Seminars & activities

Workshops

Aurama workshops aim at the experience of the therapeutic value of reconnecting with nature and ourselves by embracing the wisdom of herbal medicine and yoga, and by acquiring a sense of ‘belonging’ in the history of landscape and life evolution. Learning, reflection and hands-on experience embody our holistic approach to health and well being. We learn how to incorporate healing practices to our everyday life and, thus, improve our quality of life. We nourish body, mind, soul and spirit, we awaken our senses, open our horizons. Knowledge is power, so by learning and feeling what benefits and what harms us we obtain the power to influence or even control our life. Workshops may be of general interest in holistic therapy or more specialized, they may also be independent or part of a holistic healing seminar. They are characterised by a spirit of truthfulness, co-operation, but also contemplation. In Paradeisos we keep a small amount of participants up to 8?.

Available Dates

Healing Nature 1: Herbal Teas & Extracts in water

9:00 – 13:30 ( €). Programme:

 9:00 – 10:00: WELCOME – Getting to know with each other. Landscape evolution, Crete and Paradeisos. Nature and our relationship with the natural environment. Plants: how they influence us, how they impact on our life, culture, health and well-being.

10:00 – 11:00: Garden walk & Herb collection. We meet the garden’s plants and ecosystem, we get submerged in their herbal stories and healing energy. We are introduced to the basics of collection and we collect herbs that we are going to use later on.

 

11:00 – 13:00 A: Indroduction to herbalism – Herbal teas & Extracts in water. Herbs with water soluble constituents. Organoleptic assessment, different techniques of water extraction, examples of medicinal herbal infusions in water and their therapeutic power.

Healing Nature 2: Tea Tasting

9:00 – 13:30 ( €). Programme:

9:00 – 10:00: WELCOME – Getting to know each other. Life evolution on Earth. Sharing our sense of life, our understanding of Nature and our relationship with other living beings.

10:00 – 11:00: Walk in the garden – awakening of the senses. LIVING in Nature is the deepest meditation. I look, touch, smell, listen, taste, feel the air, breathe, absorb the view and the moment.

 

11:00 – 13:00: Tea Tasting. A journey into the world of plants through a sensory experience guided by smell and taste. The ultimate dialogue with herbs, where we learn to listen and observe, to connect and associate.

 

Healing Nature 3: Phytotherapeutic Recipes

 9:00 – 13:30 ( €). Programme:

9:00 – 10:00: WELCOME – Getting to know each other. Life evolution and the mysterious world of plants. Our understandings of the natural world, our co-evolution with other living beings. Towards a balance of interconnections.

 

10:00 – 11:00: Garden walk & Herb collection. We meet the garden’s plants and ecosystem, we get submerged in their herbal stories and healing energy. We are introduced to the basics of collection and we collect herbs that we are going to use later on.

 

 

 

11: 00 – 13:00: Phytotherapeutic recipes. Herbal constituents in action! we learn about plants and recipes with high therapeutic value that we can use in our everyday life to deal with common problems and injuries, to enhance therapeutic treatments and to keep in good health and balance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Healing Nature 4: Aromatherapy

9:00 – 13:30 ( €). Programme:

 9:00 – 10:00 Aromatherapy: WELCOME – Getting to know each other. Plants and their healing properties. Aromatherapy. Useful essential oils and how we can use them.

 

 

 

10:00 – 11:00: Walk in the garden –  awakening of the senses. LIVING in Nature is the deepest meditation. I look, touch, smell, listen, taste, feel the air, breathe, absorb the view and the moment.

11:00 – 13:00 C: Aromatherapy: We learn about the properties of different oils, ways of use, organoleptic assessment of quality and points of caution. We endeavour into the world of oil extracts, infusions and essential oils and we make a body-oil for ourselves, choosing the ingredients that suit us.

Healing Nature 5: Herbal Oil Infusions & Salves

9:00 – 13:00 ( €). Programme:

9:00 – 10:00: WELCOME – Getting to know each other. Landscape evolution: Crete and Paradeisos. Nature and our relationship with the natural environment. Plants: how they influence us, how they impact on our life, culture, health and well-being.

10:00 – 11:00: Herbs & Herbalism. We get to know plants of the garden; we focus on a couple of medicinal herbs, we learn about their life and properties, suitable ecosystems and growing conditions and how we use them in herbalism (nutrition and herbal formulations).

We learn how we collect and handle herbs that we are going to use in the course of the day.

11:00 – 13:00: extracts in virgin, organic olive oil – herbal salves. Theory and practice on the extraction of plants in oils. We get to know plants with lipophilic therapeutic substances, we learn how we make an oil extract as well as about its properties and possible combinations with other oils and essential oils. Also, we understand the differences between dry and fresh herb extractions and we learn about the dangers of some vegetable oils.

Healing Nature 6: Yoga and Plants. The Awakening of the senses.

9:00 – 13:30 ( €). Programme:

9:00 – 9:30am: Welcome. Introducing ourselves, our needs, our hopes.

9:30 – 10:00 → Walk in the garden awakening of the senses. LIVING in Nature is the deepest meditation. I look, touch, smell, listen, taste, feel the air, breathe, absorb the view and the moment.

 

YOGA:

10:00 – 11:30am: Yoga. Awakening of the senses.

 

 

 

 

11:30 – 13:00: Tea Tasting. A journey into the world of plants through a sensory experience guided by smell and taste. The ultimate dialogue with herbs, where we learn to listen and observe, to connect and associate.

 

 

Healing Yoga. Sunset Meditation

ci. 19:00 – 21:00 / 1 ½ hours before the sunset.  ( €).