Koufonisia Retreat 2026 · A Beautiful Week · YogaSoul
Rest is not something you book. It is something you practice.
Koufonisia, Greece

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May 30 – June 6, 2026

A beautiful week
on Koufonisia.

If a week like this has been on your list for a few years now, this is what it looks like when someone finally stops postponing it. Our 2026 retreat on a small Greek island. Seven nights, a private estate above the Aegean, morning practice with the sea in view, and a table that stayed long into the evening. This page is the record of it. We return in May 2027.

Another year of meaning to go is another year the week happens without you. The people on this page were not less busy than you are. They just stopped waiting for a better year.

The week itself

Rest is not something you book. It is something you practice.

What it looked like.

Rachel Cieslewicz and Eric Martin in Greece

Your hosts

We were there
for every part of it.

Rachel held the practice and the shape of the week. Eric kept the ferries, the transfers and the details running quietly in the background. What guests said afterward was that they felt genuinely cared for rather than merely instructed.

7Nights
15Guests
28+Years of practice
The chef holding up the day's catch in the estate kitchen

What guests took home

Rest is not something you book. It is something you practice.

Quieter than they had been
in a long time.

A handful of people who felt as though they had known each other for years, a practice with room to breathe again, and a week they keep returning to in their minds. They came home as people who had finally treated themselves as worth the trip.

In their own words

What the week was,
from the people who were on it.

Retreats with Eric and Rachel have taught me so much about the importance of taking time out for me. I highly recommend going on retreat with YogaSoul. My life changed for the better, and I look forward to the next time.

Megan · Retreat Participant

I have been on retreats before. This one was different. The pace, the intention, the way Rachel holds space, there was nowhere to hide from yourself, in the best possible way. I came home changed.

Karen T.

My husband and I almost did not book because it felt indulgent. By day two we were wondering why we had waited so long. We are already looking at coming back.

Sarah & Mike W.

I am so grateful to Rachel and the safe, nurturing space she created for us all. Rachel embodies humility, grace, and immense strength.

Lauren

Who you become

Someone who stopped waiting
for a better year.

You come home rested in the way that actually holds, and the practice has room in your life again, because for one week nothing else was allowed to take the morning.

How to be on the next one

Three steps. The first is an email.

STEP ONE

Write to us

Tell us which week interests you, or simply that Greece is on your mind. We read every one ourselves.

STEP TWO

Choose your week

Koufonisia from May 29, or Meteora five days earlier, or both and make one long Greek May of it.

STEP THREE

Arrive, and stop

We handle everything from the moment you land. Your only task is to be there.

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Practice under the pergola, seen from the far side of the terrace

Rest is not something you book. It is something you practice.

We are going back.
Greece, May 2027.

Koufonisia runs May 29 to June 5, and a new hiking and meditation retreat in Meteora runs May 18 to 24. Five days apart by design, so you may join one or both.

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