DIVE INTO YOUR INNERSELF
Pink Elephant Summer Yoga Retreat with Marco & Petra in beautiful Rome8 DAYS OF YOGA,
UNTOUCHED NATURE,
DELICIOUS VEGETARIAN FOOD & COOKING CLASSES AND
ART & CULTURE OF AMAZING ROME
This year we decided to organize a very special retreat in the beautiful countryside estate of Borgo Paola.
Borgo Paola is situated above Acqua Paola’s antique springs, inside a forest which extends for over 2000 hectars where everyone can regenerate body and mind enjoying the peace of the beautiful nature. The structure of this lovely estate provides independent studio apartaments with bathrooms, a big swimming pool and the wonderful Yogananda round shala, specifically made for yogic practices in pure nature.
This 200 square meters circular room, built as the Rome’s Sistine Chapel, entirely made in wood and well-lit with its full-length windows looking into the woods will be our sacred place during this 8 days of retreat.
Here we will practice our daily morning pranayama, meditation and asana practice as well as the evening mantra chanting and yoga nidra.
The surrounding nature will be the perfect place to learn and experience the amazing yogic cleansing techniques-kriyas and a proper environment to deepen the knowledge of yoga philosophy and practice theory.
Apart from yoga practice, delicious food and well-being of resting next to the swimming pool, the surrounding area offers many interesting touristic opportunities:
— Bracciano is the nearby ancient and beautiful city with a wonderful castle, characteristic old streets with many shops, bars and restaurants.
— The lake, that can be reached in few minutes, offers places for bathing, sunbathing and trips with the local boats.
— Other amazing sites are Marturanum the monumental Etrusc necropolis, Monterano and its ghost city, the sulphur baths at the natural park of Caldara with its giant active sulphur bubble, the hot springs of Stigliano and many other beautiful characteristic sites of this incredible italian region.
— Rome, the Italian capital, can be reached by train in 40 minutes as well as its famous sea bathing sites like Santa Severa and Santa Marinella.
CAN YOU IMAGINE a week of total surrender into yourself where you just enjoy the beauty of the present moment and the simplicity of yogic living? This is what you are going to experience during Pink Elephant Summer Yoga Retreat.
Yoga retreat is an opportunity that every yoga practitioner should give to the innerself as a gift. A moment of introspection, joy, freedom from daily routines but also a moment to improve your personal yogic practice, go out of the boundaries, explore new amazing places, meet new people and enjoy a dreamlike holiday.
Guided by personal experience of being teachers as well as students in many different yoga retreats, we structured this program for you in a way that you will reach all the benefits of such a meaningful occasion by integrating the body-mind complex and recharging yourself for the coming year.
We will also have the chance to learn something about the yogic diet and the way to prepare vegetarian delicious food.
The preparation of our food and cooking classes will be done by Kumari and Gaura, two wonderful persons and Bhakti yogis who made cooking a spiritual experience.
” Food, the energy which constitutes us and joins us together, is an important aspect of our relation to our life and ourselves. I prepare healthy vegetarian food with love and care, offering tasty and nutritionally balanced meals which are intended to be a regeneration for body and soul. You can know more about me and my cooking on my web site: www.tastybliss.net (finota)“
— Kumari
CAN YOU IMAGINE a week of total surrender into yourself where you just enjoy the beauty of the present moment and the simplicity of yogic living? This is what you are going to experience during Pink Elephant Summer Yoga Retreat.
Yoga retreat is an opportunity that every yoga practitioner should give to the innerself as a gift. A moment of introspection, joy, freedom from daily routines but also a moment to improve your personal yogic practice, go out of the boundaries, explore new amazing places, meet new people and enjoy a dreamlike holiday.
Guided by personal experience of being teachers as well as students in many different yoga retreats, we structured this program for you in a way that you will reach all the benefits of such a meaningful occasion by integrating the body-mind complex and recharging yourself for the coming year.
This year we decided to organize a very special retreat in the beautiful countryside estate of Borgo Paola.
Borgo Paola is situated above Acqua Paola’s antique springs, inside a forest which extends for over 2000 hectars where everyone can regenerate body and mind enjoying the peace of the beautiful nature. The structure of this lovely estate provides independent studio apartaments with bathrooms, a big swimming pool and the wonderful Yogananda round shala, specifically made for yogic practices in pure nature.
This 200 square meters circular room, built as the Rome’s Sistine Chapel, entirely made in wood and well-lit with its full-length windows looking into the woods will be our sacred place during this 8 days of retreat.
Here we will practice our daily morning pranayama, meditation and asana practice as well as the evening mantra chanting and yoga nidra.
The surrounding nature will be the perfect place to learn and experience the amazing yogic cleansing techniques-kriyas and a proper environment to deepen the knowledge of yoga philosophy and practice theory.
We will also have the chance to learn something about the yogic diet and the way to prepare vegetarian delicious food.
The preparation of our food and cooking classes will be done by Kumari and Gaura, two wonderful persons and Bhakti yogis who made cooking a spiritual experience.
” Food, the energy which constitutes us and joins us together, is an important aspect of our relation to our life and ourselves. I prepare healthy vegetarian food with love and care, offering tasty and nutritionally balanced meals which are intended to be a regeneration for body and soul. You can know more about me and my cooking on my web site: www.tastybliss.net (finota)“
— Kumari
Apart from yoga practice, delicious food and well-being of resting next to the swimming pool, the surrounding area offers many interesting touristic opportunities:
— Bracciano is the nearby ancient and beautiful city with a wonderful castle, characteristic old streets with many shops, bars and restaurants.
— The lake, that can be reached in few minutes, offers places for bathing, sunbathing and trips with the local boats.
— Other amazing sites are Marturanum the monumental Etrusc necropolis, Monterano and its ghost city, the sulphur baths at the natural park of Caldara with its giant active sulphur bubble, the hot springs of Stigliano and many other beautiful characteristic sites of this incredible italian region.
— Rome, the Italian capital, can be reached by train in 40 minutes as well as its famous sea bathing sites like Santa Severa and Santa Marinella.
Marco Bianco
Pink Elephant Yoga House Co-founder, Yoga teacher
Born and raised in Italy, Marco dedicated his life to the wisdom of Yoga by spreading it to the people around the world. Today he lives in Zagreb with his wife Petra, taking care of different schools and programs dedicated to yogic education. He is the Advisor for Croatia at the European Yoga Council, member of European Yoga Federation and International Advisor of the World Yoga Council.
He first meets eastern philosophies in the mid 80’s and, since then, in his rich life experience, he had the opportunity to meet and work with many great teachers of many different traditions such as Iyengar Yoga, Shivananda Yoga and his favorite Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. Besides his great knowledge on the asana practice and anatomy of human body, he is a passionate meditator and philosophy scholar in the field of Patanjali Yoga Sutras.
In the nineties he received his education in yoga from Carlo Patrian, the teacher who, after spending many years in India in contact with the most renowned yoga teachers of the19th and 20th centuries, received the honorary title of “Yoga Ratna” and was the first person who brought yoga to Italy in the late 50-ies. Marco, after several years of study in direct contact with his teacher and mentor Carlo, received the diploma of Yoga Teacher in Milan at Carlo’s “Istituto Yoga”.
In 2005 he moved to Croatia where he was invited to teach and soon after he developed the first croatian teacher training program for yoga teachers according to the high international standards of European Yoga Federation, Yoga Alliance and International Yoga Federation.
In early 2012, he opened the Pink Elephant Yoga House with his wife Petra and, together with her, created a new program for yoga teachers called Pink Elephant Yoga Institute as well as a three-year program called School of Consciousness dedicated to practice of yogic philosophy. Institute is registered by the European Yoga Federation and recognized by the “World Movement for Yoga and Ayurveda” and “World Yoga and Ayurveda Community”.
Marco is often invited to teach as guest teacher in many different countries. He constantly collaborates with many teachers and, in particularly with Swami Suryananda (Amadio Bianchi) with whom is bound by a profound respect and a long term friendship.
He teaches Ashtanga, Vinyasa, meditation and philosophy classes. Marco’s classes contain a a great sense of precision, alignment, fluidity and strength, a lot of philosophical wisdom and … a touch of fun!
Petra Bianco
Pink Elephant Yoga House Co-founder, Yoga teacher
Petra grew up in a yogic environment in Zagreb as her parents were practising and teaching Yoga back in eighties.
Her personal yogic path started in 2001, when she was working worldwide as a successful professional model. At that time Yoga became her daily practice, helping her balance between worldly life under reflectors of fashion business and her intimate nature of yearning for connection from within.
Very soon she realized yogic path is her life calling and after finishing her carrier in 2010 she decided to enroll in teacher training program with great Indian masters Kamal Singh and Sunil Sharma and started teaching Ashtanga Vinyasa method on daily basis.
Soon after, her strong passion for pranayama practice brought her to study under guidance and tradition of her teacher, O.P.Tiwari, one of the few living masters in India teaching pranayama practice in traditional way. With his blessing, guidance and yearly extensive education in pranayama teacher training program in Kaivalydhama Yoga Institute of India, she became the first registered pranayama teacher of this Kaivalydhama tradition in Croatia and wider.
She is a passionate TM meditator since childhood but today she is very grateful to her meditation master and guide Ananda Vdovic, amazing woman and well-known meditation teacher and musician, for guiding her on this path of self discovery.
In early 2012, together with her husband Marco, she opened the Pink Elephant Yoga House, well known house for Yoga in Croatia and developed one of the most complete teacher training program called Pink Elephant Yoga Institute registered by the European Yoga Federation and recognized by the World Movement for Yoga and Ayurveda and World Yoga and Ayurveda Community.
Beside teaching in Pink Elephant, she is a passionate traveler, philanthropist and sociologist by profession who loves to share her energy with people around the globe, especially in different yoga retreats and workshops. Petra teachings are based on a deep understanding of all aspects of Ashtanga Yoga: physical, anatomical, philosophical and experiential. They are very detailed, challenging, full of useful tips and tricks, mindful hands-on adjustments and energy transfer and, above all, characterized by her unique way of teaching always focusing the attention of students towards their own personal experience and discoveries.
Retreat Daily Schedule
7.30 – 9.00 — Yogic cleansing techniques, pranayama and meditation
9.00 – 9.15 — Tea / coffe time
9.15 – 11.00 — Ashtanga Asana Practice
11.00 — Brunch time
11.30 – 14.30 — Pool time / Free time for visiting around
14.30 – 15.30 — Yoga Philosophy and theory or cooking class (optional)
15.30 – 19.00 — Free time / Beach time or site seeing
19.00 – 19.30 — Mantra Chanting (optional)
19.30 — Dinner time
21.00 – 21.45 — Yoga Nidra & Meditation
22.00 — Good night
EARLY BIRD PRICES
(until April 30th)
Double Bedroom
- studio apartment with bathroom
- 2 meals (brunch and dinner)
- yoga course in total
Three Bedroom
* limited spaces, book on time- studio apartment with bathroom
- 2 meals (brunch and dinner)
- yoga course in total
Single Bedroom
- studio apartment with bathroom
- 2 meals (brunch and dinner)
- yoga course in total
PRICES
Double Bedroom
- studio apartment with bathroom
- 2 meals (brunch and dinner)
- yoga course in total
Three Bedroom
* limited spaces, book on time- studio apartment with bathroom
- 2 meals (brunch and dinner)
- yoga course in total
Single Bedroom
- studio apartment with bathroom
- 2 meals (brunch and dinner)
- yoga course in total
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT
1. Fill out the registration form below.
2. Wait for our e-mail confirmation with all payment instructions.
3. Submit your deposit of 250€ to reserve your space.
4. Full payment has to be done until Jun 30, 2017.
*please feel free to ask us for any assistance or suggestions about your traveling plans to Borgo Paola, Rome.
*If you would like to come with your partner/family member/friend who is not going to attend yoga classes, please fell free to do so. There will be some reduction of total payment amount for this person.
Yoga retreat with Petra and Marco Bianco is more than a vacation – it’s an investment. An ivestment into vacation, investment into body and soul.
The pracitice of ashtanga yoga and pranayama combined with wonderful lectures enabled me to dive in deep into myself, while the relaxed schedule maintained the vacationing feel, with enough time to go sight seeing or just enjoying the food, sun and sea.
If I could complain about anything, it would be that the retreat was too short!
— Laura HorvatAt the right time, with nice people in the right place…
At this interesting and intensive yoga retreat led by Marco and Petra in Sardinia last year I got nice “answers”, learned to breathe better, practice Ashtanga Vinyasa method better and even more to observe a variety of different changes in me, called Yoga.
— Marin LovrinovWhat else to say, an experience to be repeated.
