Experience Holy Week in Greece through the lens of food, faith, and living tradition during this intimate week with Kara Seymour of Pasta & Prayers, created for women.

Based at Odyssey Farm in Galatas, on the Peloponnese coast just across the water from Poros Island, the week unfolds between the slow rhythms of farm life, the nearby island village, and the sacred traditions of Orthodox Easter. We’ll stay at the Odyssey Organic Farm & Eco Glamping explore the island of Poros, visit a local monastery, travel to Ancient Corinth, cook together, make handmade pasta, and experience traditional Greek Easter foods and customs along the way.

The week also leaves space to simply soak up the landscape, wander the waterfront, swim in the Mediterranean sea, explore the village, slow down at the farm, and experience the way faith, food, and community come together in this part of Greece.

From the candlelit Good Friday Epitaphios procession and the Midnight Resurrection Service, to a joyful Easter Sunday feast at the farm filled with food, music, and celebration, this is an opportunity to experience Holy Week not as a spectator, but from within a place where these traditions are still very much alive.

And because this trip is for women only, it's going to be a rich time of sisterhood: gathering around the fire, sharing our stories and testimonies, praying for one another, worshiping, laughing, (probably some crying too) and having the kinds of conversations that happen when women have the time and space to truly be together.

Sister, if you've been longing for a week to slow down, get away, deepen your walk with Jesus, experience a beautiful new culture, and share it all with a circle of women seeking the same things, come join us!

Meet Your Guides

Kare Seymour

Kara is overjoyed to share her deep love and joyful obsession for making homemade pasta during this second annual sacred pilgrimage. In the summer of 2024, after completing a long water fast in preparation for her baptism, she felt led by the Holy Spirit to take her very first pasta making class (a beautiful God story for another time). She walked out of that class with a 55-pound bag of Italian flour, a hand-crank pasta machine, and a spark that quickly became a daily ritual. For nearly a year, she made pasta from scratch almost every single day.

Just weeks after learning to make pasta, Kara began hosting a weekly gathering called Pasta & Prayers, a rhythm that has continued faithfully for over two years now. Each week, women gather at her cozy 150 year old mountain cabin to feast, fellowship, worship, and pray, an experience that has woven together community, nourishment, and spiritual intimacy.

Kara also leads an online faith-based women’s community with hundreds of women from around the world, all seeking to grow deeper in their faith and experience the richness of true sisterhood. Within this community she teaches monthly pasta classes, leads regular fellowship calls and has recently begun inviting other community members to share their gifts and wisdom and lead their own classes and events.

Though Kara does not come from a professional culinary background, she was taught and inspired throughout her life by her Greek mother, whose exceptional cooking instilled in her a reverence for hospitality, flavor, and food made with love.

As a woman who is half Greek and visiting Greece now for the second time, Kara considers this pilgrimage during Holy Week, to be beyond a dream come true. The chance to stand on the soil of her ancestors, to teach the craft she loves, and to gather women around food and faith is a blessing she holds with deep gratitude and reverence.

Katerina Sakelliou- Chef, Author, Wellness Educator

Katerina will be sharing her profound wisdom and love of greek food with us daily, whether teaching us some of her favorite dishes and/or simply serving us up a feast. Katerina is from Poros, Greece, and the owner of the Odyessy Farm. She grew up learning to cook in her family's restaurant, Spiros, following generations of culinary tradition. Since the mid-2000s, she has been teaching Greek cooking workshops at her bistro on Poros Island welcoming guests from around the world. Katerina's approach to cooking reflects her deep respect for family traditions, the environment, and the connection between food and culture. Her passion is rooted in a lifelong commitment to sharing the love of Greek cuisine.

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Jeremy Rock Smith - our trip coordinator

Chef Jeremy Rock Smith is the founder of Rock Solid Living Retreats and has spent the past three years organizing and leading culinary & cultural immersions in Greece, Sardinia, and beyond. Jeremy’s primary role will be as the trip organizer. He’ll be the point person for pre-registration questions, housing, arrival and departure planning, ferry connections, transfers, and the other travel details that help everyone get to Greece smoothly and safely and home again.

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🌿 What You’ll Experience

• Shared meals

• Evening prayer, testimony and worship

• Lectures and hands-on cooking classes

• Excursions to monasteries, churches, beaches and holy sites

• Explore the history, rituals, and symbolism of Greek Holy Week and step into the kitchen to prepare traditional dishes tied to the season and its meaning.

• Travel to places where early Christianity took root, walk the grounds where saints and apostles once stood, and immerse yourself in the cultural and spiritual landscape of Greece.

• Close each day gathered around the table and in community, reflecting on the themes of Holy Week through conversation, prayer, and quiet contemplation.

🌿 Who This Retreat Is For

• Whether you’re already firmly rooted in your faith or feel called to return to a life of devotion and spiritual meaning, this retreat offers a space to deepen and renew your relationship with God/Jesus/Holy Spirit.

• Women longing for fellowship with other sisters

• Anyone drawn to experience the sacred traditions of Greek Holy Week

• For those who feel a pull toward ancient ritual, symbolism, and the living traditions that have shaped Christianity for centuries.

• If you come alive through making and sharing meals, learning, experiencing new places, reflecting, and gathering with sisters.