SANCTUARY

A BESPOKE RETREAT EXPERIENCE

5th Annual Retreat
to the Greek Islands

July 5th-12th 2025

Private Luxury Villas in Koufonisi

Welcome to SANCTUARY

You are invited to enter into sacred relationship with yourself. With all of the women that you have ever been and all of the women you will ever be.

You are invited Into sacred relationship with your body, this vibrant tool through which you experience, sense, and navigate the world.

We are gathering in Koufonisi at a luxury villa to commune in the communal wisdom, to hone our inner listening, to strengthen our bonds with our Highest Self and to tenderly silence the voice of our lowest.

We are rewiring and drawing a new map by which to navigate the world. We are cultivating our inner wisdom and innate capacities, shifting and training our perspective so we can walk in life with more joy.

Sanctuary is your invitation to step out of habitual thinking and ways of being. To shift from fear and stagnancy towards love and vibrancy. We're dismantling outdated ways of thinking and giving honor to our dreams and desires.

We're making this body, our house a real home. We're turning our mind into our finest instrument. We're alchemizing pain into poetry and breathing beauty into the everyday.

Interweaving breathwork, Katonah Yoga®, dance, somatic movement practices, oral storytelling, and personal development work Sanctuary is an experience curated to bring you home to yourself.

Beloved you are not lost and there is no YOU to find. You are forming yourself. Authoring yourself and your life. Sanctuary is your invitation to refine and redefine that sacred work.

Welcome.

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Sanctuary is a full sensory, slow travel experience. An immersive journey. You are invited to explore your personal terra incognita while adventuring outward in this arid aqua stunning landscape. You'll commune with the communal while tending to your inner wisdom. Every element is curated to bring you along this journey of self. Beyond embodiment we are exploring emplacement. Your body in these times, in this place, in these sacred relationships.

The Emergence retreat is more than a yoga retreat. It is a curated experience designed to lead you into self inquiry with curiosity and joy. Together we’ll explore yoga, movement, meditation, and more to deeply connect with our inner compass.

Rekindle your connection with nature, with rest, with play, and with your inner desires. This is an intentional and lyrical pause bend your ear to the earth, to the beating of your own heart, to the rhythm of your breath.

We're moving from habituation to potentialities. During your stay you'll be guided through practices and teachings to support you in owning and authoring your dreams and visions for your life.

Rekindle your connection with nature, with rest, with play, and with your heart. Savor the hammam spa, take a stroll into the village, hike the hills surrounding our retreat center, relax on your private balcony and take in the sea air.

Retreat offers us an intentional withdrawal from the every day to reconnect with our interior and with the things that matter so we can re-emerge and reconnect in new heartfelt ways.

It’s an opportunity to remember and reaffirm the sacredness of life in this ongoing ceremony we call living.

I want you to leave with your heart, your mind, your body feeling like a joyous personal sanctuary. Now and forever.

Retreat offers us an intentional withdrawal from the every day to reconnect with our interior and with the things that matter so we can re-emerge and reconnect in new heartfelt ways. It’s an opportunity to remember and reaffirm the sacredness of life in this ongoing ceremony we call living.

Our Private Villas in Koufonisi

Koufonisi is one of the most particular and spectacular islands in the Cyclade.

Our villas a unique and luxury experience where the distinctive Cycladic tradition meets minimalism.

Koufonisi, boasts majestic beaches, picturesque white washed houses and beachfront tavernas.

Our villas are an exclusive sanctuary that invites you to experience the most relaxing and enjoyable retreat of your life.

The villas are private and only we will be on property for total privacy and sacred sanctuary.

A newly build, complex of traditional dwellings and houses, typical of the islands unique architecture, welcomes you.

Our sanctuary is northeast of the island, just a few minutes’ walk from one of the most beautiful beaches in the Aegean.

JOIN THE SANCTUARY

What To Expect...

Nourishment

Savor three times daily vegetarian and pescetarian meals lovingly prepared by our wonderful chefs. For an additional cost you may opt to add superfood supplementation to your experience.

Exploration

Twice-daily intentional gatherings weaving movement, somatics, Katonah Yoga®, dance, personal development, oral story, and more. Your program is curated to weave a narrative thread from beginning to end.

Play

Swim, relax, hike, tour the island with optional add on excursions. Closer to our retreat date you will have the opportunity to add on journeys like a private yacht day, cooking classes, and other delights.

I was legitimately scared to go to Selena’s retreat. I’m not a yogi. I had never traveled outside the US before. I needed to do something for myself. I needed something grounding but outside of my comfort zone. That’s exactly what I found with this retreat. Selena and everyone on this retreat made me feel welcomed and supported. Not having a yoga practice wasn’t an issue. The classes were a challenge but I didn’t feel left behind. The teachings about the goddess hit me in tender spots that I didn’t want to admit were there. I would recommend going to her next retreat to anyone that will listen to me.

Peach Montana

While on retreat with Selena there were tender moments, challenging moments, peaceful moments and massive growth.

I was constantly challenged to grow and held at the same time. The daily meditations were filled with wisdom. The asana practice was exquisite. The company was amazing — so much laughter and support all around.

Thank you for the knowledge you shared. Your years of study and mastery shine through in all you do. It was an expansive experience. I’m eager to do it all again.

Megan

I was legitimately scared to go to Selena’s Goddess in Greece retreat. I’m not a yogi. I had never traveled outside the US before. I needed to do something for myself. I needed something grounding but outside of my comfort zone. That’s exactly what I found with this retreat. Selena and everyone on this retreat made me feel welcomed and supported. Not having a yoga practice wasn’t an issue. The classes were a challenge but I didn’t feel left behind. The teachings about the goddess hit me in tender spots that I didn’t want to admit were there. I would recommend going to her next retreat to anyone that will listen to me.

Peach Montana

While on retreat with Selena there were tender moments, challenging moments, peaceful moments and massive growth.

Thank you for the knowledge you shared. Your years of study and mastery shine through in all you do. It was an expansive experience. I’m eager to do it all again.

Megan

Private Room

A private room with ensuite bath for your own personal sanctuary.

TAKE ME AWAY

Shared Room

Book with a friend or request a roommate. A shared room for communal sanctuary.

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About Selena

Selena is a curator of bespoke, slow travel experiences. She is a somatic dance teacher, spiritual teacher, mind-body coach, somatic experiencing practitioner, life coach, oral storyteller, and sociocultural anthropologist.

She has practiced yoga for 30 years and taught globally for almost 15 years.

She integrates her decades of movement study, yoga philosophy, myth and folklore studies, coaching, and somatic practices into an experience that is very unique.

She believes in embracing life as a gift to be celebrated, in not turning away from life's pains and difficulties but fully accepting and dancing with EVERYTHING life has to offer. All the while staying in the business of JOY.

She utilizes oral storytelling, contemplative work, embodiment practices, and yoga to address the complexities of a human life in a way that is joyful, playful, and anchored in the right here and now.

As a coach Selena uses a combination of hypnosis, NLP, Somatic Experiencing, and Handel Methods to guide you to your Highest.

She believes that life is already a great mystery and there's no need to manufacture the mystical. But a lot of opportunities to stoke your awe and imagination.

Welcoming everything. Abandoning nothing.

On Retreat

You are a grand and noble idea with profound potential waiting to be unveiled. You are the keeper of medicine that is needed. You are designed to thrive.

Emergence is your opportunity to be in community with like-minded humans, to explore your inner landscape, to play, rest, and reconnect with the ceremony of life.

Together we’ll explore rituals, practice, and play to inspire and elevate our living.

You will enjoy twice-daily yoga practices to support your body and breath. Asana, meditation, pranayama, journaling work, and other practices to support your well-being, heal your nervous system, and lead you to your highest.

Post-retreat support. All participants will receive a 6-month online subscription to Selena’s live-stream and on-demand classes as well as an optional zoom integration meeting to reconnect with one another and practice together a month after the retreat completes.

Retreat With Me

BOOK YOUR ROOM

THE SANCTUARY

Private Room
starting at €3800

• Room Configurations vary by villa browse the drop down menu to select your room type
• 3 beautiful curated vegetarian and pescetarian meals
• 1 pre and post coaching session with Selena a $900 value
• Bespoke gift curated in Greece and Florence
• Stunning pool
• Transportation from the port
• Curated Programming
• Optional Add-On Excursions *additional costs apply

CHOOSE YOUR ROOM

Shared Rooms
Starting at €3,000

• Room configurations differ by villa and room type browse the drop down to select your room type
• 3 beautiful curated vegetarian and pescetarian meals
• 1 pre and 1 post private coaching session with Selena valued at $900
• Bespoke gift curated in Greece and Florence
• Stunning pool
• Transportation from the port
• Curated programming
• Optional Add on Excursions *additional costs apply

CHOOSE YOUR ROOM

Sarah

Let me begin by saying, if I could give Selena and this trip fifty stars, I would in a heartbeat. I understand how cliche it is to say, “This trip changed my life!” But it truly did. Selena provided a safe space to reconnect with my body, mind, and spirit as emotions I couldn’t fully understand at the time bubbled to the surface. She left us with a simple statement, “Love your life,” that had profound impacts I haven’t fully grasped. While Greece was outstanding, the people incredible, the food fantastic, and the resort impeccable, the internal movement this created within me is something I will be forever indebted to. I will be returning in the future. Selena changed my life. If you’re considering going, even a tiny bit, hold tight to it and don’t let go. It’ll make you love your life again. I promise.

Amy

This was my first yoga retreat and Selena really set the bar high! This wasn’t just about doing yoga classes and laying by the pool.. (although we did that too!) our classes were intimate and called us to explore ourselves on the deepest level. We had journal prompts and movement classes that brought our true selves out! Selena shared her whole heart, her wisdom and facilitated our own personal transformation and connection with others! I have made friends for life :) !

Keeley

Selena curated and held such an amazing experience for our group. She held a safe and fun space to do a deep dive into the intricacies of the human condition, what it means to have a body, and Yogic philosophy. The experience and what I’ve taken with me are priceless. I recommend her to every-body out there. No yoga experience required, just being a human qualifies you:) I will try to go on every retreat she offers! Ten stars!