Yoga Meets Contact Improvisation

Welcome to the 4th edition of "Yoga Meets Contact Improvisation". One week of yoga and meditation, dance and self-inquiry in the small village Palairos, between sandy beaches and spectacular mountains on the West coast of Greece. We offer a balanced schedule to support your movement- and self-research. Click here for all the details: http://ellasretreat.com/index.php/en/38-2016-07-18-18-45-42 Why Yoga and Contact Improvisation? The intention of this retreat is to create a journey where the gifts of CI & yoga can integrate and balance each other. Contact Improvisation can give us a very direct experience of interconnectedness, with each other and within our bodymind. The self-inquiry and self-discovering nature of yoga is another way to bring clarity to the way we navigate in our relationships, communities and in life. We invite you into this journey where the external and internal focus of these two practices can blend into one, creating a wholesome experience that will continue to support you long after you return home. Who is this retreat for? This retreat is for anyone looking to immerse themselves in yoga and/or Contact Improvisation in a guided context. Joining this retreat is a great way to become familiar with these practices if you are new to them, and a supportive place to go deeper if you already feel at home in one of them or both. The facilitators: Basu is an experienced teacher and has been giving courses and retreats in yoga, tantra and meditation in India, Thailand, Greece, Denmark and Austria since 2000. He offers a clear teaching and practice from different spiritual traditions without them loosing their originality. He began his yoga sadhana (spiritual practice) in 1997 and was in the following periode introduced into Hatha Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Tantra, Vipassana and Qi Gong. In 2002 he was initiated in Kriya Yoga by Swami Shankarananda Giri. In 2008 Swami Shankarananda Giri gave him the allowance to introduce and guide others into Kriya Yoga and in 2016 he became a Kriya Acharya and can give initiation into Kriya Yoga. He also have permission from Guruji Rajkumar Baswar to share tantric sadhanas. Ann Kristin fell in love with Contact Improvisation in 2010, while she was studying contemporary dance, improvisation and composition in Oslo, Norway. After some years on and around the performing arts scene, her interest turned to yoga and tantra. Since 2015 she has studied with meditation teachers in Ireland, Greece and India next to her studies in somatic movement, dance improvisation, bodywork and osteopathy. At the same time Contact Improvisation(CI) has been an ongoing love story. She has been teaching CI since 2015. The relational and transparent nature of CI, the playfulness and the joy of movement is what brings her back to the dance floor, again and again. There are different prices for different types of accomodation. The teachings are donation based. For prices, schedule and other details click here: http://ellasretreat.com/index.php/en/38-2016-07-18-18-45-42 For questions and bookings email [email protected] Welcome!