A STATE TO CREATE: GREECE RETREAT
May 9–14 ‘26 / 10 8 SPOTS LEFT
Where the identity you desire becomes your new baseline.
Most retreats give you a temporary high that lasts a few weeks. This one gives you capacity to hold a new identity, permanently.
You won’t be returning home high on inspiration and low on tools.
You’ll leave with a completely new baseline, a new relationship with possibility, expanded emotional range, a future-self identity mapped in the body, and nervous system safety strong enough to hold your next level without collapse.
This retreat is where the pattern breaks.
A State To Create: Greece is designed to change the place you create (your life) from, permanently.
This retreat is not a productivity camp.
We’re not here to squeeze more output from an already tired body.
A State To Create: Greece is designed to change the place you create from, permanently.
We’ll use our most transformational tools (Somatic Experiencing® principles, capacity expansion techniques, neuroscience-led deep identity work, deep restoration and environment) as the doorway to:
Remember who you are underneath performance and survival
Update the way your system responds to visibility, money, intimacy, and leadership
Learn how to expand without your body pulling the emergency brake every time things get good
For good.
We’re designing this retreat so it’s a before-and-after for your body, identity and sense of Self.
This is not one of those retreats where you leave with a shinier version of your old identity that dissolves in about two weeks.
This is an experience designed to let your old identity retire (gently, from the inside out) so you can finally embody the one that has been waiting underneath.
Give us seven days in the island of Serifos with you, and your nervous system will give you an entirely new way of being.
As you step into a new way of being here, your experience also includes:
Six luxurious nights at Perma, Serifos
We choose Perma, one of Condé Nast’s top hotels in Greece, for a reason. Designed with natural stone, ocean views, and deeply regulating minimalism, this the perfect sanctuary to completely reset your system.
Our amazing chef Afendula will treat us with meals prepared with fresh island ingredients and seasonal Greek produce, crafted to nourish your body and support your energy.
All meals by a private chef
(Optional) daily movement with Loewi
Strength, mobility, and workouts with the internet’s favorite coach, designed to energize your system through daily micro-challenges and neuroplasticity
Daily Expansion workshops with Maia + Isabel
Each day begins with a deep dive into identity, capacity, vision, and nervous system leadership, where you’ll learn to create from your potential instead of your past.
Expect the Expansion trifecta: deep identity work that lands in the body, capacity work that stabilizes your growth, and strategy work that aligns with who you’re becoming (not who you’ve been).
Evening Somatic Sessions with Isabel
This is the science-backed groundwork of the experience that lands all the expansion workshops into the body, and makes identity change possible, and sustainable.
Somatic integration with Isabel is where your brain–body system actually rewires, quite literally: we’ll be working with the neurophysiological processes involved in guiding your system out of survival mode and into the full-body state where clarity, creativity, and vision become accessible again;.
Lots of 1:1 time with Isabel and Maia
Personalized support for strategy, emotional processing, regulation, or vision refinement, wherever you need depth. We’ll be available for any deeper conversations or support you might need.
A thoughtfully curated gift spread for your body + nervous system
A thoughtful selection of high-quality tools, rituals and our favorite gifts to support your integration during and after the retreat.
If you know us, you know we’re going to take this gift spread very seriously and spoil you ♡
Boat excursions & island hikes
Explore hidden beaches, turquoise waters, and ancient trails across Serifos’ untouched landscape. Serifos is known to be one of Greece’s “best kept secrets” so we’ll have plenty of time to explore the Island in between sessions.
Spacious downtime in stunning surroundings
Plenty of rest, stillness, and quiet corners for integration, reflection, and genuine co-regulation with the group. An incredible opportunity for lifetime connections of visionaries doing the work with you.
Our approach
BOTTOM-UP IDENTITY REPATTERNING
Most people try to change their lives from the top down: working only with “the thinking brain” through mindset work, strategy, willpower, or new habits.
But identity doesn’t shift through logic. It shifts through physiology.
Our approach works bottom-up, using Somatic Experiencing® principles to balance your stress chemistry, restore prefrontal cortex function, and rewire the cognitive systems that govern clarity, emotional regulation, and your ability to hold expansion.
Throughout this experience, we’re using the most transformational tools from both of our worlds (strategy, identity work, and nervous system science) to create change that lands not only in the mind, but in the body.
We’ve designed our days at the retreat to mirror this approach:
(01) Groundwork
Every morning begins with an (optional) functional movement session led by our trainer Loewi designed to open your body, increase vitality, and prime your nervous system for neuroplasticity.
We’ll have plenty of time to enjoy breakfast, do your morning practice and lounge a bit before our morning workshop.
(02) Capacity Expansion
After breakfast and some free time, we move into our daily cognitive expansion workshop: a deep dive into vision refinement, identity mapping, capacity building, behavioral rewiring, and strategic clarity.
This is where you’ll get clear on exactly who you’re becoming and what your next level asks of you.
After the morning workshop, the day opens up for integration: island excursions, slow exploration, or restorative downtime.
(03) Somatic Integration
Every evening is where the science takes over.
Isabel leads somatic integration sessions that work directly on your neurophysiology: stabilizing norepinephrine, oxytocin, and dopamine, quieting amygdala activation, reactivating the prefrontal cortex, and expanding your window of tolerance through titration, pendulation, orienting, and vagal toning.
During our dinner, we’ll open the circle for sharing, then head into the most restful sleeps of your life in one of the most beautiful hotels in all of Europe.
WHY IT WORKS
Up until now, most of the work you’ve done has relied on a top-down approach. It engages the thinking brain: thought patterns, decision-making, analysis. It’s powerful, but it only reaches one layer of you.
If you’ve ever wondered why the change doesn’t last, why the identity doesn’t quite land, why the vision doesn’t materialize: it’s because top-down work can only take you so deep.
What we’re doing here is working with the primal systems and biological wisdom that actually drive your choices, your behavior, and your identity. Because lasting transformation requires both the mind and the body.
Think of this as entering your operating system (your hardware) and rewiring it from the inside out, so the system finally runs a different program.
This combination is intentional and potent: You open the identity pathway in the morning, and lock it in the body at night.
Your future self stops being a concept, and it becomes a neurophysiologically supported state.
Come back into your body through Somatic Experiencing™️ so your real clarity and intuition can actually get through.
This approach is where where neuroscience, Somatic Experiencing®, and deep identity work meet to make your next identity not only possible but inevitable.
Clear the Channel
Root the Vision
Expand your Capacity
We expand our nervous system capacity so expansion stops overwhelming your system and starts feeling like the new baseline.
Your next identity is mapped into the body, not just on a vision board. When we land it in the body, it becomes inevitable
After guiding hundreds of visionary through our programme A State to Create, we saw something undeniable: the next evolution of this work had to include the body. The next level is a physiological shift.
These reflections from our ASTC alumni say it best:
I got crystal clear on my vision and what has kept me from reaching it yet.
I signed up for AStC because I found myself repeating old patterns over and over again. I would have all this big ideas, but struggle to actually bringing them to life.
Understanding my nervous system and capacity was the missing piece. Isabel and Maia helped me come to peace within myself, to allow myself being where my feet are and choosing a slower pace without feeling that I am behind. I got crystal clear on my vision and what has kept me from reaching it yet. And I am now able to relax and trust (and enjoy!) the process of getting there.
The practices and tools we learned will stick with me for a long time and I noticed so many shifts within myself - from stronger boundaries, deeper discernment to more capacity for everything life holds in store for me.
Highly, highly recommended.
-Jarmila
If you are thinking of joining, let me assure you: it is so worth it! One of the best experiences I’ve had.
This program is an activator and a supporting net. You will feel the evolution in every week.
You will very naturally expand your vision and learn to see things differently. The two things I loved the most were: everything I learned about the brain & NS, and the incredible community support.
Maia and Isabel really know how to cultivate a magical space. If you are thinking of joining, let me assure you: it is so worth it! One of the best experiences I’ve had. I’d gladly keep on joining!
-Sabrina
Where to even begin? Joining A State to Create has been the most profound and transformative journey of my life.
I can hardly describe how much I've changed, the version of me before and the one I am now feel worlds apart : more confident, more aligned, and grounded in self-trust.
At first, I hesitated. I even skipped an edition because I wasn’t sure I wanted to invest all my savings into yet another program… But for the next round, I said: LET’S GO, also thanks to Isabel, who stood by me through every doubt and hesitation.
The magic of Isabel & Maia was a pure and magnetic energy. I felt truly seen, deeply guided, supported in integrating both who I am and who I’m becoming.
If you’re hesitating to join the next session PLEASE DON’T. If you know you need this, offering yourself this experience might just be the most meaningful gift you ever give yourself.
-Lola
Don’t think twice, just say yes! this is a catalysing container for whatever reason you’re coming here for.
As an online creator and psychotherapist in training, I was searching for a community that is able to blend authenticity and spirituality seamlessly in this modern age. And this community provided that and more but it also provided a safe space through the facilitators and members to show up as we are and to allow us ask whatever wild questions we had.
It was such an empowering space to be because truly we’re not meant to do this thing called life on our own. We thrive in community and this just might be the best online community you can find.
-Suzie
I'm incredibly grateful to have had this opportunity to meet the root of my fears in such a sacred container with other incredible humans doing similar work.
I am forever appreciative of healing space that Maia and Isabelle created that so gracefully held and allowed us to meet ourselves even deeper. ♡♡♡
-Mish
There is another way and Isabel and Maia are the best people to support you into your transformation!
I had been feeling stuck for 3 years or more into the same patterns, frozen and unable to change. Doubting it will ever change. Isabel and Maia's content gave me hope there's a different way and so I joined. Learning to listen to my body deeply made me realize pushing through was not the way. It made me realize the body has something to tell us, and that I have a choice to choose differently.
It's not a coincidence that after all this time I found the courage to ask for more by raising my rates as a freelance designer, something I have avoided for a long time. There is another way and Isabel and Maia are the best people to support you into your transformation!
-Erika
Investment
€3880–4400
(DEPENDING ON WHICH ROOM OPTION YOU CHOOSE)
€300 off if you’re seeing this right now (this is only available to ASTC alumni atm)
We have extra extended payment plans avaliable upon request
Dates
May 9th–15th
Serifos, Greece
Just a ~2-hour ferry from Athens’ main port — and once you arrive in Serifos, we’ll have transfers to the retreat available (and included).
About our space
A Luxury retreat space on the Edge of the Aegean
Perma Serifos is a sanctuary designed for those craving inspiration, peace, and a deeper return to self. Built into a secluded hillside with sweeping views of the sea, its architecture blends biophilic design, mindful minimalism, and the island’s natural textures into a harmonious, deeply calming environment.
Every room offers a private outdoor space with a private pool, premium linens, contemporary Cycladic design, and an atmosphere of slow, spacious elegance.
Sun-washed walls, organic materials, and intentional simplicity are the perfect place to host this experience.
Awarded best hotel of the year by Condé Nast and Vogue, the landscape itself will become part of our experience: a living backdrop for restoration, creativity, and the identity work we’ll be doing together.
Meet your guides
Hi, I’m Isabel - somatic practitioner, integrative psychotherapist, and creator of A State to Create.
The programme was born out of a 10 year career in a field I never actually wanted to be in, that wound me up with a shattered jaw and missing front teeth! This literal shock to the system triggered a series of events that led me to where I am today, taking the steps I longed to take many years before. The steps I wish I’d had clarity on, before I spent too long in an environment that was simply never for me.
This is a path I’ve walked myself, from knowing I wanted more and not being quite sure how to get there, to getting up and actively taking more for myself - making it happen, turning the thought into a thing - as Maia would say.
My work sits at the intersection of nervous system regulation and neuropsychology. The approach I’ve crafted isn’t about hacks, productivity or quick wins. It’s about creating sustainable change in the body and mind, so that you can hold the change this next level of yours requires.
Isabel
My name is Maia. I am a lot of things but if you ask me what I do, I’ll tell you I love flirting with the limits of possibility.
I've heard my clients call me an energetic coach, mindset coach, work and play mentor, but at the core, I help leaders move their visions into reality, and learn how to call in more while doing less, through expanding their capacity to hold more.
This work was born from my own dance with ambition and burnout—trying to do everything “right,” hitting milestone after milestone, but still feeling like something wasn’t clicking.
My turning point didn’t come in one big moment—it came in waves. The day I stopped pushing through. The day I stopped waiting to be ready. The day I finally built my life and work around how I actually felt—not just what I wanted to achieve.
My work lives at the intersection of vision, strategy, and embodiment. I’m so excited to teach you this revolutionary approach that changed my life: learning to create from clarity, momentum, and trust in yourself.
And living life from that place of personal power.
Because at the end, that is truly all you need.
Maia
You will return home as the version of you who
(01) Understands how to work with their nervous system: stabilizing their chemistry and accessing grounded clarity on demand.
(02) Trusts themselves at the physiological level — not as a mindset, but as a regulated baseline that makes follow-through inevitable.
(03) Leads from their full system, not just their high-functioning or “productive” parts, allowing presence, softness, intuition, and depth to guide their next chapter.
(04) Feels anchored in their emotional range and capacity, no longer collapsing, over-activating, or leaking energy into old survival patterns.
(05) Moves through decisions with clarity, conviction, and calm nervous system leadership instead of urgency, perfectionism, or fear.
(06) Reclaims the energy they’ve been losing to overthinking, anxiety loops, visibility blocks, and chronic self-protection.
And most of all, you’ll become the version of you whose identity is no longer an idea, but a state your body knows how to hold.
FAQ
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You will be flying into Athens (ATH). Ferries to Serifos depart from Piraeus Port, about 30–40 minutes from the airport by taxi. The ferry ride is roughly 2 hours.
When you arrive in Serifos, our team will be waiting to transport you to the retreat center (and this transport is included in your stay).
Please contact us with your travel plans so we can support and confirm logistics in advance.
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Not at all. Although there will be entrepreneurs and Maia and I are businesses owners ourselves, this retreat is the perfect environment to create the space, clarity, and nervous system capacity required for an idea to take shape.
A large portion of our community members come into our programs without a business—and leave with a fully monetizable one. What matters here is not your title, but your desire to grow into the next version of yourself.
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Airfare to and from Greece
Independent travel costs to and from the ferry port
Ferry tickets to Serifos
Accommodation outside the retreat dates
Traveler’s insurance (highly recommended)
Visa and entry fees (if applicable)
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In May on Serifos you can expect beautiful weather: warm sunny days and cooler evenings that invite light layers. Daytime temperatures average around 65-70 °F (18-21 °C), with very low chances for rainfall and plenty of sunshine.
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Location: Serifos, Greece
Venue: Perma Serifos
Check-in: 5pm Friday May 9th
Check-out: 11am on Thursday, May 15th
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The retreat officially begins on Friday May 9th, but if you can make a trip out of it and arrive to Greece a few days early to avoid jetlag and ground a bit, we highly recommend that.
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Please see our Terms and Conditions
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Absolutely. Many of our guests travel solo, and this retreat is designed to make that feel not just safe, but genuinely nourishing. From the moment you arrive in Serifos, you’ll be supported: we organize your port-to-retreat transfers, and the environment is intimate, welcoming, and deeply connective.
If you have an ASTC bestie or a friend that you want to bring into the retreat, let us know and we’ll put you in the same room!