We start each day with a delightful yoga practice in the venue’s large outdoor yoga shala. After class, we enjoy a hearty breakfast, and then you can spend the rest of the day as you wish—whether you want to relax with a book on the beach, take a walk, or simply unwind in a hammock. In the afternoon, we reconvene for a soothing and therapeutic practice that includes a mix of yin, restorative yoga, and connective tissue massage to help you fully relax and find deep rest. On two of the days, you are invited to join excursions: one day to a small seaside town with long beaches and cozy tavernas, and another day to Olympos, a traditional Greek mountain village where we will have dinner. If you wish to explore more of the island, you are welcome to do so on your own. In the evenings, we gather for dinner on the terrace, with candles and good conversations around the table.
08:30 - 10:00 Yoga session / Training
10:15 - 12:00 Breakfast / brunch
11:30 - 17:30 Free time
17:30 - 19:00 Evening yoga session
19:30 - 21:30 Healthy dinner
Yoga is expanding all over the world bringing inner peace and many health benefits to practitioners.
However, yoga has the potential to do much more. In the west, we often see the original yoga, commercialized and downgraded to a bodily workout or something that people do just with their bodies.
Yoga has always meant to be more about the mind and about using the body to go into postures that will help the detoxification and relaxation process. After all, the asanas are only one of the part of the eightfold path of Patanjali.
On top of this, the modern human being is restricted from experiencing higher states of consciousness or yoga (state of union) from limiting beliefs and energy blockages.
This new yoga teacher training will offer participants a first-hand experience of what is possible through yoga by removing energy blockages that the participants might be experiencing, by cleansing the body and the mind and by going deep in the practises of the original yoga.
Yoga Program
This program intends to give birth to a new breed of yoga teachers. Participants that will emerge out of this program will have experienced what yoga is really about, will have achieved a significant shift in consciousness and will be in a position to inspire students and practitioners from different parts of the world to join into this consciousness revolution and have positive and meaningful impact on them while experiencing abundance at all levels.
The trainees will receive a certification 200Hr Yoga Alliance accepted throughout the world and will be capable to lead a class of students in all the different types of asanas, pranayama, meditations, mundras, bhandas and sound healing. However, this program will also be ideal for people that do not seek to practice yoga as a profession but who would like to go deeper in their own practice and to experience a shift in consciousness that will empower them for all the different aspects of their lives.
Further to successful completion of the program and further practice, candidates will also have the possibility to receive additional certifications to enable them to take part and lead training of new teachers in this conscious form of yoga.
The program will last for three weeks of intense work after which their first certification will be granted. However, the attendee will continue to be supported by the teachers for 6 months when their final certification will be offered. It is important for the student to feel supported in his/her first steps and in the application of the tools that were offered to them. Over this period of 6 months, participants will be able to ask questions and will be supported with extra materials, coaching and mentoring.
The practitioner will be exposed to:
All 4 main types of yoga: Karma, Bhakti, Jnana, Raja
The 8 limbs of yoga: Yamas, Niyamas, Asanas, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi
Various sub-yogas: Hatha, Yin, Kirtan, Vinyasa, Restorative, Ashtanga
Different aspects of yoga such as: Yoga Mundras, Chanting, Bhandas, Human Anatomy, the scientific benefits of yoga
Different terms of yoga such as: Ashtanga, Ashtanga Vinyasa, Chakra, Guru, Koshas, Namaste, Niyama, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Samadhi, Satsang, Surya Namaskara, Vinyasa, Vipassana, Sushmana, Prana, Apana, yin yang, Ahimsa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Aparighara, Shaucha, Samtosha, Tapas, Svadhyaya, Ishvara Pranidhana
The program will last for three weeks and the first week will focus on asanas. Every day of this first week, will focus on a particular type of asanas. After a break, a swim and lunch, the afternoon sessions will be about practising further and going deeper into what you learned in the morning.
The second week we will practise asanas together in the morning, and in the afternoons, we will focus on yoga philosophy, pranayama, human anatomy and different types of meditations.
Over the second week, participants will become much more capable of controlling their life energy through removing limiting beliefs and by revitalizing their different energy centers.
Attendees can expect to explore new viewpoints on different aspects of their life and as a result, experience more trust, abundance, mental, physical and sentimental balance, greater self-esteem and self-confidence, compassion, non-attachment, and to be more capable in communication at all the different levels.
The third week, you will become more comfortable with teaching as you will practice teaching on your fellow students.
Although every day and week will be different, there will also be similarities throughout the weeks. Every morning participants will meditate together with an experienced meditator, there will plenty of time for swims, breaks, hammock time and massages. There will also be excursions to beaches and places of interest on the island, dinners out and plenty of summer outdoor movie nights – perfect way to chill out after an interesting and fruitful day of training.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included daily in this retreat. They care about your health and your bodies, so they have a strong focus on healthy eating. Still, the food needs to be tasty and exciting! The wonderful chef will prepare lovely Mediterranean dishes which you will enjoy under the shade of pine trees or on the terrace overlooking the ocean. There will be a variety of food being served, but always with vegetarian options for those of you who want that.
The following meals are included:
Breakfasts
Lunches
Dinners
The following diets served and/or catered for:
Vegetarian
Normal (which usually includes meat and fish)
A reservation requires a deposit of 25% of the total price. The deposit will not be refunded if the booking is cancelled. The remaining balance is to be paid 30 days before arrival.
