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Karina Bertolotto is a psychologist and art therapist. She trained in Humanistic Psychology and Transpersonal Psychology, Artistic Expressive Therapy, and Integrative Somatic Therapy. Since 2005 she teaches Art therapy and Expressive Movement at the University of Barcelona and she is in charge of coordinating the Psychology programme for the Master's of Music Therapy at Barcelona University. She is a PhD candidate at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Her doctoral research focuses on performance as a contribution to Art Therapy practices and sacred dimensions of the feminine. She is student and a collaborator of Claudio Naranjo and organizes his teachings for SAT programmes in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Italy, Uruguay, and China.

David Dubois, PhD, is a comparative philosopher, author, and Sanskrit scholar. David is one of the leading scholars on Kashmir Shaivism, a branch of classical tantra. He has translated and commented on numerous tantric texts such as the Vijnâna Bhairava Tantra (Almora, 2015). He is the author of over twenty books on the subject and on other spiritual themes. David studied Sanskrit and Tantra amongst masters of the tradition in India, where he also trained in Indian martial arts and Ayurveda. He believes in an approach rooted both in tradition and democracy. He teaches the yoga of space and the path of desire in the tradition of Kashmir Shaivism but is also inspired by Christian prayer as well as other wisdom traditions from the East and the West alike.

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Eliana Perinat is a visual artist and certified art therapist with many years of meditation practice. Eliana finds her main sources of inspiration within the natural world. Art is the path of consciousness that connects her to reality. Through artistic creation, she is able to focus, to see, to open up, and to reflect on herself and on the environment in which she finds herself. It is her way to inquire into existence and into human relationships. She finds awe in micro-macro patterns and in the forms inside and outside our bodies. Eliana offers individual and group sessions for healing through creative expression and for intuitive connection with nature.

Stephanie Canavesio is a therapist and meditation teacher. She builds a safe space for expansion, leading with empathy and listening. Each time she comes to the cushion with her students it is together with equality and equanimity, truth and trust – from a place of knowing the work that is necessary to reach our fullest potential, awareness of narrative, a conscious mind, and an open heart. No stranger to the limitations of our addictive patterns, Stephanie is an authentic guide for the healing journey. She is the founder of Presence Embodied, which brings together Compassionate Inquiry, meditative practices, and various other healing modalities. Stephanie connects you to the present moment to restore you to your truest expression and the practice of consciousness.

Olga Lidia Kozłowska is a licensed psychologist, singer, and voice coach. She is certified in Core Energetics Body Psychotherapist, Process training (A&A Mindell), and holds an MA in education. Drawing inspiration from Alexander Technique and Polyvagal Theory, Olga approaches voice work in a holistic and embodied way. She specializes in traditional Slavic and Georgian singing, choral music, and improvisation. Her teachers include Franke Kane, Natalia Polovynka, Emma Bonnici, Amit Carmeli, Kristin Linklater, and Lane Aryne. She is the founder of Authentic Voice and has been leading workshops since 2011.

Maria R. Sideri is transpersonal psychotherapist and creator of the methodology of Transpersonal Dance Therapy. Student of different teachers of the buddhist and the shivaist tantric tradition. Therapist and teacher of body oriented psychospiritual integration. She holds a degree in Psychology from the Panteion University of Social and Political Studies of Athens as well as an MSc in Culture and Mental Health from UCL London and an MA in Dance Movement Therapy from the University of Barcelona. She trained in Reichian/Lowenian body-oriented psychotherapy, holistic sexuality, female sexuality and systemic constellations.  She has designed and leads a four-year training course in Transpersonal Dance Therapy: transpersonal psychotherapy through dance, movement and creativity. She lives and works between Ibiza, Barcelona, and Athens.

Mayumi Nakabayashi is a land artist and mandala maker. Her mission is to bring awareness to the symbiotic connections all lives on earth and to promote unity within human and more-than-human diversity by creating ephemeral geometric patterns (mandalas) using natural materials. Her media include plants, stones, vacated wasp hives, cobwebs, and frost. She studied art book binding under Sandy Sexton and is a certified therapist for various alternative health practices. Mayumi leads flower mandala making workshops in yoga studios, schools, and art festivals and has been the artistic director for Womandala na hEireann project (flower mandala & nude female body mandala) since 2020. She is currently working on a project with libraries in Ireland and environmental organizations to promote native woodlands.

Riki Parenti is a certified music therapist (Les Heures, University of Barcelona) and an accredited neurologic music therapist (MTAE-53). He hold degrees in music from the University of Bologna and in transpersonal psychology (IPTB). Riki has been working as a music therapist since 2010 and specializes in neurorehabilitation. As a singer, he has been exploring the voice in its most ancestral aspects, mastering the overtones singing technique. He was a member of MuOM Overtone Singing Choir with which he released two albums and toured internationally. In recent years, he has been deepening the Dhrupad singing technique. Riki facilitates the personal growth laboratory "Journey through the Voice" where he mixes body and vocal work with transpersonal music therapy.

Annalisa is an Italian a contemporary artist based in Ibiza. Her work is the result of many years of multidisciplinary study and practice in art education and Eastern philosophy. Her mission is to create physical and ethereal spaces where silence can be heard and translated into art, as well to inspire others in discovering the beauty of the perfect imperfection of life. She uses nature as her main medium, in all form and matter, landscape and motion. She currently gives workshop where painting, meditations, and movement are used to transform emotions in collective performances. Eatern wisdom permeates every angle of her work.

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Holly Taylor-Zuntz is a singer and choir director. Her mission is to bring the folk music of Georgia to a global audience. She holds a BA (Hons) in European Theatre Arts from Rose Bruford College and studied Natural Voice Leader with Frankie Armstrong as well as Advanced Circle Singing and Vocal Improvisation leader training with Guillermo Rozenthuler. Over the past five years, Holly has been conducting research on Georgian polyphonic music, spending several months a year in Georgia learning from local ethnomusicologists. She created three theatre shows about Georgian music in the UK. She is the founder and co-host of the Voices of the Ancestors podcast and directs the Georgian choir in Oxford. Holly also leads open-access community choirs and offers workshops that encourage everyone to sing, no matter their vocal experience.

Kara Leva is a singer and pianist as well as a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher. She holds an MA in Transdisciplinary Studies at the Zurich school of Arts. She works on intercultural and transdisciplinary projects focusing on the embodied voice in diverse and multimedia contexts. Kara gives workshops for theater as well as dance productions.

Marta Carvalho is a visual artist and a creative healer. She has been creating sacred spaces of transformative and healing arts since 2012. Marta holds degrees in Graphic Design and Visual Arts Theory. Her approach merges intuitive painting with vocal improvisation, somatic awareness, and performative practices. For the past four years, she has been developing numerous collaborative, interdisciplinary, and participatory art projects in Portugal. She guides personal and artistic development processes through individual mentoring, art therapy courses, and art residencies.

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Rafael Duarte-Uriza is a researcher and transdisciplinary artist. He empowers spectators to comprehend that we are nature and part of an interdependent web. Rafael studied Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia where he made his work “Reciprocal compression, a refuge for bees” with the support of Fundación Colombia Biodiversa. His research focuses on radical interdependence, coexistence, and regeneration to create art installations and meeting sessions providing spaces for awareness and exploration of a situation or specific spaces. His performative practice is also informed by Vipassana meditation and Contact Improvisation. Today he provides sensitive strategies as part of the Laboratories of Creation, Art, Culture, and Activism at the National University of Colombia.

Andrea Saito is an artist, art therapist, and researcher. She holds MAs in Cultural Management (International University of Catalonia) and in Artistic and Creative Therapies (ISEP, Barcelona). She also studied engraving (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and Japanese Woodblock (University of the Arts, London). She published Essencial Tune (2016) and Art Lab vol.1 (2017) in collaboration with Radar Art Lab. Andrea led interdisciplinary art labs in Lima and was in charge of the Cine Olaya Cultural Center. She worked as a cultural manager at Nau Bostik and Acid House in Barcelona. She currently offers Art Therapy sessions for individuals and groups and is a Dance Therapy teacher at Holistic Dansart, Puigcerdà.

Mahara McKay is a tantra teacher and holistic health coach as well as a former model and DJ. Mahara provides sacred spaces to support individuals to connect to their instinctual wisdom, power, freedom, and love, integrating the forgotten and repressed aspects of their being. She brings together the fire and wisdom from her Maori roots (Ngati Toa tribe) with the determination and discipline from her Swiss lineage. Mahara built two studios in New Zealand and worked in Goa for four years before returning to Switzerland where she holds private and group sessions on emotional release, tantra for couples, feminine embodiment, shamanic breathwork, and cacao ceremonies. She is also the organizer and host of the women’s wisdom festival in Zürich and has guided workshops in over 15 festivals in Europe and Asia.

Tiffany McSwaker is a dancer and performance artist. She studied dance at the Iceland University of the Arts and contemporary creation at the Sorbonne University. Her approach to movement and dance integrates body-mind connection, emotional awareness, healing modalities, and spirituality. Tiffany is the founder of Transcendental Embodiment. Informed by phenomenology and metaphysics, Transcendental Embodiment approaches dance as a holistic and transformative experience. Transcendental Embodiment is for dancers, movement lovers, and for people seeking psychological and emotional support through the practice of dance. Tiffany teaches online as well as in live events across Europe and Central America.

Marco Balbi Dipalma graduated in theatre studies and socio-cultural education from the University of Bologna. Since 2004 Marco has been working with the Polish actress and paratheater theorist Rena Mirecka. He was her assistant and became the director of the training school and laboratory The Sun with the support of the Grotowski Institute. Marco is now conducting independent research on ritual performance and acting pedagogy in Wroclaw. He is also a photographer and videographer.

Lucinda Edmonds is a performance artist and celebrant. Her vision is to connect with the divine to allow life to move through us unhindered, authentic, and playful. She trained as a celebrant and movement therapist as well as in action theatre and ritual creation. Lucinda worked as a coach for Lacey Haynes, the UK’s leading sexuality coach, led transformational programmes for teenagers, and performed in Walk About and Immersive Theatre internationally. She currently holds one-to-one healing sessions, runs workshops and retreats, and creates Walk About theatre performances.

Cristina de la Concha is photographer who has dedicated more than a decade to documentary, travel, and lifestyle photography. Cristina holds a Bachelor Degree in Social Communications and Advertisement from the Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia as well as a diplomas in holistic science from Schumacher College and from Efecto Mariposa. Her passion for travel and sustainable tourism led her to create Monasterio del Viento, a boutique hotel in Providencia Island, Colombia, which was featured in Conde Nast, the Financial Times, and Vogue. Her love of and connection to nature, authentic relationships, and self-discovery have led her on a quest to reclaim the beauty hidden in the simple and in the subtle. She seeks to make visible what usually remains unnoticed and aims to capture and portray the extraordinary in the ordinary. Currently living in Mallorca, Cristina works as a freelance photographer worldwide.

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Gabriela Piñeiros is a movement artist and a yoga teacher. She holds an MA in Cultural Management is completing an MA in Dance Studies (UNIR). Her approach to movement and dance integrates the idea of thinking of the body as a whole entity – body, mind, soul, spirituality – and not as separate systems. In that way her research, creation, and practice allows the integral self, from subtle to physical, to inform movement creation, healing processes, and states of awareness needed for presence. She turns to movement improvisation and writing set in a ritualistic contact to enable participant to access the full range of our bodies’ abilities. She currently directs several creation and research projects in Ecuador and Spain such as Mnemotecnia Lab, Fractal Irregular, and Escena Continua.

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