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Annual Women's Immersion
She who Remembers
A seven-day immersion into culture, community, and
the life you were always meant to inhabit.
Crete, Greece
18 - 24th September 2026
10 women only
19th annual gathering
You are not here to escape your life.
You are here to practice a better one.
What if the week away wasn't a break from your life - but a blueprint for it?
For seven days on the ancient island of Crete - where the Minoan women built a civilisation rooted in art, community, and feminine wisdom - you will eat food pulled from the land that morning, sit in circle with women who say the real thing, walk barefoot on pink coral sand, and move through days shaped by intention rather than urgency.
This is not a pause from your life. It is a rehearsal for the life you are building. Every conversation, every meal, every moment of stillness is practice you carry home - woven into your body, your choices, your days.
The island is ready. The circle is forming. Ten women. One ancient land. Seven days of living - fully, slowly, and in exquisite company.
Remember. Inhabit. Rise.
This is NOT a retreat. Here's why that matters.
A RETREAT SAYS
Escape from your life
Press pause
Recover your energy
Return to the same life
Find temporary relief
AN IMMERSIVE LIVING EXPERIENCE SAYS
Practice the life you want
Begin again, intentionally
Root into nourishment
Return recalibrated
Build something lasting
WHAT AN IMMERSIVE LIVING EXPERIENCE ACTUALLY IS
Slow, inhabited time
Days shaped around the body's natural rhythm - not a schedule. Gentle mornings, full afternoons, unhurried evenings. Time that belongs entirely to you and the women beside you.
Real community, not networking
Ten women, deliberately chosen, gathered in circle. Not small talk over conference badges - deep conversation, collective wisdom, and the rare experience of being fully seen. Many women leave with friendships that outlast the island by years.
Cultural immersion, not tourism
We visit sacred Minoan sites, not Instagram spots. We eat in family-run tavernas, not tourist menus. We walk through the Archaeological Museum of Chania with the lens of feminine history. We taste olive oil at the farm it was pressed from. Culture as a living, breathing teacher.
Embodiment, not performance
Morning movement on the rooftop with the sea below. Women's circle as evening ritual. Embodiment sessions that return you to the intelligence of your own body - not as a spiritual ideal but as a daily, practical act.
Reintegration, not re-entry shock
The practices, the rhythms, the connections - they are all designed to travel. You don't go home changed and then drift back. You go home with a practice, a community, and a blueprint. The week in Crete is the beginning, not the peak.
This experience is for you if
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You are done recovering from your life - and ready to start building one you love inhabiting
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You are drawn to mythology, ancient feminine wisdom, and the living history of cultures that honoured women
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You want real conversation - the kind that goes somewhere - with women who share your values and your depth
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You care about the earth: slow food, local farmers, sustainable living, beauty that isn't extracted
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You are ready to be seen - not performed at, not assessed, just genuinely, quietly seen
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You want to go home with practices that integrate - not a post-retreat crash followed by a return to the same patterns
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You are curious. That is enough.
OUR HOME IN CRETE - A SANCTUARY
Regina Palace Hotel
Drapanias village, Kissamos, Western Crete
Tucked into the peaceful village of Drapanias, between palm trees and the shimmering Cretan sea, Regina Palace is an independent, locally-owned hotel with the unhurried soul of the island itself. Warm hospitality, sea-view balconies, a peaceful pool, and the kind of quiet that lets you hear yourself think.
This is not a resort. It is a sanctuary - chosen deliberately for its rootedness in place, its female-led spirit, and its proximity to both the land and the sea we will need.
Rooms are bright and calm with private balconies overlooking either the Aegean or the Cretan countryside - ideal for morning journaling, or watching the light change over the olive groves.
Gaia Restaurant - where the land feeds you
Every morning begins here: eggs from the neighbouring farm, cheese from mountain dairies, bread from the kitchen oven.
Dinners are unhurried rituals - a gathering around food that knows where it came from.
Farm-to-table is not a concept at Gaia. It is simply how it has always been done.
YOUR FACILITATOR
Eleftheria Kakambouras
Transformation facilitator & trainer · 24 years · She Who Remembers
My name is Eleftheria, of Hellenic descent, it means liberty or freedom. In essence this is what I stand for - the liberation of the sacred feminine within us all. I have been deeply honoured to have had the privilege to work with women’s personal and spiritual develop for more than two decades now.
Every story has touched me deeply and has contributed to my own sense of place, purpose and power. My work as transformation facilitator is a marriage between my training in clinical psychology and women’s spirituality. I am passionate about myth and story as healing tools.
I would Love to share the magic, the medicine and connection of women's conscious travel with you! This will be my 19th annual Women's Retreat, and my second one hosted on the island of mystery and honey. Crete has been calling me for a while now, and each place I am intuitively drawn to I've discovered that the land, the people and her-story with sacred sites have activated deep transformation within me, and the women who have felt the call to join me.
I truly believe when a woman heals a part of herself, she heals a part of the world - which we are inextricably connected to.
You are pure magic, you are sacredly woman, you are powerful beyond measure, you ARE sacred purpose, you are Enough - and YOUR presence here - Matters truly.
Thank you, from my heart to yours, for your contribution to weaving the feminine tapestry.
SEVEN DAYS - THE ARC OF YOUR IMMERSION
Each day holds its own rhythm. The programme may shift with weather, sacred site hours, or the group's unfolding - this is a living experience, not a fixed itinerary. What follows is the arc, not the cage. Flexibility encourages us to embrace the feminine flow by releasing expectations and being open to life's unfolding experiences.
18h00
Meditation
19h00
Dinner
07h30
Movement Meditation
08h30
09h30
13h00
Breakfast
Session with Eleftheria
Free-time or Excursion
16h30
Circle Session
Settle in. Breathe. Let the island receive you.
At dusk, we gather in our opening circle - planting the intentions we each carry as seeds.
Welcome dinner at Gaia Restaurant: local, unhurried, delicious. Your first evening of being held.
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ARIVE
Friday 18 Sept — Intention
Rooftop movement at sunrise, then a private excursion to the newly curated Archaeological Museum of Chania.
We move through the Minoan exhibition not as tourists - but as women tracing our own lineage.
Free time in Old Town Chania's harbour before returning to circle at dusk.
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RECONNECT
Saturday 19 Sept - Memory
A morning embodiment circle with Eleftheria - reclaiming the sacredness of all your bodies: mental, emotional, physical, spiritual.
Afternoon of free time: beach, journal, stillness.
Sunset garden circle. Evening closes with conscious dance.
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RECLAIM
Sunday 20 Sept - Body
Our deepest day. We visit the hidden cave of Agia Sophia - wisdom in stone - and sit in meditation with what the land asks of us.
Then: a scenic drive through the Topolia Gorge to the protected paradise of Elafonissi Beach.
Pink coral sand. Water you will not believe. A day that lives in the body for years.
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REMEMBER
Monday 21 Sept - The Sacred
A morning of feminine embodiment practice and circle sharing.
Then: a Cretan tasting journey to local farms - olive oil pressed that morning, wild honey from the comb, mountain cheese, ancient herbs.
An afternoon of integration: walk, swim, rest, write. At dusk, we explore ancestral lineage and its quiet presence in the modern woman's life.
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INHABIT
Tuesday 22 Sept - Senses
A full day on the water.
Private boat through crystal coves and secret coastline - your senses are not ready.
Traditional Cretan lunch on board.
Evening: a hands-on Cretan cooking class, then a celebratory dinner at a family taverna - Greek dancing, plates broken in pure joy. Because liberation looks like this too.
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CELEBRATE
Wednesday 23 Sept - Joy
A final embodiment practice to seal what the week has opened.
Then our closing circle - a ceremony of gratitude, integration, and the thread we each carry forward.
You are not the woman who arrived.
And this time, she travels home with you.
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RISE
Thursday 24 Sept - Integration
The Frequency of 2026: A Year of Bold Expansion
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Astrology | Saturn–Neptune union at 0° Aries - last seen 6000 years ago
Signals a rare initiatory threshold, inviting humanity into a new cycle of conscious creation — a call to lead with vision, embodied wisdom, and the courage to birth new realities from intuition, compassion, and soul-aligned purpose.
Chinese Astrology | Year of the Fire Horse
The Horse symbolizes freedom, movement, independence, and adventure, while the Fire element amplifies these qualities with passion, charisma, ambition, and intensity.
This powerful combination appears only once every 60 years, making it a cycle traditionally associated with
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YOUR INVESTMENT
SHARED ROOM
€1,700
€1,500 early price
Early bird — expired 31.7
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6 nights shared ensuite room
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Daily breakfast & dinner at Gaia
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All excursions & transport
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Private boat tour
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Cretan cooking class
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Museum & site entry fees
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All facilitation by Eleftheria
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Pre & post-retreat online circle
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Welcome gift
SINGLE ROOM
€2,250
€1,750 full price
Early bird — expired 31.7
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6 nights single ensuite room
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Daily breakfast & dinner at Gaia
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All excursions & transport
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Private boat tour
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Cretan cooking class
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Museum & site entry fees
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All facilitation by Eleftheria
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Pre & post-retreat online circle
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Welcome gift
Not included: Flights, travel insurance, lunches, personal expenses, alcoholic beverages, gratuities, visas. Group airport transfers available at additional cost.
A 50% deposit secures your space. Payment plans available. SEPA payments welcome. Contact: terrazivadoo(dot)gmail(dot)com
Frequently asked questions
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The Circle is a healer. A place in which to be authentic, trusting, safe, caring, available, vulnerable and open to change.
The Circle is a place of inquiry. A place to be open, to discover yourself, to risk being seen, to be sensitive, to be vulnerable.
The Circle is a place of listening. A place to engage the heart, enhance our self esteem, find our voice, speak our truth, uncover our story, feel heard and receive deep medicine.
The Circle is a place of support. A place to question who we are and examine our perceptions. A place where answers arise, where we discover our true Selves, where our truth is revealed, where we let go of being right, where it's ok to feel our feelings and deepen relationships.
The Circle is a place of equality, where each woman is a teacher and every woman a healer.
~ Kami McBride, "The Magic of a Circle"