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Home Courses and Support from Apostolia and the Happiness Retreat team

Apostolia — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:32:49 +0000

Home Courses and Support from Apostolia and the Happiness Retreat team

Apostolia Wed, 18/03/2020 - 13:32

My beloved friends and soul family,
I am safe with my son at home.
I pray, trust and hope that you are safe too.
Going straight to the point here.

I am here to support in any way I can
in this time of self-growth and radical collective changes.

I am an artist, a teacher, and a healer and
here is what I offer to you,
with my deepest gratitude for our connection,
so you can keep a healthy body a calm mind and an uplifted spirit

All my group and private offerings are by donation
or free to those that are in need.

We will practice online.

You can choose one course or you can attend both.
If you attend both you will have 10 days' everyday practice alternating Breathing exercises and Yoga each day.

Both courses are for all levels, all ages, all genres.

see all the info below

Course I: Powerful Breath Activation

When
༄ March 20, 22, 24, 26, 28

@4:00-4.45:00pm EET (Greece)

15.00-16.00(UK) 10.00am -11.00am (New York + Canada)

Course II: Yoga for Self Love and Harmony

When
༄ March 21, 23, 25, 27, 29

@ 4:00-4.45 pm EET

15.00-16.00(UK) 10.00am -11.00am (New York + Canada)

Learn more & Book

No worries if you miss a session or if you want to repeat the practice, the replay video will be provided to you right after each live session!

I am also offering free skype, messenger or what's app sessions
for those that need my humble support,

from March 20 - April 3rd,
Weekdays only,

from 17.00 -18.00 EET (Greece )
15.00-16.00(UK) 10.00 am -11.00 am (New York + Canada)

It will be a 10-15min free online meeting and you can book by sending an email to info@thehappinessretreat.gr

I would love to serve all those in need in any way I can,
if too many, these sessions will be served upon registration order.

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The Individual Online Sessions are available

and you can find the information here

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Our Private Facebook Group

I keep on offering all the modalities I know in our private Facebook group which is comforting all of us and keeps us truly connected without bombarding us with too many posts.

You can join here the Happiness Circle group.

Recorded Videos of my recent live session on this group. You can practice by listening, not necessarily watching if you want to have less “screen” in your life.

1.How to boost our immune system with breathing exercises and respiratory system cleanse.

2. How to Pulse, Move & Shake to Raise your Vibration!

3. Guided Meditation on Love

4. Guided Meditation on Forgiveness

5. Guided Meditation on Gratitude

6. A song with my guitar

Finally, I thank my colleagues at the Happiness Retreat, Georgia, Areion and my beloved X that wants to stay anonymous for the moment, for helping me with their amazing work, enthusiasm, and creativity to put all these offerings online and to keep The Happiness Retreat concept a heartfelt space for all of us.

Oceans & Rivers of Love
Stay Safe

༄ Apostolia ༄

VIP 1: At this moment you receive this email from my personal mail address, please save info@thehappinessretreat.gr in your address book so it doesn't go to spam or promotions. This email is the one we will communicate normally.

VIP 2: You can invite friends, colleagues, family to connect with our circle by subscribing here.

VIP 3: If you would like more online offerings/practices from me just let me know what kind of modality/content you would like!

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༄Adaptation-How we create Happiness༄

Apostolia — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 12:22:00 +0000

༄Adaptation-How we create Happiness༄

Apostolia Sun, 02/06/2019 - 15:22

My dear friends and happiness circle members!

Here we are welcoming the month of June with a very positive New Moon on Gemini bringing magic and creativity and calling us for the quality of
ADAPTATION

Adaptation is represented by the water element and its ability to flow continuously, to see no obstacles, to find another path, to go around them, over or under them.

Adaptation teaches is to step out of the trap of our ego and remember our higher purpose. Instead of staying fixed in our ideas or plans which means we expect a certain FORM of results, we can be fluid, ready to flow purposeful and motivated in staying connected with deeper feelings. Curiosity and playfulness are great allies so we can achieve adaptation.

Let me give you an example.

Back at the beginning of May, I guided my Spring Happiness Retreat participants into a forest path to reach a beautiful waterfall and meditate. (Some of you were there!)
But due to severe rains, all winter long, this path was full of obstacles. Trees had fallen down, streams were overflooded, misplaced stones were blocking the way.

Most of our tribe members were disappointed, they thought that we could never make it reach the Waterfall, but what I saw was an amazing opportunity to practice adaptation, to create a transformational experience that could change our mindset and teach us that we create our own reality.

I called the group to see other ways to overcome the obstacles by being inventive, uniting forces and helping each other. Amazing ideas came instantly, the "no way" feeling became a "wow we can make it" feeling and suddenly we all saw a playground of infinite possibilities instead of an impossible task. When we reached the waterfall we were all content, proud and happy.

We all have the potential for more water qualities in our life, especially in the areas that we feel a bit "stagnant". Maybe it's our relationships, certain emotions or our physical body.

Let's invite gracefully the water element into our lives this month by honoring the water wherever we find it even when we drink a glass of water, we expose our selves in the rain or we swim in the sea.

Let's nourish our magical organism, the body with emotional fluidity by saying Yes even for a day in whatever obstacle comes on our "way", by thanking the obstacle and just moving around it!

And if our "sea "today is too cold or too hot or too calm or too wild, forget about having the perfect conditions to jump in and allow your playfulness to teach you the gift of adaptation!

June Blessings
With Love and Light
༄ Apostolia ༄

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༄The Journey Home-How We Create Happiness༄

Apostolia — Fri, 10 May 2019 09:06:59 +0000

༄The Journey Home-How We Create Happiness༄

Apostolia Fri, 10/05/2019 - 12:06

My dear beautiful one!

What a winter journey this 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!

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".

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.

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!

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.

May Blessings

With Love and Light

༄ Apostolia ༄

photo by Sea Eymere @sealua

Sharing with you one of my favorite poems of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish

We journey towards a home not of our flesh.
It's chestnut trees are not of our bones.
Its rocks are not like goats in the mountain hymn.
The pebbles' eyes are not lilies.

We journey towards a home that does not halo our heads with a special Sun.
Mythical women applaud us.
A sea for us, a sea against us.
When water and wheat are not at hand,
eat our love and drink our tears...
There are mourning scarves for poets.
A row of marble statues will lift our voice.
And an urn to keep the dust of time away from our souls.
Roses for us and against us.
You have your glory, we have ours.
Of our home, we see only the unseen: our mystery.
Glory is ours: a throne carried on feet torn by roads that led to every home but our own!

The soul must recognize itself in its very soul, or die here.

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༄ Nature and Gratitude ༄

Apostolia — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 05:49:00 +0000

༄ Nature and Gratitude ༄

Apostolia Fri, 07/09/2018 - 08:49

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I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

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How do we make decisions?

I used to sit and think a lot using my mind -that is so capable of making all kinds of stories, possibilities, and assumptions - and I was never happy with my decisions. Or better saying I was never in peace with my decisions.

Life brought me some very difficult moments that became my most valuable lessons and led me in deep connection with my breath, my heart, unity, and universal love so my mind started interfering less and less with judgments that were completely unnecessary to live a meaningful everyday life.

I started practicing meditation in Nature every time I had to take an important decision, sitting still, breathing, connecting with the trees or the clouds, the sun, the moon, a little flower, a bird, emptying my mind and entering the frequency of Love.

I live in the city but thanks to the creator there are sources of comforting elements of nature everywhere. We just need to acknowledge them.

This practice not only comforted me but also gave me a whole new perspective on what are my true needs, what I really want to be a sweet loving and compassionate human being.

I threw away many mindsets (that were not mine anyway) and I became lighter, more creative and courageous on crucial decision making.

I felt gratitude coming like a powerful stream of light inside me and an inevitable need to express my gratitude in any way I can, to Nature. Gradually I started expressing gratitude to Humans and especially to Humans I have love relationships (that's the hardest one!)

So September's newsletter is devoted to a big Thank you to the Trees, these amazing beings that supported me in August and gave me precious insights.

Take some time this month to connect with a Tree in your neighborhood and make some new decisions on how you dream your self. Sit next to it, listen, see, smell, breathe. It will speak to you in unseen, unheard ways that can bring happiness and peace to your soul. Thank your self for taking the time to be with your self. And thank the Tree for the unconditional coexistence or just leave a creative expression of your loving self!

Love & Light to you all.

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Tune into the frequency of LOVE

Apostolia — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:01:09 +0000

Tune into the frequency of LOVE

Apostolia Tue, 12/12/2017 - 16:01

Sometimes I feel this emptiness inside me. It’s like I have a great lack of something and this feeling of vacuum inside is very strong. I long and search for something that will make me feel less alone, less vacant. The desire to understand me and to understand life is profound. But very often I am trapped in my mind “set” instead of vibrating in the frequency of Love. I choose to connect.

I start with my body.

This body, the miraculous one, who has brought me to who I am today, this beautiful, difficult or easy day. I Dance, I Sing. I connect with the elements I'm made of: the Water, the Earth, the Sun, the Stars, my Ancestors, and my Descendants. I look at the Light and I take a deep Breath. This one and miraculous Breath that brings me in the present moment. It is enough to make me feel I am celebrating life.

I understand that every human has pain inside and it is not just me. That everyone is afraid and everyone gets angry. Everyone feels this “vacuum” and they all want to Love. To be loved is directly connected with “to love” by the sense of being Love.

Learning to live in the vibration of love is the reason we are here. It is our individual (sole) and collective purpose. It is the secret of life that is hidden with a clear view. Love is the elixir for joy and antidote to pain. Love strengthens the fire of our passion. Our love elevates our limitations to our abilities. Love exceeds time and space. Love converts differences and prejudices. Love Heals.

Love is the vibration of the Spirit, the song of the Universe.

Opening the curtain to let Love in for Christmas and New Year.

With Love and Light always.

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