Estudio Los Almendros

Vacation and Renewal during July holiday

studio — Fri, 20 May 2011 02:28:43 +0000

To recuperate from the stressful challenges of heavy studying and working, the Studio’s facilities offer simple comfort, tranquility, and contact with nature. Massages and enjoyable movement learning experiences will help you tune-up and regain vitality. Please contact us for special … Continue reading →

Relieve tessions through a massage therapy gift

studio — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:37:49 +0000

Cordula Meyer, massage therapist of experience, has been living in the Studio Los Almendros since January 2011. She has been working in the area for over 2 years and her services are quite appreciated by all.

Ethics, compassion, kindness and helping each other to...

manager — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:59:13 +0000

The intention to deepen the subject of Ethics and Community has manifested with Alistair Holmes, a Tibetan monk on his third visit to Montezuma, who has been staying at the Estudio for two weeks.

Quite a peaceful, quiet, yet joyful presence he is. He has been sharing Buddhist teachings to contribute to our spiritual growth, no matter what our religious views are. He is quite appreciated in the community. His talk on Sunday’s spiritual service held at Organico, on kindness and service to others as a path to transcend our physical life, has made me ponder on how to approach these teachings with children.

Of course, example is the best teacher, yet with children, I feel the need to create situations that call for their capacities for problem solving, compassion, playfulness and laughter.

Somatic education, researching and embodying the body’s...

manager — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:57:33 +0000

The ‘Somatic Education and Health Research sessions’ are opportunities to investigate the wisdom of our bodies revealed by the incredible functioning of all its parts and the many self-regulatory mechanisms that help us maintain a balanced health despite the extreme stresses we might be under.

In some of our past sessions we have been addressing on ways to stimulate the feet so that they indeed facilitate movement in the rest of the body.

Teaching children and being taught by Them

manager — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:56:43 +0000

The children are our teachers. In the dance, play and movement fundamentals class for children 4-6 years old, Irèni and I propose the content and they give us the pace. So, I am letting emerge those ways of presenting challenges … Continue reading →

Recycling as a community responsibility

manager — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:55:47 +0000

The individual and collective responsibility for recycling is manifesting more and more in our community. The success of the Recycling Extravaganza continues to manifest in many ways.

We still need lots of collaboration from everyone— local people, tourists from abroad and the rest of Costa Rica. Do come and share your ways of handling, los ‘deshechos’, what is left after we have satisfied essential (and other) needs.

Somatic education, stimulating trauma releasing mechanisms

manager — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:54:47 +0000

Jude Driscoll, a physical therapist from Prince Edward Island, Canada, and her husband Frank, a most talented handyman, stayed with us almost a week. She shared her knowledge and practice of TRE, Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises, created by Dr. David Berceli, very easy exercises based on the premise that the body has the mechanisms or knows how to experience stressful or traumatic events and thus defend itself, and also how to recover from those events and go back to healthy functioning.

The TRE is a method to evoke the natural relaxation processes. I am certainly studying and practicing these exercises and welcome TRE practitioners to come visit. Jude is already planning to come back for two weeks in December, 2011. Anyone interested in learning and practicing this method can join us.

Non-violent communication and community

manager — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:52:03 +0000

By July 2009 I wanted to study non-violent communication (NVC) and started reading the Spanish translation of the first edition of Marshall Rosenberg’s classic book which was loaned by a colleague. It was hard to maintain the motivation to read it without the practice with someone.

Several months later, by January 2010, Letitia Sisters, an American horsewoman who has been studying non-violent communication in her native Vermont and likes to teach it, came to stay in the Studio for three months of rest and recuperation. Wow! We traded our skills and held regular meetings on NVC and when she left I kept feeling the need to deepen the subject with others. Then she came back in January 2011. Wow! I could deepen my practice.

She left a week ago and to my great joy, the NVC teachings are coming to Montezuma, directly from the Rasur Foundation, the people in charge of imparting them to all of Costa Rica. Here their own description:

BePeace Introductory Workshops provide a great introduction to Rita Marie Johnson’s Peace Story, the National Model of Peace she helped create in Costa Rica and the BePeace practice. As a participant, you will learn about Heart-Brain Coherence and be introduced to the Quick Coherence technique.

You will also be introduced to the Nonviolent Communication model, developed by Marshall Rosenberg, and see a demonstration of Feelings & Needs Cards. You will also see a live demonstration of Institute of HeartMath’s emWave Software.

Thanks to all involved and I am looking forward to deepen my practice with people in the community and with coming visitors. Yeah!

Montezuma Recycling Extravaganza

manager — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:06:18 +0000

February 26th , 2011.

In Hotel Amor de Mar, Ninoska Gómez’s “Dancing with Ball” and animation with children.

Somatic Education and Health Research

manager — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:04:53 +0000

February 2nd – May 2nd, 2011.

Wednesday’s Somatic Education and Health Research Sessions.