Release Yoga and Wellness Retreat

To be Announced
(TBA)

Nafpaktos, Greece

Join us for a 4 day (3 night) Yoga and Wellness Retreat during the Whit Monday weekend that will focus on releasing the pent up tension and trauma through Yoga, Chinese Medicine, Trauma Release Exercise and Hypnotherapy.
The retreat will take place in an isolated villa outside the town of Nafpaktos, above a beautiful beach that is a 10 minute walk from the villa.

About Nafpaktos

Nafpaktos is a town in West Greece, about 2,5 hr drive from Athens. Having a Medieval charm, Nafpaktos is enchanting to visitors. Its small Venetian port, beaches, and landscape make Nafpaktos a beautiful destination. The port and castle provide the main attraction for the town, both with well kept Venetian vestiges. Shops, cafés and bars dot the immediate area, while a beautiful long beach starts from the port and is the perfect option for a plunge near town.

Teaching

Sissy Fragiadaki

Sissy Fragkiadaki was trained in Hatha Vinyasa Yoga and Aerial Yoga by Tanya Popovich, owner of Shri Gaia Institute, and she has been teaching Yoga for 11 years and Aerial Yoga for 10 years.

Few years ago she started teaching as an assistant trainer in Hatha Vinyasa and Aerial Yoga Teacher Trainings for Shri Gaia Institute.

She is the founder and owner of “The Social Yogis Project“ which was one of the most well known studios in Greece.

In addition, Sissy is trained in Chinese Medicine, lymphatic drainage, massage, and cupping in the Academy of Chinese Medicine in Athens.

As a neurodivergent person Sissy works on raising awareness for ADHD and autism, and she is an ambassador for ADHD HELLAS. Her work includes classes, workshops, seminars and retreats on:

-Yoga and ADHD
-Moving meditation for people with ADHD
-Anatomy, Injuries and Recovery
-Lymphatic system and self-drainage

Sissy teaches in both English and Greek depending on the audience.

Tanya Popovich

Tanya is a certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance ERYT-500, and Yoga Acharya (Master of Yoga) in classical Sivananda Yoga tradition. She started her meditation practice at the age of 14 through Transcendental Meditation.

Her 20 years of experience practicing and 17 years of teaching Yoga includes numerable yoga trainings in classical and modern styles of yoga, and long stays at Yoga Ashrams across India.

For the past 16 years Tanya teaches yoga internationally including 200-hr and 500-hr Yoga Alliance certified educational programs, Yin Yoga and Aerial Yoga training programs, Breathwork and Meditation trainings, Vedanta philosophy, workshops, seminars and cultural retreats.

Tanya is a certified Hypnotherapist with specialization in trauma and addiction, and a TRE (Trauma Release Exercise) practitioner.

For the past 10 years alongside teaching yoga, Tanya works with executive managers as a Leadership Coach / Consultant in individual and group settings.

She has worked as a Leadership Coach for big companies such as Airbus Group, Evonik, Thales Group and Kienbaum. In addition, she holds a B.A. in Fine Arts, M.A. in Indigenous Studies, Storytelling and Myth, a degree in Sound Healing, she is a Rites of Passage Initiate, and a Shamanic Journeying through Dance and Breathwork fascilitator.

She uses her deep knowledge of body/mind connection through Yoga, Meditation, Breathwork, RTT (Hypnosis, NLP and Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy), TRE, Sound Healing, Art, Music and Dance, to provide coaching for individuals as well as those in challenging leadership positions.

Tanya is the founder of Shri Gaia Institute.