IBIZA INTENSIVE 2026

In/Visible Dimensions with Gemma Mallol

9th – 16th October: Contemplative Movement Arts Intensive in the North of Ibiza

This intensive explores visible and invisible dimensions through the intersecting lenses of yoga, somatics, contemplative movement, and Butoh dance. We will investigate where these practices converge and where they diverge—across their principles, techniques, aesthetics, and philosophies—to highlight how movement arises from both what can be seen and what is sensed, imagined, or hidden.

Situated in Ibiza, my ancestral lands, this intensive invites a deep attunement to visibility and invisibility through contemplation, somatic movement, expression, and gesture. Our exploration will take place both indoors and in selected outdoor sites across the island. Practices will include solo work, partner work, group collaboration, and the art of witnessing.

As we move from the inner landscapes of the somatic experience toward the outer world, we will explore what becomes visible—how internal states, once felt and recognized, begin to take form in expression and relational movement. Through witnessing, we investigate how becoming visible naturally touches the realm of the performative. How is it to be visible? to be seen? How is it to be invisible?, unseen, what is the movement that you find through these different states, how do they express themselves?

How does bringing the hidden, inner world into visibility open pathways into movement artistry? What becomes possible when the unseen is felt, expressed, and shared? Can we remain curious about how our inner states may transform into creative material? And what calls us back toward the darker, shadowy, invisible spaces—what wisdom or necessity resides there? These questions form the contemplative foundation of our work together.

This process is always a collective one. Butoh, in particular, often references the “collective body,”, what are the ripple effects of a moving, intercultural collective body enters into dialogue with place, with land, with ancestry, and with each other?

Your participation contributes to an ongoing body of embodied research and to the cultivation of a creative, movement-based practice community. Many of you are already part of this evolving field of shared inquiry, and I look forward to reconnecting—hearing how your practices are unfolding and witnessing how our collective work continues to weave us together.

We warmly welcome all bodies, brain types, ages, ethnicities, and genders. Places are limited to 12. Accommodation fills quickly in Ibiza, so early booking is highly recommended.

Schedule:

5.5 days of practice, approx 4 hrs day of teaching per day, space in timetable given for beach, swimming, walking, and enjoying the beauty and other things Ibiza has to offer.

Arrivals day in Ibiza on Fri 9th October

First Day: Saturday 10th October 2.30pm - 6.30pm

Last Day: Thursday 15th October We finish by 6pm

Departures day Fri 16th October

If you can spare the time / money, it is recommended to stay for the weekend post intensive for deeper rest, reflections, and integration time.

Intensive Locations: Sessions will take place in a movement studio in the North of the island and outdoors in some different locations (site specific)

Accommodation: These are non-residential intensives. We have a list of suitable places in the North of the island that we can recommend and it is up to you to arrange your own accommodation. If you book with ample time, then it is much easier to put participants together to share twin rooms, an apartment or small house (3 or 4 sharing) and then costs can remain low, 40 Euros a night sharing or expect to pay about 65 Euros a night for a room to yourself these are the most budget options.

Food: We recommend that participants have a light breakfast before morning practice. The options for lunch are to bring a packed lunch or to have a Spanish menu of the day in town, we have some local recommendations. Included in the price are 3 dinners that will take place at Gemma’s place.

Cost: Non- Residential 375 / 475 GBP (sliding scale) includes teaching and 2 catered dinners, doesn’t include flights, transfers and insurance.

Bookings & Info:

To book your space, please pay 50% of cost deposit to either the bank details or PayPal below. Once paid, please email confirmation of payment to Gemma on stillflowing@hotmail.co.uk. The balance must be paid in full a minimum of 1 month before start date.

Please email Gemma on stillflowing@hotmail.co.uk or Whats App 00 44 7745300237

Places are limited to 12 so please book in advance to ensure your access to accommodation

Payment Details:

Gemma Mallol, Nat West PLC, Sort Code: 521003, Acc No: 68665598

PayPal:

gemmamallol@hotmail.com

Cancellation Policy:

If you cancel 90 – 60 days before start date you lose a cancellation fee of 100 GBP

If you cancel 60 – 30 days before start dates you lose 50% (your deposit)

If you cancel 30 days or less you lose 100% of the total cost of the training

For cancellations as a result of Covid-19, please get in touch with Gemma on stillflowing@hotmail.co.uk

Once the programme has started NO refunds for intensives, trainings or retreats will be issued.

In the case of unexpected illness, participants must recourse to their medical insurers for refunds for the cost of retreat, workshop, training and/or flights.

In the case of compassionate grounds, if there is adequate space, participants may transfer to another programme, however this will be at the discretion of the Director Gemma Mallol.

Any one of the teaching / organisational team (it will be a team consensus) reserve the right to ask any participant to leave the retreats, intensive or training without refund at any time should they be causing themselves or the group, harm, harassment, or disturbance, not following the code of conduct or in a fragile or unsafe state of body/mind (in which case they will be adequately supported to leave and get home safely)

Testimonial Sharings:
(These are fragments of an account written by one of the participants of our 2023 intensive)

“Physically touching, smoothing, tucking sticking, smearing in the final phases of the mask making connected me to its embodiment into a being… dancing my own ritual… spontaneously collecting artefacts that became sacred charged objects seemed like an important precursor/ rehearsal for the real ritual, though I didn’t realise it at the time. I was performing a permission seeking ritual to nature.

I did not know that my sculpture would embody as the Widow of Mother Nature until Thursday evening. When the name came, everything that I felt in the morning practices… then had a reason, which I’d not been able to articulate during the morning sharing sessions.

During the final act in the water, letting the Widow go was more reverential as an individual moment. Felt very intensely aware of the presence & intimacy with her. Felt responsible & wanted to reassure the Widow that her journey was inevitable and she’d fulfilled her purpose because she was inside me now…

Walking barefoot through brambles to the water hurt, but was a necessary precursor to the final act. I felt if I was suffering it would alleviate the puppet’s suffering. It also was symbolic to experience physical pain before the letting go. Like I was offering my physical suffering in exchange for the Widow & her wisdom embodying with me.

Thank you, thank you, Thank you.”