4 Day Yoga and Nature Holiday in Valle d’Aosta, Cervinia

Facilities

The program of these days will consist of 2 yoga and meditation lessons from dawn to sunset around the vision of the woods and mountains and the rest of the day will be dedicated to excursions, walks, and trekking among the most beautiful and evocative of the area, Chamois, Cheneil, the lakes, and for the more experienced also trekking on the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa. Do not forget that you can ski on the Matterhorn at 3000 meters and the lifts are generally open.

This area really offers a lot both in winter and summer and Francesca Marchi Scuola Yoga Shivapuri Satyananda yoga will choose some of the most beautiful and exciting itineraries. They have planned a program of excursions for each day that will be proposed and chosen together based on the group that will be formed. Alternatively, you can also choose your favorite excursions freely without following the group and you will meet again for yoga lessons and for refuge meals.

The program of the day may be subject to some slight change of schedule based on the excursions that will be chosen and planned every day, generally, this will be. There is a lot of free time in the central part of the day for excursions

Yoga styles

Yoga Nidra is not a yoga style but a great practice of meditation today very widespread and coming from the Satyananda yoga tradition.

Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga are the main branches from which the paths of asanas (postures), pranayama (breathing techniques for our energy balance), concentration and meditation techniques, and much more are extracted.

"Satyanandayoga" represents the tradition and teaching style that we received from the teachings of Swami Satyananda Saraswati founder of the Bihar School of Yoga (India) and Satyananda tradition in the world (descended from the tradition of Swami Shivananda).

Schedule sample

Day 1

• Arrival and check-in rooms scheduled from 12:00
• Rest, spa
• 16:00 Herbal teas and welcome snack at the Grande Dojo
• 17:30 - 18:30 Presentation and introduction to the program
• 18:00 - 19:30 Yoga and meditation lesson in the evening: preparatory exercises, asanas (dynamic and static positions), pranayama (energetic and balancing breathing techniques)
• Evening meditations / yoga Nidra (blessed relaxation)
• 20:30 Dinner
• 22:00 - 23:00 After dinner, meeting at the lounge bar: herbal teas and herbs, fireplace, charlas, music and atmosphere, and programming for the next day

Day 2 & 3

• 07:00 - 09:00 Morning yoga and pranayama: Morning Meditation, Preparatory Exercises, Surya Namaskara (Sun Salutation), Energizing Asanas (Positions), and Pranayama (Breathing Techniques)
• 09:00 - 10:00 Breakfast / brunch
• 10:30 Departure for excursions / trekking scheduled the night before or free
• Packed lunch or in typical shelters
• Expected return around 4 p.m.
• Relax, spa
• 18:00 - 19:30 Yoga lesson and evening meditation: preparatory exercises, Asanas (dynamic and static positions), pranayama (energetic and balancing breathing techniques)
• Evening meditations / yoga Nidra (blessed relaxation)
• 20:30 Dinner
• 22:00 - 23:00 After dinner, meeting at the lounge bar: herbal teas and herbs, fireplace, charlas, music and atmosphere, and programming for the next day

Day 4

• 07:00 - 09:00 Morning yoga and pranayama: Morning Meditation, Preparatory Exercises, Surya Namaskara (Sun Salutation), Energizing Asanas (Positions), and Pranayama (Breathing Techniques)
• Conclusion of the program
• 09:00 - 10:00 Breakfast / brunch
• 10:00 - 11:00 Questions / answers
• Greetings, departures, or free excursions

Francesca Marchi (sn.Shivapuri) has been studying and practicing yoga since 1977, meets and recognizes her as Guru Swami Satyananda Saraswati in 1985; from that day to today he follows the Satyananda yoga tradition in all his teachings. He made numerous trips to India from 1981 to 2009 with long residential periods at Ganga Darshan and Rikyapeet, the main headquarters of the Bihar School of Yoga, Sw. Satyananda, Swami Niranjanaanda the current successor and Sw Satsangi. In these periods he studies and collaborates with the Bihar Scholl of Yoga in the still living presence of Swami Satyananda.

In Italy, he studied and collaborated with Satyananda Yoga Ashram Italia from 1985 to 2014 following the direct guidance of his teacher Swami Anandananda Saraswati, Acharya of Satyananda Yoga Italia. He has been teaching Yoga since 1993 and in 2001 he founded his own yoga school in Ancona, today based in Ancona and Loreto.

From 2001 to today, he teaches very intensively every day in the courses, in-depth studies of each level and holds numerous seminars and Yoga Retreats. To date, he has carried out about 100 residential yoga retreats in various Italian and foreign locations, where he has been invited, with great success, spreading the satyananda yoga tradition and a yogic lifestyle so that yoga reaches the hearts of people by offering Yoga as "a gift of peace".

• 3 days of practice
• Daily meditation sessions
• 2 yoga classes per day (2 hours per class)
• Daily delicious breakfast/brunch and dinner
• Amazing surroundings and landscapes
• 3 nights accommodation

• Soft drinks, alcohol drinks
• Airport transfers
• Additional spa treatments

• A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.