Γιόγκα & Pilates

Tucked away in a breathtaking corner of Greece, Healthy Options Yoga, Pilates and fitness holidays encompasses the everyday relaxed life of small fishing villages, nestled on the tranquil coastline of rocky coves, with sparkling emerald waters and azure blue skies that only Greece can provide.

On a Healthy Options holiday, you can do as little or as much as you like. We invite you to wake up each day to a new adventure. Our Yoga, Pilates and fitness classes are for everyone, from complete beginners through to the more experienced.

All our classes are run by qualified professionals who are passionate about what they do. On top of that, we offer many other holiday activities to inspire and invigorate you. Try paddle-boarding, sailing, windsurfing, rafting and snorkelling. Explore the olive groves either on our guided walks or bike rides, then soothe your energised muscles with a relaxing massage.

Our friendly, laid-back atmosphere appeals to everyone: solo travellers, couples and groups of all ages and nationalities are all part of our Healthy Options community. 

You’re free to spend time alone reading, relaxing or sunbathing or hanging out in the vibrant beach bar making new friends.  Either way it’s your holiday and you can choose to dip in and out of the classes and the social scene as much as you like. 

Join in any of our inspirational classes

Whether you’ve just started practicing Yoga and Pilates or you’re upping your fitness game or perhaps it’s been part of your daily routine for years, here at Healthy Options you’ll find the enthusiastic and professional style of our teachers refreshing and inspiring.

Our teachers provide a great mix of classes. Every day, we offer classes aimed at all levels which are designed to be progressive and will enable you to begin or continue your practice at home. This is one of our sources of pride – what you learn on a Healthy Options holiday will help you progress and improve even when you’re back home!

Class sizes are small, so we can give you plenty of individual attention, helping you to maintain the correct alignment and technique. This means that you’ll get the maximum benefit not only during your holiday with us, but for your future practice as well.

All classes are given in both centres, you can check out the sample schedules for Vassiliki and Syvota here.

Meet our instructors here, and check out the sample schedules for Vassiliki and Syvota to get a good idea of what your holiday will be like.

Our Yoga classes:

 Hatha Yoga

Hatha Yoga is an old system which includes the practice of yoga postures (asana) and breathing exercises (pranayama) which can also help prepare the body for meditation. The pace of the class is quite slow and will involve holding various postures for a certain amount of breaths, but may also include some fluid movement during the practice.

 Flow Yoga

Flow Yoga links the movements with the breath. It’s one of the most popular styles of yoga and is called ‘flow’ because of the smooth way the poses run together. In this dynamic practice attention is focused on the journey and transitions between the various postures (vinyasa). Through the use of creative sequencing, the posture becomes better aligned which leads to improved stamina, strength and flexibility.

 Restorative Yoga

Restorative yoga is a type of yoga known for its relaxing, calming and healing effect. As well as being popular with people who may be recovering from an illness or injury, restorative yoga is considered an ideal anecdote for hectic and stressful modern lifestyles. This mat based practise involves the use of props such as bolsters, blocks and straps. Spending a long time in each posture allows the muscles to relax deeply promoting calmness and recovery.

 Technique classes

Technique classes focus on how to advance your practice by paying attention in great detail to alignment and posture. One goal of these classes is to enable you to attain confidence when continuing and progressing your own practice when you return home after your holiday. This makes the benefits of the Healthy Options technique classes last long after your holiday with us has become a warm memory.

Technique classes are offered at both beginner and improver/intermediate level.

 Yoga Nidra

This calming and rejuvenating class is held at the end of each day and will help you unwind. Yoga Nidra is a form of subconscious relaxation and encourages a state of mind between sleep and wakefulness. This 30-minute class involves lying down with the use of props in complete stillness whilst listening to the instructor guide you through a meditation. It’s said that half an hour of Yoga Nidra is equivalent to four hours of deep sleep!

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Our Pilates classes:

Pilates

The five basic principles of Pilates are; breathing, pelvic placement, rib cage placement, scapular movement and stabilisation and head and neck placement. This mat based class will help you develop core muscles and stability and has been proven to be an excellent form of exercise for improving posture and inner strength.

Our Pilates teachers offer mat-based classes that are suitable for all levels, from complete beginners to those looking to further their practice.

Somatic Movement

Somatics is a movement study which emphasises internal physical perception. This allows you to develop a better awareness of your physical movement and learn to relax tight muscles to disperse tension and restore function.

Yamuna Body Rolling

Yamuna body rolling is not described as exercise, but movement. It helps get rid of aches and pains and restores a natural balanced posture. This is the successor to foam rolling, working to realign the body through self massage by sinking into the differently textured balls to elongate the muscles and increase the range of motion around the joints.

Our finess classes:

Body Sculpt

Body Sculpt is the ultimate class designed to strengthen and tone each and every muscle, head to toe. Body Sculpt uses equipment, including a variety of dumbbells, bodyweight exercises and Swiss balls . The upbeat rhythm of the music maximises the fun as well as the challenge!

Hydro-Fit

Exercises are performed in the pool to music, you’ll get a full, intense workout with reduced stress on your muscles and joints. These classes help target aerobic endurance and muscular toning while also giving you a boost in confidence in the water and is therefore even suited to non- swimmers!

Swim Technique Classes

Suitable for all levels, from absolute beginners and non-swimmers wanting to work on their water confidence, to swimmers wanting to tweak their stroke technique and efficiency. Amy will work with your abilities in a group setting or on a one to one basis, which is a great opportunity to make the most of while you’re with us!

Swiss Ball

This highly useful piece of equipment adds an extra challenge by forcing you to exercise on an unstable surface. Not only is this a pretty intensive workout for your core, Swiss ball helps improve your body awareness, posture and balance.

Circuits

Whilst you might not be training for the Olympics, the fresh air and sunshine is the perfect setting for blowing away the cobwebs! This medium-high level intensity session involves a combination of body weight exercises and sprints, classed as interval or HIIT style of training.

Our professional, friendly and approachable team of instructors

These are the Yoga, Pilates and fitness instructors that will be teaching your classes in 2018. Each one of them is highly skilled, with plenty of training and experience, and all are very friendly and approachable.

In addition to the classes our team of professional and approachable instructors will also be on hand to offer regular workshops, 1-1 personalised sessions and helpful friendly advice!