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Ceren Başgül
Born in Istanbul and raised in the lively streets of Kadıköy, Ceren Başgül is a multidisciplinary artist and spiritual explorer, currently living in the heart of Montenegro’s wild beauty. After graduating from Visual Communication and Design, her journey led her through various creative fields — photography, videography, tattooing, poetry and large-scale mural art.
At just 13, she began formal art training. By 14, she was already on a spiritual path, receiving her second Reiki certification. Over the years, she wove together ancient techniques, esoteric studies, and deep self-inquiry — ultimately finding her compass in the four elements.
Ceren spent the last decade studying the elements not only through traditional teachings and astrology, but also through embodied practices like photography in nature, shamanic gatherings, and spiritual tattooing. Her journey of inner and outer exploration now finds expression within Elementalite — a space where art meets nature, and creativity becomes a meditative ritual.
Now based in Tivat, Montenegro, Ceren leads transformative art workshops designed to reconnect people with nature and themselves. Whether it’s painting pebbles in the forest or burning intentions under the fire sun, her sessions are less about technique and more about remembering who we are beneath the noise.
In every workshop and interaction, Ceren brings her signature blend of humor, presence, and deep insight — helping people not just create, but feel.
İpek Kutbay
Born in Istanbul, İpek is a passionate traveler of both the world and the human experience. After graduating from Galatasaray High School and studying Philosophy at Boğaziçi University, she continued her education with certificate programs at Yale University in The Science of Well-Being, Business Negotiation, and Everyday Parenting: The ABCs of Child Rearing.
She has been giving private lessons in mathematics, physics, chemistry, philosophy, and psychology for 27 years — 11 of which have been fully online. Her teaching blends logic with intuition, science with empathy, and always starts with one question: What makes us truly understand?
Beyond academia, İpek has a lifelong connection to music and dance, not just as a listener but as an active performer. For her, music is as essential as mathematics — a rhythm she lives by.
Before moving to Montenegro in 2015, she spent nearly two decades organizing cultural and artistic events in Turkey. In Montenegro, she continued this path, completing formal studies in tourism and hospitality and becoming a licensed national tour guide. Whether it’s leading a group through ancient towns or guiding someone inward through reflection and movement, being a guide is part of her essence.
Today, with Elementalite, İpek brings all these threads together. She designs and facilitates experiences — online and in nature — that invite people to reconnect with their own elements, with their stories, and with each other. With her, learning is not a lesson — it’s a shared journey.
Celil Göde
Born in Istanbul, Celil was raised as a licensed athlete at Fenerbahçe Sports Club and joined the Turkish National Rowing Team at the age of 17. It was there that he first learned to listen to the body with discipline and move in harmony with nature.
His relationship with the performing arts began with acting and directing at the Istanbul University Faculty of Political Sciences Theatre Club. Through ballet and contemporary dance training, he explored the body; through classes at Mimar Sinan University, he discovered stage design. For many years, he held various roles at the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), contributing to international events such as the Theatre, Music, and Jazz Festivals and the Istanbul Biennial. At IKSV’s performance venue Salon, he designed lighting for hundreds of shows. He collaborated with numerous theatre, dance, and music groups across Turkey and Europe—creating designs, directing performances, and conducting workshops.
He deepened his technical expertise in areas such as lighting and sound design, dance and movement, text analysis, and dramaturgy through ongoing studies in philosophy, psychology, sociology, and science. At the intersection of frequency, light, the body, and rhythm, he discovered that the performing arts could be more than something to watch — they could be something to live through.
Elementalite was shaped by the inner calling of these explorations and accumulated experiences. It became a space, an experience, and a journey. In this project—where stage and body, nature and art, individual and collective come together—he aims to share the knowledge and intuition he has gathered over the years; to co-experience, and to co-transform.
Because for Celil, the stage is not merely a place of performance. It is a passage, a mirror. And perhaps most of all: an invitation to look more deeply—into oneself, into others, and into life.