Yoga and Culture Week Experience

DETAILED TOUR TIMELINE

• Your Experience in Brief

  Enjoy a week of Yoga and Culture in a luxurious but also traditional Retreat place in the region of Heraklion. Surrounded by beautiful and peaceful nature, and in an area of 40acres with beautiful gardens, a swimming pool and an outstanding Yoga hall in a cave, you will experience a week of yoga classes, meditation and wellness.

  Your week itinerary includes tours in important historic and spiritual sites, tradition and art interactive features and special massage therapies.

• Day 1: Meditation, Yoga and History

  Your day will start with meditation and a morning yoga class before enjoying your rich breakfast in the house. On your first day, you will visit the biggest Archaeological Site of the island, the Minoan Palace of Knossos, where you will experience an interactive tour in the mythical Labyrinth of Homer.

  Your tour will continue with a visit to Heraklion Archaeology Museum, housing the best Prehistoric exhibition of artifacts of Greece and a special meal at a local restaurant. Back to the house in the afternoon, you will enjoy a yoga workshop and a wonderful dinner in the house.

• Day 2: Meditation, Yoga and Tradition

  Your day will start with a meditation practice and morning yoga class. After breakfast in the house, you will explore the traditional parts of Crete, being driven though beautiful olive groves and vineyards. You will reach a cute tradition village, where you can visit the old style houses, some workshops of rural crafts, folk arts and handicrafts, and pay a visit to a local dairy and a honey workshop.

  You will taste local products right from the source like olive oil, local wine, honey, cheese, herbal tea, and local “raki”. You will enjoy a cooking lesson at a local house and a wonderful meal cooked by the housewife with organic products of her own production. In the afternoon back to the house, you will enjoy your yoga workshop and a lovely dinner.

• Day 3: Meditation, Yoga and Ancient Arts

  After your morning meditation, typical yoga class and breakfast in the house, this day will be dedicated to ancient prehistoric Arts, and dance in particular. You will be driven to a wonderful beach, where you will experience a Minoan Nature Dance session with the use of percussion instruments accompanying your dance, and you will play with nature elements.

  Swimming break and a light organic meal will follow by the beach. In the afternoon a wonderful yoga workshop, some time for leisure and a splendid meal will be waiting for you in the Retreat.

• Day 4: Meditation, Yoga and Mythological Crete

  Your new adventures will start with a meditation session and a yoga class in the house. After breakfast you will head East and reach the mountainous and mythological region of the Dikti Mountains. You will visit the Cave – Temple of Dikti, where according to Homer, the Cretan born Zeus was born, the so called Diktaion Andron and will be taken away by the space and energy of this site, renowned for its an energy vortex and energy points.

  After the Cave, you will pay a visit to a local pottery workshop in Lassithi Plateau and participate in pottery making, enjoy some beautiful scenic drive through this very fertile area and enjoy a meal at a local restaurant. In the afternoon and back to the retreat, you will enjoy your evening yoga workshop and dinner.

• Day 5: Meditation, Yoga and Wellness

  This day is dedicated to yoga, relaxation and wellness treatments. After your morning meditation and yoga class you have the option to relax and enjoy some time of leisure in the retreat space, or have a wonderful massage treatment or even reach the closest beach and spend the day there relaxing and swimming. In the afternoon your everyday yoga workshop and dinner will be there for you.

   

• Day 6: Meditation, Yoga and Hiking

  After your ordinary meditation and yoga morning class, today you will hike down one of the most beautiful nature gorges of Central Crete. Hiking along beautiful nature, ancient trees and natural springs and after some moderate hike of 7 km- 3/4 hours you will exit at a beautiful beach where you can relax and enjoy a light meal. In the afternoon your tea break, yoga workshop and dinner will be in the house.

• Day 7: Meditation, Yoga and Souht Crete Experience

  Your last day in Crete is focusing on the gems of the South Coast of the island, a totally different region that what you have experienced so far. There, life remains still very traditional, quiet and easy going, while the beaches watered by the Libyan See are exceptional. Some historic Sites can’t be excluded from your visit.

  After your morning yoga class, you will be driven to the renowned Roman Capital of Crete the town of Gortys, renowned for its oldest European coded laws, and then you will visit Phaistos Minoan palace, the second biggest of the island. An exquisite beach stop will follow and lunch at a very unique local restaurant by the beach. Your afternoon class and dinner will be back at the house.

• Included in the Program

  7 Nights’ Accommodation in the Retreat in DBL, TRL and QBL Occupancy Apartments

  2 Yoga Classes a Day

  2 Meals a Day

  A Yoga Teacher/Practitioner

  All Tours and Features of the Program

  An Official Licensed Guide

  A Premium Class Vehicle with a Professional Driver

  Maximum number per group 16 people

• Excluded from the Program

  Entrance tickets to the Archaeological Sites, paid locally