Holistic Workshops / Retreats Schedule

7. May - 21 May     Reciprocal Frame Building Course — Nigel Hilton, Ivor Fletcher and Mark Taplin   
This year we are offering a natural building workshop whose project is the rebuilding of our 8m reciprocal framed workshop space which was extensively damaged in a thunderstorm last September. Almost all the members and posts will have to be re-tooled, and the roof pitch increased so as to prevent future such catastrophes. This construction will be focalised by two master carpenters and an experienced builder and is offered as a natural building workshop to a maximum of six participants interested to learn through practical on-the-job experience how to construct a reciprocal framed structure.         €300

28. May - 11. Jun     Vipassana Meditation — Gosh Pos                     ANILIO CAMPUS        
Former Buddhist monk, Gosh, leads an unusual 10-day Vipassana retreat. For half the day we sit and walk in silence, for the second half of the day we practice engaging mindfully in everyday activities: socialising, swimming, talking—plus Qi Gong and Hatha Yoga.                         €400
28. May - 4. Jun     Bowen Therapy — Tim Willcocks                 
This is an introduction to Bowen therapy, what it is, how it is used and what sets a Bowen treatment apart from other modalities. We will do hands on practical work in the group giving and receiving treatments and observing others. And we will discuss in detail, using case history examples, what can be treated, and some of the effects of treatment. We will include some elementary “moves” and how to apply Bowen for specific problems.        £325/€400

4. Jun - 11. Jun     Authentic Community Building — Rusty Myers and Sharon Usher           


REGRET. THIS WORSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

4. Jun - 11. Jun     Abdominal Sacral Massage — Helen Rohlicek and Susan de Muynck       ANILIO
This week we will encourage you to be daring, courageous, plucky, robust and uninhibited as you explore your second brain–“the Guts”–that scientists have discovered in the human intestine. This workshop will be about living from that place, your “belly brain” We will encourage you to be a Warrior! Someone who recognises their inner beauty and strength; someone who has clarity and the confidence to move forward. In this week you will be empowered with knowledge about your body, diet, abdominal-sacral massage techniques, meditation, laughter and great bonding. Our bodies are a hot bed of emotions, using the techniques above, we will visit areas that have seldom seen the light of day!     SPECIAL OFFER: ONLY £250    

11. Jun - 18. Jun     Art — Natural Drawing — Vicky Vergou                   ANILIO CAMPUS
Greek artist Vicky Vergou will work this week with the concept of the five senses and the five elements. Participants will be exploring how they can sense and contact their surroundings by experimenting with a variety of drawing techniques using natural materials. Each day there will be a different activity and the last two days will be an overview using the technique of egg temper—pigments and egg glue. There is no need to worry about having a natural ability to draw or paint, the important thing is to enjoy the experience just as children do.     €300    

11. Jun - 18. Jun     Being Yoga — Emma Gatsby                  ANILIO CAMPUS
Emma invites you on an exploration in Being Yoga. Join her, and experience the joy of Being through the authentic practices of Raja and Hatha Yoga. This retreat will include cleansing practices, Asana, Pranayama and meditation. A chance to deepen your relationship with your true nature and enhance your Yoga practice. All levels of fitness and experience are welcome.     £350    

11. Jun - 18. Jun     Transformation and Compassionate Communication — Gina Lawrie      
This week will provide the space and support to explore and transform some of the core beliefs that limit us and heal old pain blocking our compassionate nature. It will draw largely on the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) process of Marshall Rosenberg and the work of Robert Gonzales and Susan Skye on the Living Energy of Needs. Gina will guide and apply the embodying process (NVC Dance Floors) that she co-created and is known for internationally. The combination of this workshop, living in community, and playing in the beauty of the Pilion region will refresh and empower you for return to everyday life.     £325/€400    

18. Jun - 25. Jun     Going Beyond Domination Culure — Maria Arpa and David Ellis      

REGRET. THIS WORSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

25. Jun - 2. Jul     Rhythm Village — Jamie Morgan           


REGRET. THIS WORSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

25. Jun - 2. Jul   Walking in the Pelion — Mark Taplin
Discover the hidden delights of Pelion with your guide and mentor who has immersed himself in the exploration of this unique region for the past 12 years. An energetic but none-too-arduous week of walking, talking, looking, learning, meeting, sharing, swimming and dreaming—as we seek out the footpaths and mule tracks, sights and sounds, people and history of this magical and mythical mountain beside the Aegean Sea.     £350     

2. July - 9. Jul   Flesh and Spirit — Amber McIntyre and David Jessup
This Flesh and Spirit Retreat offers a nurturing forum for couples to explore intimate relationship and what lies at the heart of their erotic nature. The focus of this workshop is a variation of The Way of Council for couples called Dyadic Council —speaking from the heart and listening empathically—in this case between partners. In this process each couple shares deeply and listens devoutly whilst simultaneously being witnessed by the group of couples.     €550    

2. Jul - 9. Jul   5Rhythms^® Dance — Deborah Jay-Lewin                  ANILIO CAMPUS 
A week of Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms^®, an exhilarating, liberating and ultimately ecstatic approach to improvisational movement. The 5Rhythms—Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness—come together to create the Wave^®, a movement meditation practice. The essence of simplicity, it has the power to catalyse deep healing. People all over the world have discovered the freedom and enjoyment that 5Rhythms^® offers, both on their own and with others who love the same thing. If you know you love to dance, or even if you feel hesitant, then come along and try it out! All levels of fitness and experience welcome.    £350/€450

9. Jul - 16. Jul   Creations in Nature — Dietmar Voorwold                  ANILIO CAMPUS 
Nature offers us a veritible superabundance of beautiful things that we can work with playfully. In this week we’ll go out to the beaches, the woods and the local surroundings and use the landscape canvas for our art. As a way of meditation we will follow our intuition and use light, shadow and time to experience the natural process of creating, allowing beauty to arise naturally, and finally letting go again. Our art materials are the rocks, stones, sand, shells, wood, leaves, berries—whatever we find. Playful exercises and meditations deepen our experience with the rhythms of nature and help us to build up trust in the precious moment. €425     

9. Jul - 16. Jul   Experimental Painting & Drawing — Jan Crombie
This holiday course aims to provide a variety of playful ways of discovering which part of the language of art you enjoy the most. The week is suitable for complete beginners, but it is also designed for those with more experience, including art students and professional artists seeking new directions and time to think about their work, away from their usual routines. An experimental approach, particularly to drawing, will be encouraged so that all who attend can discover a form of expression that is suited to them. Exercises will be included that will help to discover ways to bypass the conscious brain creating a more intuitive response.    £350 / €450     

16. Jul - 23. July     Radical Honesty — Brad Blanton   


REGRET, THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED

23. Jul - 30. July     Introduction to Sociocracy — Émile van Dantzig   
Sociocracy offers a set of basic principles and a structure by which people can share power equally and therefore cooperate together in a creative way to transform their governance over each other and our planet. In this workshop you will get acquainted with these basic principles and concepts of cooperative governance and discover how, allied with non violent communication, they can be applied to any organisation—family, school, business, town council—to create the possibility of a more equitable world of peace, partnership and sustainability.     €425    

23. Jul - 30. Jul   Loving Your Shadow — Liz Foster                  ANILIO CAMPUS 
This transformational week will enable you to uncover your limiting beliefs, behaviours and patterns that prevent you from having all the love, happiness and success you desire. Discover the profound secret of your shadow and unlock the confidence, creativity and freedom to be your most authentic self. You will leave feeling more forgiveness, compassion and kindness. It may even inspire you to make the most life-altering steps of all—to embrace your entire self and to step into the full power of your light. £325/€400     

30. Jul - 13. Aug     Family Fortnight & Living in Community Weeks I & II — Dorota Owen  
Dorota Owen has been an educator in a variety of settings for over 20 years and has three young children of her own. She facilitated last years' family experience week which included circle group sessions, meditation, song, dance, painting, walks, script writing and culminated in a cabaret performance. Each group is different and the activities are based on the group preferences. Come for a nourishing, inspiring family fortnight. Families, couples and singles all welcome!     £500/€550    

30. Jul - 13. Aug  Alternative Family Fortnight at ANILIO CAMPUS — Rosemary Hawksford & Dot Male
Rosemary Hawksford has a longterm involvement with the Steiner movement and currently works at York Steiner School in the early years department and teaching crafts to the older classes. She has worked as a furniture restorer and willow basket maker for the past 25 years. Rosemary has two sons aged 16 and 12. Dot Male has worked in the Steiner movement with parents and very young children for 18 years, and has run and facilitated courses in London and York for the last 7 years. She is an author, with a love of dancing and art. Dot has a 19 year old son. Families, couples and singles all welcome!      £500/€550     

13. Aug - 20. Aug     Family & Community Living Week III — Steven Gasgarth       £250/€275
Explore the gifts that come from living, working, playing and sharing in a temporary yet fully authentic community. Today, we consciously need to reinvent cooperative and harmonious ways of living and relating together. Working, playing, learning and sharing together we discover and experience how we can come together as humans and live happily and sustainably into our future, helping to build a world where living our own truth counts. This week and the fortnight preceding it we specially welcome families with children of all ages.                

13. Aug - 20. Aug   Tai Chi and Qi Gong — Françoise Poutays          ANILIO CAMPUS 
Tai Chi allows us to witness directly with our senses the active Chi process going on beyond the self, to enter into the infinite river of Chi, the creative process under-lying life itself. Tai Chi is the art of opening up, leaving the ego behind and experiencing the process of creation within and outside ourselves. Mornings: Qigong and Yang style Tai Chi; afternoons: artistic work in the medium of your choice.     €400        

20. Aug - 27. Aug     Mind Body Detox — Paula Wilson & Dr. Helen Ford               ANILIO CAMPUS 
Our aim is to inspire you to try a short period eating raw food so that you can feel how life could (and should?) be: so that having experienced the increase in energy, clarity and general health, you will have an incentive to kick the cooked food habit. Along with learning how easy it is to prepare raw meals, Helen will be showing us how to detoxify the emotionally toxic illusions that can keep us from experiencing our natural potential for alignment with the truth that is always available for creativity and our own true path.     £350/€450        

20. Aug - 27. Aug     The Work of Byron Katie — Tamara Alferoff        
With the simple exercises of The Work, witness your stressful, limiting beliefs falling away to reveal what is really true for you. Join thousands worldwide in discovering, through the Byron Katie Work the intense beauty and love at the heart of all that is. Doing The Work can bring lots of laughter and maybe tears of joy as you open to presence, kindness, and vivid relationship. Tamara brings her heartful presence and profound understanding of The Work to themes that trouble many of us in our lives. Discover the freedom and joy behind your painful thinking, and find that most precious friend right there all along — your own self.     £380    

27. Aug - 3. Sep Joy of Greek Vegetarian Cooking — Pam Cohen    
Culinary enthusiast Pam Cohen looks forward to welcoming you to the Joy of Greek Vegetarian Cooking course. Using the produce of the region - fresh, natural and organic where possible - we will gain our inspiration from the classic and local dishes of the country. On this short course, we will learn to link our food into a holistic pattern of mind and body well-being and to enjoy the making and the eating of these things as part of the rhythms of our day and our lives.      £325    

27. Aug - 3. Sep   Being Free to Love — Ina Meyer-Stoll & Achim Ecker          ANILIO CAMPUS 
This is a workshop about being free to love, becoming open to life to allow the juice of life to flow unimpeded by shoulds and oughts and beyond arbitrary conventions of how people are supposed to relate. Trust is the glue that keeps lovers together and trust is created when the inner processes of all involved become transparent and open, and therefore understandable. Through an artistic process called The Forum and other creative communication methods you will get to experience this week how sharing openly in the centre of a group giving full attention creates the soil in which love inevitably grows.     €450        

3. Sep - 10 Sep     Satsang with Gaia — Gaia and Venu         €500             
Sensitively, humorously, easily and clearly Gaia opens up the presence, the truth, the preciousness of this direct moment. He invites you to look behind your common habits and thereby directly experience healing. Gaia brings an affectionate clarity and simplicity, free of any master or guru disguise or play-acting. Venu (Kay Marie), Gaia’s life partner who travels with him, will offer also essential healing sessions during the week.

3. Sep - 10. Sep     Laughter Yoga — Stephanie Hill and Charlotte Eaton                   ANILIO CAMPUS
Laughter Yoga is a unique exercise routine which combines laughter exercises with yoga breathing. Anyone can laugh without relying on humour, jokes and comedy. It is based on the scientific fact that the body cannot tell the difference between fake and real laughter and it is being practiced in companies and corporations, fitness centres, yoga studios, social groups, schools, Universities, and self help groups across the globe. Practising laughter by treating it as an exercise brings more laughter, positivity, joy and all the attendant health benefits into your life!     €545    

10. Sep - 17 Sep     The Joy of No Self — Mandi Solk        £350/€450             
All there is is Oneness and everything is it—and included in IT. There is nothing and no-one that can possibly be excluded from Being—from what they are. Liberation is already the case, therefore, how can you ‘awaken?’ Anyway, there are no people—there is no ‘you’, therefore there isn’t anybody to awaken. When this hasn’t been ‘seen’—it is just that there is still a belief that there is a ‘you’ who is doing things. But when it is seen that things just are happening and no-one’s doing it—that all actions or feelings don’t belong to a ‘someone’, then there is peace and a relaxation into the seeing, and seeking may naturally drop away.

17. Sep - 24. Sep     Sacred Circle Dance — Dana Kontakevich     ANILIO CAMPUS 
This is a week of Circle Dance combined with improvisation and some simple relaxation secrets from Tai Chi. As we dance to the beautiful music from many countries we will be energetically harmonising our seven chakras by blending the music and the steps with the different colours of the spectrum to create a Dancing Rainbow!     €350    

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*Notes

Meals are vegetarian (vegan option available on request). For more detailed information about accomodation options, please go to the Costs page. Families and Living-in-Community (LCG) guests are welcome during the workshop weeks, providing that accommodation is available. Please click the Community Guest link for details.

A £100 / €150 euro DEPOSIT (refundable, less an 8% service charge, up to 30 days prior to your workshop) reserves your place. To book either with the refundable deposit or by paying the full fee (all 2010 workshops offer an early booking discount) please click on the images shown above for each workshop.

Most workshops are limited to 14 participants.

Please click the links above on this page to obtain more detailed information about the facilitators and the content of each workshop, course or retreat. For all other information about the Centre contact:

Jock Millenson Xenonas Martiou Kissos (Tsangarada) 37012 Greece Tel. +30 24260 31346

Johanna Aro-Louis 19 Blarmore Ave Inverness IV3 8QT Scotland Tel. +44 (0) 1463 231 913