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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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༄ Harmonize ༄ March 2020 Soul Words

Apostolia — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 10:36:06 +0000

༄ Harmonize ༄ March 2020 Soul Words

Apostolia Tue, 03/03/2020 - 12:36

༄ Soul Words ༄

Do you feel it or it's just me,

The call to leave behind

Anger
Conflict
Frustration
I am not enough
I will do it next year

Do you feel it or it's just me
The call to

Calibrate
Silence the monkey mind
Express emotions freely
Create Create Create
Love love Love
Harmonize

So you can

RISE

Do you feel it or it is just me
that 2020 is seriously calling us to

Shed off our skin

And take the leap of faith into the
unknown

or better the leap of faith into
remembrance of how to put in order
our
innermost chaos.

Chaos - Order
two opposing poles longing for harmony

inside us and outside us

It is a time that calls us to stop wanting to

Become more
Have more
Say more
Feel more

A time of subtraction
A time of less is more

The soul sings when the night falls

The heart dances on a silent day

Written on the 24/2/2020 at 22.20

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Beloved friends from planet Earth, here in Greece,
is almost time to say good buy to the Wintertime
and celebrate the beginning of Spring.

But this year I feel the mystery of life
unfolds a bit differently than the previous years
as there is a very strong call
to devote time and energy

in the most sacred connection of all,
the connection to the self
not in terms of Ego
but in terms of existence.

Why I am here on this earth?
How I can make the most out of the gift of life?
How can I be in service and create a better world?

In this stage of my spiritual path, I answer:

To Harmonise Body, Mind, and Spirit.

Wishing you all a wonderful Spring and looking forward
to meeting you in person physically or virtually in any of the upcoming events!

Oceans and Rivers of Love.

༄ Apostolia ༄

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༄ Let's Celebrate the New Decade ༄

Apostolia — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 10:09:26 +0000

༄ Let's Celebrate the New Decade ༄

Apostolia Fri, 03/01/2020 - 12:09

Dearest friends! ༄ Happy New Year ༄

Blessings for a new decade full of Forgiveness, Gratitude, Love,
Health, Abundance in all levels and
most of all
Blessings for a deep remembrance of our oneness with Spirit.

Looking back to this 10 years chapter, 2009 -2019,
On one hand, I counted so many challenges, a divorce, single motherhood,
financial problems, an accident, 3 surgeries, loss of beloved friends, fights,
insecurities, frustrations, anger, mistreatment and so many more...

One the other hand is the personal growth, the expansion of the limited self
that tunes in with the unconditional Love,
the deep connection with Nature and the elements,
the Circle of like-minded people like you,
that honestly commit to continuously evolving and becoming the best humans
we can be in this life.

Yes, my heart was broken so many times this past decade but the big revelation
for me was the understanding that this is a way to open more to Love.

I am fully trusting, that whatever life brings to me, is to help me grow,
to guide me on how to open my heart more and connect with the great Mystery,
the Spirit, the Creator, the Cosmos.

Every year I create a ceremony for New Intentions for the New Year.
This time it was so hard for me to speak out new intentions for my self
as I deeply felt that everything I want is there inside me,
everything I want to be happy is provided to me by Nature, by mother Earth.

I just need to embody more and more that I am a blessed human being,
a seed of Love, Compassion, Creativity, Truth,
and Kindness together with other unique human beings like you.

and so my goal for this new Decade is:

To have no goals
but to
Trust Life and be Love

Breath by Breath
Song by Song
Day by Day

We are here on this planet to celebrate and to honor the privilege of being alive.
So let us embrace our fragile, vulnerable human bodies.
Let us heal our precious wounded hearts.

Let us simply and effortlessly be truly present to our selves and to each other
without trying to fix anything in "us" or anybody else.

Let us embody our kindness, honor, respect, peace, love, and light.

May we sit in ceremony, may we enjoy singing and dancing in circles,
may we help each other rise,
leading by example of embracing all that we are,
under Love and Oneness.

May we praise the Earth and all her abundant nourishment to us human beings.

So be it. So be it So be it.

Wishing you a happy new decade!
Oceans and Rivers of Love.
༄ Apostolia ༄

You are welcome to join our (new) private Facebook Group
The Happiness Retreat Circle
To become a member Click here or on the image below
You are welcome to invite your friends too.
The communication language will be English.

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I have offered 3 Free Online Meditation Ritual Sessions, that you can still practice as many times as you want until the Full Moon on January 10th.
The links are below:

༄ Friday 27
1st-day meditation -Forgiveness

༄ Saturday 28
2nd-day meditation -Gratitude

༄ Sunday 29 December
3rd-day meditation - New Intentions

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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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༄ Inspired by Light ༄

Apostolia — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 06:27:46 +0000

༄ Inspired by Light ༄

Apostolia Sun, 05/08/2018 - 09:27

The Total Lunar Eclipse + Full Moon as seen from the Temple of Apollo Epicurius, Peloponnese, Greece.
photo Maria Toultsa

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Dance into the light

Embrace your shadows tenderly tight

Day and Night will both unite

Under the infinite Awe of Light

For this is the most perfect day

The time to rise up and play

With all there is and all it comes

It’s precious as the moon and stars

Dance so perfectly aligned

That you let go of Who am I

Dance opening your heart

And let your tears be your map

Of this new dream of you

That is infinitely old and new

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A warm blessing of light and love to all of you, my soulful friends and travelers of life!

"Some of us may look for the savior, salvation, for mystic connection, for gods or the science behind, we may choose to be believers or not. No matter what and who you are and where you stand and where you go, the inner dance, this beautiful connection with the divine, woke up inside and danced within you at the Ancient Temple of Appolo, the Savior, with a heritage of more than 4000 years. You become a pilgrim of a sort. The pilgrim of Hope."

The words of Galia Koliada, an overnight spectator of the Dream and Sleep performance entitled From Darkness to Light, are opening up more and more possibilities to my perception of how much transformation can be achieved when people that are "strangers" unite their bodies, voices, and souls with Nature, the Elements and the Directions.

Our Silent Minds Dreaming Souls Happiness Retreat on the mountains, rivers and ancient sites of the Peloponnese prepared us to dream for our selves and the collective and open new possibilities on how we dream our world into being.

May we all become Dreamers of Dreams!

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