Welcome to SANCTUARY 

You are invited to enter into sacred relationship with yourself. With all of the women that you have ever been and all of the women you will ever be.

You are invited Into sacred relationship with your body, this vibrant tool through which you experience, sense, and navigate the world. 

We are gathering in Koufonisi at a complex of luxury villas to commune in the communal wisdom, to hone our inner listening, to strengthen our bonds with our Highest Self and to tenderly silence the voice of our lowest. 

We are rewiring and drawing a new map by which to navigate the world. We are cultivating our inner wisdom and innate capacities, shifting and training our perspective so we can walk in life with more joy. 

Sanctuary is your invitation to step out of habitual thinking and ways of being. To shift from fear and stagnancy towards love and vibrancy. We're dismantling outdated ways of thinking and giving honor to our dreams and desires. 

We're making this body, our house a real home. We're turning our mind into our finest instrument. We're alchemizing pain into poetry and breathing beauty into the everyday. 

Interweaving breathwork, Katonah Yoga®, dance, somatic movement practices, oral storytelling, and personal development work Sanctuary is an experience curated to bring you home to yourself. 

Beloved you are not lost and there is no YOU to find. You are forming yourself. Authoring yourself and your life. Sanctuary is your invitation to refine and redefine that sacred work. 

Welcome.

Sanctuary is a full sensory, slow travel experience. An immersive journey. You are invited to explore your personal terra incognita while adventuring outward in this arid aqua stunning landscape. You'll commune with the communal while tending to your inner wisdom. Every element is curated to bring you along this journey of self. Beyond embodiment we are exploring emplacement. Your body in these times, in this place, in these sacred relationships. 

Rekindle your connection with nature, with rest, with play, and with your inner desires. This is an intentional and lyrical pause bend your ear to the earth, to the beating of your own heart, to the rhythm of your breath.

We're moving from habituation to potentialities. During your stay you'll be guided through practices and teachings to support you in owning and authoring your dreams and visions for your life. 

Retreat offers us an intentional withdrawal from the every day to reconnect with our interior and with the things that matter so we can re-emerge and reconnect in new heartfelt ways.

It’s an opportunity to remember and reaffirm the sacredness of life in this ongoing ceremony we call living.

I want you to leave with your heart, your mind, your body feeling like a joyous personal sanctuary. Now and forever. 

Koufonisi is one of the most particular and spectacular islands in the Cyclade.

Our villas a unique and luxury experience where the distinctive Cycladic tradition meets minimalism. 

Koufonisi, boasts majestic beaches, picturesque white washed houses and beachfront tavernas.

Our villas are an exclusive sanctuary that invites you to experience the most relaxing and enjoyable retreat of your life.

The villas are private and only we will be on property for total privacy and sacred sanctuary.

A newly build, complex of traditional dwellings and houses, typical of the islands unique architecture, welcomes you.

Our sanctuary is northeast of the island, just a few minutes’ walk from one of the most beautiful beaches in the Aegean.

Selena is a curator of bespoke, slow travel experiences. She is a somatic dance teacher, spiritual teacher, mind-body coach, somatic experiencing practitioner, life coach, oral storyteller, and sociocultural anthropologist.

She has practiced yoga for 30 years and taught globally for almost 15 years.

She integrates her decades of movement study, yoga philosophy, myth and folklore studies, coaching, and somatic practices into an experience that is very unique.

She believes in embracing life as a gift to be celebrated, in not turning away from life's pains and difficulties but fully accepting and dancing with EVERYTHING life has to offer. All the while staying in the business of JOY.

She utilizes oral storytelling, contemplative work, embodiment practices, and yoga to address the complexities of a human life in a way that is joyful, playful, and anchored in the right here and now.

As a coach Selena uses a combination of hypnosis, NLP, Somatic Experiencing, and Handel Methods to guide you to your Highest. 

She believes that life is already a great mystery and there's no need to manufacture the mystical. But a lot of opportunities to stoke your awe and imagination.

Welcoming everything. Abandoning nothing.

You will engage in twice daily sessions with one free day for a yachting or other adventure on the island. Our morning session will be more vigorous and our afternoon sessions more rest and personal development based (with joy of course). Your afternoons are yours to savor the beach, to bicycle around town, or enjoy our private pools. 

You will arrive on the island July 5th and depart July 12th