Welcome to Estudio los Almendros!
Retreat center with beachfront location, 3.5 Km between Montezuma and Cabuya. Dedicated to the practice and research of Somatic Education, dance and the movement arts. Children-friendly, run with ecological orientation. Available for rental for movement classes, long-term residencies, meetings, conferences, family vacations.
Classes, workshops and research activities in somatic education, movement education for children and adults, training and therapy with gymnastic and exercise balls, bamboo sticks other props to enhance movement sensations--the SOMARHYTHMS' approach, plus latinamerican dances, contemporary dance, vocalisation, improvisation, and others.
Vacation Workshop January 2010, 3rd - 16th
Estudio LOS ALMENDROS, Vacation-Workshop, January 2010, 3rd - 16th,
'rest, renewal and enjoyment of tropical nature'
SOMATIC DIALOG WITH BALLS, BAMBOO STICKS AND OUR OWN VOICES
Come to the Estudio LOS ALMENDROS, between Montezuma and Cabuya, in the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica, for the 18th January Vacation-Workshop, when friends and colleagues meet to share current investigations on the Somarhythms’ approach to the use of balls, bamboo sticks, and other props that facilitate sensing and interacting with our inner functioning.
Facilities
The ESTUDIO LOS ALMENDROS, an open-air, covered building, with a professionally designed 72 m2 wood floor, suitable for about 12 to15 people moving at ease,
Rates: (subject to change) "Estudio" rental $15/hour for individuals and $25/hour for groups of 10.
The Estudio also has a dressing room, bathroom, kitchen, storage, upstairs bedroom. and high speed internet.
Available for long-term rentals. Rates upon discussion.
Accommodations
A TRADITIONAL COSTARICAN TWO-BEDROOM HOUSE recently renovated, 80 meters from the beach, with a large kitchen-dining-salon, a storage room, washing area, bathroom, corridor, large surrounding garden, fresh and with very good ventilation—eight windows and roof with heat insulation, totally furnished, equipped kitchen, telephone, high speed internet at $120/day, $450/week, $1200/month.
Ninoska Gomez
"I teach the latinoamerican dances through the exploration of its Amerindian, Africans and Spanish roots, thus stimulating universal arquetypes totally contemporary in today's popular dances."
Ninoska Gómez
Estudio Los Almendros
Director and Founder
- Dancer, teacher and researcher of popular Latin-American dances.
- Psychologist, Ph.D., Doctorate in Developmental Psychology.
- Full-time tenured professor and researcher for 19 years in the Physical Education Department of the University of Montreal, Montreal, province of Québec, Canada. (click here for full curriculum)
- Registered movement educator and therapist accredited by the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA).
- Student of the somatic education approach, BODY-MIND CENTERING ® since 1982.
- Creator of the SOMARHYTHMS’ approach for the use of the gymnastic balls in movement training and therapy. - Author of books, documents and videos on Somatic Education and others. (click here for recent texts)
- Animator in cultural events through singing, dancing, story-telling.
