Join author, spiritual teacher, and activist Michelle C. Johnson and owner of PRANA YOGA AND WELLBEING, Bridget Galli, for a restorative mindfulness and yoga retreat. Explore how, together, we can heal the hive, the collective, through practice, ceremony, and ritual. This retreat will be an opportunity for us to remember our interconnectedness and come into attunement and alignment with nature to cultivate individual and collective healing. 

Embodied Teaching: How Yoga Can Enhance Social and Emotional Well-Being for Teachers and Students is designed to meet the needs of the teacher and their students. We live in a high speed, fast paced environment that can be taxing to our spirit and sense of self. As educators specifically, the intensity of each day is amplified as we respond to and support young people through a myriad of experiences and emotions.

Yoga for Healthy Aging includes practices and tools for students who want to be proactive about maintaining their health, independence, and well-being at any age. In this two-day workshop, we’ll focus on the foundations you’ll need to keep your body, mind, and spirit healthy as you age: strength, flexibility, balance, agility, and equanimity. Join Dana Leipold, Bridget Galli, and Joe Sapena as they guide you through the latest science on aging, the philosophy of yoga, and asana practices that will set you up for lifelong well-being.

Our time together will be dedicated to renewal through the practices of yoga, meditation, healthy eating, intentional rest, beholding beauty, and being in community. The villa rests in a secluded area near the medieval town of Lucca. It's authentic Tuscan style includes indoor and alfresco dining, outdoor terraces, a spacious indoor yoga studio with Manduka props and mats, several grassy areas for outdoor yoga, a swimming pool, beautiful gardens, and optional in-house massage services.