This summer a new Findhorn-inspired community-based summer holistic holiday Centre is opening at a venue in the Pelion peninsula of Greece. This region is one of the few still unspoilt-by-foreign tourism areas of Greece with a very ancient healing tradition. It was here that the mythical Centaurs, half human, half horse roamed the forest, and where Cheiron created an early healing Centre, renown throughout the ancient world. A small group of us from Findhorn: Jock Millenson, James Lawson Kelly and Craig Gibsone, have formed a non-profit educational trust called THE HOLLY FOUNDATION* http://www.hollyfoundation.net, who mission is to develop and support Authentic community based Holistic Living-Learning Yoga Centres worldwide. For it's first project, Holly have rented a small hotel 3 miles from the sea at the edge of the traditional village of Kissos notable for its fine tavernas and its magnificant 17th century church, and are staging a full programme of holistic workshops and retreats from June through September, with workcamps in May and October.
I invite you to have a look at http://www.kalikalos.com and savour the programme of workshops, retreats, workcamps and Living-in-Community guest weeks that the Universe has thrown up in the last few weeks. I would love to welcome all Findhorn-phils to this special region of Greece which combines a lush forest ecosystem with spectacular Aegean beaches for "something deeper than a suntan".
Aside from workshop participants and living-in-community guests we will be looking for people with focalisation experience to come out for periods of 2–6 weeks to join our staff of volunteers who create and hold the community energy and make the Centre unique amongst mediterranean holiday venues. It is our volunteer staff of about half dozen that focalises the meals, KP rotas, maintenence, homecare, as well as the shopping and the daily beach runs. As at Findhorn all guests and workshop participants are on the cooking and KP rotas, so you will feel quite at home. We offer food and accomodation for about 26 hours of work per week, and beach time every afternoon.
A Call for Kalikalos Resource People
In order to promote the Centre we are looking to create a network of European Reps. Because the Centre is new, our reps will not have had the opportunity yet to visit us and experience first hand what we are doing here in Greece. Nonetheless, if you have experienced Findhorn and felt at home here, and love the unique qualities of Findhorn, you will know what we are wanting to bring to Greece. We are planting a few seeds of Findhorn in the mediterranean sun! So please consider helping us promote this initiative. We have printed 6000 colour brochures which we are wanting to distribute as widely as possible—e.g., in health food shops, community centres, alternative bookshops, libraries, housing coops, natural medicine centres, etc. And of course to your friends and colleagues.
To entice you, we are offering our reps a very inexpensive week at our Centre: £100/€150 per week which includes food and accomodation. And in addition, for every participant that comes to us from your distribution or personal recommendation we offer a credit of £50/€75 which you can use to defray your week (or weeks!) in Greece, or alternatively to accumulate them to earn money. The only condition on the credits that you earn is that you must come to Greece to claim them, either in cash or for weeks here.
I very much hope this new initiative will appeal to you and that you might feel drawn to contribute whatever energy you would enjoy to give to its sustainability. The amount of work involved would not be onerous: in the first instance we would send you 20 or 30 brochures to distribute. And if you feel more enterprising, we would include your name and contact details on our spam-proof CONTACT US page on our web site.
More than anything else we hope you will take the opportunity as a Kalikalos rep to visit us in the summer and experience what we are doing, so that you can bring it back home and help us spread the word!
The full programme, the facilities and the vision are all to be found on the website at http://www.kalikalos.com . You can contact Jock at or +30 697 550 2736, James in Brazil at or Tel. +353 287 1342 136, or Craig at Findhorn on 07810250519 or at if you'd like to chat more about what we are doing, or ask us any questions. And naturally we would love to have your input too for what you would like to see happen here.
JockM
* Please note that the Holly Foundation Inc is completely independent of the Findhorn Foundation, which neither authorises, endorses nor necessarily agrees with all the practices and policies of the Holly Foundation Inc.
The Holly Foundation
http://www.hollyfoundation.net
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Tel +30 697 550 2736
Kalikalos Holistic Holidays
Website: http://www.kalikalos.com
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Tel+ 44 208 816 8533
+30 697 550 2736
A taste of Findhorn in the sun!
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