10 Day Meditation and Yoga Retreat for Weight Loss and Wellness in Marciana, Tuscany
Italy Weight Loss Retreat
Having a practical and balanced approach toward health and wellness and diet allow your bodies to fall into a balanced place (homeostasis) by living in a balanced way. First things first agree that your goal of weight loss is a goal of health and wellness. When you make healthy choices, your body will be at a healthy and natural weight. This program is going to be challenging!
The language of instruction will be English and/or German.
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Highlights
- 9 days of practice
- 1 morning yoga class per day
- Daily guided meditation sessions
- Yin yoga lessons for weight loss at nights
- Daily tasty breakfast and dinner
- 9 nights accommodation
- Stunning surroundings
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Yoga styles
Accommodation
Facilities
- Sauna
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Air-conditioned rooms
- Barbeque facilities
- Environmentally friendly
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Meditation garden
- Multilingual staff
- Picnic area
- Smoke-free property
- Special menu request
- Terrace
- Yoga deck
- Yoga shala
- Bicycle rental
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Parking lot
- Wireless internet
- Outdoor shower
Villa Shanti has a big apartment (60 square meters) for four people, with one bedroom with two single beds, and going up against some stairs you have a loft-like open second bedroom with two single beds. A huge living room with a well-equipped kitchen and going out to a terrace which leads to a huge garden. And of course one bathroom.
The second apartment with a double bed, bathroom, and kitchen with a small living room has 30 square meters and leads as well out to the terrace and garden. The whole house has air-conditioners (warm and cold) and free Wi-Fi. Villa Shanti itself provides a huge garden with relaxing zones and hammocks. They have a beautiful pool (13x4 meters) that can be heated out of season.
Program
Shanti Yoga Elba will ask you to experiment with new ideas and practices, all tried and true yet may be new to you. The level of difficulty will depend on how deeply ingrained unhealthy habit patterns and behaviors have become. They all know how difficult it is to break addictions. What most dieters do not understand is prior established behaviors such as food choices as food frequency, food quantity, food types, and food quality have become similar to addictions. Addressing weight loss from a yoga perspective or through a yoga practice, you will also see many other personal benefits.
Yoga's aim is to balance and heal mind and body, therefore perfectly suited for a weight loss program. It actually is the ultimate weight loss program. When addressing weight loss from a yoga perspective, there is no set of rules, there are just certain principles. In other words, yoga will not tell you what to eat but will suggest that whatever you eat, eat it moderately. Yoga will not tell you what to do, it will just ask you to wake up and see what you are doing and then ask yourself if what you are doing is helping or hurting?
- Diet
- Exercise
- Meditation
- Abstinence or self-restraint
In other words, you will address the mind, body, and social input and habits. This will be truly transformative.
Daily schedule
- 07:30 - 08:00 Meditation
- Tea
- 08:30 - 10:00 Yoga slim style
- 10:00 - 10:30 Healthy breakfast
- 10:30 - 11:00 Diet and yoga (PowerPoint)
- 12:00 - 16:00 Variation of walks in nature, swimming in the sea, or relaxing on the poolside
- 17:00 - 18:30 Yin yoga for weight loss
- 18:30 - 19:00 Meditation
- 19:30 Light dinner
Included excursions
Each day between 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., you are going for hikes to one of the beaches.
Instructors
Christel Vollmer
Christel studied yoga on two continents. First, she trained Power yoga under Bryan Kest in Santa Monica, California, the guru to stars like Madonna and Sting. In an Ashram in India, she graduated in Therapeutic yoga with Guru Saji. Added to this was another degree in Yin yoga and Reiki, she has created her style from this colorful yoga world with many great inspirations, a truly multi-dynamic experience but it always adapts to the group. She likes to teach in nature, on beautiful beaches, on magical rocks, or in the yoga shala of her Villa Shanti in her home in Marciana in Elba.
Retreat location
The retreat will take place in Marciana, Tuscany, Italy. Villa Shanti (means peace) is a very peaceful location enclosed between sea and nature, surrounded by mountains and only four kilometers from the next beach. You can hike directly from the house or bike around a beautiful part of the island, called the Occidental route. All kinds of water sport are possible on their 365 beaches. And they do have the most beautiful beach in the whole of Italy.
Elba
Best known for Napoleon’s exile, Italy’s third-largest island offers picturesque beaches, great diving, charming towns, great food, and of course relaxing yoga at Villa Shanti.
Distances
- Marciana Alto village, 1.5 kilometers
- Marciana Marina beach, 3.5 kilometers
Unique features
Activities
- Massage
- Reiki
General
- Barbeque facilities
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Yoga shala
Food
You will be served daily breakfast, dinner, water, and tea included in the price.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
Things to do (optional)
- Aerial yoga
- Massages
- Reiki
What's included
- Program
- 9 nights accommodation
- Breakfasts and dinners
- Water and tea
What's not included
- Reiki
- Massages
- Aerial yoga
- Transfer to Villa Shanti
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
213 km
Transfer not provided
Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport
228 km
Transfer not provided
Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport
202 km
Transfer not provided
Pisa International Airport (Galileo Galilei Airport)
100 km
Transfer not provided
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 50% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
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