Sorrento

Sorrento, Italy

Yoga, Music, Medicine, Transformation

August 5 – 12, 2018

New dates for 2018! the circle is unbroken…
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Join Us….

For a week of ritual, connection, integration and expression. This intensive yet celebratory week led by Molly Cofman and Omer Gonen-Haela will be a special opportunity to explore your practice of life, learn new tools, express yourself and be rejuvenated and inspired.

Image waking every morning to an Italian espresso (or tea) and strolling through the enchanted lemon groves of Sorrento. Make your way to the yoga shala for a morning meditation and yoga asana practice as the sunlight begins to illuminate the never-ending palate of blues in the sea below. Across the gulf of Naples, Mount Vesuvius sits quietly holding the power of transformation.

This week on the magical Amalfi coast will be an exploration of practice, ritual, finding your inner rhythms and setting your voice and expression free. A unique blend of yoga, mediation, plant medicine and music, we will guide you, hold you and offer beautiful new perspectives.

It may sound like a dream (which it is!), but it is also an opportunity for deep transformation, self exploration and above and beyond all, celebration!

Omer and Molly have been teaching and sharing their love of ritual and practice for many years independently. One aspect of the journey that has become important to them both is the idea of integration. Sometimes it is easy to have a profound experience. But landing back into ‘real’ life with the treasures found is often very difficult. With this in mind, we are coming together with our respective disciplines to create a week-long retreat that both prepares us more gracefully for ritual, but also teaches and encourages the exploration of tools that help us to bring the wisdom of rituals more easily into our ‘real’ lives. It is beautiful to practice together, but if we cannot integrate the wisdom we receive we have not really received the message. Join us, in our first celebration together, to dive deeper, fly higher and land gracefully. We look forward to sharing a week of not only magnificent and profound work, but celebration, integration, community and connection.

Villa Il Pizzo

We will be based in a villa just outside the center of Sorrento built in 1870 and owned originally by Italian admiral.  Each room in the villa has its own character and the furniture and adornments provide authentic southern Italian character and charm.  Our villa sits amongst the biggest historical lemon grove in the south of Italy, and the grove is home to a resident horse, cows and chickens.  In 2015, the villa was the setting for a Chinese romantic comedy, “All You Need is Love”.

We will be nourished from locally grown organic produce harvested from the farmer next door, and there will be plenty of time amidst our explorations to relax in the beautiful gardens in front of the villa.  For those looking for a unique adventure, wander down through the Roman cave for private access to the sea.

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Your trip will include:

  • 8 days, 7 nights accommodation in Sorrento
  • Three vegetarian meals per day
  • Yoga asana, pranayama, meditation practice with Molly
  • Rhythms, music, expression, mantra with Omer
  • Included in the program will be one or two excursions in the area
  • Ancient medicine circle with Omer
  • Transportation to and from Sorrento train station on arrival and departure days

Price:  1650.00 Euro in shared occupancy

For more information or to register, email

mollycofman@gmail.com

Getting There:

The closest airport to Sorrento is Naples International Airport.  From there, participants can take a shuttle directly to Sorrento train station for group pick up.  There are many direct flights into Rome Fiumicino International Airport as well, but from here it is approximately two hours by train to Sorrento.