october 10-12 2025

Karrantza- BIskay

Shakti Akroyoga Festival aspires to be a reference festival in the Basque Country to spread the practice of AcroYoga, a discipline that grows more and more every day.

This festival also wants to recognize the female gender in AcroYoga: Shakti is the Sanskrit word for the feminine aspect of energy within the framework of Hinduism. It manifests as a creative and nourishing force, which empowers the gifts of divine beings, not as something separate from them, but as an aspect of their being.

Therefore, we want to promote a celebration where women can be the protagonists in AcroYoga, finding their place in this discipline, either in the role of bases or flyer, as well as the innate caregiver role of spotters, being leaders of their own bodies and projects.

In its first edition in September 2018, el Shakti Akroyoga Festival already attracted a lot of participants, who came to share and celebrate (and even curious to know this thing called acroyoga and try it for the first time!). This year the festival wants to grow, with a larger organizational team, following the idea and direction of Gloria Peón, with more activities, more disciplines, more capacity…

What is AcroYoga?

It is a discipline that springs from Yoga, which with regular practice brings incredible benefits both in the individual and at the community level, cultivating trust, connection and joy. AcroYoga fuses the spiritual wisdom of Yoga with the therapeutic sensitivity of Thai massage and the dynamic power of acrobatics.

AcroYoga is a beautiful way to share our yoga practice with another person, two people or with a whole group, known or unknown, always looking for the balance between the connection with oneself and with others, through movements, postures and balance, in harmony.

What else…?

In addition, you can enjoy different styles of Yoga, Thai Massage and other alternative therapies, Ecstatic Dance and much more! Check the program for more information.

Team Shakti

Gloria Peón

Founder and director of the project

Although the festival was born in September 2018, in “La Glo”‘s head the idea had been developing for a long time. Finally this past year 2018 it materialized and took shape, as she found the ideal place for its celebration in the facilities of Amalurra.

She has worked as an aerial acrobat for the last ten years and has traveled throughout Europe with her show. Yoga has been part of her training from the beginning and through yoga began to awaken other bodily abilities, such as body awareness. AcroYoga appeared on her way as a gift to heal the body, as well as to share and connect with other people. In her classes she likes to share from the opening of the soul so that everybody can have love and fun. She believes that the smile is generous for the body and loosens tensions and fears.

Miren

Translation

Natxo

Design, community manager

Sandra

Web design

2019 Teachers

EMILY

PARTNER ACROBATICS

Emily Baxter cofounded PartnerAcrobatics.com and runs teacher trainings, intensives and workshops worldwide.
Born in Canada and nomadic for the last ten years, Emily happily travels, teaching, learning, laughing, playing. Alongside acro she also teaches slackline retreats and anatomy on various Yoga Teacher Trainings.

Trained as a postural therapist Emily also works with corrective exercises and functional movement.
Emily has always had a passion for movement and body awareness. This coupled with her strong background in anatomy manifests in her teachings as clear, precise, thoughtful instruction.
She is known for her never-ending energy and contagious enthusiasm.

MARCO

PARTNER ACROBATICS

Marquito is a hybrid with more flyer skills but he enjoys both roles. He trained with the partneracrobatics.com school. His teaching is characterized by gentleness and respect.
He likes to teach handstands, standing and also some L basing.
What he enjoys most about acro is the connection it creates between people and giving the first experience to people who have never tried before.

LAURA

CONTACT IMPROVISATION

A small town girl who always liked to defy gravity. Climbing trees, buildings, whatever she could. She was always involved in weight shifting, co-ordination …. skating, climbing, athletics, football, skipping, lots of skipping. Full-time mother. Multifaceted artist. Creator of the musical project ‘Sotavento’ of traditional Latin American folklore. She is passionate about beauty, art, roots and life in the countryside. Creator and coordinator of cultural/social/rural events. Ten years ago she discovered acroduo, aerial, circus. She became a stilt walker. She trained in various dances, flamenco, African, vertical dance. When Contact Improvisation appeared, she merged her passion for dance and acrobatics. Trained in Bilbao, by the Contact school of Madrid ‘FCI’. Serving and sharing as a purpose of life, leads her to deepen in pedagogy and thus expand tools to transmit more and better.

 

Sandra de San José

AcroYoga, Family AcroYoga

She discovered Yoga 10 years ago. While practicing and trying other styles she learned about aerial yoga and AcroYoga and the later led her to discover the world of Thai massage. For a few years she devoted herself to travel in Asia to do different trainings in Thai massage, yoga, acroyoga and wuo tai. She made the Teacher Training with AcroYoga International in 2014 in Mexico and since then teaches AcroYoga in Madrid and its surroundings. Her training in Yoga for children and her motherhood in 2015 went hand in hand with other ways of sharing AcroYoga with young and old until she did the Family AcroYoga Teacher Training in 2018 in Brussels. Her passion is to share Yoga and AcroYoga with adults, children and families so that these practices and their benefits can create a more conscious, peaceful and loving world.

www.yogainature.com

ATIC

VERTICALS, ACROVERTICALS, FLOOR ACROBATICS, CONSENT

Atic H. Deba is a circus artist and teacher specialising in verticals, acrobatics and portes. Her work combines technique with creative exploration, seeking for each person to develop their own physical language in hand balancing. Her approach focuses on consent and listening to the body, prioritising enjoyment and the value of the process over the result.

From her profile @queeny.reveal, she shares her research on verticals and training methodologies. Her classes are open to people of different levels, always respecting individual rhythms and encouraging a conscious practice, where technique becomes a tool for expression and personal discovery.

 

Amaia

ACROYOGA

My name is Amaia. I have always been an active and sportive person. The desire to understand how the world works pushed me to graduate in Physics, as well as the idea of ​​understanding not only the environment that surrounds me, but also my own interior, led me to practice disciplines such as acroyoga or verticals. The union of these two aspects, on the one hand the understanding of the theory of forces and on the other, the development of proprioception, give me the opportunity to understand the roots of acroyoga and have a complete vision of it. I see acroyoga as a tool capable of connecting people through care and respect. I have been practicing acroyoga since 2017 and I have recently course the Acroyoga Teacher Training in Valencia with AcroyogaPrem.

Clara

Yoga e invertidas

I discovered the world of Yoga when I went to study Psychology in Amsterdam and subjects such as “Mindfulness” and “Cultural Psychology” were essential in the syllabus.
That moment was like a kind of “awakening” for me and it made me open my eyes (mind and heart) towards a more holistic and integrating vision of psychology and the world.
Thus, I began to study and practice different styles and disciplines of Yoga. I started doing it in the “Delight Yoga” studio in Amsterdam, and then when I returned to Madrid in other studios like “Bindu Yoga” (Danilo Hernandez).
All this path led me to become certified as a yoga instructor with the “Green Yoga International”.
Later, I returned to Amsterdam to finish my degree in Psychology and continue my training in the yoga studio where everything had started for me years ago. There, in addition to being a “karma yogi” I dedicated myself to training in this aspect of Yoga-Therapy that means so much to me and I took courses such as: “Yoga-therapy training for stress and anxiety”, “Yoga for transformational processes” and “Yoga and Mindfulness to enhance emotional well-being”.
Currently, I am a Yoga instructor at the Qi en Movimiento studio (Gijón), where I teach Vinyasa Yoga and Mindful Yoga classes, continuing my learning and personal evolution with my active participation in all kinds of courses, workshops and events in which I can take part.oyogaPrem.