28/04/2026
Why Elysian Sands?
The title was chosen carefully.
“Elysian” evokes the Elysian Fields — not simply as a mythological place, but as a symbolic state after ordeal, descent, and transformation.
“Sand” belongs to the language of Sandplay: ancient, tactile, unstable and stable at the same time, formless and form-giving.
In Elysian Sands, Greek mythology became a way of listening to the psyche.
The labyrinth, the descent, the hero’s encounter, the loss of wings, the image of return — all became symbolic structures through which we could reflect on the movement of the inner world.
In Jungian Sandplay, the image is not explained too quickly. It is held, witnessed, and allowed to reveal its own rhythm.
This was the spirit of the immersion in Chania: to meet myth not only through thought, but through image, place, body, and sand.
