The Yin/Yang

Over the summer Solstice weekend I was wondering what the ancient Greeks did to celebrate? The Greeks were not as specific in their celebrations of solstice as the Celts, per se, because the sun nearly always shines in Greece. However, there was solstice celebrations centred on Apollo Helios– the sun god, specifically during the Athenian […]

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I first came upon Spetses in the spring of 2000. My mom and I had taken a recommended vacation to Greece a few months after my father’s passing in order to help us recoup and recover a bit during our grieving process…and I can say the change of scenery, did indeed help us. It was […]

The Hellenic world was at its prime when the Byzantine was just rising, and it was in this era in the first centuries Ano Domini, that the traditions fuelling Greek Orthodox Pascha were fused. It was in later centuries that the season of Resurrection and renewal became known as Easter in the Western Roman Empire […]

~ EVIA1 August 18-25th 2019 ~EVIA2 August 28- September 4th, 2019 ~ SPETSES, September 12-19th 2019 To our guests joining us in Greece this summer and in September – or seriously thinking about it – we very much looked forward to sharing our inaugural HHYR retreats with you all! If you haven’t already done so, now is […]