
MIDLIFE RETREAT
HOME OF THE WORLD’S FIRST HEALTH SANCTUARY
WHERE LIFE ITSELF FEELS RICH
We offer a retreat for midlifers who are asking themselves, “What am I going to do for the rest of my life?”
The Greeks built the world’s first-ever health sanctuary here 2,300 years ago, because Epidavros has the best produce and the best community, and people have been travelling here for thousands of years for that and to learn from the teachers, guides and producers who are based here.
This was the world’s first ever ‘Blue Zone’. A place rich in nature, healthy living, community and the smells of local produce.
You can join those who’ve come before, on your own journey. This is your stop-off in authentic, ancient Greece - a world removed from modern stresses that affect us all.
Let us know what you want to get out of a week here and we will help you achieve it…whether it is simply a complete break, sampling the best of Greek food and hospitality or help to decide what you want to do, once you return home, physically refreshed, and mentally inspired by a break, where just life itself feels rich.
We welcome guests in the Spring and Autumn months, when most tourists are at home but the sun is out, meaning we always hope to enjoy great weather and quiet conditions.
You can pre-book your favourite activity: be that Yoga, Mindfulness, Painting, sculpting, or a dream retreat - some of the world’s foremost practitioners run their retreats here. Plus, visit local producers of Olive oil, honey, wine, oranges, aloe vera, and herbs.
Epidavros breaks down the walls which lock the spirit in.
The landscape does not recede, it installs itself in the open places of the heart, it crowds in, accumulates, dispossesses. You are no longer travelling through something — call it Nature, if you will — but participating in a rout, a rout of the forces of greed, malevolence, envy, selfishness, spite, intolerance, pride, arrogance, cunning, duplicity and so on.
Author, Henry Miller
LOCAL ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO ON YOUR RETREAT
Hike Methana volcano
Go scuba diving in Epidavros with Scuba Blue Dream
join the locals for evening fun
Enter a local triathlon or running event
visit the hot spring on Methana
Enjoy lunch in Nafplio
Attend a seafood & wine tasting
Bungey jump over the Corinth canal
Fall in SUP'ing
Visit Greece's best reviewed taverna
Visit the worlds first health sanctury
Enter a local swimming event or triathlon
Visit Poros Island
Feel the benefits of Methana's hot spring
Watch a performance at Epidavros amphitheatre (Summer only)
Rent an e-bike
kayak over the sunken city
Create or relax
Enjoy local walks
Swim in the open water pool in Nafplio
Visit our famous Epidavros amphitheatre
Enjoy the local restaurants in Epidavros
Ferry over to Hydra island for lunch
Watch live sport on the beach
Rent a motorcycle
Eat sea food at Villa Rosa
Join us for dinner on the beach in front of the villa.
Hike Methana volcano
Enjoy the hot spring bath on Methana
Enjoy the hot sea springs on Methana
Enjoy secluded Nisida beach
Take creative photography opportunities
Visit Mycenae, start of civilisation in Europe
Explore local walks and hidden beaches
Dance the nights away In Capaki disco (Summer only)
Shop the boutiques of Nafplio
Relax with friends
Enjoy a tasting at Bekas olive oil press
Swim off Hydra island
Dance the night way at Capaki Disco (Summer only)
Take the 'Walk of the heart', in Nafplio
Enjoy wine tasting at a Nemea winery
Enjoy honey tasting at a honey factory
Make connections
Do some antique shopping at an enormous Greek reclamation yard
Hike the Methana Volcano
Island hop via the 10-minute ferry to Spetses Island
Hike some ancient remains
Enjoy the nightlife in Nafplio
Take some time for reading
Swim in Epidavros's non-tidal sea
Visit our local small Epidavros Amphitheatre
Travel over the Corinth Canal
Work 'out of office' at Villa Rosa
Stroll along Epidavros harbour side
Visit composer Vladimir Ashkenazy's house in Epidavros
Enjoy the view from the local Stork coffee bar and restaurant
Explore hidden churches
Check out the Epidavros night market (Summer only)
Explore by motor bike