the art of living - The Grange

SKYROSHOLIDAYSPressSkyros has been the subject of numerousfeatures in the British and foreign pressover the years. The very short extracts onthis page represent only a tiny sample ofthe vast publicity given to an organisationwhich does not even have a PR department.The Birmingham Post 17 March 2007I was stunned when I saw them. They (theAtsitsa group) looked transformed. A weekearlier these had been pasty, stressedfaces and bodies, yet they now lookedrejuvenated. And it wasn’t just the tan. Ofcourse, our Skyros Centre group was thesame, but we hadn’t noticed it among ourselves.Clive LeightonJewish Chronicle 2 March 2007Skyros is different because it is opening upparticipants to possibilities. What you takeback from this island is more than you getfrom a typical holiday. Sharon GarfinkelDaily Express September 2006After a week on the island of Skyros, I feelfitter, calmer and braver than I have for along time. It felt as though we were closeto nature and, as time went on, close toeach other. Rachel BairdGreece Magazine February 2006Tonight there’s a full moon and we’re planningcelebrations - a healing in the magiccircle, a late night walk to the threshingfield, a skinny-dipping party...I’ll join thechill out dancers on the bar terrace.Crysse MorrisonElle September 2005Abandoning every last vestige of dignity, Ifind myself humming to this group of strangers.Later on, I look in the mirror and decidemy eyes are beautiful. Something hasdefinitely shifted in the way I see myself.Sunday Tribune July 2005Returning home after a week on Skyros waslike waking up from a dream: when friendsasked how it was, it was hard to think of anythingmore specific to say than an expansive‘wonderful’. Roberta GrayTLS June 2005Welcome to the world of honouring, empowerment,openness, issues, respect andconcern. Hugo WilliamsSunday Telegraph, AU, March 2004The games people play on the Greek islandof Skyros have nothing to do with fitness,stamina or winning medals. Instead they’reall about conquering your fears, freeingyour spirit and having the sort of fun youprobably haven’t since you were a kid.Paul MansfieldInStyle Magazine January 2003Walking on to the balcony of the centre,lit by candles, nested in the hill-top villageof Skyros, I did think ‘this is heaven’.Gaynor Faye‘ To read Skyros press coverage is to choke onclichéd words like “life changing”, “transforming”.Yet at the end of two weeks, Skyros hasbeen all of these.’Kate Rew, The ObserverThe Guardian 20 October 2001Atsitsa’s greatest achievement lies in its abilityto create a climate that makes possible a meetingof minds in which the barriers of age andgender dissolve and people experience thatrarest of treats – simply being valued for whothey are. Moyra BremnerMarie Claire November 1999In the evenings, we got together in the bar todiscuss our personal triumphs and insights witha renewed enthusiasm for life. Kerry Clark24