THE!VESSEL!FACTSHEET TheVessel · PDF fileStation 3, Angol Road, Boracay Island, Malay Aklan 5608, Philippines 1 Tel: (+63 36) 288 5858 Email: [email protected] !!! THE!VESSEL!FACTSHEET!

Station 3, Angol Road, Boracay Island, Malay Aklan 5608, Philippines Tel: (+63 36) 288 5858 Email: [email protected]

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THE VESSEL FACT SHEET Discover your inner potential at The Vessel. The vast event space called The Vessel offers unlimited possibilities as a platform to stage events, classes and workshops. Daily Fitness for the New Age classes are held by professional instructors, including Yoga, Taebo, Zumba, Jazz, Pole Dancing, Belly Dancing, Divine Mix, Ragga Jam classes and more. Visiting Masters of different disciplines are often invited to share their knowledge and skills with Mandala Spa & Resort Villas’ staff, guests and island residents through life-‐changing workshops. The Vessel is the first of its kind, with a self-‐supporting woven bamboo dome created with organic materials found on the island. Built with sacred dimensions, the vast space offers endless possibilities and stands as a living legacy by the late visionary Dieter Schrottmann, as his last architectural masterpiece. Vision: We care to inspire people towards self-‐discovery by sharing a unique lifestyle experience.

Value: Taking the award-‐wining international brand’s distinct Mandala experience, The Vessel provides a venue to explore new fun, thrilling, exhilarating experiences and activities to promote a healthy lifestyle through Fitness for the New Age. The Vessel Event Center Architectural Statement [attached] FITNESS FOR THE NEW AGE Daily Fitness for the New Age classes are held by professional instructors, including Yoga, Taebo, Zumba, Jazz, Pole Dancing, Belly Dancing classes and more. Visiting Masters of different disciplines are often invited to share their knowledge and skills with Mandala Spa & Resort Villas’ staff, guests and island residents through life-‐changing workshops. YOGA Vinyasa Flow combines a series of poses that will move you through the power of inhaling. Helps to re-‐energize your body and release any blockage of energy.

Vinyasa Flow with Louise Lee A Boracay resident since 1993, Louise is known as ‘the good spirit of the island’. After earning a Bachelor's degree in Broadcast Communication Arts at the San Francisco State University, Louise sought out a Hatha Yoga ashram in India in 1999. In 2003, she pursued a teacher's training degree from the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram in India where she returned in 2004 for the Advanced Teacher's Training. She has had the privilege of practicing Ashtanga Yoga in Mysore India with B.N.S. Iyengar and with David Swenson in 2004. Louise describes her yoga practice as “coming home”. For her, personal yoga practice is the natural thing to do and teaching it, is following an inner calling.


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Vinyasa Flow with Rozie Delgado Rozie casually discovered yoga in 2005. In 2010, she broke her arm in a board sport injury and it was through yoga that she was able to find healing. The practice of yoga has changed her life in so many ways. She felt more balanced, more connected and more introspective. She decided to deepen her practice and received her Teacher Training certification program with Yogaworks in 2012. Vinyasa Flow pays particular attention to alignment, breath and fluid movement. The class is usually paced moderately and is open to all levels offering variations in which beginners and advanced practitioners can find their own personal growth in each class. She plays music in some classes for a more energetic and fun yoga practice. Ashtanga Yoga is a system of yoga transmitted to the modern world by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. This method of yoga involves synchronizing the breath with a progressive series of postures – a process producing intense internal heat and a profuse, purifying sweat that detoxifies muscles and organs. The result is improved circulation, a light and strong body, and a calm mind. Ashtanga Yoga with Simone Bartmann Simone has lived on Boracay Island since 2003 and is well known as a windsurfer and kiteboarding instructor. She has been practicing various styles of yoga as a perfect compliment to her water sports. Her passion for yoga and its mental and physical benefits led her to teach yoga, to share her vast experience. A certified yoga instructor, Simone has participated in several yoga workshops around the world to expand her knowledge of its different styles. Simone's classes are based on the Ashtanga Yoga principle but are conducted according to the students’ experience, making it ideal for all, including those who are not so flexible and those who are new to yoga. Her style of teaching allows time for each student to comfortably come into each posture, practice deep breathing and dynamic movements without over-‐exerting the body. Simone also customizes her teaching to challenge more advanced students to reach higher levels of practice. Hatha Yoga Earth, Water, Air Hatha Yoga with Shaun Hannocks (Shiva) Shaun is currently the resident teacher of the Vessel, handling staff and community classes as well as private guest sessions. A native of Australia, Shaun is also known by his spiritual name Shiva. He founded the Earth Yoga Foundation, which supports community building, and education programs, has reaped the benefits of yoga for many years. He has taught close to 7,000 yoga classes throughout Asia and is bringing the practice to the Boracay for the first time. For Shaun, “The yoga practice hits areas of your body seldom used. It can affect a bodybuilder just as effectively as a housewife.” By warming the yoga space to 38-‐40 degrees, it allows a person’s muscles to relax and soften, encouraging deeper work than in cooler environments. He believes, “You don’t really need any other exercise other than regular yoga. If you enjoy running then certainly run, but if you wish to just have an all-‐round healthy, strong body then this is easily achievable within this one practice.”


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“Some people love the side effects of stress relief or weight loss that accompanies yoga practice, however, for me the highest value is in seeing people getting to know and appreciate themselves on a much deeper level which they take out into their daily lives.” It started with a “Cleanse and Purify Thyself” program that led him onto a path of self-‐recovery. He was initiated into Surat Shabd Yoga -‐Supreme Master Ching Hai from 1999 to the present, with thousands of hours of seated meditation through daily practice and group meditations. “It is with great satisfaction and humility that I now find my service has become the process of sharing the gifts and knowledge, passed down to me and received through my own internal realizations. I now represent myself as Earth Yoga and share the experience of just that, experience.” Earth Yoga is designed to strengthen and lengthen the major parts of the body while improving blood circulation throughout your system.

Water Yoga is a strong Hatha Vinyasa flow, a chance to refine some of the more basic asanas.

Air Yoga is a yin practice, long holds on the floor, which focuses on the connective tissues through the body.

Dynamic Hatha Yoga with Mona Luca

Mona's ‘Dynamic Hatha Yoga’ classes feature a Vinyasa style practice that combines both hatha and Ashtanga elements, and is well suited for all levels.

Four years ago, Mona decided to leave her office career behind -‐ and has been traveling the world ever since. Next to traveling, yoga is her other passion. Mona received yoga teacher certification in 2012 from Rishikesh, India, and decided to teach yoga while traveling. Mona spent half of 2014 teaching yoga on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. She is now based in Southeast Asia, where she continues deepening her practice, meeting other yogis, and collecting new experiences. Tantra Yoga combines vinyasas, bandhas, meditative visualization, profound relaxations, mantric powers, hand gestures and asanas into the ultimate tantric ritual.

Tantra Yoga / Romantic Tantra Yoga for Couples with Jenna Marie Nuevo (Bhairavi) Jenna Marie Nuevo, also known as Bhairavi, is an authentic practitioner and dedicated servant of tantra and yoga. She learned the basics of yoga in San Francisco in 2000. She studied Ashtanga Vinyasa with Clayton Horton at Greenpath Yoga, took his Teacher Training course in 2002, and started teaching at Greenpath in 2004. She sought the path of Tantra, “A path to live in freedom and in enlightened times” and moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania to study Kashmiri Shaivism, non-‐dual Tantra from Parvathi Nanda Nath Saraswati. She went on a spiritual pilgrimage to India in 2007 and studied the Sri Vidya teachings from Sri Amritananda Nath Saraswati in Andhra Pradesh, India, and from there, went to Hyderabad to study Nikhileshwara Tantra from Maitreya (Madhusudana Saraswati). She felt very lucky to have been initiated into various authentic ancient practices in Tantra and yoga.


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POLE DANCING with Ed Aniel and Annie Aniel

Pole Dancing develops a strong body and builds stomach strength, as well as toning the thighs and lower leg muscles. It improves the natural posture and flexibility.

“All That Jazz” JAZZ DANCING with Ed Aniel Community class, open to adults and to children 8 years old and above. Learn the basic dance steps, techniques and rhythm of Modern Jazz dancing. Jazz dancing is the physical embodiment of the popular music of a given time. A performance-‐style of dancing, you will learn how to move, walk, kick, turn, spin and jump like a professional dancer, and find your own groove on any dance floor. Aside from the moves, your body becomes attuned and synchronized with various types of music. Physical benefits from Modern Jazz dancing include strength, flexibility, agility, endurance and grace. Mental benefits include body awareness, mental alertness, and self-‐confidence. Since a broad range of dance styles are fundamentally based on jazz, students may also learn the basics of dance choreography, from one of the country’s top dance choreographers. About Ed Aniel Ed Aniel began his jazz training with Hotlegs and the Metropolitan Dance Theater at 18 years of age. He studied ballet at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Dance School, where he was granted a scholarship as a danseur within one year. In-‐between ballet classes, he continued his jazz education with the Danny Vinculado Dance Department, Metropolitan Dance Theater, Hotlegs, Powerdance, and Adrenalin. Upon noticing the rising interest in pole dancing abroad and its soulful benefits, Ed decided to introduce this form of fitness to the Philippines. In early 2000, he integrated Jazz with Pole Dancing and developed a brand new dance discipline called Jazz le Pole that combines jazz and ballet moves with pole dancing tricks, resulting in a cardio workout and a new performance dance style. Today, Ed Aniel is the Creative Director of Pole Academy Philippines, the first and leading pole dancing school in the country. In 2009, the International Pole Dance Fitness Association recognized Ed by nominating him as the Manila candidate for Pole Dance Instructor of the Year. Ed's former student (now associate), Eisa Jocson, won the title of Philippine Pole Champion in the First Philippine Pole Dancing Competition in 2010. Another student (now also a PAP senior instructor), Merry Farnal Ballinger, competed in the 2010 International Pole Star Competition and won First Runner-‐Up for Pole Art. It was in the same competition where Ed was honored as the pioneer of pole dance in the country. Celebrities, foreign dancers, teachers and dance professionals, at one time or another, have studied Jazz or Pole Dancing under Ed Aniel.


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BELLY DANCING explores feminine divinity in the most natural and famous dance for a woman, a sensual and exotic dance focusing on the mid-‐abdominal region and hips.

Belly Dancing with Jenna Marie Nuevo (Bhairavi) An all-‐around perfect and most natural dance for a woman, explore feminine divinity in the most famous and infamous dance for a woman. Belly dancing is Oriental, Arabian, Egyptian, Turkish, Tribal, American Tribal, Tribal Fusion, Gothic even. Lose your mind and loosen your hips to the sensual and exotic dance of the mid-‐abdominal region and the hips, the upper body. The body only does what the mind tells it. So tell your body to dance your way to enlightenment, to freedom! Dance the dance you were born to do! TAEBO is an excellent cardiovascular workout, effective in toning and defining the body`s musculature, helps to improve balance, flexibility and coordination.

ZUMBA dance class combines a lot of routines that will improve the cardiovascular system and will help to burn a large number of calories.

DIVINE MIX with Darya Hribar is a combination of holistic activities: Body and Face Force Yoga, Pilates, Body Pump, Body Balance and Aerobic elements, and also includes a little bit of running, relaxation, meditation and healing. “My philosophy and life’s motto is to be divine as you were born to this world to shine!”

RAGGA JAM with Maya Morozova belongs to street dance genre. The name of the dance comes from Ragga (as in ragamuffin) and Jam (mixing of influences). Ragga Jam is an Afro-‐Jamaican street dance, enriched with the elements of Hip-‐Hop, Jazz and other African dances. Ragga Jam gives the dancers the freedom of expression, rich and original choreography and bestows upon them the energy of positive Ragga spirit. Learn this new street dance style as you exercise to its funky background beats! CLASS RATES Community Classes are by donation (Php50 minimum fee). Boracay Residents Php300 per class Php2,500 for a 10-‐class pass (valid for 3 months) Php4,000 for a 10-‐class pass for Pole Dancing Non-‐Residents Php400 per class Php3,500 for a 10-‐class pass (valid for 3 months) Php500 per class for Pole Dancing Unlimited Classes 3-‐Month Package – Php9,000 6-‐Month Package – Php13,500


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The Vessel Rates (Non-‐Residents) – By request The Vessel Rates (Boracay Residents) – By request CONTACT US The Vessel is open daily from 8:30am to 8:30pm. Contact us for class, workshop and event schedules, inquiries and venue bookings. Tel: (+63 36) 288 5858 Mobile: (+63 917) 634 8430 Email: [email protected]. Location: Station 3, Angol Road, Manoc-‐Manoc, Boracay Island For more information please contact [email protected]. For media inquiries please contact [email protected]. We thank you for your interest in Mandala Spa & Resort Villas. We look forward to the pleasure of serving you and your valued followers and clients. Please let us know if we can assist you further in any way. Very truly yours, Czarina ‘Zora’ Moresco The Vessel Administrator / Events Coordinator

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