Integral Sustainability Education
The team
Ron Oren (Israel/Swizerland) - founder of ISE, teacher of Permaculture Design, Thetahealing and Biodanza
My name is Ron, I was born in the Kibbutz Magen Israel, an agricultural community in the desert of Israel. Father of Oryah (7 years old). Ron in Hebrew means happiness. I find that what I do in many different modalities is to connect people to their heart, loving themselves and from there loving and connecting to other people to other entities and to the nature. I am a dancer, for many years I was professional contemporary dancer and for the past 10 years I have been dancing the life. (Dancer with Inbal Pinto Dance company, Kibbutz Dance company, and C.a.t.a.m.o.n Dance group).
I traveled long time in Africa, where I connected to the earth, and the global awareness. Worked in Reforestation projects, Research expeditions in the Jungles and in an Eco Farm on the Banda Island in Uganda. I am experimenting and researching Harmony, Sustainability, Energy and Human Relationships. After many years as Permaculture Designer, Teacher and Project manager, I realized that changing the world starts within me.
2003 - Establishment team of “Yatir Herbs” Desert Farm in Israely Desert. 2007 - Designer of “Yaar Ha Feyot” Eco Center in Carmel mountains.
2009 - Principle Permaculture teacher in Eco Educational Farm “Hava Ve Adam” Modiin, and Vertigo Eco Dance Village, Israel.
2010 - Urban Ecology Director in south west Jerusalem, recycling projects and Community guardens in the city of Jerusalem. Member of the eco spiritual community "Mama Terasa" in Ein Kerem/Jerusalem.
In the past years I am focused more and more in the awareness process, creating healing and new reality through our consciousness, emotional and energy work. There is one truth and endless ways to see it! I learn to respect all ways. Since 2007 I am a ThetaHealer and Shiatsu therapist. In 2010 I started teaching regularly ThetaHealing and Biodanza, established the “Path for Life” healing community and Theta Healing Jerusalem.
I work with People, with the Body and with the Nature. I am ThetaHealing Teacher, Facilitator of Biodanza, and teacher of Permaculture. To me it is a great joy to bring all of these together In the Idea of Integral Sustainability. That I created in the past years. I am dreaming that we will live again in harmony! Grateful to be a child of Mother Earth, and the Creator of my Life! Peace to all, Love to all, Ron
Raquel Minako (Brazil) - founder of ISE, teacher of Developmental Movement, Contact Improvisation and facilitator of woman empowerment circles
Mother, dancer, teacher of contact improvisation, practitioner and teacher of Thetahealing, pedagogist from Brazil.
I am graduated in Pedagogy (Campinas, Brazil) and in Dance and Somatics (ISLO, Finland). Teach CI since 2009 in Brazil, Europe (Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Finland), Russia and Israel. Certified Thetahealing Practitioner in June 2013 and Thetahealing Teacher in December 2013.
I decided to throw myself into Contact Improvisation since I discovered many other ways to perceive things in life through the dance. I like so much to research movement in the body. Playing with possibilities. Breathing.
Experience silence, the inner states of being while dancing, to open windows in many ways. Touch brings me so much information to the body, to embody the mind, to perceive the world. To me, Contact Improvisation is a really interesting dance form because is so hybrid and open. To me also CI is also a prayer, a physical prayer.
The teachers that inspire me as a dancer and teacher are: Nancy Stark Smith, Mike Vargas, Daniel Lepkoff, Nita Little, Ray Chung, Karen Nelson, Autarco Arfini, Hugo Leonardo, Adrian Russi, Jurij Konjar, Pia Lindy and Elina Ikonen.
Some practices that are part of my cellular memories: Anatomy for Movement, Eutony, Body Mind Centering, Feldenkrais, Authentic Movement, Sing, Kundalini Yoga, Brazilian Dance (Coco, Maracatu, Samba, Capoeira, jongo, maculele, afrodance...), Dance Ability and Traditional Japanese Dance (NihonBuyo), Ayurveda Massage, Thetahealing.
For me Integral Sustainability Education is a dream of life. A place to be yourself, to experience others, to play, to try new things without fear to have mistakes. I am very happy to welcome you and your dreams to our project!
Sasha Bezrodnova (Russia) - founder of ISE, teacher of Contact Improvisation and Somatics, Psychologist
Graduated as social psychologist, business-trainer, organizational development, MGPPU. Teaching weekly classes in Praktika Theatre, Moscow.
Lead jams, classes and workshops for adults, for parents and children, for psychologists, in different cities of Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Argentina, Brazil, Palestine, Thailand, Georgia, Portugal. Took part in performance projects directed by Steve Batts, Karl Frost, Konstantinos Mikhos, Alexander Girshon, Andrey Andrianov and Taras Burnashev. Member of the team of Moscow CI&Performance Festival www.contactfestival.ru, organizer of annual CI Outdoor Festival on Ladoga lake www.ladoga-dance.ru, organizer of CI & Waterdance festival in Thailand www.ci-thai.com and Underwater dance project in Egypt www.freediver.me
Themes and focuses that I explore and develop in my work:* Anatomical and structural fundamentals of movement* Developmental patterns and animal-like movement in CI* Exploring the out-of-balance state of body and mind* CI for parents and kids, CI for children with special development* CI on the lawn, on the sand, in the water, on the stones* Aerial dance, Waterdance* Developing non-hierarchical ways of people's co-working and co-existing within contact events and beyond, applying principles of Permaculture and Integras Sustainability to contact events and festivals.Teachers who strongly impacted my vision of CI: Angela Dony, Steve Batts, Natanja Den Boeft, Nancy Stark Smith, KJ Holmes, Daniel Lepkoff, Nita Little, Maricruz Leon and Arye Bursztyn.
Integral Teachers of Siberia Project:
Alexander Ivanov (Russia)
Dweler of ChaChjaevka Ecovillage, coordinator of the house building, teacher of life skills
Graduated as psychotherapist and psychiatrist. For my whole life my curiosity is focused on Nature and Human Beings. My love to Nature is being nourished through the journeys, photography, filming, making tea ceremonies and growing tea. During the last years I have been bringing these loves together: by means of creativity (writing books and making audio-books), by means of modest eco-activism and natural living in our eco-village in Altay, Siberia. Our Integral Sustainability Education Project for me is a way to share the things that were accumulated during my experience of many years. The important part in that it is gonna happen at my home, our home. We’re inviting everyone to our place. This makes this event especially valuable and meaningful for me. The things I wanna share in these two months:
- Experience of living in a remote eco-settlement.
- Handwork: toolware, and what we can make with it.
- Creating Geodesic Domes of different kinds and purposes.
- Eco-Building: what it is, what are its benefits and what are the consequences of a “normal" building.
- Applied man's creativity: hand crafts, wooden spoons, etc… - Furnaces and basics of furnace-building.
Natasha Ivanova (Russia)
Dweler of ecovillage, teacher of "Real Skills"
I was born in Moscow and lived there for 30 years. Graduated as animation films artist, took part in creating animated films and taught it to students. For many years I have been studying Russian traditional culture: folklore and crafts. I make traditional clothes, toys, elements of home design using natural materials: fabric, wool, felt, clay, glass… I had a dream – to live with my family in the Nature, in a private house which would have everything made by our own hands – the house itself, clothes, dishes, food, grown with love. For me the dreams can come true, especially if you really wish! Now I’m living in ChaChjaevka ecovillage, far away from cities, supermarkets and all the rest of civilization benefits. Enjoying the grass underneath my feet and the fresh air. Supporting my small daughter in her growth. Supporting my husband in building the home. We plant the trees together. And greedily we study what we didn’t learn when living in the city. During the project I would love to share the knowledge I have. How to work with natural materials, how to create what we need for our life, what we are used to buy in the shops. Because the self-hand-made things have much more power and warmth and they give us back when we use them. In the project, I will teach to do that things that I love: Live bread without yeast; Eco tableware made by clay and wood; Eco toys made by natural materials – fabric, wool, herbs; Clothes and accessories: knitting, sewing, felt, heel-tap on fabric.
Noam Paz (Israel)
An interdisciplinary artist, yoga teacher, thetahealing practitioner and teacher, practical ecology teacher.
Noam was initiated into the path of yoga and meditation at the age of 7, and had the privilege of learning from great masters like Swami Vishnu Devananda, founder of the Sivananda international yoga center, Swami Swaroopananda, Reb Shlomo Karlebach "the dancing rabbi", and many others, that inspired him to see the unity in diversity and find the special thread of love that connects traditions and people. Noam uses this inspiration to create sacred art in different mediums - plastic art, sacred music, street theatre and healing work with people and with nature. As a thetahealing teacher he assists and translates Vianna Stibal, founder of thetahealing, in her courses in Israel, in the Sivananda yoga ashram in the Bahamas and Europe, and was one of the translators of her book to Hebrew.
Besides working in his art studio and creating paintings, theatre costumes and sets, he teaches workshops in yoga and thought power, sacred art and thetahealing, conducts inter-religious ceremonies and sacred music circles, and bring the magic to the streets with his theater group.
Since I was a child I was taught that "the truth is one and the paths are many", that I am free to see the wisdom and beauty in everything, and to express it to the world, and that after all, we are one with everything - nature, humanity, the light and the darkness within us. Since then I'm doing my best to explore these ideas and live them. In my art, I try to capture energy and bring it to life as a painting or as music that expresses the inner rhythms of nature and the human soul. Nature has always been my greatest inspiration, and I feel that allowing its rhythms to affect our lives can heal us as individuals and as a planet. I've been blessed with a big family of friends and together we share knowledge and experience, cooperating in retreats, arts of life seminars and art projects. It's like a great playground to enjoy the gifts of our bodies and the joy of creativity, sharing real communication and by simply living our dreams, inspire others to do so.
Guest Integral Teachers of Siberia Project:
Hugo Leonardo (Brazil)
Teacher of Contact Improvisation and Performance Art
Contemporary dancer, founder and organizer of the EmComTato Contact Improvisation Festival of Bahia, where he has been teaching for the last 10 years, besides of participating and collaborating in the brazilian network of events related to Contact Improvisation. PhD in Performing Arts and Master in Dance at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), author of the book “Poetics of Opportunity: choreographic structures open to improvisation”. In the present, dedicated to the outset of an Institute devoted to the creative investigation under the concept of “art and autonomy”, to be located in a mountain rural area nearby Chapada Diamantina National Park, in Bahia, Brazil. www.emcomtatofestival.com Contemporary dancer acting and living in Bahia, I take part of independent companies like Group X of Improvisation in Dance, directed by Fafá Daltro of the School Dance of the Federal University of Bahia, since 2002. As the same in the artistic group of creation in the Technological Poetics Research Group Body Audiovisual directed by Ivani Santana, a major reference of dance and art with technological mediation in Brasil and abroad, in the Sciences Arts Humanities Institute IHAC-UFBA. PhD in Performing Arts at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and Master in Dance at the same University, with researches devoted to bring the improvisation in dance to a perspective in studies of cognition.
Author of the book “Poetics of Opportunity: choreographic structures open to improvisation”, published by EDUFBA (2009). Founder of the EmComTato Contact Improvisation Festival of Salvador-Bahia (junho 2010, abril 2012, september 2013), as a dancer, researcher and educator, I have been dedicated myself to Contact Improvisation since 2003, mainly in Bahia, besides of acting in events and festivals in Brasil and abroad such as Contact in Rio (Rio de Janeiro 2008, 2010, 2011), ECITE – European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange (Liverpool, England, 2009, Raasepori, Finland, 2010), Transformando pela Prática (Florianópolis-Brasil, 2009, 2012), Disseminação Em Contato (Brasília-Brasil, 2010), São Paulo International CI Festival (Brasil, 2011, 2012), Joinvile Festival of Dance (Brasil 2011), Encontro Coletivo de Contato Improvisação de Pernambuco (Olinda, 2013), Contactfestival Freiburg (2013), Contact Journey (Geórgia, 2013), Festival Internacional de Contact Improvisation of Montevideo (Uruguay, 2013) etc.
As a dancer, researcher and Contact Improvisation teacher, I am interested in subjects such as: unity bodybrainmindenvironment; states of perception, subjectivity and dancer imaginary; values of autonomy exercised and embodied in practicing Contact Improvisation and theirs possible analogies to other thought systems, such as Permaculture; strategies and organization of festivals and other nodal events to that community of practice; poetics and methodological strategies for the improvisation in pieces of dance.
Website: www.emcomtatofestival.com
Elad Schechter (Israel)
Choreographer, teacher of floor techniques for contemporary dance, teacher of Performance Art
Elad Schechter was born in Jerusalem in 1978, where he was raised and educated at the Charles E. Smith Jerusalem High School for the Arts. He is the recipient of the Sharet Foundation Scholarship for outstanding dancers. After serving in the IDF Theater Division, he continued his studies in New York City dancing with the Sensedance Company, directed by Henning Rübsam. He received a full scholarship for a summer course at the Juilliard School in 2000, as well as a work fellowship with Steps on Broadway. When he returned to Israel he apprenticed in the Vertigo Dance Company and danced with De De Dance, under the directorship of Amit Goldenberg and Ya’ara Dolev. He subsequently danced with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. In 2003, he joined Frederic Flamand’s company Charleroi Danses in Brussels, Belgium.
During his stay in Belgium, Schechter worked with many choreographers, including Marion Balester and Joan Leighton. Upon his return to Israel, Schechter danced in the Vertigo Dance Company, which was founded by Noa Vertheim and Adi Sha’al. He started directing the company’s dance workshops and founded Vertigo’s Second Company, which he directed for over a year. He continued to work with Israeli choreographers such as Odelia Kuperberg and Sahar Azimi, who appointed him assistant choreographer. In 2009, he was invited to appear as a guest artist in Maamuta, A Center for New Media and Art. His pieces have been performed dozens of times in Israel, Portugal, Italy, Germany, and China. Schechter is the winner of the Silver Medal in the Beijing International Ballet and Choreography Competition, which took place in July of 2011.
Websites:
http://catamon.com/english/c-a-t-a-m-o-n/
Or Koren (Israel)
Teacher of Quantum Being, Qi Gong and Quantum Touch
Founder of Quantum Being.
Grow up close to the nature and always was astonished by its wisdom and mysteriousness.
Lived for a year in a kung-fu monastery in China and came back to Israel on 2000 to learn shiatsu, Chinese medicine for five years, and other kind of healing modalities.
During 2007 was introduced for the first time to Theta Healing and went to Idaho Falls in U.S.A. for their institute to learn with Vianna Stibal all the advanced Theta Healing courses for teachers, which he is teaching since them around the world and in Israel.
Since 2012 he have been teaching and developing his own method which he named - Quantum Being in Israel, Japan and Russia.
Guided by the inspiration of the 'Dao', he invite us all to this insight:
“The deeper you go within you the less you need to do.The deeper you go within you, the deeper your connection with the source of Creation gets”.
Veera Hirvaskero (Finland)
Teacher of Movement and Voice, Massage therapist and organizer of community meetings and gatherings.
I graduated from ISLO Dance and Somatics and Ecovillage Design Education, I'm Shiatsu therapist and Intuitive energy healer.
Currently I'm studying Werbeck singing in Helsinki (in the tradition of The School of Uncovering the Voice). I've worked with various groups of adults and children as a facilitator of dance, movement and other art forms. I've also been creating projects with cross-artistic teams.
I have co-organised various Community meetings and gatherings around Scandinavia. It has been a great learning about living in nature, creating communities, democratic decision making and conflict solution in the Circle. My inspiration is in healthy and nurturing sound, movement of the life force, qualities and images from nature, Circle work, exploring different environments through movement and voice.
Miina Maria Aalto-Setälä (Finland)
Dancer, instructor in somatic movement and dance therapy methods, teacher.
I am graduated in Finnish language, literature, drama and pedagogy (M.A., University of Jyväskylä, Finland) and in Dance and Somatics (ISLO, Finland). The last years my focus has been in dance; right now I am studying in two years education of Dance, improvisation and performance in Freiburg, Germany (TIP).
I have also been giving workshops about movement, body-awareness, self-knowledge and dance, also about participatory theater. Some points from my path, which has touched and affected me: contact improvisation, contemporary dance, dance improvisation, meditation, communication without words, authentic movement, Feldenkrais, experimental anatomy, Playback Theater, Aguahara water treatment. In my journey I am learning about truth and living the truth, listening to my heart and my intuition.
My deep wish is that we all would learn this. I believe that every person in this world has their inner wisdom, and if we encourage and teach people to listen to their inner wisdom, the wisdom in general in this world arises, the wisdom of heart. I am inspired and taught by nature, water, deepness, authenticity, surrendering and open hearts. I am interested in movement and connecting with others, with yourself, with everything - without words. How to connect with movement and body and in other levels, without speaking? How to appreciate your body as your temple?