AROMATIC DAY RETREAT
Expect the unexpected, explore something new, chill out with our plant friends and the rest will unfold. From aromatic garden walks to explorations on our fragrant table-top.
The Aromatic Day program is offered all-year around and is per request. You can call it a class, you can call it a workshop. It is just unique in each season, and re-created every time as a bespoke discovery journey.
Ildiko dedicates her time to be present with each encounter – enthusiasts, students, fellow teachers and therapists, – and share as much of the magic as each encounter transpires. With your personal energy involved, we completely and uniquely personalise the alchemical work from the ingredients that show up at the time of your participation.
Surrounded by the local flora of Crete, our time is shared between our botanical gardens with genuine aromatic and medicinal plants and our classroom in our welcoming home. Our hillside garden has the tranquility and the most magnificent view to Kritsa village surrounded by the mountains, and our current home has the most breathtaking sea view over the bay and the small town of Agios Nikolaos.
An invitation to allow yourself the opportunity creating space for an evocative life experience and deepening your holistic herbal knowledge. A truly inspired active relaxation with sparkling joyful personal growth!
If you are interested in Ildiko’s alchemy programs, transformative retreats and fieldtrips on Crete, please get in touch to share your intentions, discuss options of your aromatic journey, and find the right arrangements for you or your group.
- Individual private retreat days: solo, duo or family
- Small-group arrangements
- Flexible dates by request
- Inquire for full details
Explore our Aromatic Day Retreats!
AROMATIC DAY Retreats
Aromatic Day retreats offer taking time-out-of-time even when you are on a scheduled trip or a last-minute arrangement. Available all-year around and is per request. Check with us if we have a day available that can meet your schedule.
AROMATIC DAY Retreat — Guidelines:
− Day retreats are usually from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, but nothing is set in stone, and can be adjusted as necessary;
− Theoretical and practical tuition & guidance;
– Essential Reflections discovery pack;
− Picking your herbs for tea, tincture or medicine;
− Delicious lunch with us at our place;
− Contribution for the day retreat is €220 per person, unless otherwise personalised;
− Please add €20 /person when you are accompanied by family members who are with you but not involved in the same extent as you. Or contact us if you need a special arrangement.
If you are a small group, ask for our package price by giving us your details. You can also contact us with any questions, for more information, personal dates and arrangements.
Multiple-day retreats are also available, please check out details on the Retreat page.
A JOYFUL EXPLORATIVE FRAGRANT DAY ON CRETE?
A 'Down-to-Earth' time spent with everlasting plant wisdom, fragrant flowers, mystic bottles, treasures and pleasures on your continued journey.
"No magic pill, but to educate ourselves, learn the individual and collective magic of plants and how to co-create with them."
Ildiko’s intention is not to create a new hype around yet another plant. Plants are great, especially in alliance, and are not a one-stop shop. And while science is tracking down the road to get a clear picture of cause and effect, patterns might be more tricky to let alone in a cold lab missing the magic element.
Aromatic Day Retreats are great opportunities both for those coming to visit the island as well as the ones living in our beloved Crete. Welcoming students, colleagues, and visitors from all walks of life on the path of medicinal and aromatic plants!
WHAT WILL YOU TAKE AWAY
FROM LEARNING WITH THE PLANTS ON CRETE?
More on our AROMATIC DAY RETREAT
Our time together covers various areas from the fragrant blend of growing, foraging, distilling aromatic plants. We discuss their therapeutic uses and healing modalities in the spirit of life-changing transformative practices. You may always pick some plants to take with you, and a small gift package from our artisan hydrosols.
With these educational self-care days, our relaxed offerings intend to inspire your spirit while extend and deepen your relationship with the plants. We are here to help expanding your skills and consciousness through empowering personal field experiences.
Whether you are a student or practitioner of aromatherapy, botanical perfumery, herbalism, or any other complimentary modalities, please come to expand your horizons and do your extended field studies in our dream-come-true aromatic fields! If you feel you are ‘just’ an enthusiast, you are also warmly welcome! Some ideas that we can explore together:
- Enjoy our apothecary gardens and field explorations;
- Develop your relationship with the diversity of nature;
- Expand your aromatic smell library;
- Get your hands dirty if you wish;
- Harvest and perhaps distill aromatic plants;
- Practice aromatic medicine-making;
- Learn about our artisan distillations;
- Discover the abundance of aromatic hydrosols from Crete;
- Understand the distinctions of various types of plant extracts and how they are used;
- Infuse yourself with herbal wisdom for wellbeing, medicine and perfume.
Reach out if you would like to dedicate some time studying with us, connecting with nature, exploring our co-creative work with the genuine plants on Crete, heal or just and embracing a more holistic lifestyle.
Every Step You Make…
If you have any questions, you can also get in touch by email.
You can initiate booking your day with Ildiko via the contact form, just click on your One Day Ticket!
Or scroll down for HALF-DAY RETREAT options below >>>
EXPAND YOUR AROMATIC LIBRARY?
Discover the rich collection of aromatic hydrosols from Crete from field to bottle. Learn how to use fragrant extractions for health and wellbeing.
AROMATIC HALF-DAY RETREATS
Aromatic Half-Day Retreats are shorter version of the day retreats. Snippets of aromatic plant explorations, relaxed reflective conversations. Our focus may travel from meditative observations, growing cycles, harvesting practices, insights into the art of distillation, medicine-making of all kinds, and simply and most importantly, self-care practices that are relaxing and recharging in nature. Whatever comes to our table!
With these educational self-care hours, our relaxed offerings intend to inspire your spirit while extend and deepen your relationship with the plants and pick up some skills and applicable knowledge. Our purpose is that your empowering personal field experiences will be transplanted into your daily life.
Whether you are a student or practitioner of aromatherapy, botanical perfumery, herbalism, or any other complimentary modalities, please come to expand your horizons and do your extended field studies in our dream-come-true aromatic fields! If you feel you are ‘just’ an enthusiast, you are also warmly welcome!
Small Steps…
Book your day with Ildiko via the contact form. If you have any questions, you can also get in touch by email.
AROMATIC HALF-DAY Retreats
Aromatic Half-Day retreats offer a wonderful couple of hours even when you are on a scheduled trip or a last-minute arrangement. Available all-year around and is per request. Check with us if we have a day available that can meet your schedule.
AROMATIC HALF-DAY Retreat — Guidelines:
− Half-day retreats are with a duration around 3 hours. This is to meet and hang out together in an easygoing manner, learn about the plants and our work.
− Theoretical and practical tuition & guidance;
– Essential Reflections discovery pack;
− Picking your herbs for tea, tincture or medicine;
− Contribution for the half-day retreat is €130 per person, to keep our activities ‘sustainable’ for all.
− Please add €10 /person when you are accompanied by family members who are with you but not involved in the same extent as you. Or contact us if you need a special arrangement.
If you are a small group, ask for our package price by giving us your details. You can also contact us with any questions, for more information, personal dates and arrangements.
Multiple-day retreats are also available, please check out details on the Retreat pages.
AROMATIC LOUNGE
FOR SCRENTED HERBAL
EXPLORATIONS
Deepening your connection?
We also offer longer-format opportunities to deepen your relationship with the plants. If you are looking for 2-3 day workshops on aromatherapy, aromatic distillations, herbalism and various aspects of living an authentic life, please visit our Workshops page, or get in touch to discuss topics and arrangements.
PRESENCE, EXPERIENCE AND INSPIRATION THROUGH MEDICINAL PLANTS
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