May 18 – 24, 2027
Meteora, Greece
You have been running on empty long enough to have stopped calling it that. Hiking the trails between these monasteries, and sitting in the silence people have climbed up here to find since the ninth century, is a different kind of week from the one you usually take.
When was the last time a trip actually rested you? You take the time off, you come home with the photographs, and the tiredness is still sitting there waiting. Another year of that is another year you do not get back. Rest is not something you book. It is something you practice.
Why here
The word Meteora means suspended in the air. Sandstone pillars rise straight out of the plain with monasteries on their summits, and monks have been climbing into these cliffs since the ninth century for the quiet you are looking for now.
That is the whole purpose for the week. You walk up into it. Three to nine miles a day at a pace where you can still hold a conversation, morning meditation before the heat, and a long table with new friends at night.
Meteora, Greece
Kastraki sits at the foot of the towers. Everything here is within reach on foot, which is the point.
Your guides
We have both had seasons where the calendar was full and the tank was empty, and where even the time off did not touch the tiredness. That is why we built this week the way we did, around walking and breathing and silence rather than around sightseeing.
We walked these trails ourselves before we offered them to anyone.
Rachel Cieslewicz · Co-FounderRachel leads the walking practices and the meditation. Eric handles the transfer from Athens and everything else between landing and leaving.
How to join us
Tell us how you are with walking, or with sitting still, or simply that the week has your attention. We read every one ourselves.
Six nights at the guesthouse in Kastraki, at the foot of the rocks. If a payment plan would make this easier, ask and we will arrange one.
We collect you there on May 18 and drive north through the countryside together. From the moment you land, the week is ours to carry.
A day here
Breath and stillness on the terrace as first light reaches the towers, then out onto the monastery trails.
Rest, journal, wander Kastraki, or sit with the view. Nothing is scheduled.
Movement and meditation as the light turns gold on the rock, then the village, slowly.
Six nights, all in
A mindful note. This is the wrong week if you want a beach and a packed itinerary. It is the right one if you are willing to walk, sit, and let six days change something.
Choose your room
Checkout holds your place, and Rachel or Eric will confirm personally within a day.
A large private ensuite room (couple or friends) for two in the guesthouse, with the towers outside the window.
Single occupancy in a spacious ensuite room for the whole week. Solo walkers are welcome and there will be several.
Secure checkout through Stripe. Payment plans are available, please just ask. A $500 fee applies if you need to transfer your reservation.
Before you book
If you can walk comfortably for three hours, you can do this. Hikes run three to nine miles at a conversational pace with stops whenever they are wanted. Some trails have stone steps and moderate climbs. This is walking as practice, not as a race.
None. Beginners are genuinely welcome, and Rachel is skilled at meeting each person exactly where they are.
Fly into Athens. From there we handle it, with a group ground transfer to Kastraki, about four hours through the countryside. Arrive in Athens the day before.
Many do. Twelve people walking the same trails for six days is a fast way to stop being strangers.
Broken-in hiking shoes or stable trail runners, comfortable layers for cool mornings, sun protection, a journal, a reusable bottle. The monasteries require long trousers or skirts and covered shoulders, so carry those in a pack. A full list comes prior to travel.
Simple, delicious local Greek cooking served family-style. Garden vegetables, local cheese and yogurt, fresh bread, mountain herbs. Vegetarian and vegan at every meal, with other options at the village tavernas.
Who you become
You come home and notice you are not reaching for your phone at dinner. The stillness you found on the rocks turns out to travel home with you: ten minutes before the house awakens, and it is enough. Rest stops being the thing you keep meaning to get around to and becomes something you embody.
From our other retreats
Meteora is new for 2027. These are from guests on previous YogaSoul retreats.
“Retreats with Eric and Rachel have taught me so much about the importance of taking time out for me.”
Megan · YogaSoul Retreat Guest
“I’ve been on retreats before. This one was different. There was nowhere to hide from yourself, in the best possible way.”
Karen T. · YogaSoul Retreat Guest
“I’m so grateful to Rachel and the safe, nurturing space she created for us all.”
Lauren · YogaSoul Retreat Guest
Rest is not something you book. It is something you practice.
May 18 to 24, 2027. Twelve places. Koufonisia begins five days after this one ends, so you may join both and make one long Greek May of it.