Due to the success of our ‘Sold Out’ 2019 Santorini Retreat
Tranquil Times Retreats presents:
An 8 day Santorini Retreat Experience
from 22nd – 29th August 2020.
3 sharing a triple en-suite room €1100/ deposit €290
2 sharing double/twin en-suite room €1185/ deposit €340
1 person single occupancy in a double en-suite room €1540/ deposit €430
What Makes This Retreat Special
This holiday gives you the perfect balance of relaxation and activity, deep internal work for body mind and spirit, glimpses into authentic Greek life and lots of fun and joy! Each yoga session will be different as we journey through the week, but set around the yin yang philosophies to bring balance into your life. We will work with the 5 elements within the classes and combine the Indian Yogic principles with those of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Jo and Amanda's skills combine beautifully and they offer a safe and nurturing environment to enable permanent positive life changes, whilst giving you the time for new experiences, adventures and friendships. In this stunning location, this retreat promises an unforgettable experience to treasure forever.
What’s Included in This Package
- 8 days/7 nights boutique accommodation in shared or private ensuite rooms
- Twice daily Yin Yang Yoga/meditation/energy work classes 90 minutes each
- Daily delicious breakfast buffet
- 5 divine dinners (organic vegetarian)
- Water with meals
- Free WiFi
- Exclusive use of the Yoga Shala, beautiful gardens and heated pool
What’s not included in This Package
- Flights
- Travel insurance
- Lunches and dinners off the premises
- Optional excursions
- Therapies & treatments including private sessions
- Taxis
- Airport transfers
Optional excursions
・Walking to Oia
・ Greek cooking class
・ Sunset sailing trip
・ Meal in Fira watching the beautiful sunset
・ Day at a stunning beach club in
・Perivolos
Added bonuses
・ You’ll be added to a private What’sApp group to get the chance to meet everyone virtually beforehand and to share photos, stories and revelations!
・ Coaching support can be booked and arranged for after the trip to help overcoming challenges and to integrate the teachings into your every day life.
Benefits
• Experience joy, fun, laughter and adventure with a group of like-minded women/people,
• Immerse yourself in deep soul work releasing ties from the past to become mentally stronger and the best version of yourself
• Stimulate your senses whilst learning new practices and discover your power within
• Embrace the soul of Santorini, whilst relaxing in this perfect location to enjoy the beauty of nature and the power of the elements
• Opportunity to learn from two highly respected teachers and coaches.
Location
We’ve chosen the sublime setting of Santorini to fire you up for this wonderful week of wellbeing. This idylic island paradise situated within the Cyclades in Greece, erupted over 3600 years ago to reveal spectacular rock formations, lunar landscapes and the best sunsets in the Mediteranean. Considered a magical and mythical island and recognised as a place with powerful energy and authenticity, popular theory states that the volcanic eruption here was the source of the legend of Atlantis.
We feel very fortunate to have been offered a second retreat week at the award winning Pelagos hotel, situated 3kms outside of Oia village, surrounded by farms and vineyards. Just 10 minutes from the nearest beach, the complex overlooks the turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea and the caldera (crater) below.
This peaceful paradise is well away from the hustle and bustle of the tourist areas, but close to the traditional villages with their white-washed buildings nestled into the cliff face, beaches and downtown Fira.
Our spacious, bright and airy rooms are situated within 3 detached Cycladic buildings in perfect harmony with the surrounding landscape. Furnished in typical Santorinian style with an emphasis on character and comfort.
Each room has its own en-suite bathroom and private balcony allowing for greater privacy and relaxation, with spectacular views of the countryside, gardens or pool. Take a stroll between the palms and fig trees and let your mind calm, relaxing in hammocks between the trees, sipping coffee or cocktails by the pool, on the terrace or your own balcony.
The overall magic of this place offers you a secluded calm space, with privacy, as well as several communal areas like the yoga shala, dining areas, gardens, and terraces.
The outside yoga shala is a huge space bathed in light.
Hotel facilities & services
· Reception
· Restaurant
· Bar
· Swimming pool
· Pool towels
· Childrens swimming pool
· A/C
· Free WiFi internet
· Daily maid service
· Laundry
· Rent a car – The hotel can arrange for car to meet you at airport/port.
Food
Organic cuisine
Santorini offers agricultural produce of exquisite quality and incomparable taste due to both its unique climate and volcanic soil.
Our hosts philosophy regarding their restaurant is one of combining the use of local produce with biological cultivation. Therefore, they cultivate typical local varieties of fruit and vegetables without adding any artificial fertilizers, pesticides or growth accelerators.
They strongly support the idea of organic nutrition, offering a wide range of Greek, traditional dishes using as many ingredients as we can from their own produce, such as cherry tomatoes, white aubergines, local cucumbers, round zucchinis, string beans, grapes, figs, melons and watermelons.
Take a stroll into the vegetable garden and get acquainted with the renowned, dry varieties which grow on the island and taste the fruit of their fig trees which surround your bungalows.
Your retreat includes 7 breakfasts and 5 dinners at the hotel. On arrival day, a special welcome dinner is served where we meet, greet and set our intentions for the week. Our final night will be a celebration of our journey together and for the remaining 2 dinners – one we will dine at sunset at a gorgeous restaurant in Fira and another onboard the yacht on our optional sailing trip half way through our week.
To allow for personal flexibility and enable you to explore the island during the daytime, lunches at the hotel aren’t included. You have option to either use the small kitchens in the shared rooms to prepare your own, dine in the hotels restaurant or eleswhere on the island. Mandy has good knowledge of the local area so can recommend some great places to eat. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten and lactose free meals are available at the Pelagos. Fish may also be available twice a week.
Jo - your teacher and host.
Retreat Program
Our itinerary has been designed to give you a good balance of deep internal work for mind, body, and spirit along with glimpses into traditional Santorinian life and lots of light-hearted down-to-earth fun and laughter! Each yoga session will be different. In addition, the program will be adjusted intuitively according to the group's needs as we journey through the week and raise your vibrations. Jo will guide you through Restorative yoga on arrival to aid speedy recovery after our travels and gentle Hatha/Vinyasa flow for most morning sessions to connect with your breath and tune into the energy fields in your body. Yin yoga will be incorporated for emotional release and to stimulate energy flow further as well as qigong techniques. Guided meditations are also an important part of this week, tailored to what comes up for our group. Amanda will guide you through Yin yoga which is a meditative, healing form of yoga, working on a deeper level into the connective tissues and organs, lubricating the body, releasing toxins and negative emotions. It invites you to enter a space of stillness; combining the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine and ancient Indian wisdom; restoring, balancing and enhancing the energy flow throughout your body. Interconnecting every tissue and organ, through invisible pathways, removing blockages, the precursors to illnesses, in essence, working like acupuncture but without the needles! Each organ has many energetic components that affect us physically, emotionally and mentally. Our bodies carry a record of all our experiences in our lifetime and all experiences carry an emotional charge, so that over the years any trauma, bad relationships, betrayals, stressful jobs and grief can actually affect our physiology by breaking down the immune system, leading to illness and disease. Most importantly, we'll allow for quiet times too where you'll be encouraged to take time out, meditate and journal to explore, enhance and evaluate your inner experience. You can also book Jo & Mandy for one-to-one sessions or Jo for reiki & sound healing treatments. Massages are also available on site.
How to get there (flights, airport transfers, buses, trains)
Fly to Santorini Thira National Airport (JTR)
British Airways offers direct flights (May–Oct, 3–6 weekly) from Heathrow to Santoríni.
EasyJet serves Santoríni from Gatwick (Apr–Oct, 5–7 weekly). Other flights will go via Athens.
We recommend you choose a flight to arrive on the afternoon of Saturday 22nd August although many of our guests won’t be flying in until that evening. Check out will be midday on 29th, however we are welcome to stay at the hotel until our flights leave
in the late afternoon and evening
*PLEASE CONTACT US FIRST BEFORE BOOKING FLIGHTS!!*
Transfers can be arranged and cost approximately €35 each way.
We will do our best to keep costs down by grouping you together with other guests to share the taxis.
Distances
· Beach 200m
· Oia village, 3 kilometers
· Fira, 10 kilometers
· Santorini Thira National Airport (JTR), 20 kilometers
Testimonials
To give you a good idea what to expect, here’s a sample of the reviews we receieved after the 2019 retreat.
Just returned from Jo and Amanda’s Santorini retreat , cannot recommend highly enough. Firstly their styles compliment each other perfectly drawing on the chakras and chinese medicine principles. In each session we were guided with such care. The Reiki session from Jo was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before and gave such a powerful feeling afterwards. The food served at the retreat was tasty and nourishing that I few of us asked if they did a cookbook! Left feeling so calm, cleansed and centred and already looking to book again next year! – Paula Ann Corner
I have just experienced the Santorini Transformational Yoga Retreat with Jo and Amanda. I was a little nervous about going, not having been away ‘on my own ‘ before. What a fabulous group of people with a shared interest in yoga. The hotel was ideal for a retreat and the vegetarian meals were delicious. Jo and Mandy are both so knowledgeable and inspirational. The sessions were a mix of Hatha, Yin and Chakra/Meridian work. Jo’s voice is so soothing- her relaxations are awesome!
The atmosphere was caring, supportive and encouraging. I came away feeling relaxed, re-energized and balanced. What a fabulous experience. Thank you so much Jo and Mandy. ❤🙏💕 – Linz J Vern
I have recently returned from the Santorini Yoga Retreat run by Jo and Amanda and must say it was everything I imagined and more. There was a good mixture of Hatha/Vinyasa and Yin Yoga with the added optional benefits of massages and reiki. The location was ideal – the family run hotel was set in beautiful countryside with a pool and nearby beach and the vegetarian meals were so tasty and the staff very friendly and helpful. Mandy and Jo are really easy going, informative, encouraging and helpful to the more advanced and beginners alike. As well as good quality Yoga we were able to visit many of the beautiful places in Santorini and experience the gorgeous sunsets. I would thoroughly recommend this retreat especially if you want to relax body and mind and learn more about living in and appreciating the present moment. Namaste – Lynnette Ison
I have just returned from Santorini, I didn’t know what to expect. But my experiences being there, was so overwhelming. Mandy and Jo’s guidance has helped overcome my insecurities, I have gained a lot from there knowledge. Also, meeting lovely ladies, and the staff. They couldn’t do a enough for us. The food was delicious. Also, I can’t wait for next year Thank you Mandy. Thank you Jo, for the reiki it was unbelievable.🥰 – Carol Darlow
Additional information
Weather
In Santorini during August, expect gorgeous weather with average daytime temperatures around 27°C- 29°C and at night time around 23°C. The temperatures drop a degree or two as September gets closer.
Electricity and outlets
Please bring a European adapter for any electrical appliances if you are coming from the UK or outside Europe.
What to bring
Pack as light as possible, so you have room for any shopping!
· Notebook for journaling
· Warmer clothes for early mornings & evening
· European electrical adapter
· Mosquito repellant, just in case!
· Any personal medication
Responsible travel
Please share transport where possible to reduce carbon emmissions and use water and electricity efficiently
Cancellation Policy
All deposits are non-refundable. The statutory 14-day cooling off period applies, apart from if the trip is booked within 14 days before the retreat. We have a strict no refund policy
It is recommended that you take out your own travel insurance and cancellation insurance.
No responsibility can be taken in regards to travel arrangements, flight delays or cancellations etc.
If you have a health condition, please consult your doctor before booking.
The remaining payment can be paid in installments, with the final balance settled 60 days before arrival.