embodied https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr/ en ༄ Belonging ༄ https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr/node/140 <span class="field field-name-title field-formatter-string field-type-string field-label-hidden"> ༄ Belonging ༄</span> <div class="field field-node--field-image field-formatter-image field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden has-single"><figure class="field-type-image__figure image-count-1"><div class="field-type-image__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/thehappinessretreat.gr/files/styles/square_720x720/public/articles/22459438_10156708083837519_5433129071551872116_o.jpg?itok=yRLa8MNI" width="720" height="720" alt="Nature is our home, Kythera island, Apostolia " class="image-style-square-720x720" /> </div> </figure></div> <span class="field field-name-uid field-formatter-author field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"><span>Apostolia</span></span> <span class="field field-name-created field-formatter-timestamp field-type-created field-label-hidden">Tue, 02/06/2020 - 14:34</span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field-node--body field-formatter-text-default field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden has-single"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p>It happens all the time in heaven,</p> <p>And someday</p> <p>It will begin to happen</p> <p>Again on earth -</p> <p>That men and women </p> <p>Often will get down on their knees</p> <p>With tears in their eyes,</p> <p>Will sincerely speak, saying,</p> <p>My dear,</p> <p>How can I be more loving to you;</p> <p>How can I be more kind?</p> <p><br /> Hafez ( excerpt)</p> <p> </p> <p>Beloved friends, June is here marking the beginning of sweet summer and the Moon is coming to full this Thursday. I am sure you are aware of what is happening around the world right now. I am in deep concern as you are, about where we stand as conscious human beings. </p> <p>The call for awareness and personal responsibility is urgent and very challenging. Identifying what it means to be "human" today is the clearest call I hear.</p> <p>All parts of me are craving to stop the inner war between me and my soul and asking me to take responsibility, as what is happening now on our planet is deeply affecting me.</p> <p>Just after the lockdown of Covid19 humanity proved collectively that can obey to authority control. Just after the death of George Floyd, riots all over the US claim for justice and human rights as racism has been a virus amongst humans for centuries now. A possible scenario of what's coming after this is more authority control so we can be "safe".</p> <p>At the same time,  in different countries, (Greece is one amongst them) crowds gather and protest against the new “Modernized Environmental Legislation” that gives easy permissions to private companies to develop businesses in protected Nature areas. </p> <p>How can we still believe that invading a planet like earth and turn the entire Nature into business, as usual, will lead to progress? How can we still support that consuming more goods and working harder (so we can have a "fake' safe future) will lead to our prosperity?</p> <p>None of the above is convincing our soul anymore as we feel it in all our parts of our selves. We feel more isolated than ever, more separated than ever.</p> <p><br /> WE ARE SUFFERING FROM DISCONNECTION WITH OUR TRUE NATURE.<br /> WE ARE SUFFERING FROM SEPARATION FROM MOTHER NATURE.</p> <p>Life itself is about belonging. Our Human DNA holds the remembrance that we are able to live in perfect harmony when we embody the divine love that created us, that created all life.</p> <p>The secret of interconnection between species lies in the self-love and self-respect first and above all, so fear and isolation don't control our existence.</p> <p>To reach a greater understanding of who we are and make conscious choices we need to repair our true belonging within and this can happen only by recognizing Nature as higher consciousness. </p> <p>What would happen if all the people all over the planet feel this disconnection and decide to leave the cities now, starting a new life, living in harmony with nature, working from their green home, forming supportive communities, connecting with the divine that is inside each one and all of us, recognizing each other's gifts, creating art, listening, giving, receiving, understanding our light and our shadow, together? </p> <p>Nature holds this immense power of helping us remember LOVE even in the form of thunder. Even in the form of an Earthquake. For we become humble for a millisecond, we step our of Ego and we remember in our cells, in our breath, in our senses, what the ancients knew:</p> <p>Nature is our home. Nature grounds our being and belonging.  Nature brings us home to ourselves. Peace, Presence, Belonging, Creativity, Community, Solidarity are values of our innate wisdom that can be ignited in our collective consciousness when each one of us invests in cultivating a reconnection with Nature.</p> <p>This is my dream, my dearest friends, to remember our sacredness of body, mind, and spirit, as a collective and to embody that being in Nature is already being in the divine presence. </p> <p>Oceans Love &amp; Rivers of Light<br /> Stay healthy, stay safe, stay kind</p> <p>Apostolia</p> <p> </p></div></div> </div> <div class="field field-node-field-tags field-entity-reference-type-taxonomy-term field-formatter-entity-reference-label field-name-field-tags field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item field__item--spirituality"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/9" hreflang="en">spirituality</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--embodied"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/105" hreflang="en">embodied</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--awaereness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/68" hreflang="en">awaereness</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--happiness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/13" hreflang="en">Happiness</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--thehappinessretreat"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/59" hreflang="en">thehappinessretreat</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--apostolia"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/10" hreflang="en">Apostolia</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--gratitude"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/26" hreflang="en">gratitude</a></span> </div></div> </div> Tue, 02 Jun 2020 11:34:12 +0000 Apostolia 140 at https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr ༄ Mother's day Primordial Mantra ༄ https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr/node/138 <span class="field field-name-title field-formatter-string field-type-string field-label-hidden"> ༄ Mother&#039;s day Primordial Mantra ༄</span> <div class="field field-node--field-image field-formatter-image field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden has-single"><figure class="field-type-image__figure image-count-1"><div class="field-type-image__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/thehappinessretreat.gr/files/styles/square_720x720/public/articles/Motherhood%20Apostolia.jpg?itok=4sTfQdvj" width="720" height="720" alt="With my new born son" class="image-style-square-720x720" /> </div> </figure></div> <span class="field field-name-uid field-formatter-author field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"><span>Apostolia</span></span> <span class="field field-name-created field-formatter-timestamp field-type-created field-label-hidden">Tue, 02/06/2020 - 07:40</span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field-node--body field-formatter-text-default field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden has-single"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p>Ma is the first word we say. Ma-Ma is recognized from almost every human being in the world as the name we give to our first shelter. Our mother.</p> <p>{Ma-Ma is a primordial mantra that I use in my teachings and connects us with Mother Love.}</p> <p>Becoming a mom, 17 years ago was and is the greatest gift of my life. No matter the difficulties, the struggles, the work it needs to be a mother I would never change it as it taught me first of all to love my own mother unconditionally and to give her only gratitude. For she gave me life. </p> <p>Motherhood connected me deeply with my wounds, helped me to face them, and heal them, helped me to recognize what unconditional love is.</p> <p>{Ma-Ma leads to MaM when we are babies calling for food calling for Love }</p> <p>Thank you to my mother, thank you to my son, thank you most of all to our Great Mother Earth for nurturing us humans with your abundant love.</p> <p>Close your eyes and hum so you connect with the unconditional love inside you, the highest frequency of all:<br /> Ma- Ma -Ma - Ma- Ma- Ma </p></div></div> </div> <div class="field field-node-field-tags field-entity-reference-type-taxonomy-term field-formatter-entity-reference-label field-name-field-tags field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item field__item--mantra"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/107" hreflang="en">mantra</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--mother"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/108" hreflang="en">mother</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--love"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/31" hreflang="en">love</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--unconditionallove"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/109" hreflang="en">unconditionallove</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--embodied"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/105" hreflang="en">embodied</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--spirituality"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/9" hreflang="en">spirituality</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--apostolia"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/10" hreflang="en">Apostolia</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--happiness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/13" hreflang="en">Happiness</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--consiousness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/110" hreflang="en">consiousness</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--vibration"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/111" hreflang="en">vibration</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--frequancy"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/112" hreflang="en">frequancy</a></span> </div></div> </div> Tue, 02 Jun 2020 04:40:25 +0000 Apostolia 138 at https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr ༄ Sacred Breath ༄ https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr/node/137 <span class="field field-name-title field-formatter-string field-type-string field-label-hidden"> ༄ Sacred Breath ༄</span> <div class="field field-node--field-image field-formatter-image field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden has-single"><figure class="field-type-image__figure image-count-1"><div class="field-type-image__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/thehappinessretreat.gr/files/styles/square_720x720/public/articles/AED6610F-BC2A-40B7-A752-68E9A13F821C.JPG?itok=4gkkV0UV" width="720" height="720" alt="Temple of Artemis Vravronia, Apostolia Papadamaki" class="image-style-square-720x720" /> </div> </figure></div> <span class="field field-name-uid field-formatter-author field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"><span>Apostolia</span></span> <span class="field field-name-created field-formatter-timestamp field-type-created field-label-hidden">Tue, 02/06/2020 - 07:32</span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field-node--body field-formatter-text-default field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden has-single"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p>There is an ancient breath breathing inside you.</p> <p>She is longing to teach you how unique you are.</p> <p>She carries gifts that can heal your wounds so you can lift the veil of your limited thoughts and remember your authentic myth.</p> <p>It’s not about finding the meaning of life.<br /> It’s about experiencing life as a sacred being in every breath you take.</p> <p>Fully present. Fully loving. Fully forgiving. Fully grate-full.</p> <p>Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and tell me.</p> <p>Can you feel your life is sacred?</p></div></div> </div> <div class="field field-node-field-tags field-entity-reference-type-taxonomy-term field-formatter-entity-reference-label field-name-field-tags field-type-entity-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item field__item--sacred"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/103" hreflang="en">sacred</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--breathwork"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/99" hreflang="en">breathwork</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--presence"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/104" hreflang="en">presence</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--transformation"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/20" hreflang="en">Transformation</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--embodied"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/105" hreflang="en">embodied</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--spirituality"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/9" hreflang="en">spirituality</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--myth"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/22" hreflang="en">Myth</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--consciousness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/106" hreflang="en">consciousness</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--apostolia"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/10" hreflang="en">Apostolia</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--papadamaki"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/11" hreflang="en">Papadamaki</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--happiness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/13" hreflang="en">Happiness</a></span> </div><div class="field__item field__item--happiness"> <span class="field__item-wrapper"><a href="/taxonomy/term/13" hreflang="en">Happiness</a></span> </div></div> </div> Tue, 02 Jun 2020 04:32:48 +0000 Apostolia 137 at https://www.thehappinessretreat.gr