This retreat allows you to take time for yourself and gives you the space to really listen to your needs. Everything is optional. Whether the morning meditations, group activities like hiking, a boat tour, or yoga workshops and classes.
Athina and Cedric are experienced teachers and the founders of INEA YOGA School & Retreat Centre Corfu. They will guide and support you wholeheartedly with their presence and full attention. This is a week where you go for what you want! Full stop.
The nature around, including the crystal clear sea and the olive groves, is the perfect environment for rest, peace, and connection.
INEAYOGA is a place to meet like-minded people from Europe and around the world, where you decide how deep you want to go. Do you want to experience a light, summery, vacation-like yoga retreat or a deep self-exploration journey or both at the same time? Find them on Corfu!
Level of practice
Newby? Intermediate? You are at the right place! It is all about the breath. As long as you can breathe, you can yoga. Take your time. Be present, practice mindfully, and carry on being in the moment. The aim is to be using yoga and mindfulness to empower each individual to take a more active role in their self-care and postures aren’t the only part of yoga. They use postures to get into the body, they don’t use the body to get into postures. So, no matter how advanced or beginner your posture/asana practice is, you are perfect.
It is all part of a journey and you have all been at the beginning at some point. Please don’t feel like you have to perform, you are coming to yoga to meet yourself. Not show your flexibility skills, the strength of your muscles, but instead sharpen your ability to stay with yourself, accepting where you are right now and loving each and every clumsy move along the way. Are you ready for this yummy experience? It is only a decision away. Let this trip be the beginning of a new routine with you in the center. Just come to breathe, relax, meet the sunshine, and be happy.
Daily practice
- Guided yoga and meditation classes
- Morning meditation
Every morning you have 30 minutes guided Meditation class, just in time with the sunrise. Even if you are an absolute beginner in Meditation, this is a class where you can follow the instructions to find that beautiful peace inside.
Morning flow yoga class
This is an active yoga class inspired by Vinyasa flow elements and Anusara principles. This class mobilizes the joints, strengthens the muscles, and improves your flexibility with the stretches. This class is usually between 75 and 90 minutes, can be sweaty and dynamic, and includes a long sweet savasana relaxation in the end.
Relaxing evening yoga class
The evening class is there for you to relax and surrender. ineayoga teaches either a soft and slow Hatha class or a popular Yin yoga class. You will relax your body and mind and recharge the energy. This class is 60 minutes and focuses on soft but deep slow stretches linked to calm the mind and emotional healing.
Kirtan and satsang
Mantra chanting with Athina
What a wonderful way to reach a meditative state without worrying about your mind getting busy! Mantras help quieten the mind and stimulate the endocrine system in such a relaxed and joyful manner. And of course, there are plenty more reasons to sing mantras but this is not the time to bore you with making a list.
Have you tried it? Mantra singing is so much fun! Are you one of these people that lyrics aren't your thing? Well, if so then mantras are going to be your favorite kind of singing!!! You get a few commonly Sanskrit phrases, with spiritual content and you have the opportunity to repeat these Indian jewels over and over, often at different tempos until everybody has got the words and the tune (but not that it actually matters). It is a chance to enjoy just being with everyone else around you, a wonderful way to connect with the rest of the group, a playful and gentle way to help you focus your attention.
Workshops and lectures
You want to dive deeper? You are at the right place. ineayoga has a lot of different workshops that they have developed over the years and offer to you for free at their retreats. They do this because they love yoga and want to share these magical teachings. This is one of the best opportunities to go deeper into a topic, to ask questions that have been on your mind for a long time, or to get new impulses for your further yoga path.
Excerpt of the workshops
- Meditation (introduction, misunderstandings, and working with obstacles)
- Asana clinic
- Mindfulness
- Yoga philosophy and yoga history
- Yogic bodies
- Subtle energies in yoga (chakras, nadis, and prana)
- Pranayama
- Sankalpa (how to find your heart's desire/purpose)
- Yin yoga introduction
- DIY Make your own Mala (necklace, additional cost)
Daily schedule (example)
- 08:00 - 08:30 Meditation (optional)
- 08:30 - 10:00 Morning yoga class (Vinyasa or Hatha)
- 10:00 - 11:00 Brunch
- 11:00 - 17:00 Free Time, i.e. book a Massage (extra fees apply), enjoy the beach
- 16:30 - 18:00 Workshops/activities
- 18:00 - 19:00 Gentle yoga class (Yin)
- 19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
Teachers
ineayoga's founders, Cedric and Athena will host and teach the majority of the retreat dates. They are delighted to welcome guest teachers for the following retreats:
- 30 June - 6 July: Sally and Pim
- 21 - 27 July: Pim and Sarah
- 29 Sep - 5 Oct: Sally and Olivia
- 6 - 12 Oct: Sally and Fynn
- 13 - 19 Oct: Fynn, Cedric and Athena
