A COLLECTIVE OF PIONEERS

Ieva Rekštytė-Matuliauskė is a journalist, creative strategist, communications specialist, and Creative Director of the Aesthetics Sommelier platform. For more than five years, she has explored the intersections of aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, attention, and the relationship between people and their environments with the curiosity of a journalist – translating these insights into immersive seminars for organisations and diverse audiences.

Through her work, Ieva invites us to reclaim what is so often overlooked in contemporary working life: the senses, living attention, our humanity, physical presence, and aesthetic sensitivity. Qualities that are frequently dismissed as secondary  – or even inconvenient  – in business become essential resources for addressing burnout, strengthening motivation, enhancing performance, cultivating creativity, supporting leadership, and nurturing healthy team cultures.

Lukas Sabalas (Baltų Vanta) is a sauna ritual guide devoted to the living traditions of Baltic steam culture.

His rituals draw from ancestral knowledge while remaining deeply rooted in the present moment. Native herbs, fragrant branches, mineral salt, sound, steam, and the elemental presence of fire and water come together in ceremonies that invite a profound return to the senses.

In the sauna, the ordinary quietly falls away. Thoughts soften, time dissolves, and attention shifts from the mind to the body. Heat becomes a language of its own, revealing an experience that cannot be understood through words alone.

Each infusion of steam, every touch of herbs and branches, every breath of aromatic air gradually awakens a more intimate relationship with the natural world. The ritual is not about endurance, but about listening – to the body, to the elements, and to the quiet intelligence that emerges when nothing more is required than simply being present.

Lina Makalauskaitė is an Oxygen Advantage instructor, former commercial airline pilot with more than ten years of experience in high-responsibility environments, and a reserve lieutenant.

In her work, Lina presents breathing not simply as a relaxation technique, but as a powerful physiological tool that directly influences our internal state, quality of attention, and decision-making. Drawing on her background in aviation, she demonstrates how this often-overlooked process can become one of the most effective foundations for mental clarity, sustainable performance, and sound judgement under pressure.

Justina Vanžodytė is an actress at the Klaipėda Drama Theatre.

Justina’s workshops are an invitation to slow down, shed your everyday roles and return to your true self through your body, emotions, senses and nature. It is a safe space where you don’t have to prove anything or ‘perform well’. Just allow yourself to feel and be. The workshops are based on gentle practices involving the body, voice and imagination, which, where possible, are partly carried out outdoors, in the forest, drawing on nature’s rhythms, silence, sounds and space as a natural part of the process.

Areas of focus: through the body, voice and imagination, participants embark on a deep yet gentle journey into themselves – to the place where tranquillity, the flow of emotions, creativity and inner freedom lie. The most important thing here is the authentic experience of that moment.

The body – releasing tension. Working with the body: throughout these workshops, working with the body helps you reconnect with your true self through slow, mindful movements and relaxation exercises: emotional blockages are eased, long-held tension is released, and a sense of safety within the body is restored. The body becomes a map of inner signals, boundaries and needs. 

The voice is an expression of breath and inner states. In this practice, the voice is used not only for speaking or singing, but also for breathing and for natural, unrestrained sound. Through voice practices, participants calm the nervous system, allow the voice to flow effortlessly, and experience how their inner state changes through sound. Often, this leads to a deep emotional release. 

Imagination – a return to the inner child. Imagination and creative games help us return to a state free from judgement, where there are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ categories, and where we rediscover an element of curiosity and playfulness in our daily lives. It is a process that awakens the inner child, creativity and spontaneity.

Emotional release and connection. Through the workshops, the connection with oneself and others naturally deepens.

Lina Žemaitytė-Kirkman is the CEO of Rockit and a certified digital wellbeing consultant. With a background in business psychology, expertise in consumer behaviour, and more than fifteen years of experience in e-commerce and innovation, she takes a holistic approach to the relationship between people and technology – helping ensure that technology serves us, rather than the other way around.

Lina is a sought-after speaker on digital wellbeing, regularly delivering talks for organisations, conferences, and national radio and television programmes.

DIGITAL FATIGUE & LEADERSHIP

Digital fatigue is not simply the result of excessive workload. It is deeply connected to how we perceive ourselves as leaders – always available, always responsive, always informed. While digital technologies make it possible to sustain this identity without interruption, they also deprive us of the cognitive recovery essential for clear thinking, sound decision-making, and long-term performance.

Kotryna Stankutė-Jaščemskienė is a certified forest bathing guide, a networking skills trainer, and the Executive Director of the philanthropic MJJ Foundation.

Alongside an active professional and public life, she finds balance in nature. Through both her personal practice and guided forest bathing experiences, she invites participants to slow down, step beyond the constant stream of thoughts, and reconnect with the wisdom of the body through direct sensory experience.

Julius Neverauskas is a medical doctor, psychotherapist, neurologist, nature and forest therapist, lecturer, and supervisor. For more than two decades, he has been a leading voice in the fields of applied psychology, psychotherapy, and human potential development.

Dr Neverauskas pioneered the introduction of evidence-based approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness-based approaches in Lithuania. With more than thirty years of clinical practice, his work bridges medicine, psychotherapy, and human development – helping individuals and organisations cultivate resilience, psychological flexibility, and lasting transformation.

Rolandas Žigonis – a surrealist painter with a distinctive style, who sensitively reveals the depths of the subconscious in his canvases through myths and images of inner nature that resonate with the modern viewer.

For the artist, the process of painting becomes an act of discovery, leading into the collective subconscious, the world of dreams and inner archetypes. Here, according to the artist’s intuition, lie the experience of the ages and the codes of self-awareness, revealing a universal mythological narrative that is recognisable to the viewer as well.

UNVEILING THE INNER MYTH

This is an encounter with the artist Rolandas Žigonis and his creative world. During the event, the artist shares his creative explorations, the imagery that unfolds on his canvases, and his commitment to a living, ever-changing creative process.

The artist’s narrative reveals creativity not only as an artistic practice, but also as a universal inner attitude applicable to various spheres of life. It is also an invitation to everyone to seek inspiration in everyday life and to cultivate a more sensitive relationship with their surroundings.

“Inspiration is a form of communication, a language through which nature speaks to us.”

Ieva Martinaitytė is a professor at ISM University of Management and Economics and an internationally recognised expert in workplace creativity and the psychology of innovation.

She began her academic career at the University of East Anglia and has also taught at University College London and University of Cambridge.

As the founder and director of CreativityLab, Ieva designs and leads programmes on creative problem-solving, productivity strategies for creative professionals, and building cultures of innovation for business leaders and organisations.

Vilma LIGHT is an experiential facilitator who helps people deepen their connection with themselves, strengthen their intuition, and unlock their inner potential.

Her work invites participants to pause, reconnect with what truly matters, and make decisions with greater clarity, confidence, and inner calm.

Vilma’s workshops bring together intuition development, work with limiting beliefs, embodied awareness, and mindfulness. Through practical, experience-based methods, participants cultivate emotional resilience, creativity, self-awareness, and the capacity to navigate change with authenticity and confidence.

— Intuition Development Workshop
— Clarifying Your Vision Workshop
— Potential Activation Programme

Every workshop is grounded in experiential learning and practical tools that participants can integrate into both their professional and personal lives. The aim is to cultivate greater clarity, self-trust, and the confidence to fully realise one’s potential.

Giedrė Žalytė is a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist, supervisor, and certified forest therapy guide. She regularly leads nature therapy sessions and lectures in the postgraduate Forest Therapy programme at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.

She is the author of Nature Therapy: How Trees, Water and Birds Help Us Heal – Psychotherapeutic Insights and The Paradoxes of Attachment: Understanding and Healing Relationship Trauma. In recent years, her work has focused particularly on the understanding and treatment of early attachment trauma.

Indrė Annica is a yoga teacher and mentor specialising in nervous system regulation.

Indrė’s professional career began in senior management roles at international companies and led her to study yoga and meditation at ashrams in India and Asia. Today, as a lecturer, she integrates her accumulated experience, Eastern wisdom and neuroscience into the modern world, helping people to restore inner peace, strengthen the resilience of the nervous system and reconnect with themselves.

SESSIONS FOR TEAMS

The yoga sessions led by Indrė focus on regulating the nervous system. The aim is to safely guide participants out of ‘fight-or-flight’ mode into a relaxed state, where creativity and the best strategic decisions flourish. Using special breathing techniques (pranayama) and physical yoga practice, we will activate the vagus nerve, which is directly responsible for the body’s recovery and stress management.

Artists Darius and Agnieta Jonikai invite you into immersive sound journeys that gently guide awareness inward – towards the landscapes of the subconscious.

Blending therapeutic instruments, electronic music composed in carefully selected frequencies, meditative nature ASMR, hypnotic vocals, subtle scents, and mindful touch, each session unfolds as a multisensory ritual designed to restore presence and regulate the nervous system.

Darius Jonikas is a composer of meditative, experimental ambient music, creating sonic landscapes that invite stillness and contemplation. Agnieta Jonikienė guides participants into deeply restorative states through practices that support relaxation, inner balance, and nervous system regulation.

Together, they create immersive sound rituals where time slows, the senses awaken, and attention naturally returns inward.

Sessions are available in various formats and intensities, ranging from 40 minutes to 2 hours, and take place either in Sanctum’s Forest Hall or, weather permitting, surrounded by the living acoustics of the forest.

Lina Šleinotaitė-Kalėdė is a systems change facilitator and advocate for regenerative leadership with an interdisciplinary background spanning environmental engineering, cleaner production, sustainability, urban development, business management, and self-organising systems.

For more than twenty years, Lina has worked where systemic change is needed most – helping navigate complexity across governments, cities, industries, organisations, and communities. Her work supports leaders and institutions in designing resilient systems capable of adapting, regenerating, and creating long-term value.

Monika Peldavičiūtė is a practitioner of organisational wellbeing and nature-based learning, a forest therapy guide, a nature experience designer, a lecturer and a facilitator. Through her work, she explores and communicates the principles of nature’s intelligence, our connection with nature and regenerative culture, inviting people and organisations to learn from nature by creating vibrant, resilient and conscious systems.

Monika is the director of the ‘Gyvo žalio’ association, a member of the International Forest Therapy Society and one of the organisers of the international congress ‘Forests and Their Impact on Health’, She actively contributes to the shaping of forest policy and the dialogue on the importance of nature for human health, well-being and the future of organisations.

Linas Staliūnas is an environmentalist, researcher of forest and natural soundscapes, and a certified forest bathing guide accredited by the Forest Therapy Institute and Forest Therapy Hub. He is also a co-founder of the Forest Therapy and Education Centre.

LISTENING TO THE LANDSCAPE

Every environment is alive with sound. Some are obvious, others almost imperceptible – natural, human-made, harmonious, or hidden from ordinary hearing. Together, these sounds form unique soundscapes that reveal the character of a place. Have you ever listened to a forest speak? Or heard the stories carried by a river?

Soundscape Listening is an immersive walk through the surrounding landscape, where sensitive listening equipment allows us to discover the rich acoustic world of forests, meadows, wetlands, and their many inhabitants. As nature’s sounds begin to fill our awareness, we slow down, observe more deeply, and cultivate a more intimate relationship with the living world around us.

DR RASA KATILIENĖ – a facilitator of vitality for leaders, teams and organisations; Doctor of Management Sciences; lecturer at ISM University; ICF PCC professional coach; Integral Master Coach™, practitioner of systemic team coaching and facilitation, teacher of mindful awareness, and practitioner of spiritual intelligence (SQ21) skills development, climate change coaching and nature-based coaching.

Main areas of activity

🌿 Regenerative leadership and organisational vitality

How to achieve results whilst strengthening the ability of individuals, teams and organisations to learn, adapt and renew themselves.

🌿 A leader’s inner compass in a complex world

Mindfulness, decision-making, inner attitude and resilience in the face of uncertainty.

🌿 Teams as living systems

Strengthening trust, collective intelligence, collaborative action and team vitality.

🌿 Nature’s wisdom for the future of organisations

Experiential programmes in nature that help leaders and teams expand their systemic perspective, reinforce the principles of regenerativity and learn from living systems.

My name is Inga Sinkevičienė – I am a photographer, content creator, social media communications mentor and ambassador programme lecturer. I have been working in the fields of photography, video production and communications for over 10 years, helping people and businesses to create authentic stories, strengthen their personal brands and communicate through content that creates value.

Inga’s areas of expertise:

• training in mobile photography and video production
• consultancy on social media communication and personal branding
• training in storytelling and content creation to help grow audiences and sales
• training in brand ambassadorship for organisations and teams

THE ART OF STORYTELLING: SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT THAT CREATES VALUE

This is a practical system combining personal branding, social media communication, storytelling, content strategy and sales principles.

What the training covers

1. Strategy and personal branding
   Participants define their message, audience and communication approach.
2. Social media communication and storytelling
   Participants learn to create engaging, trust-building and sales-driving content.
3. Sales through content
   We analyse how content translates into customers, sales and business growth.
4. Photography and video on a mobile phone
   A practical session during which participants learn to create high-quality visual content on a mobile phone.

What value do participants gain?

• A clearer understanding of what to communicate and why.
• The ability to create professional and engaging content.
• Practical photography and video production skills.
• Knowledge of how to turn content into business results.
• Greater confidence when communicating on social media.

The result

This is a training programme that transforms content from random to strategic – not just visually appealing, but effective. Participants gain a clear framework, practical tools and the motivation to create content consistently and confidently.

Akvilė Petniūnaitė is the creator of Lithuania’s distinctive Forest Fancy culinary philosophy, exploring the meeting point of wild edible plants and contemporary gastronomy.

Her experiences invite guests to rediscover nature through direct sensory immersion – walking through forests and meadows, touching diverse textures, tasting unfamiliar flavours, and breathing in the aromas of the changing seasons. Every gathering becomes an invitation to slow down, observe, and cultivate a deeper relationship with the living landscape.

For Akvilė, food is more than nourishment. It is a creative medium for experimentation, storytelling, and reimagining our connection with the natural world. Through the materiality of ingredients – their forms, colours, scents, and transformations – she reveals food as an artistic language that inspires curiosity, presence, and wonder.

EXPERIENCES WITH AKVILĖ

__Wild Plant Sommelier Tasting

__Wild Culinary Journey

__Guided Walk: Discovering Wild Edible Plants

__Wild Food Cooking Workshop

MIGLOKO (Miglė Vilčiauskaitė) – one of the most prominent alternative pop musicians of her generation, a producer and performer who blends jazz, electronic and ritual music into a distinctive sound.

AMBIENT DJ SET

With this programme, MIGLOKO will invite guests to relax whilst listening to her exclusive set of recreational ambient music. 

During the performance, participants will be able to settle comfortably into the ‘Sanctum’ space, close their eyes and reconnect with themselves after a hectic day’s work or the intense pace of life.

WILD VOICE: WORKSHOPS

The Free Voice workshops are – a place to immerse yourself in a spontaneous, playful and improvisational process of singing exercises, to familiarise yourself with vocal breathing techniques and to use your voice as a tool for expressing emotions.

What awaits you: mindful singing, diaphragmatic breathing exercises, musical games designed to spark creativity and help you relax, musical improvisation, vocal/instrumental meditation and the joy of making music together.