Intensive Retreats - The Bellybutton Encounters!

SelfEncounter Trainning 2008

SelfEncounter is a practical personal development course, Pramod's most intensive way of working, several continously connected weekend groups spread along the year, in retreat places located near nature.

We create a safety space, where we are able to walk the path to meet our "conscious child". Integrating and connecting bioenergetics techniques, emocional expression practice, several meditation methods, recovering the Kundalini flow, our basic energetic flow.

We will prepare ourselves to go in the direction of life's essence, experimenting several shamanic inspired rituals, doors to renew our connection to the basic elements: Water, Earth, Fire and Air, searching our natural movement and true voice (see more below).

This will be a continuous journey along the year and all the groups will be connected, in spite of this each group will be a complete process in itself, therefore you are able to participate in each of the weekends separately.

Nevertheless the cost for those who register early for the three modules of the course will be reduced: 30% until end of December of 2007 and 20% until 20th February of 2008. To know more click here or goto the end of this page.

Portugal, 2008 Program:

The Awakening of the Root:

Casa da Ribeira, Tábua 21st - 23rd March. Click here

The Dance of the Elements:

Quinta da Mãe Terra, Olhão 1st - 4th May. Click here

Integration:

Casa da Ribeira, Tábua 19 - 21 September. Click here

Extra program:

Follow-up - Bellybutton Shamanic Quest:

Monte Mariposa, Tavira 18th - 19th October. Click here

Stimulating creativity, living and celebrating life

We want to build a "tribe" energy, one that makes the very personal and individual search of the meaning of Being here-and-now less solitary. The group acts as a family support to each and everyone's process, working together, giving constant back-up, and specially the opportunity to make new friends and refresh old friendships, which result from this Encounter of Beings, of Bellybuttons.

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Our reencountered being makes us more able to create, alone or together, making bridges to welcome other bellybuttons.

We simply have to BE, enjoy the effects and celebrate the party of life together. Trying to take something new to our everyday living, a more relaxed and trusting state of relating in our family, friends, work, creative activities, or in the smallest and simple things, sitting and getting up, holding a child in our arms, driving, eating, loving, being with a friend.

Finding our song and our dance, celebrating life. Our Bellybutton in harmony with others.

With SelfEncounter, Pramod wants to give an experiencial meaning to the intense living of the present moment.

Whom is the SelfEncounter course for?

SelfEncounter is for all those who truly search for self-knowledge, independently of sex, age, physical abilities or movement experience.

They are also special suited for:

Professionals in movement and voice related areas (dance, theatre, cinema & TV, musicians and singers, plastic and martial artists)

Therapists and group facilitators (biodance, bioenergetics, meditation, etc)

During SelfEncounter everybody moves to a different and beautiful location and together we create our own common space. The process starts with:

The (re)encounter with the being

Somebody, more then 5000 years ago, called "being in Meditation" to this state of living our total being here-and-now. The present human being lives in much higher inner and outer speeds than someone 100 years ago, and tremendously acelerated in comparasion to 5000 years ago, when the first meditation methods are said to appear. On the other hand we are less and less phisically active. Therefore, we presently need different methods which allow us to recognize and desacelarate our hiperactive mind, and at the same time awake our phisical support.

In SelfEncounter, apart from the more intuitive processes and the ones designed for the group, Pramod uses active meditation techniques as Osho's, the AUM (Awareness Understanding Meditation), Sufi's, Bioenergetics or Root-Trance quests.

The (re)encounter with the body

We will go into a very phisical Chakra activation journey, rediscovering our natural movement and voice, reconquering our body. Pramod is going to conduct us through a fusion of several methods into which he has deeply "dived":

	Bioenergetics, emotional release and expression work, be the master of your emotions;
	Sweat lodge rituals, Root-Trance, drumming and other shamanic inspired techniques;
	Contemporary movement techniques based on contact-improvisation and creative dance;

	Relaxation and energy balancing techniques like shiatsu massage, tai-chi and yôga;
	Voice techniques exteriorizing and expanding our physical body;

	Focusing our energy with the oriental martial arts;
	The expressivity of painting and writing, or simply the "not doing"…

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Cost of the 2008 SelfEncounter course:

For this 3 weekend, 9 days course, with a total of 81 hours, those who register until the end of December of 2007 will benefit of a reduction of 30% of the cost of the 3 modules' workshops (273€ instead of 390€), for those who register until the 20th of February of 2008 the reduction will be of 20% (312€ instead of 390€).

This cost doesn't include lodging and food, which will have to be arranged with Monte Mariposa and Casa da Ribeira, see contacts below.

Information and registering:

The Selfencounter course will only take place with a minimum of 8 persons.

You may register by making a bank transfer of 50% of the total amount (136€ until the end of December of 2007 and 152€ until the 20th of February of 2008) to:

NIB: 0018 0000 2994 8769 0012 9,

NAME: Luis Miguel F. S. Bento

This amount in not refundable if you do not attend and do not warn us until one month before the 1st module, which means before the 20th of February of 2008.

The rest of the cost will have to be payed until the 1st day before the course starts (21st February of 2008).

Send an email confirming your transfer, with SELFENCOUNTER 2008 as subject, including your name, telephones, address and the copy of the transfer receipt to: info@bellybuttonencounters.com.

Do not forget to keep the transfer receipt with you to show it at the first day of the SelfEncounter course.

Has it dependends on your choices and the local conditions, payment for lodging and food will have to be arranged with each of the locations of the course: Casa da Ribeira and Monte Mariposa.

Casa da Ribeira:

S. Simão, Tábua, Portugal

+351 235 412 982

+351 96 523 08 01 / 96 902 10 81

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Quinta da Mãe Terra

Olhão, Algarve, Portugal

+351 93 610 54 34

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For more information about the SelfEncounter course please contact:

The Bellybutton Encounters

(+351) 91 461 33 23