Greece Handstand Retreat

14/06/2025

-20/06/2025

Greece Handstand Retreat

The intensive training is open to all levels, from complete beginners to professional handbalancers. The handstand methodology taught at the handstand intensive will be a combination of two different techniques, chinese and ukrainian hand balancing techniques.

The intensive training is open to all levels, from complete beginners to professional handbalancers. The handstand methodology taught at the handstand intensive will be a combination of two different techniques, chinese and ukrainian hand balancing techniques.

WHAT WE WILL COVER:

FOR BEGINNERS:

Alignment Exercises
Specific Physical Preparation for Handstands Alignment Jumping in a Free Handstand
Different handstand positions
Handstand movement exploration
Press Up
Different Ways to Go Up in Your Handstand
Techniques to Develop Your Resistance
Various Spotting Methods

FOR ADVANCED:

Alignment Exercises
Specific Physical Preparation for Handstands
Several Exercises to Test Your 2 Arm Handstand
Playing With Isolation
Press Up
Techniques for Developing Your Resistance
Various Methods of Spotting
One-Arm Handstand Transfer
Resistance In One-Arm To Balance
Different One-Arm Shape Such As Side Bends And Figa

SCHEDULE

14 June

Check-In: after 2pm
Training: 4pm – 6pm
6:30 Welcome diner

15 June

8:00 Breakfast
Training: 9:00 am – 13:00
*3 hrs training, exact times to be confirmed depending your level
13:00 pm Lunch
Free time to enjoy the surrounding
Training: 4pm – 6 pm
6:30pm dinner
Get together

16 June

8:00 Breakfast
Training: 9:00 am – 13:00
*3 hrs training, exact times to be confirmed depending your level
13:00 Lunch
Free time to enjoy the surrounding
Training: 4pm – 6 pm
6:30pm dinner
Get together

17 June

10:00 brunch
13:00 lunch

18 June

8:00 Breakfast
Training: 9am – 1pm
*3 hrs training, exact times to be confirmed depending your level
13:00 Lunch
Free time to enjoy the surrounding
Training: 4pm – 6 pm
6:00pm Get together

19 June

8:00 Breakfast
Training: 9am – 1pm
*3 hrs training, exact times to be confirmed depending your level
13:00 Lunch
Free time to enjoy the surrounding
Training: 4pm – 6 pm
6:00pm Get together

20 June

8:00 Breakfast
Training 9:00 am-12:00 pm
12:30 check-out

PRICING

FOOD

Enjoy delicious cuisine based on ancient Ayurvedic principles, emphasizing wellbeing, balance and bliss in the body.
You create your own plate from a selection of plant-based dishes, fusing exotic Indian flavours with the tastes and character of traditional Greek cuisine.
Angelo, whose love of Greek cuisine and nutrition have led him to work with food for over 30 years, met Suresh, our resident Ayurvedic chef from North East India in Goa in 2015. Suresh learned the magic of Greek cuisine and together with Elvira, who is the goddess of pastries and sugar free desserts they take care of the delicious meals at Caretta Lounge Restaurant.
The kitchen takes great pride in creating meals with complete taste profiles that tantalize the taste buds and leave the body and soul satiated, nourished and energized.
We will eat together three times daily on Caretta’s open deck with the amazing view of the Aegean Sea or the Moon rising!
For something extra, the kitchen is available to serve you in between meals, with juices and smoothies, and a selection of healthy snacks and salads available for order throughout the day.
For meat lovers who feel that their diet requires a daily intake of animal-based protein, the village of Naoussa is just a 10-minute car ride from OkreBlue, offering a fantastic selection of restaurants waiting for you.

MORE INFORMATION

For reservations & booking visit: https://events.balancenotion.com/greece/

PHOTOS

Marie-Eve

Marie-Eve began her artistic formation as a dancer, but after three years of training Marie-Ève Dicaire felt something was missing. Little did she know it was a circus. She went on to audition at the National Circus School of Montréal, where she was accepted as a hand balancer, and quickly found hand balancing to be a unique mix of precision and fluidity. Since her graduation in 2006, she has performed her act throughout Switzerland with Starlight Circus and Circus Monti, in Germany with various cabaret such as Tigerpalast. More recently, she had the occasion to join the 7 fingers for the creation of the show Tryptique and Vice et Vertu and also Cirque Éloize for the show Nezha. Even to this day, Marie-Eve continues to develop herself as a dancer only now she does it while standing on her hands.

Nicolas Montes De Oca

Nicolas Montes de oca is a professional circus performer who has dedicated his life to hand-balancing and the circus arts. He has developed his own unique style in the discipline of hand-balancing, fusing it with dance and movement which has taken him all across the world performing.

He spent many years of self-development with HANDBALANCING and then took his skills to new levels receiving professional tuition at the Shanghai Circus School in China, ESAC (Ecole Superior du Arts du Cirque) in Belgium and Kiev Circus Academy in Ukraine. He has performed at many prestigious companies such as Franco Dragone, Les 7 doigts de la main and Cirque Du Soleil.

BOOKING THIS RETREAT

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