About This Event
A luxury, nervous system-focused retreat for visionaries, leaders, and creators ready to expand their capacity for higher levels of success, visibility, and intimacy.
Most people try to change their lives from the top down:
Strategy → Mindset → Willpower → Habit-building → Analysis
Those things have their place. But you’re asking your nervous system to carry a lot: high visibility, financial success, intimate relationships, responsibility, ambition – and everything life inevitably brings with it.
The problem is that what you override doesn’t disappear. Stress, grief and resistance still take up physiological capacity. The more you override, the less room you have left to hold what you’re asking for.
What’s missing is the capacity to feel, process and stay present while life gets bigger.
So we work from the physiological layer alongside the cognitive, drawing on Somatic Experiencing®, NARM and DARe-informed principles to work with the patterns your nervous system developed to keep you safe – but that may now be limiting what you can hold.
Insight alone doesn’t change a survival pattern. First, we build the capacity to stay present. Then we ask more of the mind.
Who It’s For
12 people, operating at the same level. Not spectating, but doing their own work alongside you.
For the person who holds themselves to a standard most people would find exhausting to even think about. For the leader who wants to be known not for what they’ve achieved, but for how they showed up for the people who matter most to them, for the kind of presence that makes everyone around them want to level up, too.
For the visionary who isn’t just chasing success, but the version of themselves capable of actually holding it when it comes to their leadership, their relationships, in their own body.
This is for someone who refuses to be ordinary anywhere in their life.
Not because they have something to prove. Because they already know what they’re capable of, and they’re not interested in anything less.
What’s Included
– Six nights at Perma in Serifos, with natural stone, ocean views and unobtrusive minimalism.
– Fresh island ingredients and seasonal Greek produce prepared by our private chef Afendoula, with dietary requirements catered for.
– Dedicated group somatic work with Isabel, alongside complementary 1:1 slots available to book throughout the retreat.
– Creative integration through ceramics. Daily strength, mobility and movement with Loewi. Beach excursions and island hikes.
– And plenty of spacious downtime, because expansion doesn’t only happen during the deep work.
What to Expect:
Six themes, one throughline.
The retreat is structured to follow a simple order: Physiology first, cognition second, and integration throughout.
Mapping the Baseline: NS 101 | become.
Build a practical fluency in the language of your nervous system, so you can notice activation in real time and work with it without becoming overwhelmed.
Clearing the Channel | clarify.
Identify where your energy is being pulled into old coping strategies, subtle bracing and patterns that once kept you safe but may now be limiting what you can hold.
Updating the Shame Response | accept.
Explore the physiological architecture of shame and, through your new tools, begin separating your authentic self from the protective pattern built around it.
Deconstructing the Narrative | believe.
Get precise about what you actually want, what kind of relationships, salary, or lifestyle, and begin choosing beliefs consciously rather than defaulting to inherited scripts.
Expanding the Relational Window | attune.
Experience your attachment system and co-regulation through partner work, intentional eye contact and tracking the micro-movements of connection and disconnection.
Envisioning the Possibility | create.
Use visualisation and somatic practices to map three major life-long dreams, the groundwork each one needs, and the first real step towards each.
And then you go home.
This is the part most transformational experiences don’t have enough space for. That’s why four weeks after you leave Serifos, we’ll reconvene as a group online for an integration session.
It’s roughly the window in which new nervous-system patterns either consolidate into baseline or get overridden by old environments, routines and relational dynamics.
The point is to create something you can always carry with you.
Sample Daily Rhythm / Program Outline
(Subject to gentle shifts based on group energy and weather)
– Welcome, arrival & grounding circle / intention-setting + gentle somatic work
– Time for walks, sea/nature, reflection, writing, solo rest.
Deposit & Cancellation Policy
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Isabel Georgina Taylor
I’m a somatic practitioner, integrative psychotherapist, and founder of a state to create+, based in Athens.
The programme was born out of a 10-year career in a field I never wanted to be in, a traumatic experience and the subsequent shock to the system that finally forced the question I’d been avoiding:
What would it actually take me to build the life I wanted, at last?
That question changed it all.
This is a path I’ve walked myself – from knowing I wanted more and not being sure how to get there, to moving to Greece to reconnect with my roots, leaving a 10-year career behind and actively going after and holding more for myself.
Making it happen. Turning my vision into my lived experience.
My work sits at the intersection of nervous-system regulation and neuroscience. This is about sustainable change in both the body and mind, so you can hold what this next level of you will really require.
I’ve had to build that capacity myself. Now I help others do the same.
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