Release Yoga and Wellness Retreat

Join us for a 4 day, 3 night Yoga and Wellness Retreat over the Whit Monday weekend, designed to support the release of built-up tension and trauma through yoga, Chinese medicine, Trauma Release Exercise, and hypnotherapy.

The retreat will be held in a secluded villa just outside Nafpaktos, overlooking a beautiful beach that can be reached on foot in about 10 minutes.

About Nafpaktos

Nafpaktos is a town in West Greece, located about a 2.5-hour drive from Athens. With its medieval character and inviting atmosphere, it offers visitors a truly memorable setting. The small Venetian port, nearby beaches, and scenic landscape make it a wonderful destination. The port and castle are the town’s main highlights, both featuring well-preserved Venetian remains. Around the area, you’ll find shops, cafés, and bars, while a long, beautiful beach begins at the port and offers the perfect place for a swim close to town.

Teaching

Sissy Fragiadaki

Sissy Fragkiadaki trained in Hatha Vinyasa Yoga and Aerial Yoga with Tanya Popovich, founder of Shri Gaia Institute, and has been teaching yoga for 11 years and Aerial Yoga for 10 years.

A few years ago, she also began working as an assistant trainer in Hatha Vinyasa and Aerial Yoga Teacher Trainings for Shri Gaia Institute.

She is the founder and owner of “The Social Yogis Project,” once one of the best-known studios in Greece.

In addition, Sissy is trained in Chinese medicine, lymphatic drainage, massage, and cupping at the Academy of Chinese Medicine in Athens.

As a neurodivergent person, Sissy is committed to raising awareness around ADHD and autism, and she serves as an ambassador for ADHD HELLAS. Her work includes classes, workshops, seminars, and retreats on:

• Yoga and ADHD
• Moving meditation for people with ADHD
• Anatomy, injuries and recovery
• Lymphatic system and self-drainage

Sissy teaches in both English and Greek, depending on the audience.

Tanya Popovich

Tanya is a certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher, Yoga Alliance ERYT-500, and Yoga Acharya (Master of Yoga) in the classical Sivananda Yoga tradition. She began her meditation practice at age 14 through Transcendental Meditation.

Her 20 years of practice and 17 years of teaching include numerous yoga trainings in classical and modern styles, as well as extended stays at Yoga Ashrams across India.

For the past 16 years, Tanya has taught yoga internationally, including 200-hour and 500-hour Yoga Alliance certified educational programs, Yin Yoga and Aerial Yoga training programs, breathwork and meditation trainings, Vedanta philosophy, workshops, seminars, and cultural retreats.

Tanya is also a certified hypnotherapist specializing in trauma and addiction, and a TRE practitioner.

Over the past 10 years, alongside teaching yoga, she has worked with executive managers as a Leadership Coach and Consultant in both individual and group settings.

She has served as a Leadership Coach for major companies including Airbus Group, Evonik, Thales Group, and Kienbaum. She also holds a B.A. in Fine Arts, an M.A. in Indigenous Studies, Storytelling and Myth, a degree in Sound Healing, is a Rites of Passage Initiate, and a Shamanic Journeying through Dance and Breathwork facilitator.

She draws on her deep understanding of the body-mind connection through yoga, meditation, breathwork, RTT (Hypnosis, NLP and Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy), TRE, sound healing, art, music, and dance to support individuals and those in demanding leadership roles.

Tanya is the founder of Shri Gaia Institute.

Schedule & Investment

Friday, June 2nd

• Arrival
• Afternoon yoga class and guided hypnotherapy

Saturday, June 3rd

• Morning shaking release meditation
• Afternoon workshop: Releasing trauma through Chinese medicine, lymphatic drainage and yoga

Sunday, June 4th

• Morning vinyasa yoga
• Afternoon Trauma Release Exercise and guided hypnotherapy

Monday, June 5th

• Morning yoga to reclaim our strength
• Departure

Accommodation is based on shared triple and quadruple occupancy. Each room includes a private bathroom.

Retreat Cost

• 250 € Shared Triple Room
• 195 € Shared Triple Room
• Regular Price after May 2nd
• 295 € Shared Triple Room
• 240 € Shared Triple Room

For applications, please fill in the application form.

Please read the cancellation policy.