THE EPIDAVRIAN LONGEVITY RESET
August 29- September 5, 2026

Recreate Your Inner Landscape |  Renew Your Body  | Redesign Your Life

A seven-day longevity immersion in the mountains of Epidavros, combining
advanced medical purification therapies, conscious nutrition, and transformational practices.

Ray and Nina  Crist & Dr. Joanna Graka
Limited Spots 
Starting at $3,400

Begin Your Healing Journey

Price Includes: Airport pick up and drop off, accommodation, breakfast, lunch, and one 1:1 healing session with Ray or Nina
Does not include: Airfare, Dr.Ioannas consultation, treatments in the clinic.  

At the heart of the Epidaurian Longevity Reset is a simple yet profound intention: to give the body and mind the space to pause, restore, and fully reset on every level. Removed from the noise of daily life, set in the laylines of the ancient healing temple, participants are invited into a deeply nurturing environment where healing unfolds naturally. A physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual reset. This is not just a retreat, but a recalibration of one’s entire system and life.

Ray guides participants through powerful shamanic tools to cut cords with negative energies, journeys helping each person reconnect with their inner world and discover their power animal. Through these experiences, you may encounter guiding forces—saints, gods, archetypes, or spiritual allies—who offer insight, protection, and direction. These journeys are designed to awaken inner strength, clarity, and a renewed sense of purpose, empowering you to walk your path with confidence and deeper awareness.

Nina Crist brings her lifetime of martial arts mastery into gentle yet deeply transformative practices of Qi Gong and Tai Chi. She will guide you through personalized sequences that harmonize the organs, strengthen the body, and cultivate vital energy. More than just an experience, Nina offers you a practical sequence you can carry home—a lifelong tool to support balance, resilience, and overall well-being long after the retreat has ended.

Dr. Ioanna Gaka offers a unique opportunity for deep physical detoxification through the Inuspheresis blood filtration treatment. This advanced process supports the removal of heavy metals, pathogens, parasites, pesticides, and literally hundreds of other harmful substances that can accumulate in the body over time. By clearing these toxins, the body is given a chance to restore clarity, boost energy, and reduce the risk of chronic conditions that often develop silently over the years.

As you leave this retreat, you do not simply return to your life—you return renewed. With a clear and sharp mind, a lighter and stronger body, and a deeper connection to yourself, you carry with you powerful practices, new perspectives, and a sense of vitality that reshapes how you live. This experience becomes a turning point, opening the door to a more aligned, energized, and awakened way of being.

Dr. Ioana Gaka - The Inuspheresis reset.

Recreate Your Inner Landscape
Renew Your Body. Redesign Your Life.

Dr. Ioanna Gaka brings forth more than 20 years of experience in the medical field and is the director of the Inuspheresis clinic in Athens, Greece.  She has helped hundreds of people through combining advanced medical purification therapies, conscious nutrition, and transformational practices. 

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Ray Crist - Cultivating the integrated self

Ray has spent over twenty years traveling the world in search of authentic healing traditions and the masters who carry them. From Johns Hopkins and the NIH to the Jungles of Peru, inspired by the ancient healing lineage of the Temple of Asclepius in Epidaurus, he now offers transformative retreats in this sacred landscape.

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Nina Crist – Tai Chi & Inner Balance

Through gentle flowing sequences, practitioners learn to release tension, improve circulation, and reconnect with their center. Nina guides students to feel rather than force, encouraging softness, presence, and responsiveness. In this space, balance is not something to achieve, but something to remember.

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Renewing the Body's Inner Rivers

The ancient Greeks believed that health begins with the purity of the body's internal flows.

Modern medicine now understands that the bloodstream is indeed the body’s central river of life.

One of the innovative therapies offered during this retreat is therapeutic blood purification, INUSpheresis treatment.

This medical process filters blood through a specialized system that removes inflammatory substances, toxins, and harmful proteins and more.

During this process:

• Blood is gently drawn from the body
• Specific substances linked to inflammation or toxicity are filtered out
• The purified blood is returned to circulation

The intention is to support the body in restoring balance and improving circulation, cellular hydration, and vitality.

In the context of this retreat, this therapy becomes part of a broader philosophy:

Creating a new river of life within the body.

A river that no longer carries the patterns of the past.



Why the Epidavrian Longevity Reset?

Modern life overwhelms the nervous system and slowly drains the body of vitality.

Constant stimulation, processed food, environmental toxins, and emotional stress accumulate within our inner environment.

Over time this internal landscape begins to shape our health, our energy, and even our life direction.

The Arcadian Longevity Reset was created to interrupt this pattern.

For seven days you step out of your normal life and enter a carefully designed environment where the body can reset, the mind can clear, and a new future can begin to take shape.

This is not simply a retreat.

It is a complete recalibration of your inner ecosystem.

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The Philosophy: Your Inner Landscape

Every thought, emotion, and internal state shapes how we experience the world.

When our inner environment becomes cluttered—with stress, toxins, unresolved emotions, or mental noise—our outer life often reflects this imbalance.

At the Longevity Retreat, we focus on three layers of renewal:

Mental Clarity

Clearing the mind from constant stimulation and stress.

Emotional Release

Letting go of patterns and emotional residue that hold us back.

Physical Purification

Supporting the body’s natural ability to detoxify and regenerate.

When these three layers align, something remarkable happens:

Your entire life begins to reorganize around health, clarity, and purpose.

Cleansing the Inner Terrain

Alongside advanced medical treatments, we support the body through natural processes of renewal.

Participants experience a carefully guided transformation that may include:

Digestive Reset

Through gentle dietary changes and digestive support, we allow the intestines to release accumulated waste and restore balance to the gut.

This process often has profound effects not only physically but emotionally, as the gut and nervous system are deeply connected.

Hydration and Cellular Renewal

Guests drink natural spring water sourced from the mountains of Epidavros - water that is pure, mineral-rich, and deeply nourishing.

Hydration at the cellular level supports the body's ability to regenerate, transport nutrients, and release toxins.

Nutritional Recalibration

During the week, participants follow a carefully designed nutritional program that supports:

• detoxification
• cellular repair
• metabolic balance
• long-term vitality

The goal is not simply a temporary cleanse.

It is the beginning of a sustainable lifestyle transformation.

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The Epidavrian Environment

Location matters.

Epidavros has long been known as a place of natural harmony, beauty, and healing. Surrounded by mountains, forests, and ancient landscapes, this environment becomes an active participant in the retreat. This is the home of the first hospital and retreat center built under the supervision of Ascepius himself. 

Nature itself becomes medicine.

Guests experience:

• mountain air and pure spring water
• restorative silence and natural beauty
• movement practices in nature
• deep rest and reflection

This environment supports the nervous system in shifting from stress mode into healing mode.


A Collaboration of Science and Wisdom

This retreat is a unique collaboration between two leaders in their fields.

Ray Crist

Founder of the Jaguar Path School of Modern Shamanism and the Science of Healing

Ray brings decades of experience in yoga, consciousness work, and transformational practices that help people reconnect with their deepest potential and purpose.

Nina Crist

A lifelong martial artist brings a profound understanding of the healing power of Tai Chi and Qi Gong, nurturing the body, organs, and overall well-being. Nina will share from the depth of her experience, guiding you into a more balanced, vital, and harmonious state of being.

Dr. Joanna Graka

Director of the Clinic of Inuspheresis, Athens

Dr. Graka contributes advanced medical expertise in blood purification and modern longevity medicine, bringing cutting-edge therapies into a holistic healing environment.

Together, they create an integrated experience where:

Ancient wisdom meets modern medicine.


 

What Happens During the 7 Days

This retreat follows a carefully guided progression, allowing the body to cleanse, the mind to become clear, and a new vision for life to emerge.


Day 1 — Arrival and Grounding

Entering the retreat environment and setting intentions.

  • Welcome circle and introduction to the retreat journey

  • Gentle morning yoga practice to release travel tension and ground the body

  • Opening meditation to set personal intentions

  • Orientation to therapies and the daily rhythm of the retreat

  • Nature walk for grounding and presence

  • Contemplation: Where am I in my life right now?

  • Evening journaling practice to clarify intentions for the week


Day 2 — Blood Renewal

Advanced purification therapies supporting cellular health.

  • Morning Tai Chi practice to stimulate circulation and energy flow

  • Guided breath meditation for calm and focus

  • INUSpheresis blood purification therapy session at Dr. Ioanas clinic in Athens

  • Educational talk on cellular detoxification and metabolic renewal

  • Afternoon mindful walk in nature

  • Contemplation: What am I ready to release from my life?

  • Evening journaling on insights and new clarity emerging


Day 3 — Digestive Reset

Supporting the body in releasing accumulated toxins.

  • Morning yoga flow to stimulate digestion and lymphatic movement

  • Meditation focusing on body awareness and inner listening

  • Nutritional reset practices and digestive support therapies

  • Workshop on food as medicine and rebuilding gut vitality

  • Reflective nature walk

  • Contemplation: What nourishes me — physically, emotionally, spiritually?

  • Evening journaling on habits ready to change


Day 4 — Blood Renewal

Advanced purification therapies supporting cellular health.

  • Morning yoga practice to stimulate circulation and vitality

  • INUSpheresis blood purification therapy session at Dr. Ioanas clinic in Athens

  • Shamanic journey exploring archetypal guides

  • Working with saints, gods, goddesses, or avatars as symbolic forces of transformation

  • Identifying the archetype that supports your life path

  • Evening journaling on the archetype that resonates with your soul


Day 5 — Clearing the Mind

Practices to quiet mental noise and reconnect with inner awareness. 

  • Morning Tai Chi practice to cultivate calm and balance

  • Deep guided meditation for mental clarity

  • Introduction to shamanic journeying

  • Guided journey to discover or reconnect with your power animal

  • Quiet time for integration and personal reflection

  • Contemplation: What inner wisdom is emerging for me now?

  • Evening journaling on insights from the journey


Day 6 — Rebuilding Vitality & Emotional Release

Nutrition, movement, and integration of new energy.

  • Morning Tai Chi practice to harmonize body and breath

  • Meditation focused on heart opening and emotional release

  • Movement practices to activate vitality and circulation

  • Group process for releasing stored emotional patterns

  • Contemplative nature walk for integration

  • Vision reflection: What kind of life do I truly want to create?

  • Evening journaling to outline emerging life directions


Day 7 — Designing Your New Life

Creating a clear vision for sustaining health and success after the retreat.

  • Morning yoga and meditation practice for clarity and alignment

  • Vision workshop: designing your next chapter in life

  • Creating a personal health and lifestyle blueprint

  • Writing a clear action plan for returning home

  • Final contemplative walk in nature

  • Closing circle to share insights and commitments

  • Depart the retreat with a written vision and practical plan for the future


     

The Result: A New Inner Landscape

Participants often leave the retreat experiencing:

• renewed clarity
• deeper energy
• emotional lightness
• improved vitality
• a clear direction for life

But perhaps the greatest transformation is more subtle.

A new relationship with oneself.

When the inner landscape changes, the outer world begins to respond.

Health, success, beauty, and purpose begin to emerge naturally.

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Join the Longevity Retreat

If you feel the call to pause, reset, and begin a new chapter in your life, we invite you to join us.

This retreat is not simply a program.

It is a moment of creation—a chance to design the next phase of your life with clarity, vitality, and intention.

Your future begins within.

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Scientific Research on INUSpheresis 

Dr. Beate Jaeger – Long-COVID and Post-Viral Syndromes

Dr. Beate Jaeger and colleagues have studied the use of therapeutic apheresis in patients suffering from Long-COVID and post-viral syndromes. Their research found that plasma filtration significantly reduced inflammatory markers, autoantibodies, and circulating lipids associated with vascular dysfunction. Many patients reported improvements in fatigue, cognitive clarity, and circulation-related symptoms, suggesting that removing pathological blood components may help restore microcirculation and immune balance.

Dr. Beate Jaeger and the INUS Medical Center – Observational Clinical Outcomes

At the INUS Medical Center in Germany, Dr. Jaeger and her team have documented outcomes from over 1,000 patients treated with INUSpheresis for chronic fatigue, inflammatory conditions, and metabolic dysfunction. Observational results indicate that many patients experience symptom relief after treatment, with a majority reporting noticeable improvements following multiple sessions. These findings suggest that targeted plasma filtration may help reduce inflammatory burden and metabolic stress.

Prof. Dr. Florian Kronenberg – Lipoprotein Apheresis and Cardiovascular Risk

Professor Florian Kronenberg and international cardiovascular research groups have extensively studied lipoprotein apheresis, a related filtration therapy widely used in cardiology. Their work demonstrates that the treatment can reduce lipoprotein(a) and LDL cholesterol by up to 60–75% in a single session. Long-term treatment has been associated with significant reductions in cardiovascular events in high-risk patients, establishing a strong scientific foundation for plasma filtration approaches aimed at improving vascular health.

Dr. Ralf Klingel – Removal of Inflammatory and Autoimmune Factors

Dr. Ralf Klingel and other experts in therapeutic apheresis have shown that plasma filtration techniques can remove inflammatory cytokines, immune complexes, oxidized lipids, and autoantibodies from the bloodstream. These findings support the concept that therapeutic apheresis may help reduce systemic inflammation and improve blood rheology, potentially benefiting patients with chronic inflammatory and immune-mediated conditions.

European Integrative Medicine Research – Metabolic and Inflammatory Markers

Recent European research examining modern apheresis systems has documented reductions in oxidized LDL, triglycerides, inflammatory markers, and blood viscosity following treatment. Improvements in endothelial function and circulation have also been observed. These findings suggest that advanced plasma filtration therapies may support metabolic health and help address chronic inflammatory load.

All medical evaluations and blood purification therapies are held at the INUSpheresis clinic in Athens.

In accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), all medical information and personal health data shared with Dr. Ioanna Gaka and her clinic are confidential and protected under United States privacy law.

Jaguar Path, Ray Crist, and Nina Crist are solely responsible for the organization and facilitation of the Tai Chi sessions, yoga practices, and accommodations in Epidaurus, Greece.

All medical consultations, treatments, evaluations, and any related health services provided by Dr. Ioanna Gaka and her clinic are entirely under her professional responsibility. Any matters concerning medical care, clinical services, or health data privacy related to visits with Dr. Gaka and the clinic fall exclusively under her care and legal jurisdiction.

Participants acknowledge that medical services and retreat services are separate and independently managed.