Meet The Team

As a qualified fitness, dance and Body Balance specialist, she believes you can achieve a better physical and mental state. With a passion for mindfulness and Well being, Asimina will guide you through your quest to improve your quality of life. So, whatever your age, build or fitness level, she will steer you on your journey every step of the way. Asimina’s expert knowledge and personable skills will give you the confidence to benefit from a truly memorable experience.

Qualifications:

Asimina has more than 15 years of experience in the fitness industry and she holds a University degree in Sports and Exercise Sciences. Asimina’s qualifications include EREPS Level 6 health and exercise specialist, aerobic dance, prenatal Pilates, rehabilitation of the spinal cord and related musculoskeletal conditions and Body Balance certification. This unique, comprehensive combination of skills means she can tailor every retreat to suit your individual needs. Whether you want to simply get away from it all or perhaps have an injury, Asimina is here to help. Even if you are pregnant and keen to speed up your postnatal recovery, she has the expertise to get you results. Therefore, you will return from your retreat feeling satisfied that you can continue to enjoy a fuller, healthier life.

Experience & expertise

Barbara's experience and expertise have supported a great number of insightful people to expand their horizons. As a result, she has helped them to achieve their milestones in personal and professional life. She is known for her work in helping to create a positive work-life balance and well-being (eudemonia). In addition, Barbara is full of enthusiasm and positive energy with a genuine interest in people. Consequently, she uses her unique training bank and tools to coach people in a strength (virtues) based approach. In fact, the words of wisdom of Greek philosophy and Positive Psychology inspired her to conduct this method.

Qualifications

Barbara is honoured to be a National Kapodistrian University of Athens associate trainer and author of 'Coaching Leadership in the footsteps of Socrates'. This pioneering programme introduces, for the first time, the 'Coach Leader who aims to create an ethical and sustainable global society'.

She is certified by Marshall Goldsmith (#1 Leadership Thinker according to Harvard Business Review) in Leadership Coaching, by City University in Positive Psychology, Dave Drake in Narrative Coaching and Coach University (Coach U). The International Coach Federation (ICF) has approved her as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC). Moreover, she holds a Master in Business Administration and a Bachelor in Chemistry.

She co-operated with some of the most prestigious companies and organisations such as Beiersdorf, Janssen Cilag, Kone SA, Abbott, Acropolis Museum, Generation Y, Intracom Defense Electronics, Titan Cement Company, Bluegr Hotels and Resorts, Vodafon, Bayer, Sephora. Barbara is also the author of a great number of articles. In addition, she is an accomplished keynote speaker, a published author and co-author on coaching and leadership.

Barbara says:

"As a trainer and coach, I help people achieve and sustain positive behavioural change for themselves and the people they care for. 

My vision is to inspire and empower visionary and authentic people to create a rewarding and fulfilling work life. In particular I support women to 'crack the glass ceiling' and gain leadership roles in corporate, political and social environments.”

Having styled many bridal parties Zoe has been very fortunate to meet many fantastic brides and families, and she looks forward to working with you on your special day.

Stefania is a Sustainability Program Manager, passionate in the development of socially responsible policies and projects that result in more prosperous and resilient communities throughout the globe.

Experience & expertise

Stefania has a long international background and insight dedicated in the development and promotion of sustainable and community-engagement projects.  Her personal values and family roots from the vibrant Regions of Corinth (Peloponnese) and Lasithi (Crete) guided her in pursuing a solid academic profile and working experience in the field of socially responsible development with special focus in sustainable tourism. After her studies she went on and worked for several years at the UNESCO in Paris providing expertise for the capacity building in islands, coastal regions and populations in order to face the raising challenges stemming from climate change and achieve sustainable growth. Longing for Greece she came back and soon became a much-appreciated Scientific Associate for Members of the Greek Parliament and worked for more than 10 years providing extensive political analysis reporting and advocacy. 

Her passion for the promotion of local cultural and natural heritage and responsible traveling and the added-value that it brings to people and places is most important to her as well as her young daughter. This has recently led to her change in career as a freelance Sustainability and Social Branding Program Manager.

Qualifications

Stefania holds a Masters of Philosophy in Comparative Research of Sustainable Development from the prestigious Grand Ecole for Social Sciences in Paris (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), a Master of Science in Tourism and Cultural Planning, Management and Policy from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University of Paris and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sciences and Public Administration from the Athens School of Law.

Experience & expertise

Five years of work in marketing was enough to make Asimakis understand that if you are not passionate about what you do, life just passes you by. So he moved on to study drama followed by Swedish massage, fascia therapy and energy healing. However, he has always had a personal interest in yoga. So, it was with this in mind that he embarked on yoga teacher training. As a result, Asimakis has been teaching yoga ever since.

His passion for Yoga is evident in his understanding on how the mind and body work, both on and off the mat. Asimakis always aims to make practice fun and mindful for him and his students. His training is varied and it began in India where he embraced the Sivananda Yoga style. He then came to Europe to absorb the Anusara style of Hatha yoga. For Asimakis, he is always practicing, exploring and discovering new things. Consequently, he ensures his subjects will always benefit from the latest yoga teaching and methods.

Qualifications:

Asimakis' qualifications are as follows: 100 hrs Embodied Flow™ School of Yoga Advanced Module "Body", 100 hrs Embodied Flow™ School of Yoga Foundations, 200 hrs Anusara™ Style of Hatha Yoga, 200 hrs Sivananda Style of Hatha Yoga.

Years of practice: 9, Years teaching: 5.

Dr Manos Georgiadis is an expert in Sport/Exercise and Performance Psychology for more than twenty years. He has been supporting wellbeing, healthy lifestyles and human performance through individualised programs and interventions. His expertise combines a University Degree in Physical Education and Sport Sciences (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), a Bachelor in Applied Psychology (City University of Seattle, USA), an MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology (University of Exeter, UK) and a PhD in Exercise and Health Psychology (Loughborough University, UK).

With the aim to create the best conditions to enhance personal skills and human potential Manos has been supporting companies keen to create  ideal working conditions for their employees. He has designed and implemented programs to support quality of life for individuals with special physical and mental needs presenting the applications of his work in European and World Congresses.

He has been the Sport Psychologist of athletes competing for the Greek Olympic Team at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and more recently he is supporting the mental skills and performance of world-class athletes in UK. Manos’s expertise in consultancy crosses boundaries supporting personal challenges both for teams and individuals where performance matters.

Manos believes that best results come from a balanced and sustainable lifestyle. Prolonging achievements occur through knowledge of own needs. Respecting personal needs is the key of human potential.

Working with a range of clients from absolute beginners who have never set foot in a swimming pool to tri-athletes, Tao Swimming has a mission to help everyone, regardless of ability, discover the joys of swimming.

In business, Anni has worked in senior relationship management roles for large corporations and smaller entrepreneurial concerns. Her areas of clinical practice include, cancer patients at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London; their friends and families at Paul’s Cancer Support Centre (formerly Wandsworth Cancer Support Centre) and with blind and partially sighted people at RNIB in Islington. She currently works with people at an Addictions retreat in west Suffolk and supports staff from St Elizabeth Hospice in Ipswich.

Anni works to enable people to get the most out of life. Optimum health is about your relationship with yourself, family, friends and the wider social and cultural communities in which we live. Your attitudes to food, fitness, lifestyle and career can affect your day-to-day life; and any one of these can fall into disrepair. Life is for Living, but if you get stuck along the way, the Biodynamic approach which incorporates physical and psychological as a continuum means there can be  twice as many opportunities to get well.

Anni works with people recovering from strokes; those with eating disorders; addictions, depression, anxiety and other related conditions.

‘Get the most out of life’

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Rosie prides herself on being honest and realistic, with an evidence based approach to health and fitness. Her ambition is to help people understand that overall wellness does not have to be the result of restriction and deprivation. But to teach people the fundamentals of movement that they can have fun with.

John is actively involved through his work with sports such as running, triathlon, cycling, rugby, football, martial arts, boxing, gymnastics, CrossFit, weight training, equestrian and swimming. He also treats clients who have musculoskeletal injury, pain or dysfunction caused by any of life's stresses and from all walks of life. In fact, John has also worked with people who have been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, Parkinson, Asthma, Cerebral Palsy and Cancer.

Qualifications

John’s qualifications are recognised nationally and internationally. His studies have covered all aspects of massage, remedial massage, soft tissue techniques, anatomy and physiology, biomechanics, postural assessment, nutrition and the management of clients in a professional, clinical environment.

John is also a qualified Kinesiology Taping specialist as well as being Pitch Side First Aid/Trauma and AED qualified.

Vassilis has also involved in Erasmus+ courses on wellbeing subjects, training European teachers to develop stress management strategies, understand their own emotions/body better, enhance clarity/focus and helped to build community.

He believes that the middle way is the solution of a well and happy life. Middle way combines an active and practical living with a real enjoyable attitude.

Aimilia -the wedding planner

Aimilia is known for her extreme attention to detail. She brings the vision of brides and grooms to life by planning, organizing and overseeing all aspects of their wedding ceremony, reception and, often, the honeymoon. 

Experience & expertise

Konstantinos' primary goals as a health and wellness professional are to inspire and motivate people. His purpose is to make sustainable changes in their eating behaviours to improve their holistic wellbeing. In fact, he has twenty years of working experience with specialization in obesity and disordered eating behaviours. During the last four years, he has been working and doing more research in the field on mindfulness and its application in eating behaviours.

Project work

He is the founder of the programme « project EATT*» (2016-2017), a scientific and evidence-based intervention in the field on mindful eating. This was, for the first time, conducted on the overweight or obese in the Greek population. Project EATT has been nominated in the 7th Panhellenic Congress of Health Promotion and Health Education in Athens (2017) as one of the best community-based interventions.

Project EATT* was also presented to the International Conference on Mindfulness in Amsterdam (2018). In the past, Konstantinos has collaborated with the National School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition & Biochemistry in the major Greek Cohort Study 'EPIC' and with University Hospitals Evangelismos and Sotiria. This has been in his role as a nutritionist with an intervention based on physical activity conducted on patients with COPD and Cystic Fibrosis.

As a nutritionist and bodyART instructor, he has worked with many sports and wellness clubs. As a health promotion counsellor, nutritionist, and health/wellness coach, Konstantinos has collaborated with Greek-based international companies by designing and planning wellness and other similar activities. This way, he has provided support for each company in terms of wellness culture and the concept of workplace wellness. He has an active collaboration with The Centre for Health Services Research, of Athens Medical School and Human Resources Expertise (HRE). Konstantinos is also a member of Hellenic Union of Dieticians and Nutritionists, Wellcoaches® (International group) and The Center for Mindful Eating (International group).

Qualifications

His qualifications are as follows: MSc Health Promotion and Health Education, Athens Medical School/National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Nutritionist-Dietician, BSc, Alexanderio Technological Institute of Thessaloniki
Master Practitioner on Eating Disorder and Obesity, National Centre for Eating Disorders, UK
Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Wellcoaches School of coaching/ACSM, US
International bodyART instructor Level 1&2, bodyART School, Germany