Year of the Horse – Harvest & Release

5 Days:

26.09. - 03.10.2026

Xanthippe-Retreat: Let your potential flow

This retreat is not about becoming someone else. It is about recognizing what has already taken root inside you. You have built so munich growth, capacity, and curiosity, so much potential, now it the time to harvest.

This retreat is not about becoming someone else.
It is about recognizing what has already taken root inside you. You have built so munich growth, capacity, and curiosity, so much potential, now it the time to harvest.

Harvest & Release: In German we say “Erntedank” — gratitude for what has grown.

Not a retreat to to optimize, or to escape. But to flourish. A space to unfold, to flow to be seen.

The year of the horse reminds us to trust our instinct, step into our natural power, be unapologetically present and flow with the movement that comes from within.
This is about becoming more fully yourself.
And daring to show that version to the world.

This retreat is deliberately structured to create space for creativity and clarity, as well as reflection and integration:
Relaxed mornings
No overwhelming demands
Transitions into the golden hour
A gradual progression from grounding → expression → harvest → moving forward

Harvest & Release Workshop-Highlights:

Art as Mentoring: In Silvi’s two-part workshop, ‘Not Your Muse’ and ‘No Role’, you’ll use drawing to shed roles and expectations and see more clearly

Sound Experience: Harness the power of sound in the open air to discover your inner voice.

Clarity & Coaching: Define your next steps and unlock your full potential within a supportive community

Embodiment & Flow: It’s not about striking the perfect pose, but about feeling the movement. Amber combines the precise alignment of Pilates with the intuitive freedom of yoga..

In keeping with the ‘Year of the Horse’, you’ll learn to trust your instincts again. You’ll release physical and mental blockages, strengthen your resilience and create space to let your natural strength flow.

Visual Flow of the week

Mornings → Body (Embodiment)
Afternoons → Creativity & Clarity
Evenings → Reflection & Integration

The rhythm intentionally allows:

Spacious mornings
No overwhelm
Golden-hour transitions
A gradual arc from rooting → expression → harvest → forward motion

Year of the horse, harvest & release Retreat at Peli Kastri South Pelion. By xanthippe gang

Your companions (the ‘Xanthippe’ gang).

Amber (Yoga & Pilates): With over 20 years’ experience in Berlin and at Peli Kastri, she guides you through intuitive movements to help you release stress.

Franzi (Coaching & Resilience): As an expert in female leadership and mental health, she helps you build up your strengths.

San (Sound & Music Design): She helps you find your own voice on the beach and discover the joy of singing and sound.

Silvi (Art & Design): In her “miinuc” workshops, she uses self-portraiture as a tool to foster greater presence and self-confidence.

Course language
German and English (translations available on request)

Good to know

You can find the workshop schedule (subject to change) under PDF Download.

This reterat will be followed by the ‘Journey to the inner self” retreat, featuring Holotropic Breathwork with Hans-Peter and Daniela Weidinger and Michael Haid.

FAQs

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Year of the Horse – Harvest & Release

5 days

Über deine Begleiterinnen:

Amber

Amber is a yoga and pilates teacher who focuses on intuitive movement and releasing stress through motion. She trained with Bikram Choudhury in Los Angeles and Jonas and Nicole in Berlin, and has been teaching yoga and pilates in Berlin for the last twenty years, and gives community classes at Peli Kastri over July and August that are famous and loved.
Amber sat on the board of Entrepreneur Organisation in Berlin as co-learning chair, creating learning events and personal development workshops for this community, after years of learning events for Makers and Artists with the makerist community.

In her professional life, she is a start up founder, currently working in the space of renewable energies, up-and re-skilling for the energy transition with OHKW and planning heat pumps for multifamily residential and commercial buildings.

She spends her summers in Greece, knows the area well and will facilitate the group over the week.

Silvi

Silvi is an artist, art and brand designer based in Dresden. Her work explores the intersection of creativity, identity, and self-expression.

With a background in corporate innovation and business development, she has co-founded ventures including Hookie, Miakone Coffee, and miinuc — an art and retreat space dedicated to creative practice as a form of personal exploration.

Through her miinuc workshops, Silvi uses self-portrait as an artistic tool to strengthen voice, presence, and self-confidence. Her sessions are not about learning to draw “better”, but about becoming clearer in how we see and express ourselves.

In the two-part practice “Self Portrait as Refusal” — NOT YOUR MUSE and NO ROLE — participants explore drawing as a way to question expectations, drop roles, and allow a more honest expression to emerge.

Her workshops create a space where art becomes a form of mentoring: a quiet but powerful practice of seeing oneself more clearly.

San

After many years in the fashion industry with her brands canuto and MT by SanSander, San caught the music bug and started to put more and more creative energies into singing, sound and music design. Working with her voice, the loop maschine and the singing and sounds of others, she designs sound experience and sets for festivals like Garbicz, Hippie Hill and more with formats like Braggart Club, and Dada.

Whether in her Studio at Holzmarkt 25 in Berlin or the retreat location Villa S&I – San regularly encourages people new to music production, to just follow their instinct and give it a try – co-creating sound and experience. She will help you find your voice, find the joy in singing and self expression – and all that , at the beach.

Franzi

Franzi is a female founder and former CEO of a Social Start-Up in Berlin. After experiencing a Burnout she decided to change direction – becoming a Coach and Trainer for Mental Health, Resilience and Female Leadership.

Since 2025 she is studying coaching with NLP – Neuro-Linguistic-Programming. Her goal is to strengthen woman with their potentials and ressources and helping to reach their goals – personally, professionally, mentally.

Franzi is just at the beginning of her second professional life – and totally excited to collect experiences with new groups and new topics – and to grow upon then together with her groups and clients.

Year of the Horse – Harvest & Release

5 days

Peli Kastri Guesthouse:
Stay right on the retreat grounds.

Our Guesthouse is located about 100 meters from the beach and borders directly on our olive grove at the rear. If you need some shade: in the lower part of the olive grove, right next to the house, you can relax, read, unwind, or even snack on a grapefruit straight from the tree, depending on the season, in a centuries-old, wildly romantic garden in the shade of the olive trees.

We have lovingly renovated the old house and offer:
8 double rooms, some with balconies, two of which can be upgraded to accommodate 3 guests with an extra bed. Each room has a direct or indirect sea view, as well as a kettle and a mini fridge. Guesthouse

Our rooms are beautifully furnished and serve as both a peaceful retreat and an ideal place to make dreams come true. Greek cotton, handmade details, and hand-picked furnishings with a view of the bay help you to completely surrender to well-being and relaxation. Just be.

On the ground floor, there is a lounge area for guests to use freely, as well as a spacious private terrace with stylish Greek accents that create a special atmosphere and invite you to enjoy breakfast or relax in the evening.

Meals with vegan and vegetarian options can be prepared at the tavern 50 meters away, right on the Beach

Year of the Horse – Harvest & Release

5 days