Overview

• Javi and Naya - Ayurveda and the 5 Elements
• Liliana Kleiner - "Painting our Dreams”
• Quetzal Ríos and Cecilia Huerta - Acro Yoga
• Lina do Carmo - Gurdjeff Sacred Dances
• Miriam Gudrun Sieber - Dancing with the Bach flowers
• Bindu De la Parra - Anusara Yoga
• Deva Baumbach - Circle in Motion
• Ayesha Estrada - Hatha Yoga

Ayurveda and the 5 Elements

with Javi and Naya

Get to know your own structure, your prakriti, how it tends to be unbalanced and what can be done to restore the natural balance in each one.

1. Introduce yourself in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medicine.

2. Discover your essential constitution: the 5 elements or Mahabhutas and the 3 Doshas, and how they influence your body, emotions, thoughts and habits.

• Vata (ether and air)
• Pitta (fire and water)
• Kapha (water and earth)

3. Integrate the Doshas knowledge through Ayurveda massages, to give and receive different techniques on your body to understand how the Doshas work and what is needed to harmonize them. ??We will initiate with energetic practice and mediation to connect with the 5 elements.

You don’t need previous knowledge, what you do need is willingness to learn and discover yourself.

Javi – He initiates with Hatha Yoga in 1996 with his siksa-guru Tulasi Das, member of Bhakti Yoga of Madhva Gaudya Sampradaya. Since then he never stopped practicing and began his own path of self knowledge and healing, accomplishing different massage techniques (shiatsu, reflexology, massage therapy) getting to know in Ayurveda, through the teacher's knowledge, the art of healing.

Naya – Major in Psychology University of Madrid, her interest on human being was focused as whole integral (body-mind-spirit) therefore Postgraduate in Gestalt Psychotherapy and started promoting child health to later accomplish her studies as Waldorf Pedagogy treating with massage children and pregnant women.

Since 2004 Naya and Javi travel together throughout Latin and Central America sharing their knowledge of Quantic Healing and Ayurveda.

Website: www.omtatsat.tk

"Painting our Dreams”

with Liliana Kleiner

"The workshop will be an exploration of self expression through visual imagery, using painting and drawing , color and line. Participants will get to express their unique feelings and ideas in a playful and creative way, both individually and as a group. We will use our personal dreams, stories, free associations and bodies to guide us in this journey.
No experience with painting is necessary, just a willingness to be open and play like children ".

Liliana Kleiner – is a visual artist, writer, teacher and jungian therapist, with experience in film and dance. She was born in Argentina, lived in Israel, Canada and Mexico.

Her work shows in her site: www.lilianakleiner.com

Acro Yoga

with Quetzal and Ceci

This discipline is based on Acro Yoga from San Francisco California where through a conscious yoga practice, gentle contact of Thai massage and the dynamic power of acrobatics; these three lineages unite to cultivate confidence in the game of coexistence.
Through this practice we experience the working with the individual, a partner and as a group.

Cecilia Huerta – The nearest path to individual knowledge has been the practice of yoga. I have been in close contact with a dance named "Lemon", contemporary and ballet.
Through my corporal needs, I studied Theater and Dance in the National Institute of Beautiful Arts. Today I practice Hatha Yoga and Acro Yoga together with my partner..

Quetzal Ríos – During his childhood he got in contact with Yoga discipline. He also practiced dance techniques, Capoeira and Olympic Gymnastics. When he reached his 19's he converted into a devoted yoga practitioner and Yoga promoter of Integral Yoga way beyond the traditional postures. He now teaches Yoga Classes and run the "Arbol del Yoga" Multicultural Center. He also practices Ashtanga Yoga and Acro Yoga.

Gurdjeff Sacred Dances
Celebrating the Eternal NOW, awakening divine presence!

with Lina do Carmo (Jai Kartar Kaur)

During the Festival, in a relaxed atmosphere, Lina do Carmo will share her passion for Gurdjieff's Movements and Sacred Dances as a source of higher energy as well as a powerful tool of evolution and transformation.
The Movements and Sacred Dances were an inseparable part of Gurdjieff's teaching, named "the work on oneself": an inner search for self-development. They encourage higher consciousness and allow a direct experience of awakening. They require, and together we will learn, attention and presence: "Remember yourself always and everywhere" is one of Gurdjieff's most famous statements.

Lina do Carmo – After having studied dance and theatre in Brazil and the USA, choreographer and dancer Lina do Carmo studied by Marcel Marceau Mimodrame School in Paris. In her artistic work she combines different techniques of body expression with the imaginative sources of her roots into a unique organic movement language, from which she created several solo shows and group pieces.
With her large background, she makes links with methods like Yogi Bhajan's Kundalini Yoga , Gurdjieff’s Movements and active meditations for energetic bodywork, adapting these sources to nowadays.

Website: www.linadocarmo.de

Dancing with the Bach flowers

with Miriam Gudrun Sieber

“Everything that truly cures is as simple as nature and love.” Edward Bach.

Edward Bach, discovered in the decade of the thirties a forgotten method of healing that comes from the native towns: the therapy of drops of dew. Since then the world speaks of the miracle of Bach’s flowers, a natural medicine that works at a subtle and energetic level with the forces of the soul, through which it is possible to obtain healing and transformation. The floral essences help us to connect with our soul potential and bring harmony between our personality and psique.
In this workshop we will have the possibility of having an experience of ourselves through meditation, and journeys of the soul. Each participant will find his or her personal mixture of flowers. In addition we are going to experience the energy of the flowers through dance and authentic movement to let freely flow through us the naturalness and the vital energy.

Miriam Gudrun Sieber – Miriam works with floral essences and integral expressive dance since 1992 and shares the wealth of her experiences.

Anusara Yoga

with Bindu De la Parra

Touching the music of the soul, opening ourselves to grace in our life...
Karma and Dharma...
How to release inner resistances and give in fully to life, with confidence and inner strength...

A profound reencounter with yourself. We’ll release tension in every level, we’ll strengthen and open up our body through breathing, yoga postures (Asanas) and mantra chants. It will be a deep journey into the heart, where you will feel full of vitality and peace within simultaneously. Open to all levels.

Bindu De la Parra – Has dedicated her life to the way of Yoga and meditation for 15 years. Her fundamental approach of yoga is the deep connection to the source inside. From 1996 she began her pilgrimage by ashrams and monasteries, spending long periods in retirement, studying yoga, Sanskrit, and the old writings of India. Offering service as a Yoga and meditation instructor in retirements with the Foundation Siddha Yoga, as well as giving training for instructors of yoga around the world, in New York, San Francisco, Berkeley Ca, Brazil, Spain, Italy, India and Mexico. Instructor of Yoga (RYT), registered in the National Yoga Alliance, Affiliated with Anusara, certified in Siddha Yoga and Yoga Mandali School of Anusara Yoga New York.
Currently she teaches yoga classes in a foundation for children with cerebral paralysis. She is founder and Director of Atmaram Yoga Mandir, in Cuernavaca, Morelos.

Website: www.atmaram.com.mx

Circle in Motion

with Deva Baumbach

The rythm is the order and the harmony in which the laws of nature move. When we learn to listen to our own rythm and the one of our surroundings we live with inner harmony and health in all levels.

The workshop of circle in motion is a group experience that allows you through the rhythmical exploration with your voice and with your body to become tuned with the rhythm that is at cellular level in all life processes, to enjoy the gaming group energy, guided improvisation and the telepathy that is generated when entering a listening state.

Deva Baumbach – Deva is a multidisciplinary artist who unites diverse elements of the scenic arts, specially singing and the theatrical dance. Her creations speak of the life poetry and promote the waking up of the conscience through art. She has studies in Odissi dance, Butoh dance, singing, techniques of holistic healing and Hatha Yoga. She has worked with diverse music and dance companies in Mexico and abroad.

At the moment she is producing a disc and a project of songs of blessing and heart based on an investigation of the culture and Totonaka language of the north of Veracruz.

Hatha Yoga

with Ayesha

The balance in your life, the axis of your being: Your Back
Everything is in everything. And the body as a representation of everything is a very real and practical tool of knowing thyself. Explore and discover your limitations and possibilities, know your strengths and weaknesses, taking your back and your vertebra as a starting point..
In this workshop you will experiment the movement in your back in all directions, you will obtain useful tools in case of minor pain and you will learn healthy postures for your everyday life.

Ayesha Estrada – Certified teacher by the Herta Rogg Foundation in Mexico (800 hours, www.yogacenter.com.mx) also certified with a masters degree of Dona Holleman Yoga Center 2001-2005 (www.donaholleman.com) of Italy. She has taught various workshops and National and International teacher's training, she has more than 10 years experience.

Website: www.yogayesha.net