Koa Kalish

Koa is a healing practitioner, artist, educator and facilitator with fifteen years of extensive training with five master craniosacral teachers, as well as a deep well of learning from indigenous medicine keepers, mystic spiritual leaders, and the initiation of her own healing journeys (including near-death experiences, chronic pain, brain injury and recovery).

She has held her private practice since 2016 and has been teaching internationally since 2021. Humbly guided by the healing forces of nature, she lives and works in devotion to the potency of transformation, trauma integration, and collective liberation.

Koa has been recognized as a natural healer for her unique gifts of tapping into the unseen, working with subtle energies, transmitting divine frequencies, and creating space for true healing to occur. Both her private sessions and group immersions are known to be deeply transformative, restorative, and healing.

Emilia Cianci

Emilia is an Italian-born facilitator, therapist, doula, herbalist and first and foremost human in profound devotion to life. She has been extensively studying different healing modalities and spiritual traditions from both mystical paths and earth-based medicine people. She works both 1:1 in therapeutic sessions with a background in depth psychology, expressive arts therapy dreamwork, trauma and embodiment work and different touch therapies and in group work through workshops and retreats.

She is in reverence of thresholds and holds spaces for ritual and ceremony that often revolve around the theme of death and rebirth. She is also a birth keeper and doula and holds women and couples in the profound rite of passage of becoming parents. Water has been central to her work as an aquatic bodyworker and water doula and often her sessions involve bathing and cleansing rituals with water. Finally she is a gardener and herbalist and uses the medicine of plants to support others in their healing journeys. 

About the Course

In this course we will delve into the guiding principles of craniosacral biodynamics. With presence and wholeness as primary orientations, we will explore inner practices such as embodied felt-sense, tonal match, full body breathing, resting in invisible midline, and residing in neutral. Following the insights of Dr. Sutherland and his successors, we will learn how to listen to primary respiration and the Breath of Life, sensing tides, fulcrums, stillpoints, subtle rhythms, states of consciousness, and more.

This course will invite you to develop and refine your essential skills for grounding and centering in yourself, creating and maintaining safety and trust with your client, increasing potency in your touch and sensitivity in your awareness. With dynamic stillness as the guide, we cultivate our capacity to support the body’s innate wisdom of healing – in ourselves, each other, and the world.

*This Course Offers a Certificate for 28 CEU’s

The Flow

The first day and a half will be a time of arrival, to truly land in your own body, in your heart, in your intention, a space to meet and greet the land and waters and create a safe container with each other for our deep dive.

We will have time to sit in circle, to explore the surroundings, slow down and open with a ritual in the hot springs, opening the deep well of our being.

On the third day we will begin with the course and will continue immersing ourselves in the material for four days. In this time we will fully dedicate ourselves to learning about the basics of craniosacral biodynamics and how to awaken your awareness, sensitivity and touch.

There might be some special event in the evenings and an opportunity to receive some healing treatments in between - as well as dip into the sea/hot springs. 

On the last day we will have a full day to integrate and harvest all the wisdom received, to ritualize our closure once again and prepare ourselves to making our way back home. 

The Land & Accomodations

Set on the Greek Island of Lesbos in the Eastern Aegean, the retreat center is nestled in between hills of fig trees and old cypress trees and surrounded by abundant olive yards. In very close proximity to the town of Molyvos and close to the sea these lands have something mesmerizing and sacred. Perhaps it is the old history of the devotion to the Feminine or maybe the vulcanic hot springs that emerge out of the sea in one of the closest beaches or the proximity to Turkey and its profound traditions, there is a uniqueness to this place. 

The land that will be hosting us is owned by a family who moved here many years ago and decided to create a little sanctuary of three acres where they could host retreats and be a place of calm and intimacy. 

There are different accommodation options — private and shared rooms are available.

The Food

Our meals will be provided at the retreat center by our loving chef Tatjana. 

Alternatively, the typical Greek town is just next door and offers a wide range of traditional food at a very accessible price and with the addition of integrating yourself in the local culture. 

Moreover, if you reserve an apartment, you will all have your own kitchen/or shared kitchen where you can cook.

In the village there are many local shops that sell delicious greek products from olives, to feta cheese, to homemade bread and more. 

How to Get There

The best way to reach Lesvos is with a flight from Athens. Once you arrive in the capital you will need to get a taxi (or rent a car if you wish to do so) which is around 75 euros and these can be shared amongst participants and arranged through us once we know your date and time of arrival. The town is about 1 hr from the airport. More info will be sent through the Info PDF upon paying your deposit.

What’s Included:

- All Rituals & Ceremonies
- 8 hours of class for four days
- Arrival & grounding day
- Integration & departure day
- One delicious breakfast a day
- 24 hour access to spring-fed pool and practice halls
- Access to the surrounding hot springs and the Aegean Sea

Not Included:
- Flight to Mytilene (Lesvos)
- Taxi to/from the retreat center
- Add on activities such as massage

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A Few More Words

This is a creative cauldron for anyone looking to deepen their embodied observation in service to transformation, transmutation and liberation.

​This is a restoration and amplification of our inherent connection to the Breath of Life that informs all of nature and the Health that is never lost.

It will be an immersion within the well of your being and its watery landscape as well as an intimate experience with the medicine and wisdom of water herself. 

It will be a time to grow in your skillsets and sensitivity as well as an opportunity to receive and expand.​

It will be a container to connect to ancient stories and lands that hold powerful healing traditions and that have maintained a deep connection to its own history, stories, songs and roots.