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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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༄ November Blues - Truthfulness ༄

Apostolia — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 09:32:48 +0000

༄ November Blues - Truthfulness ༄

Apostolia Sun, 17/11/2019 - 11:32

༄ Truthfulness ༄

True Presence
True Connection
True Belonging

At the end of the day who am I? Who am I when nobody is watching?

These are my deepest self journeys at this time of my life, my dear beautiful friends. When I decide to write to you my heart beats faster as I am preparing to share my true presence with you.

Working with so many people from around the world, giving my self fully to each and everyone in every retreat, performance or workshop, makes me realize that most of us face the same concern.

Who am I truly? Deep down at the core of my being what is my deepest truth?

When our defense system is down when we ask ourselves "what do I really need to be happy", we all long to be free from fear, to be accepted, to be respected, to be seen, and most of all to be loved.

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Since my childhood, I have been "taught" to seek approval in others, to feel happy when I get a reward, to base my relations in co-dependence. Nobody taught me how to have an honest, deep and loving relationship with myself. Nobody told me that fulfillment is my responsibility and I am not a victim of any system if I don't consent. Sounds familiar?

Our human "evolution" has disconnected us from nature, has silenced our emotional voice, has buried our creativity as something useless.....We have become anxious, restless, isolated, separated from the one and only truth, the abundant love that exists inside each one of us, the interconnectedness, the true belonging within us and with all living beings.

The " superiority " of being a human being has been working against our souls. In our collective consciousness, we have "wars" between parents and children, men and women, rich and poor, countries, nations....but the worse war, the most dangerous one happens inside our mind.

Our mind keeps on creating story after story about our traumas, the things we miss, the relationships we don't like, the job that takes our time away. We are not our mind patterns, we are not victims of our traumas, we are not our judgmental thoughts, we are not the ones that say yes to an unfulfilled meaningless life waiting for the days, months and years to pass.

We are creative, free, loving beings and we can take responsibility for our actions, for our lives.

Only by silencing this monkey -mind we can look deeply in our selves, love our selves unconditionally and forgive 'us" for what we are not, for what we have not. Only by loving our selves unconditionally we can see our truth. And if what we see is a bit scary, self-love is the only medicine that can hold space for any change we want to make without abusing ourselves.

How do we take action towards a more truthful and loving relationship with ourselves?

By doing less and breathing more. By dropping multitasking even for one hour per day, by taking a slow pace at work. Leave your mobile phone on the table and take an aimless walk. Cook an improvised meal without any recipe just using your intuition. Wash your dishes dancing your favorite song. See a friend and just listen to his voice and words without thinking about what you will reply to while he/she is talking. In other words, we are responsible to create quality time and space so we can be in a loving relationship with our existence every single second.
And most of all...

We have this amazing gift to breathe, to sing, to dance, to flow...

Take a deep breath and feel how precious this moment is. Sigh and let your voice be heard by you, you are the most precious human in this room.
Dance and feel this miraculous body of yours no matter if you feel incompetent if your mind tells you you are not talented or if you had a divorce or an accident. This moment that you read my words you are still alive, I am still alive and that's a unique opportunity of this moment, to fall in love with the gift of life. Life is the greatest mystery that we humans can only feel and never explain. Life is the most spiritual concept I know.

November Blessings
Remember you are born a creative being.
Remember that you have infinite possibilities.
Remember you are a beloved member of the soul family.
Remember you are not alone.
Remember to fall in love with you.

Oceans and Rivers of Love.
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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
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Home Courses and Support from Apostolia and the Happiness Retreat team

Course I: Powerful Breath Activation

Learn more & Book

Course II: Yoga for Self Love and Harmony

Learn more & Book

The Individual Online Sessions are available

and you can find the information here

Our Private Facebook Group

༄ November Blues - Truthfulness ༄

༄ Truthfulness ༄True Presence True Connection True Belonging

༄Adaptation-How we create Happiness༄

༄ Truthfulness ༄

True Presence
True Connection
True Belonging