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SelfEncounter - Dance of the Elements

 

1st to 4th May

 

From 10h of thursday, holiday in Portugal, to 17h of Sunday,

 

4 days of an intense personal discovery and well being retreat, with Pramod and Kikas. Another step in the SelfEncounter course.

 

Days out of time to make direct contact with Mother Earth: Experiment and harmonize the inner Water, the feet in the Earth, the Fire in the heart, in search of free Air! A deep emotional and physical healing process.

 

In each day we will focalize and get inspiration from one of the 4 elements, Water, Earth, Fire and Air. We will work with several shamanic rituals: Root-Trance; percurssion; the peace pipe; healing cleasing through the sweat-lodge cerimony (inspired in the north-american indian Inipi or the Maya Temazcali). Together with Osho's active meditation techniques and others, bioenergetics, emotional expression, voice work, and allways a lot of dance and fun, going for what makes us feel good!

 

 

With Pramod

 

Born in Portugal in 1966.  Pramod has a colourful history of various degrees and trainings throughout his life. He obtained an MBA in Engineering.  He practiced judo, traditional karate, kung-fu and taido. Since 1984 he has been teaching taido. Through these he was initiated to Zen meditation and to body mind transcendence.

 

Has a long practice of contact-improvisation, contemporary dance, and performance art, a door to other techniques and dimensions of living with totality. Today, Pramod works linking the teachings of masters, shamans and friends with Humaniversity psychology and Osho's work leading to Zorba-the-Buda, the playful master.

 

My Vision goes through creating safe spaces of experimenting, growth and healing. Places for new friends to meet and old connections to be strengthen, starting with Self-knowledge.

 

Assisted by Kikas

I was born in the North of Portugal in July  1974. Woman, mother, witch, rainbow warrior, ecologist and self-taught; since early age I follow a searching path, of reencounter with nature, with the voice of the heart and the feeling of union with the cosmos.

 

This search has lead me in wondering journeys and through comunal living, apart from modern society, where I learned to live in a more harmonious way with Mother-Earth. I found knowledge with shamans. therapists, women medecine, books, happenigs,experiences and intuitions.

 

Master of Reiki, Rebirthing therapist, Doula e craftsperson. This are some of the working tools to which I add plant and natural healing knowledge.

 

In the present I dedicate myself to the study and activation of the feminine principle in all, specially in women, as a way to recover our power and conection to tha All. I organize women circles and workshops about alternative ginecolog, sexuality and the recognition of the lunar menstrual cicles.

 

I defend that to end wars we will have to end our "inner war", cultivate peace between the feminine and masculine essences in each individual, and peace between woman and man in intimate, social and professional relationships.

 

Truth, Simplicity and Love.

 

 

Schedule:

 

4 days of intense Encounters. The group is going to be relaxed in a free time zone, nevertheless here is an idea of the schedule:

 

We advice you to arrive Wednesday night, so that we start together without delay on thursday morning.

 

bulletThursday: Morning - 10:00h -13:00h;

                       afternoon - 15:00h - 19:00h

                       (night session to be scheduled).

 

bulletFriday, saturday: Morning - 7:30h - 9:00h and

        10:00h - 13:00h; afternoon - 15:00h - 19:00h

        (night sessions to be scheduled).

 

bulletSunday: Morning - 7:30h - 9:00h and 10:00-13:00h;

        afternoon - 15:00h - 17:00h.

 

The schedule is always adapted to the group, therefore it might be slightly changed.

 

 

Where?

 

Quinta da Mãe Terra, a center for the arts of shamanic life, near Olhão, in the Algarve, south of Portugal.

 

How to get there? Click here

 

 

How to register?

 

Investment in the retreat:

 
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Workshop - 170€ (4 days of workshop, around 36 hours)

 

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Food - 15€/day (breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner)

 

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Accommodation - 20€/person/night (2-bedroom), 15€/person/night (4-5 bed-room), 5€/person/night bring your own tent, to reserve your place please contact:

 

 Quinta da Mãe Terra

+351 93 284 63 59

www

 

To confirm you're registered, please send 50 € through bank transfer to the Inter bank number (NIB)

 

 

NIB: 0018 0000 2994 8769 0012 9


(Name: Luis Miguel Ferro Simões Bento)

 

 

This amount is not refundable in case of not attending the workshop. Please keep the transfer receipt with you, with your name written on, as a proof of payment, and take it to the workshop.


The remaining amount is due to be paid when you arrive and before the beginning of the activities.

 

You must register and send us the payment until one week before the workshop/retreat date.

 

to send your registration mail click here!

(please include a transfer receipt copy)

 

For more information please contact:

 

The Bellybutton Encounters

(+351) 91 461 33 23

www.bellybuttonencounters.com

 

 

What you need to bring:

 
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Comfortable and loose clothing including a good pair of warm stocking just in case (antislide if possible);

 
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Camping or yoga mat;

 
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Anything that may be used comfortably and firmly as a blindfold;

 
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Bathing suit and towel;

 
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A diary book and pen.