Technique gives you freedom.
Bachata Technique
Retreat
Three days of intensive bachata technique in the mountains outside Barcelona. For intermediate dancers and up. Leads and follows.
300+ dancers completed our intensive program,
from level 1 to level 5.
Three days, five kinds of work
Fundamentals are the base, not the ceiling.
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Every block ends in the technique lab. You try it, you ask, you get feedback.
We show you how it works. Then you feel it in your body.
You leave with a certificate. And a new way to dance.
The Body Movement Graph
We are the founders of the body movement graph, since 2022. It is inspired by what Michael studied in his masters in interior architecture at university. He brought this part of him to help dancers have more clarity on how the body works.
Special attention from Michael & Mayra
The attention we put on each student, and the private feedback as well. We don't leave anyone behind. We all rise together.
We don't leave anyone behind. We all rise together.
The M&M Intensive Program
More than 300 dancers completed our intensive program, from level 1 to level 5, with our unique methodology around the world.
We can't wait to welcome you.
You will be the next one holding your certificate. See you in December.
Hi, we are Michael and Mayra.
We have been teaching together for 10 years, in more than 65 countries. In this retreat we see each one of you. We give you private feedback, and we explain how your body works, so you really understand it.
We don't leave anyone behind. We all rise together.
We see technique as freedom
Having those skills, that polished technique, gives you the freedom to create your style. To create anything more. Even learning becomes easy, because you understand what the pieces of the cake are, and what the cake is made of.
At workshops and festivals you learn combos. Don't take one as the ultimate combo and get stuck inside of it. We teach you step by step the logic behind building a combo, from fundamental to advanced.
With graphs and 3D animations of body movement. A graph that connects all the points, so you can create your own combo.
Emotions and expression are not something you need to acquire. They are something you need to allow and experience.
Nobody can teach you to feel the heat. You already can. So we make you experience different things, until that shell melts and you actually feel it.
When you experience something in your own bones, in your own flesh, it stays with you forever. And it changes you.
A concept in your mind is information. Sometimes it stays. Sometimes it leaves.
We don't teach technique for you to learn our style. We teach technique to free you.
Later you can learn from any style, and you will say: OK. This is made of this, this and this. And all together they make this combo.
Experience is knowledge. Everything else is information.
A technical change · a mindset change · an emotional change
You arrive knowing the steps.
You leave knowing how they work. That gives you
freedom.
You have been dancing for a while. And something is stuck…
You go to classes. You learn the combination. One week later it is gone.
This weekend is not about more steps. It is about understanding how your body moves, so the steps stay with you.
Fewer steps. More understanding.
This retreat is for you, if this is you…
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What changes when your body understands the movement.
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A private masía outside Barcelona
Shared rooms, heated for December · a wooden floor to dance on, with a wood stove · our own cook, three meals a day. 50 minutes from Barcelona airport. Exact address once your place is booked.
tour
Montserrat, the magical mountain of Barcelona
Imagine yourself dancing in front of one of the gems of Barcelona.
House tour
La Frasera
A 16th century masía facing Montserrat.
The houseThe dance roomYour roomBreakfast
The gardenThe view16th century
An old stone masía, only for us for the weekend.
60 hectares
Fields, forest and a garden all around the house.
Montserrat
The magical mountain of Barcelona, right in front of you.
All-inclusive. Your room, all meals and the full training. You only bring yourself.
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An all-inclusive experience
Everything from the moment you arrive. You only bring yourself.
Not included: airport transfers, flights and travel insurance.
Included
The Body Movement Graph
Michael’s method. You see the movement on paper, then you feel it in your body.
Your investment
all-inclusive from arrival at the house
20+ hours of training · personal feedback · socials · room & all meals
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Important · your travel
Land in Barcelona the day before, or on Friday before 11am. Fly home from Sunday evening. The house is 50 minutes from the airport.
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Booking & transfer conditions
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Meet your teachers
Michael & Mayra. Partners in dance and in life.
Follow us on Instagram @michaelymayraMichael & Mayra
Creators of Conscious Bachata
Our story
“Technique is never secondary, and feeling is never decoration. We teach them together.”
We are international bachata artists, life partners and the creators of Conscious Bachata. We met through a social dance at a festival in Lebanon, in 2016. What made it different was not the attraction. It was the safety, the presence and the balance.
On 4 August 2020 we survived the Beirut port explosion, inside our car, 700 metres away. After that we could not believe that tomorrow was guaranteed. Presence stopped being a concept. It became how we live, and how we teach.
Bachata has taken us very far. Festivals, stages and dancers in more than sixty-five countries.
Mayra has been moving since before she could stand. Ballet and flamenco from the age of four, then contemporary, jazz, belly dance, heels, aerial and ice skating. Her grandmother Marisa was a curandera who believed in her intuition.
She paid for her studies with her art. Model, actress, television, the stage. She also studied medicine, and her artistic career took her around the world.
Today she works in holistic women’s health and mindset coaching. Hormones, the cycle, beliefs and emotions. In the room, she looks for the potential in every dancer.
Michael studied Latin and ballroom, which gave him the technique. It also showed him that technique without connection quietly takes the aliveness out of a dancer.
From his masters in interior architecture he created the Body Movement Graph. A clear map of how the body moves, so you understand what every combo is made of.
Breath changed his life. After years of panic attacks, breath was how he came back to his body. When his father lived with pulmonary fibrosis, he saw how close breath, health and movement are.
So his approach is holistic. Inhale and exhale, expansion and contraction, become part of the technique. He teaches you how the movement works, and then how to feel it.
Conscious Bachata · our method
The five pillars of the method
Conscious Bachata is the method we created. We teach technique together with the body, the mind and the emotions, so what you learn does not stay as information. It becomes how you dance.
The Conscious Bachata Movement
The movement is the dancers. A community around the world who train this way and dance with presence. When you join a retreat, you become part of it.
A clear framework so you understand how the movement actually works. When you know what every combo is made of, you can learn any style and create your own.
Experience is knowledge. Everything else is information. Through breath and the body, the technique stops being an idea and lives in you.
We find your blocks, your limiting beliefs and your empowering beliefs. Emotions shape how you think about yourself, and that shapes how you dance.
Connection with yourself and with others is the bridge to communication. Giving and receiving, direction and surrender. The base of real leading and following on the social floor.
Technique, emotions, mindset and connection turn into a real expression of who you are. Your style, your uniqueness.
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20 spots, one group
Tell us where you are with your dancing, and if you lead or follow. We will tell you honestly if this is for you.
The schedule
Three days. Training, feedback, food and dancing at night.
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{{ schedDay.hours }}Part of the 20+ hours of training. The private feedback, the pre-party and the parties count too. 20 hours in total.
Parties end at 12 midnight, and 12:30 on Saturday, so you can rest and have all your energy for the next day.
From previous retreats
Dancers who came before you
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Awaken your dance.
Dance your magic.
Not sure your level is right?
Send us a short video of you dancing on WhatsApp. We will tell you honestly if this weekend is for you.
Booking your travel
A weekend. Friday 1pm to Sunday 5pm.
You arrive
Friday 4 December
check in 1pm – 2pm
The program starts at 3pm. The Bachata Van leaves the center of Barcelona at 12 noon. We highly recommend landing in Barcelona at least one day before, or the same day before 11am. Something warm to drink will be waiting for you.
You leave
Sunday 6 December
we finish at 5pm
The last morning brings everything together. Then our last lunch and the closing circle. We finish at 5pm and the Bachata Van leaves for Barcelona at 6pm, so we recommend a flight from the evening on, so you stay for all of it.
Barcelona is the closest airport. The retreat center is 50 minutes from Barcelona airport. The Bachata Van picks you up from the center of Barcelona or BCN airport on Friday at 12 noon and drives you to the retreat. On Sunday it leaves the retreat at 6pm, back to Barcelona. The Bachata Van is optional, at an extra cost, with a discounted price for all participants.
About two weeks before, we open a WhatsApp group. Everyone shares their travel times there and you can come in together.
Send us your flight times before you book. We will tell you if they work.
Check my flightsBefore you ask
The questions dancers write to us most.
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Still have a question?
Write to us. We answer every message personally, usually within a day.
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