YOGA TANGO SUTRA
30 . 7 - 2 . 8 . 2026
Manuela Peverelli
I’m Manuela - in my original hometown Zurich I’m called Manu, in my chosen home France, it’s the second end, Ela.
What is guiding and motivating the human being, why some seem to live light and joyful and others heavy and depressed, how quickly moods can change and what exactly it is, that makes us alive, already fascinates me since I’m a child.
What is this 'something' that is hidden behind all this outwardly visible?
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I’m remembering the moment, when I – as a young adult - red the word ‘consciousness’ for the first time and afterwards searched for its exact meaning in a dictionary. I can’t remember the translation it gave me, but the quest of searching for the experience of this mysterious term took off.
Within my primary job as psychiatric nurse I learned a lot about the psyche of human being and I got familiar with the western approach of how to deal with psycho-mental and emotional dis-ease. During the same years, within a several year psycho analysis, I also got confronted with my own psychic chaos, patterns and attempts for copying strategies.
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As I for the first time got in touch with Yoga in in 2002, I intuitively knew, that within eastern philosophy I could find more gateways towards a path of liberation. Hence, a few years later I travelled to India, where an unknown world opened up to me and for more than a decade, I returned every winter for several months to Asia.
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The circumstances led me to a monastery in South Thailand where I for the first time got in touch with the teachings of Buddha. Many Vipassana Retreats in monastic settings in Thailand and later Myanmar followed upon that and enriched my search for the absolute and guided my path towards a broader perspective of being. Besides the insight meditation and the training of mindfulness, the practice of the four boundless heart qualities added to my practice approach. Those two wings still form the main pillar of my life.
Whenever I returned from Asia, back to a western lifestyle with profession and social life, for several years I felt challenged to integrate the discoveries from my time in silence.
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That and my still existing thirst for more depth and sustainable methods to integrate the practice, led to the decision to study essential psychotherapy in Germany, which is based on the Dharma, under the guidance of Wolfgang Erhardt and Tilmann Lhündrup.
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Full of gratitude I look back on intensive years of practice and studies.
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In 2021 together with our son Tao also Metta Villa, a small retreat center for wholesome living and consciousness in the Southwest of France, came into my life.
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My paths still lead back to Switzerland on a regular base as well as to other places to teach retreats, trainings and workshops.
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María Belén Giachello
My teaching method for Argentine tango is based on body awareness, connection with the partner, and the couple's communion with the music.
Tango is an intimate, popular, and improvisational dance. I teach the technical principles of tango (applicable to all figures) and the basic, brick-like movements. This method allows students to learn to dance independently and combine them to create their own figures, thus stimulating their creativity and development as a dancer.
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Movement is used as a means of self-expression through music, not as a figure to be memorized from start to finish and applicable only with class participants.
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The technical work is in-depth and aims to perfect individual gestures and, at the same time, improve the way they communicate.
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Tango is the ongoing dialogue between two souls.
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Javier Fernández
Born into a family of musicians in which both his father and his six siblings were devoted to the piano, Javier Fernandez enjoyed classical piano training from the age of six. After training as a music teacher, he completed his studies in classical piano at the University of Rosario in Argentina, while exploring modern harmony theory as well as the sound worlds of Jazz and Bossa Nova. His musical passion crosses over into dance, so much so that he also boasts a solid background in tango music, which led him to participate in the «Encuentro internacional para música de Tango» in Buenos Aires.
An artist of international calibre, Javier Fernandez lives and works in Switzerland. After three years in the Bankers’ Big Band, he now works mainly as an independent tango pianist. He regularly plays at the Seerose Piano Bar in Zurich, substitutes for other ensembles and conducts workshops on musicality in dance schools specialising in tango. He also performs with his own quartet and accompanies Alexandra Prusa’s musical monodrama «Abrazo – Tango der Überlebens» on the piano. His international tours have already taken him to Germany, Austria, Italy, Armenia and
Georgia.
The artistic quality of his piano playing combines with the tango with its own particularity, generating new content for the tango scene in Switzerland and Europe
Juan María Braceras
He began studying the violin in Natal, Brazil, at the age of 11 and had Osvaldo D'Amore, Rucker Bezerra and Alexandre Casado as his pillars. At 18 years old he was hired as first violin in Orquestra Sinfônica da Bahia-OSBA, in Salvador.
In 2006: Bachelor's degree with "Distinction" at the Haute École de Musique de Genève in the class of Mme. Margarita Piguet-Karafilova and M. Gabor Takacs for Chamber music.
In 2014: Master Concert with Mme. Adelina Oprean at the Hochschule für Musik Basel.
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In 2017: Soloist Diploma, in Amandine Beyer's class and Adelina Oprean.
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He participated in music festivals and Master Classes with Alberto Lysy, Pavel Vernikov, Sidney Hart, Ana Chumachenco and he was finalist and winner of national competitions for young musicians in Brazil.
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He has contributed to the recording of several styles of music, among which Brazilian popular music and also Cuban Afro-jazz, Zamazú. He composed for the group of Tango-Rock-Funk-Techno-Pop fusion, Puchero.
He has performed with popular Brazilian musicians such as Caetano Veloso, Carlinhos Brown, Gilberto Gil, Geraldo Azevedo, Sivuca, Alceu Valença, etc. He played for 8 years in the Mariachi band “Quetzal”.
At the age of 18 he was assistant teacher at the Universidade Federal da Bahia; substitute teacher in the pre-professiona programs of the Geneva Conservatory of Music; also in the system of young orchestras, Neojiba, for musicians between 8 and 20 years old; as well in Kosovo, at the music school in Gjakova; participated as a musician and coach at the Verbier Festival; and as violin teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and also tango teacher at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.
He is co-creator of KlangMundo Kammerorchester together with Pablo Márquez, orchestra with philantropic aims based in Basel.
Actually, he plays with the "Orquesta Típica de Tango Silencio". He plays with the pianist Dana Ciocarlie, in TORO together with Nathan Kirzon and in the string trio "3" with Alberico Giussani and Clara Vedeche.
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In 2022 : Artistic Director of the Association Andante.
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He cooperates with the dancer Timo Paris. He developps projetcs in Sutra House and Château de Promenois where he is Artistic Programmer.
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He contributes with the creation of Theatre pieces in the company of Maria Thorgevsky, and also with dance and the choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker in Rosas.
Juan María Braceras plays with a Jacques Bocquay, Vieux Paris, 1718 in loan of Stiftung Pirolo.
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