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Deep Blue Exhale | An Immersive Retreat with Tanya Savitri Popovich
- 28 Nov - 05 Dec 2026
- Red Sea, Egypt
Join this week-long immersive retreat designed to soothe the nervous system, restore your inner balance, and reconnect you with the elemental intelligence of the sea.
Held aboard a yacht on the Red Sea, this experience weaves together yoga, sound healing, breathwork, Yoga Nidra, movement meditations, and the profound magic of swimming with dolphins in their natural habitat.
This retreat is crafted as a full-body exhale — a space to soften, recalibrate, and return to yourself.
What You’ll Experience
Morning Practices
Hatha Vinyasa Yoga (All Levels) Gentle, energizing flows that awaken the body and attune you to the rhythm of the sea.
Movement Meditation Fluid, intuitive sessions guided by the natural sway of the yacht, inviting presence and embodied ease.
Energizing & Balancing Breathwork Dynamic pranayama to ignite vitality, clear the mind, and prepare you for the day’s encounters — including the unforgettable moments with dolphins.
Evening Practices
Yin Resonance Long-held Yin postures paired with sound vibrations to release deep tension and soothe the fascia.
Nada Yoga (Yoga of Sound) A meditative exploration of resonance and subtle listening, amplified by the vastness of open water.
Restorative Breathwork Slow, rhythmic breathing to downshift the nervous system and support emotional release.
Guided Deep Relaxation Yoga Nidra and visualization practices that invite profound rest and inner spaciousness.
This is more than a getaway — it’s a nervous system reset. A chance to breathe differently, move differently, and reconnect with the deeper intelligence within you.
The Atmosphere
Expect a retreat shaped by the elements:
sunrise practices on the deck
the gentle rocking of the sea
open-sky evenings
deep quiet at night
the awe of meeting dolphins in the wild
Every moment is designed to support nervous system regulation, emotional softening, and a return to natural rhythm.
Dates: November 28 – December 5, 2026
Location: Red Sea, Egypt
Hosted by: MBS Cyprus & Shri Gaia Institute
The training program is directed by Tanya Savitri Popovich, founder of Shri Gaia Institute and the creator and director of its training programs, Certified Yoga Teacher with a 20-year yoga experience and Leadership Coach with a 10-year corporate coaching experience.
Tanya is a certified Yoga and Meditation teacher with a 20-year teaching experience, a certified Hypnotherapist specializing in trauma release and a Sound Healer. She is the founder of Shri Gaia Institute and the creator and director of its training programs. Tanya has been teaching 200hr and 500hr Hatha Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training programs across Asia and Europe for the past 14 years in over 20 countries, and more recently Yin Resonance®, Metta Ecstatic Dance, Pranayama Teacher Training, Vital Wheels – yoga psychology through the chakric system, and other continuing education programs. Tanya has also been invited to direct other schools’ training programs in Finland, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. Her experience in Yoga, Hypnotherapy, and Leadership through mind and body practices has led her to be a sought-after Leadership Coach in numerous international companies, including Airbus and Thales Group.
As a teenager and young adult, Tanya studied Fine Art, Dance and practised Transcendental Meditation, travelled extensively through India and trained in various classical and modern styles of Yoga. She is a lover of yoga philosophy and can take her students effortlessly down the rabbit hole of amusing yogic thought. More recently Tanya has completed her MA in Indigenous Studies, with a focus on Myth, Storytelling and Dance. Her experience in all these modalities has culminated in a plethora of rich training programs of the highest calibre, where she gives her students selflessly all her knowledge and experience in hope to preserve the old traditions and the way communities came together in the past.
Lena Michael will be facilitating the sound healing sessions throughout the whole training.
Lena is a trained Reiki Master Teacher, Sound & Frequency Healer, Ceremonial Cacao Practioner & Crystal Therapist. She has trained in various other healing arts including SCHH Quantum Hypnotherapy & has found that combining a fusion of healing modalities together with intention & visualisation can have powerful & deeply transformative effects on our journey back to wholeness.
She is the creator of White Lotus Crystal, a space in Nicosia, Cyprus where she offers Cacao Ceremonies, Sound & Frequency Healing, Meditation Journeys, Tibetan Bowl Vibrational Body Therapy, Solfeggio Frequency Tuning Forks, Crystal Therapy, Reiki Initiations, Munay-Ki Rite of the Womb & Women’s Circles. Her offerings are in group settings, personal 1:1 sessions, couples sessions, private groups & online sessions.
She uses a combination of Crystal Singing Bowls, Tibetan Bowls, Ocean Drum, Rain Stick, Shamanic Drum, Gongs, Chimes, Rattles, Koshi Chimes, Tinza Bells, Rav Pans, Monochord, Angelic Therapy Harp & Frequency Tuning Forks. Sound & Vibrational healing is an ancient healing technique that uses tonal frequencies to help you to clear energetic blockages & thus facilitate healing on a physical & mental level. The frequency of the sound synchronises with the brainwaves, slowing them down to a deeply restorative state of vibrational balance, coherence & harmony.
Her vision is to combine energy healing modalities, sounds, frequencies, vibrations & movement that assist us on our inner healing journey. When reconnecting with Mother Earth we are raising our own personal frequency & by co-creating with each other, we assist in raising the frequency of the collective.
Connect with Lena at
FB: WhiteLotusCrystalCy
IG: @whitelotuscrystal.cy
Email: whitelotuscrystal@gmail.com
Tel: (00357) 99355006
