INTO THE BLUE.

Retreat … AND ARRIVE.

Communion, constellation & creativity.

Join Suzi Tucker and Sage Hayes to journey into the blue of the Aegean Sea at Oikia Karapanou [House of Angels]. Aegina is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece just an hour ferry ride from Athens.

Oikia is above all a house with a soul. Somehow the essence of a house, surrounded by an enchanted garden. Nothing here is formal, nothing is standardised. We are not a hotel, nor a seminar factory. Oikia is a real house. Simple, spacious, poetic, refined. A place where guests often tell us that they feel as if they have finally arrived home.

Our offerings will be spacious, nourishing, and at times, emergent. We invite you to drop into the magic of Aegina with the intention of fostering community as an essential way to know ourselves. The idea is simple, to join forces to teach the things we love in surroundings that naturally support and expand those things.

Some of the words and intentions we are invoking – spaciousness, collaboration, flow, brilliance, generosity, connection, attention, intention … Communion represents the weave of all of this. An organic exchange that finds its own rhythm.

Constellation is a lens accompanied by a process. The lens is wide-angled, even as it focuses on specific themes and questions. As facilitators, we are not looking for solutions; we are looking for openings, loosenings, and freedom. The wide-angle lens sees the question and also takes in the ground around it and our relationship to it.

The constellation process is not one thing—it provides shared access to the heavy images that, once lifted from the body, can be walked around and even walked away from. When the pain we carry, perhaps have carried forever, is given a place, it may not have to take every place. We witness this in the individual and in the generational body.

Creativity is how we reach out to the world and reach into the heart. It can’t be owned or measured by others. Movement, collage, photography, writing, cooking, storytelling, reading, waking up in the morning and stepping out are all creative acts. Together, we will discover where expression wants to lead us.

FLOW

The flow of days will include breakfast and dinners together. Suzi will offer constellations and opportunities to write into and out of experience. Sage will open space for movement/dance, photography adventures and other emergent embodied explorations. We will be joined by some glorious friends who will show us around the island and teach us about local mythologies.

All activities will be optional although our hope is that we will spend time traveling together into our inner and outer worlds. The beach is just a 5-minute walk down the path and there will be ample time for adventuring, solo and together.

Aegina offers a great number of sights and natural beauties. The island’s highlight is the famous Aphea Temple built circa 500 B.C. which we will be visiting with a local guide. The temple forms an equilateral triangle with the Parthenon and the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, the “holy triangle” of the antiquity.

Accommodation and space:

The house can host 18 persons. There are 7 twin bedrooms (one with a double bed), one three-bed room, and one single. You’re welcome to request the single room for an extra fee of 140€ total, please email sage@embodiedliberation.com.

There are 5 bathrooms in the house. One of them is ensuite to one of the bedrooms. The other 4 are shared. There are also 2 outdoor showers in the garden. The living room, the balconies, the huge garden, the sea at 3 minutes walking distance.

The upper floor of the house contains a bright 40 square-meter hall, surrounded by windows facing in all directions, which leads out onto two big terraces facing east and west.

BIOS:

SUZI TUCKER

As a cofounder of Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Publishers, Suzi played a pivotal role in introducing Family Constellations to the United States. Her position as the Acquisitions Editor not only led her to become friends with Bert Hellinger, the pioneer of the approach, but also to collaborate with him on most of his English titles and to organize many of his workshops in the United States.

Suzi is a presenter, teacher, facilitator, and writer. In addition to her own venues, she has been privileged to serve on guest faculties for Omega Institute, The Open Center, NYU, Union College, Manhattan College, and the California Institute of Integral Studies, among others.

An essayist and contributor to numerous publications in the fields of psychology and well-being, Suzi is the author of Gather Enough Fireflies. Most important, Suzi is immensely proud to be called “teacher” by some of the most brilliant lights in the Family Constellation field today.

Oh, and she is thrilled to have the opportunity to collaborate with Sage Hayes!

SAGE HAYES

Sage (she/he/they) brings a heart forward and grounded approach co-creating exploratory spaces like Into the Blue. Moving at the speed of trust and deep knowing is at the core of how Sage relates to collaboration, care and community building. Having trained extensively in healing and somatics for 25 years, Sage brings a keen eye and capacity to embodied process and nervous system intelligence.

Sage is a devoted healing arts practitioner who believes wholeheartedly in individual and collective transformation. Exploring lineage, embodied presence and emergent relational care are the threads braided together in Sage’s work. Sage is a somatic experiencing practitioner of 17 years, a bodyworker with a massage and biodynamic craniosacral therapy background and a student and practitioner of family/systemic constellations. You can read more about Sage’s background here.

Sage is over the moon to be collaborating with colleague, teacher and friend Suzi Tucker.

Cost and registration:

What’s included:

7 day retreat with Suzi and Sage
7 nights of accommodation at Oikia Karapanou
2 meals a day, Greek breakfast and dinner
Transportation to/from ferry in Aegina
A group adventure to the Temple of Aphaia
Pre-retreat travel tips and information to help you plan your itinerary

All-inclusive retreat cost is $2200 USD. Payment plans available (see below).

$500 deposit to hold your spot, click HERE to pay deposit.

Or pay $2,200 in full, click HERE to pay retreat cost in full.

If you’d like to set up a payment plan, please let us know. After you send a deposit we can split up the payments into 2 or 4 and we’ll space them out incrementally between now and the beginning of the retreat in August 2025. Please email Sage at sage@embodiedliberation.com to request a payment plan.

We recognize that the Greek economy is different than much of Europe and the US and would like to offer 2 spots at a discounted rate ($1600 USD/1430 €) for Greeks who would like to attend. Please make your deposit and email sage@embodiedliberation.com to let us know you’d like one of the these spots.

Also, there are 4 commuter spots available at the cost of $1,400 USD. You will be responsible for your own lodging but the meals are included in the $1,400 fee. To reserve a commuter spot please either pay the $500 deposit (above) and email Sage (sage@embodiedliberation.com) to let them know you want a commuter spot or pay the $1,400 in full HERE.

**What’s not included: airfare, taxis, ferry ticket from Piraeus to Aegina, meals offsite, additional sightseeing trips around Aegina (they are quite affordable)

LODGING AND ROOMMATES

There are 7 twin bedrooms (one with a double bed), one three-bed room, and one single. Your are welcome to make roommate requests and also if you are couple we encourage you to let us know you’d like the room with the double bed. The single room is already booked.

More photos of Oikia and Aegina