James Higgins is a renowned and naturally gifted yoga and meditation instructor from The San Francisco Bay Area with twenty-seven years of teaching experience in 2024. He offers a unique, inspired, and original style of Hatha Vinyasa Yoga with an emphasis on meditation, soul harmonization, and deep personal healing through somatic attunement. His teaching and practice style is slowed down in steady awareness, emotional intelligence, and technical proficiency while focused on what is meaningful in spiritual connection and self-reflection. He empowers his students to experience the very best of themselves in the body, mind, heart, and soul while gaining strength, releasing tensions, and opening further to the higher dimensions of intelligence within the depths of the heart. All his classes are curated as a journey of self-discovery, providing a safe, supportive environment infused with kindness, clarity, and love. He leads retreats and periodically offers workshop classes throughout Europe and select USA locations. He has conducted workshop classes in Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, England, Hungary, Czech Republic, South Africa, and has led retreats in Greece, Mexico, Hawaii, India, Bali, and Guatemala. He has presented his work at The Omega Institute, Kripalu, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Wanderlust Festival, 1440 Multiversity, Yoga Journal Conferences, Geneva Yoga Festival, Vienna Yoga Festival, The Chamonix Yoga Festival, and The Saint Anton Yoga Mountain Festival.
RETREAT
James Higgins Yoga
2025 Amorgos Island, Cyclades, Greece
Yoga and Meditation Healing Retreat
Summer Solstice & New Moon
Therapeutic Somatic Practice Intensive
11 nights, June 18 - 29, 2025
30 hours of practice
With Retreat Application: 15 Spaces Available
Non-Refundable Downpayment Of €595 To Reserve
EARLY BIRD: Expires Equinox March 20, 2025
15 Single Rooms Available
Double Room On Request
Sea Side Upper Single: €1495
Sea Side Lower Single: €1395
Mountain Side Upper: €1295
Mountain Side Lower: €1195
EARLY BIRD: Add €200 after March 20, 2025
Near Sunrise: Two-hour morning session
Near Sunset: One-hour evening session
Greek Breakfast + Island Transfers Included
Refine, Strengthen, and Fortify The Physical Structure From The Pelvis To The Crown.
Harmonize and Declutter The Energy Body In A Post-COVID Rapidly Changing Unpredictable World.
Full Payment Is Due By: May 01, 2025
In the event a balance is unable to be paid by May 01, 2025 the space will be given to the next person on the waiting list and all deposits will be forfeited. NO EXCEPTIONS.
All European participants to make payments with Revolut or Wise App. USA Participants Use These Apps For USD/Euro conversion Or Contact me before making any payments in USD regarding currency exchange fluctuation.
Additionally:
Budget €30-€50 daily for your additional expenses. Which include afternoon meals, a light dinner if needed, snacks, water, periodic rental car and petrol contributions of €4-€10 for inter-island transportation to restaurants, shopping, villages, remote beaches, miscellaneous items, and any gratuities on the journey.
IMPORTANT DATES
June 19: Getting to Amorgos Island
Ferry Options From Athens:
Piraeus Port Athens to Amorgos
High Speed - Hellenic Seaways
09:00-14:40
Big Slow Steady - Blue Star Ferries
06:45-14:30
Flight and Ferry:
Within Europe, fly to Naxos, Paros, Mykonos, or Santorini Airports, Then Ferry to Amorgos June 19.
June 25: New Moon/Solstice Celebration
Following morning practice brunch together at a local farm-to-table restaurant in honor of Summer Solstice, New Moon, and the Final Stage of our time together.
Following Brunch, A Monastery Visit, And Afternoon Swimming At Agia Anna Beach.
June 28 Evening
Pack up all of our belongs in preparation for a 40 minute early morning 04:44 Van Transportation
Amorgos only will depart to their respective destinations.
June 29,2024
If going back to Athens ferry departs from Katapola at 15:15. Arrival in Piraeus port at 21:00 on Hellenic Seaways €85.50. Please do your research and plan your exit. My research applies to 2024 and is likely to continue in 2025.
Conclusion:
To help you move forward most effectively, please make your travel plans early. Book your flights early. Make your commitments early. Get all of your organization done early. This will save precious time, energy, mental space, and financial resources, as well as fortifying your intentions for the journey.
Ferryhopper: App or web page is especially good to handle all ferry purchases QR Codes and scheduling.
Or go directly to the Ferry Company Website Or use many affiliated ferry purchasing options.
In Advance Book:
Your Flights to Greece
Ferry From Piraeus To Amorgos Or
Ferry From Other Islands To Amorgos
Again, organize your schedule and your travel plans accordingly well in advance to accommodate all of your individual needs. No changes or allowances can be made to anything clearly outlined, financially or otherwise.
In my quest to discover and experience magical places, I’ve spent the past seven years exploring twenty different Islands in Greece. Each island has its characteristics, vibes, and unique energy signatures, attracting certain lifestyles.
Amorgos for me is conducive to energies that are transformative, healing, purifying, healthy, calming, empowering, peaceful, nourishing, stable, loving, and what I find to be organic, natural, and exceptionally beautiful.
This retreat is designed for those looking to make positive shifts and changes within themselves through their Sadhana (Spiritual Practice)
This retreat is designed for those looking to contribute positively to a world that needs it.
This retreat is for those on a path of consciousness, healing, self-reflection, and personal growth.
This retreat is designed for those interested in more grassroots, non-commercial locations, not luxury, but clean, comfortable lodging run by kind locals, family style, in a stunning location.
This will be my sixth journey to Amorgos, my forth retreat offering , and my third at this location.
I look forward to a wonderful time on Amorgos again.
With Love,
James Higgins
If you have any questions or further inquiries, please contact me at jameshigginsx@gmail.com
or DM me on any social media platform.
WORKSHOP