Our Yoga retreat will focus on cleansing our body, mind, and soul from all the negativity, toxins, stress, and issues that we encounter in everyday life. We will experience a moment of peace, relaxation, beauty, and positive and creative energy. We will learn different styles of meditation and to use the detoxifying and strengthening breath of life, pranayama, as a magic beneficial tool. We will become flexible and light bodies, minds, and souls thanks to the rhythmical flow of Vinyasa yoga . We will also create positive and radiating core energy thanks to the power of laughter yoga. We will learn how to be light and shining human beings. We will live for a few days in Florence one of most beautiful cities in Italy, where we will take care of ourselves and share with the others. During the week end we will explore Florence, one of the most famous cities in the world for its art and architecture and a UNESCO heritage site. We will guide you through such marvels as museums, ancient palaces, monuments, historical sites, and amazing flavors, smells, dishes, and cuisine. We will also tell interesting and intriguing stories full of passion, betrayals, and mysteries about the famous Medici family.
What is included:
• 3 Nights in a beautiful 1600 Century Palace (shared double- room or single room upon request
and price will vary), upon availability
• Daily meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) with delicious vegeterian and vegan cooked fresh
food.
• Transfer from and to Santa Maria Novella Florence Railway Station
• Daily morning meditation and pranayama in preparation for yoga classes
• Twice daily Vinyasa Flow or Restorative yoga classes .
• One laughter yoga class
• Walking Tour of Florence and guided tour of Palazzo Vecchio
• Local Wine and Cheese Tasting
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Last updated Feb. 26, 2015, 2:40 p.m. UTC
Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm
interested only in the present, If you can concentrate
always on the present, you'll be a happy man. .... Life will be
a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment
we're living right now.
Paulo Coelho The Alchemist
Creative Yoga Retreat was created by a group of people who believe in magic in life and the power of yoga and meditation. Our goal is to share positivity, energy, life, creativity, love, friendship, respect, admiration for beauty, nature, and our fellow human beings. We would like to offer our contribution to a better and more positive world and human life through yoga, meditation, pranayama, and ancient and new mental, physical, and spiritual practices. We would love to spread our “vision”. For us yoga and meditation are a journey towards self-knowledge, improvement, and universal harmony thanks to observation, study, practice, and discipline. Creativity is also essential for us to live fully and free from constraints, limitations, traumas, and blocks. To look for inspiration, we will wander during our retreats through ancient and historical cities and admire beautiful Italian statues, monuments, paintings, and architecture. We strive to open the gates of mind, body, and spirit thanks to our yoga retreats in natural landscapes, hikes, bike rides, laughter, community, sharing moments, solidarity, openness, creative writing workshops, cooking classes, guided tours of ancient Italian cities, and anything that new beginners and experienced yoga practitioners wish to feel happy and relaxed!
OUR VISION
And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count.
It is the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Our vision of yoga and meditation is perfectly described by Henry David Thoureau in his work Life in the Woods: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan- like as to put to rout all that was not life.” Yoga and meditation mean to “suck the marrow of life”; to live an essential life close to nature; to discover how nature made us and other human beings; to constantly learn about ourselves, the others, and the world; and to reach a deep awareness of our human dimension and our nature.