Image of Alexandra teaching a Thai shoulder technique to attentive students
Image of Alexandra teaching a Thai shoulder technique to attentive students
Thai Massage AND BEYOND Forest Retreat
with Gracielix (USA) Mar (Colombia) Ale (Mexico)
Thai Massage offers a holistic experience, a co-created Sacred Dance, a journey of mindfulness, balancing energy physically and emotionally with the ultimate goal of opening the heart for both giver and receiver.
Whether you are just beginning or you want to complement your bodywork practice, this retreat will give you a unique understanding of how to move, dance and flow.
It creates the magic, the allowing, unfolding and healing of your offering. We will learn short sequences where we will be able to apply these principles and give room for improvisation and creation.
All are welcome, bring your friend or partner (LMT's ask about CEU options)
Great for folks who like to move, stretch, explore healing touch with friends or partners.
Yoga teachers and bodyworkers will gain tools to work with clients/students.
Where: Private home in ABQ
When: 10am-6pm Saturday, Sunday, May 14th-15th
Cost: $250 tuition + $60 for food provided by Ukrainian Kitchen Witch, Zhenya
Partial Proceeds going to World Central Kitchen, who provides food to Ukrainian Refugees
All bodies are welcome, folks who are not able to move from floor to standing may have a hard time.
Please let us honor a chemical and perfume free space
*We hope to make this retreat financially accessible especially for folks traditionally left out of healing spaces, so partial scholarships for BIPOC and Transgender folks upon request*
Sign me up! To register, fill out this registration form and send payment to get emailed location details (payment details on registration form)
Facilitators
Alexandra Ruiz Born and raised in Mexico, Her vast studies in bodywork and deep passion for Thai massage and water therapy allow her to incorporate fluidity of the sacred dance in every movement created. Her teachings include body awareness, Yoga, Thai and Water Therapy. She also shared Acroyoga for the past 10 years around the world in all its colors and forms. . Ale's biggest passion is to bring people together through movement and connection with communities that have the desire to play, fly deeper and dive higher.
Gracielix is a nonbinary, Queer Chicanx Licensed Massage Therapist since 2017. They worked in the spa world at The Remedy Day Spa for two years and was a part of co-creating a Queer+Trans Spa Day in 2018. They were part of the foundational team of Queer Trans Yoga. They developed and are currently facilitating an ethics of diversity and anti-oppression in bodywork courses which is available to spas, conferences, yoga studios, massage schools, and universities. These classes explore facing our prejudices to become more present practitioners addressing the needs of a diverse array of clients including those of the T+BIPOC communities, people of size and people with disabilities. Gracielix is grateful and excited to be providing a space for folks to receive deep healing and has a long-term dream of co-creating a healing center to support people traditionally left out of healing spaces. Gracielix is part of a team of body workers that received funding from the Trans Justice funding project to offer free/donation based massage to BIPOC & Trans folks.
Desde muy jóven he sido una viajera implacable y amante de la naturaleza, apasionada por la diversidad de la experiencia humana y las formas en que las diferentes comunidades han aprendido a curarse a sí mismas.
Después de graduarme como antropóloga en Colombia, con una curiosidad tremenda por la etnobotánica, comencé mi viaje viviendo con varias comunidades indígenas en América del Norte. Durante ese tiempo asistí a un chamán canadiense que me instruyó sobre su práctica y la filosofía detrás de ella. Junto a esto, complementé mi oficio aprendiendo sobre fisioterapia y diferentes tipos de masajes en México, Belize, Canadá, Chile, Bali y Tailandia.
Mi propósito es permitirle a las personas reconectarse con su propio poder para sanar sus heridas y transformar su realidad hacia un estado de tranquilidad, plenitud y agradecimiento. Mi trabajo entrelaza el trabajo corporal a través de masajes junto con ceremonias de plantas medicinales.
From a young age I became a ruthless traveler, nature lover, with a tremendous curiosity about the diversity of human experience and the ways in which different indigenous communities have learned to heal themselves.
After graduating as an anthropologist in Colombia, with a tremendous passion for ethnobotany, I began my journey living with various indigenous communities in North America. I accompanied and assisted a Canadian shaman who instructed me in his practice and the philosophy behind it. Helping him for many years served as a true immersion in the practices I wanted to understand and share. I complemented my profession with courses and workshops in physiotherapy, anatomy, Traditional Chinese Medicine and different types of massages in Mexico, Belize, Canada, Chile, Thailand and Bali.
My purpose is to help people reconnect with their own capacity and intelligence to heal their wounds and transform their reality into a state of tranquility, fulfillment and gratitude. My work intertwines a series of mindful bodywork therapies focused on deep emotional exploration and medicinal plant ceremonies.