6 Nights/7 Days Accommodation in 15C San Flaviano Monastery
Abundance Yoga Retreats
You are invited to join us for an intimate 7 Day All-inclusive Abundance Yoga Retreat at my home San Flaviano Monastery, Italy
Our Senior Yoga Teachers Lisa Torwick and Amber Seale Voss
Our 8th season of Abundance Yoga retreats welcomes back the two most requested senior teachers, Lisa Torswick and Amber Seale Voss.
Lisa Torswick
Influenced by my teachers, peers, and surroundings, my style focuses on breath, fluidity of movement, spatial and self-awareness, and strength. I empower my students to make the class their own each time they step onto a mat or sit down to meditate while working to challenge and grow their practice every day. My goal is to have each student leave class with a sense of renewal and power through searching within themselves as I guide them through asana, pranayama, and meditation. My classes are delivered using both English and Sanskrit and create a deep sense of understanding and appreciation for this ancient practice in a modern day.
Plus Lisa is sharing her 15+ years of dance and movement training including modern and Africana dance.
Amber Seale Voss
Amber Voss is an E-RYT 200 and RYT 500-hour yoga instructor trained in the Pranakriya and Kripalu yoga lineages, with training and teaching hours totaling over 1,000 plus hours each. She is also a certified 200-hour Instinctive Meditation instructor.
She brings an authentic, non-judgmental and accessible teaching style to her students. She recognizes that yoga and meditation isn’t a one-size-fits-all practice. Amber continually encourages her students to trust that they are their own best teachers and explore what works for them. While she teaches all styles of classes, her specialty resides in offering gentle, yin, and restorative practices that nourish and restore the body/mind/spirit connection.
We will always be a small group of maximum eight people. In this way we can be sure that each person will receive enough attention. Our food is prepared locally, organically and vegetarian. OF course life is about balance, so Italian wines, chocolates and coffee are all included.
Italy Yoga Retreat 2022 Sample Itinerary
07.30 Golden Tea or Maringa Juice
08.00 Morning Yoga: “Wake-up your senses”, Start the day full of energy.
9.300 Meditation
10.00 Abundant Breakfast
11.00 Free time for reading, walking, resting, being massaged or excursions
14:00 Lunch
15:00 Free time to relax , hike or have a healing therapy treatment
18.00 Evening Yoga, Mediation & Workshops: “relax the body and mind” and improve flexibility.
20.000 Dinner
21:00 Free time for resting or socialising.
The dates we have availability are:
9th to 16th June 2022
22nd to 28th July 2022
19th to 26th August 2022
PLEASE DO contact Tess for a chat and make sure we fit you!
7 Day Healing Trauma Retreat Includes
*Individual Therapy Sessions with Tess & Paola available at an extra cost.
*Nearest Airports Perugia and Rome. Pick-up and drop-off service available.
The Retreat is limited to only 8 places
Prices
- Two Adults Friends & Family Package €2790, Early bird €1795
- Shared room with private bathroom €1,395, Early bird €995
- Single Occupancy room with private bathroom €1,595, Early bird €1,395
SAN FLAVIANO MONASTERY
In the heart of Umbria, San Flaviano sits nestled in the foothills of the Appennine Mountains. A deeply sacred spot for over a millennium. My home is the former church and monastery visited by many as a place to be held and meditate on their pilgrimage to Assisi over the centuries. After 18 months of full restoration works in 2013 I reopened her doors again as a healing center to care and safely guide today’s pilgrims on their journey home to their own sacred hearts.
What Shall We Eat
We are abundantly blessed to be surrounded by the soil and by the lands of Umbria. You will often find one of us in the garden or the market choosing with love and care that which will nourish not only your body but your very essence. When you visit it will be the time of year when the land is giving us all of our bounties, fragrant fresh vegetables, fruits, legumes, etc. We will harvest and bring to the table that which will fill you. We have worked with our vegan nutritionalist to create recipes which aid healthy digestion and preparations of food that are easy to understand and take away with you. It is a peace filled way of dining, and in community. Herbal teas, fresh waters will be available throughout the day. You will find little refreshing treats about as you pass throughout the day. A nibble here, a nibble there, but our meals will enjoyed in community. They will be vegetarian and there will of course be coffee…….. After all it is Italy!
Testimonials
Leading a busy and rather stressful London life (with two small kids and two small family businesses) I was craving and searching for a real ecape, somewhere I could replenish my energy, nourish my body, and reconnect with myself. Abundance Yoga Retreats at San Flaviano Monastery provided all of that and much much more.
Just the place it is located in could alone provide me with all the things I needed. The retreat is in the midst of spectacular lush serene mountains, I can’t imagine a better place to leave all your worries and breathe deeply, find your center and relax.. And when all of this is coupled with a superb food, amazing yoga and the best hospitality, you definitely wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.. It feels all of the aspects of the self, the body, the mind and the spirit are thoroughly looked after.”The food is lovingly prepared by the host Tess, always fresh, natural and locally sourced and inspired. Yoga is just at the pace you want it to be, with attentive, always smiling, supportive and very talented teacher. Yet what really stayed with me is the values, the whole beautiful ethos that the whole retreat is run according, and the hospitality! I felt at home, I felt welcome and looked after as if I was a good family friend. Tess Hunneybell that runs the retreat, don’t just ‘run the retreat’, she opens the doors of her beloved home to you, and welcome you with her heart open, with love and passion for what she does, for working with people, and enormous experience and professionalism in her trade, except that her ‘trade’ is not just her ‘trade’, it’s her life and her heart, and I feel privileged to have met her and have been a part of her wonderful project! I still carry this renewed energy within me and can’t wait to go back!
“My week at Abundance Yoga Retreat was utterly amazing and I only hope that anyone reading this will be lucky enough to go and spend some time there too.I arrived stressed, tired and fed up. I was expecting to come away rested but actually I got so much more. I feel completely transformed. I couldn’t tell you if it was the amazing location, the wonderful food, the energizing yoga or the energy work with Tess and Kevin.As a yoga teacher myself and having run retreats in the past all over the world I have fairly strong views as to what constitutes a good retreat and what constitutes a good teacher. Abundance yoga retreats have really got it right.The relaxed atmosphere means it feels like you are staying with an old friend, Tess is possibly the most generous person I have ever had the pleasure of staying with. Nothing was too much trouble and every day she went out of her way to make sure everybody had everything they needed and more.Yoga sessions with Laura were wonderful, varied and perfect for the mood of each day. Our group varied from me who has ten years experience as a teacher to my sister who had never taken a class before and we all felt the level was perfect for us. If you want a wonderful relaxed atmosphere, fun yoga, great food in a wonderful location then definitely visit San Flaviano.”
