Get immersed in the local culture, try the local cuisine and meet like-minded people. The retreat is designed to meet your personal needs whether you like to be introduced to yoga, face yoga and meditation practices for the first time or recharge your existing practices.

8 – 14 SEPTEMBER 2019

Naxos Island, Greece

6 days accommodation, breakfast & lunch, daily yoga & mindfulness practice and interactive workshops

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Single Room: € 1.100
Shared Room: € 850

The above amounts include 6 nights’ accommodation, daily breakfast and lunch meal, mindfulness meditation/yoga & face yoga sessions, transport from and to the airport/port of Naxos.
Availability is on a first come-first serve basis.
Not included: plane/ferry tickets, travel insurance, fees for external activities and dinner

Cancellation policy: For cancellations up to 60 days prior to scheduled arrival date, no cancellation fees apply. For cancellations between 59 and 30 days prior to scheduled arrival date, a 50% of the total cost will be charged as cancellation fee. For cancellation later than 30 days or in case of early departure or non-show, the total cost of the retreat will be changed as cancellation fee.

Bio Dr Natasha Papazafeiropoulou

Natasha studied computer science and MSc in information systems at the Athens University of Economics and Business. She worked at the European Union in Brussels as technical trainee in computing and did her PhD at Brunel University in London. Since then she worked as researcher and academic in the UK in the domain of information systems and in particular in the area of organisational decision making related to information technology. She has a lot of publications in international conferences and academic journals.

In 2004 she became familiar with buddhist mediation at the West London Buddhist center. In 2011 she took part in the mindfulness teachers certification programme at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) where she was introduced to to Vipassana/insight meditation and was certified as mindfulness facilitator by the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center (MARC) from the same university. Since then she teaches mindfulness meditation in big organisations such as the European Union, Merck pharmaceutical, Copenhagen Business School, Brunel University. She has done a lot of presentations in relevant conferences and she supervises doctoral students in their research on the use of mindfulness against information overload. She has a number of popular publications in the area of information overload and the use of mindfulness techniques to eliminate its negative consequences. In 2016 she got certified as yoga teacher by Yoga Alliance, while in 2017 she was also certified as Face Yoga teacher with the Face Yoga Method by Fumiko Takatsu.

She is a member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association and she teaches world wide in countries such as The United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark, The United Sates, Taiwan and recently in her native Greece where she lives and works since 2017.

Bio Maria yoga teacher

Hi there, my name is Maria and I never thought I would be a yoga teacher.

Well, I do enjoy it a lot now though! I started with athletic training from a young age and for 12 years have been competing in diverse swimming championships. After quitting my athletic career for studies, I happened to become really sick and somehow I was convinced that it was due to not exercising anymore. I slowly started training on my own again to regain a strong, physical condition. At this point, although I was aware of the existence of yoga, I always pictured it as a bunch of people holdings hands and chanting OM… that wouldn’t fit in my hardcore workout! (Little did I know!)

By chance I took a class at a gym once and I guess I was lucky to have a really good teacher. I did actually like this practice. Although it included a lot of stretching, there were challenging postures and transitions as well, challenging in a different way than what I was used to though. Slowly I started attending more classes, exploring different options and… a few years later, here I am!

I acquired a Yoga Teacher certification, keep on attending various workshops, teach in diverse studios and camps, received a Mindfulness Teaching certification, hosted a retreat, collaborate with business and organisations, keep on exploring and educating myself and of course remain a humble student.