Biomechanics | Reposturing Body and Soul through Pilates and GYROTONIC®️
Biomechanics is designed to enhance your vitality, energy, and personal growth. Together, we will release old movement patterns and embrace a deeper, more conscious connection with life.
Each exercise is synchronized with the breath to create a gentle workout, while the graceful and rhythmic movements simultaneously strengthen and lengthen all of the major muscle groups and joints. Special attention is paid to decrease compression in the spine and improve its alignment.
This unique approach combines circular and spiraling movements, allowing your body to move freely and gracefully in all directions. This methodology stimulates all the biological systems in the body. It creates space and lubricates joints, increases circulation of blood and lymphatic fluids throughout the body, strengthens muscles, relieves stress, and promotes an overall sense of wellbeing.
Three Day Workshop: Zero Base - Activating Your Serene Strength
This three day workshop invites you to rediscover and master the most essential, subtle, and effective way to move your body. We call this approach Zero Base, where you’ll learn to activate your Serene Strength—a deep connection between your physical and energetic strength.
This workshop is ideal if:
• You want to learn how to move correctly and improve your posture.
• You suffer from chronic back pain and seek natural relief.
• You struggle with chronic fatigue or adrenal fatigue symptoms.
• You’ve been diagnosed with fibromyalgia or lupus and are looking for safe ways to move.
• You are afraid of movement or feel unsure about how to start.
• You’ve never exercised before and don’t know where to begin.
• You’re recovering from an injury and need to regain confidence in moving again.
The Core Pillars of this gathering:
Nature as our Greatest Teacher: connecting deeply with the rhythms of nature, finding guidance in its wisdom.
Meditation and Gentle Breathwork: unlocking the healing power of your breath.
Physical Rejuvenation through GYROKINESIS®️ & Pilates: rediscover your body’s strength and flexibility with mindful movement practices.
Anatomy of Movement: Learn how your body works to enhance movement awareness and prevent injury.
Ecological Living: Nourishing your body with plant-based meals
What will you learn?
The human body has an innate, subtle, and perfect intelligence. It constantly speaks to us, but we often don’t know how to listen. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to tune into your body’s wisdom, move more efficiently, and activate your inner Strength. This is a whole body approach, where we’ll work from the inside out, training your body from its deepest core.
Whether you seek rehabilitation from an injury or desire to alleviate chronic discomfort, biomechanics, is tailored to meet your unique requirements, free your body of pain and restrictions and minimize daily discomfort by decompressing the joints, guiding you gently towards healing and renewal.
About GYROKINESIS®️:
The GYROKINESIS®️ Method is a unique, holistic approach to movement. Some of the benefits of a regular GYROKINESIS®️practice include a healthier, more supple spine, increased range of motion, greater joint stability, improved agility and athletic performance, and a deep internal strength.
TheGYROKINESIS®️Method is a movement method that addresses the entire body, opening energy pathways, stimulating the nervous system, increasing range of motion, and creating functional strength through rhythmic, flowing movement sequences.
TIERRA VALIENTE | BRAVE EARTH
Brave Earth is located between San Ramon and La Fortuna, nestled in between Arenal Volcano and the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, the largest reserve of protected wildlife in Costa Rica.
As a living lab, we have experimented with different building modalities using AirCrete and materials sourced on the land including bamboo and adobe. We have implemented biophilic design, closed-loop systems and permaculture design principles. Ornamental, food, and medicinal gardens surround the center as well as hiking trials to a nearby river, and a natural swimming pond.
CULTURES OF TRANSITION
The impulse for Tierra Valiente stems from an awareness of our civilizational trajectory within the dominant culture with its source code of extraction, domination, commodification, colonization, control, entitlement, and separation from the living world.
We are both informed by this critical lens and inspired to create outside of the old values and incentive landscapes to build a culture based on reciprocity, regeneration and resiliency.
In this collective transition - whether you call it the Anthropocene, the Kali Yuga, late-stage capitalism or capitalist modernity - our intention is to become more attuned to this cultural context in order to decolonize the conditioning of the dominant system and be in deeper service to our collective potential.
Our living lab is located on the northwestern Caribbean slope of Costa Rica, about 2.5 hours from San Jose. We have created an 80-acre commons nestled between the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, one of the largest protected regions of rainforest north of the Amazon and Volcano Arenal.
Juan Santamaria International located in San Jose is the nearest airport to Brave Earth. We are approximately a 2.5h drive from San Jose.
We are located 11 miles south from La Fortuna Arenal Area in a community called San Isidro de Peñas Blancas, La Fortuna, Alajuela.
GPS Coordinates:
10°23’16.2”N 84°35’50.8”W
Our address is:
Transportation:
Please reach out to maxine@braveearth.com with any transportation or logistic questions.
Private Taxis (1-5 people)
$150 each way / 2.5-3 hours
Private Van (6-9 people)
$175 each way / 2.5-3 hours
Public Buses
~$10 / Approx. 5 hours
Bus 1: San Jose bus terminal to San Ramon, Bus 2: San Ramon towards La Fortuna. Get off at San Isidro de Penas Blancas or Chachagua. Take short taxi ride to Finca Luna Nueva.