Ομάδες
Week-long workshops are usually 5-7-day programs, during which we share the experience of call existing and co-creating in balance with nature. They have both a therapeutic and educational character and they offer the opportunity to live in the countryside and be involved in a variety of Aurama’s activities and interests. You can acquire practical skills and learn about resilience strategies such as, permaculture gardens, foraging, building with natural materials, cooking healing food, but also understanding ecosystemic balance and landscape form. You may meet with the landscape’s flora, fauna, culture and history and learn how to read its physical, mental and symbolic language. Or you may take a dive into holistic healing and learn about or expand your knowledge and natural medicine and natural therapy.
Aurama long-stay workshops are certainly a restful escape from our overburdened modern lives, not by giving you the illusion of luxury through having others to serve you, but by giving you a healing experience and the real opportunity to tune in with nature, yourself and others; by giving you or expanding your knowledge in the same recover, and by opening your horizons across space and time; and by empowering and inspiring you to reconsider, realise, learn and make steps towards a happier state of being.
Workshops are usually led by Marina, but may also involve the collaboration with other professionals. They may be adjusted according to background and level of experience, weight complete beginners, students, or practitioners.
To book contact us via email or phone.
Accommodation: For workshops taking place in Paradeisos, there is a variety of rent rooms in nearby villages and the nearby town of Rethymno. There’s also space in the garden for people who want to use a tent.
Programmes
1. Resilience Strategies
Proposed date: 31 May 2027 – 6 June 2027
One-week long program at Paradeisos garden, during which we share the experience of living together and in balance with nature. It has both a therapeutic and educational character and offers the opportunity to live in the countryside and be involved in a variety of Aurama’s activities. You will have the chance to participate in walks and hikes and explore surrounding places, which have an ecological, archaeological and cultural interest. You will acquire practical skills and learn about subsistence strategies, such as, permacultural gardens how to read the landscape, bushcraft and foraging. You will also learn about therapeutic nourishment and cooking, herbal medicine and holistic healing. This long-stay workshop gives you the opportunity to experience the healing hand of nature, sharing and co-creating and it empowers you with new skills and knowledge. Once registered, you will receive the workshop’s programme.
Price: 85 euros/day + VAT. The price includes workshops, top-quality food, herbal teas & drinks and 2 organic herbal or food products on completion. Please check our Prices & Payment Policy.
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2. The Cretan flora: at the heart of a healthy diet, plant medicine and beauty care in Crete and the southeast Mediterranean basin since prehistory.
Proposed date: 19 April 2027 – 23 April 2027
If you’re interested in the medicinal value of the Cretan flora, the therapeutics of the real, traditional Greek diet and the historical evolution of herbal medicine and beauty care in Greece and the Southeast Mediterranean, this is a great programme for you. Although not a prerequisite, we particularly welcome health professionals and students practicing herbal medicine, who want to expand their knowledge and experience in space and time. We’re looking forward to exploring together the medicinal dynamics of this beautiful and ancient land that holds the connecting seat between the west and the east, ecologically, historically, but also medicinally. We will visit the local ecology, history and culture, and we will share the principles of the traditional Greek diet in its original meaning, herbal medicine making, cooking therapeutic food, aromatherapy and revitalising body, mind and spirit.
Price: 125 euros/day + VAT. The price includes workshops, top-quality food, herbal teas & drinks, two day-visits to key places on the island including transport, and 3 organic herbal or food products on completion. Transport to and from Paradeisos or accommodation to airport is not included. Please check our Prices & Payment Policy.
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3. Yoga, Herbal Medicine & Aromatherapy
Proposed date: 21 June 2027 – 27 June 2027
This is a one or two-week workshop that focuses on self-care. It consists of both therapeutic and educational sessions and evolves along yoga, herbal medicine making and taking, aromatherapy, nature bathing and healing food. Our aim is to have a truly holistic experience, healing and revitalising, that combines natural approaches to therapy in a synergistic way, empowers us with new learnings and balances body mind and spirit. We also want to balance self-retreat and socializing, reflecting and acting, expressing thoughts or being in a mindful state. We will try to open pathways of interaction with nature, ancient and modern wisdom, our self and others.
Diving into inspiring aromas and tastes, healing sounds, and beautiful images, and connecting with our body, mind and psyche, we will learn how to look after ourselves by actually doing it. Please let us know of experience level, allergies, or any other specificities.
Price: 115 euros/day + VAT. The price includes therapeutic sessions, workshops, food, herbal teas & drinks, and 3 organic herbal or food products on completion. Transport to and from Paradeisos or accommodation to airport is not included. Please check our Prices & Payment Policy.
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4. The ecological and symbolic language of the Cretan landscape: deciphering the interplay between humans and nature across the aeons.
Proposed date: 20 September 2027 – 26 September 2027
This programme focuses on learning how to read the ecological and symbolic language of the Cretan landscape, whose form is the final dress resulting from thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years of a human-environment interaction. It is a journey into the history of environmental evolution, but also into the history and archaeology of the land. It is seeking to uncover how human-environment have interacted and co-shaped each other. We will talk, walk, observe, visit key places, breathe in the dance among the land, the sea and the people inhabiting and visiting the island.Diving into nature and culture, the experience will hopefully offer inside into the deep, unbroken relationship among all living beings in an ecosystem. This relationship is expressed through culture and it is written on the shaping of the land but also of the people.
Price: 125 euros/day + VAT. The price includes workshops, food, herbal teas & drinks, two day-visits to key places on the island including transport, and 3 organic herbal or food products on completion. Transport to and from Paradeisos or accommodation to airport is not included. Please check our Prices & Payment Policy.
Private
Healing is a journey, not an event. Our journey starts with a two hour herbal consultation, during which we will discuss what bothers you and explore interventions that may guide you back to health. These typically include a herbal prescription, nutritional guidance, nature bathing, aromatherapy, breathing & relaxation techniques, as well as suitable physical exercise. Our sessions may involve the healing power of speech, but you may also chose some training in herbal medicine making, cooking or gardening. We will also discuss how to sustain the path towards your personal healing when back in your everyday lives, by adopting important routines and becoming aware of causal and harmful agents that you need to avoid.
The price includes:
- An initial First-Consultation in herbal medicine.
- Accommodation at a cozy studio caravan within Aurama garden.
- 2 hours a day therapeutic and/or educational sessions with Marina.
- Nutrition based on your herbal medicine consultation.
- Herbs and herbal formulations in your prescription for the duration of your stay.
- Aromatherapy face and body oils for the duration of your stay.
- Free use of the garden and related activities.
This restorative experience will allow you to rest, spend time in the herbal garden and reconnect with yourself and nature. You can learn how to look after yourself and open the road back to health through the healing power of nature.
Price: 200euros/day + VAT
Simple Stays
Stays in Aurama’s Garden are also possible for a set amount of time after communication. A cozy double-bed caravan is available for rent throughout the year. Contact us for details.
