Festival Retreat 2022

Join us in bringing to life another year of Pura Vida Festival Retreat, celebrating and exploring regenerative tools and practices for mind, body, soul and earth.

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.
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For our annual gathering by the lake in Naturpark Schlaubetal (close to Berlin) we are crafting an interactive program of workshops, ceremonies and talks.
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Join us for an unforgettable journey of co-creating insight, belonging, connection, friendship and love!

In this workshop Cristina Arau and Yasmine Orth are co-creating a space for deep self-inquiry, radical self-love, and inspiring action from a place of presence, connection, and courage. You are invited to embark on a journey to discover your innate gifts, to elevate your inner dialogue, and to meet your authentic self – in short: to be YOU, as you are now and where you are now.
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The workshop is designed to serve you to (re-)connect to your own voice and vision, and recognize what makes your heart sing and your light shine. We will celebrate and learn about feminine principles, our natural cycles, and how to move and co-create in community nurtured by the medicinal wisdom that springs from women being together.

Cristina Arau is a visionary social entrepreneur guided by her heart. 2014 she founded the non-profit organization “Love for Life” following her life-long passion to bring together the inner and outer work, recognizing that our state of doing is informed by our state of being. “Love for Life’s” mission is dedicated to creating conscious, sustainable change to empower people and protect nature.
Together with her organization she pioneered creating sustainable access to clean, safe, and independent solar energy for the most vulnerable and hardest to reach people in the tropical rainforests in Central and South America strengthening Indigenous Nations in their self-determined movement for cultural survival and rainforest protection.

The organization’s unique approach co-creating just climate action is based on community-led processes that enable local empowerment and champion indigenous-led solutions on biodiversity protection, renewable energy access, regenerative agriculture, and food sovereignty.
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Cristina studied ‘International Development’ and a Master of Arts Program in ‘Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation’. As a humanitarian and peace worker she lived and worked around the world. For the United Nations, she worked in the IDP camps in northern Uganda and participated in the documentation and codification of the traditional restorative justice system to (re-)discover voices of peace and reconciliation in the 2008 peace process.

In 2014 she served on the US congressional campaign of Marianne Williamson which initiated a new political conversation and called for a ‘Politics of Love’ rooted in the challenges of the world today. Cristina is a multiple-trained, trauma-informed yoga and meditation teacher, inspiring leader for female empowerment and conscious leadership, ambassador of Off the Mat, Into the World and a member of the ‘Safety, Security and Peace Constellation’ of Rising Women, Rising World.

For more information, please follow this link: www.loveforlifeproject.org

Relationship as a Path to Growth

Most relationships are built on fulfilling needs that are rooted in incomplete attachment experiences from our early childhood and relational wounds from our past. These underlying dynamics keep recreating paradigms that touch our very core woundings around connection and lead to disconnection from the present moment reality and projection of our internal fragments onto our partners.

Attachment patterns are a part of our survival system and are closely related to developmental trauma and the inner fragmentation it leaves us with.
Here embodiment as the gateway into the present moment can create a profound experience of safety within the body, which can become the foundation to explore our inner parts, build the capacity to feel what was too much to be felt, and create a compassionate relationship between the fragmented parts within, taking back that inner wounded child and giving it attunement and safety.
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Having awareness of these dynamics in a relationship and access to somatic resources allows us to detach from the identification with the wounded parts and create the possibility of relating in the present moment, through authenticity and vulnerability.
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Back in our bodies, we have access to our human creative capacity in a completely new way. Being regulated our mind is free from instinctual reactions and can connect to our soul, the spiritual core of our being, and our purpose. From this place, we can access our willpower and make conscious choices in love and relationship. What is the vision? What do we relate towards?
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This way our relationships can become powerful pathways towards inner growth instead of an endless loop of disappointment and disconnection, and we can meet each other from a place of wholeness and inner completeness, truly meeting each other’s heart and soul. Eventually, we can step into the archetypal dialectics of relationship that offer the opportunity to find liberation from the illusion of a separate self.
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If you want to transcend this attachment-based state of relating and move into a growth-based paradigm of connection, the five principles I'm offering in this workshop provide a powerful framework to find orientation through self-responsibility, insight, and speaking the truth.
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The Role of Leadership in Evolution
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Evolution is a term we casually use, but rarely we fully comprehend what it entails. What is this universal process that constantly moves the cosmos towards more life and complexity? And how can we show up for this journey with leadership?

In this lecture, we will dive deep into the basic principles of evolution and how they relate to leadership. We will explore the difference between evolutionary growth that is inclusive and creates more wholeness, and ideas of superiority that are exclusive and create more separation. Through this lens, we will look at the concept of hierarchy and get an understanding of where it is healthy and where it is not.

We will also look at the relationship between evolution and its lesser-known counterpart involution. How are they connected to entropy and syntropy, chaos and order, wholeness and separation? And how is this all affecting our bodies, relationships, cultures, and our consciousness? Yet the biggest question that brings us in touch with our purpose is: What is the power of my choices? If these questions make you curious and you want to know what eros and conflict have to do with all of this, I invite you on a fascinating journey through the story of our cosmic evolution that happening through you right now, including exciting exercises to experience the magic of emergence.

Lennart is a growth, intimacy, and leadership coach. He explores the edges of personal and cultural development through the angles of consciousness, embodiment, safety, trauma, and co-creativity under his coaching brand PSOAS using an integral framework of the kosmos. His deepest inquiry is the potential we tap into when we begin accepting and integrating every part of our being, embracing our full human experience and walking towards a state of wholeness and authenticity.

Lennart is particularly intrigued by the alchemical potential our collective and individual wounding and shadows hold for us, when we start honoring the 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.Bringing the principles of liberation, love, and leadership to individuals, families and organizations wanting to live from their true purpose is at the core of his work.