Exclusive Private Retreat by application only
Maximum 6 participants
These private retreats are designed for a maximum of 6 people.
With small numbers, participants benefit from personal coaching as well as group workshops.
This retreat is designed to give you the respite you need and time to learn new rituals and lifestyle practices to ensure you go home feeling more energised, cleansed and rejuvenated.
Picture yourself in a magical place
in the Italian hills
Somewhere that’s truly peaceful.
Cut off from the demands of your frenetic life in a beautiful private villa in Italy.
Casa Anandi is an oasis of peace and will be your home for 4 nights. Set in a back drop of olive groves and rolling hills, perfect for La Dolce Vita, Anandi Style.
It’s situated just above a quaint medieval village called Treia in Marche, Italy.
Sitting in the garden, imagine closing your eyes and breathing the fresh air, enjoying a freshly made juice.
Imagine not having to think about a thing. Every detail is meticulously planned for you. All you’ve had to do is show up, be present and enjoy it.
You’re being deeply immersed in the ancient Indian wisdom of Ayurveda learning how to take better care of yourself.
Experience the bliss of being in a peaceful and secluded place.
Imagine feeling soothed by the practice of yoga and journeying inwards towards your soul.
Imagine having personal coaching and not just being one of many.
This retreat is all about you, not about others.
You’re feeling great.
As you sip a refreshing cup of ginger, honey and lemon tea overlooking the Marche hills, you feel a deep sense of calm swirling within you.
Imagine drifting to breakfast in nourishing silence after the early morning yoga practice.
You’re feeling a new inner calm.
Your head feels clearer as you recover from stress and sleep deprivation.
As you eat lunch, you feel the healthy food, cooked by our very own chef, nourishing every cell of your being.
Right now
Is this you?
Flummoxed over why you just don’t feel well?
No worries, you’ll know why by the end of this retreat and what to do.
Like you don’t have the energy to even get through the day, let alone be productive in your life?
According to Ayurveda being well is about being vital, healthy and energetic, it doesn’t accept purely the lack of disease. We’ll lay out a plan that you can take home and implement straight away.
Worried that the lack of sleep and exhaustion is affecting the way you look?
Looking good is more than makeup, it’s a vital essence that radiates from within. You’ll have everyone at home wondering what you’ve been doing to look so good!
Desperate for some respite from stress?
This retreat is designed to nourish you from inside out so you go home completely refreshed.
My promise to you
By the end of this retreat through an experiential practice of breath work and Ayurvedic rejuvenation:
You’ll float home looking and feeling refreshed, and completely relaxed.
You’ll learn how to eat for your constitution, together with special breathing techniques and yoga practices all designed to bring you back into balance and help you sleep well.
You’ll be empowered to take control of your personal wellbeing.
You’ll go home with a plan
You’ll go home with a personally crafted three month programme that will give you step by step, day by day instructions on lifestyle, food, yoga, breath work and meditation that will transform the quality of your sleep and wellbeing.
Your plan will give you step by step, day by day instructions on lifestyle, food, yoga, breath work and meditation that will revolutionize your sleep and wellbeing.
The Menu
Designed by Anandi
Anandi’s chef, Laura, will be bringing you delicious nutritious meals.
You’ll experience beautifully presented, freshly prepared healthy vegetarian food with an Italian edge.
Laura will prepare delicious dairy and gluten free dishes, for those who require it, without compromising on the flavours or nutritional value of the food.
There will be strictly no sugar or white flour.
Using the principles of Ayurveda, meals at Casa Anandi will truly nourish the soul.
Ayurveda with an Italian edge
Enjoy fresh Italian herbs like oregano and basil to add that Italian fragrance to the food.
Food will be in season and where possible bought from local organic farmers.
We won’t be serving ordinary olive oil at Casa Anandi, it will be Casa Anandi Olive oil filled with organic goodness!
Our oil is organic and full of life force energy, free for you to drizzle in abundance over your meals. It’s so good for nearly everything!
Our beautiful candlelit dinners will be accompanied by wonderful Italian organic wine. The wines will be sourced specifically for the retreat by our very own sommelier.
The Delights
Be prepared to shed a skin
Not literally, but by letting go of the stress and exhaustion that’s stored in your body, you’ll feel lighter. Working with special breathing exercises (pranayama) you’ll feel the nourishing and detoxifying benefits of the breath.
You’ll learn how to breathe in a way you’ve never breathed before bringing a new vitality.
Learning how to use food as medicine the Ayurvedic way will help you gain the nutrition you need to help you look and feel amazing.
A more balanced you
If you’ve tried meditation and feel like a meditation moron, you’re in the right place! On this retreat you’ll learn how to meditate and maintain a practice.
No flexibility required for yoga on this retreat.
Yoga is the sister science of Ayurveda. We’ll be using it as it’s intended to be used, a healing tool, not a body beautiful workout…although, of course, the side affects of regular yoga is a healthier body for sure.
Individual coaching
This retreat is for a maximum of 4 people so that I can focus on each individual on the retreat.
On most retreats there’s little time to dedicate to personal coaching. This retreat is different and there will be at least two private coaching sessions per person as well as all the other group workshops.
You’ll have my full attention for the whole retreat!
Benefits
So what can YOU expect if you spend 4 nourishing days on a private retreat at Casa Anandi in Marche, Italy?
To go home feeling completely relaxed and rejuvenated.
To feel inspired to be productive again.
To go home with tools to manage stress and sleep issues.
To have better relationships.
Be less reactive.
To fill up your own love tank!
Would THAT be worth coming to Italy for? I think so!
Together we will focus on:
- Your personal needs
- Advanced breathing techniques to promote lasting wellbeing
- Overcoming exhaustion
- Meditation techniques that are easy to learn if you’re a complete beginner or have struggled to meditate in the past
- Tools to manage life’s challenges
- Ayurvedic food as medicine
- You, you, you
What others say
What's included
and how much is it?
Choose from a 3 or a 4 night retreat at the beautiful Casa Anandi in a private room with ensuite bathroom
All workshops led by Anandi
One to one coaching with Anandi
Supporting workshop material
All meals prepared by our very own chef
All beverages including our special organic wines
What’s not included
Your round trip airfare and aiport tranfers.
Personal, medical or trip cancellation insurance
Flights
You will need to fly into Ancona aiport, Le Marche, Italy.
Airport transfers will be quoted on an individual basis.
3 night retreat
9th-12th September 2020
The Buddha Room
Large ensuite private room £1495
The Shiva Room
Large ensuite private room £1495
The Goddess Room
Standard double room private bathroom £1145
The Goddess Room can also be a twin £895 p/p
4 night retreat
15th-19th September 2020
The Buddha Room
Large ensuite private room £1595
The Shiva Room
Large ensuite private room £1595
The Goddess Room
Standard double room private bathroom £1245
The Goddess Room can also be a twin £995 p/p
Anandi
Your host
I’ve been passionate about natural healing ever since my twenties when I was a fitness instructor. As the years rolled on, I realised that I didn’t need to pound the streets, or lift weights in the gym to be healthy, what I needed was balance. I found that balance through yoga, breathing and Ayurveda. In fact, it changed my life.
I went from a seasoned insomniac to someone who sleeps normally and feels amazing most of the time using the tools I’m teaching now.
Many people asked me about how I used the breath to take away the prison of insomnia, so I decided to write a book which I’ve recently published, ‘Breathe Better, Sleep Better’. I wanted to share one of the most important lessons I learned about life through the breath. The more you try to control the breath, the more you restrict the breath. You get less not more. That applies to life too. In order to be healthy and sleep well, you need more space, less control and to be more present.
One of the fundamental reasons I started running retreats was because I realised that people needed the space and time to let go of the stress they accumulate through sleep deprivation and over work. It’s very difficult to do it alone and it becomes too tempting to turn to drugs for respite from sleeplessness.
I believe that health and good sleep is possible when you are in balance. You don’t need drugs. The only way to achieve balance is to learn how to make the right lifestyle choices and rituals that keep you healthy.
Currently, I’ve been developing a special five step process for sleep and wellbeing transformation using the principles of Ayurveda which I share on my retreats. Another book is brewing!
My professional credentials are:
Ayurveda Practitioner, approved by the International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine
NLP instructor and hypnotherapist
Chopra-certified Primordial Sound Meditation Instructor
Registered Senior Yoga Teacher (Approved by The Yoga Alliance)
Mentee of the late Georg Feuerstein for one year
Graduate of 800hrs diploma in yoga history and philosophy with Georg Feuerstein
Akhanda Yoga Teacher Trainer
Author Breathe Better, Sleep Better
