This summer AMAKA will have the pleasure to host for a few days in Greece the yoga teacher and educator Coni Guevara. Coni has been working with vulnerable groups around the world and she implements an original technique for physical expression for children, using yoga techniques adapted to the philosophy of the human sophism.
The techniques use body, art, imagination and the heart in order to help the children trust each other, develop creative thinking, dream freely while cultivating the body and the mind. This approach awakens natural, behavioral, emotional, cognitive, social and spiritual aspects of the personality, which in turns results into an evolved social consciousness and intellect.

The workshop is organised by AMAKA in cooperation with FindYourLefkada and will take place in the Yoga Hostel, an ideal place for rest, a few meters off the sea in Palairos village of Aitoloakarnania a few kilometers away from the magic island of Lefkas. Yoga Hostel has fully equipped studios around a beautiful garden and two yoga decks in amazing locations. The participants will be able to combine their stay with walks in the nature and by the beach, enjoying vegetarian organic food prepared by the Foodpath team.

Waldorf pedagogic method:

«Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching us? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.»

Rudolf Steiner, Human Values in Education

The initiator of the school is Rudolf Steiner, founder of the human sophists. Great value is placed on the role of imagination to channel learning and to the holistic development of the student. The first Waldorf School opened in Stuttgart, while today there are hundreds of human sophist schools around the world. The philosophic stance behind the pedagogic application is the urge of the individual to internal liberation and mental development.

The workshop

The core themes of the first two intensive days will be:

Ways of organising a yoga session for children, method of designing a workshop, main objectives, importance of different rhythms, salutations to the sun, breathing techniques, principles of Waldorf pedagogy, four temperaments/ typologies, meditation, inversions and acroyoga, yoga for couples, games, human sophism philosophy, stages of physical and mental development of the child, pedagogic principles of physical exercises for children, basic principles of art therapy.

The workshop is aimed not only to yoga instructors but it is also open to parents, educators, psychologists, social workers and everyone else interested to incorporate pedagogic elements of the Waldorf method and physical expression in their everyday activities with children in school, and at home.  No previous experience is required -only desire to play and experiment.

Through theory and practice the participants will travel back to the magic world of their own childhood and they will rediscover how it feels to be a child again. When completing the workshop they will be rejuvenated and full of new practical knowledge to implement in many different frameworks.

Saturday and Sunday will be devoted in yoga teaching techniques for children. After completion of the two-day workshop, the participants will receive a certificate of attendance. Monday will be devoted to AcroYoga and to special techniques. The participants can choose to participate either in the first two or in all three days.

Schedule :

Friday

23/6:    20.00 Welcome Dinner

Saturday: 

24/6:  09.00-10.00 Breakfast

10.00-14.00 WALDΟRF YOGA  (practice)

14.00-17.00 Light Lunch and free time

17.00-20.00 Pedagogic Theory / Games/ meditation

20.00: Dinner

Sunday:

25/6:  09.00-10.00 Breakfast

10.00-14.00 WALDΟRF YOGA  (practice)

14.00-17.00 Light Lunch and free time

17.00-20.00 Pedagogic Theory / Games/ meditation

20.00: Dinner

Monday   

26/6   09.00-10.00  Breakfast

10.00-18.00 ΑCRO YOGA

18.00:  Festive Dinner

Departure

Prices  

 

Price: Three days: 290 EUROS per person in double or triple room (plus 40 EUROS for single room)

For the first two days: 200 EURO per person in double or triple room (plus 20 EUROS for single room)

*price includes all workshops and educational activities, dinner on Friday, full board for the weekend and the festive dinner on Monday.

Transport is not included, but local transport will be arranged and covered.

* 25% discount for group bookings of two persons or more.

For more info on getting to Paleros please contact us by e-mail at info@amaka.gr or by phone +302117801256

There will be the possibility for car pulling to the participants’ benefit.

Teacher

A few words on Coni Guevara

Coni Guevara was born in Buenos Aires in Argentina in the 80s. She is an accredited AcroYoga instructor by acroyoga.org, specialized in Vinyasa Yoga by Find Balance and also specialized in Thai Massage by Sunshine House Thailand. Simultaneously to her specialisation in Waldorf pedagogic, she designs and implements yoga programs and human rights workshops for adults, adolescents and children as well as for vulnerable groups such as inmates, children with special needs, refugees etc. Her activities brought her to some of the most perilous places around the world. Her great concern is to share her experiences with the global community and inspire the values of trust, reconnection, positive communication and game among the communities.