SATYA Yoga Relax & Renew Retreat is a soul-nurturing retreat featuring yoga, spiritual circles, creativity, delicious cuisine and meaningful activities. With a focus on nurturing your body, soul, mind, and spirit through creativity, adventure, movement, and music, our retreats provide a refuge for relaxation, renewal, and inspiration. Join us and embrace the opportunity to explore, relax, renew and open yourself to creativity and transformation.
Relax & Renew
Yoga & Wellness Retreat
amorgos, greece April 25th - May 2nd 2025
Discover the perfect blend of tranquility at Satya Yoga’s Relax and Renew retreat in Amorous, Greece. Dive into a rejuvenating experience that combines the calming practice of yoga with invigorating hikes along breathtaking seaside vistas and trails. Enjoy yoga sessions with stunning ocean views and hikes that connect you deeply with nature. Recharge with nourishing meals and participate in workshops and activities designed to enhance your well-being. Embrace your journey to inner healing with yoga, a soothing massage, creative wellness sessions, relaxing evening yoga nidra and holistic practices. Embark on a transformative adventure of self-discovery, relaxation and renewal all while in basking in the luscious ocean sea blue beauty that Greece offers us.
This retreat is designed to nourish your body, mind and soul providing you with a transformative experience that will leave you feeling renewed, refreshed and inspired. With its limitless panoramas of beautiful oceans our venue is the perfect setting for a retreat to relax and renew.
Surrounded by ocean, nature and the scent of greek herbs and this retreat is the best way for you to foster your creativity, …. your desire for adventure, give you permission to relax and tap into your creativity and inner self.
During this retreat we will stay 7 nights in our Aegialis Hotel & Spa. Yoga will be offered daily with Melissa, complete with props and mats if desired in one of the ocean front yoga shalas. We will explore, enjoy a wine tasting, get hands on with a cooking class, stroll through the streets of Amorgos and possibly nearby towns. For those that seek adventure there’s optional hikes and kayaking. Every day we will be enjoying the wholesome and nourishing meals at Aegialis with some meal off site as well at your leisure.
Whether you are traveling with a friend, a family member or you’re coming solo, there’s a place for you on our retreat and we welcome you with open arms. If you are traveling solo and would like to share, reach out to us and we will try our best to find you a roommate.
This retreat is open to individuals of all levels from beginners to experienced practitioners.
Free Time
You can explore the town of Amorgos or you can relax by the pool, enjoy the spa, and watercolor in the garden, or indulge in a spa treatment. You’ll have plenty of time to tailor your retreat to your desires.
Circles
Start your morning with our morning circle or wind down your days with an evening Circle. These optional yet gently encouraged circles are where we gather together as a group for meditation, inspiration, and some occasional special treats and surprises.
Who should attend
This retreat is open to individuals of all levels from beginners to seasoned practitioners. Whether you are seeking relaxation, renewal, adventure, exploration of creativity, or self-discovery, this retreat is designed to provide you with what you need.
A $500 Deposit holds your space.
You can also Pay in Full and reserve our Early Bird Rate.
(Please note that there will be an additional 3% added per credit card transaction which is included in link)
You can also pay the deposit and/or Payment in Full via VENMO with NO FEE.
Venmo: @Melissa-Scagliarini
Room options
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Single Room with Private Bath
Private Room
$4600 (after Nov 1st)
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Double Room Shared Private BAth
Each person will have their own bed.
$4300 (after Nov 1st)
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Triple Room Shared Private Bath
Each person will have their own bed.
$4000 (after Nov 1st)
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quadrouple room shared private bath
Each person will have their own bed.
$3800 (after Nov 1st)
Melissa Scagliarini has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and teaching for more than a decade. She is the founder and owner of Satya Yoga Studio. Alongside extensive experience, formal training, and an in depth understanding of human physiology, Melissa brings humor and warmth to each of the classes she teaches. She has been trained in multiple traditions by some of the leading teachers in yoga. In 2017, Melissa became a certified Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist through the Himalayan Institute.
In 2010, Melissa traveled to India to participate in a month long Advanced Yoga Training, also through The Himalayan Institute. Traveling to the geographical heart of yoga was a personal and professional milestone for Melissa—a true lesson in Yoga off the mat. Melissa learned to look at herself with a bit more softness and love and was able to truly practice letting go of attachments.
These experiences have crafted Melissa into a masterful teacher who creates a caring, honest, and safe yoga environment. Classes are rooted in tradition and are designed to truly meet you and your body where you’re at. Using her deep understanding of yoga, hands-on assists, and a great selection of props, Melissa offers each participant, in every class, an opportunity to challenge and center themselves on the mat.
In addition to a variety of classes offered on a weekly basis, Melissa leads a yearly Yoga Teacher training course and offers yoga retreats around the world like this one! So far Melissa and her cohort of yoga and travel lovers have practiced in France, Costa Rica, Northern and Southern India, Italy, Spain and looking forward to this retreat in Greece 2025 and future retreats in the works to Italy, Scotland, Costa Rica and Bali.
Melissa and her husband Matt have two young boys a sweet rescue dog named Rumi and have lived and worked in the Plymouth area for over 20 years. They know and love the mountains, the rivers, and the people who live there.
Other Certifications include: 200 hr YTT, 500hr YTT, Pre-natal, Restorative Yoga, Yin Yoga, Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist, Certified Holistic Health Counselor.
Our Loving Teacher & GUIDE
melissa scagliarini 500hr YTT
Dara Troshane, known as Dvora to many, is a creative visionary that has a passion for wanderlust and creating soul inspiring retreats all over the world. A mixed-media artist, creative wellness guide, healing arts practitioner, luxury travel advisor and art teacher for over 23 years, Dvora has been the driving force behind SOULSHINE, an art studio she founded in the lovely coastal town of Port Washington, New York in 2000.
Her passion for art and providing everyone with a warm and safe outlet for creativity has fueled her journey of teaching art to children and adults, facilitating workshops, art parties and art camps as well as curating magical retreats. Dvora feels deeply blessed to be using her passion for wanderlust by organizing inspiring, adventurous, creative and transformational art and wellness retreats. SOULSHINE retreats are carefully curated with intention and attention to detail.
Dvora can frequently be discovered finding joy and catharsis in creating her own work. Her intuitive process of creating art includes incorporating vibrant colors, weaving words, unique imagery, mantras, and inspirational sayings to create artwork that inspires and invokes happiness and positive energy to its viewers.
She encourages people to express their creativity by exposing them to a variety of art materials to explore their inner artist. Both SOULSHINE and her home studio are light filled spaces brimming tons of art materials as well as art adorned walls. Really great music is always on which creates such a positive energy and vibe.
Dvora seamlessly integrates creative wellness into every aspect of her life, embracing opportunities for creativity in activities like cooking, dancing, painting, hiking, designing, and curating workshops, retreats and events. This infusion of creativity not only energizes her day but also radiates positive energy and gratitude to those around her.
She lives with her two dogs Mona and Sadie and her partner Noah in a beautiful cottage on the water in Oyster Bay Cove, New York where she has a home studio and hosts monthly spiritual creative circles. When she’s not at the studio, home or on a retreat, you may also find her on tour with conscious roots music artist and friend, Will Evans. Dvora enjoys hiking, restorative yoga, bonfires, the ocean, awesome music, soaker tubs, cooking, kind and generous humans, spirituality, nature, hugs and community.
our retreat organizer & creative guide
Dvora troshane, soulshine creative wellness retreats
What’s Not Included:
Your flight & Alcohol are NOT included. Some meals are not included but many (2 meals a day) are included. Any transfers other than to/from the port of Amorgos to/from our villa.
Cancellation policy:
Due to the limited space available for our retreats, cancellations will not be refunded or partially refunded. We’re unable to make exceptions to this policy, so please be mindful when making the decision to join us. Your spot however is transferable if we have a waiting list and and someone from the lsit can take your spot. Then in that case, everything less a $200 fee will be refunded. If we don’t have a waiting list then you would need someone to take your place.
