Words inspired by master Painter from China over one thousand years ago, Kuo Hsi

UPCOMING RETREAT Brazil JULY 2009
10th of July till 20th of July .
10 Day Intensive Improvisational Nature Spirit Dance Retreat
In combination
with Yoga, Amazonian Medicinal Plant Ceremonies and cleansings, Dances and prayer circles with the Fulnio indigenous people of Bahia and Sweat lodge purification ceremonies.

At Lua private retreat in the jungle Goias, 4 hours from Brasilia. www.lua.tur.br

Taught by Kathi von Koerber, Hernando Villa and Nancy Eagle Spirit.
Individuals will recieve one on one attention to recieve purification treatments, healing rituals and plant spirit work for their personal needs.During the retreat there will be 2 or 3 Group medicine ceremonies. For more information on the workshop see our gallery below from last years workshops, or www.kiahkeya.com


Additional Bodywork and private Shamanic journeying sessions will be offered at additional costs.

The workshop is designed as an ongoing intensive retreat, where participants are being summoned to participate commitedly day and night. The combination of ongoing explorative dance classes, with traditional healing and initiations of native America traditions and African rituals will support the process of each individuals healing and becoming familiar with their spirit world.

Group Classes, and ceremonies will take place in the morning afternoon and evening, in the Main Kiosk and in sight specific locations. Such as at the nearby waterfalls, white sand river beaches, mountains ravines, Fire dances, animal totem retrieval dance, etc.

Kathi combines techniques of the Japanese Butoh dance form, with Bioenergetics, Tribal Trance dance, African spiritisim, Native American practices, shamanic voice practice, meditation and deep cellular spirit work. Ancient genetic memories are accessed and participants learn to dance in their power, on the crest of their limitations, body mind spirit, and then to utilize this in their daily life. Participants come into deeper understanding of their spirit guides, and their commitment to creative movement in life. Participants will present a solo improv dance, an initiation of sorts at the culmination of the workshop in a sight specific nature location of their choice.
To dance is to be creative physically:
To dance is to take responsibility.

All dance classes are accompanied by live music.

REQUIREMENTS:
No prior dance experience is necessary. It is open to all levels.
A letter of introduction about your interest or previous experience in dance, music and the healing arts is required. Also a written statement on any medical issues.

TRANSPORTATION:
Airfares are not included in the cost of the workshop.

Participants will fly via Sao Paolo or Rio to Brasilia arriving on the 10th of July. And return on the 20th of October. Good air fares can be found at www.clickandfly.com or www.sidestep.com

There will be two shuttles to pick participants up from the airport in Brasilia to transfer participants to Alto Paraiso. One in the morning of the10th, and one in the afternoon of the 10th, TBA. These shuttles are included in the cost of the workshop.

If participants arrive at night on the 10th or earlier such as on the 9th they will have to pay for their own transportation to Alto Paraiso.

Upon arrival in Alto Paraiso, participants will rest in a guest house for the night. IN the early afternoon of the 11th the journey to Lua will continue via jeep and hiking. To get to Lua it is one hour with the jeep and 1 and a half hour by foot crossing several rivers. There will be helpers to help to carry all participants belongings. Dinner at Lua on the 11th.

Retreat officially starts morning of the 12thh, and the group will hike out of Lua on the 19th of October. Spend one night in Alto Paraiso in a guesthouse, and then bus transfer to Brasilia airport on the 20th.

COST:
Early registration fee:
1750 US Dollars.
Price includes complete workshop, yoga, 2 or 3 medicine ceremonies, sweatlodges, 3 meals a day and comfortable sleeping arrangements.
50 % deposit must be received by April 20th.
Late registration fee:
After April 20th cost of the workshop is 2000 US.
Full payment must be received prior to the begin of the workshop.

REGISTRATION & Information:
Limited to 20 participants.

Registration CONTACT:
workshops@kiahkeya.com
Kiahkeya Office: 9176874074

Checks or Money orders can be sent to
Kiahkeya
Lorimer street apt 4
Brooklyn 11211 NY
Or please inquire about direct bank deposit.

For more information on the workshop, and previous workshops...
Brazil 2008 Workshop Photo Gallery
www.kiahkeya.com

Dancing in Nature integrating the wilderness, the elements, the mystic, dancing at one's purest. The Improvisational Butoh workshop will put you in touch with your own dance, to dance beyond your own limitations. It is a dance that takes place on a cellular level, moving through your own cells, through the chaos, dancing on the thread of life and death.

THE WORKSHOP:
Classes take place through out the day, also including wilderness/ nature excursions, ritual dance, and optional Kundalini Yoga and bodywork. Classes are held in the morning, afternoon, and alternately at night, all in outdoor settings; an outdoor setting in and around rivers, lakes, waterfalls, mountain sides and semi-jungle landscapes. Additional teachings in shamanic rooted chanting, trance dance will be practiced. The workshop will involve hiking, swimming, sweat lodge purification ceremony and communal living.

THE DANCE:
The Improvisational Butoh workshop will bring you in touch with your own dance, to dance beyond your own limitations. It is a dance that takes place on a cellular level, moving through your own cells, through the chaos, dancing on the thread of life and death.

BIO:

Kathi von Koerber
Kathi is a Dancer, healer and filmmaker from Germany/South Africa. She has danced and performed her whole life internationally and been teaching for the last 8 years internationally. Kathi combines techniques of the Japanese Butoh dance form, with Bioenergetics, Tribal Trance dance, African Spiritisim, Native American practices, shamanic voice practices, meditation and deep cellular spirit work. Kathi has spent time with elders from Bushmen tribes in southern Africa, the Tuareg in the Sahara, The Pygmies of Gabon, the Zulu in South Africa and the Lakota, Navajo and Cherokee in the United States. In Brazil she has spent time with the Xawante and the Funio people from northern Bahia, whos chief Lilisaka and some of his dancers will be attending ceremonies with us.

Kathi belives that Breath is the Reflex to Live.
To live is to walk through life, and this walk is a dance lead by a melody,
Each person has their own melody deeply connected to their mission in life.
There for your dance, is your prayer.

For more information on her company, or workshops, or Butoh please visit. www.kiahkeya.com

Healers of the Heart.

Hernando Villa is a native son of Colombia. He is a healer and a member of the Sacred fire of Itzachilatlan- an affiliated network of sacred medicine traditions, Tribal Elders and Chiefs from ALL of the Americas who have been sharing their gifts and traditions with each other in the Sacred Condor/Eagle connection. He has been working with indigenous groups of South America such as the Shuars, Sionas, Kofanes and the Emberas through his in depth work with the ways of plant medicine, music and ancient wisdom keeping, Hernando has been offering his music and purification with in different environments, such as prayer circles, workshops, tribal elder facilitation, indigenous preservation projects and youth leadership. His prayers are focused on around the temascal, pipe ceremonies, and medicinal cleansing sessions. Link to Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan http://www.geocities.com/circulodelfuego1/index.html

Eagle Spirit Woman
Eagle Spirit Woman a native of the Bronx, was born Nancy Martinez, to Aurea & Pedro Martinez natives of the Taino tradition. She is Mother to a son and a daughter and Grandmother to four granddaughters. At an early age, her parents realized that she had the gift of spirit and the messages that were being communicated by these unseen energies. . Eagle Spirit Woman's mother nurtured this gift by taking her to sances where she developed the skill of healing with her hands (santiguos). She also developed a sensitivity and skill for removing negative energy from those afflicted, as well as the method for passing on positive energy and blessings to assist individuals in moving forward. She has further had the experience of assisting in the healing of seriously ill people.

Eagle Sprit Woman's father taught her the traditions and rituals of the native Taino ancestry and asked her to "always remember not to allow anyone tell you that because of the color of your skin that you aren't native". Eagle Sprit Woman was also initiated into the Yoruba tradition in 1993 and has 10 "crowns" to her credit. "My gifts are many as I have been given the responsibility of pouring water in the Inipi ceremony (sweat lodge),and have had the honor of pouring for many nations. I have performed Shamanic journeys with my drum and facilitated talking circles. I have healed with herbs and cleansed off negative energy from this life and the past lives of those in need. I have also poured for children. I have had the honor of participating in spiritual ceremonies in many traditions and have contributed my medicine. I have the ability of channeling spirit guides and animal totems. To see is to believe. I am what in my native tradition is known as a "curandera" (one who has the ability to cure)