New!! Ikaria island:July 5-July 12, 2025
About Ikaria & Fourni
Alongside to our outdoors yoga & meditation lessons, we offer a versatile programme, including hiking, visits to magnificent traditional villages, live music and dance festivals organised by the local community. We will be touring around Ikaria on a
private bus or if you prefer to move independently you can hire a car on your own. We are staying in Kerame hotel, which is
1 klm outside from Evdilos village. The hotel has a lift. And each room has a kitchen with a cook. In Fourni, we are staying
in Archipelagos hotel.
How can I join you in Ikaria & Fourni yoga retreat?
If you live abroad you can fly directly to other neighbour Greek islands such as Mykonos/ Samos/Kos/Limnos and then take the ferry or plane to Ikaria.(i.e Mykonos is only a 1,5 hrs ferry trip to Evdilos' port in Ikaria). Alternatively, you can flyto the cities of Thessaloniki or Athens and from there fly directly to Ikaria or take a ferry to Ikaria(there are flights with Aegean Airways, Astra Airlines and ferries to Evdilos port in Ikaria every day from Athens). Fourni island is connected by ferries with Ikaria, Samos and Pireus.
By sea:The most economical way is to get a ferry from the port of Athens (Pireus). There are slower and faster ferries running every day from Pireus. You could contact the Pireus port (0030)210 4226000. For further assistance to book your tickets please contact us. You can also check different ferries and flights timetable here.
About ikaria
We love Ikaria's particular culture and strong community feeling, authentic dance and music festivities, its plurality in herbs, plants, the richness of landscapes, the crystal clear blue waters, the slow pace of lifestyle. Ikaria has been acclaimed as one of the world's 5 Blue Zones, as its residents reach the highest age of living.
Total Cost of participation in our Ikaria 2020 yoga Retreat
585 euros (in a single room)-421 (in a double shared with one more person room).This is the cost for 7 nights accomodation in beautiful Kerame hotel including breakfast with Ikaria organic delicacies, in rooms of all modern neccesities and facilities. Also, this cost includes all our Yoga & Meditation lessons and the optional programme's provision.We simply love Ikaria island, and we always return here to run a yoga retreat. This is our 8th yoga retreat in Ikaria, thus we know this island very well!
*If you are only interested in our ikaria intensive Teachers' training July 13-20, please read further below for details.*
You can book your place in our retreats with a deposit of 100 euros. (The deposit will be excluded from the total participation cost). You can complete the total cost payment until June.
Our lessons & teaching style:
Our Yoga and Meditation lessons are tailored to welcome a general level of practitioners. However, our main priority is to acknowledge our students' individual capacities and needs and to enable a personal improvement. To achieve that, we are two long experienced teachers (Sofia 67 and Isidora 36) co-leading the classes. Classes include Hatha Yoga, Pranayama breathing, guided Meditation and relaxation, elements from Scaravelli, Iyengar Yoga, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Therapeutic Yoga, Our method of yoga of circle and cross, Transcendental Meditation, and other holistic disciplines such as Thai massage.
Isidora and Sofia (who are a daughter and a mother, and yoga teachers)teach in English and Greek; The lessons are an outcome of the two teachers' live and constant dialogue representing two different generations of yogis. The lessons also include extended Pranayama breathing exercises, techniques for Mindfulness, restorative yoga for therapy and re-energisation, yogic exercises and routines for control weight, balance of the metabolism and the nervous system.We are inspired from Hatha Yoga, Iyengar, ashtanga, Partner Yoga, Acro Yoga and Vinyasa systems. Hatha Yoga is the type of Yoga that includes both physical exerices, together with Pranayama and meditation.
The natural environment of the island plays a crucial role in the development of our yoga classes.
Not only because the environment inspires us in relation to the words we convey our teaching, but also because we actually use our natural surroundings, for the implementation of our practice.We identify the potentialities for practicing
Yoga in the natural environment of the island and adapt our practice accordingly, by moving through it, over
and under its features. Participants are closely instructed and encouraged to develop alternatives to techniques
that are tailored to their personal needs.
If you need further assistance with organizing your trip please click here or contact us
Teachers' Training course in Ikaria
This course is taking place at the Kerame hotel too. As the lessons start early in the mornings, it is highly advisable that you book your accommodation in the same hotel. The cost of 5 nights accommodation, in a single room is 275 euros, or in a double shared room is 158 euros.
Who is this training course suitable for?
The course is suitable for all health professionals, yoga teachers, or anyone who wishes to have a deep insight in
Yoga and gain teaching skills, taught by Sofia, a 46 years of experience teacher. The course is certificated by the
Eyzein respectable Yoga School recognized from the International Yoga Federation.
Please Contact us for more details.
We have a long experience not only as Yoga instructors but also as Yoga Retreats Organisers and facilitators.
If you represent a company/organisation or even a smaller group, you can now contact us in order to organise on your behalf an exclusive Yoga Retreat in one of the below Greek islands where we have already ran our past retreats or elsewhere in Greece:
Ikaria & Karpathos 2019
Ikaria & Nisyros 2018
Ikaria & Crete 2017
Ikaria & Leros, Greece 2016
Ikaria & Astypalea, Greece 2015
Andros & Ikaria, Greece 2014
Ikaria 2013
Paxoi 2012
Ithaca 2011
Kithira island 2010
Karpathos island 2009
Nisiros island 2008
Mytelene island 2007
Santorini 2006
Every summer, we have an unforgettable time in our Yoga Retreats in the Greek islands. We enjoyed, the
islanders' hospitality, cuisine, customs, and of course the islands' clean air, the natural, unspoiled beauty. The
islands' have been an inspiration for our Yoga teaching, we've all become healthier, re-energized physically and
mentally, and that helped us to go on healthier and happier through the winter. This summer, we are in front of
an ethical dilemma: Can we run our annual yoga retreats in our beloved Greek islands in the middle of this
dramatic refugee crisis?After a lot of thought, we have decided that we should run our retreats and not turn our
back to the islands that have hosted us with such
hospitality all the years before. We have been always trying to 'support' the least touristic islands of Greece with
our yoga retreats. And it is now in these islands where the locals together with foreigner volunteers too,work
daily on rescuing,offering food, roof and warmth to the people who have been enforced to become refugees.
Their actions inspire hope, admiration, and are 'a real lesson of solidarity, compassion and appraise of life'.
Isn't that what Yoga Philosophy and practice should all be about? Becoming a better human. Of course, we still
hold respect for every individuals' personal need to have a restful time in our yoga retreat, and this is what we
continue to offer as well. But, in this summer's retreats we will all get deeper in our practice and face the
insuperable ethical elevation that derives from conscious action, solidarity and giving.
Our Yoga Retreats in 2016 were devoted to all the volunteers and islanders, whose work we
'enhanced' financially, by offering 10% of the profits from our 2016 retreats and
Training Course, to them.
In 2016 we also, collaborated with Monica, co-hosting her Natura Dance Lab as part of our
optional programme.
NATURA (ΦΥΣΗ) DanceLab:
Open to all those who want to experiment with their creativity and experience the environment through
movement. No previous dance experience is required, but the will to research and desire to get involved. The lab
will be in outdoor spaces in the magnificent seacoast environment of Ikaria. We will find together a creative way
to relate to the Nature, the others and ourselves.
It will be a place of conscious listening and personal exploration. Our surrounding will inspire us and we will
share the dance! Each meeting will include: Moving with the gravity, exploration of the support and the
momentum that we can find from the ground Improvisation: body-mind approaches and Contact Dance.
We will explore pressures, support, weight, balance and imbalances with each other and with the
space.We will stimulate our senses and perceptions to generate harmony with the environment the other and of
ourselves.Voice work: we will find integration of our vocal expression with our movement.Development of
collective scores with site-specific approaches. Observation on the experience and sharing of the dance.