The people of Barranco Spirit

A project like this does not emerge alone.

Between founders and advisors
A project like this does not emerge alone. It needs people willing to build something. The founders carry the vision and found the place. The advisors bring knowledge that makes this vision viable. What connects them is the conviction that art, nature and human development need not be thought of separately.

The founders of Barranco Spirit

Ein lächelndes Paar sitzt entspannt auf einem großen Felsen am Flussufer, umgeben von Felsen und grünem Pflanzen.

Christoph Lukas is an independent artist. For years he has been working at the intersection of personal development, spirituality, sustainability and art. From a growing network of teachers and practitioners in these fields, the idea emerged to create a place where all of it converges. Not as a programme, but as a living process. His foundational concept for Barranco Spirit, the cosmic egg, arranges the project in layers from the ground of the earth to the spiritual.

Petra Lorber has engaged with transformation and body-oriented psychotherapy since her youth. She studied at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and completed trainings in Shiatsu, Shintai, Core Energetics and trauma therapy. Buddhist philosophy has accompanied her for decades. At the same time, as a mother of four, she built and ran a mail-order business over many years. For Barranco Spirit she brings both together. Her entrepreneurial experience and a deep understanding of what happens in the body when change begins.

Nahaufnahme eines lächelnden Mannes mit lockigem Haar und Bart im Freien bei Sonnenschein.

Henry Farkas

Advisor for sustainable architecture

Mathematician, programmer and founder of the agency down2earth. Henry designs seminars on sustainable and alternative building. As co-founder of the cooperative "Wir bauen Zukunft," he co-developed an academy for sustainable construction. For Barranco Spirit he creates the concept for water management and ecological building.

Porträt eines lächelnden Mannes mit braunen Haaren und Bart vor klarem blauem Himmel.

Lukas Friedman

Advisor for permaculture

Permaculture specialist and teacher. From 2012 self-employed as a horticulturist in Switzerland, then building the project "Permapartner," since 2017 running his own permaculture farm in Portugal. He knows this climate, this soil, this vegetation. For Barranco Spirit he designs the permaculture concept and guides the regenerative development of the landscape.

Älterer Mann mit Brille, Halbglatze und grauem Schnurrbart, trägt einen dunklen Anzug und weißes Hemd.

Wolfgang Lüling

Advisor for business development

Graduate engineer, management consultant and coach. Wolfgang has accompanied organisations in their development for years, with the analytical eye of an engineer and the patience of a coach. For Barranco Spirit he supports financial planning, organisational development and project management.

Porträt eines nachdenklichen Mannes mit Bart, der an einem Baum sitzt, umgeben von bewachsenem Laub.

Nicolas Plenge

Advisor for business success

Connected in the solar industry for years, he brings experience in business development and building partnerships. At the same time, personal development and nonviolent communication shape his approach. For Barranco Spirit he is ambassador and voice, carrying the project into contexts that reach beyond the art world.

Junger Mann mit lockigem Haar und Schnurrbart, der in einem dunkelgrauen Sakko vor grünem Hintergrund sitzt und lächelt.

Indra Lorber

Advisor for communications

Marketing director at a cybersecurity company. For Indra, communication is guided by relevance and substance. Projects that centre on human togetherness and a sustainable relationship with the world move him. For Barranco Spirit he contributes his expertise because he believes in what is emerging here.

The practitioners of Barranco Spirit
Barranco Spirit sees itself as a platform. The place provides the space, the infrastructure and the conceptual framework. Seminar leaders, teachers and practitioners from a wide range of fields bring their work here and make it tangible in this particular context. Yoga, trauma therapy, sound healing, nonviolent communication, natural medicine, permaculture. Those who work here use the place as a resonance chamber for what they wish to carry into the world. Some have already planned their first journey.
Frau praktiziert Yoga im niedrigen Ausfallschritt mit nach oben gestreckten Armen, umgeben von Zimmerpflanzen.

Friederike Amrhein

I recognised yoga as a path that enables us to activate our self-healing powers and to sustainably and positively influence our sense of being alive. I chose to walk this path. During my training as a yoga teacher, I immersed myself deeply in the world of yoga, only to arrive, in the end, at myself — at home. Because everything you seek on the outside already exists within you. The diversity of yoga inspires me anew every day and finds expression in my various courses. I wish to share my experience and my love for yoga with you. Aham Prema.

Yours, Friederike

Person sitzt im Lotussitz vor einem großen Gong, das Sonnenlicht scheint hell durch den Gong hindurch.

Pauline Fabry

Transcendental hypnosis is a powerful path into the subconscious, into the essence. We expand the heightened state of perception over several hours and use it effectively to gain new insights and perspectives on important questions and themes. Transcend with the sounds of the gongs. Planetary force and cosmic meteorites become sound and energy. Let the universal fields and your essence flow through you. In group or individual sessions. Combined with hypnosis and other transcending arts, or entirely on its own. A singular experience.

Pauline Fabry

Lächelnde Frau mit kurz zurückgestecktem Haar trägt roten Rollkragenpullover und dunkle Strickjacke vor schwarzem Hintergrund.

Agnieszka Joti Devgyan

KRI Kundalini Yoga teacher and practitioner of Nonviolent Communication according to Marshall Rosenberg. I offer workshops, seminars and coaching in which your own spirituality becomes tangible and you come into contact with your essence. The experience of the Self has a consciousness-expanding effect. It connects you with your creative potential, brings you into your full strength and has an immediately fortifying effect on your wellbeing and health. To witness how people, through the transformative power of Kundalini Yoga and Nonviolent Communication, arrive at themselves and grow beyond themselves, fills me daily with purpose and gratitude.

Junge blonde Frau mit geschlossenen Augen vor einem türkisfarbenen Hintergrund, umgeben von bunten, unscharfen Lichtern.

Julia Tash

Juliana is a Master Theta Healing® practitioner and teacher, podcast host, and spiritual business coach.

Driven by a deep wish to remind all empaths of their healing powers, Julia provides them with the support needed to face their shadows and draw even greater strength from the process. She believes that our potential and light come from our ability to look at and accept our fears and wounds. That with the right support and training, we can all heal ourselves, find peace and come into our full life force. Through this process we are empowered to live our lives with purpose and reach our highest potential.

Junge Frau mit lockigem, nassem Haar lächelt am Strand mit Meer im Hintergrund.

Lea Zdarsky

Natural builder — earthbender — movement artist.

Bringing people into harmony with themselves and with nature is a deep wish of mine. One path there leads through ecological building. Earth construction is not only sustainable and healthy, but also deeply therapeutic, social and beautiful. Since 2018 I have been collaborating with permaculture communities, artists and retreat centres around the world, learning and teaching with passion about natural building methods and harmonious living.

Schwarz-weiß-Foto einer tätowierten Person mit Dreadlocks und großen Ohrentunneln, die sich zu einer anderen Person lehnt.

Janey Drath

Janey is a healer and shaman. Through her many stays in India and Brazil she has gathered a comprehensive wealth of experience. She is also a wonderful drum maker. She builds shamanic drums and continues the tradition of shamanic drum building from Ruedi Ruegg through workshops and seminars.

Trained by Ingeborg Kaminski in reading the Akashic Records, she was ordained as a spiritual priestess in 2009 and performs spiritual weddings. In 2016 she completed a training in "Magia do fogo" in Brazil and received initiations from indigenous shamans. Beyond this, Janey works as a coach and psychological counsellor.

Schwarz-weiß-Porträt einer lächelnden Frau mit locker fallenden Haaren, die nach rechts schaut.

Katja Kaliandra

Some years ago I discovered yoga. It was the first step toward myself: from darkness into light. Through Kundalini Yoga in particular, I gained a new awareness, came to know my true self and perceived my soul's purpose. To pass on these valuable experiences, I completed yoga teacher trainings in India and in Germany. I also learned Thai yoga massage, which offers me a different way of accessing body, mind and soul. To look even deeper into souls, I underwent a two-year shamanic training. My soul's purpose is to guide people from darkness into light. In other words, I help people find themselves, recognise and love themselves, and release everything that does not belong to them — expectations, the past, belief systems. Whether through Kundalini Yoga, Thai yoga massage, shamanic sessions or a combination. It is a great joy for me to accompany people on their individual path to themselves. I am deeply grateful for this.

Sat Nam, Katja

Frau mit braunem Hut und gelbem, bunt besticktem Oberteil spielt auf einer Rahmentrommel mit einem rosa Schlägel.

Annette Asmy

Cosmic knowledge and the reconnection to the elements, the energies and Mother Earth can teach us, guide us, heal us and make us more conscious beings. Annette Asmy works as a shaman, coach and energy healer. She offers chakra harmonisation and shamanic energy healing. She also leads rites and ceremonies and provides archetype work and coaching.

Lächelnde Frau mit braunen Haaren lehnt mit verschränkten Armen an einem Baum, trägt ein rosarot-weißes Kleid mit Blumenmuster.

Dafne Maria Fiedler

This is about the journey to yourself. Into your inner-guided clarity: for you, for your life, your calling, your business, your relationships, your stage, your being. I see and support you in your core and in your true greatness. Let's create from our soul. Nothing more, nothing less.

ALLOW YOURSELF.
JUST LOVE.

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