Our first floor yoga room overlooks the beach
For years we have eaten our brunch at this venue, loving the food and its owners. Now they have built us a yoga deck and we are offering holidays here in their self contained apartments and nearby hotel.
In June 2011 David Sye had his first week here and immediately re-booked three more slots.
Kissamos
Kissamos, also known as Kastelli, is a small town which mostly sells tractors to the local farming community. There is however a network of cobbled streets where you can find shops and cafes leading to an area which overlooks the sea where there are traditional Cretan fish restaurants.
Our yoga venue is on the very outskirts of the small town. Here the sea is clean, warm and shallow making for easy swimming with a long quiet strand of golden sandy beach with occasional shingle. Our beach is called Mavros Molos and the yoga space is above the beach looking out to sea.
Kastelli is a seaside resort which attracts Greek tourists. Behind this coastal plain the backdrop is mountainous, the area being broken into gorges and craggy peaks. This provides for many easy grade walks, the chance to see birds of prey, vultures and wild flowers and old rural ways like treading grapes.
Apart from sunbathing, swimming, snorkelling and yoga you can visit ancient ruins, take a day cruise, explore the Venetian town of Chania, walk gorges or just be still and enjoy the ocean.
Our hosts Mike and Maria own the beachside taverna. They will be feeding us after the morning yoga class and on selected evening during the week - we are keeping some evenings spare so we can visit the fish restaurants mentioned above.
Maria is a fantastic cook and during the week there will be the option of attending a cookery class where you will be taught how to prepare traditional Greek vegetarian meals. - which we will then eat!
There will also be an optional excursion to the organic olive oil mill at Astrikas, this is world famous olive oil which you can purchase on site if you wish. It is fantastic and includes both organic lemon olive oil and organic orange olive oil. To find out more go to www.biolea.gr
The Yoga
Yoga will take place twice a day at 07.30 and at 18.00 on the yoga deck overlooking the beach with its sea views.
There will be no yoga on Thursday so that the group can travel further afield if they wish - there are fantastic walks and gorges to explore and we can either arrange official walks, or you can go off and explore on your own. There will also be an option of a boat trip
Adventurous groups can travel to the other side of the island on one evening and have their class on the huge beach.
This can be followed with dinner at the beachside taverna
see picture left of David Sye teaching there.
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Arrival |
Departure |
Yoga |
Teachers - click on name for more information |
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Single |
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May 15th |
May 22nd |
Yoga |
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£440 |
£540 |
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May 22nd |
May 29th |
Anusara Yoga |
£440 |
£540 |
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May 29th |
Jun 5th |
Dynamic Vinyasa Yoga |
£440 |
£540 |
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Jun 11th* |
Jun 17th* |
Yoga (Mon-Mon) |
£440 |
£540 |
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Jun 19th |
Jun 26th |
"Yogabeats" |
£440 |
£540 |
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Jul 3rd |
Jul 10th |
Flowing Hatha Yoga |
£440 |
£540 |
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Jul 10th |
Jul 17th |
£440 |
£540 |
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Jul 17th |
Jul 24th |
£440 |
£540 |
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Aug 26th |
Sep 4th |
"Yogabeats" |
David Sye ** |
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**DAVID SYE HOLIDAY: between August 26th and September 4th there is the option to come for any 7, 8 or 9 days
7 nights is 440 sharing and 540 single (10
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Sep 4th |
Sep 11th |
Flowing Yoga & Pilates |
£440 |
£540 |
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£440 |
£540 |
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£540 |
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£440 |
£540 |
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£440 |
£540 |
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Non yoga partners and friends welcomed at a reduced rate. One large (shared only) sea view apartment is available at a supplement of £40 per person per week. |
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Accommodation
Accommodation is on the edge of Kastelli by the Mavros Molos Beach. All accommodation is close or adjacent to the beach and en-suite with air conditioning.
Food
Each day, after your morning yoga class, you will be served a delicious breakfast. After your relaxing afternoon there will be a second, early evening, yoga session.
Your vegetarian group dinners will be taken at Mavros Molos taverna, on other nights we will eat out at the wonderful restaurants on the seafront.
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Getting There |
Fly to Chania, from here you will be met by taxi and transferred to Mavros Molos Beach at Kissamos. Direct flights to Chania from the UK are from Gatwick, Stanstead, Manchester and Glasgow airports. Cheap flights can often be found on the internet, contact the Free Spirit office if you would like help searching the internet for flights You can also fly to Heraklion airport which will add two hours to your transfer time. |
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Transfers |
Transfers are not included and we will be teaming people up to share taxis from Chania airport to the venue. The transfer from Chania airport takes approx. 35 minutes. Please note that if you are arriving into Heraklion airport then you must arrive in the afternoon to take advantage of the cheap bus - this airport is two hours from the venue and a taxi will cost around £160 (up to 3 passengers). There is also a
cheap bus
from Heraklion to Chania for flights that arrive between 5 am and 7
pm (05.00 to 19.00) and we can meet you at Chania bus station |
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Accommodation, yoga tuition, large vegetarian breakfasts, four group vegetarian evening meals. |
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Not included: |
Flight, travel insurance. Airport transfers. Massages and treatments. Supplement for shared sea view apartment £40 per person. |
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Get your yoga teacher to bring their own group, its a small venue and perfect for a regular yoga group to holiday together - get them to contact us We are recruiting teachers for 2012 , please contact us if this is of interest to you:- (call Jilly on: 01273-564230 for further details) |
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For more information please email us at: Free Spirit Travel or call us on: 01273-564230
Updated 16/02/12
