The beauty and tranquility of the landscape, right by the sea, offers an incomparable opportunity to support inner growth. Experienced trainers ensure that our retreats go far beyond a conventional vacation and create healing and transformation.
Freedom of thought and feeling
WHEN AWARENESS BECOMES NATURAL
Often, the pressure to perform inadvertently turns our practice into yet another source of stress. This October, we invite you to explore a completely new, more relaxed approach with international teacher Alexis Santos. Spend a week on retreat with us at Peli Kastri and discover how mindfulness can become a natural part of your daily life, without any pressure – at your own pace. Suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
HAPPY OLIVE HARVEST Autumn 2026
Our olive harvest is all about community, olive oil and lively celebrations. Our olives are harvested by hand and must be taken to the mill on the same day, as this is the only way to get the best oil from the olives. That’s why we all have to work together from October to January and every extra pair of hands is welcome. With who you are, you make your way to your inner source of strength so that you can courageously shape your life.
PREVIEW 2027
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Experience transformation
Arrive at yourself
Are you longing for lightness, clarity and a deep connection to yourself?
Leave everyday life behind and join us on a transformative journey for body, mind and soul. In the midst of the untouched nature of ancient olive trees and maquis, right by the sea, we create a protected space for renewal.
GREEK EASTER
Orthodox Easter (Pascha) is, without exaggeration, the most important festival in Greece. Here at Peli Kastri, we offer you an exclusive insight and the chance to experience Pascha where it is most authentic: in unspoilt southern Pelion. Far from the crowds of mass tourism, we offer a small group of guests the rare opportunity to become part of a vibrant village community.
4 Steps to Contenment
A holiday for yourself – light, lively and full of inspiration.
Feel the special energy of Peli Kastri, experience how mindfulness and holidays become an unforgettable experience and take the serenity home with you. Find a new perspective on your own life in 4 steps.
JOURNEY INTO THE INNER SELF
In a time when the world around us is becoming louder and more demanding, this retreat invites you to pause and engage in self-exploration.
Led by Hans Peter Weidinger, Daniela Weidinger, and Michael Haid, intensive self-experience in Holotropic Breathwork combines with the power of nature. The process is supported by meditation and mindful hiking, opening up a space for awareness, growth, and new vitality.
BUDDHA & SIRTAKI
Developing projects and visions with like-minded people and putting them into practice
7 days of networking and coming together for trainers, therapists and teachers. Under the direction of Anna Maurer, the popular get-together for all interested parties who want to meet like-minded people, plan projects together or simply want to let nature work its magic on them. Excursions, workshops and exuberant celebrations are on the program.
RHYTHM AND REMBETIKO
Come with us on a journey full of music, dance and magic. Dance with us barefoot on the beach and feel the authentic greek way of life. Because: While you’re dancing you can’t judge, you can’t hate, you can’t cut yourself off from life. You can only be happy and completely whole.
Optional: Culture & hiking program with Michael.
GROW COURAGEOUSLY
6 days intensive course with Anna Maurer and Michael Haid. Recognize your own memories and make them flow. Acknowledge your experiences and discover which talents and resources are still slumbering in you. With the way you are, you make your way to your inner source of strength and then courageously shape your life.
MINDFUL HIKING
Mindfulness in movement. Hiking with a deeper meaning. Discover the secrets within yourself while hiking over ancient calderimis and learn to be completely present, in the here and now. Under the guidance of experienced therapist Michael Haid, you will learn mindfulness and how hiking can become a meditative experience.
THE HEALING POWER OF THE ESSENES
Kira and Wolfgang accompany you on a journey with very special meditations, yoga, breathing sessions and much more. The Essenes were great masters in creating an intimate connection with their spiritual source and their whole lives were focused on vibrating in harmony with these forces. This allowed them to develop healing powers that enabled them to live an extraordinary life in harmony and peace.
Unplugged Goddess – Re:set & Bloom
A time-out full of warmth, space, the sound of the sea – and real female connection. In the Unplugged Goddess Retreat you can let go, become quiet and find your own rhythm again. Surrounded by olive trees, sun and silence, there is space for the essentials: YOU!
Silence of the Harvest – Mindful Olive Harvest 2027
Combine the silence and insights of Vipassana meditation with the grounding, sensual experience of the olive harvest. Away from all the hustle and bustle, we create a space of peace and concentration. Experience how mindful work in nature itself becomes meditation and leads you to deep inner clarity and regeneration.
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PRACTICE PATH WISDOM
WISDOM mind training consists of the four methods taught by Buddha: meditation, mindfulness, inquiry and effort. Through them you can become more conscious, i.e. learn not to constantly react to the surrounding stimuli, to what you hear and see, as if at the push of a button. Achtsamkeit ist eine von Buddha gelehrte Methode, die einen das ganze Leben lang begleiten kann. Peter Riedl lehrt die Methode in einer zeitgemäßen Form ohne religiöse oder esoterische Inhalte.
WISDOM TRAINING
Intensive training with Dr. Peter Riedl. The WISDOM mind training consists of the four methods that Buddha taught: meditation, mindfulness, investigation and effort. In this course, the focus is on passing on the method.
WISDOM
Dr. Peter Riedl
WISDOM founder, university professor, meditation teacher, author
Freedom of thought and feeling
How do I become happy and content? How can I be calm?
The answers to these questions can be found by practicing the WISDOM method yourself.
WISDOM – die Wiener Schule der offenen Meditation, ist eine Methode, die Gründer Peter Riedl in seiner 40jährigen Praxis von Meditation, Achtsamkeit, Untersuchung und Anstrengung entwickelt hat.
Last Minute!
Where to go for the autumn break?
A Joyful Olive Harvest
26.10. – 31.10.
Experience the magic of a Greek fall. Help with the harvest, enjoy the sun by the sea, and recharge your batteries. Sign up right here!
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