We invite you into a rare and rigorous space of embodied practice, where conflict is not bypassed, but met with steadiness, skill, and presence.

If you are already holding communities, movements, or difficult conversations, this immersion offers a chance to strengthen your nervous system, refine your leadership, and expand your capacity to support transformation in real time.

Join us in Greece for seven days of advanced training, relational depth, and lived peace practice — where mastery is cultivated not in theory, but through embodied experience.

Description of the retreat

Peace is not the absence of conflict. For facilitators, coaches, and leaders today, the real question is not how to avoid chaos, disagreement, trauma, or friction, but how to remain grounded within it.

The Embodied Peace & Conflict Mastery Retreat is a 7-day advanced immersion at Zen Rock Mani for practitioners ready to move beyond resilience and into true conflict mastery.

Here, you will build the capacity to stay embodied in conflict and work with it rather than around it. Through live relational dynamics, demos, feminine and nature-based practices, and somatic movement, you will develop the tools to hold space with greater clarity and confidence.

This retreat is designed for those called to lead in times of tension and change. Peace Activator graduates step into roles as trainers, facilitators, consultants, educators, and movement leaders in schools, universities, the UN system, NGOs, and community-based organizations, where holistic peace work — including trauma-informed conflict transformation, natural wisdom, and spiritual psychology — is increasingly needed.

Program pillars

Medical Foundation, Macrobiotic Nutrition, Embodiment & Practice, Healing Treatments

This signature Medical Holistic Retreat is guided by leading doctors and clinical nutritionists. Through advanced testing and precision diagnostics, we identify dysfunctions in metabolic health and energy pathways at the cellular level. By addressing these root causes, we help reset and optimize the body’s natural healing functions.

This science-backed approach supports:

Increased vitality and energy levels
Balanced metabolism and weight management
Reduced inflammation and improved cellular health
Lower risk of chronic illness, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disorders, dementia, and more
A renewed sense of well-being and longevity

Nutrition is a central part of the healing journey. The macrobiotic-inspired cuisine emphasizes whole grains, seasonal vegetables, legumes, fresh local organic ingredients, and naturally minimally processed foods, with balanced meals designed to harmonize body, mind, and spirit.

Daily embodiment practices help reconnect body and mind:

Restorative yoga & Yoga Nidra for deep relaxation and nervous system reset
Guided meditation & mindful walking for presence and inner stillness
Gentle Pilates-based movement sessions, optional, for strength and alignment

To complement the medical and nutritional framework, holistic therapies are also available:

Swedish deep tissue massage to ease muscle tension and improve circulation
Tibetan sound bowl healing to release energetic blockages and restore harmony

Water readings, breathwork, and freediving

Water is treated as a living, conscious element. Deepening your connection with it becomes a way of reconnecting with yourself and the source of life. This practice is offered as a reminder that we are far more than the physical, and that water can help restore our most joyful and empowered expression.

Breathwork is another key pillar. The retreat introduces simple and beautiful breathing techniques for relaxation, energy, deep transformation, and freediving. It all connects.

Freediving — the art of moving underwater on one single breath — invites an intimate experience of self through breath and water. It supports focus, presence, slower pacing, and stronger breath control, helping restore the mind-body connection and build resilience to everyday stress and pressure.

Mermaiding

Mermaiding is a creative form of self-expression that brings the mythical mermaid or merman persona to life. It blends underwater performance, costume design, swimming with a mermaid tail, and artistic expression.

The experience begins with inner calm, empowered presence, and the breath-hold skills of freediving, then unfolds into a complete aquatic transformation. Rooted in mythology, symbolism, and folklore across cultures, mermaiding opens the door to imagination, play, and a deeper sense of magic in the water.

Program schedule

May 22–28, 2026

Arrivals: May 22nd. Participants arrive in Athens and gather for group transfer. Meeting point: Avocado Restaurant in central Athens. Departure to Zen Rocks: 3:00 PM.

Upon arrival at Zen Rocks, participants check in, settle into their rooms, and receive welcome packs with schedules, maps, and retreat materials.

Departures: May 28th. Morning departure by group van from Zen Rocks back to Athens, with drop-off in central Athens timed to align with typical flight departures.

Daily schedule

7:00–8:00 Somatic Integration & Morning Practice: guided movement, fascia work, breathwork, and optional sun-gazing
8:00–9:00 Breakfast & Personal Time: silent nourishment and individual reflection
9:00–12:00 Morning Workshop: Conflict Transformation & Trauma-Responsive Leadership
12:00–13:00 Lunch & Personal Time: farm-to-table communal dining
13:00–15:00 Rest, Nature Time, or Optional Sessions
15:00–18:00 Afternoon Workshop: applied learning, group practice, and facilitated dialogue
18:00–19:00 Dinner & Community Time
19:00–21:00 Evening Integration Circling: meditation, sound healing, ceremony, or group processing

This immersion is designed for:

Facilitators and dialogue leaders
Peacebuilders and bridge-builders
NGO and movement leaders
Coaches and therapists
Those working inside polarized environments

This is not entry-level activism. It is designed to strengthen the people who already carry responsibility.

Costs

Retreat package including accommodations, program, and meals. Prices are per person.

Shared glamping tent: $2,800
Shared triple room: $3,900
Private small room: $4,320
Shared double room: $4,500
Private single room: $5,400

Included: comfortable accommodations, all lectures and practice sessions, two vegetarian meals a day (brunch and dinner), yoga props and sitting cushions, biodegradable toiletries, transfer to and from Zen Rocks Mani, transfers around Zen Rocks and the area, and additional therapeutic treatments or private yoga sessions where applicable.

Not included: extra food and specialty drinks from the café.

All participants are required to fill in the wellness questionnaire and accept the Terms & Conditions.

Booking is confirmed with a 50% deposit. The remaining balance is due, or requested, within 14 days prior to the retreat start date. Cancellation fees apply, and written confirmation is required for any cancellation.

Educational workshop in Mani

Educational workshop in Mani