5 Tage Italienisch Kochen und Yoga Urlaub in Puglia, Italien

Cooking and learning Italian

During the Italian cooking classes, you will prepare a wide range of typical Mediterranean and Puglian appetizers, such as stuffed meatballs, rolls, tomatoes under oil, bruschetta, pancakes with sauce, and plenty of others. You will learn how to prepare in the authentic way different types of fresh pasta, like cavatelli and orecchiette. You will acquire knowledge of how to make pizza and focaccia barese with different stone ground flour.

All participants at the cooking classes will receive a cookbook including recipes of all the dishes made during their stay, an exclusive apron, and a certificate on completion of the Italian cooking course. Vedaguru Centre will choose dishes that can easily be made at home, using ingredients that you can find in any market in the wold.

The best thing about the cooking classes is that while we give the recipes in English, the cooking classes will be in Italian so that you can learn some Italian and listen directly to Chef Lucrezia. You will stay with the chef and practice. There will be no translation while you cook but if you have any doubt, you can ask at the end of the classes.

Yoga

Yoga does not only mean poses. It also includes what happens along the way, how you breathe, how you are listening to your body, and how your mind is focused on the present moment. Yoga is about how you feel on the inside. Every morning, there will be warm-up exercises, asana, pranayama, mantras, mindfulness, mudra, and relaxation. You will have daily morning Hatha yoga lessons before breakfast, from Sunday to Friday.

Typical schedule

• 08:00 Hatha yoga class
• 09:15 Breakfast
• 10:00 Cooking class
• 13:00 Lunch followed by an afternoon tour
• 19:30 Dinner

• Excursions to the historical San Vito town and Polignano a Mare village
• Shop at the fish market and the old town of Mola di Bari
• Taste the famous biological ice-cream
• Visit the center and the famous trulli of Alberobello
• Visit the historical center of Conversano
• Walk through the farmhouse fields of almonds, cherries, and olives

This retreat will take place in Conversano, Puglia, south of Italy.

Distances

• Alberobello, 24 kilometers
• Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport (BRI) - 40 minutes
• Brindisi Airport (BDS) - 50 minutes
• Capitolo, 20 kilometers
• Conversano, 3 kilometers
• Polignano a Mare, 4 kilometers
• The Caves of Castellana, 10 kilometers

During this retreat, you will be served daily breakfast and dinner. Lunch will be available at extra cost. The restaurant areas are the old milestone, the stable, the carriage room, the back enclosed patio and the four season garden.

Meals will be prepared using primarily Montepaolo produce, olive oil, fruit, vegetables, and spices. Only local, traditional Puglia recipes will be used, customized by the owner’s own creativity.

For breakfast, you will enjoy homemade jam, cookies, pies, fresh fruit from the grounds and harvested the same morning, traditional Italian coffee, cappuccino, tea, yogurt, juice, toast, cereal, and croissants.

Typical lunch and dinner dishes are black wheat focaccia, fried bites, fried calzones (panzerotti) , fried pancake (frittelle), meatballs, fried garden vegetables, broccoli pasta, black wheat pasta with dry ricotta cheese, bean and chicory cream, vegetable quiche, chicken stew, roasted beef, sage beef, and provolone veal. There are also fresh dairy specialties such as mozzarella, ricotta, and caciocavallo cheese, made each day by a Conversano creamery.

This retreat will not include fried food, except if you want to try something typical, like panzerotti. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free meals will be offered.

• Boat tour in Polignano a Mare - 20 EUR per one-hour tour
• Visit Monopoli

Ayurvedic treatments for relaxing the body and mind are available at an additional cost of 35 to 45 EUR each.

• 3 Italian cooking classes
• 4 nights accommodation
• Certificate upon completion
• Cookbook with all the recipes made during the stay
• Culinary, cultural, and nature tours
• Daily breakfast and dinner
• Daily morning Hatha yoga lessons
• Excursions to historical towns and caves
• Free transfer from Conversano train station
• Ice-cream tasting
• Walk through the fields of almonds, cherries, and olives
• Winery visit

• Airfare
• Personal expenses
• Travel insurance
• Airport transfer (can be arranged)