The course develops over nine days punctuated by a day’s break in-between and runs for three hours in the first half of the day. Participants can join the early morning yoga and later in the day the Music & Arts programme that is facilitated by Skyros Centre and Atsitsa Bay tutors. The holiday is half board, usually breakfast and lunch. Optional individual treatments are available.
‘Some magic at work inspires people.’ The Financial Times
Listed below are the holiday dates, prices and courses available. Select the course title and facilitator's name for more information.
Flow Yoga
Laura’s teaching reflects her appreciation of a diversity of Yoga styles. Classes are dynamic and creative; grounding and refreshing. Sessions will include free movement to loosen and open; vinyasa sequences (moving with the breath) to warm and invigorate; standing asanas to strengthen; and calming stretches to cool and increase flexibility. Each class will end with the deeply relaxing practice of Restorative Yoga, allowing rest, re-balancing and rejuvenation. Students are encouraged to work at their own pace, bringing the qualities of fun and playful exploration to the practice of Yoga.
Laura's own teaching style has developed through an appreciation for the diversity of yoga styles, having studied Scaravelli, Vinyasa Flow, Kundalini and Restorative yoga.
Sketch Writing Fri 1 - Mon 11 Jun 12 WL1 (In Atsitsa)
Adventures in Sketch Writing
In comedy, there is no such thing as a bad idea, just an under developed one. The course will cover joke structure, lateralisation, monologue and scripts.
For more information about Logan Murray’s methods, go to www.loganmurray.com .
Logan Murray has been in the comedy industry for over 25 years. He is an accomplished stand-up comedian (performing at every major comedy club and festival in Great Britain), television and radio writer, presenter and actor, as well as stage-director, author and tutor.
His London-based comedy courses are considered one of the best in the country and his book 'Be a Great Stand Up', currently tops the Amazon best selling list. He has taught over 1,600 people how to be funny. Many have gone on to become award-winning comedians.
Logan has directed the stage shows of award-winning comedians including ‘We Are Klang’ and Milton Jones.
Additional Activities Fri 1 - Mon 11 Jun 12 WL1 (In Atsitsa)
Please refer to the Atsitsa programme pages here. There is a wealth of courses and activities that can be enjoyed in addition to your chosen Life Choices programme. These courses and activities in Atsitsa do not require pre-booking.
During the months of June and September, the Skyros Centre Life Choices programme will be run from Atsitsa. Atsitsa offers the opportunity to join a wide range of courses and activities from yoga, windsurfing and sailing to photography, art, music and more.
Flow Yoga
Laura’s teaching reflects her appreciation of a diversity of Yoga styles. Classes are dynamic and creative; grounding and refreshing. Sessions will include free movement to loosen and open; vinyasa sequences (moving with the breath) to warm and invigorate; standing asanas to strengthen; and calming stretches to cool and increase flexibility. Each class will end with the deeply relaxing practice of Restorative Yoga, allowing rest, re-balancing and rejuvenation. Students are encouraged to work at their own pace, bringing the qualities of fun and playful exploration to the practice of Yoga.
Laura's own teaching style has developed through an appreciation for the diversity of yoga styles, having studied Scaravelli, Vinyasa Flow, Kundalini and Restorative yoga.
The Art of Writing Fiction Mon 11-Thu 21 Jun 12 WL2 (In Atsitsa)
First of all we will look at the large scale shape of a story – the macro view, and how to plan a piece of work that doesn’t just dry up after 20 pages. We will explore the engineering of what agents and publishers call ‘traction’ – that is, the feeling that a story is pulling you through it.
We will arrive at an understanding of how feelings are evoked in a story – how writers conjure emotion to sustain and gratify readers with a vicarious experience of life, which at its best is just as powerful as the original.
Throughout, we will keep an eye on the different motivations for writing. We all write for different reasons, and we need to define accurately what it is we want to get out of writing, what we want to give. This motivation, after all, is the mainspring of our energy, and if it’s in good shape it will give us the impetus to start and to complete the work, and finish it to a high standard.
We will focus on how good writers lift their characters off the page and bring them alive, and how we, as writers, can maintain our readers’ interest in a character.
Last of all, we will narrow our focus to the words ourselves – prose style. Everyone can write – but how to write beautifully? What is prose style, and how can we, as individuals, reach out for such a thing, and attain it? Writing exercises will be set during the morning sessions, and there will be longer exercises (voluntary, of course!) for completion during the afternoons.
Sam North has written eight novels: The Old Country (2007), The Velvet Rooms (2006), The Unnumbered (2004) that was long-listed for the Man Booker prize, The Lie Of The Land 2000), The Automatic Man (1990) that won a Somerset Maugham Award and several others. He has also written a screenplay commissioned by Samuelson Productions - a supernatural thriller - and was the third writer on a thriller set in Australia for Working Title. He works as a lecturer in the English department at the University of Exeter, and lives on the edge of Dartmoor.
Additional Activities Mon 11-Thu 21 Jun 12 WL2 (In Atsitsa)
Please refer to the Atsitsa programme pages here. There is a wealth of courses and activities that can be enjoyed in addition to your chosen Life Choices programme. These courses and activities in Atsitsa do not require pre-booking.
During the months of June and September, the Skyros Centre Life Choices programme will be run from Atsitsa. Atsitsa offers the opportunity to join a wide range of courses and activities from yoga, windsurfing and sailing to photography, art, music and more.
Hatha Yoga...for health happiness and well-being
Classes focus on developing body awareness, flexibility and strength through the practice of asana (posture work) and sun salutations with a particular focus on the breath. This will be followed by pranayama (breathing practice), relaxation and meditation. Some classes may have a special focus on chakras, mantra, yoga nidra (deep relaxation) or movement meditation. The overall aim of these classes will be to promote well-being and help participants incorporate yoga into everyday life.
Classes are suitable for everyone, all levels and abilities will be catered for.
Marina, a yoga teacher, is an accomplished theatre director, writer and performer who has worked internationally with theatres, galleries, festivals, prisons, health and mental health groups.
Writing from Life Thu 21 - Sun 1 Jul 12 WL3 (In Atsitsa)
One of the best routes into writing in any genre is through true stories. Some of our best material lies in personal experiences, whether our own or other people’s. Memoir, biography, fiction, poetry: all these can stem from real life.This course concentrates on looking, honing skills of observation and description. How do you evoke memories, feelings, and the past? We also focus on the world around us, often using Skyros and its people as inspiration, and explore the cross-overs where truth turns into fiction. How much flesh can you put on the bones? Are certain subjects out of bounds? On the technical side we look at openings, dialogue, characterisation, structure and editing, style, polishing up prose, and avoiding the pitfalls. Using games and exercises, the course explores techniques of using our material to tell our stories clearly and thoughtfully. Appealing to both beginners and more experienced writers, this course is challenging and fun.
Helena Drysdale’s books include Looking for George, shortlisted for the Esquire/Apple/ Waterstone’s Non-Fiction Award, and the PEN/ J.R. Ackerley Award for Autobiography. Her latest book is Strangerland, A Family at War (Picador 2007), and she is currently writing children’s fiction. She is an editor for the Writer’s Workshop, and tutors at the Arvon Foundation.
Additional Activities Thu 21 - Sun 1 Jul 12 WL3 (In Atsitsa)
Please refer to the Atsitsa programme pages here. There is a wealth of courses and activities that can be enjoyed in addition to your chosen Life Choices programme. These courses and activities in Atsitsa do not require pre-booking.
During the months of June and September, the Skyros Centre Life Choices programme will be run from Atsitsa. Atsitsa offers the opportunity to join a wide range of courses and activities from yoga, windsurfing and sailing to photography, art, music and more.
Martha's classes focus on the individual needs and the breathing and gentle stretching. She likes to keep her classes simple and fun. Martha views life as dynamic and believes that the key to is to stay flexible mentally and physically and that Yoga is the way to that!
Thai Massage (treatments payable separately)
Martha also offers Thai Massage based on the energy flow or invisible life force which pulsates and flows around our bodies. When there are blockages in the energy flow sickness ir disease arise and in applying Thai massage tehniques these blockages can be cleared and heal us of our aliments. Martha's goal is to awaken the spiritual flame within the receiver, allowing them to connect with their higher self and be released from fear and pain.The massage is also about restoring the body's natural balance and well-being.
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Matha is a qualified Sivananda Vedanta Yoga Instructor. She has also studied with the world renowned yoga masta TKV Desikachar at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai India.
How D'you Get Your Ideas? Sun 1 - Wed 11 Jul 12 WL4
Leonard Cohen's answer to this was: 'If I knew, I'd go there more often' - a thought we can all share. But the important thing about ideas is not simply where to get them (steal them, obviously, or trip over them in the street) but what to do with them? How do you know what they are an idea for? How do you tell a usable idea from one that just looks good? How long do you spend working on one, desperately sure that it will work if only you can only somehow force it to?
Ideas. Where to find them, what to do with them, how to put the rights ones together, how to look after them so they will come to fruition, how to keep them coming, and how to get rid of them. (And by ideas I don't just mean ideas for plots. I mean creative thinking, and its many applications in writing.)
I will offer practical advice and exercises in getting going, keeping going, and not getting lost - or at least not for longer than necessary. We will discuss how to feed on reading, how to use the concrete to bring the page to life, how to cultivate alchemy, how to honour language, how to value the senses, and when and how to break the rules.
This is a course mainly for fiction writers, but others are welcome - songwriters, poets, memoirists.
Louisa Young read history at Cambridge, and was for many years a freelance journalist, working mostly for the motorcycle press, for Marie Claire and for The Guardian. She has travelled widely and published eleven books, including nine novels, a biography and a cultural history of the human heart. She lives in London and Italy with her daughter and the composer Robert Lockhart. She is the adult half of Zizou Corder, co-authors of the best-selling Lionboy trilogy, which is published in 36 languages.Her latest novel is My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, which is shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, the Wellcome Prize and the Galaxy Book of the Year Award, and winner of the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year. Johnny Cash kissed her once.
Have fun and develop your singing skills in this workshop which will allow participants to enjoy harmony singing as well as focussing on jazz singing and improvising. Participants are invited to bring songs they want to work on individually. Attention will be paid to technique and delivery of songs.
Kate divides her life happily between her career as a consultant systemic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London and as a jazz singer. She has worked as an organisational consultant and trainer in the corporate field, and has a background in theatre. As a jazz singer Kate writes and performs her own material and has sung and recorded with distinguished musicians such as John Etheridge, Tony Coe and Alec Dankworth.
Martha's classes focus on the individual needs and the breathing and gentle stretching. She likes to keep her classes simple and fun. Martha views life as dynamic and believes that the key to is to stay flexible mentally and physically and that Yoga is the way to that!
Thai Massage (treatments payable separately)
Martha also offers Thai Massage based on the energy flow or invisible life force which pulsates and flows around our bodies. When there are blockages in the energy flow sickness ir disease arise and in applying Thai massage tehniques these blockages can be cleared and heal us of our aliments. Martha's goal is to awaken the spiritual flame within the receiver, allowing them to connect with their higher self and be released from fear and pain.The massage is also about restoring the body's natural balance and well-being.
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Matha is a qualified Sivananda Vedanta Yoga Instructor. She has also studied with the world renowned yoga masta TKV Desikachar at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai India.
The 'Impossible Art' of Writing Biography Wed 11 - Sat 21 Jul 12 WL5
Life writing is perhaps the most popular and controversial literary game From Robert Caro's voluminous writings on Lyndon Johnson to Justin Beiber's slim story, it seems everyone has a tale to tell. Become a people detective and join me on a journey into the lives of the famous and infamous.
Andrew Morton is one of the world's best known biographers and a leading authority on modern royalty and celebrity. His groundbreaking 1992 biography revealed the secret world of Diana, Princess of Wales. Written with her full, though then secret cooperation, the book changed the way the world looked at the British Royal family, prompting Tina Brown to declare in The Diana Chronicles: 'The journalist Morton most reminds me of is Bob Woodward.' Andrew Morton has gone on to write more bestselling biographies of Monica lewinsky, Madonna, The Beckhams, Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie. Morton is the winner of numerous awards including Author of the Year by the British Book Awards, Investigative Reporter of the Years by What the Papers say and Scoop of the Year by the London Press Club.
Painting By the time we reach adulthood, most of us have lost confidence in our natural birthright as artists. We have been convinced that draughtsmanship is to do with ‘getting it right’, and have had repeated experiences of ‘getting it wrong’. In fact, drawing is a basic form of literacy which anyone who can see and hold a pencil can acquire – quickly. Creativity, in drawing as in life, has little to do with talent or superficial competence and much to do with getting comfortable with mess, play, exploration and process. This course will explore drawing as a form of creative play; as a means of learning to see more clearly; as a way of sitting mindfully in the present moment; and as a way of increasing our appreciation of our surroundings. In addition it will equip participants with a set of skills that will allow them to practise and progress independently. In the process participants – including those who have always believed they cannot draw – will develop a more adventurous and confident relationship with their artistic skills, and discover drawing as a doorway to mindfulness, clarity, passion and inspiration. Sketchbooks and drawing materials will be provided, although you are welcome to bring your own.
Drawing Workshop
Open to all, beginners and those with experience as well. Sarah would provide group instruction to complete beginners, and then circulate amongst participants gearing teaching to their particular needs.
Sarah Livingstone is an established painter and printmaker, and for the last 30 years has taught and exhibited extensively in the UK and France. In addition she is a trained psychotherapist with a particular interest in mindfulness-based psychotherapies, and has published in the field. As an art teacher, she has a passion for enabling beginners to discover drawing as a basic form of literacy and as a doorway to stillness, clarity and creativity.
Martha's classes focus on the individual needs and the breathing and gentle stretching. She likes to keep her classes simple and fun. Martha views life as dynamic and believes that the key to is to stay flexible mentally and physically and that Yoga is the way to that!
Thai Massage (treatments payable separately)
Martha also offers Thai Massage based on the energy flow or invisible life force which pulsates and flows around our bodies. When there are blockages in the energy flow sickness ir disease arise and in applying Thai massage tehniques these blockages can be cleared and heal us of our aliments. Martha's goal is to awaken the spiritual flame within the receiver, allowing them to connect with their higher self and be released from fear and pain.The massage is also about restoring the body's natural balance and well-being.
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Matha is a qualified Sivananda Vedanta Yoga Instructor. She has also studied with the world renowned yoga masta TKV Desikachar at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai India.
Aspects of Novel Writing Sat 21 - Tue 31 Jul 12 WL6
Whether you’re just beginning to organise your ideas or working on your next ‘opus’ this course is aimed at giving you a clear understanding of the technical and creative aspects of novel writing. Along with exercises and inspiration to get you going (drawing on experience, memory, imagination and place) there will be opportunities to share pieces of your writing in a relaxed and supportive setting. You will also receive constructive feedback on the work you produce in the sessions.
Focussing on structure, character, plot and voice we’ll work on planning an extended narrative (and developing a shorter piece of work by the end of the week). We’ll look at the elements that drive your narrative forward and keep the reader wanting more. And we won’t forget the nitty-gritty of prose-style – writing strong dialogue, streamlining scenes and sentences – and how it all comes together to create impact.
Finally the course aims to furnish you with solid strategies so that when you leave the idyllic, creative bubble that is Skyros you will be able to draw on those resources and keep your writing momentum going well into the future.
Mez Packer studied Philosophy and Literature at Warwick University in the 80s then spent time in Europe singing jazz in bars and nightclubs. She travelled widely in Asia, the Far East and the Caribbean with her partner and young child before becoming a Broadcast Journalist with the BBC. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication and visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Coventry University. Her first novel, Among Thieves was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2010. Her second novel, The Game is Altered, will be published in February 2012.
Michael Gahagan's art and his artwork are exhibited in a number of galleries, books and magazines. As a qualified coach he encourages individuals to enjoy and develop art at their own pace.
Martha's classes focus on the individual needs and the breathing and gentle stretching. She likes to keep her classes simple and fun. Martha views life as dynamic and believes that the key to is to stay flexible mentally and physically and that Yoga is the way to that!
Thai Massage (treatments payable separately)
Martha also offers Thai Massage based on the energy flow or invisible life force which pulsates and flows around our bodies. When there are blockages in the energy flow sickness ir disease arise and in applying Thai massage tehniques these blockages can be cleared and heal us of our aliments. Martha's goal is to awaken the spiritual flame within the receiver, allowing them to connect with their higher self and be released from fear and pain.The massage is also about restoring the body's natural balance and well-being.
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Matha is a qualified Sivananda Vedanta Yoga Instructor. She has also studied with the world renowned yoga masta TKV Desikachar at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai India.
Scriptwriting from Life
The greatest scripts have one thing in common - emotional truth. But how do you find yours? This course will show you how to tap deeply into your emotions and experience to find your voice.
You'll leave with your own, formed script idea and at least one key scene from that script. Plus insider industry tips on finding an agent, getting your script read, writers block and pitching practice.
Gabbie Asher started her career as a script editor in the BBC Films and Series departments, working on shows such as 'Grange Hill' and 'Casualty'. She was Head Story Writer on 'Eastenders' for two BAFTA award winning years. She has since script edited Channel 4's 'Coming Up, and worked for BBC Comedy training new writers and developing series such as 'Funland' for BBC2. Since switching to writing full time, Gabbie has written on popular shows such as 'Primeval' and had her own series broadcast on BBC3. Gabbie is currently developing several original scripts for companies including BBC Drama and ITV productions.
Ilene Sawka facilitates creativity workshops for top Swedish managers and politicians using an array of original forms and techniques. She is also a Qi Gong teacher.
Martha's classes focus on the individual needs and the breathing and gentle stretching. She likes to keep her classes simple and fun. Martha views life as dynamic and believes that the key to is to stay flexible mentally and physically and that Yoga is the way to that!
Thai Massage (treatments payable separately)
Martha also offers Thai Massage based on the energy flow or invisible life force which pulsates and flows around our bodies. When there are blockages in the energy flow sickness ir disease arise and in applying Thai massage tehniques these blockages can be cleared and heal us of our aliments. Martha's goal is to awaken the spiritual flame within the receiver, allowing them to connect with their higher self and be released from fear and pain.The massage is also about restoring the body's natural balance and well-being.
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Matha is a qualified Sivananda Vedanta Yoga Instructor. She has also studied with the world renowned yoga masta TKV Desikachar at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai India.
Are you a reluctant/nervous/lonely potential novelist in need of a kick-start? Do you believe you have a novel in you, but have never had the knowledge or courage to begin? Have you made several attempts and then lost steam? In this course Shelley Weiner offers practical advice for writers in a warm, supportive and creative environment. The sessions will explore aspects of writing such as characterisation, plot and setting, as well as intensive focusing on individual work. Participants are invited (but not compelled!) to bring along extracts of a novel in progress. Some writing experience is advisable.
Shelley Weiner is an acclaimed novelist, short-story writer and journalist who has, over the years, established a reputation as an inspirational creative writing tutor and nurturer of new talent. South African-born, she worked as a journalist, PR writer and editor in a publishing house before turning to fiction. Among her published novels is A Sisters' Tale and The Joker. Shelley is a Special Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and has lectured on the writing programme at Birkbeck College and Anglia Ruskin University. She has also taught for the Open University, the Taliesin Trust and Durham University Summer School. Scores of new fiction writers, several of them now published, have emerged from her "First Novel" workshops in Camden Town, Wales and in her Highgate kitchen.
Comedy Improvisation Have you ever watched “Whose Line is it anyway?” and thought how do they do that?Comedy improvisation is probably the most fun you can have with your clothes on.It is specifically designed for people with little or no performing experience and the emphasis will be laughter and fun.It is a great confidence booster and collaborative way of playing with people.We all have the ability to improvise (remember when you were given a present as a child and just played with the box) We will be looking at constructing stories and scenes from suggestions and objects as well as forgetting about judgement and getting it right.
MA8Sat 11 - Tue 21 Aug 2012 Have you ever watched “Whose Line is it anyway?” and thought how do they do that?Comedy improvisation is probably the most fun you can have with your clothes on.It is specifically designed for people with little or no performing experience and the emphasis will be laughter and fun.It is a great confidence booster and collaborative way of playing with people.We all have the ability to improvise (remember when you were given a present as a child and just played with the box) We will be looking at constructing stories and scenes from suggestions and objects as well as forgetting about judgement and getting it right.
Martha's classes focus on the individual needs and the breathing and gentle stretching. She likes to keep her classes simple and fun. Martha views life as dynamic and believes that the key to is to stay flexible mentally and physically and that Yoga is the way to that!
Thai Massage (treatments payable separately)
Martha also offers Thai Massage based on the energy flow or invisible life force which pulsates and flows around our bodies. When there are blockages in the energy flow sickness ir disease arise and in applying Thai massage tehniques these blockages can be cleared and heal us of our aliments. Martha's goal is to awaken the spiritual flame within the receiver, allowing them to connect with their higher self and be released from fear and pain.The massage is also about restoring the body's natural balance and well-being.
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Matha is a qualified Sivananda Vedanta Yoga Instructor. She has also studied with the world renowned yoga masta TKV Desikachar at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai India.
This eight day course will start with the basic craft of fiction - and also cover some aspects of writing from life. We will look at how to make stories live on the page, how to make characters come alive, how to bring worlds into focus and how to write about your deepest personal stories with perspective. Bring pen, paper and a photo of your younger self.
Monique Roffey’s novel The White Woman on the Green Bicycle was short-listed for the Orange Prize 2010. Her memoir is called With the Kisses of his Mouth. She teaches Creative Writing for Arvon, English PEN and the MA at Goldsmiths.
Alison has been teaching improvisation, drama and comedy for over 20 years. She is a founder of The Weird Sisters theatre company in which she co-created three award-winning shows which toured all over the world, and is a core member of the renowned impro troupe, Spontaneous Combustion. She has been a television and radio presenter for the BBC and is a stand-up comic and a director and deviser of plays, musicals and sketches for companies such as Vienna’s English Theatre and others. Since summer 2008, she has been touring her one-woman show, Lady in Bed, around the UK to great acclaim.
Yoga
Ailon's classes weave together the precision of lyendar yoga, the breath-movement synchronisation of Vinyasa yoga, the "dropping in" to postures found in Scarvelli yoga and the fun and connection of Partner Yoga. He explores these styles in order to find out which ones work best for you. Ailon aims for these classes that participants will discover how a yoga practice can structurally re-align the body, calm and soothe both the mind and the emotions, and allow one to tap into a greater reservoir of lifeforce energy.
A Life Full of Stories Sat 1 - Tue 11 Sep WL10 (In Atsitsa)
Our lives are full of stories; like buried treasure, it sometimes it takes a little digging inside ourselves to find them. Develop useful tools to unlock your creative writing life, while learning to mine your own experiences to produce meaningful works of fiction.
Amanda Smyth is Irish-Trinidadian and was educated in England. Her short stories and poetry have been published in New Writing, London Magazine, the TLS and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Amanda was awarded an Arts Council grant for her first novel, Black Rock, published by Serpent’s Tail. She was chosen for the Waterstones New Voices 2009, and short-listed for McKitterick Prize 2010. Black Rock, published as Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange in the USA, was selected for the Oprah Summer Read 2009 – one of 25 Books You Can’t Put Down. It was also short-listed for NAACP Award 2010, Outstanding Literary work, debut author. Foreign rights sold in France, Germany, Portugal, Holland and Russia. Amanda, currently long-listed for Prix Femina in France, has just won the the prestigious French award for first novel.
Additional Activities Sat 1 - Tue 11 Sep WL10 (In Atsitsa)
Please refer to the Atsitsa programme pages here. There is a wealth of courses and activities that can be enjoyed in addition to your chosen Life Choices programme. These courses and activities in Atsitsa do not require pre-booking.
During the months of June and September, the Skyros Centre Life Choices programme will be run from Atsitsa. Atsitsa offers the opportunity to join a wide range of courses and activities from yoga, windsurfing and sailing to photography, art, music and more.
Yoga with Awareness Tue 11-Fri 21 Sep 12 WL11 (In Atsitsa)
Yoga Ken has developed a fluid technique that taps into your individual needs, releases energy and works to heal injuries or chronic discomfort. Known as the Eyerman Technique, the workshop will introduce you to Ken’s unique take on movement based bodywork. Classes are suitable for all levels, including those who have injuries or are restricted in their movement. Experience how Ken integrates Yoga with Feldenkrais. His intuitive and spontaneous hands-on approach emphasises the benefits of using your breath and developing an awareness of your inner process. Participants will learn to use their bodies with intelligence, awareness and efficiency. The Eyerman Technique will ease you into new postures while encouraging you to explore movement in a way that is both developmental and restorative. Ken seeks to work with you, by developing core movement, and helping you tune into the constant flow of life energy essential to maintaining health and clarity of mind.
Massage Ken will also offer a one off or drop in session of massage.
Ken Eyerman, author of Massage, has taught yoga and bodywork for 30 years and directs his own training programme. He was named as one of London’s Evening Standard’s top 3 masseurs.
Your Writer's Voice Tue 11-Fri 21 Sep 12 WL11 (In Atsitsa)
Your Writer's Voice
For anyone, beginner or more experienced, who wants to explore their creativity and develop a personal voice. We’ll look at finding ideas as well as writing style, including using memories, imagining characters, describing settings and using dialogue. The emphasis is on enjoyment and fun, and ideas are adaptable to any genre from poetry to novels. I also offer 1:1 sessions to discuss and advise on personal work.
Crysse was inspired by a Skyros Writers’ Lab session to make a career change, and is now a full-time free-lance writer. Her two novels were published by Hodder & Stoughton and she also writes short fiction, drama, and performance poetry, with a regular style column in Writing Magazine. Crysse is an experienced creative writing tutor and has led courses throughout the world.
Additional Activities Tue 11-Fri 21 Sep 12 WL11 (In Atsitsa)
Please refer to the Atsitsa programme pages here. There is a wealth of courses and activities that can be enjoyed in addition to your chosen Life Choices programme. These courses and activities in Atsitsa do not require pre-booking.
During the months of June and September, the Skyros Centre Life Choices programme will be run from Atsitsa. Atsitsa offers the opportunity to join a wide range of courses and activities from yoga, windsurfing and sailing to photography, art, music and more.
Yoga with Awareness 21 Sep - 1 Oct 2012 WL12 (In Atsitsa)
Yoga Ken has developed a fluid technique that taps into your individual needs, releases energy and works to heal injuries or chronic discomfort. Known as the Eyerman Technique, the workshop will introduce you to Ken’s unique take on movement based bodywork. Classes are suitable for all levels, including those who have injuries or are restricted in their movement. Experience how Ken integrates Yoga with Feldenkrais. His intuitive and spontaneous hands-on approach emphasises the benefits of using your breath and developing an awareness of your inner process. Participants will learn to use their bodies with intelligence, awareness and efficiency. The Eyerman Technique will ease you into new postures while encouraging you to explore movement in a way that is both developmental and restorative. Ken seeks to work with you, by developing core movement, and helping you tune into the constant flow of life energy essential to maintaining health and clarity of mind.
Massage Ken will also offer a one off or drop in session of massage.
Ken Eyerman, author of Massage, has taught yoga and bodywork for 30 years and directs his own training programme. He was named as one of London’s Evening Standard’s top 3 masseurs.
Creating Comedy 21 Sep - 1 Oct 2012 WL12 (In Atsitsa)
Creating Comedy
There are three rules of comedy. Unfortunately no one can remember what they are. In these sessions we shall do our best to recover them and to bring out the funny in every student. Whether you wish to write gags, sitcoms or plays you will find something here to stimulate you. At the end of the course we will present a comedy night to the other students. ‘Laughter is the one true metaphysical consolation’ (little Jimmy Osmond).
Arthur Smith is a comedian, writer and broadcaster; He has performed comedy all over the world and has written every form of comedy from stand up to one-liners to full-length plays and screenplays. His comedy is based on observation tinged with a strong flavour of the absurd, although he is an expert at telling one-liner jokes. He also ventures into extreme comedy, sometimes stripping off during his performances and, during his Edinburgh shows, taking the entire audience out of the theatre for a guided tour of the city. His play An Evening with Gary Lineker ran for several years in the West End. He appears regularly on Radio 4 but finds that he is best known for BBC’s Grumpy Old Men. His acclaimed autobiography My Name is Daphne Fairfax was published in 2009.
Additional Activities 21 Sep - 1 Oct 2012 WL12 (In Atsitsa)
Please refer to the Atsitsa programme pages here. There is a wealth of courses and activities that can be enjoyed in addition to your chosen Life Choices programme. These courses and activities in Atsitsa do not require pre-booking.
During the months of June and September, the Skyros Centre Life Choices programme will be run from Atsitsa. Atsitsa offers the opportunity to join a wide range of courses and activities from yoga, windsurfing and sailing to photography, art, music and more.
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