Pagoda del loto azul, Puntarenas Province, Uvita, Costa Rica
Up to 8 in group
June 9 - 17, 2025
About this Retreat
A giver, who love to interact and communicate, sharing knowledge and experience. A passionate navigate traveller: he was born in Switzerland where he spend his childhood. Moved to Italy and studied there. When adult he lived in Thailand, India, Sry Lanka, Nepal, Australia.
He is an expert in Chinese Medicine and Shiatsu Massage bodywork; his profession since 1998. In addition to this practice he performs hypnotherapy and Non Verbal Communication. He has created The Method World that is presented in his 4 books recently completed: "The Passenger" - "Do I Dream or Am I Awake?" - "TCM & Shiatsu Massage" - "Love Freedom Expression".
The whole work is an integration among the main aspects of the human being, that are: the Mind, the Emotions, the Body & the Movements. Each aspect has its dedicate book in its relevant area: Chinese Medicine for the Body; Neuro linguistic Programming and Psychology for the Mind; The dynamic of the Unconscious Mind and Hypnosis for the Emotions; Yoga & Aikido for the body movement which he call it HOM (Harmony of Movement).
The mission of his work is to promote a new school topic to bring into public school so we can have a society of conscious people regarding self-knowledge and the interaction of effective communication with others.
Glauco started to study Shiatsu massage in London in 1995, then moved to Italy and in 2012 completed the study of Non Verbal Communication and Hypnosis and soon after he embarked in the study of NLP completed in 2016.
Glauco has moved to Costa Rica since 2020 due to covid 19 and here has created his home base for his mission. Glauco loves to give this knowledge to whoever feel the call for it.
Details of this retreat
This retreat is designed to teach Shiatsu massage techniques level 1. It comprehends Chinese Medicine theory and all the learning material is provided: there is a handout/book written by the trainer Glauco Donati.
Students will embark in a deep insight of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and all the relative practice to perform a professional treatment. A syllabus is delivered online on demand.
Each daily lesson will start with a Yoga class and HoM (Harmony of Movement) to warm up and to become familiar with our own's body movements, since the practice will be performed on a futon on the floor (oriental massage style).
There will be 6 hours lesson per day divided by lunch time. It is possible for the student to use the Yoga shala in the evening if they want to perform on each other the everyday learning.