Orca Dreams offers programs for individuals, groups and organizations.
We work with migrants, women, social justice activists, researchers/ academics, health care workers, social workers, schools (educators, parents and students: children and youth), companies, civil society organizations, and universities.
Photo by Ayşe Dayı ofCompañeros Abilio Meneses Cuadros and Atiq Apu Quintu from Caminante Del Ande et Asociacion Cultural Akchiq Pacha, Peru.
Movement & Deep Relaxation for Women Entrepreneurs
Workshop Description:
As women and as migrant women entrepreneurs we rush through the day and may not be allowing ourselves to take time to relax deeply and rejuvenate. To celebrate the International Women’s Workers Day we offer a 2 hours workshop where we will learn some basic warm up and qigong movements, followed by deep relaxation and brief sharing.
Let us honor our sacred femininity, our valuable work and feminine power together, in…
A springtime session to nourish peace, healing and hope
Each year is a new beginning. Every day is a new beginning. Every moment is a new beginning. With the energy of the new year, we invite you to a short joyful workshop on beginning anew with our bodies. Most of us have a warring relationship with our bodies or live in our minds, disconnected from the body. When the body displays aches and pains or does not match our standards of beauty or perfection, we get angry at it. How would it be to b…
We want our children to feel safe, happy and free in a world that can feel noisy and too fast. How can we help our children to be liberated from their habits of anger, anxiety or perfectionism? This workshop is a kind space to learn practical ways to nourish mindfulness, happiness and care for ourselves and each other. Children don’t do what we say; they do what we do – by learning together as a family, you help them to create sustainable habi…
The quality of our teaching depends on the quality of our presence. With the many demands of teaching, we can feel like we’re constantly running and reacting. Mindfulness practice gives us space to breathe through our day, to learn ways to establish your teaching presence with openness and kindness, to care for yourself and to help your classroom to be a more loving, joyful and peaceful place.
In this practical workshop we will explore:
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TAKE A BREATH, TAKE A BREAK AND REFRESH:
MBSR-Based One-day Silent Summer Retreat
(Online Retreat co-organized by Orca Dreams, Medius, & Mindmoments)
We are in the summer break but you can’t relax yet?
Or maybe you are relaxed and enjoying summertime and want to reconnect to or deepen your practice?
In either case, if you feel the call to disconnect for a day from daily routines, social media and the internet and connect to yourself, …
These are mindfulness workshops offered to groups and institutions, appropriate for children, youth and adults. Programs have been and can be made together with the group or the organization, to best suit their needs.
Themes are stress reduction, body and mind awareness, holistic health, physical and psychological balance and more. Workshops include presentations of information, small and large group activities, sharing of experience, medit…
Women’s Healing Circle on Gender, Body & Sexuality
Ayşe Dayı will offer this program as a course in VHS:Volkshochschule-Mitte in Berlin.
The course is for all who self-identify as woman.
It will be every Monday 13:00-16:15, January 24-April 4, 2022.
YOU ARE INVITED!
NAME OF THE COURSE:
RE-MEMBERING AND HONORING MY SACRED FEMININE: A WOMEN’S CIRCLE ON GENDER, BODY, & SEXUALITY
WHAT WILL HAPPEN?:
It will be a collective exploration of our femininity to:
liberate our minds and bod…
This is a 9-month program of Orca Dreams, supported in part by the Henrich Böll Stiftung Friends and Supporters Fund. The program started in January 2021 and will end in October 2021 with the registered group of participants. We meet once a month online for a full day. Each gathering includes some movement, meditation, a workshop conducted by an international expert and circle sharing.
Through the workshops and our circle sharing, we share …
LET’S CREATE TOGETHER!
WOULD YOU LIKE A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF YOUR GROUP OR ORGANIZATION?
