered the conception of the workshop.

Natalia was born in Alcalá la Real (Jaén) in 1988. Natalia cannot remember a time when she stopped drawing, believing It has always accompanied her. When Natalia was 10 years old, she won a poetry prize at school which brought her immense joy and great surprise: it was the affirmation that it was valid, that she could feel safe placing attention and faith in her own creative world.

Irene is a Gestalt and systemic psychotherapist and a Flamenco dancer. She studied social work at the UCM (Complutense University of Madrid); her university years gave her a social perspective and helped her to discover a vocation for psychotherapy.

Irene’s passion for dance has driven her to become a Flamenco dancer. Irene trained in systemic family intervention at Seville’s Kaleidoscope relational training school in Sevilla.

Irene became a Gestalt therapist at Granada’s Alejandría training and therapy school. She also works with individuals, family, couples therapy or with people in crises, emotional discomfort or with desires for personal growth.

Irene also leads groups aimed at Movement and Personal Growth: These workshops encourage conscious experimentation, in which, through different proposals of movement and expression, we create new experiences that generate new patterns of thought and attitude. For this, we dedicate a space vital to integrating life experience.

Daniela de Girolamo specialises in Chi Kung and Yoga and is as enthusiastic about teaching a willing learner as she is to practise it herself.

Having spent the last 18 years studying and working as a Shiatsu therapist, Ayurvedic massage therapist, Yoga teacher-trainer and Chi Kung and Yoga instructor, she firmly believes in the goodness of holistic healing. So, regardless of age, gender or concepts, all you need to do is enrol for Daniela’s class to embark on the process.

What renders Daniela truly accomplished is her in-depth understanding about how the elements of nature manifest, and more importantly, how they are represented in the human body. Every human being experiences a different level of energetic vibration and these manifest through the body, emotions, mind, and spirit.

Lourdes Bueno is a Sports instructor and personal trainer, social health caregiver and lover of childhood and nature.

She entered the world of yoga and this practice helped her open the door to her inner world. In order to consciously live the fullness of life in all its aspects and to feel more consistent with what she wants, what she feels and what she does in her day to day. Lourdes enjoys sharing and learning each step through body awareness to improve posture and understand body mechanics. From self-care and self-knowledge without demands and from the pleasure to gradually integrate the multiple benefits of this practice and at all levels (physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual)

Her aims for the retreat programs that she will be supporting

MENOPAUSE

In this special stage, of greater serenity, heightened intuition and maturity, yoga can bring us closer to being more connected with ourselves in order to achieve a more conscious transition. We will practice fluid movement and body awareness to mobilise energy and establish a greater connection with our body and its physical, mental and emotional needs in addition to breathing exercises to reduce symptoms and increase energy and vitality.

FITNESS

The objectives of yoga transcend the integral well-being of the physical body.
In this space we will combine sequences of dynamic asanas to gain flexibility, resistance and balance to strengthen the muscles and tone from a conscious practice supported by the breath to deepen in a more precise training adapted to all levels. Working the body, listening and caring to better integrate personal practices and thus regulate the intensity relieving tensions and resistance.

WELLNESS

Yoga Wellness is a practice with the intention of returning to our centre to act in coherence and harmony in our lives. During the practice we work with pleasure to free ourselves from stress and connect with our body, get to know its energy centres and shape them through the elements. In this practice we go into the depths of the conscious and the unconscious to put it at the service of our evolution.

Emily’s passion for her work is based on people accessing their fullest potential by connecting to their fullest expression of self. Breaking down what may have held us back and stepping forwards and upwards into a beautiful expansion of our lives. Using a variety of breathwork techniques you will find tools that help you move through your days with more ease and flow. On longer journeys with the breath, you can delve deeper into the power that is within YOU accessed through the simple yet powerful breath.