David Babsky

Photography

AT5  Sat 20 - Sat 27 July 2013 (1 wk)

David, formerly Technical Editor of best-selling Practical Photography magazine, will show you how to get the best from any camera. He knows the 'How?' and 'What?' of every camera, and the 'When?' and 'How?' about taking perfect photos. He'll show you how to get the best from any camera, whether it's a pocket "point-&-shoot" or a professional SLR. He believes that it's not what you use, but how you use it which gives you great photos!

Beverley Drumm

Dance & Movement

AT7  Sat 10 - Fri 23 Aug 2013 (2 wks)

AT8 Sat 24 - Tue 31 Aug 2013 (1 wk)

Beverley is a Nia Brown Belt Instructor, Kundalini Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master and bodyworker with a passion for healing, inspiring and empowering others to reach their highest potential. She has extensive experience teaching groups and individiuals in the UK and abroad, and has developed a speciality in adapting her work to therapeutic settings.

Michael Eales

Mindful Living

AT10 Sat 14 - Sat 21 13 (1 week)

Michael Eales, psychologist, writer, and leadership coach for 28 years, is one of the leading figures in Humanistic Psychology. He is co-author of The Personal Management Handbook and The Coaching Cube and a management consultant with major organizations.  He was part of the staff team of the Human Potential Research Project at Surrey University and has trained many practitioners in the field. He has written for film and television. He co-wrote and acted in the film 'Inertia' (Dir. Anna Campion), which opened at the London Raindance Film Festival, and ‘Bipolar’ which premiered in 2006 at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and is currently working with Anna Campion on a film adaptation of a novel.

Virginia Evangelou

On-Site Massage Therapist

AT5 - AT10 Sat 20 July - Sat 21 Sep 2013

Massage and Reflexology (1 week)

AT10 Sat 20 July - Sat 21 Sep 2013

Virginia is a highly qualified and experience therapist, teacher, writer and consultant in the areas of health, beauty and complementary therapies with over thirty years' experience in England, Canada, Thailand and Greece. She is a contributing writer in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Information for Teens and has written articles for publications such as Kindred Spirit and Holisticshop. Virginia has enjoyed a long association with Skyros, facilitating courses since 1998. More recently, in the role of resident therapist, she offers her own unique style of relaxation massage, aromatherapy, reflexology, Indian head massage and spa therapy treatments.

Ken Eyerman

Yoga with Awareness

AT7  Sat 10 - Fri 23 Aug 2013 (2 wks)

AT8 Sat 24 - Sat 31 Aug 2013 (1 wk)

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.

Ailon Freedman

The Power of Laughter

AT5  Sat 20 - Sat 27 July 2013 (1 wk)

AT6 Sat 27 Jul - Fri 9 Aug 2013 (2 wks)

Ailon Freedman is a multifaceted creative arts facilitator who runs workshops in comedy, drumming, yoga and public speaking. As a character comedian he performs around the country as his alter egos Trev the Yogic Builder and Reiki Ron. Ailon also made the spoof yoga DVD "Yoga 4 Fellas," which as well as being featured widely in the press and media, also won the coveted award for "Most fags smoked in a yoga video". As a lifelong neurotic Jew, Ailon is interested in the therapeutic value of comedy, seeing it as a tool that helps us develop and strengthen our sense of humour - a life skill that comes in very useful in helping us not to take ourselves and our problems too seriously.
 

Alison Goldie

Comedy Improvisation

Alison Goldie is an actor, theatre director, writer and teacher. After graduating from Hull University in 1982 with a degree in drama she has performed in many rooms above pubs,  performed solo stand-up comedy, played all the female characters in Newman and Baddiel in Pieces (BBC2), then became a travel reporter on The Travel Show (BBC2), and has acted in many plays and sketch shows, including the infamous Mary Whitehouse Experience. In the last 10 years, Alison has expanded her theatre directing and teaching of impro, drama, and confidence-building courses (such as Flirtshop) Alison’s latest script Dancing With Decadence, a full-length play about Austrian artist, Egon Schiele, is currently awaiting production.

Watch this video to find out more about Alison and her courses in Atsitsa and at the Skyros Centre: click here

Dina Glouberman

Life Choices

AT9 Sat 31 Aug - Fri 13 Sep 2013

Dina Glouberman, author of the classics The Joy of Burnout and Life Choices, Life Changes, has pioneered Imagework. She co-founded Skyros.

Mark Gunston

Windsurfing

AT5  Sat 20 - Sat 27 July 2013 (1 wk)

AT6 Sat 27 Jul - Fri 9 Aug 2013 (2 wks)

AT7  Sat 10 - Fri 23 Aug 2013 (2 wks)

AT8 Sat 24 - Sat 31 Aug 2013 (1 wk)

AT9  Sat 31 Aug - Fri 13 Sep 2013 (2 wks)

AT10 Sat 14 - Sat 21 Sep 2013 (1 wk)

Mark Gunston has been teaching skiing and watersports for 30 years in Europe, Israel and the US. Mark is a qualified RYA Windsurfing Trainer, Dinghy Sailing Senior Instructor, Powerboat Instructor, an internationally licensed Ski Instructor, and a qualified life coach. He has been teaching in Atsitsa since 1996.

Jo Hardy

5 Rhythms Dance

AT5  Sat 20 - Sat 27 July 2013 (1 wk)

AT6 Sat 27 Jul - Fri 9 Aug 2013 (2 wks)

Jo is an accredited 5 Rhythms teacher, psychotherapist and supervisor with 18 years experience. She has been a trainer at the Karuna Institute for many years in Contemplative Psychotherapy, a psycho-spiritual, body orientated approach. She is known to teach with a grounded and gentle clarity, with good humour and great music.

Tiana Harper

Seductive Speaking

AT10 Sat 14 - Sat 21 Sep 2013

Tiana performed professionally as an actor, musician, cabaret and comedy performer prior to a career in TV and film as a writer, director and producer. She has directed actors and non-actors for TV and film, including Tara Fitzgerald, Tom Baker and David Mitchell.

Tiana has an MA in Actor Training and Coaching from Central School of Speech and Drama and has taught voice and acting students privately, at Central and at the University of West London.

Richard Layzell

Landscape Art

Richard is an award-winning artist who had exibited and performed worldwide. Join him and create art inspired by the stunning Atsitsa landcape. He teaches at University of the Arts London and has recently shown his work at Tate Britain and the South Bank Centre London.

Sarah Livingstone

Drawing & Painting

AT8 Sat 24 - Sat 31 Aug 2013 (1 wk)

Sarah Livingstone is an established painter and printmaker, and for the last 30 years has taught and exhibited extensively in the UK and France.  As an art teacher, she has a passion for enabling beginners to discover artistic experimentation as a basic form of play, drawing and design as basic forms of literacy, and visual enjoyment as a doorway to stillness, clarity and creativity. She is a trained psychotherapist with a particular interest in mindfulness-based psychotherapies currently researching the links between manual creativity and wellbeing.

Carol Martin-Sperry

Sex and Sexuality

AT9 Sat 31 Aug - Fri 13 Sep 2013

Carol is a couples and sex therapist with 25 years’ experience. She is a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and author of “Good Sex Bad Sex No Sex”, which was published online in May 2012 by Endeavour. During her 12 years with London Marriage Guidance, Carol was on the Board of Trustees and founded the Counsellors Association which she chaired for a year. She has been running courses for the last 10 years and also undertakes media and consultancy work. An enthusiastic child of the 60s, Carol values nature and nurture, peace and love but is firmly rooted in reality. Her work with Club Med and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office honed her natural ability to communicate and engage with a wide variety of people. She is currently writing about Shakespeare’s heroines, the Greek myths and the healing power of films.

Tom Morley

Music & Singing

AT7  Sat 10 - Fri 23 Aug 2013 (2 wks)

AT8 Sat 24 - Sat 31 Aug 2013 (1 wk)

Ex-drummer with scritti politti, Tom is passionate about sharing what he's learned. He combines harmony singing with drumming and dancing.

Logan Murray

Stand up Comedy

AT9 Sat 31 Aug - Fri 13 Jul 2013

Susie Self

Music & Singing

AT9 Sat 31 Aug - Fri 13 Sep 2013

AT10 Sat 14 - Fri 21 Sep 2013

Susie Self is an international singer, composer and voice director. Her opera “Boy from Brazil” premiered at London's Riverside Studios in summer 2012. Her symphonic music featured on Woman’s Hour. She has sung lead roles at The Royal Opera House and in the West End and she was voted best vocalist at the Buxton Festival. She facilitates workshops in London, California and Mexico.

Annie Sherburne

Textile Art

AT6 Sat 27 Jul - Fri 9 Aug 2013 (2 wks)

Annie Trained in fashion and textiles at St Martins and Goldsmiths art schools and in 2007 completed a research masters in ecological textiles at Kingston University. A pioneer of patterned felt making and millinery, examples are in international collections including the V&A and the Louvre. Annie designed and made work for Jean Muir CBE for 18 years and has been making rugs for 20 years, and has taught and exhibited widely throughout her career. Colour, pattern, creativity, curiosity and enthusiasm have lead to many projects including ceramics, furniture and curating exhibitions, including a painted gypsy caravan with musicians and makers at Wayne Hemmingways first Vintage festival.

Marina Sossi

Hatha Yoga

AT9  Sat 31 - Fri 13 Sep 2013 (2 wks)

AT10 Sat 14 - Sat 21 Sep 2013 (1 wk)

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.

Kym Suttle

Performance

AT9 Sat 31 Aug - Fri 13 Sep 2013

AT10 Sat 14 - Sat 21 Sep 2013

Kym is an actor, writer, director, choreographer/dancer and teacher (and also a yoga teacher). He's been teaching for 20 years. He is a firm believer that since you're going to spend so much of your life working you might as well do something you love!

He currently has a feature film script in development for a Hollywood producer, 2 short films about bullying are in pre-production and his first full length play, MonoStereo, was a sell-out success in London 2012, and by the time he gets to Skyros in 2013 it will hopefully have transferred and had a second run. He has boundless energy and a true passion for sharing the joy of performance. 

Andrew Risner

Your Best Year Ever

Andrew Risner is a leading trainer, facilitator and coach who utilises comedy improvisation and magic skills to quantum leap peoples confidence, creativity and sense of fun. He spent several years as a stand up comedian and improviser and brings a wealth of fun and insight to his workshops. Andrew has appeared several time on BBC TV Heaven & Earth show as well as radio.

Watch this video to find out more about Andrew and his courses in Atsitsa and at the Skyros Centre. Click here

Andreas Vetsch

Vinyasa Yoga

AT5  Sat 20 - Sat 27 July 2013 (1 wk)

AT6 Sat 27 - Fri 9 Aug 2013 (2 wks)

Andreas teaches Vinyasa yoga, a dynamic form of Hatha yoga with the emphasis on synchronisation of breath and movement. Andreas is a practising Yogi. He trained with masters in India and the US. He runs his own Yoga Centre on the shores of Lake Konstanz in Switzerland and leads workshops and retreats all over Europe. A former film and TV director he combines worldly and spiritual experiences in his very unique way of teaching.

Malcolm Stern

Passionate Living

Malcolm Stern is a group and individual psychotherapist, co-founder of Alternatives at St James Church, London. He has recently co-presented Channel 4’s relationships series.

Watch this video to find out more about Malcolm and his courses in Atsitsa: click here

Sarah Warwick

Music & Singing

Sarah Warwick is an internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter, performer and recording artist with 3 number one dance hits in the UK and the US. She also runs voice workshops.

Roz Wates

Mosaics

AT9 Sat 31 Aug - Fri 13 Sep 2013

AT10 Sat 14 - Tues 21 Sep 2013

Rosalind Wates is an experienced mosaicist, renowned for her public art projects up and down the UK. She works in a variety of styles and materials, mainly by commission: her clients range from film stars and billionaires to public bodies and local communities. Although versed in traditional mosaic techniques, she constantly explores the creative possibilities of the medium to produce new work. As well as producing mosaics, Rosalind also teaches and has carried out TV and radio work. Her book, The Mosaic Decorator’s Sourcebook, has been translated into several languages and is sold worldwide.

Berny Woodward

Outdoor Adventure

AT7 Sat 10 - Fri 23 Aug 2013 (2 wks)

AT8 Sat 24 - Sat 31 Aug 2013 (1 wk)

Berny holds the UK Mountain Instructors Certificate and has extensive experience having worked in the RAF as an Outdoor Adventure Instructor for over 20 years. He is also a self taught artist and poet.

Silke Ziehl

Bodywork

AT5  Sat 20 - Sat 27 July 2013 (1 wk)

AT6 Sat 27 - Fri 9 Aug 2013 (2 wks)

Silke Ziehl is a body psychotherapist with vast experience who sees her work as exploring how to achieve a more balanced and joyful way of living. Silke runs groups in self-development and body-awareness, and trains people to become bodyworkers and body psychotherapists with heart and soul. She sees her work as exploring with people how to reconnect to their body's deep knowing and to a non-judgmental and joyous way of being.