Awakening Woman – Crete

We are offering you an unforgettable journey to your wildest dreams; to the woman that lives within you when nobody is watching; to the dancer; to the singer; to the erotic being; to the intuitive woman that sees herself and others in a fountain of abundance.

"Yes… all of that, which you know deep within is at the reach of your hand once you look behind the curtain that is blinding you. We invite you to join us on this passionate journey in Crete, Greece through a series of six weekends starting in the autumn of 2021 followed by a 10 day retreat in the autumn of 2022."

We will support you to open those rusty doors and dust those precious objects within you; to jump into your fullness of being and laugh like you have never laughed before.

On this journey we will travel with the four archetypes that are based on the elements within and without you: Earth, Fire, Water, Air.

• Earth / Mother Archetype: Discriminating the pure archetype from the distorted, inherited archetype. The ‘Core Wound’ that obstructs and sabotages our potential. Understanding and caring for the Core Wound. The Practice of ‘Self Caring’. Nurturing, and holding all that has not been seen and loved within us. The emergence of the caring adult in our psyche.
• Fire / Warrior Archetype: Discriminating her from distorted power. Moving towards our personal and collective meeting of the empowered feminine. Learning to make friends with our fire (anger, rage), as a pathway into our divine potency. Learning to place boundaries with heart. Taking our space, expanding and speaking our heart’s truth beyond blame of self/other, beyond persecutor, victim and absence. No apology.
• Water/ Lover Archetype: Discriminating the love needs of the child from the longing for communion of the lover. Learning and reclaiming our capacity for receptivity as our doorway to feeling our energy body, taking us into deep intimacy, erotic presence and communion... all Feminine gifts. Cleansing our toxic cellular sexual memory. Reclaiming our leadership of the heart. Being the queen of the boudoir, within and without.
• Air / Shamana Archetype: Reclaiming the moon within, returning to the power of our blood and learning to read our cyclical nature as a way into divine feminine spirituality. Our capacity to live in the unknown, our simple and ordinary women’s way of connection with Source and feeling the cosmos within. Conducting energy. Resting in being as choice. Developing a choice of practices that keeps us re-choosing a native consciousness attuned with the natural world. Receiving and giving guidance through our intimacy with birth/death cycles.

Final Retreat: A time to bring all this together and to learn how to live and share it in your day to day life.

Dates:

• Intimacy with Being: Fri 5 Nov 2021 - Sun 7 Nov 2021
• Mother archetype: Fri 17 Dec 2021 - Sun 19 Dec 2021
• Warrior archetype: Fri 28 Jan 2022 - Sun 30 Jan 2022
• Lover archetype: Fri 11 Mar 2022 - Sun 13 Mar 2022
• Shamana archetype: Fri 29 Apr 2022 - Sun 1 May 2022
• Whole Woman archetype: Fri 15 Jul 2022 - Sun 17 Jul 2022
• Retreat: Thu 13 Oct 2022 - Sun 23 Oct 2022

Venue:

​The meetings will be held at Armonia, a traditional retreat venue near the sea in the Apokoronas area of Crete: https://www.armoniaretreat.com/

​Programme cost and payment plan:

The prices below include accommodation and all the meals.

• ​​Cost per weekend meeting: €225
• Cost of the final 10 day retreat: €985
• Total Cost of the full programme: 6x€225 + €985 = €2335
• Deposit: €150

​Register by paying the full amount of the deposit. The amount you pay towards the deposit will then be deducted from the total cost of the programme (so you end up paying €2335 including your deposit). Payments are made according to the following plan:

​IMPORTANT NOTICE: Deposit of €150 paid upon registration.

• 1st installment of €225 paid at the start of the 1st meeting
• 2nd installment of €225 paid at the start of the 2nd meeting
• 3rd installment of €225 paid at the start of the 3rd meeting
• 4th installment of €225 paid at the start of the 4th meeting
• 5th installment of €225 paid at the start of the 5th meeting
• 6th installment of €225 paid at the start of the 6th meeting
• Final installment of €985 paid at the start of the final retreat.

It is possible to arrange a different payment plan with prior agreement.

About the facilitators:

Elisabeth Serra (Main Facilitator) was born and grew up in Barcelona, Spain. As a young woman she spent ten years in India, immersing herself initially in the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, and then following her own path of self-discovery, encountering a variety of forms and paths that continue to support her in her own homecoming. She held a private psychotherapeutic practice in England for two decades, during which time she also graduated with an M.A. in Psychosynthesis psychotherapy. Alongside her former partner, Mark Josephs, she co-founded a movement called Social Alchemy and, for another two decades, offered diverse programmes in Europe and the USA to help awaken our remembrance of our essential nature and innate knowing, while learning how to manage all that diverts us from that remembering – so that we can thrive in intimacy with others, and with our surroundings. She is a practitioner and teacher of an ancient women’s tantric dance-meditation called "Shiva Shakti", designed to awaken and embody the different faces of the feminine, and return us to our ecstatic, essential nature. Her love for dance, music and theatre has not only inspired her throughout her personal development but has become the breathing ground of all the different aspects of her ‘work’, her offerings...

Daphne Kourkounaki (program organiser, assistant facilitator, program translator) was born and grew up in Crete, Greece. At 18 years old she moved to England where she obtained a Masters' degree in Electrical Engineering followed by a postgraduate Masters' in Environmental and Energy Studies. Initially she worked as an engineer and later as a sustainability consultant. Soon she concluded that we can't be talking about creating a sustainable future for humanity if we are not engaging in the awakening of the Soul. She dedicated the next ten years of her life to her own soul awakening. Along the way she worked with Elisabeth Serra who facilitated her journey of deep Self discovery and the reclaiming and sharing of her authentic feminine essence. She is a Healer using various modalities and she practices and teaches the ancient Tantric dance-meditation called Shiva Shakti. Her passion is to support men and women to live a deeply satisfying life.