Fiona Agombar
Fiona is an author and yoga therapist in the Viniyoga Tradition. She is accredited as an advanced teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY). She specialises in teaching yoga for CFS/ME, Burnout, stress and long-Covid. She is the author of Beat Fatigue with Yoga (Cherry Red Books) and Yoga Therapy for Stress, Burnout and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Singing Dragon). […click arrow to read more…]
Fiona has also written a book on Long Covid and fatigue with Nadyne McKie: Breathe, Rest Recover published in November 2024 by Singing Dragon. She runs regular retreats in which participants enjoy laughter, fun and yoga to restore and rest.
Fionaagombar.co.uk
YouTube channel with free resources and classes https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ_0eOA8GhFNaW9a9TKTYhQ
Facebook Yoga group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/560314231255748
Simon Allen
Simon has travelled extensively, sharing his practice of Tai chi and Qigong with people from all walks of life. He has taught in various community centres, holistic festivals, spiritual communities, drug rehabilitation centres and retreats.
Sue Antrobus
With over 40 years in healthcare and a decade dedicated to women’s trauma recovery, Sue guides women to heal emotional wounds, release old patterns, and reconnect with their true selves. Blending Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic techniques, and Polyvagal Theory, she creates a deeply safe and supportive space for transformation. […click arrow to read more…]
Sue has held senior board and governance roles within UK healthcare, contributing to strategic leadership and community wellbeing, and now works online from both Andalusia and the UK with an international client base. Her calm, grounded presence inspires self-compassion, resilience, and lasting change.
Leah Barnett
Leah teaches weekly yoga classes, private sessions, and retreats, specializing in working with people with chronic conditions, including fatigue (ME/CFS/LC), cancer, MS, arthritis, as well as those with anxiety disorders, PTSD, and complex trauma. Leah also trains yoga teachers for Yoga Campus. […click arrow to read more…]
Leah has been teaching yoga for almost 20 years, having trained with the Inner Yoga Trust in 2001. At that time, she was working as a human rights and refugee lawyer. After giving up a legal career, Leah trained in the ‘Yoga for the Special Child’ program in 2004. In 2011, she undertook further training in the Krishnamacharia tradition in the UK and India and qualified as an advanced teacher with the British Wheel of Yoga (BWY). In 2014, Leah completed the BWY ‘Yoga for Cancer’ training with Julia Friederberg. Over the years, Leah has also studied with Donna Farhi, Mathew Sanford, Angela Farmer, and Fiona Agombar, with whom Leah has trained and co-taught retreats and training programs.
Leah recently contributed to the book ‘Yoga Therapy for Stress, Burn-out and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’ by Fiona Agombar, which is available from all major outlets.
Leah’s website is unwindwithleah.com
Equilibrio Retreats – Anna & Jane Bartholomew
Sisters Anna and Jane are reflexologists and founder members and developers of Equilibrio Retreats, running retreats since 2016. They are delighted to be bringing two very special Equilibrio Reflexology Retreats to the beautiful Almeji retreat centre in 2026. […click arrow to read more…]
equilibrioretreats.com
richard Brennan
Richard has taught the Alexander Technique since 1989 and has written more than 8 books on the subject, translated into eleven languages.
Kecia Chin
Kecia is an Alexander teacher who assists Richard on his courses. She is also an experienced yoga teacher and looks at how a variety of forms of exercise can improve efficiency in movement.
Rachel Caine
Rachel has created communities of life, love and laughter in projects throughout Europe for 30 years, including many sessions at Cortijo Romero and Skyros. She is an award-winning Sacred Clown activist, Laughter Yoga Leader and Shamanka healer in the Andean tradition. […click arrow to read more…]
After running a healing Spa in Ibiza for a decade, she now conducts ceremonies and funerals and writes poetry as “Doris Eagle Feather Duster”, Holy Fool and Celebrant, who sits in a pine tree contemplating the funny side of life.
She is currently writing a memoir “Red Nose Blessings” about the transition from business woman to Sacred Clown and her life clowning in the Mediterranean. A big animal lover, since the Pandemic she has been ambushed by a colony of street cats !
Facebook: Rachel Caine (Doris Eagle Feather Duster)
Mhairi Clutson
Mhairi originally trained as an Interior Designer at the Glasgow College of Building and Printing, however after 15 years, she decided that she much preferred designing exterior spaces and working with plants so re-trained as a Garden Designer. Both a designer and teacher of design, she has now been designing commercial & residential projects for nearly 30 years. […click arrow to read more…]
Mhairi moved to Andalucia in the summer of 2016 after spending the 20 years running a garden design company with her husband in London. They specialised in designing and building drought-tolerant Mediterranean gardens for clients in the UK and are now enjoying designing for clients here in the region.
Whilst running her design practice in London Mhairi was also a garden design tutor at City Lit adult education college in Covent Garden for several years. She loved teaching, and many students enrolled on multiple courses and used what they had learned to design their own gardens.
Mhairi says, “The chance to teach small groups at Hotel Almeji in such a beautiful, relaxed environment provides an exciting new opportunity to pass on skills, tips & experiences and to demonstrate that even the most uninspiring spaces can be transformed into beautiful garden sanctuaries that enhance our well-being.”
Rebecca Faro & Rafael ANderson
Rebecca is a dancer, poet, performer & movement /embodiment facilitator. She has run workshops and retreats in the UK and in Spain for many years, combining her skills of creative dance, authentic movement and drama. Rafael (BA Hons, Arch Dip Arch RIBA) is an architect, writer and historian. He has written and lectured widely on Spanish history, architecture and the Islamic legacy of al–Andalus. He has worked as a guide lecturer, leading tours of the cities of Andalucia, including Ronda. […click arrow to read more…]
Rebecca has had a wide range of training & skills which includes: Creative Dance, Authentic Movement, Creative Writing, Improvisation, Drama, Breathwork, Grief counselling, Death doula, and hosts regular death cafes in her local area.
She combines all of these aspects together to create her own unique eclectic blend of the embodied, somatic experience infused into her courses. She has recently published her first poetry book, Catching the Fall.
As a guide lecturer for the UK-based company ‘Specialist Tours’, Rafael has lead tours of Ronda, Seville, Cordoba and Granada. He also guides in the Albayzin with the writer Chris Stewart, and other cultural and historical groups such as the Arts Society.
Davina Huggins
Davina is a Yoga, Meditation & Qigong teacher, Sound and Energy healer, and Acupressure practitioner. She has a deep passion for helping you to reconnect to the natural flow of energy within by weaving together movement, breath and embodied awareness to awaken the body’s innate capacity for self-healing. […click arrow to read more…]
Davina’s teaching style invites you to support your nervous system and restore the mind–body connection through grounding, breathwork, meditation and movement practices. She aims to create a welcoming and nurturing space where you can reconnect and restore your natural vitality. She advocates the importance of self care and rest to support you especially during times of overwhelm and burnout.
Beyond her practice, Davina is a mum to two boys. She loves walking, exploring new places, travelling, Kirtan, somatic dance and good food. Plus she loves a good sunrise and sunset!
Shareen Geers
Shareen Geers founded a travel group two years ago when she was feeling lost, lonely and suffering a loss of identity. In her early 50s a friendship group she valued dearly dissolved, coupled with perimenopause and empty nest syndrome, Shareen knew she needed to find her ‘tribe’ and as a result set up Ladies Who Travel, a Facebook group aimed at a similar age group, who meet locally in the UK and travel all over the world. […click arrow to read more…]
This group very quickly showed that others were feeling exactly the same as Shareen and within 2 years the group has grown to nearly 30k members and evolved to local meet ups all over the UK and group tour’s carefully curated by Shareen herself. The group has seen the likes of Morocco, Thailand, Bali, Croatia, Iceland and now hosting their first Retreat at Almeji which they hope will become a regular trip a few times a year.
Alison Goldie
Alison Goldie has had a multi-faceted career working in theatre, broadcasting and education. From playing on the UK comedy circuit to touring internationally with her award-winning company, The Weird Sisters; from stints as a BBC radio and TV presenter to directing plays for Vienna’s English Theatre; from facilitating people of all ages and abilities in making theatre to coaching presentation skills, she is at her most comfortable when translating the experience of being human into performance, and enabling others to do the same. […click arrow to read more…]
The pandemic impeded Alison’s career and health for a while, but she is back, working with her friend and colleague, Helen Wood, to make an enjoyable and accessible course from their combined experiences. Joy of Drama will arm you with creative tools whilst still feeling like a holiday.
Alison is a veteran facilitator from Cortijo Romero and Skyros Holidays. Her book, The Improv Book: Improvisation for Theatre, Comedy, Education and Life is published by Methuen. “This is a magic box you can dip into, the briefest look will reveal a gem.” Zeena Rasheed, National Drama magazine.
“Alison is such a vibrant, positive force, inside and outside the activity room. The world needs more people like her!”
Melvyn Burgess, Participant, Flip to the Fun Side, Cortijo Romero
“The session you ran yesterday was the best I’ve been to in the whole of my career.” David Woodcock, PA Consulting Services
Siu Ling Jamieson
Siu Ling is a Level 3 Pilates instructor who’s been teaching for nine and a half years, having come into it at the age of 54 – after a lifetime of searching, she has finally found her passion… Siu Ling only runs small classes, up to 10 in a group, so that she can always give as much individual attention as possible. She is dedicated to improving people’s lives through Pilates, encouraging a healthy lifestyle and caring about every person she teaches.
Ignacio Lalanne
As a young man, Ignacio left his native Argentina to pursue his artistic and theological interests. He travelled widely across the vibrant landscapes of India, Japan, and Southeast Asia – a journey that inspired his visual exploration of what he believes resides inside all of us: a sacred, loving presence. Along the way, his art-making expanded into a way of meditating and a deeper exploration of spirituality. […click arrow to read more…]
Over the years, he settled in London, gained a degree in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, later working at The Heatherley School of Fine Art, Chelsea. He intensified his mindfulness practice, went on various retreats, and volunteered at the West London Buddhist Centre. Later he studied at Breathworks Mindfulness Centre, becoming a registered Mindfulness Teacher and continuing his career as a professional Artist.
Ignacio now lives in Andalusia, Spain, where he teaches workshops and courses at his charming little country house and centres and retreats throughout Europe.
Judi Ledward
Judi Ledward is a qualified Integrative Psychotherapist with more than 45 years experience working with people to help them empower themselves. She has worked with individuals, couples and groups and has supervised other therapists. She has spent many years working in Retreat centres in Spain, Greece and the UK, offering groups and courses for self awareness and personal development. […click arrow to read more…]
She is mostly retired, supervises other therapists and runs occasional groups for the pleasure of seeing people shed unhelpful habits and find joy in who they are and in their lives.
Caroline Cross
Caroline Cross is a highly qualified multi-disciplinary practitioner and quantum energy healer with over a decade of experience guiding individuals and groups towards optimal health and well-being. Her practice integrates clinical and holistic therapeutic approaches which enable her to delve deeply into the root causes of ill health and imbalances to facilitate profound healing. […click arrow to read more…]
She is devoted to helping people understand, harness and celebrate their unique health journeys, fostering a holistic transformation that addresses physical and energetic imbalances.
Penny Little
Penny is a Pilates teacher, Pilates Therapist and Nutritional Therapist with over 20 years’ experience. She teaches regularly from her home in Winchester as well as teaching retreats in the UK, Spain and Italy.
Ingela Palmquist & Lali Devi
Ingela is the founder of a Sound healing academy and is trained in Grief processing and Yoga therapy. Lali is specialized in Wellbeing, with training in Yoga, Meditation, and Tantra traditions. Together, they host the podcast Awakening Waves.
Maggie (Star) Whiteley
Maggie is a powerful coach and educator with a passion for lifelong learning. She has experience of a wide range of group methods. Maggie is also qualified as a Spiritual Companion.
Helen Wood
Helen Wood has a passion for drama and supporting others to find the joy in the artform. She has been involved with several community theatre groups, both in London, and more recently in her home-town of Stroud, leading workshops, directing plays and producing shows and immersive events. She has also co-led drama retreats and residential courses.
Freshwater Theatre Company, the drama-in-education company which she co-founded and where she still has a strategic role, will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2026. One of its missions is to, bring a sense of fun and creativity to everything we do, ensuring that our work is enriching and uplifting.
Helen has written and performed in several autobiographical shows, including The O.S. Map Fan Club and Let’s Talk About Philip, which have been presented at the Edinburgh Fringe and on tours around the UK. Creating and performing comedy gives Helen a lot of pleasure and she has trodden the boards with a variety of comic styles that include stand-up, sketch comedy, performance poetry, comedy improv and clowning.
“Helen’s mentoring brought clarity, confidence, and momentum to my creative process. A rare mix of warmth, insight and practical direction.” Lizzie Bean, who Helen supported in the creation of her first solo show
“Helen’s advice and direction ensures that I come away feeling I have had fun, have grown in confidence and have also learnt new improvisation skills. I am always excited and looking forward to the next session.” Kim Adam, participant on a dramatic improv course