What is The HappyNEST?
A living hearth for connection, culture, calm and care.
Inspired by the ancient wisdom of gathering around the fire, The HappyNEST is an ecosystem of soulful experiences where people come together to learn, rest, celebrate, and remember
what it means to feel in peace with your heart.
At the heart of The HappyNEST is one enduring symbol: the hearth.
A sacred circle where people gather, are nourished, and feel at home.
This hearth is the thread that weaves through everything we offer, from Greek Socials and gentle language learning, to family programmes, retreats, and wellbeing experiences rooted in nature, colour, aroma, and culture, we tend a shared flame of warmth, belonging, and renewal.
Each HappyNEST offering carries the same gentle flame, expressed through
its own colours, rhythms, and invitations.
Some gatherings are social and celebratory, others restorative and reflective.
Some are rooted in Greek culture and language, others shaped by nature, travel, and holistic wellbeing.
All are designed to create spaces where people feel held, welcomed, and free to be themselves.
The HappyNEST is not a single event or place.
It is a way of gathering. One hearth. Many expressions. A shared sense of home.
Our Philosophy: From Hearth to Heart
At the centre of The HappyNEST lives a simple truth:
When the hearth is tended, the heart can open.
The hearth represents home, belonging, stability, and community.
The heart represents truth, relationship, emotional harmony, and authentic expression.
The HappyNEST exists where these two meet.
Our work is guided by seven living principles, woven through everything we offer:
Roots – Belonging, ancestry, home, Greekness, grounding
Acceptance – Philoxenia, welcome, safety, inclusion
Introspection – Inner awareness, reflection, knowing oneself
Nurturing – Meraki, care, nourishment with soul
Balance – The Golden Mean, harmony in all things
Openness – Human flourishing, curiosity, connection
Whole-hearted Living – Integrity, generosity, living from the heart
These principles form the RAINBOW arc of The HappyNEST
— a language of colour, emotion and lived experience.
Through story, food, language, reflection, and shared experiences, we create environments that support nervous system regulation, emotional safety, and meaningful connection.
From this grounded place, hearts feel safe, open, and free to live wholeheartedly.
We honour sensitivity, difference, and timing.
There is no pressure to perform, heal, or become anything other than yourself.
Readiness is respected. Growth unfolds gently.
At The HappyNEST, Roots are understood as the many threads that anchor us to life: family and chosen kin, ancestors and elders, land and culture, community and the collective, nature and Mother Earth herself, and the personal and professional identities we grow into over time. Rooted in the spirit of Goddess Hestia, the hearth gathers all these strands, offering belonging without pressure and continuity without rigidity.
A homage to "Roots"
from ChriSOULa Sirigou, The HappyNEST founder
HappyNEST was not planned in the usual way.
It was called for. Quietly. Steadily. Like a flame that waits to be tended.
In Greek mythology, Hestia is the goddess of the hearth, home, and sacred fire. She reminds us that before anything meaningful begins, there must be safety. A centre. A place to return to. But a hearth alone is not enough. A hearth holds us. A heart moves us. And this space lives between the two.
For over three decades, I have lived away from my homeland. Yet I have never lived away from my Greek roots. Language, culture, food, philosophy, the way we gather and share meals have lived in my body, in my voice, and in the work I keep returning to.
Staying connected to Greekness has not been about nostalgia. It has been about keeping my heart open while life asked me to adapt, relocate, and begin again.
As I moved through midlife and menopause, something shifted.
The heart asked to be heard more clearly.
Values became non-negotiable.
Needs became sacred information.
And the burden of living according to other people’s expectations began to fall away.
Roots at this stage of life are not just where we come from. They are what we choose to stand for.
And heart is how we live those roots.
At The HappyNEST, roots are many.
Family, by blood or by choice.
Ancestors and intergenerational healing.
Land, culture, language, and belonging.
Friendship, parea, and community.
Nature, Mother Earth, and the rhythms that regulate us.
But heart is what allows those roots to stay alive.
Heart is generosity.
Heart is emotional harmony and courage.
Heart is passion, purpose, and joy.
Heart is forgiveness, grief, and truth.
Heart is learning to give and receive without fear.
Heart is choosing authenticity, even when it asks us to change.
The HappyNEST is for those who are re-rooting and re-hearting themselves.
For women navigating identity shifts and renewal. For parents and carers carrying quiet burnout.
For those longing to live with more openness, excitement, and integrity.
For anyone seeking a way of being that honours both home and aliveness.
Hestia teaches us how to tend the flame. The heart teaches us how to let it travel.
This is an invitation to both. To be held. And to feel.
The hearth is lit. And the heart is welcome.
What We Offer
The HappyNEST is an ecosystem of experiences, each expressing the same intention in different forms:
The HappyNEST
Hearth
The HappyNEST
Heart
The HappyNEST Podcast
The HappyNEST
Tools
🔥 HOW YOU CAN GATHER WITH US
🏺 HappyNEST Hearth
Social connection, culture and grounding
Warm, welcoming gatherings inspired by Greek culture and hospitality.
- Greek Socials Shared food, conversation and presence. A table where you don’t need to perform, just arrive.
- Greek Language, Gently Language learning without pressure or perfection. A sensory, relational approach to Greek.
- Gentle, small circles Soft spaces for nervous system care, reflection and slowing down.
❤️ HappyNEST Heart
Family, children and emotional wellbeing
At the heart of The HappyNEST is a devotion to emotional safety, connection, and
whole-hearted living within families and the community.
- 🌿 Gentle family coaching & parenting mentorship
- 🌈 Human Design & Colour as relational languages
- 🧸 HappyNEST KIDS Circles
- 📚 HappyNEST ADULTS Book Club
🎙 HappyNEST Podcast
From hearth to heart: Greek-rooted stories for modern living
A reflective podcast exploring belonging, identity, culture, womanhood, transitions, relationships and human flourishing — inspired by Greek philosophy, mythology and lived experience.
Each episode tends the inner fire, inviting listeners to reconnect with their own truth and inner home.
- A living conversation place where stories are shared slowly, thoughtfully, and with care.
- Inspired by Greek philosophy, mythology, colour wisdom, and lived experience
- Each episode tends the inner fire.
- A space for remembering, re-rooting, and becoming.
🌈 An invitation to future guests
If you are a storyteller, practitioner, creative, thinker, healer, educator, author, poet or guide and you feel called to explore the principles, colours, and philosophy of
The HappyNEST, you are warmly invited into this conversation.
🧶 Meet the host and weaver
The HappyNEST Podcast is hosted and woven by ChriSOULa Sirigou.
As a linguist, educator, broadcaster, and space-holder, ChriSOULa brings people together through attentive listening, thoughtful inquiry, and a natural ability to
connect ideas, stories, and hearts.
She does not lead from the front.
She weaves from within.
Holding the thread of each conversation, she invites guests and listeners alike to slow down, soften, and speak from a place of truth, enthusiasm, and trust.
🌱 WHO IS THE HAPPYNEST FOR?
The HappyNEST is for you if you are:
longing for connection or community
navigating change, midlife, menopause, identity shifts
feeling uprooted, lonely, or in transition
seeking calm, meaning, and emotional nourishment
curious about Greek culture, philosophy, or soulful living
You don’t need to belong anywhere else first.
Belonging begins here.
The HappyNEST:
Home for colour, connection,
culture, calm and care.
From hearth to heart, you are welcome here 🌱
