Welcome to Casa Maranders and Life from the Light side! - Spirit, Joy and Creative Arts -     On the red cliffs, overlooking the sea, just outside the lovely little town of Lagos in the Algarve, Portugal, we´re happy to welcome you to our small creative wellness and retreat center. Being close to the sky, close to the sea, yet well grounded in this beautiful house with its beautiful surroundings it´s a place that perfectly fits with the theme for our work and vision - Life from the light side.     Seing life from this angle sounds easy, but it usually doesn´t come without an effort. So, here we focus on seing, or trying to find, the good sides of life, and the good sides in ourselves. And bringing them out - our good abilities - the ones we know of, and the ones we might not even know we have.  We believe most of us are already well aquiented with our faults, fears and weaknesses - it´s the opposite sides, the light sides like love,  joy, compassion, creativity, harmony, inner peace and oneness that we need to learn more about. Bring out and try to make stay.       Here are some of the fields we work in:   Art - The techniques Art therapy Expressive and Creative arts Vedic Art Dance Dance therapy Yoga Meditation Dream pshychotherapy Holistic and Spiritual psychology                                                              Nature and Spirit     We who hold private counsellings or are involved  with anything that has a pronounced therapeutic angle are all professionel therapists or psychoterapists.       Now you can take part of this in various ways. We can offer you different kinds of stays - longer or shorter, private sessions and counseling, courses, workshops. At times we also rent the whole place to people with good references and visions that touches ours.           Marit Lindqvist, artist and arttherapist, our spokes-and-contactperson and the one who handles most of the practical things at the moment. Anyone wanting to join us in any way is most welcome!    Please contact us for more information.