© Yoga Spirit Circle 2025
Bloom & Blossom
All Level ✺ 20- 26 April 2025 ✺ Olea, Rieti, Italy
Like plants, our bodies need care, light, nourishment, and the right environment to reach their full potential. Just as a seed holds all the information to grow into a plant, our cells know how to become our truest selves. By tapping into this innate intelligence, we can embody the person we are meant to be.
Over six days you will experience a rich blend of flowing yoga, movement practices, somatic touch, and breathwork, woven with poetry and sound vibrations. Using the metaphor “from seed to flower,” we’ll reconnect with our inner wisdom, root ourselves in movement and sensation, and explore the relational webs we live within.
Rituals of touch, embodied imagination, ceramic crafting, hiking through thyme & lavender as well as handwriting provides you with the time to rest, reset, and reconnect with yourself. Slowing down, deep nourishment for the nervous system and cellular listening is exactly what your body and creativity is aching for.
Morning sessions will be a dynamic fusion between fluent yoga, movement and breath work to radiate and wake up the system. Welcoming and inhale the fresh day.
The evening practices will be like a full body sigh : calming the mind and soothing the body with gentle yin, meditation and somatic touch to prepare for a rejuvenating sleep.
A workshop on creativity, combining writing & breath work will infuse the muse to help you bloom, be inspired and renewed.
Luisa Doerstel
Luisa is a story weaver, body poet & movement alchemist.
She’s infinitely curious about the body & the breath, plants, art, magic, language, failure, and how to find the sweetness of being lost in the world.
Holding a degree in Arts&Media and professionally being trained in Contemporary Dance, she now works as a Health Coach, Breath & Bodyworker, Yoga & Movement Teacher. She believes in life as the practice of listening and responding; a dialogue both with the body and the world as innate language through which everything is connected in rhythmic symphony.
Through years of study and practice with her Teachers, including Stephen Thomas, Simon Borg-Olivier, Meghan Currie, Dages Juvelier-Keates & Carlos Tao, she deepened her knowledge of what it means to be (in) a body as well as being bodily influenced by life’s ebbs and flows. Alongside her lifelong self-discovery this led her to perceiving body-mind-breath as an instrument, map and mirror of her own biography. Passionately committed to sharing her practice, she wants people to vibrantly experience life and guide them into embodying themselves as a moving weaver, receiver and dreamer to orient and navigate between time & space.
Her teachings are anatomical but playful, intuitive and raw, drawing from natures wisdom of constant change and cosmic principles of alignment and connection.
Her classes weave together aspects of Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Katonah Yoga, Somatics and Dance sprinkled with mythology, geometry and embodied astrology.
A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event. — Alan Watts
retreat offerings
○ 6 nights in a countryside house in Torri In Sabina
○ 9 yoga sessions
○ vinyasa yoga in the morning
○ meditation, pranayama
○ yin & restorative yoga in the afternoons
○ inspiring vegan food 3 times/day
○ hike with local guide
○ water, tea & coffee
not included
○ flight or train to Rome
○ airport transfer to Olea
○ ceramics workshop & massages
○ dinner on friday at the local pizzeria
○ travel insurance (recommended)
investment
from 1.330€
group size
14
Additional information
a typical day
07.30 tea, coffee, fruit
08.30 yoga & meditation
10.30 breakfast
reading 
ceramics pool massage
15.00 lunch or snack
17.30 yoga
19.30 dinner
arrival day:
no yoga class,
16.00 snack
19.30 dinner
21.00 welcome circle
departure day:
no yoga class,
8.30 breakfast
check out until 10.00
all yoga equipment is available at the retreat location, as well as towels & bed linen. bring old sneakers or water shoes for the hike in the river & a pool towel. we’ll let you know again what’s good to bring, a few days before your retreat.
check- in on Sunday from 16:00, fruit snack waiting for you and dinner at 19.30 // check- out on Saturday until 10:00 after breakfast
arrival & departure: group pick ups & drop offs will be organized (only) from Rome Fiumicino airport & drop offs to Fiumicino & Ciampino airport and Termini train station. costs: 35-55€/person/way
about the place
It doesn’t seem possible that In Sabina is less than an hour’s drive from the crowded streets of Rome. With lush, abundant grounds of its own, along with a natural spring and a magnificent wooden yoga platform which overlooks the valley below, this is a truly magical place that’s ideal for spiritual practice, slowing down, and plunging oneself into nature. More
