Mid-August retreat ashtanga yoga and nature trails

Tommaso Valentini : ashtanga yoga teacher

Francesca Deias : Ayurvedic practitioner, midwife

Chiara Spataro : painter, art therapist

Tommaso Orsini : environmental hiking guide. Fit and nordwalking instructor

In the wonderful scenery of the lands of Canossa, a residential retreat to regenerate with the practice of ashtanga yoga *, meditation and nature trails

Imagine spending a week in the summer immersed in nature, practicing yoga, walking, returning to your inner rhythm, rediscovering the connection with the earth and the infinite possibilities it offers. This is our proposal for the 2019 summer retreat: an ashtanga yoga seminar in the enchanting hills of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines in the organic farm Casa Corra

Reduced rates for confirmations by 15/6/2019

The intense and revitalizing practice of ashtanga yoga * will mark the daily rhythm, warming the body and promoting purification and energy recharge. Meditation and self-listening will open and close our days; we will allow ourselves to be enveloped by nature around us with regenerating walks, we will give space to rest and imagination through art therapy and the knowledge of bandhas (with particular attention to the functioning of the pelvic floor) in a work of deep listening and integration of movement. During the residential, kalaripayattu, an ancient Indian martial art, will also be introduced, and physical activity will be integrated with sessions of perception, listening, centering, meditation in nature. We will spend a week immersed in the sweet hills of the maltidian lands, in contact with the natural rhythm of day and evening, admiring sunrises and sunsets, in the pristine silence of nature. own time, listen to the inner rhythm and leave room for self-expression. (* yoga: gymnastics for all aimed at the well-being and psycho-physical awakening of the person)

PROGRAM

- Awakening practices (meditation and mantra)

- Daily Ashtanga Yoga sessions: guided / mysore, I ° series insights (asana, vinyasa, pranayama, bandha), II ° series for expert practitioners

- Know and feel the perineum through the Perineum Integration and Movement® methodology to integrate it into yoga practice and daily life and gain greater awareness of the use of bandhas

- Introduction to the millenary kalaripayattu Indian martial art

- Walking in nature, meditation, listening and perception practices

- Art therapy sessions 

- Relaxation breaks in the panoramic swimming pool

- Location: Bio Agriturismo Casa Corra