MINI ART & YOGA RETREAT SERIES
BENISSA COSTA, COSTA BLANCA, SPAIN // 8th and 9th of MAY 2023
by IVA, YOGA & the ARTS and DAY COLLECTIVE
You are warmly invited to join our MINI ART & YOGA RETREAT SERIES for kids (and their parents), taking place in a beautiful private villa on Benissa Costa, 10 minutes walk from the sea.
Let your kids experience:
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Experience yoga and mindfulness practices they can integrate into their daily life!
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Awaken their senses, intuition and creative energy with embodied art experiences!
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Create, enjoy, expand, play and just Be!
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A series of 3 Mini Art & Yoga Experiences for Children
AFTERNOON 8th of MAY
Children: 4-6 years old
Monday: 8th of May 2023
Time: 17:30 - 19:30 hrs
AFTERNOON 9th of MAY
Children: 6-12 years old
TUESDAY: 9th of May 2023
Time: 17:00 - 19:30 hrs
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Price: 35 euro/pp, includes 2 hrs practices, drinks and organic vegan snacks for parents and kids.
Location: Avenida Parador 23-03720, Benissa Costa
Shortly after receiving your booking, we will contact you to arrange the date of your participation.
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If you have two kids and they enter different groups/days, please contact us. You receive 15 % discount for a second child.
PILLARS OF MINI ART & YOGA RETREAT
CREATIVITY * PLAYFULNESS * INTUITION * SENSES * CONNECTION
PROGRAMME & PRACTICES
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Parents are welcome to stay and have an organic vegan snack and drink on our terrace next to the pool, jump in the pool, or join the program with their kids :-)
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Soft Creatures: A Journey into the world of soft imaginary creatures
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A short break
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Vegan Snacks and Drinks​
YOGA
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Thousands of years ago, the ancient yogis lived in the forest, the mountains, and the caves of India. They observed their environment, and saw how the animals and nature moved in perfect harmony. They imitated the movements of the animals, the trees, the mountains, and even the movements of the stars, and created a wonderful technique that is called YOGA.
Yoga teaches us that happiness is our natural state. When we are out of balance, we do not feel this happiness. With the help of yoga poses, breathing exercises, focusing within, we bring back this harmony to our body and mind and come back to the natural state of happiness.
Benefits:
Yoga helps children to develop flexibility and strength in their bodies and peace of mind. Yoga improves focus, memory, self-esteem, academic performance, and classroom behaviour, and reduces anxiety and stress in children.
YOGIC BREATHING
Yogic breathing, or pranayama, refers to conscious and controlled breathing for purification, mental focus, rejuvenation, and healing. Pranayama controls, cultivates, and modifies the amount, quality, flow, and direction of vital energy in the body.
When our vital energy flow is restricted, we may experience a lack of focus and negative emotions like anxiety, fear, worry, tension, depression, anger, and grief. When it is open and flowing freely and smoothly, the mind becomes calm, focused, happy, positive, and enthusiastic.
Benefits:
Yogic Breathing releases us from any unproductive fixations on stubborn problems.
By breathing effectively and fully using the breath through yogic techniques, we feel more energised, more relaxed and healthier. By awakening prana in the body we bring the free flow of inspiration.
TETE-A-TETE
CONVERSATION WITHOUT WORDS
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Yulia and Dorota are visual artists. Wordlessly, they start by drawing a dot in their palm, then slowly a white line on their arm. They build silent interactions with coloured pencils, playfully, without words, encouraging children to draw lines and dots on themselves and on each other. Silent sensory communication arise, in which the colours
and lines become a language between the participants.
The drawing tools are eco-cosmetic pencils.
What children learn:
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Trust and care; practice with colours and shapes; practice looking carefully at something and concentrating together; learn about their own body; gain sensory experiences with materials and colours; practice with creative skills; practice an open and investigative attitude; learn about feelings of oneself and the other; develop their imagination.
SOFT CREATURES
A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF SOFT IMAGINARY CREATURES
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When the music starts Dorota and Yulia introduce abstract soft sculptures in movement and interacting with them in different ways.
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At some point each child gets a creature and is invited to dance. Children explore their tactility, weight and form and exchange them with each other. The diverse tempo of music creates the dynamics in movement. The culmination of the process is a collective massage through soft sculptures. Everyone is welcome to experience it.
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Soft sculptures are made from organic fabrics varying from hemp to cotton velour, and fillings: millet, buckwheat, spelt husks and cherry pits. Some of the small sculptures with cherry pits create sounds.
What children learn:
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Practice with balance and rhythm; develop movement skills; activate sensory perceptions; awaken imagination; build the trust; practice interaction skills; practice an open and investigative attitude; learn about feelings of oneself and the other
OUR LOCATION
LOCATION
The private villa is located on Benissa Costa: Avenida Parador 23-03720, Benissa
JOIN US
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AFTERNOON 8th of MAY
Children: 4-6 years old
Monday: 8th of May 2023
Time: 17:30 - 19:30 hrs
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AFTERNOON 9th of MAY
Children: 7-12 years old
TUESDAY: 9th of May 2023
Time: 17:00 - 19:30 hrs
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ABOUT YOUR MINI RETREAT FACILITATORS
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DAY Collective is an artist duo consisting of Dorota Radzimirska and Yulia Ratman, based in Amsterdam. Their art practice involves participatory performances and tactile forms, such as soft sculptures and intuitive drawings for both children as well as adults. It manifests the power of consciousness and aims to cultivate spirit. Since November 2022 they have collaborated with Kleintje Kunst foundation.
Each week they give multiple performances at schools and after school programs for children from 2-11 years old.
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Through wordless playful performative gatherings that challenge the common ways of being together they intend to open up the space where one can be vulnerable and appreciated and where affirmative energy is being generated. Here the narrative evolves during the process, from within. Through these intimate embodied experiences and tactile forms, they activate the senses, intuition and imagination of the participants so as to eliminate pre-constructed behaviours and beliefs.
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Their works were supported by Dutch national fund for artists Mondriaan Fund; Amsterdam Fund for Art and Prince Bernhard Fund for women artists.
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DAY Collective’s website.
Iva Buzhashka is an Art Historian, Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher, Arts Educator, the creator of Spark Your Joy. Encounters with Spirituality and Creativity Podcast.
Born in a family of architects, she lived in four European capitals, studying arts and culture, investigating ritual patterns in culture and arts as a space of transformation.
After years of yoga practice in Amsterdam (NL), a Yoga Teacher Training in the Sacred Valley of Peru, travels around the world, while guiding hundreds of people through profound transformation and towards conscious living, she is currently based in Spain, teaching online and at SHA Wellness Clinic.
Through embodiment practices she guides her students on a transformational journey inwards and helps them connect to their authentic self. She is certified as a teacher of history and taught arts and culture in various schools in the Netherlands.
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Iva, Yoga & the Arts’ website.
TESTIMONIALS
For me, the beauty of the Tete-a-Tete project lies in its simplicity, in returning to childhood, exercising myself and my openness through poetry and abstraction, leaving ready- made structures and rules. Tete-a-tete is a unique way to break out of an oppressive and judgmental system into a more fluid world of “not-knowing”, reflecting by being here and now with your skin, colors, shapes and open eyes... to be able to lightly interpret many interactions and let others do the same... —
- Malgorzata Rey, the Netherlands, for the performance Tete-a-Tete by DAY Collective
'Iva’s yoga and pranayama classes are a joy to attend. She displays a true joy for life and this shines through in how she conducts her courses. Her international background certainly adds to the experience and one comes away refreshed and uplifted from her teachings'
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Sven de Souter, Belgium, for Iva's yoga and pranayma classes
