Estela Jimeno Abril
Certified Childhood Educator, Writer & Life Coach
Gaëlle Faure
Mother, Yoga Teacher & Life Coach
About us
Estela and I met in Hamburg three years ago. Estela is Spanish but was living in Germany for 9 years. I just moved to Hamburg but lived five years in Spain and love speaking Spanish. We naturally instantly became friends.
We worked together for a seminar at Panta Rei Retreat Center in September 2021. We did a Life Coaching Training together in February 2022 and are both certified Life Coaches.
We share a passion for spirituality, yoga, travel, healthy food (Estela “tortilla de patatas” being one of them!), and babies!
I am a Yoga Teacher, and when I thought about launching Yoga & Spiritual Retreats for Parents & Kids after giving birth to my daughter, the image of Estela naturally came to my mind, thinking we would be a very complimentary duo.
Indeed, Estela is a certified childhood educator and was already organizing summer camps for kids with her company “Gaïa camps”. Furthermore, Estela is keen on making a change to child care and education with an approach to spirituality and Mother Nature in her teachings and activities, which totally fits in with my ideas of spiritual retreats. I am honored and glad that she immediately said yes.
And here we are, happy to see this project getting alive offering Yoga Retreats for you and your kids!
“Yoga changed my life as a woman. Yoga healed my body post-partum. Yoga enabled me to keep my sanity in the turbulent times of motherhood and parenthood.
I have been practicing yoga for 12 years and teach Hatha, Vinyasa, and Yin Yoga, including Pranayamas, Meditation, and Mantras.
I want to share my knowledge and help parents to benefit from Yoga too.”
About Gaëlle
I am a French mother of 37 years old.
Motherhood transformed me, my life, and my partnership. On this new learning path, I feel essential to share with and get surrounded by a community of spiritual parents going through the same up and downs, challenges & magic times. In transparency & authenticity.
The self-loving parents is born out of two wishes.
The first one is to allow parents who also are yoga practitioners to continue having time for their practice, for themselves, and for benefiting from the wonders of a yoga retreat without having to go away from their family.
The second one is to gather a tribe of parents that also find it essential to take care of themselves in order to be able to better take care of their kids.
That said, here is my story…
After a career in international business traveling worldwide and living in faraway countries, I was burned out and longing for a change in my career. My yoga practice also triggered a quest for more meaning and less stress. My first yoga retreat in Portugal was life-changing. For the first time, I experienced love, kindness, connection & a profound depth with fellow unknown human beings. Very powerful. During a vision & goals exercise, I decided to become a Yoga Teacher & create a retreat center to organize & host such transformative events.
I met Timm in Germany 6 months later just before the Covid crisis and our encounter was the stepping stone of a complete life change. Apart from love at first sight, we had a common interest in life coaching & both the dream of creating a retreat center & a community.
I decided to quit my job & followed him to Germany to create Panta Rei in July 2021. I became a yoga teacher and a life coach soon after. I was trained in Hatha, Vinyasa, and Yin Yoga (460h) and taught yoga in Yoga Teacher Trainings, online, in an amazing retreat center in Costa Rica and in Panta Rei Retreat Center in Germany. In June 2022, I gave birth naturally to the sweetest little baby girl, Ella, whom I am taking care of ever since.
I am now looking at integrating my life as a woman, mother, partner, friend, yoga teacher & life coach through The Self-Loving Parents, retreats for parents to enjoy a powerful time of reconnection with themselves through soul & body practices, connection with a community of parents, & quality time apart & together with their kids.
I look forward to meeting you, and sharing the wonders of Yoga as well as the transformational experience of parent & motherhood. A bientôt!
About Estela
My name is Estela Jimeno Abril and I am Spanish. I studied art and early childhood education in Spain. I am a certified early childhood educator and teacher in Germany where I have been living for 9 years. I have also completed training in yoga for children and I just wrote my first book. A book to introduce spirituality to kids.
For more than 10 years, I have been working with passion and soul with children in animation, kindergartens, schools, and camps. I did social projects in Spain and Germany in Waldorf and Montessori pedagogies. I also lead workshops for children and created my own concept “Gaia camps” in 2021. I was the director and producer of the program for twenty children.
I love to work with the lunar cycles and the alchemy of astrology. I practice Kundalini Yoga.
I am convinced that we need to give a new direction to the care of children and young people. The Self-Loving Parents project is born with the idea to provide families a holiday where both parents and children are taking care of themselves to heal and grow.
Parents can practice yoga and other mindfulness activities to nourish their body and soul with Gaëlle, while children will be entertained, play, and learn with me. Depending on the age group of the kids, we will do yoga, workshops such as dyeing t-shirts, creating dream catchers, clay figures, flower crowns, or mandalas with natural elements. We will spend time in nature doing outdoor activities, walks, and games to learn about animals and the environment. When the evening comes, we will bake our own bread on the fire and tell stories. Of course, parents will be welcome to join us during their free time!
I will give children psychological and pedagogical tools during these games and activities.
Through art workshops, stories telling, games, and activities, your children will spend beautiful moments under the attentive care of a professional educator. See you soon!
