Myth https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr/ en ༄ Sacred Breath ༄ https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr/node/137 <span class="field field-name-title field-formatter-string field-type-string field-label-hidden"> ༄ Sacred Breath ༄</span> <div class="field field-node--field-image field-formatter-image field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden has-single"><figure class="field-type-image__figure image-count-1"><div class="field-type-image__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/thehappinessretreat.gr/files/styles/square_720x720/public/articles/AED6610F-BC2A-40B7-A752-68E9A13F821C.JPG?itok=4gkkV0UV" width="720" height="720" alt="Temple of Artemis Vravronia, Apostolia Papadamaki" class="image-style-square-720x720" /> </div> </figure></div> <span class="field field-name-uid field-formatter-author field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"><span>Apostolia</span></span> <span class="field field-name-created field-formatter-timestamp field-type-created field-label-hidden">Tue, 02/06/2020 - 07:32</span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field-node--body field-formatter-text-default field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden has-single"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p>There is an ancient breath breathing inside you.</p> <p>She is longing to teach you how unique you are.</p> <p>She carries gifts that can heal your wounds so you can lift the veil of your limited thoughts and remember your authentic myth.</p> <p>It’s not about finding the meaning of life.<br /> It’s about experiencing life as a sacred being in every breath you take.</p> <p>Fully present. Fully loving. Fully forgiving. Fully grate-full.</p> <p>Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and tell me.</p> <p>Can you feel your life is sacred?</p></div></div> </div> <div class="field field-node-field-tags field-entity-reference-type-taxonomy-term field-formatter-entity-reference-label field-name-field-tags field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item field__item--sacred"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/103" hreflang="en">sacred</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--breathwork"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/99" hreflang="en">breathwork</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--presence"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/104" hreflang="en">presence</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--transformation"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/20" hreflang="en">Transformation</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--embodied"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/105" hreflang="en">embodied</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--spirituality"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/9" hreflang="en">spirituality</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--myth"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/22" hreflang="en">Myth</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--consciousness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/106" hreflang="en">consciousness</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--apostolia"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/10" hreflang="en">Apostolia</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--papadamaki"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/11" hreflang="en">Papadamaki</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--happiness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/13" hreflang="en">Happiness</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--happiness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/13" hreflang="en">Happiness</a></span> </div></div> </div> Tue, 02 Jun 2020 04:32:48 +0000 Apostolia 137 at https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr ༄The Journey Home-How We Create Happiness༄ https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr/articles/journey-home-how-we-create-happiness <span class="field field-name-title field-formatter-string field-type-string field-label-hidden">༄The Journey Home-How We Create Happiness༄</span> <div class="field field-node--field-image field-formatter-image field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden has-single"><figure class="field-type-image__figure image-count-1"><div class="field-type-image__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/thehappinessretreat.gr/files/styles/square_720x720/public/articles/The%20Happiness%20Retreat%20Spring%20Celebration%20Ritual%20Apostolia%20Papadamaki%20photo%20Sea%20Eyemere%20copy%202.jpg?itok=2EHcuWbT" width="720" height="720" alt="Spirit Contact Dance Apostolia Papadamaki in Neda River, Greece" class="image-style-square-720x720" /> </div> </figure></div> <span class="field field-name-uid field-formatter-author field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"><span>Apostolia</span></span> <span class="field field-name-created field-formatter-timestamp field-type-created field-label-hidden">Fri, 10/05/2019 - 12:06</span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field-node--body field-formatter-text-default field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden has-single"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p><br /><br /><em><strong>My dear beautiful one!<br /><br /> What a winter journey t</strong>his was, what a gestation of a Spring that is coming and coming, trying to complete her flower lace dress as the clouds are playing hide and seek with the Sunlight!<br /><br /> Coming back from the Spring Celebration Ritual Retreat, where we worked on truthful presence, empowered ourselves with the courage to see who we truly are and who we truly want to be, with playfulness and in joy, I realized that playing hide and seek with our selves, not being as honest as we can be, not daring to tell the truth about our feelings, emotions, and dreams are just postponing our return "home".<br /><br /> It became clear to me that my life priority is to create ways in which we can grow and become stronger together as a tribe. I reaffirmed that our path towards happiness is revealed to us when we are sitting together in a circle, breathing together, dancing and singing together, sharing all our darkness and all our light, connecting with the cosmic forces of Nature.</em></p> <p><em>We can be free to love our selves unconditionally, only when we drop down our masks, show our vulnerability, accept our shadows and trust this amazing journey home that is life! What a beautiful Dream we can create from the gift of life that has been given to us!</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Keep evolving, keep seeing the dream you want to see of yourself and of all the web of life around you, keep embracing and softening your shadows and let the love and light come in more and more every day. Remember you are a beloved member of the soul family. Remember you are not alone. Remember you are love and only love.<br /><br /> May Blessings </em></p> <p dir="ltr"><br /><em>With Love and Light</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><br /><em>༄ Apostolia ༄</em></p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <p>photo by Sea Eymere @sealua</p> <p> </p> <p><em>Sharing with you one of my favorite poems of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish</em></p> <h4><em>We journey towards a home not of our flesh.<br /> It's chestnut trees are not of our bones.<br /> Its rocks are not like goats in the mountain hymn.<br /> The pebbles' eyes are not lilies.<br /><br /> We journey towards a home that does not halo our heads with a special Sun.<br /> Mythical women applaud us.<br /> A sea for us, a sea against us.<br /> When water and wheat are not at hand,<br /> eat our love and drink our tears...<br /> There are mourning scarves for poets.<br /> A row of marble statues will lift our voice.<br /> And an urn to keep the dust of time away from our souls.<br /> Roses for us and against us.<br /> You have your glory, we have ours.<br /> Of our home, we see only the unseen: our mystery.<br /> Glory is ours: a throne carried on feet torn by roads that led to every home but our own! <br /><br /> The soul must recognize itself in its very soul, or die here. </em></h4> <p><em>༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄༄</em></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p></div></div> </div> <div class="field field-node-field-tags field-entity-reference-type-taxonomy-term field-formatter-entity-reference-label field-name-field-tags field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item field__item--myth"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/22" hreflang="en">Myth</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--happiness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/13" hreflang="en">Happiness</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--selfgrowth"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/29" hreflang="en">selfgrowth</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--self-love"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/45" hreflang="en">self love</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--apostolia"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/10" hreflang="en">Apostolia</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--greece"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/40" hreflang="en">greece</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--retreat"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/14" hreflang="en">Retreat</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--yoga"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/35" hreflang="en">yoga</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--transformation"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/20" hreflang="en">Transformation</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--spirituality"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/9" hreflang="en">spirituality</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--honesty"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/46" hreflang="en">honesty</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--truthfulness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/47" hreflang="en">truthfulness</a></span> </div></div> </div> Fri, 10 May 2019 09:06:59 +0000 Apostolia 97 at https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr ༄ Dreamer of Dreams ༄ https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr/articles/dreamer-dreams <span class="field field-name-title field-formatter-string field-type-string field-label-hidden">༄ Dreamer of Dreams ༄</span> <div class="field field-node--field-image field-formatter-image field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden has-single"><figure class="field-type-image__figure image-count-1"><div class="field-type-image__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/thehappinessretreat.gr/files/styles/square_720x720/public/articles/%20The%20Happiness%20Retreat%20Apostolia%20Papadamaki%20rituals%2048962002_535356063614085_5001279456715735040_n.jpg?itok=TUq1iqIm" width="720" height="720" alt="Apostolia in Delos island at the House of Cleopatra October 2018" class="image-style-square-720x720" /> </div> </figure></div> <span class="field field-name-uid field-formatter-author field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"><span>Apostolia</span></span> <span class="field field-name-created field-formatter-timestamp field-type-created field-label-hidden">Thu, 24/01/2019 - 21:27</span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field-node--body field-formatter-text-default field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden has-single"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p><em>Dear soulful friends, Happy new year full of love, full of beautiful journeys to the world (and to the self) and full of Dreams!</em><br /><em>Every great Dream begins with a Dreamer!<br /> When we silent the mind and we open the eyes of the soul, we become Dreamers of Dreams where creativity and intuition are in perfect balance and we can create our life as we dream it.</em></p> <p>༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄<br /><em>A Dreamer of Dreams is a seeker<br /> of the unification of worlds.</em><br /> ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄<br />  <br /><em>Dreams are the ways that our soul communicates with us. Our soul wants to unify with us, she wants to free us from suffering, to guide us to be merciful, great full, loving, creative, happy. When we suppress our "dreams" to meet the expectations of our family, friends, and society, we are unhappy.  </em></p> <p><em> ༄ The first step is to HAVE dreams! Night and daydreams, that will allow us to remember that we are born to live as Dreamers of Dreams.</em></p> <p><em>༄ The second step is to listen mindfully to our Dreams and identify the "soul" messages.<br />  <br /> ༄ The third step is to work with strong intention before we sleep or before we meditate. To ask for the healing dream or the clarifying dream to come while we are in the hypnagogic state.<br /><br /> ༄ And the final step is to manifest our dreams in THIS life, finding the courage that only or soul can give us and the trust that she is our most intimate guide. </em></p> <p> </p> <p>༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄<br /><em>A Dream is a journey,</em> <em>is traveling,</em></p> <p><em>is a wanderlust </em><em>to the realms of the Soul.</em><br /> ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄<br />  </p> <p><em>For many years I keep dream journals and I work with my dreams to evolve as a human, as an artist and teacher. </em><em>It was almost 2 years ago where this amazing dream was visiting me almost every night for 6 months.</em><br />  </p> <p><em>I had a full sensory experience of flying really high, like an Eagle balancing in the sky on the level of the Sun and could see the map of Greece from above very clearly. But on the Greek land, I could see only ancient temples, sanctuaries, altars, amphitheaters, shining brightly in their timeless beauty, no cities, no roads no people.....just sparkling marbles in sacred geometrical shapes full of light.</em></p> <p><em>As I have been creating performances and experiences in ancient <strong>Greek sacred places</strong> for many years I felt this consecutive dream was a strong invitation to create spiritual journeys in sacred destinations of my homeland and offer my teachings and </em><em>insights</em> <em>on <strong>DreamWork</strong> that is extremely enhanced when practiced in high energy places.</em><em> </em></p> <p><br /><em>Last summer, I created my first <a href="http://www.thehappinessretreat.gr/">Happiness Retreat </a>focused on Dreams and Dreamwork, in the Temple of Apollo Epicurius in the </em><em>Peloponnese</em><em> during the powerful week of the Full Moon and the Total Lunar Eclipse.</em><br />  </p> <p><em>This May, I have prepared for you the <a href="http://www.thehappinessretreat.gr/retreat/dreaming-wide-awake">Dreaming Wide Awake Happiness Retreat,</a> a magical journey to Delos, the birthplace of the light, the Greek island of miracles.</em><br /><br />  <br /><em>DELOS island is one of the top10 spiritual places of the world, it could be referred to as the Avalon of the South. Delos is the birthplace of Apollo the god of Sun and Artemis the goddess of the Moon, with profound healing energy that reaches you, long before you reach this Dream destination. A place where energy can literally change you, uplift our soul and heal you from inside. </em></p> <p><em>It is no coincidence, that the sunlight in Delos, is the most intense, compared to ANYWHERE around the globe. Scientists believe that this happens due to the ground’s texture which actually mirrors the light.<br /> Delos is a living ancient sanctuary full of incredible monuments and it is uninhabited, so our Happiness Retreat Home will be in Mykonos, one of the most cosmopolitan islands of the world.</em><br /><em>In Mykonos, I found the perfect secluded paradise of breathtaking scenery, a small complex of Eco-luxury villas located in the idyllic area of the Armenistis Cape with the mysterious Lighthouse.<strong> </strong></em><br /><br /><em><a href="http://www.thehappinessretreat.gr/toby-israel">Toby Israel,</a> an amazing storyteller and Dream Journalling teacher will join me and co-create magic, while <a href="https://escoessence.com/">Esco Essence,</a> our master chef and raw food artist will captivate our senses with his dreamy detoxifying recipes.</em></p> <p><br /> ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄<br /><em>If your dream is to know more about this transformative journey of conscious dreaming,<br /> I have prepared all the information for you</em><br /><em><a href="http://www.thehappinessretreat.gr/retreat/dreaming-wide-awake">here</a></em><br /><em>offering early bird prices until February 4th.</em><br /> ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄ ༄</p> <p><br /><em>Thank you for giving your time and energy to read my words. I am grateful to you.</em><br /><br /><em>Thank you for the beautiful human being you are. Thank you for your presence and for your presents.</em> <em>Remember you are a beloved member of the soul family. Remember you are never alone. Remember you are love and only love.</em><br /><br /><em>Blessings for a life full of Dreams.</em><br /><em>With Love and Light</em><br /><em>༄ Apostolia ༄</em></p> <p> </p></div></div> </div> <div class="field field-node-field-tags field-entity-reference-type-taxonomy-term field-formatter-entity-reference-label field-name-field-tags field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item field__item--apostolia"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/10" hreflang="en">Apostolia</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--papadamaki"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/11" hreflang="en">Papadamaki</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--dreamwork"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/12" hreflang="en">Dreamwork</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--happiness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/13" hreflang="en">Happiness</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--retreat"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/14" hreflang="en">Retreat</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--delos"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/15" hreflang="en">Delos</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--mykonos"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/16" hreflang="en">Mykonos</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--cyclades"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/17" hreflang="en">Cyclades</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--sacred-island"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/18" hreflang="en">Sacred island</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--ancient"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/19" hreflang="en">Ancient</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--transformation"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/20" hreflang="en">Transformation</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--journey"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/21" hreflang="en">Journey</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--myth"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/22" hreflang="en">Myth</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--dream-incubation"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/23" hreflang="en">Dream Incubation</a></span> </div></div> </div> Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:27:49 +0000 Apostolia 79 at https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr