Nectar
Women's Retreat, Greece
Andros Island | May 8–14, 2027
A luxury Greek island retreat for the woman ready to fill her cup.
There is a small island in Greece that most people never find. Hidden beaches, ancient spring waters, orange orchards, and a magic that sinks into your bones. This is NECTAR: a journey into the sweetness of life, a journey home to yourself.
The ancient Greeks had a phrase for it — the nectar of the gods. The sweetness that nourishes, restores and awakens. The elixir that reminds you what it feels like to be fully, gloriously alive.
NECTAR is an invitation to taste that sweetness for yourself. Through the land, through sacred practice, through deep nourishment and the medicine of sisterhood.
A 6-night pilgrimage for the woman ready to drink deeply from her own magic again.
For thousands of years, the ancient Greeks knew something we are only beginning to remember — that the earth herself is medicine...
That beauty is nourishment. That pleasure is sacred. That the sweetest life is one lived fully in the body, in nature, in sisterhood. NECTAR Retreat is woven from that ancient knowing. A week of slowing down, opening up, and drinking deeply — from the land, from sacred practice, and from the magic that lives inside each of us.
01 / Earth & Sea Medicine
The island of Andros is our teacher. Her spring waters, hidden beaches, ancient sites and orange orchards hold an ancient wisdom. You will be in nature, moved by nature, restored by nature — every single day.
02 / Sacred Feminine Practices
Sound healing journeys. Somatic practices. Ecstatic dance. Sensuality and senses immersion. Leadership visioning. Sacred gatherings and ceremony. Each practice is a portal back into your body, your magic, your aliveness.
03 / Deep Nourishment
This is not a go-go-go retreat. Here we slow down, deeply enjoy, and encounter. Private chef meals made with local ingredients. Slow mornings, cozy evenings, and a pace that lets you land. This is nourishment in every form.
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Villa Perivoli, Andros
We spend 7 days at Villa Perivoli — a 200 year old manor house, on the island of Andros. This luxury home has been beautifully renovated while honoring its original traditional thick stone walls and arches.
The property sits among a lush, 3-acre orchard of citrus and olive trees, with its own organic vegetable garden. A large kidney shaped pool sits at the heart of it all, surrounded by ancient cypress trees, fertile farmland and fruit orchards. A stream runs just outside the property, ebbing out to Paraporti beach — a 20 minute walk away, ideal for swimming.
Andros is the kind of place that feels like a secret. The second largest of the Cyclades, she sits just two hours by ferry from Athens — and yet most travelers never find her. Rolling green hills, ancient cobblestone villages, crystal clear spring waters, pristine beaches.
The locals still live by the rhythm of the earth. The orchards are heavy with orange blossom. The water is impossibly blue. The air smells like honey and wild herbs and the sea.
Andros was chosen for NECTAR because she is NECTAR. Ancient, alive, abundant, unhurried. She will hold you in ways you didn't know you needed.
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The VISION
NECTAR was born from a deep knowing — that the most powerful thing a feminine leader can do is fill her own cup.
Fully. Unapologetically. With beauty and pleasure and magic and rest. This is a week of basking in the woman you are beneath the roles, responsibilities, leading and giving. Of drinking in the beauty, joy and deliciousness of life. Of coming home to your senses, your body, your magic.
The Practices
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We drop out of doing and into being, using the wisdom of the body to release, soften and return to yourself.
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Using vibration as a portal inward, sound and channeled voice can activate, inspire, and clear what is ready to be released.
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We let the body lead, moving freely to open to our own body's wisdom, joy and inner nectar.
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A full, luscious dive into embodiment — awakening pleasure, beauty and aliveness through the senses, incredible food & a mindful eating experience, oil anointing rituals, and more.
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Guest Facilitator Meg Vellejos McCoy will guide us in an incredible playshop where we explore imagination as a leadership skill — opening us to a more generous vision of life and leadership.
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Ceremonies and rituals with the land, sea, and ourselves to honor, celebrate, reclaim and seal everything the week has opened in you.
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Most afternoons we journey on the island: ancient sites, spring waters, mountains and the sea become our teachers, mirrors, and medicine.
What makes
NECTAR different…
✧ Off the Beaten Path Paradise
Andros Island is not Santorini. She is off the beaten path, untouched, and utterly magical. She is the kind of place that changes you just by being there.
✧ The Intimacy
Seven women. This is not a large group retreat. It is a deeply intimate sisterhood container where every woman is truly seen, held and supported.
✧ Your Guide
Sara Southerland has spent years holding sacred retreat space and has produced events for thousands of people throughout her career. She is a wizard of details AND of ceremony — weaving the mystical with the practical so you feel taken care of on every level.
✧ The Nourishment
Food, beauty, pleasure and rest are not afterthoughts here — they are the medicine. Every meal, every excursion, every sensory experience is part of the healing.
✧ The Pace
Nourishing mornings in circle. Journey afternoons. Cozy evenings. The rhythm of NECTAR is intentional — designed to let your nervous system land and your soul breathe.
✧ Your Own Path is Honored
This is a nondogmatic space. In many spiritual spaces there is one way of doing things — one path, one truth. Here, every practice and experience is designed to help you connect more deeply with your own inner wisdom and your own unique way.
Sacred Details
7 days / 6 nights on a magical island
An oasis of beauty in Greece — Andros Island is the hidden gem of the Cyclades. Pristine beaches, ancient spring waters, rolling hills, cobblestone villages and a pace of life that feels sacred.
Immerse your Senses
Slow. Sensory. Sacred. Intimate. Alive. Think bare feet on warm sand and stone, candlelit dinners, dips in the pool, sun kissed afternoon meanders, tasting the sweetness of life.
Earth & Sea Medicine
We will be in nature daily — visiting ancient spring waters, wandering hidden beaches, hiking through rolling hills to sacred sites, sitting among orange orchards. This land really holds you.
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Getting here
Nearest airport: Athens
Athens to Andros Island: 1-2 hours by Ferry
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Arrivals/Departure
Arrive: May 8 at 2pm
Depart: May 14 at 12pm
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Rooms
2 single suites available
2 double occupancy suites available
Nectar: Women’s Retreat
Your experience includes:
7 days/ 6 nights accommodation at our private villa on Andros
All Meals — 3 meals a day + snacks
2 Special Coursed Farm-to-Table Dinners
Nectar Goodie Bag
Round trip transport from Rafina Port to Retreat
All Island Excursions — spring waters, hidden beaches, ancient sites, Chora
Special Retreat Extras
Private Chef
Our private chef cooks us 3 meals a day, bringing the very best of the island to our table. Think artisanal, farm to table Greek inspired cooking at its finest — fresh caught seafood, in season produce, Mediterranean flavors — Food that is as beautiful as it is nourishing.
Island Adventures
Most afternoons we venture out into the island — ancient spring waters, hidden beaches, the rolling hills, quaint villages, and sacred sites. Andros is truly a land of heaven on earth, and we have time to receive all of her gifts. All excursions are included.
Exploring Chora
The capital village of Andros, Chora, is a jewel — cobblestone streets, whitewashed walls, the most beautiful little shops and restaurants perched above the Aegean Sea. We will wander her streets, eat, explore and fall a little in love.
Your Retreat Guide
Hello loves, I'm Sara Southerland —
a women's mentor, seasoned space holder, sound healer and guide dedicated to helping women step into their power and remember the magic of who they are.
For the last 10 years I have been guiding retreats and transformative experiences, producing events for thousands of people throughout my career.
What I know is this: Every detail is part of the medicine. I am gifted in both logistics AND ceremony, weaving the mystical with the practical so that you can fully let go and trust that you are completely taken care of.
NECTAR is the retreat I have been dreaming of for years(!) — since I first stepped foot on Andros… I knew would bring women back one day.
I cannot wait to welcome you, love.
Nectar Investment
After your $800 deposit has been made,
you can pay the rest in full, or over 3 payments (Nov/Jan/Mar)