Yoga and Nature Week Experience

DETAILED TOUR TIMELINE

• Your Experience in Brief

  Enjoy a week of yoga, meditation, relaxation and beautiful beaches in a traditional house in the South West cost of Crete. Just some 5 min walk from the beach of Chora Sfakion and in close proximity to several little villages and traditional small towns, you will find yourself engaged to the beauty of the land, life style and waters of South Crete.

• Day 1: Welcome Meeting and Introduction to the Workshop

  Your day will start with a welcome meeting and an orientation tour in the house and surrounding region. Your morning yoga class will follow and then the rest of the day is free to walk to the nearby beach, and enjoy some time of leisure. Dinner will be served in the house in the evening and then a short introduction will follow for the program of the week.

• Day 2: Yoga and Village Experience

  After your morning Yoga class and breakfast in the house, you can take a walk into the village and visit the village beach Vrissi, just a 5-minute walk. Grab a bite at the local taverns overlooking the beach or in one of the village restaurants lining by the old harbor with the fishing boats. In the afternoon you will enjoy your yoga class in the house, with meditation, and/or some other movement or dance techniques. Dinner will follow in the house. 

• Day 3: Yoga and Beach Tour

  Your day starts with a yoga class and a wonderful breakfast in the house. Then you will depart by boat to the wonderful beach of “Sweet Waters”, a real paradise on earth. You can enjoy a light meal at the beach canteen, before returning back home by boat. Your evening yoga class and dinner will be waiting for you at the house.

• Day 4: Yoga and Historic Crete Tour

  Starting the day with a morning yoga class and after your breakfast, this day you are exploring the north coast of Chania, on a private tour with a highly experienced licensed guide. The day is dedicated to the historic Sites of West Crete and in particular the picturesque town of Chania itself.

  Reaching the old town of, you will visit several Venetian and Ottoman Monuments, such as such as the Firkas Fortress, the Fransiscan Monastery of San Salvador, the Venetian church of Ag Rockos, the Venetian Grand Arsenal, the Venetian Dockyards, Gialli Tzamissi, the Egyptian lighthouse, the Turkish baths, the Ottoman district of Splanzia with the Minaret of “Igemonas”or Hiougkar Tzamisi and the Minoan excavations of the ancient Kydonia.

  Your tour will sum up at the cruciform open-air fruit and leather market of the town, unique on Crete. There you can enjoy your lunch in one of the many traditional restaurants inside the Market Street. In the evening, your yoga class and meal will follow in the house.

• Day 5: Free Day from Classes- Hiking Tour

  Today, you are experiencing one of the most beautiful, ancient and unique natural gorges of Crete, the gorge of Aradena renowned for its wild fauna and flora. You will depart by car and with your local mountain guide and reach the Aradena abandoned village of unique beauty.

  You will decent into Aradena gorge from a stone path along the side of the gorge, and start your hike (4.7 km of moderate hike to the sea.) Around noon, you will arrive at the beautiful Marmara beach, where you can swim, and enjoy your lunch in one of the family taverns of the area.  In the afternoon, you will return to Chora Sfakion by boat, while this night dinner is on your own in one of the village restaurants.

   

• Day 6: Yoga and Legendary Crete Tour

  After your typical morning yoga class and breakfast in the house, you are taken on a guided tour to the beautiful Venetian Fort of Frankokastelo, renowned for its thrilling legend of “Drosoulites”. Being driven though breathtaking mountainous scenery and wild nature you will reach the beautiful Fort and unique beach of Frankokastelo at noon.

  There you can enjoy your swim and a light meal at a local restaurant, before you head to Orthi Amos beach, where you are challenged to experience a natural argile mud bath. An evening yoga class and dinner will follow in the house.

   

• Day 7: Yoga and Massage Treatment

  In the morning you will enjoy your yoga class and breakfast. Then, a massage with the retreat gifted and perceptive massage therapists will revitalize your body. Time of leisure and relaxation will follow, until your evening yoga class and meal in the house.

• Day 8: Yoga and departures

  With a morning yoga class and a wonderful breakfast, it would be the time to say goodbye to your South Crete Yoga experience!

   

• Included in your program:

  7 Overnights in the Retreat

  12 Yoga classes

  7 Breakfasts

  5 meals in the Retreat

  A boat trip to sweet waters beach

  A local mountain guide

  An official licensed guide for Days 4 and 6

  Your private transportation on a new, modern Minibus with a professional driver for Day 4, 5 and 6

• Excluded from your program

  Meals out of the Retreat

  Entrance tickets to Archaeological Sites, paid locally