Tides of Return

12/09/2027

-18/09/2027

Tides of Return

Held beside the Aegean Sea on the island of Paros, this six-night Sapranah retreat is an invitation to immerse yourself in the wisdom of water. To soften. To flow.To breathe more deeply. To move with greater ease, fluidity, openness, and presence.

Surrounded by sea, sky, and the mythology of the Greek islands, you will practise within beautiful shalas designed for yoga, stillness, movement, and connection. Warm salt air, softened light, long evenings, and the natural rhythm of island life become part of the retreat experience itself.

Throughout the week, you will be guided through intelligently sequenced Sapranah yoga flows, Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Prāṇāyāma, meditation, Nāda Yoga, embodied practices, wellness talks, sea-side stillness, and spacious time for rest and reflection.

The practices themselves will embody the qualities of water:
fluidity, adaptability, sensitivity, intuition, rhythm, softness, strength, and movement without force.

There will be stronger more dynamic practices for those who want them, alongside gentler practices designed to restore, soften, and settle the nervous system. Everything is invitational.

To practise beside the sea is powerful.

To move with the breath whilst surrounded by water, warmth, salt air, and open sky invites a different quality of presence into both body and mind. The retreat honours the relationship between the water around you and the water within you.

The sea becomes part of the rhythm of the retreat itself:
salt air, softened evenings, open skies, slow mornings, movement, stillness, solitude, connection, and the quiet remembering of what it feels like simply to be.

This retreat offers space both for inward reflection and gentle connection with others walking beside you for a short while along the same shoreline.

“The highest goodness is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 8

SCHEDULE

Sunrise Awakening by the Sea
Wake with the island.

A gentle gathering at the shoreline to greet the day through sea swims, breath, stillness, meditation, and quiet connection beside the water as the sun rises over Paros.

7:00am–9:00am
Sapranah Embodied Water Flow

An intelligently sequenced integrated morning practice weaving together Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Prāṇāyāma, embodied flow, strength, softness, fluidity, Nāda Yoga, and subtle energetic work inspired by the qualities of water itself.

At times the practice will be strong and heat-building. At others, spacious, intuitive, restorative, and deeply yielding.

9:30am–11:00am
Brunch

A long nourishing brunch shared together beside the sea.

Late Morning & Afternoon
Spaciousness, Sea & Exploration

Saltwater swims
Reading & reflection
Island walks
Rest beneath the sun
Quiet self-enquiry
Meaningful conversation
Time alone
Exploring Paros

Throughout the retreat there will also be shared reading, reflective discussion, and gentle conversation inspired by themes connected to water, embodiment, philosophy, presence, and island life.

4:30pm–6:00pm
Aerial Yoga & Playful Exploration

Supported aerial practices inviting lightness, trust, expansion, inversion, movement, freedom, and play.

7:00pm
Dinner
Shared evening meal beneath the Greek sky.

Evening

Free time
An opportunity for connection, solitude, sea air, stillness, conversation, rest, and quiet return to self.

PRICING

What’s Included
• Six nights’ accommodation.
• Two organic vegan / vegetarian meals daily (locally grown, seasonal produce)
• Access to Yoga shalas, terraces, and quiet natural spaces
• Herbal teas, filtered water and fruit throughout the day
• Towels and bedding

Not Included
• Travel to Paros, Greece. We’ll coordinate shared taxis and minivans to the airport closer to the time so you can travel with other guests if you wish.

• Optional massages or treatments.

FOOD

MORE INFORMATION

For more information: https://www.sapranah.com/okreblue-tides-of-return

PHOTOS

Sarah Kate Horner

An actress and drama facilitator, has shaped her yoga teaching through her life as a single mother of three boys. Facing challenges with resilience, she found yoga’s discipline of breath and awareness to be her anchor. From this, she created Sapranah, blending her name with prāna, the vital life force. Rooted in ancient teachings and her lived experience, Sapranah is her evolving practice, offering a space to reconnect with self and source, fostering strength and clarity.

BOOKING THIS RETREAT

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