Retreats & Tours
Culinary Tour
Live in an organic farm and venture into the gardens to pick vegetables to cook your farm to table meals. Learn about the local cuisine, delicacies, and their culinary history. Taste natural wines and feel the love that created them. Learn about olive oil, the liquid gold and its health benefits. Dance to the ancient rhythms. Speak as a Greek and learn how to order or shop for your food. Travel in the steps of Leonidas and the last Byzantine emperor in Laconia, a diverse destination in the Peloponnese in southern Greece that includes a vast range of ancient sites, culture, historical monuments, museums, beaches, and picturesque villages on the mountains or by the sea side. Enjoy a week-long culinary tour of the region in one amazing vacation package!
Olive Oil Immersion
Immerse yourself in the amazing world of liquid gold “olive oil”. Live in an ancient olive grove with perennial trees more than 2000 years old. Pick olives and learn how olive oil is made. Cook with the healthiest oil there is and make natural soap with it. Learn the great qualities and history of this nutritious oil. Touch, smell, taste, and cook in one holistic experience that will forever make you fall in love with olive oil.
Yoga & Culinary Retreat
The excuse, yoga in an ancient olive grove in the middle of an organic farm. Unite mind, body and soul with nature to remember what she gave you. What is life? but the connection of mind, heart, body and soul. At eumelia, farmland, nature, nourishment and humanity unite to create the ideal “topos” for the manifestation of oneness. Be part of our week-long yoga retreat where we open as many doors to oneself, through yoga, meditation, gastronomy, sights and sounds. Yoga classes in the middle of perennial olive trees. Enjoy a private massage in your house. Hike or bike among the olive groves. Live in an organic farm and venture into the gardens to pick vegetables to cook your farm to table meals. Learn about the local cuisine, delicacies, and their culinary history. Taste natural wines and feel the love that created them. Learn about olive oil, the liquid gold and its health benefits. Dance to the ancient rhythms. Travel in the steps of Leonidas and the last Byzantine emperor in Laconia, a diverse destination in the Peloponnese in southern Greece that includes a vast range of ancient sites, culture, historical monuments, museums, beaches, and picturesque villages on the mountains or by the sea side. Enjoy a week-long yoga and culinary retreat like no other!
Christmas & New Year’s Family Retreat
Christmas Holidays have never been so authentic! Experience a slow travel and culinary retreat where the whole family will be cared for to the last detail. When the holiday spirit warmly covers our organic farm, magic happens: starlit perennial olive trees, smells of freshly baked holiday sweets, warm fireplace with open view to the ancient olive grove and surrounding mountains. hot chocolate & warm wine, board games, open fire-pit cooking, exploring the nearby cobble stone villages. Farm to table cooking classes, olive oil tasting and amazing organic meals infuse the family holiday retreat with a unique culinary experience that brings the whole family together.
Learn Greek in a farm
learn Greek in a farm…..one of the oldest languages still spoken in the world is taught outside the classroom framework in an experiential manner. Combined with agritourism, wine and gastronomy activities learning Greek becomes fun and easy. Each activity is matched with a module language class that examines it holistically, learning the history and cultural aspects. Farm to table cooking class, olive oil tasting, wine tasting, Greek dances and feasts, combined with a live classless language course that dives deep into the Greek psyche. Join this unique experience, learning the language, the land, history, the people and of course its food.
Greek Easter Culinary Week
Easter in Greece, Spring on a farm! Traditions, spirituality, nature and gastronomy unite together the holy week of Greek Orthodox Easter. Join us for a unique insight into the most impressive religious week and wittiness the mystic religious ceremonies of the “Epitaph” and “Resurrection”. Learn the gastronomic traditions, bake Easter pastries and cook “ladera” and “nistisima” the Easter week specialties. Learn culinary Greek and join an olive oil tasting. Watch the epitaph ceremony as it progresses along the seaside town of Gytheio. Visit a church built on top of an ancient temple and experience the ceremony of the resurrection of Christ. Everything the holy week leads to the culmination of the Easter Sunday feast. Out in the vibrant nature, a traditional feast to celebrate life, Spring and human relationships with music, food and drinks.
Couples Retreat
a you and your other half retreat…..Mind, body and a unique culinary experience unite in a beautiful organic farm aesthetic ambience. Cook farm to table meals together, taste natural wines and learn about olive oil. Take serene walks in our ancient olive grove and vineyards as you explore eumelia. Enjoy drinks and open fire pit cooking under the starlit sky. Couple’s Yoga will bring you closer and couple’s massage will help you relax. Venture out with us to the romantic castle town of Monemvasia and the seaside town of Gytheio as we explore the Mani region. A week long retreat for you and your other half where all the details and planning have been taken cared of by the eumelia team, all you have to do is bring your smile and sense of adventure.
Contact
Eumelia Farm
Gouves, 23055
Laconia, Greece
t: +30 6947 151 400
inquiries: info@eumelia.com
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