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11.01.2010After running Triopetra Yoga Retreat at Triopetra Beach for 6 years, learning so much about yoga and meeting so many beautiful & inspiring people, I feel happiness and a wider more balanced space inside. Indeed I feel also more at the beginning. Being at the beginning is a feeling of great joy, a humbling experience, a wisdom slowly can start to manifest – keeping always a beginners mind. Open.
My fathers Dream was to leave his city life and office job, running his own company, and spend the rest of his life on a small little Greek island, to live by a beach, with no worries, no TV, just sailing, fishing - enjoying life
I would say, maybe working a little here and there. This was when I was 12-15 years old and he must have been just about 40.
This day is still not here – not for Kim, my dad. He is 64 now, working even harder and with quite a lot of stress. It is not easy for people to switch or to change or to rearrange their lives – to be happier.
I remember sitting by the waters edge on the magical sandy beach, staring at the colors change light behind the three majestic rock formations. It was mid September 2003 with the clouds softly forming, repeating stories that we have lost track of over the years and need to catch up with – softly flowing.
I wished he could be there with me – that he could feel this freedom.
My fathers face, his energy overcast the horizon, like he had always been there. Always had been my sky of blue and sea of green.
I like to accept what is – in all its madness and ecstatic joy.
I love my father very much and I know he has done and would do anything possible for me to be able to BE here and now. He is always here with me.
In this magnetic force of pure nature, yes that was becoming my path and yoga my intelligent instrument of devotion to oneself.
I set sail for a journey or shall I say
I stayed there for a journey. To travel without moving and to study, that was now my purpose. I was to travel inwards, where I felt safe and where I could find the guidance that I seek.
In this space in the open, in the rugged south coast of this ancient land. I started to invite teachers, teachers that would travel all across the world to come and share their experience with me
and other like minds.
This island that housed magnificent civilizations thousand of years ago, vanished/perished/metamorphed,
gave fire & soul to so many of the great myths that still are so alive.
The yogis heard the call and started to be attracted, one by one.
I had very soon realized that astanga yoga had a very specific system of function and this was clearly working for anyone that wanted to practice diligently.
So this was the core of the calling and of the practice here. “The breathing in unison”, as T.S. Eliot points out in a short & sweet dedication to his wife.
Triopetra Yoga Retreat became alive in Crete in the spring of 2004, as Greece was getting ready to host the Olympic games in Athens.
I was traveling indeed - practicing in the mornings, shopping for food, cooking, cleaning rooms, organizing taxis for guests coming and going and answering emails. It was overwhelming but lots of fun.
The following year – we got some help – our dear chef Chris Clark landed from Austin into a new outstanding adventure he wouldn’t miss in this lifetime. Surprises come when you least expect them, but I was ready for this one. I met my wife in August 2005; she came with her two sons and a well-trained Lab puppy. We fell in love and decided to spend the winter there making love, cooking for the boys and helping them with their homework. She has been my inspiration and pillow of joy.
The boys coming into adolescence, I never had thought that these energies, these feelings could be again part of my life, such an ongoing process. Such great teachings, in my meditation I do consider these two boys my greatest teachers, and my wife - Kristina.
We are made for each other is such a way that it is most difficult to
distinguish any abnormality in our behavioral patterns. We are made of each other and still are eager to recognize that we compliment each other, accept and love one another in a natural and non-egoistic way.
I love my boys and feel proud they are now growing taller than me.
They are turning out to be fine men.
And only last year another surprise, a little girl came to our family, a beautiful miracle. A tremendous inexplicable experience – being a father.
I pass my days now playing and feeding a baby girl that is growing everyday and is learning to love,
To give and to receive – too becoming...
My wife, my love, I treasure you
You are my light and guiding star.
The old world is dying and so many are taking their positions in the dance. Such beauty and grace in all those teachers of 20 and 30 years now, being with prana and seeing with childish eyes full of compassion.
Thank you Rolf Naujokat, Mark Whitwell, Manju Jois, David Williams, Nancy Gilgoff, Danny Paradise, Lance Schuler, Prem Antony Carlisi, Dominique Corigliano, Mark and Joanne Darby.
Thank you Boris Georgiev from Vienna, Scott Davis, Pat and Michael Stone from Toronto, Basia & Sophia Lipska from Warsaw, Caroline Boulinguez from Paris, Arjuna Dr. Ronald Steiner, Bettina Anner from Germany, Arnaud Kancel from Montpellier and Guy Donahaye from NY.
Thank you for your dedication & commitment to the practice, to yourselves and to others.
Thank you for being so giving with your time and your hearts. You are all dear friends.
We have now located in a beautiful new setting in the north of the island running an amazing new Triopetra Yoga Retreat and we are sure we have something going here that you will cherish.
There are plans under way to start building a new summer Eco Retreat using Earth technologies in Triopetra beach very soon. We’ll keep you posted on new developments on our news page.
