​HOLISTIC RETREATS
AND JOURNEYS
BREAKING FREE!
Expressing Your True Potentials
Natural Healing & Dance Retreat
Tenerife - Canary Islands
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Are you a very busy individual, constantly exposed to a rapidly changing working environment, looking for more clarity, meaning and purpose in your life?
Going through a challenging transition that calls for reflection and action?
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Then buckle your seat belt,
fly to Tenerife
and join us in this Retreat to
RESET YOUR MINDSET
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TAKE LIFE CHANGING ACTIONS!!
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Picture Yourself moving in your body and mind deeply relaxed and open, soothed by warm spring breeze, hearing the waves of the sea in a distance and drinking your fresh fruit smoothie....
You are surrounded with beautiful Permacultural garden, Yurtas, Bungalows and Eco - Lounge on the top of a hill....behind you the magnificent power of volcano...
In a group of the most like minded, creative and amazing people you can imagine … picturesque cliffs, canyons, vegetarian Spanish cuisine, enlightening conversations …
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Where are you – you ask?
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You are at “Breaking Free - Retreat!” in always warm island of Tenerife, known as having eternal spring climate - excellent for spiritual and healing work.
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GET READY FOR A TRANSFORMATION ON PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL LEVEL AND:
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Release limiting beliefs and habits so you can invite unlimited abundance into all areas of your life.
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Learn how to find the eye of the hurricane and put yourself in "the zone" for making the wisest decisions in any situation -- business, personal or otherwise.
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Redesign your life around your gifts & talents so you can finally follow your passions & love the life you live!
THE VENUE ...
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Retreat will take place at Manantial de Tara - located on a top of a hill, just 28 km away from the nearest town Santa Cruz.
Manantial de Tara offers modest and off-the-grid style shared accommodations: from yurts, bungalows, wooden house and caves.
There are shared baths and toilets and systems for obtaining energy from renewable sources, gardens based on the principles of Permaculture, a system for collecting rainwater and natural water purification for subsequent reuse.
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Tara has several meanings in different cultural settings. In Sanskrit it means shining, so is connected with the star. In Indian and American tradition it is connected with the goddess of the sea. And in Irish and Scottish tradition Tara is a hill where the kings meet.
Tara is also known as the "mother of liberation" in buddhism, and represents the virtues of success in work and achievements and as well she is a tantric meditation deity, whose practice is used to develop certain inner qualities and understanding of secret teachings about compassion and emptiness.
Tara is also particularly associated with healing, protecting and stabilizing your life-force.
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Do you like to be active in body, through a combination of martial arts and dance in your free time?
Want to learn to have, know, and take charge
of your own actions, emotions, body and mind?
Are you ready to break your major life barriers in this exact moment?
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To balance and harmonize your mind, after having a bit of “workout” with facilitators each day, you can simply let us guide you to dive in a deeply relaxed state of Yoga Nidra - each day, can you believe that?
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Imagine eating tasty and heavenly delicious specialties, like spanish Paella or Gazpacho... and feeling completely calm and alleviated after having spent twelve days of intensive and in-depth body-mind-spirit work!
Yes, this is how this retreat will make you feel at the end!!
Finally ready and determined to make life changing decisions that you’ve been postponing for years...prepared to make new, tactful commitments!!!!!!
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Afternoons and evenings you can spend by taking a walk in a natural canyon, visiting small Arafo village on the top of a hill and catch the ambient of local rural life with organic markets or just take a few minutes drive with taxi to nearby beach and hang out, watching windy sea....
Going to Santa Cruz will take you only 20 minutes and you will experience the vibrant cultural life of this island! Cosmopolitan hive of activity, full of interesting places to visit, attractive architecture, great shopping and an abundance of excellent theatres, cafes, restaurants, lively night life.... Santa Cruz's harbour is a gateway into mainland Spain and a stop off point for cruise liners traveling to the Caribbean.
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Another option is to simply stay at Finca, sitting by the evening fire, chatting with new made friends or embracing the silence within - this is something you really don’t want to miss.
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Joyful relaxing on the beach, surrendering under the ultimate power of the ocean....Your heart will definitely melt and start singing :)
Another cookie - you can’t leave Tenerife, without visiting Teide - VOLCANO! Visualize voyaging through breath taking woods, suddenly entering into the mystical atmosphere that looks like a dessert, waiting for you to reveal its secrets.
Definitely a well & spiritually fulfilling - fresh and powerful experience! Spending morning until late-afternoon there, you will have time for lots of site-specific movement exploration.
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BENEFITS ...
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SO, WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT? BENEFITS?
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During our retreat, through a combination of natural healing and dance, we'll introduce you to the radiance and wisdom of your authentic self. As you deepen that connection, old habits will begin falling away, to be replaced naturally (and often spontaneously) with activities and relationships that really matter!
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Working with 4 facilitators you can receive an insight of what is happening to you. We will provide you with tools and skills to bring clarity and quality into your everyday existence. You will learn to have, know and take charge of your own actions.
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With our simple techniques of body/mind/spirit awareness, you'll quickly learn how to find the eye of the hurricane and put yourself in "the zone" for making the wisest decisions in any situation -- business, personal or otherwise.
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By the end of this retreat, you will open your heart and invite in a profound compassion and love for yourself and others through ancient healing techniques, breathing, sound and deep relaxation. You will get in touch with your inner essence and will navigate your life from the heart using your internal guidance.
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Through playful daily improvisational dance practice that bind with specific abilities, desires and expectations of the individual, you will develop a conscious body and see mistakes as valuable lessons rather than obstacles. You will get tools to push your boundaries of what is possible. By receiving insights and learning how to positively influence the energies of your body, you will sense yourself more deeply.
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You will spent your time with a group of the most like minded, creative and amazing people you can imagine.
Each day we will provide you an embodied wake up with
iVitalis practice. After you will have an option to experience a group session of Body-Mind-Spirit to truly awaken, engage and open your body & then we will arouse all your senses through Opening the senses - dance improvisation session.
After lunch you can join a group in deep rest through Yoga Nidra and afternoons we will guide you through Resolving your limiting beliefs session.
Afternoons and evenings you will have a possibility to work individually with professional team of health practitioners and artists through your current issues that are preventing you from growth.
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Possible one-to-one sessions on following expertise: Health consultations*; Bioresonance treatments*; Ayurvedic, Swedish and iVitalis Massages*; Pilates coaching*; Body in movement consultation*.
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Program also includes visiting San Cristobal de La Laguna - city declared World Heritage by the UNESCO, a hike to Los Roques de Garcia (Teide national park) and excursion to Puertito Beach.
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*Individual sessions are provided upon request, for extra payment and are not included in a price of a retreat
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OK, BUT HOW DO I KNOW IF THIS RETREAT IS FOR ME?
SIMPLY SIGN UP FOR 20 MIN FREE SKYPE SESSION WITH ONE OF OUR FACILITATORS!
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* Organizers have the right to change the locations and program activities according to a group dynamics and other unpredictable circumstances
* we do not support alcohol and other substances - any kind of use is on your own responsibility
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DAY 1
Upon your arrival into healing atmosphere of Manantial de Tara we will comfortably accommodate you into yurta or bungalow. You can take a rest at a beautiful open-air lounge and enjoy the view on permacultural garden.
In late afternoon, we will perform a welcoming ritual and you will get to know all like-minded beings that will support your profoundly transformational endeavors in this retreat.
After dining your first vegetarian delicacies, your senses will melt into gentle acoustic sounds of the Atlantic ocean in a distance. Better to pamper yourself immediately with nice and easy-going walk around!
DAY 2, 3, 4
Imagine waking up really, really early ...and take some time to work out on your own or in a group on an open-air platform, surrounded with mountains and ocean and on the catch of the fresh Qi essence in the air....hearing sounds of cocks and barking dogs in a distance…
You’re still not sure if you are dreaming, right?
But yes, you are in the embrace of this divine volcanic island!
And after breakfast, four amazing facilitators will be available just for you to individually discuss and provide insights for currently hot issues that burden you and prevent you to surrender to your inner blissfulness completely.
For those more frisky, Goran & Sandra will welcome you to balance your Body, Mind, Spirit and by Opening the senses session, you will delve into your first inner dance journey through meditative movement and improvisation practice. Your dancing appetite will awaken….…..
And how about digesting in a unique state of silent & restful alertness instead of heavily lying on your bed and bla-bla-ying? After lunch we will immerse into Yoga Nidra to reduce our tensions and anxieties.
After good rest in afternoons, Neja will invite you to dig deeper into your habits by mirroring your busy- bossy minds.... to get insights into why something is repeatedly happening in your life and how to relief yourself from repeating behavior that gets on your nerves.
In this first three days there will be plenty of body - mind processing. But no worries, there will be many breaks too!
After all this experiences, you will finish your days, proudly walking around equipped with tools and skills to bring clarity and quality into your everyday existence. You will begin practicing how to have, know and take charge of your own actions. All your why’s and how’ s will be later on constructively discussed in a sharing circle of extraordinary individuals!
Can’t wait to finally meet you!
Breaking free - expressing your true potentials has really begun!!!
DAY 5
Today is a day of Depart to Los Roques de Garcia (Teide national park) - forest & vulcano. It is an easy route, ideal for get to know unique flora and fauna of this preserved area. On the way, you might see the “alcaudón” (small birds which love eating insects) and beetles, such as the “pimelia” (small, black and with bellies).
The pumice stone, abundant on the place, is formed when hot lava mixes with water and hardens, resulting in a porous material (perfect for sloughing away dry skin). This type of stone becomes the essence of the plain so-called Cañada de los Guancheros.
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All these colors create a contrast with the coppery colors of La Fortaleza, the great mountain that remained after Las Cañadas collapsed. The green of the canarian pine trees and cedars add the place a fascinating aspect.
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Spending morning until late-afternoon there, you will have time for lots of group movement and exploration.
And for sure after first intensive days you will have something to let go from yourself. Old habits will begin to be replaced naturally with rejuvenated body, regenerated mind and refreshed spirit.
You will keep on asking yourself, why did I hesitate for so long?
DAY 6
It’s time to continue with our mornings by focusing our body, mind and emotions and afternoons by releasing limiting beliefs and habits so we can invite unlimited abundance into all areas of our life.
We will finish the day with Dance celebration under the stars!.
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DAY 7
This day is a real treat!
We will drive to nearby excursion - to El Puertito Beach for snorkeling and swimming. The ocean has a depth of up to 12 meters here and even turtles can be seen at a depth of eight meters all year round. The terrain is made up of an impressive rocky reef...a powerful place to spend when you have plenty of free time for reflection, rest and fun!
Afternoon, Guillermo, our host at Manantial de Tara, will delightfully lecture on their "Walk towards the Sustainability " - the story on how this amazing Finca was designed according to the principles of Feng-Shui of the present time.
DAY 8, 9 , 10
Journeying together in deep realms of body -
we will be diving into breathing and energy exercises, dancing even deeper into meditation... opening our hearts and invite in a profound compassion and love for ourselves and others.
It's been more than a week already -
Your rebirth is starting and you are filling yourself with the core confidence to explore unknown territories!
Stretch your boundaries of what is possible !!​
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DAY 11
Here you are! Starting to fully train your perception (of self, others, group) on physical, mental and emotional level by translating informations gathered through opening the senses (touch, gaze, voice, smell and taste) into movement and dance.
Your old emotions has released and you feel more peaceful and calm. Shhhhhhhh.....the silence is nesting so profoundly inside you....no need to use any more words ...
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DAY 12
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Time to absorb, integrate and share the boost of newly received information and start silent reflection.
Congratulations!!
You have found your true self and your life purpose, identified negative habit patterns, and learned how to focus on creating what you truly want in your life.
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DAY 13
Departure day! We can help you arrange Airport Transport (if you are not staying in Tenerife). Check out is by 11 am. Depending on your travel schedule, you may have time for photos, last minute shopping, and many hugs and kisses!
This is only the beginning of your renewed life journey!!
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ITINERARY
PRICE
WE CAN ALSO ORGANIZE THIS RETREAT UPON YOUR REQUEST FOR MINIMUM 10 TO MAXIMUM 15 PEOPLE!
EARLY BIRD 2350€
REGULAR PRICE 2850 €
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POSSIBLE PAYMENT IN 4* (or less) INSTALLMENTS - 588* EUR monthly
* monthly payment calculated according to number of paid installments
PRICE INCLUDES:
- 12 nights lodging at Manantial de Tara in 3 yurts (Mongolian style), 2 cave rooms & 3 wooden bungalows / shared accommodation for 2-4 people
– 3 meals per day / organic vegetarian (occasionally seafood if wanted)/ tea and coffee on constant disposal
- 9 Resolve limiting beliefs sessions and 1 Transformation mantra (group session)
- 8 morning iVitalis group movement sessions
- 4 Body-Mind-Spirit & Dance Improvisation sessions
- 4 Opening the senses dance sessions
- 8 Yoga Nidra sessions
- 1 Portal of inner consciousness session
- Visiting San Cristobal de La Laguna - city declared World Heritage by the UNESCO
- Hike to Los Roques de Garcia ( Teide national park) - forest & volcano
- Excursion to Puertito Beach
- free Wi-Fi
- Health Insurance
PRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE:
- Flight tickets; Your round trip airfare from home
- Tenerife (Spain) entry Visa
- Transport from airport to Arafo - Manantial de Tara and back (approx. 48EUR - one way - you can share with other participants or you can also take a bus)
- Personal, medical or trip cancellation insurance
- Other non-included items would include souvenir shopping, personal phone calls, spa services, laundry and tips for your room housekeeper
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OTHER PRIVATE (individual) SESSIONS with retreat leaders upon request:
- Bioresonance body scan with Neja Zupan (2 hours) and summary with life guidelines - 200 EUR, early bird 120 EUR (before departure)
- Bioresonance therapy with Neja Zupan - 100 EUR, early bird 80 EUR (before departure)
- Health consultation and coaching with Neja Zupan – 80 EUR per hour
- Ayurvedic, Swedish and iVitalis Massages with Petr Zupan - 40 EUR per hour
- Pilates coaching with Sandra Anais - 60 EUR per hour
- Body in movement consultation and coaching with Goran Bogdanovski - 60 EUR per hour
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Flights:
You must arrive into the Tenerife South Airport
We can give you contacts of our friends taxi drivers if you want to be picked up at the airport.
It takes between 20 - 30 minutes drive to Arafo- Manantial de Tara ... so make sure to come to Retreat place at 14:00h latest
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BOOKING DEPOSIT
To secure your space for this retreat all we require is a €450 registration deposit.
The remaining balance can be paid in installments or in full by one month before Retreat.
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CANCELLATION & PAYMENT POLICY
It is your responsibility to read and understand our cancellation policy.
No one books a retreat with the intention of canceling it, but unexpected events do occur
and we encourage you to purchase Travel Cancellation Insurance to cover any unfortunate eventualities.
Please note that because this retreat has limited numbers, it allows for a more personable, intimate experience.
Our nonrefundable cancellation policy is in place to ensure the highest quality of service and experience for all. Exceptions cannot be made for any reason, including weather, injury/illness, or personal emergencies.
No refunds for arriving late or leaving early is available.
Deposits are non-refundable, unless Retreat is canceled from our side.
We reserve the right to cancel the trip if it is not meeting the trip minimum. If we do so, your deposit and payments will be refunded. Although deposit can be applied to another trip within a one year period.
The final payment must be made by one month before Retreat.
Contact us for any further inquires about our policy.
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PLEASE NOTICE
If you are to participate in this retreat , it should NOT be confused with professional therapy or counseling for specific conditions in your personal or professional life. As a trip participant, you shall agree to be mindful and personally responsible for your own wellbeing during the retreat and if needed, to seek professional & licensed medical treatment in your state/country. We do not provide medical, therapy, or psychotherapy services. What we do is to facilitate conditions and and space for your personal growth.
FACILITATORS
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“Before my first inhale and after my last exhale everything already exists. I only have to be. To move from point A to point B with acceptance, understanding, and sincerity.”
Goran Bogdanovski
Guardian of Balance and soft Communication. The Peace Keeper and a Rock Stone in times of crisis. A Lone riding Wolf that can activate his Tribe and raise the energy to a high level. Throwing the arrow far in the sky and then running fast, effortlessly trusting the flow.
He is an award winning artist, dance teacher and a father in a patchwork family, who traveled around the world helping people to expand their awareness of the body, mind, emotions and spirit through dance improvisation and creation. Teaching methods he uses are synthesis of techniques and tools, that he has intensively experimenting with and developed throughout the last 25 years. Ranging from dance to martial arts, from Tai Chi and Qi Gong to Kundalini and Dynamic meditation, from contact to theatre improvisation and from artistic experience he had, working in his own creations and collaborations with more than 70 top- notch artists worldwide. His special topics are: Improvisation, Being present, Group consciousness, Group Dynamic, Artistic Creation, Shamanism and Synergy.
Goran will help you to focus your body, mind and emotions and teach you how to find the eye of the hurricane to put yourself in “the zone" for making clear decisions in any situation.
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Sandra Anais
Her path has encompassed a weaving together of cultural studies, dance / movement and spiritual wisdom practices. She has more than 15 years of learning, teaching and performing experience in dance.For last 4 years, besides being patch-worked family mother - she has traveled the world as a workshop/ journey facilitator and she strongly believes that one should Let the Heart Desire take the Lead in their lives.
She had her first contact with natural healing in 2012, when she attended Life Purpose workshop. There she met Brazilian shaman and his Slovenian friend dr. Neja Zupan.They performed a traditional ceremony with in-depth cleansing. Experience was so profound that besides healing her body and purifying her mind and soul, it encouraged her to quit regular job, stop with unhealthy habits and start freelancing as an artist and retreats/journeys facilitator. Simultaneous discovery of Osho active Meditations, Dervish and other ritual dances, completely transformed her purpose and direction in life. She started seeing dance as a “moving meditation”, a tool to support self - growth and as crucial part of healing processes. From then on, she is also a passionate worshiper of Animal Spirits and inexhaustible weaver of nature & dance.
Sandra will never teach you to repeat steps after her - but rather facilitate conditions for self-exploration, provide you tools for improvisation and guide your body in creation of unique movements & qualities. With the right balance of direction and freedom, she will make you overcome almost all your fears of trying new things and pushing limits. Her methods encompass knowledge from modern dance techniques, contact dance, improvisation, meditative movement, yoga & pilates.
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»Pearls are formed within oysters when a foreign substance invades the shell, entering the soft mantle tissue. In response to the irritation, oyster secretes a crystalline substance, which builds up in layers around the irritant and in course of time forming a wonderful pearl. We can find remarkable resemblance in our lives ... out of pain and suffering we are able to create Pearls"
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Dr. Neja Zupan established BISERNICA (meaning PEARL), an institute for the development of creativity and personal growth. Neja is an international trainer of Personal excellence and natural healing specialist, lately initiated also as a shaman by her longtime teacher and friend from Brazil. She is dedicated to self research for more than 25 years. Through her own experience of overcoming the cancer in a natural way, she developed Bisernica’s Holistic Detox retreat. She has proved that she walks what she talks!
Her knowledge comes from her scientific research background and from her research into alternative science. She recognized that combining both fields is effective especially when things change quickly. She lectures and facilitates seminars and workshops worldwide.
She has done also many sessions with individuals helping them awaken their inner qualities and potentials. Among all individuals that she helped, some of the most relevant were recovery from cancer, hyperactivity, asthma, dyslexia, suicidal attempts and others. Some stories are described by individuals on DVD “The Body Speaks the Truth”, published in 2008 by institute BISERNICA.
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Petr Zupan
iVitalis trainer, Touch for Health Practitioner, Healing with Sound specialist.
“Music accompanies me in different forms all my Life. Singing, dancing and playing on different instruments travel with me through the endless Universe of Sound, Motion and Rhythm. I am researching the magic and the soothing influence of the universal language on well-being, balance of energy state and widening the realization of myself and others. I am walking with Sunshine and Laughter in my hands and in my heart.”
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"By the end of this retreat, you will have identified and begun dissolving limiting beliefs, adopted new ways of thinking and learned how to focus your body, mind and emotions on finding your true self and your life purpose. With the power of Natural Healing and Holistic Movement you will discover cause - effect connections of what is happening in your life and get skills to break major life obstacles with determination and create you own life in full potential."
RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL PROMISE
Environment
Manantial de Tara is a non-profit organization, created with the intention of developing an area in contact with nature, and the surrounding farmland which was created on sustainable principles and permaculture gardening.
The farm on which this project is developed on the island of Tenerife, in the municipality of Arafo, is an environment of high natural and landscape value, between the sea and the mountain.
Manantial de Tara has built the following natural buildings:
- 3 yurts (mongolian style) made from renewable chestnut, cotton/polyester canvas cover, pure new wool insulation and metal parts (the door handle, hinges and flue supports)
- 3 wooden bungalows
- 1 wooden house
- 2 caves made from mud and straw
In the middle of the property there is garden based on permaculture principles.
To design the space we have used the principles of Feng-Shui of the present time:
- We promote the implementation of sustainable lifestyles, through educational programs and workshops that inspire and promote creativity while living in harmony with the cycles and respecting the Rights of Mother Earth.
- Related to this we have systems for obtaining energy from renewable sources, orchards based on the principles of permaculture, a system for collecting rainwater and natural water purification for subsequent reuse, and a dry toilet with equipment composting organic waste with worms.
Earth Charter
We promote and support the initiative of the Earth Charter as an educational and ethical framework advocated to respect for life.
Culture of Peace
We promote a Culture of Peace through meetings and events related to art, Science and Consciousness, encouraging the formation of networks of communication and exchange.
Evolution of consciousness
We Create a space oriented to educational developments related to self-awareness of the physical and emotional, respect for others and for nature.
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Community
The retreat is a community and we offer a volunteering programme alongside our usual programme, allowing people with less income to spend on travel to also participate.
We are an association that has educational and social purposes and we like to share spaces, experiences and creative ideas. Participants of the retreat will have a great opportunity for one-to-one meeting with a team that is preserving Manantial de Tara and to form possible future collaborations. Part of the money gathered from this retreat will go to preserving this beautiful place.
Daily tasks for volunteers would consist of:
• taking care of organic gardens of vegetables and fruits
• Landscaping, beautification and care of the place.
• Help in cooking and cleaning
• Construction and Maintenance
Local Crafts and Culture
We employ local guides to take us on hikes through the preserved ecological area of Los Roques de Garcia (Teide volcano & forest national park) . Supporting staff (organizers, promoters, guides...) are locals. We ensure fair working conditions for all workers engaged and all are given adequate support by our operations team and tour staff.
This retreat was created as a collaboration between artists, healers, tour guides, accommodation providers and spiritual seekers. People that have many experience in supporting many different community-led projects and events around the world, with the goal of ensuring that the money made from our traveling to a region goes directly to those most in need, in order to make a lasting difference in the local communities that we visit.