Yasas !!!!

Hey, this is Claudia from Brazil, I'm volunteering at Kalikalos at the moment. I was in Anilio, our sister centre about 5km away, last week and it is a very beautiful place where you can be more in contact with the nature. This is my 3rd week here, I'm having so much fun, there is a different energy surrounding us every day. The village is nice, the beaches are awesome and I would recommend this place to anyone. You won't believe the sunrises... if you wake up early enough =P

Our Experience in Kalikalos

Hello from Kalikalos!

Here Hania and Georg, from Argentina and Germany. We are travelling through communities and landed in this amazing experimental project led by Jock Millenson. We are really amazed and surprised to find this mixture of vacations, seminars and comunal life. Quite a challenge!!!!

In our morning meeting, speaking about vision, lots of reactions came in...We had only one minute to express our opinions, hopes, observations and personal visions about Kalikalos and comunal life in general. This was great, because it led us to be essential.

So, we would like to share with you our 'minute'...
Having visited other communities around America, we find Kalikalos as an pioneer laboratory to learn day by day living in the New Earth, as it is today. We are challenged to mix and put together very different stages of life. How to do it...? These are some of the conclusions of this morning:

Give up our big western Egos, make lighter our "psicological luggage", learn to be simple, fast and effective. And understand that no matters how many success, or degrees we have, we are all in a kindergarden of communal life. Love and flexibility, are the priorities. Leave your old world behind and begin to be innocent and willing to learn again as a child. Pure love and high tolerance are our highest intentions to achieve. We try and try every day, it is no so easy...but is possible.

Any way, this is an exeptionally beautyfull spot, with blue waters and mysterious mountains around, led by an experienced guide like Jock, who lived in Findhorn, and can share a lot with us, gipsies and eternal seekers. We recommend everybody to come over and participate.

Blessings to all.

Hania & Gerog

Walk to Tympani Kissos

Yesterday, Mark took me on an incredible walk. Our journey was to Tympani Kissos, or the drum of Kissos. There is reason behind the name. Tympani Kissos is a place where rushing spring water comes gushing down Mt. Pelion in torential rapids and strikes the ancient rock below making the sound similar to that of mallets beating on a drum. When we arrived, the water was flowing slowly, and it made the sound more similar to a snare drum than a tympani drum, but what can you expect in july when it is in the eighties or nineties every day. Once the water rushed off the mountain it fell into a gorgeous clear pool. How refreshing this pool of ice-cold spring water must be on a hot summer's day. Unfortunately, Mark and I deemed it too dangerous to climb down to the pool because we weren't sure we could make it back up. So we spent the better part of an hour at Tympani Kissos and departed on a different route than we came on.

The route that we arrived on was quite spectacular. Mark, a seasoned hiker of Pelion told me he only discovered the route four years ago from a shepherd he met on his journey.

To be brief, we basically followed concrete channels and pipes that had been built for the purpose of diverting water from the spring to the villages of Mt. Pelion. At first we followed a concrete channel through the forest. This channel must have been hundreds of years old. There were parts of our walk were we had to balance on the channel, as we crossed the mountainside. Eventually we observed more modern channeling of the water through pipes. We continued our adventure through the forest and eventually heard the rapid rushing of water--we knew we were getting close.

On the last leg of our journey we had to traverse along a narrow path etched into a rock face where we had to crouch to avoid hitting our heads. We then heard the water rushing strong and "beating on the rock below". The last thing we had to do was to crawl through a dark mountain tunnel to get to the rock face overlooking the rushing water and the pool. This was an amazing walk and it was excellent to know that I had traveled one of the least-traveled paths in Pelion to see one of the most amazing sites in Pelion.

Jeremy Zaks, Queens New York

Course in Miracles at Kalikalos

Well, I've just spent two weeks on a beautiful mountain called PILION in mainland Greece close to the Aegean sea, staying at Kalikalos Holistic retreat centre in Kissos village. And what a blessing, in every way.

I came here to attend a FORGIVENESS workshop with COURSE IN MIRACLES teacher, Annie Blampied, from Sussex, England. Everything was great about this Centre, from its host, former academic psychologist Jock Millenson (a very experienced community leader) to the workshop with Annie, and what I would call "the community spirit". something that is hard to put in words, but is definitely alive and well here.

Till now I have lived mostly on my own or with my family, but here I found I really do like this community living. In fact I like it so well, that I think I will bring more of it to my own life. And when i can, come back here again probably.


We five participants (me and four women!) of the workshop dug deep in the sessions and faced our deepest shadows and we sure did let in some light! I would recommend Annie's workshops to anyone interested in improving their life situation, and where better to do it than in brilliant sunshine (despite us hitting a freaky June where the weather was hotter and sunnier back home in Surrey than it was here in Greece for a change) and on the beaches of the Pelion peninsula, still unspoilt by foreign tourism.

So I say, come out to Kalikalos and experience it for yourself!

Freddy Brant, Sutton, Surrey

Joys of Greek Vegetarian Cookery

We came together, three people from 3 different parts of the world and very different backgrounds. There was Mozza-a Finnish Norwegian Aussie; Caruthers aka Geoffrey-a crusty former Briton from Athens, and Peckhampam. Not forgetting Geoffrey’s companions Daisy and Toto the dogs and Archibald the tortoise, who hovered at the kitchen door expectantly.


From day one we hit it off and had fun, fun, fun, and cooking in the sun. Not only did we enjoy ourselves but so did everyone there who ate the food which had been prepared with love and humour, and NO stress. The two highlights on the food front were the feta and roast garlic turnovers (Daisy liked these as well snatching one from the hands of the guru-man) and the sundried tomato fritters which baked for two days on the marble stairs in the Aegean sun.



It wasn’t all cooking. There were early morning swims, taverna evenings by the sea at Damouhari where Mama Mia was filmed, and excursions in the beautiful Pilion.

Pam Cohen, London SE15

May 2009 Workcamp

Hello there!

I've been in the paradise of Pellion now in the top mainland of Greece for ten days, typing this in a café opposite the golden sands and peaceful turquoise sea. I have been very lucky to experience a very enjoyable time on this work camp in the Kalikalos holistic center. We have all been working hard to complete the work: a beautiful garden and living space for the people who'll be arriving for workshops in the coming weeks. A big project of ours that was completed yesterday was the roundhouse group space that took many hours to complete but is now an impressive structure and will be used for the workshops during the summer.

I have also been helping with gardening and the planting, cooking and cleaning and of course enjoying time at the local beaches and tavernas for refreshing swims and fabulous feta! I have learnt a lot about how a community works and the challenges it faces. How different people are and yet connected by an underlying force where-by everyone wishes to reach happiness in their lives. I feel it has been very good experience to be put in a situation whereby the people you live with here were strangers but soon become friends in your effort to achieve development in the Kalikalos community and its holistic ethos.


We have also been enjoying a workshop with Dr Helen Ford 'How to Be truly Happy' where students learnt how to explore there feelings related to there past and current events, to learn how to channel there feelings in a positive and more constructive way. Me and my friend Beth Phillips who is a complementary therapist in Norwich also offered Holistic Massage to the tired workforce. Here is a photo of us offering aromatherapy to Tim, known as Mr Bowen for the many Bowen sessions that he gave to nearly everyone at the camp.

We of course didn't get up to just hard work; there was plenty of opportunity to express and enjoy ourselves at the local taverna's, and at a party we held in Monica's room one night, where an array of talents were exhibited such as cross dressing, singing through pipe, bongo drumming and body painting!


I would highley recommend the work camp as it is very inspirational and i have gained a lot from it, living in this alternative holiday setting and making new friends. I feel I have developed my inner self to a more creative and higher level! I hope to return here for a future project soon.

Titania Fisher
22 years old.Norfolk.U.k

Final Day of Workcamp

The beginning of the end of the work camp was last night . We celebrated with a bottle of champagne(special offer-slightly vinegary!) and a three course meal, as the succesful negotiations for next year are now in the hands of the lawyers. Jock has already started planning workshops for next year and we are looking forward to being back at Kalikalos. But do still let us know if you know of anywhere bigger near here so we can expand.






The work camp has ended in glorious sunshine on a deserted beach.


We were so keen to get to the beach that we were up early, posponed the circle sharing to the evening, and were hard at it cleaning the kitchen and doing all the last minute jobs (that increase as you do them).


Jock needed to do official closures (telephone etc) so we left him hard at it in Zagora, while we sat in the square and took it easy. He joined us in relaxing once we
reached the beach.



There were six or seven people on the first beach, too many for us , so we moved to the adjacent beach where there was just us as you can see. October bliss in Greece!



Now we are off to the taverna on a balmy night with the moon pink and reflecting in the sea.




It's a hard life on a work camp!


Pam Cohen, Jilly Cooke and Judith Bone--the last survivors of the May 2008 workcamp.