Song Of The Dancing Heart
Maria Papageorgiou
Join our Spring gathering designed especially for Women, amidst lust green nature and waterfalls, to enter a space of true freedom and creativity, allowing the Spirit to breathe, dance and sing playfully through you!
We will share with you abundant tools on how to be free from your negative self -censorship (or judgments in other words!) Together we will peel off our conditioning and celebrate our authenticity working with our body as a portal to true belonging.
Through a unique blend of movement, breath, rhythm, pulse, sentient motion, sound, and voice practices, you will be empowered to unleash your creativity, love to be seen and express your self in front of others (If it sounds challenging, you have a good reason to come!)
And of course, you will nourish your body with organic homemade meals and your heart with fire ritual, steam bath, spring flowers, being held by a loving community.
If you are longing to trust your own soul’s power and connect with like-minded women you are invited!
Apostolia Papadamaki
The Happiness Retreat Founder & transformational teacher
Maria Papageorgiou
Singer, musician & vocal teacher
This retreat is a true gift for:
Every woman who wants to tap into her primal source of power evoking creativity, self-love, sensuality, bliss, and be happy to share her gifts with the world.
Every female artist, singer, actress, dancer, musician, that have a burning desire to enrich her expressive potential, combine multiple means of expression, explore further possibilities in her art.
A Teacher and/or healer of any discipline that seeks for a unique opportunity to be inspired, to gain deep personal insights and to anchor her authentic wisdom.
Join us if you long to:
Awaken your wilderness
Align with the rhythms and the elements of nature
Remember your birthright to be a free creative woman
Transform your “limitations” to infinite possibilities.
Sing and Dance your Heart Song!
Be held by and belong to an inspiring circle of women.
Have a really good time doing all the above!
Meet your teachers
I am Apostolia, an internationally acclaimed choreographer, performer, and a transformational retreat leader and teacher. I studied Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, Yoga and Alexander Technique in New York. As a lover of healing arts, and spirituality, I am trained in Shamanism, Music, Voice, Diving, Craniosacral Therapy, and Rei-Ki collaborating with inspiring artists, healers, and teachers in many lands.
After 25 years of being a spiritual artist and a life changing teacher, I am honored to share with you the way to freedom, self-love, and creativity inviting Maria as a guest teacher to uplift the experience of vibrational movement and voice.
My highest intention is to keep opening the eyes of the soul and tuning into the frequency of Love no matter how life challenges me. The Happiness Retreat is an open-hearted invitation to share knowledge, experience, and joy with beautiful souls like you!
Learn more about Apostolia's journey
"Every minute of working with Apostolia is a vital reminder of who I am, how I approach my center, and how I accept the divine gifts of my being."
Maria Papageorgiou
I am Maria and I navigate through life with music. I sing, I compose songs and I love to teach people how to discover their own authentic voice. Although I am a very shy person, I transform when I go on stage, which is the most magical thing in the world and the way I do it is by connecting to my innermost instinct as a tool to harmonize my body, my vocal cords and my emotions.
The voice for me is a mystical vibration through the spaces of our body and an amazing tool to connect with our deepest self expressing freely our emotions.
Up to now, I have released 6 personal albums, based on originally composed songs, unreleased live recordings, a collectible vinyl entitled “3 Degrees” writing my own lyrics and compositions and ”Correspondence”, my most recent work, collaborating with famous Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis.
I have been collaborating with Apostolia for many years now and I can't wait to share our "alchemy" with you!
Our Practices
We are dancing creatures, we are singing creatures we are creative beings. We have a wild flame of life force inside of us and the ability to connect with the highest frequency of all, Love!
Our sessions in the beautiful Malloca or in Nature include
Loving the breath
Movement of the Senses - Freeing the body
Voice Warming Up and Vocal Exercises - Freeing the Voice
Authentic Movement and Voice Improvisation
Connecting Movement and Voice with Fire, Water, Earth and Wind
Teaching Songs - What Words Mean to Us and How We Emotionally Connect With Them
If the song was a Dance
Circle Improvisation - How we embody creativity as a tribe
Movement, breath, rhythm, pulse, sentient motion, sound, and voice practices will create a heartfelt space where mind forms and borders are not leaders anymore, where freedom of expression is unconditional.
We will guide you on how to be happy to be seen, to be heard and to be free to express your self through voice and movement, harmonizing body, mind, and soul so you can embody your true loving nature.
Our circle will support you to be ridiculously creative, to express your self in ways you can never imagine, to find the courage to “fail” and create again and again and again until you are happy and free because you will feel this amazing trust to the beautiful unknown you!
Nutrition
Our vegetarian nutrition will follow the philosophy of self-sufficiency and sustainability, with fresh vegetables and fruits from the garden of Re-green, cultivated with love and care. Simple Greek tastes will offer you pure, therapeutic and delicious meals. An experience to remember on Sunday afternoon- the garden –stone oven – Pizza Party with garnishes of your choice.
Prices
Shared accommodation: 393€ per person all-inclusive.
Early bird price until February 24th, 2020: 343€ per person all-inclusive.
Registrations & Bookings
A non-refundable, 113 euro deposit is required upon booking to reserve your spot. Places are limited.
Included in the price
Shared accommodation for 2 nights in an eco-luxury stone build guesthouse with coconut bedding
3 organic meals per day with homegrown ingredients
4 Authentic Movement + Voice Sessions ( 15h of teachings)
Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Sun and Moon Creative Circle Sessions
Temazcal steam bath ritual
Rituals
Hiking excursions to Waterfalls, Forrest & Blossoming fields
Not included
Transportation to and from Re-Green