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BAILALOBAS COMMUNITY

Embodiment. Women's Empowerment. Gender Equality.

Connecting personal transformation with collective empowerment and systemic change.

BAILALOBAS is a women's empowerment and social-impact platform, founded by Liliya Foteva. It brings together embodied practice, psychological understanding, gender equality, advocacy, research and European cooperation to create spaces for women to reconnect with themselves, strengthen their agency and contribute to meaningful social change.

We believe that personal experience cannot be separated from the systems in which we live. Women's wellbeing is shaped not only by individual circumstances, but also by relationships, organisations, social expectations, inequalities and structures of power.

Our work moves between these dimensions: supporting women through embodied and collective experiences, helping organisations develop more inclusive and responsive practices, and contributing to European initiatives addressing gender-based violence and social inequality.

The body is where experience is lived. Empowerment is where change begins.

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Beyond surviving. Beyond overachieving. Back to feeling alive.

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from always being the strong one.

The woman who manages everything. Who anticipates everyone's needs. Who takes responsibility, holds things together and keeps moving, even when she has lost touch with what she herself needs.

Over time, being capable can become a way of disappearing.

BAILALOBAS creates opportunities to interrupt that pattern.

Through movement, embodied exploration, psychological insight and collective experiences, we invite women to reconnect with their bodies, recognise their needs, rediscover their boundaries and make room for a more authentic way of living.

But our work does not stop at the individual.

We also collaborate with organisations, researchers, practitioners and European partners to address the social and institutional conditions that shape women's lives.

Three dimensions of change

01 — Individual transformation

Reconnecting with the body, emotions, needs and personal agency. Exploring the relationship between lived experience, identity, boundaries and self-expression.

02 — Collective empowerment

Creating spaces where women can move, reflect, share experiences and develop solidarity. Transforming isolation into connection and individual insight into collective strength.

03 — Systemic transformation

Working with organisations and European partners on gender equality, violence prevention, inclusion, research and social innovation.

What we do

Embodied experiences and women's group programmes.
Workshops on embodiment, identity, boundaries and empowerment.
Gender equality and violence-prevention initiatives.
Training and consultancy for organisations and professionals.
European project development and proposal writing.
Research, publications, speaking and interdisciplinary collaboration.

A platform connecting people, practice and change

BAILALOBAS brings together different forms of expertise around one conviction: meaningful change requires us to understand both human experience and the environments that shape it.

Whether you are a woman seeking a space for reconnection, an organisation developing a gender equality initiative, a university looking for an interdisciplinary collaborator or a European consortium preparing a proposal, there is a place for you in this work.

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The Wild Art of Feeling ALIVE A G A I N.

Beyond overachieving!

You know how to make things happen.

Friends, colleaugues and family members trust you 100%!

For everyone around you are their rock solid powerhouse

You take responsibility. You solve problems. You keep going when things get difficult. You show up for everyone around you—at work, at home, in your relationships, in your family, in your community.

Overcoming obstacles has become one of your greatest superpowers.

And perhaps, for a long time, it was also how you survived.

You became the one people could rely on.

The strong one
The problem-solver
The caretaker
The advisor
The protector
The mother
Sometimes even the therapist, banker, savior, or parent to everyone around you.

You became exceptionally good at being needed.

But somewhere along the way, something else may have become quieter i your body or diminished from your pleasure. Maybe it is that spontaneity that seems to have been gone without return. Or your deep desire, your feeling of intact boundaries, your ability to rest without guilt or your capacity to simply feel, without having to achieve, fix, perform, or take care of someone else.

And saying “no” may have become harder than saying “yes.”

Not because you don't know what you need.

But because you have spent so much time responding to what everyone else needs.

When being strong becomes exhausting

Perhaps you have built a successful career, a business, a family, relationships, or a life that looks picture-perfect from the outside.

And yet, in the quiet moments—after the meetings, the messages, the endless lists, the professional responsibilities and the invisible work of everyday life—you may notice a feeling that is harder to name.

Something is missing.

Perhaps you feel disconnected from your body or exhausted from constantly holding everything together.

Perhaps you have learned to make yourself smaller, quieter, more agreeable, more vigilant—or simply more capable of enduring.

And perhaps some part of you is ready for something different.

Not another thing to accomplish.

But a way to come back to yourself.

What if feeling alive became YOUR newest superpower?

Longing to go again from overfunctioning to feeling ! ?

You are at the right place!

Welcome to BAILALOBAS - WOMEN DANCING WITH THE WILD

BailaLobas is an embodied space created for women who are ready to reconnect with themselves—not by becoming someone new, but by rediscovering parts of themselves that may have been silenced, neglected, overworked, or pushed aside.

Through movement, psychology, feminine yoga, dance/movement therapy and embodied exploration, we create a bridge between the woman you have learned to be and the woman you know you can become.

Imagine what could happen if, for a while, you allowed yourself not to perform, achieve, fix or hold everything together.

Imagine entering a space where you could slow down enough to notice what is happening inside you.

“If you have yet to be called an incorrigible, defiant woman, don’t worry, there is still time.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Meet your Facilitator - Lila,

Psychologist • Dance/Movement Therapist • Eastern Female Gymnastics •Yin Yoga Instructor

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Lila is a Psychologist, certified Yin Yoga Instructor, and Dance/Movement Therapist specializing in trauma-informed, somatic healing for women. She is known for creating safe, inclusive, and embodied spaces where women can restore self-trust, process lived experiences, and reconnect with their authentic essence.

With over 600 hours of clinical experience, Lila has partnered with prominent advocacy organizations across Europe, including Oranje Huis, the largest women’s shelter in Amsterdam. Her therapeutic movement programs have been integrated into shelters, grassroots initiatives, and protective communities, offering women a body-centered path to healing beyond conventional talk therapy.

💜 Unite yourself to the growing global sisterhood through BAILALOBAS – WOMEN Dancing with the Wild.

Download Lila`s ELSEVIER scientific research “Putting back the puzzle pieces” of life a f t e r domestic abuse”, done with the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Panteion University of Athens.