Festival Retreat 2022 | Pura Vida Festival Retreat

Through interactive daily workshops, we explore themes, such as holistic health, meditation, self-knowledge and compassion, relationship, connection and intimacy, creativity, dance and embodiment, deep ecology and sustainability.

Become part of another chapter exploring co-creation and co-flourishing!
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Anke Buchmann

Inner Muse - Using clay to visualise our world within
Step into the unknown and make peace with uncertainty through through intuitive and playful expression on paper and through clay objects.

Activating our hands and body, we connect to play, intuition and joy to explore the organic material clay and its potential to inspire us.

Clay comes in different forms - liquid, solid, soft, hard or fired. We will experiment with clay and use its potential to draw, to sculpt, to express and grow with it. Everyone is welcome and invited, no special skills or talent is required.
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The workshop is an invitation to slow down, to arrive and to reconnect to yourself and your creative potential. The activities show you how to lose the fear of not knowing, how to trust the process and yourself.
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It is recommended to wear clothes that can get muddy and can be washed with at least 40 degrees!
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Anke is an artist, designer and workshop facilitator based in Berlin. Through the organic material clay, she invites her audience to slow down and connect to themselves and others.
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She has grown as an artist and award winning designer in London with work exhibited at group and solo shows in Berlin and London. She has inspired individuals, groups and creatives with her work and clay workshops.
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Alina Shron

How to integrate psychedelic experiences
Psychedelic substances are powerful, primordial and proven tools for assisting personal development and self-realisation. Tools that shouldn’t be taken nor dismissed lightly.

In this part-theory, part-interactive workshop, we will explore methods for deeper integrating the lessons and challenges of psychedelic experiences to facilitate lasting transformation.

Alina’s smartest life decision was to quit her Ph.D. in cognitive anthropology.

As a somatic coach and bodyworker, co-founder of WeFeast & psychedelic integration facilitator at MIND, her work serves the betterment of well people.

Her no-bs embodied approach touches those who dare show up for themselves, embrace their authentic self, and surrender to spiritual intimacy with simply-being-alive.

For more information, visit: i-embrace.life
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Adam McKenty

Opening and Closing Ceremonies: Connecting to Life
Adam and Carolin will co-host the festival's Opening and Closing Ceremonies around the theme of “Interbeing”.

Weaving contemplation, embodiment, dialogue, song, and play, we'll let ourselves remember that the life flowing through us is the same life that flows through the rivers and the sky, the trees and the more-than-human creatures, and each of our fellow humans journeying through this mysterious world.
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Including contributions from many of the festival's artists and teachers, we build an experience of togetherness and connection that opens the magic of Pura Vida at the beginning of the gathering, and then sends us back into the world nourished and with intention at the festival's close.
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Adam is a writer, meditator, gardener, coder, facilitator, and designer of ceremonial experiences for reconnecting to ourselves, each other, and the living world.

He grew up in the wilderness of western Canada, and has learned from Joanna Macy and other practitioners of the Work That Reconnects, the Art of Hosting community, Nora Bateson's Warm Data approach to working with complex systems, the Plum Village tradition of engaged Buddhism, and the experience of many indigenous, spiritual, and religious rituals in communities of place and practice across North America and Europe.

Alisa Reimer

A Woman's Journey
Celebrating the diversity of each woman's individual life path, we are coming together in all our different colours and shades.

Nourishing each other with dance, breath, sound and singing,

Alisa will take you on a mythological journey, calling in multi-cultural emanations of the feminine that inspire us to move on dancing our way through life in all its different phases. Come to open, share and nourish.
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Get inspired and empowered on your individual path as a woman. Open to all who identify as women.
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Alisa is a Berlin based cultural-scientist (M.A.), yoga- and meditation teacher and multimedia artist, working with sonic experiences and spoken and written words.
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On her spiritual path since early childhood she was able to dive into many different holistic practices. Sharing what she has found along the path and facilitating experiences for people of all backgrounds to have a mind and heart opening experience is her calling.

In 2015/16 she co-founded Soneiro Collective. She is hosting Trainings, Retreats and is lecturing at different academic and artistic institutions.

Read more at www.alisareimer.com
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Annemarie Neumann

Gentle Yoga Flow & Mantra
Connect with your breath, let go of tensions in your body and truly calm the mind.

Gentle Flow is a slow paced and decelerated way of practicing yoga. Guided by the rhythm of breath, a softer and nurturing sequence allows you to cultivate kindness and self-compassion.

The integration of chakras (energy centers) intensifies the practice, and you will gain more awareness by observing and perceiving your mind and body.

Accompanying Mantra Sounds and a closing Mantra Meditation will take you into higher vibrations and expansion.
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With the practice of Gentle Flow & Mantra you revitalise and harmonise your physical, mental and energetic body. You will find yourself more positive and have expanded your state of perception and awareness.
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Annemarie is a yoga teacher, musician, singing circle facilitator, coach and nature lover. Her yogic path began in 2013 after a transformative journey to Australia, where her connection to mother nature was reawakened.

Traditional Hatha Yoga and Tantra Yoga influenced her in her early years of yoga, as well as her Master’s Studies in Global Change Management regarding sustainable values and mindfulness practice.
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In the foothills of the Himalaya Annemarie was trained as a certified Hatha and Vinyasa yoga teacher; and in the Indian Shankar Prasad Ashram her heart opened for Mantra Chanting. In Berlin she has expanded her yogic path and became a certified Yin Yoga teacher, which broadened her view on yoga.

Since 2017, she has been holding spaces where healing, joy, connection and mindfulness can be experienced through yoga, sound and meditation.

Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga, Gentle Flow, Nada Yoga, Singing Circles, Mantra Meditations, Music Loop Creations, Sound Journeys as well as Dance Meditation are dimensions of her life journey as a yogini and artist.

Frederik Fleischmann

Non-Violent Communication
This year we invite you to two non-violent communication workshops, one of the most powerful approaches to connection and peace.

Both workshops will be a hands-on experience and trial of Nonviolent Communication - one of the most powerful approaches to connection and peace, creating a safe learning space for exploring feelings and needs.
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Frederik knows and appreciates that structure and new work do not have to be a contradiction.

At TheDive he focuses on how self-organization can be brought into companies so that it really works and is helpful in the end.

A good balance of mind and heart is always important to him. He has already paid attention to this in his previous positions as an internal and external organization developer and - typical Berliner - worked in the founding team of a startup. His academic background is in business administration - untypically with a focus on happiness research.world.

Carolin Goethel

Opening and Closing Ceremonies: Connecting to Life
Carolin and Adam will co-host the festival's Opening and Closing Ceremonies around the theme of “Interbeing”.

Weaving contemplation, embodiment, dialogue, song, and play, we'll let ourselves remember that the life flowing through us is the same life that flows through the rivers and the sky, the trees and the more-than-human creatures, and each of our fellow humans journeying through this mysterious world.
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Including contributions from many of the festival's artists and teachers, we build an experience of togetherness and connection that opens the magic of Pura Vida at the beginning of the gathering, and then sends us back into the world nourished and with intention at the festival's close.
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Carolin is a facilitator and community weaver working at the intersection of inner and outer systems change.
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She has always been curious about how humans can be in healthy relationships with each other and the earth. Drawing on her anthropological studies, her work in leadership education and community building, she has developed a varied toolbox to nourish cultures of interbeing.

Carolin loves cross-pollinating ideas and projects. Her current project portfolio includes supporting the creation of an alternative economic system and universal basic income with Circles UBI, hosting experiential and educational formats with CitizensLab, guiding wilderness rites of passage with the Wild Minds Collective and stewarding the Church of Interbeing Project.

She loves to facilitate in playful, embodied ways and use the power of ritual to imbue life with meaning.

GIZ

DJ Set
A big smile that captivates a joyfully swaying crowd, Giz holds you by the hand as she leads you to a journey into a melodic jungle with bass banging roots.

As you slowly walk closer to her stage, you feel a familiarity to GiZ and the music she blends together. From start to finish, she eases you into the story, teasing and capturing your mind with new and nostalgic rhythms and surprises along the set.

Her sets tell a different story each time, building up and splitting into many different paths and a flow full of surprises- in times darker, in times more groovy and sensual.
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As a nomad who started travelling at a very early age GiZ has had the chance to interact with many cultures and sounds.

You can tell that easily from the way she blends in everywhere she goes around the world but also in her sound which is definitely one that recognizes no borders and genres.

HUAIRA & CAPTURES

Intuitive Voice and Sound Movement
In this singing workshop and activation, We will open ourselves to the power of our own sound, resonating with the vibration of the group.

Guided by our intuition to where the sound is taking us and guided by the sensation of "where is it coming from"? This workshop invites us to deepen our relationship to ourselves through the medicine of sound and movement.

HUAIRA (Wonderwheel Recordings | Shika Shika) is a Mestiza woman from Quito, Ecuador. She is a mother, vision-quester, sun-dancer, singer, musician, and multi-disciplinary artist.

Her first musical teachings come from a school of jazz, latin-jazz, and world fusion music she has seamlessly integrated into her performance and creative process.

Along her path, she has discovered a deep calling to the research of ancient knowledge, chants, and ceremonies from native cultures, which has developed into a 9 year long relationship with master plants, and a new path devoted to healing modalities and sacred ceremonial teachings.

CAPTURES (Wonderwheel Recordings | Earthly Measures | Urban Cosmonaut Radio | NUMA | Resueño) with over a decade of international acoustic music experience behind him, is a cross-discipline artist who combines his own electronic music productions with live instrumental performance.

Using found sound, synthetic, live, and organic textures, Captures creates a blend of sonic experiences from the studios and dance-floors of Berlin to creative spaces Worldwide.

Influenced by styles ranging from down-beat, trip-hop, deep house, ambient, and ceremonial music, Captures invites more than just the music itself, but a deeper look into the bridge between performance, vibration, spirit, and process

.Together, Huaira and Captures seamlessly blend ancestral vibrations with modern, deep, soulful electronic music. They create contextual, harmonious sounds that support gatherings ranging from ecstatic dance, ceremony, clubs, and festivals.

What they offer is something truly unique. They create a space for the audience to dream, reflect, wonder, and recognize their own truth and essence. A space and a stage that reflects to the listener their own unique path. Huaira and Captures combine moments of improvisation, deep produced beats, and sound journeys that often leave the audience speechless.

Closing in on their second world tour and a new album coming on the acclaimed Wonderwheel Recordings (El Buho, Chancha Via Circuito, Nicodemus, Thornado), Huaira and Captures are passionate about performing, teaching, sharing, and expanding to reach those who are ready to open to a deeper experience..
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Lennart Hennig

Embodying Deep Ecology: From Idea to Experience
Deep Ecology is a new perspective into our inner landscape and our relationship with whole living earth.

In this workshop we explore the factors that create the illusion of separation that is driving our destructive and disconnected relationship to the world and each other, to discover the whole that is integrating everything we are and experience.
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From this lived experience a whole new world of possibilities for the big questions of our times emerges, ending the dependence on manipulation and control as the only options for agency, and revealing completely new participatory, embodied, and holistic ways to heal the alive ecosystem from within.
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The workshop will be a mixture of philosophy and experience.
Lennart is a growth and leadership facilitator. He explores the edges of individual and collective development through the angles of consciousness, embodiment, safety, trauma, and deep ecology using an integral framework of the whole, undivided cosmos.
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His deepest inquiry is the potential we tap into when we dissolve the paradigm of separation that is underneath our identity and our whole culture, and begin embodying and integrating the truth of wholeness into our sense of self and our actions.
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Lennart is particularly intrigued by the alchemical potential our collective and individual wounding and shadows hold for us, when we start honoring death and darkness as a place of growth and rebirth, and how we can step into a dialectical relationship towards more truth instead of polarization when we take responsibility for an internally regulated somatic sense of safety.
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Bringing the principles of liberation, love, and leadership to individuals and organizations wanting to act from their true purpose as a conscious part of the whole is at the core of his work.

Katja Wöhl

Mindful Journaling
Mindful Journaling is an embodied, meditative practice to let the (sub)conscious-self speak through writing.

Step by step we will explore this method with a mix of guided exercises, meditations and journaling time.

No matter if you love or hate writing, just allow yourself to be curious and playful, and join us to see: What's in this practice for you?
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In this workshop participants learn how mindful journaling works and can experience the potential effects on mind and body, such as clarity, connectedness or new perspectives.
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Katja is a certified mindfulness coach.
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She first came in touch with mindfulness in 2011 when she studied one year abroad in South Korea. When she first visited a buddhist temple in Seoul she sensed this relaxing, protecting and peaceful atmosphere - as if she had just come home.
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A few years later a tragic family incident ripped her life apart and she felt like she had lost her home for good. In this moment, she remembered that feeling of sitting quietly in a temple. So, she started to meditate once again.
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She regards the healing effects of the mindfulness-practice on her thinking, feeling and acting as incredibly eye-opening and she was wondering: How things could have gone differently for my family, if only they had this understanding before?

Today she is driven by the idea, if people start learning and practicing mindfulness, they will be equipped to navigate through any setback - intentionally, wisely and with all the heart.
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After she finished my M.A. in International Marketing she worked in different business fields: marketing, consulting and corporate culture.

Kristina Schlecht

The “Rope Experiment": Boundaries and fluid shifts in Relationships
Explore what inner and outer boundaries mean to you.

In this workshop, we are going to get a more precise idea of what inner and outer boundaries can mean and how it is possible to externalize these, and how to better feel and understand them.
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We will use ropes to mark our space and the mutual space. It is more of an inner experience rather than active exercise. For those who wish to share their experiences and feelings are very welcome to do this!
The goal of the „rope experiment“ is to get to know each other better and to get more aware of the inner boundaries of oneself, of the partner as well as the outer boundaries.
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Kristina is a psychologist and couple therapist, based in Berlin.

She works with couples, individuals and families for several years and uses methods of systemic therapy and emotional focussing (EFT). +
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Presence, appreciation and neutrality are essential for her work. Therapeutic focus on resources, emotions and humor describes her style.
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Learn more here: www.paar-therapie.berlin

Lino Zeddies & Anna Reisch

Inspiration for Transformation: Journey to a Regenerative Future
What might a world look like in which the great social-ecological transformation has succeeded?

A world in which peace and prosperity prevail, where the economy is oriented toward the common good, and where democracy is flourishing?

Lino and Anna from Reinventing Society will create a space where we can journey into a beautiful regenerative future and experience its principles and practices.

Further, they will share various inspiring concepts and interactive tools to bring about societal transformation effectively.
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Inspiration, inner connection with a regenerative society, powerful tools for transformation.
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Lino Zeddies is the author of the book "Utopia 2048" and a consultant for self-organisation, vision and purpose. After working as a pluralist economist, money reformer and coach, in which he dealt intensively with social and inner transformation, his work is focused on integral social development. He cofounded the organization "Reinventing Society - center for real utopias" where he currently works.
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Anna Reisch works at the interface of new economic thinking and innovative organisational development, among other things as a strategy and organisational consultant for the Dezernat Zukunft and the ZOE Institute.She is also a lecturer at the University of Witten-Herdecke on "System Change and Climate Change" and at the HWR Berlin on "Sustainable Finance”?
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Kolja Güldenberg

Being A Man - Powerful, Present & Touchable
How can we be touchable in our masculine power today without falling into behavioural patterns of toxic masculinity?

First and foremost we are all human beings. And: How can we be touchable in our masculine power today without falling into behavioural patterns of toxic masculinity?

Touchability, genuine softness and tender care for life: What do we need to be able to open our hearts fully again? How can we also live our wild, archaic side in connection? In cooperation with women, with other men and with all those who define themselves differently.
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Kolja Güldenberg is a certified culture- and theater educator, mediator, martial arts teacher and integral business consultant. Throughout his career he has been passionate about the themes empathy, spiritual connection, community building and human potential. He has been co-leading the year-long conscious masculinity training at Zegg ecovillage for many years.
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Naftali

MediTANZion: Dance Journey
MediTANZion (Dance Meditation) is a multi-layered journey through music, movement and community.

Naftali is a multi-instrumentalist and hypnotherapist whose passion for creating trance-formative states of connection bridges the worlds of music, movement and healing.

After abandoning a career in Theology in his hometown of Jerusalem, Naftali moved to the U.S. and attended Columbia University, where he gained degrees in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. While living in New York, he went on to study Method Acting as well as Movement and Somatic practices.
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Inspired by the deep potential for change and healing that he experienced there, Naftali continued to explore alternative modalities for increasing awareness and psycho-spiritual insight --including Core Shamanism, Tibetan Buddhism, Hypnotherapy, Non-Violent Communication, Grief Work and Generative Coaching.He is passionate about opening spaces in which people can reconnect with their natural aliveness, spontaneity and authentic presence.
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In addition to organizing MediTANZion: Dance Journeys, Urban Tribal Gatherings, Grief Ceremonies and Sound Journeys in and around Berlin, Naftali offers therapeutic workshops and individual sessions in Hypnotherapy, Compassionate Communication and Radical Acceptance.

Manuela Bosch

Social Presencing Theater
Social Presencing Theater is an art form and social method that sharpens self-inquiry and systemic views on social change.

Social Presencing Theater was developed by choreographer, performer and educator Arawana Hayashi and scholar Otto Scharmer.

It is not ‘theater’ in the conventional sense, instead it offers a blank stage for simple body postures and movements to dissolve limiting concepts, and to access intuition. It makes visible our current reality as well as the deeper, often invisible, points for creating profound change and future possibilities.

SPT evokes the unspoken, activating and bringing together our knowing-body, group intelligence and creative expression. SPT integrates contemplative practices, embodiment and dialogue. In this workshop we will use SPT practices to explore the art of making a true move and gaining fresh perspectives on our relationship with the social field around us.
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Manuela Bosch is a facilitator and guide for transformational experiences in groups, organizations and individuals. She works with various unconventional techniques that hold community at the center and include embodiment, creativity and nature.
She holds Dragon Dreaming workshops, guides vision quest rites and facilitates Collaboration Incubators.

Manuela puts her work into practice as co-organiser of Touch&Play festival, member of MOOS space, and co-founder of the community business Bodyloops. She has been part of the year long Social Presencing Theater Advance Training with Arawana Hayashi from 2016/2017 and has been sharing the practice in Berlin since 2015.

Marlene Schmitt

5 Elements Flow Vinyasa Yoga
In this 90min Vinyasa Yoga Flow you will dive deep into the universal connection between your physical manifestation and the world around you.

Awaken and embody the five elements of Ether, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. Marlene will take you on a journey of breath and movement through the qualities of the ayurvedic elements, allowing you to discover your innate connection to nature and to embrace yourself as the earth child, you have always been.

Marlene is a certified yoga teacher and co-founder of Yoga on the Move.

In 2017, her love for India led her almost by accident to a yoga ashram in Goa, India, where she met Leonie with whom she founded Yoga on the Move, a Berlin-based yoga collective and studio, in the same year.

It is her vision to share yoga in an undogmatic and open way and to make it accessible for everyone. For Marlene, sharing yoga means creating a space where everyone is allowed to simply BE, in the here and now, connected to body and mind through the breath.

With her powerful and creative Vinyasa sequences, she allows us to dive into deeper layers of consciousness, strengthening our body-mind connection and growing beyond habitual thought patterns and beliefs.

In addition to regular yoga classes, Marlene hosts a variety of yoga events, international retreats and leads continuing education and yoga teacher trainings.

To learn more visit: yogaonthemove.de

Maya Biersack

Non-Violent Communication
This year we invite you to two non-violent communication workshops, one of the most powerful approaches to connection and peace.

Both workshops will be a hands-on experience and trial of Nonviolent Communication - one of the most powerful approaches to connection and peace, creating a safe learning space for exploring feelings and needs.
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Maya loves facilitating teams, awakening the joy of self-organized collaboration and discovering unexpected treasures along the way.

She is convinced that a meaningful purpose, clear structures, transparency and a lot of empathy are the key to successful collaboration. In particular, Holacracy and Nonviolent Communication are her favorite topics - preferably in combination.
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As co-founder and board member of a small public company (IT), she has lived entrepreneurship and gained 16 years of leadership experience. In her first professional life she was a graduate computer scientist.

Nikolas Konstantin

Essentials of Meditation
Meditation is the science and art of exploring your mind.

In this workshop you will learn how to make sense of and train the various forms of meditation for your mental wellbeing.
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Going beyond a simplistic idea of mindfulness training, you will learn which meditation techniques experienced meditators carry in their mental wellbeing toolbox. We will look at meditation through the lenses of modern neuroscience, contemplative wisdom and modern psychology to find answers on how to live a more reflected life.

Together we will explore how you can train the mind for the many facets of mental wellbeing. You will learn which types of meditation exist and how to practice them to take advantage of your mind's marvellous capacity for change.
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Nikolas leads the meditation teacher team at OHIA, a meditation studio from the future. As an executive and organisational Coach for ForChiefs Alliance he works with forward-looking organisations and makers in their quest to become resonant future shapers.rises

Oliver Euchner

5 Rhythms
In the mornings, Oliver will guide you to playfully invoke high and deep physics presence through passionate dancing and powerful music..

Deepen your relationship with your outer and inner body, creating many moments to still your mind and liberate physically in the here and now through dance mediation. In this daily morning class, movement becomes the medicine, the meditation and the metaphor.

Through dancing, moving meditation and relational dancing, you learn to more fully bring your physical senses to dance, and connect receptively to the spacious HERE and to the moment of NOW. Relearn how to trust your body, getting to know physical, breathing and feeling anchors in order to reconnect to elevated states during every day live.
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Oliver is an accredited 5Rhythms teacher, trained in New York City by 5 Rhythms founder Gabrielle Roth and her son Jonathan Horan. His background includes sacred movements and seated meditation in the direct lineage of G.I. Gurdjieff and a dedicated yoga practice (Teacher Certified by Richard Freeman). Oliver has been based in Berlin and New York City, teaching the 5Rhythms and running his own business.
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Olivia Köhler

Connecting with Outer & Inner Nature
Olivia opens up a space for slowing down and for connecting – with the outer nature, your inner nature and the other beautiful people. With the human and the more-than-human world.

Olivia is a trained and certified systemic nature therapist, facilitator and formerly a business consultant. She founded Kailo Nature Therapy to accompany you to get in touch with your inner and outer nature.There is so much to discover in nature - especially about ourselves.

We live in a living relationship and interconnectedness with the natural spaces and the elements within them.

All this has an impact on how we feel, think and act. Olivia is aiming to create a space for you to explore this, to get in touch with yourself and with what wants to be seen.

Through the dialogue with our more-than-human world you'll feel connected, grounded, inspired and you gain new insights about the world and yourself

To learn more about Olivia's work, visit:
kailonaturetherapy.com
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Pauline Drewfs

The Secret Art of Listening: Tools for Connection in Polarizing Times
Deep listening happens when we shift the point of focus away from ourselves and onto the other.

Deep listening happens when we shift the point of focus away from ourselves and onto the other, not just with the goal of understanding the other’s WORDS but with the intention of getting their WORLD.
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The result is a deeper sense of connection, an openness to be with other worldviews and perspectives and an ability to recognise that we’re all just humans trying our best to exist in this strange world.
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As debates over vaccination, politics, gender, and identity politics split families apart, it becomes more and more apparent that much of our human suffering is rooted in a lack of understanding and empathy. (Re-)Learning to truly listen to each other is the much needed medicine.
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Participants will walk away with a deeper sense of connection, an openness to be with other worldviews and perspectives and a new set of tools to cultivate empathy and compassion through the art of listening.
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Pauline’s work is driven by one seemingly simple question: Why?
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After a career as a content strategist in a large tech corporation and years of trying to wrap her head around the Whys of regulations and processes in the German public sector, she became interested in the more What are the nuanced and subtle Whys underneath the patterns of human interaction.
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That curiosity combined with a fascination for the mechanisms of conflict has led her to become a mediator and Authentic Relating facilitator. She now guides couples, groups and individuals through times of transformation, dedicated to facilitate meaningful and lasting change.

Ruth Andrade

A Regenerative Life: Re-Sourcing Yourself & Others in these Transformational Times
In this keynote speech on Sunday, Ruth Andrade will share story and life examples of overcoming challenges to manifest regenerative change.

Weaving storytelling and embodied group activities, this keynote will inspire us to find our inner source of power to create change during this time of planetary transition.
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Ruth Andrade is co-founder of Regenerosity.world and Re-alliance.org as well as Earth Care Strategy Lead for Lush Cosmetics.
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Born in the bioregion of the Brazilian Atlantic Moist Forests, Ruth grew up in a concrete jungle, witnessing first hand the destruction of the natural environment around her.
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This prompted an early interest in environmental issues, nurtured a deep love for the rainforest and fuelled great passion for driving change. She considers herself a systems activist, identifying key nodal interventions in systems to support the transition to regenerative cultures.
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Besides leading Lush Cosmetics’ environmental strategy since 2004, she has also co-founded many networks, alliances and initiatives such as Sociocracy, Dragon Dreaming and Regenerative organisations networks in Brazil; Re.Alliance, a non-profit promoting regenerative design in the humanitarian and development sectors and more recently Regenerosity, an initiative with a mission to flow resources, enable learning and share stories from regenerative grassroots initiatives.

Ruth is currently working on a new fund for indigenous women, led by indigenous women.

Sarah Sakotic-Sondermann

Conscious Connected Breathwork Ceremony
A breathwork session is an inner world experience. In this ceremony a safe space is created to explore, feel and unfold yourself.

"Conscious connected breathing" is a powerful breathing technique that allows you to dive deep into your inner being. It connects and opens your mind, body and emotions, and gets your life energy flowing.

Through conscious breathing you bring your attention to the presence, perceive your feelings more clearly, and expand the space within you on a mental, physical and emotional level.
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Re-connect to yourself and your emotions on a deeper level through your own essence - your breath.
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Sarah is a certified breathwork facilitator and the founder of ONE.breathwork. She is a creative head, a wild heart and inner and outer world traveler. She loves to create beautiful and safe spaces for other beings.

Sarah’s purpose is to (re)connect people to themselves, to others and to the whole. She serves with holding safe spaces for others so they can unfold their emotions, and she guides others on their journey to explore the inner world with curiosity and trust.

Soneiro

Singing Circle and Dance Celebration
On Friday night, allow yourself to resonate and dance within different realms of consciousness, induced by music and movement.

Together with Soneiro we create a safe space to open, receive and release.

First, we raise our voices together, singing mantras and medicine songs. Once we are grounded into our presence, we journey into intuitive, opening movements with live music, culminating higher into an expressive dance. Our team of musicians create the music carpet for us to fly on, working with acoustic, electronic and therapeutic instruments.

Come as you are and celebrate with us.
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Soneiro is a project exploring consciousness work through the combination of sound, music, meditation and yoga.
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We have created a method fusing science, ceremony and artistic expression, incorporating artists, musicians, space holders and practitioners alike, curating festival stages, building and holding conscious spaces, producing medicine music, mantras and sound journeys, taking small steps towards cultivating more awareness in the world.
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Soneiro has been hosting Sound Meditation Trainings, retreats and sound experiences for the past 7 years, bringing their work on the road to over 20 festivals in 10 different countries, hosting more than 30 Yoga and Meditation Retreats & Sound Meditation Trainings.
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For more info visit:
www.soneiro.com

Stefan Fischer

Principles of Permaculture
In this workshop, get to know the basic principles of Permaculture, one type of regenerative agriculture.

Like in every permaculture design process we will start with a survey about what just is. After that we will try to understand patterns of the outer and inner nature. In the next step we will envelop ideas and visions to apply them somewhere in our lives. In all steps we will earn some practical apply-able hints and knowledge about nature and how we can use and imitate this knowledge.
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After Stefan’s engineering study of material science and employments as quality proofing engineer, software developer and later as IT-freelancer, he discovered and learned to love permaculture in 2016. Since May 2017 he is honorarily active in the permaculture project Peace of Land e.V. Berlin in many ways.
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In 2020 he also joined FeldFoodForest e.V. where he could learn so much about permaculture and gained a lot of practical experience. Today he is very grateful for that. In 2018 he completed a Permaculture Design Course.
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Stephane Seckin

Qi Gong
Qi Gong is a powerful way to stay calm, serene and focused as everything around us spins, turns and changes.

In these daily morning classes, Stephane will speak about the deep philosophy of the ancient teachings of Qi Gong practice and how it works on our bodymind. We are going to practice the so called Taoist exercises and the medicinal aspects of them.

Get to know basic knowledge of Qi Gong and learn how to apply the practice of Taoist Qi Gong.
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Stephane’s way began more than thirty years ago with the dedication to Asian martial arts and the underlying Traditional Chinese Medicine and philosophy of mindfulness. His aim is to share his knowledge and strategies to give people and companies a healthy recipe for dealing with change.

Yasemin Vollmond

Morning Hatha Yoga & Gong
In this morning class, get to know anandamaya kosha, the bliss body through Yoga & Gong

Balancing the energies of HA (the sun) and THA (the moon), this class aligns both: the energies of Yang and Yin. Expect an attentive asana flow ending with a beautiful sound meditation that allows you to surrender to vibrations, textural sounds and soothing tones as you explore the inner landscape of your mind, body and spirit.
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Yasemin is a yoga teacher, musician and human design reader. Throughout her daily sadhana in meditation, chanting mantras and the physical asana practice, Yasemin has dedicated her life to the study of spirituality.
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Her teaching focuses on connection. Through asana we connect with our own body, through our own body awareness we develop empathy for the bodies of other living beings and above all for the body of our earth: our planet.
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Yasemin has learned her practice in 645 hours in Hatha, Ashtanga, Yin, Anatomy, various Sound and Gong-trainings in different Ashrams in Nepal, India and Germany for several months. Her classes are space-holders for physical-, mental- and emotional- transformation as she’s always aiming to touch upon the anandamaya kosha, your bliss body while triggering sustainable transformation.

16. - 19. June 2022
Naturpark Schlaubetal, near Berlin

Thursday
16.06.2022

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16. - 19. June 2022Naturpark Schlaubetal, near Berlin

Thursday 16.06.2022