ABOUT OUR CO-CREATORS

KOMALA LYRA

A vibrant mystic gypsy, dakini, dancer, and artist, Komala lives fully the essence of heart-soul enjoying the body as a channel for consciousness. Her presentations activate life force and essential power, naturally awakening sensuality and sexuality. She invites intimacy with ourselves, and while relating with others. In a spontaneous and intuitive way, with clarity, gentleness and rich experiential resources, she invites daring beyond limitations, touching the space of freedom where love is our nature…
With more than 30 years experience offering educational programs internationally, she merges Ayurveda-Yoga-Tantra as one path for exploration in consciousness, health, sexuality, and meditative awareness.
Her background includes extensive training in a great variety of healing modalities integrating Eastern & Western approaches.
She is Lead Faculty at ISTA (International School of Temple Arts), professional member of NAMA (National Ayurveda Medical Association, USA), Panchakarma Educator (Ayurveda Institute, Albuquerque, USA), provider of Continuing Education in the USA,  MA Anthropology (Sorbonne University, France), BA Graphic & Industrial Design (Milano, Italy).
Komala has lived 12 years at Osho International Commune (India and USA) while the mystic Osho was alive, offering educational programs as part of Osho Multiversity, and later at Osho Academy, Sedona, USA, for over 7 years.
As an author, she has published several books and inspirational DVDs, available through her website and at Amazon.
Her next publication entitled “Intimacy ~ Ayurveda, Relationships & Sexuality”, originally written in English, is presently being translated in 6 languages: Portuguese, Czech, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian.
https://www.komalalyra.com/
https://ista.life/

CRISTIANO MARTINS

Seed cast upon the Earth during the fertile Spring of 1979 in Freiburg im Braisgau, Germany. Roots stretched and flowers blossomed in Oporto. I’m a licensed Biodanza Facilitator from the Rolando Toro System by the Biodanza School SRT of Porto and Portugal. I have my degree in Clinical Psycopedogagy, and after that I trained in Gestalt Therapy. Participated in several Theater and Dance workshops. Essential Reiki Master. Facilitated groups of development of personal skills, using Transactional Analysis; groups of Relaxation; and groups of Dramatic Expression (children, adults and seniors). I was at service of “Teléfono Internacional de la Esperanza” and worked for a few years as a Pedagogy Teacher in the IEFP’s (Portuguese job center) Training of Education Agents Project. Today I facilitate 3 Biodanza Regular Groups. I’m also part of the faculty, at the Superior Institute of Applied Psychology post-graduation “Therapy by Expressive Arts and Human Development”. I am, as an old friend says, a mutant apprentice of life.
https://cristianomartinsbio.wixsite.com/

LAU CRUZ

Movement artist, researcher and facilitator of experiences involving the arts of movement, somatic techniques and ecology. She studied contemporary dance at Danza Abierta (University of Costa Rica) and Den Danske Scenekunstskole, in Denmark (where she dabbled in somatic techniques such as Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, Klein and Body Mind Centering). Laura has been investigating the possibilities of movement in water for about 12 years in different modalities, like contact improvisation, deep dance (using free diving techniques), liquid body and together with Leela Lamela from Finland they’ve cretead a material call Fluid Spine. This research includes dancing in the ocean, rivers, lakes and thermal waters. She has participated in various meetings, festivals and movement laboratories in countries such as Germany, Portugal, Thailand, Spain, India and Mexico. Her artistic approach has led her to work on video art and underwater photography. She has facilitated workshops in Denmark, Finland, Mexico, and Costa Rica. She was invited as a speaker at the II International Congress of Aquatic Therapies-Costa Rica 2018, with the theme of Aquatic Dance. She is a Yoga instructor, graduated in India. She is an aquatic therapist, trained in Aguahara and Aquatic Bodywaves. Her current interests and researches are related to touch, embriology and ecosomatics from a tropical perspective. She organises an annual gathering call Water/ Earth Contact Costa Rica.
https://www.instagram.com/lau.cruzt/
https://www.instagram.com/waterearthcontactcostarica/
https://vimeo.com/user18524282
https://www.facebook.com/lau.cruz.torres/

TABEAH

Tabea is a vocalist, composer and teacher, who dedicates her voice and life to awakening, freedom, love and truth.
She studied classical voice at the conservatory in the USA, popular voice at the Conservatory in Germany as well as various vocal, acting, movement and healing techniques including: functional voice training (Reed, Rabine); Michael Checkhov Technique; Alexander Technique; Kundalini Yoga; Lighthealing and more.
She has had the honor of being a mentee of Amit Carmeli and his Wild Roots Vocal journey for 13 years, which has brought her on a deep healing and awakening journey with her voice, life and body. In cooperation with Carmeli, she has been leading many journeys/retreats around the globe since 2018.
As an artist Tabea tours internationally with her projects: Tabeah, a cinematic post-rock large ensemble, her transcultural Ikatar Ensemble, which brings together different musicians from all over the world each year; Duo Nahira Ziwa, in which she and portugués Hang and frame drum player Nuno Moreno explore the music of the moment, Untouchable Voices, a social justice theater giving voice to the stories of the Untouchables in India, and with different theater groups from the UK, as well as musicians and bands from Brazil and Syria.
As a director she leads various intergenerational and intercultural choirs, orchestras and band projects, in different cities in Germany, creating spaces where people from very different backgrounds can meet and dismantle prejudices.
tabeahmusic.com
facebook.com/tabeahmusic
www.ikatarensemble.bandcamp.com
www.nahira-ziwa.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/nahiraziwa

MaYa

Maya is Ecstatic Dance DJ & facilitator Water Movement guide, body therapist Co-founder of Ecstatic Circle By nature, it’s written in our DNA that we know how to dance, sing and swim. We may forget or lose touch of this idea but it’s my work to help people reconnect with themselves in awakening the curiosity of our natural movements. Most importantly, finding the inner source of joy and pleasures of the human experience.
https://instagram.com/ecstatic_maya
https://www.facebook.com/mayaflowpage
https://instagram.com/ecstatic_circle
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/83AVZUyvu7M6ATQi9

SARA MAR (DJ PSARA)

https://www.facebook.com/djpsara | https://www.mixcloud.com/Psara/

DJ SABINO

Sabino considers himself a very positive, joyful, creative and passionate person. He is the founder of Ecstatic Dance Algarve where, through free movement, natural rhythm and body wisdom he tries to bring a life with more quality, joy and lightness to his community because he believes that each one of us has the power and ability to contribute to a more positive and happy life for the people around us.
https://www.mixcloud.com/sabino-raul-soares/
https://www.festivalecstaticdance.com/
https://instagram.com/ecstatic_dance_algarve
https://www.facebook.com/ecstaticdancealgarve
https://t.me/+3z2HiPCUSLNmODlk

JANINE PROOST

Janine is a dancer, facilitator, and creator of ritual performance devoted to embodying our full nature on this planet. She grew up in The Netherlands and studied dance and choreography at CODARTS (Rotterdam Dance Academy) and London Contemporary Dance School. She worked as performer and choreographer in the UK, Australia, Europe and Asia in a wide range of projects including full-length theater productions, site-specific performances in nature and cities, video projects, improvised performances, collaborations with musicians, designers and visual artists.
In 2015 her life began to expand out of the contemporary arts world and she has lived a nomadic life since then, with homes in Greece, Israel, Goa, Koh Phangan, Portugal and Spain. Surrendering to the call “how does life want to dance through me?” has led to integrating voice and breath, sacred sexuality, women’s work, ceremony, sovereignty embodiment, trauma-healing, and endless igfts from her inner and outer journeys, into her work.
She has been teaching dance classes since she was 15 and currently offers BodySong Dance Journeys, Women’s Dance Temples, Collective Dance Rituals, and Yin Yoga classes independently, at retreat centres, and at festivals.

AVISHAI HONEYBUD

Avishai Honeybud grew up in the high Negev desert in Israel. He developed his passion for improvisation through desert survival skills. As a performer of various Perfoming Arts, mainly in site specif and street theatre he specialized in improvisation and comedy.
Avishai has vast experience in facilitating courses and workshops in the art of improvisation and as a certified social worker developed a life enhancement workshop based on improv principles.

STINE THORNING

Authentic movement and transformative dance facilitator. Passionate about bringing expressive art and movement therapy together. (utilizing the body as a means of understanding nature and biodiversity) Performer and body therapist: psychomotor therapist, student of commedia d’ell arte, butoh, contemporary dance and founder of Movement Lab, Denmark.

DAVID & SIMONE (UNIVERSIFICATION) 

David & Simone are sharing a deep knowledge connecting mysticism, ancestral & modern understanding with the aim of elevating the collective vibration by supporting the individual on the journey through the inner worlds, finetuning their discernment & mastering the process of the own inner work.