NISYROS YOGA RETREAT

To relax and decompress…
To clear your mind and start over fresh…

Yoga retreats give you the opportunity to rejuvenate while concentrating on your practice.
Our Yoga retreats aim to promote a healthier way of life through exercise and healthy food while discovering new places and interact with new people. We want our participants to gain a few valuable moments of relaxation and to decompress themselves from the hectic and always demanding everyday life.

The Island

Nisyros will host our Summer yoga retreat from July 24 to July 29. One of the hidden treasures of the Aegean, Nisyros is one of the two existing volcanos worldwide where you can visit and walk on its craters where it all feels quite surreal, like being on a different planet!

This fascinating island, with its out of this world beauty, at the south east Aegean sea in the Dodecanese complex, has not been affected by the heavy boom of tourism. Here things are quitter more relaxing and due to its volcanic nature this small island has a special energy that you absorb immediately once you get there.

Small villages with traditional squares, long beaches with no beach bars and sunbeds and of course the craters of the volcano constitute a unique landscape similar to none.
The island has always been the refuge of several artists where they seclude themselves in order to get inspiration and relaxation.

The craters

You don’t get to visit a volcano every day. What’s more, this one has three craters. The locals feel so proud of them, they’ve even given them names: Stephanos, Alexandros and Polyvotis. Or maybe they hoped doing so would pacify them! Two eruptions, 20,000 years ago, gave birth to today’s caldera. As you descend into the enormous crater, you could be entering an unknown yellow-streaked, ashen planet, with bubbling pits and enormous cracks.

Volcanological Museum

The Volcanological Museum in Nikia is one of the best geological museums in Greece. It shows in all facets the how volcanoes are formed and where you can find volcanoes on Earth. On numerous charts and great photos the “Fascination Volcano” is made available to a wide audience. In the volcanological Museum you can watch videos about the rise of the volcanic island of Nisyros and the surrounding volcanoes Cos, Yali, Strongyli or Pergousa.

Hot Springs

The hot springs of Nisyros, the “Loutra”, are located just 1,5 km from where we will be staying. They are housed in a 19th century building and they are legendary for their therapeutic properties. The maximum temperature of the hot spring is 46°C.
During our time on the island we will visit the hot springs, the craters, we will hike on foot paths and enjoy local specialties.

The hotel

We will be staying at “Porfyris hotel” in Mandraki which is the capital of the island. The hotel has a big swimming pool and is located just 5 minutes from the central square and 10 minutes from the beach. A beautiful garden is ideal for relaxing during our free time and the majority of the rooms have a sea view.

Yoga Instructor: Mara Konstantinidi

Mara is a certified Yoga instructor who has completed the Sivananda Yoga Teachers’ Training Course at Mandurai, India. She is adventurous in mind and she is always looking for ways to improve the quality of her life as well as of those she meets and socializes with. This is her basic principle that she passes on to her students. Through her teaching and practice she tries to transmit the gratitude towards life and oneself as well as towards every day’s small pleasures that usually go by unnoticed.
After years of experience, her classes are structured is such a way as to adopt to every student’s needs and she is willing to guide them so that they reach their full potential both physically and mentally.

Her other big passion is travelling. She always wants to discover new places and meet new people, she wants to gather new experiences and accumulate new trends and traits that will complete her character and personality.

As she wants to combine her two big loves of life, Yoga and travelling, she has dedicated herself in organizing Yoga retreats in magical destinations.

Yoga
Mara combines different yoga techniques that arise through the reflection of each participant’s needs. Dynamic and flowing, challenging yet relaxing, allowing each and everyone to explore, discover, experience and remember their connection with themselves.

The retreat includes:

• 6 days/ 5 nights in shared accommodation
• 5 breakfasts
• 2 dinners
• 7 yoga classes
• Hiking
• Visit to the volcano craters
• Visit to the “Volcanological Museum”
• Visit to traditional villages

Prices

495 euros/ person in a single room
430euros/ person in a double shared room
390euros/ person in a triple shared room
50% non-refundable down payment is required to reserve your participation

How to get there

The closest international airport is that of Kos Island. From Kos there are small boats leaving from the port of Kardamena ( 6 km from the airport) that will cross you to Nisyros, the trip lasts about an hour.

For additional information and reservations please contact Mara
marakonsta@hotmail.com
(+30) 6944914578

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