inner truth academy

Know the Inner Truth

Innertruth academy

Innertruth academy was born gathering the experience of many years organising yoga retreats, coaching and transformative trips by the hand of Anahat Aday and Ricardo Márquez, both colleagues as Clinical Psychologists and immersed in the field of the expansion of human potential, consciousness and joy. Together with a number of collaborators who became our family, we are happy to share this lifestyle rooted in authenticity, simplicity and grace.

Anahat, Aday García

What a joyful way to be in the world is to remain a student, to be full of curiosity at all times. Going through the heart everything that happens. I would like to share this way of understanding existence. Because I have been so lucky to meet some, who by their lack of intelligence, became wise. I am here to share about Sanatan Dharma. Sanatan means eternal or imperishable, and Dharma means law or nature. As the dharma of the sun is to shine and warm or the dharma of the moon is waning and waxing. When we know the Dharma, we know our path, our mission, value and motive. We are aligned with life and its rhythms. You are the book and you are the reader. My desire is to teach about reading.

MY LIFE JOURNEY

Everyone is willing to be happy, that is a key point. As the Psychology studies were leading me deeper to a wider source of wisdom I came to Vedic studies, Tantra as a technology to expand mind and awareness, and Yoga as a complete path for freedom. On the way, many Gurus, many masters, and many blessings pointing to One and the same Mother/Father, Source or Reality beyond words.

I began the Yoga practice and learning Tantra at Escuela Vedica with Swami Shankaratilakananda. These teachings gave me a wider understanding of true wisdom and my whole being resonated in blissful states never before experienced. I studied a form of dynamic and energetic yoga called Vyayam Yoga and Traditional Hatha Yoga. I also joined several seminars about Tantra, numerology, life, and death, meditation… These experiences inspired me on a pilgrimage for wisdom all over India for half a year and in Thailand in 2010 for Self-discovery. I was blessed to join the Kumbh Mela, the largest concentration of yogis in a festival with ritual bathing in the Holy Ganges. Studied Yoga and Philosophy with Swami Dharmanand at Ved Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh. Aiming for a full Yoga experience I traveled learning Ayurveda, Shiatsu, Thai massage, and Healing. It was on my second trip to India that I could study with Dr. Avdhoot Shivanand the healing science of ancient Rishis known as Cosmic healing and followed these teachings all around the globe attending seminars in London, Austria, and South Africa.

I included dance as an instrument for liberation after deep freedom tantric dance with Swami Akash. This experience of awakening the divinity within through movement touched me deeply. So I participated in workshops on Biodance, Vital Dance, Contact Improvisation, 5 Rhythms, and circle dervish dance to explore and share this medicine in several Dance Therapy workshops. In 2013 I trained in the Ayurvedic Panchakarma detox process with Dr. Nayana Rao, from Udupi, India. I was organizing several retreats and teachings on Ayurveda, abhyanga, and shirochampi massage. Other experiences with wisdom keepers like Don Chabelo, Huichol Indian, and especially with Abuela Margarita and Carlos Jesus Castillejos from Toltec tradition, introduced me to Native American wisdom. In 2014 I trained in Biogestalt therapy and group dynamics with the Biogestalt Institute, directed by Antonio Asin and Maria Zubicaray. Learning bioenergetic character body reading, holotropic breathing and rebirthing therapy, art therapy, and more teachings.

My greatest gift is to have the guidance of the Shiv Yog lineage in my path for kundalini awakening and healing sciences with eternal gratitude to His Holiness Dr. Avdhoot Baba Shivanad. Recognized by several governmental institutions in India and abroad for his contributions to Integrative Medicine. Educating medical professionals in the ancient science of the rishis, awakening the dormant healing powers within everyone, and revealing the science beyond science that integrates body, mind, and soul.

Gratitude to Chögyal Namkai Norbu Rimpoche for his compassion and teachings on Buddhism and the nature of the mind. The essential introduction to Dzogchen, Guruyoga, and Atiyoga

I intend to serve and inspire everyone in their path, for healing and awakening.

Ricardo Marquez (from Canarias, Spain)

Originally from Tenerife. Psychologist, Hypnotherapist and Facilitator. Teaching the way to authenticity and the achievement of inner freedom. Experienced as a psychotherapist, teacher, and team coach, he shares a holistic approach to guiding you toward a true, superior version of yourself. In addition to training in clinical and health psychology, state-of-the-art therapies, analytical hypnotherapy and emotional intelligence coaching, Ricardo has lived in recent years in Scandinavia training in Mindfulness, Tantric Philosophy, Communication, Coaching and Emotional Intelligence as well as other aspects related to personal and social development.
With extensive experience teaching and training different professional and personal groups, as well as facilitating experiences, workshops and retreats related to personal well-being, stress release, tantra and authentic relationships. These processes and methods, along with your experience as a psychotherapist and team coach, merge into a holistic approach to guide you toward a higher, more authentic version of yourself.

My life journey

Hello, my name is Ricardo and I am here to help you connect with truth and inner freedom, as well as the confidence and vision to achieve your idea of success in life. Since I was little I have been in the inner search for what I consider true and real. I grew up feeling different and that I didn’t fit into a society that seemed to define very clearly what one had to do to be happy. Little by little, after several personal “failures” and many years of dissatisfaction, I began to ask myself the right questions.

Thanks to the help of many people, books, studies, trips and life experiences of all kinds, and after many years of personal process, I can say that, despite fears and mental limitations, I have managed to tune in to my personal values. that have allowed me to achieve many of my personal goals and feel quite full, happy and grateful with everything that happens around me.

Professionally, when I finished my studies at the University, I had the opportunity to develop and learn from various facets of psychology (training, project development, therapies) as a scholar and collaborator at the University where I also developed my research on Stress Management. and its relationship with well-being.

Then I began my own path helping young people and families as well as in sports preparation, training and advising coaches and athletes.

Subsequently, I co-founded my own company dedicated, on the one hand, to carrying out educational, social and training projects for different personal and professional groups and, on the other, to therapeutic care and advice for adults.

Finally, four years ago, in collaboration with other facilitators, I began to develop therapeutic retreats related to well-being and personal development where I feel that I can express and develop my personal and professional virtues to a greater extent.

In addition to my education and experience, I have learned a lot from my experiences attending trainings, festivals and retreats throughout Europe related to Mindfulness, authentic relationships, tantra, yoga and others.

Currently, in addition to retreats and training, through Therapy and counseling I help people improve their lives, solve their personal problems and achieve their goals.

Degrees / Education / Certificates

Graduate in Psychology (2008). University of La Laguna.
Official Postgraduate in Clinical and Health Psychology (2010). University of La Laguna.
DEA Advanced Studies Diploma in Clinical Psychology (2009). University of La Laguna. Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude (CAP) (2012). Alfonso X the Wise University.
Authorized General Health Psychologist. Membership number: T-2872
Personal Trainer Certificate (2015). ESSSCAN
Master in third generation therapies (2020) Universidad de Cervantes.
Diploma in Analytical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy (2022) Jacquelyne Morison MA BA Hons BMus PGCE DCAH.

Collaborators

Victor Angel Marín (from Cadiz, Spain)

Born in Arcos de la Frontera, a beautiful white village in the Sierra de Cádiz, Víctor Ángel has been dedicated to Natural Therapies for more than a decade.

After having lost his parents at a very young age, Víctor has deeply experienced the need to integrate the emotional traces that his story left in his body. The urgent need for answers to the great existential querries in search for meaning took him to the manual listening of the body as a gateway to the deeper intelligence from the Heart.

Lover of Yoga, meditation and practitioner of Brazilian Jiujitsu.

  • Osteopath for Natura Help Tenerife 2014
  • Certified CranioSacral Therapist Instituto Upledger Spain 2013
  • Visceral Manipulation, Jean Pierre Barral Institute Spain, 2017
  • Trained in Biogestalt Therapy by the AETB, Tenerife: Lowen’s Bioenergetics, Gurdieff’s Fourth Way, Enneagram, Gestalt 2014
  • Trained in French Gestalt by the Center Gestalt Valencia 2019
  • Trained in Bioenergetic Listening by Centro Cora Granada 2014

Going from the physical to the emotional and energetic. “being” with the patient instead of “doing”, led Víctor to find a method of manual work where the healing power is expressed from kindness and awareness to the global self.

Anita Arcoiris

Among many talents, Anita is the head director of Vereda Arcoiris, a space for environmental therapies. For more than 25 years working with mother earth’s medicine with the blessings of the Lakota people, she is teaching how to walk in balance according to the teachings of the great white buffalo woman tradition and also has shared the wisdom with Canadian, South American, and Mongolian natives. She is a professional singer, composer, percussionist, windsurf instructor, and certified facilitator of laughing medicine as a collaborating professor for Canarian public universities.

Arupa

This yogini left home in the Czech Republic very young to learn yoga and walk the path of sages in India. She has being guided to a genuine self-inquiry through the path of Vision Quests, Vipassana, Toltec wisdom, or the Shiv Yog linage of Ascended Masters . This “Firewoman” (guardian of the sacred fire for the temazcal ceremonies), leads you with her melodious voice into heart expansion with cacao ceremonies

Francisco Basilio, a Chef - a Gastronaut and a Surfer.

Francisco Basilio was born in Portugal, Lisbon, and started studying psychology after high school, but soon realised that transforming reading nature into food cook was his thing, as it would place him between men and nature, being able to create synergy, balance and art and understanding agriculture, chemistry, and health. Soon he starts to travel around the world learning new cultures, gastronomic landscapes and techniques. At the age of 25 he travelled to India by mistake, or happy incident, and got acquainted with Indian Cuisine and Ayurvedic medicine.

Can’t miss a opportunity to have a chat with the goats pastor and check were are the best waves in the moment.

Always very respectful towards Ayurvedic medicine, practice the received ancestral knowledge through cooking and conversations.

After experiencing living in multiple parts of the world, now shares the love of living in his small farm with his wife, daughter and animals.

Cooking is an act of Love, bringing together people realities – culture, health and Art/creativity as a form of (self)healing.

Janaina Ormart Medicine woman and Tensegrity teacher

A very rooted woman from Brazil, who shares the “shamanic” wisdom of the elements. She guides the Temazcal ceremonies (sweat-lodge) as medicine to remember that we are dreaming this big dream we call Life. She masters the art of Kahlay or Toltec magical movements to become aware of our essence.

Tatiana Hoikkala

Tati is a hypnotherapist, tantric facilitator and aguahara practitioner.  

She has stayed at Osho communities in Finland, Spain, and France and has participated in organizing workshops in tantra festivals in Ängsbacka, Sweden, the High on Life – festival in Estonia, and the Natural High Healing – Festival in Finland.

Besides tantra, she has taken courses in Non-Violent Communication and Radical Honesty. Her biggest passion is water work: she is an Aguahara practitioner, aquatic doula, and baby swimming instructor.

Raquel, Resident cook in Tenerife​

Born in Tenerife, her love for cooking came to her since early childhood from her mother. She is a lover of traditional cuisine, prepared slowly and with passion. Her cuisine is characterised by the choice of fresh local products seasoned with spices and elegant care in the presentation of dishes. 

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Join us for an integrative healing experience. Get in touch today.
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Join us for an integrative healing experience. Get in touch today.
The activities were well thought out and had a great build up to the end. A big positive surprise was the sweat lodge ceremony towards the end of the retreat. For me a personally confronting session that provided many insights and growth. Thank you for broadening my horizons, Aday. The experience was so much more than a regular yoga retreat. You deserve all five stars!

Anahat and Ricardo shared their island with us and brought us on beautiful hikes which as a “regular” tourist you would probably not get the chance to see. The mindfulness and hypnotherapy practices were really beneficial and I feel so much lighter mentally since I have come home. I really feel a shift in my way of being and the guys have really helped me to move on and let go from certain thought patterns and habits that were destructive and futile. If you feel stuck this is the retreat for you. All in all a fun, emotional, challenging week which will pay dividends for a long time to come. A special mention to Raquel also who provided the most delicious vegan food for us and invigorated everyone with her zest for life!

 The retreat was so nuanced, thought through, with the personal touch, reflections and wisdom of the instructors, full of light and amazing surprises. I have gained a spiritual family… 🥰❤️ There were so many little adventures and trips that we took, program adjustments / customization as per individual needs, deep and soulful talks by the fireplace and practices (very transformative and healing for me!). We were fortunate to see Tenerife from the very local and unforgettable side. After a few weeks I’m still thinking and feeling the warmth of the experience and unforgettable Tenerife… 🥰 And food also deserves a separate review 😉☺️ Rachel is a phenomenal cook!! The food selection was delicious, healthy, nourishing and healing ☺️ We also got a little surprise cooking workshop. All in all, I’m very grateful for the beautiful retreat and would definitely want to come back to Tenerife and Aday for more adventures and personal journeys. Thank you!!!

The fabulous chef made a great breakfast and 3 courses dinner every day, and a very good salad in our picnic-bag. As a meat lover I must say that I never expected vegan food for a week to be so great. In fact fantastic! Every day at 8am we had a morning session with Aday and Ricardo before breakfast, and another session in the evenings before dinner. In between they took us for a bush walk, a beach walk or something else. Aday did fabulous massages too. Ricardo gave us good sessions in mindfulness. After hours we had an informal debrief session sitting in front of the fire, sometimes meditating, sometimes listening to Aday and Ricardo playing guitar/ukelele. I can’t describe it all here, but I deeply recommend it.
Morning meditation and yoga by the pool, with the sun on my face and the soft breeze on my skin, as lizards and butterflies played close by, was a very beautiful, spiritual way to start the day. The accommodation was in a clean, calming villa overlooking the hills and down to the beach. In the mornings, you could stand on the terrace and watch the sun rise majestically over the clouds. Our hosts local knowledge allowed us to enjoy excursions to breathtaking mountains, beaches and the volcano, a world away from the busy resorts associated with Tenerife. Sometimes we would practice meditation or a mindfulness activity in the mountains or by the beach, as well as swimming in clear, aquamarine natural pools or the sea. Breath work, manifestation, sound healing and ecstatic dance were wonderful new experiences for me. The program created such an authentic atmosphere that everybody bonded quickly, so even though I went on my own, I soon felt as though I was on a trip with a group of much loved friends. The food was fantastic – Raquel is such a joyful cook and the healthy, varied recipes were delicious. I loved it.
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