Luka Lesson.
Poet.
The Odyssey Within
The Odyssey Within is a guided experience using Homer’s Odyssey as a map for understanding our own lives. Through mythology, Ancient Greek ideas, reflection and writing, we explore questions of identity, purpose, temptation, belonging, wisdom and what it means to find our way home. You don’t need to be a scholar, a writer or even know the story well - just curious about what this 3,000-year-old epic might still have to say about the life you’re living now.
The first guided Odyssey Within experience begins in early 2027.
For the writers and the travellers
A downloadable list of 100 prompts, designed personally by Luka Lesson, to help get your pens moving and shake off the writer’s block.
FREE
24hrs in Athens is my free walking guide to the city I keep returning to, again and again.
I first came to Athens when I was 15, and over the years I’ve passed through this city on my way to and from retreats, family visits, performances and pilgrimages across Greece. Every time, Athens gives me something new.
This is not a checklist of monuments. It’s the walk I would take you on myself if you knocked on my door and asked me to show you ‘my Athens’.
We begin on the Areopagus, wander through Plaka and Anafiotika, visit poets, ruins, museums, bookshops, Turkish baths, outdoor cinemas and places where the ancient world still hums beneath the modern one. I’ll show you where to eat, where to stay, when to climb the Acropolis, where to hear music late at night, and where to sit still long enough for the city to speak.
Athens is not always polished. That’s part of her power. She is marble and graffiti, gods and protests, coffee and ruins, chaos and beauty.
Bring good shoes, a notebook, and an open mind.
Poetic Pilgrimage: Meteora
Oct 2 -Oct 8, 2026.
A poetry retreat focussed on mountain walks,
inner-peace, and self-reflection.
Poetic Prophecy: Delphi
Oct 16 -Oct 22, 2026.
A poetic journey for writers, seekers and wanderers ready to listen to what the ancients still have to say.