2026 events calendar -
2026 events calendar -
This year we will have a diverse offer of events between March and November. We will host artistic residencies with national and international artists, as well as workshops with local artists (ceramic, land art, sculpture, sound and nature acoustics, etc).
ACROYOGA - Connection : Trust : Playful Ease
March 28 - 29
Venue: Estúdio Yucca - Cabanas de Tavira
ACROYOGA – FUNDAMENTALS
This intensive is designed for AcroYoga beginners and for those who want to safely refresh and deepen their foundations. AcroYoga is a playful way to build trust, connect with yourself, and experience joy together. We create a safe space where you can explore at your own pace – with clear, calm guidance, step by step and without any pressure to perform.
We begin with Solar Basics: initial L-base techniques, partner exercises, and clear principles of balance, body tension, and communication. You’ll learn how to offer stability as a base and how to find ease as a flyer – supported by trust, presence, and playful connection. Through small transitions and short flows, we combine individual elements into simple sequences that are safe and joyful to practice.
On the second day, we dive into the Lunar practice: Thai & Fly, conscious touch, mindful holding, and therapeutic elements that bring deep relaxation and connection. Here, the focus is on letting go, softening, and experiencing support – a nourishing counterbalance to the active Solar practice. In Thai yoga massage, we explore how touch creates calm and how trust can settle into the body.
This intensive is open to anyone who wants to discover AcroYoga or strengthen their fundamentals – whether you already have some experience or are completely new. Everyone will find suitable levels and partners; we switch regularly, practice together, laugh, play, and grow as a group. Everything happens at your own pace.
A weekend dedicated to connection, trust, and lightness – between sky, earth, and togetherness. An invitation to be held, to hold, to fly, and to land – playfully, safely, and with full presence.
What awaits you
* Solar- & Lunar-Basics
* L-base fundamentals for flyers & bases
* Balance · Body Awareness · Communication
* Thai & Fly + Thai Yoga Massage
* simple transitions & small flows
* partner switching — everyone finds a suitable Level
Saturday — Solar Basics
Dynamics · Trust · Playful Flying
10:00–13:00 · Warm-up, L-base fundamentals, partner techniques
13:00–14:30 · Lunch break
14:30–16:30 · small transitions, balance, flows
from 16:30 · open jam (optional)
Sunday — Lunar Basics
Mindfulness · Connection · Thai & Fly
10:00–13:00 · Therapeutic flying, lunar flow
13:00–14:30 · Lunch break
14:30–16:30 · Thai yoga massage, relaxation & integration
No fixed partner needed. Everything happens at your own pace.
A weekend of trust, connection & lightness — between sky, earth & togetherness.
Price (self-assessed): | Saturday €60–75 | Sunday €60–75 | Both days: €105–135
Optional Discounts | Combo (both days): –€10 |
Max. savings: €15 | Early Bird: –€5 | Bring-a-Friend: –€5
Info:inbewegung@gmx.de
+49 15773515834
About Estúdio Yucca — the venue for the intensive
Estúdio Yucca is a unique movement space in the Algarve – minimalist, warm, calm, and at the same time full of vibrant energy. The studio is located in Cabanas de Tavira, nestled between the sea, nature, and the village’s small streets. Bright light, a spacious wooden floor, and a clear, open atmosphere make it a place where movement feels effortless from the very first moment.
Optional stay at Estúdio Yucca
For this intensive, on-site accommodation is available at Estúdio Yucca. You can choose between a shared room, a double room or, in limited number, a single room. Accommodation is optional, but ideal if you’d like to arrive relaxed, enjoy short distances, and really make the most of the weekend. If you’re interested, please send an email to – estudio.yucca@gmail.com
Caminho Do Corpo - 5th edition
April 24 - May 3
Venue: Estúdio Yucca - Cabanas de Tavira
For the fith year Caminho Do Corpo invites you for our dance journey throughout 9 days immersed in the powerful nature of the Algarve in southern Portugal. Our vision is to create a wholesome experience, to meet ourselves and everything around us with all senses. To listen deeply into the way we get in touch with each other and (our)nature.
Focus this year: poetry of the skin. Ecosomatics, art & performativity in nature, CI, sensing, movement & improvisation. Our Skin is the living landscape of relation, the shore between inner and outer worlds - a place of exchange where the self and the “other” meet. It is not a wall but a membrane, permeable and responsive, a place of reciprocity, where touching and being touched are one, always shifting, always in exchange.
Organisers: Katha Löffler, Sarah Solea, Pawel Konior, Maya Wuytack @wellenfest
Moviment’ação
May 9 & 10
Venue: Estúdio Yucca - Cabanas de Tavira
We would like to invite you for a 2 day journey dedicated to the body, presence and listening, where we curate a full immersion into the pratices of movement.
This second edition will be based on creating a space for exploring different expressions of Movement: Capoeira, Contemporary Dance, Acro, Yoga, among other proposals.
Movement Culture is a holistic approach to physicality, and this proposal brings exactly that: exposing the body to different stimuli.
The intention is to bring people together with a purpose, to move, and to move in various ways!
These days are open to everyone, regardless of previous experience.
Teachers: Tiago Santana and more to be announced.
Dancing Practices that Promote Well-being, Resilience and Healing in Challenging times
A movement workshop with Charlie Brittain and Kirstie Simson
May 20 - 24
Venue: Estúdio Yucca - Cabanas de Tavira
There is deep inspiration and rigour in a practice of improvisation that posits vulnerability at its heart. Developing the skills to be able to care for, engage, respect, and respond to that state of openness in oneself, others and our environment generates creative work that is powerful and transformative. Learning from a place of interconnectedness can give us the resilience and insight to face life's challenges and complexities.
In honouring our body’s innate attraction and drive towards wholeness, balance, creativity & healing, we will explore embodied intelligence and imagination utilising dancing practices that emerge from the radical softness of the heart-space.
These reflective practices support us in witnessing the transformation and joy that is realised through the challenging simplicity of experiencing our bodies in motion. Over the course of the workshop, we will journey through shared dancing, scored movement explorations and space for group processing - affirming the poignancy of our human connectedness, and its implications for health and resilience in facing the universal and personal challenges of our lives today.
The work emerges from the grounding of care gleaned from their extensive collective experience, comprising improvisation, Contact Improvisation, contemporary dance, Alexander technique, bodywork and myofascial release, movement rehabilitation, human biomechanics, musculoskeletal health, integrative health practice, Aikido, meditation and emergency care.
We share our work through facilitated exercises, open time for play and exploration, movement scores, observations, self-reflection, deep listening, discussion, and humour. Much of the work is experienced through partnering and connection with others, balanced with solo/group time for processing and reflection.
Kirstie’s broad knowledge of improvisation as a renowned teacher and performer, and Charlie’s extensive experience as a professional dance artist, choreographer and performer brings rigourous depth to their work, which is regenerative and Life-affirming.
Together we will explore new avenues through which we can move forward to face the uncertainty in our world today.
Kirstie and Charlie’s ever-evolving collaboration is centred on their shared passion and dedication for dance and healing, which manifests through teaching, performing, and co-creating. Their work expands as it is shared internationally and in the diverse contexts of dance, healthcare and, Life.
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*This is an open level workshop offering valuable information for dancers, movement practitioners and health professionals including those with little or no experience.
Bonus scene from the dance Documentary ‘Force of Nature’ about the dance artist Kirstie Simson by filmmaker Katrina McPherson.
Movement Retreat ~ 3rd edition
July 6 - 11
Venue: Estúdio Yucca - Cabanas de Tavira
Estúdio Yucca invites Movement Lisboa for a 6 day retreat with 2 daily practices in total of 6 hours per day. Inspired by the teachings of some of the most important names in the field, Movement Lisboa was born and founded by André Dias and Tiago Martins, a duo who dedicate their work on sharing several techniques in Lisboa, Portugal under the guidance of different approaches. They also develop their own research and practices in order to update body possibilities and knowledge to get everybody / anybody moving daily and healthier.
What is Movement ?
Movement is a practice that combines concepts from different disciplines with the aim of expanding the practitioner's psychomotor vocabulary and promoting more functional and healthy individuals / humans with better relationships with their bodies and knowledge over their capacities. Movement promotes practical information against the poverty of a general movement vocabulary that is evident in the majority of the population, confined to too many hours of daily inactivity and in uncomfortable / aggressive positions for a body that is desired to be functional.
What can I expect from Movement classes inside the Yucca Retreat ?
To learn the basic concepts and main areas of this practice, such as Locomotion, Coordination, Floorwork, Mobility, Organic Strength, among others. These areas combined with each other without dissociating layers. But their development is the pillar of a quality life inside Movement.
Teachers: Tiago Martins e André Dias
Interested in hosting an event at Estúdio Yucca?
If you're interested in hosting a retreat, event or training with us, then please get in touch to discuss.