6 Day Art, Wellness, and Yoga Retreat in Tuscany, Italy
Art, Wellness and Yoga Retreat Tuscany
Awaken your inner muse and create passionately and freely - even if you've never picked up a paint brush before! Reconnect with your intuitive flow and higher wisdom by joining Montine Blank and her team for her most popular intuitive art and yoga retreat: Eat.Paint.Love! During this retreat, along with daily yoga, you will learn a powerful creative practice that allows you to know, grow, and heal yourself. Imagine yourself painting, writing, and moving spontaneously from intuition, so that your authentic self, your creative muse, and your higher self can team up to send you the wisdom, insights, and answers you need to heal, rediscover, and expand yourself. Picture being able to take part in daily yoga and deeply-healing ayurvedic massage sessions that support your process, by helping you release blocks and open yourself up to new possibilities. Enjoy sunset aperitivi poolside, join a wine-tasting in a nearby village, get groovy in candle-light dancing, and take short hikes up to see phenomenal 180-degree views of the countryside.
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Highlights
- Intuition Painting®
- Daily yoga sessions
- Authentic movement
- Spontaneous dance parties
- Morning meditation sessions
- 5 nights accommodation
- Gourmet Italian meals
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Styles
Accommodation
Facilities
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Barbeque facilities
- Dining area
- Fireplace
- Kitchen
- Lounge
- Multilingual staff
- Terrace
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry
- Meeting room
- Parking lot
- Wireless internet
The Agriturismo is a renovated 17th-century family-held medieval property that overlooks rolling hills of Tuscany, just outside of Florence. Set high above the city of Chianti in Greve, the meandering stone compound is predominantly forested with chestnut, cherry and oak trees, and home to a producing olive grove with more than 1600 trees. On eight of the thirty hectares are three olive tree varieties, including frantoiano, leccino, and coreggiolo, the oldest of which were planted about 100 years ago, and the youngest planted in 2001.
Within the simplicity and charm of a historic medieval village, the owners have created a warm and welcoming environment. Each spacious suite and all living spaces are uniquely furnished with family antiques passed from one generation to the next. Each private apartment has its own entrance and outdoor sitting area.
The property boasts a large swimming pool and spacious wine cantina built in 1624, which is a beautiful private space where we will be painting. The barbecue and wood-burning oven, as well as the laundry room, are available for to all users. Seasonally the owners produce amazing jams with local fruits (blackberries, figs or cherries) and with a little luck, find good mushrooms and truffles, used prepare delicious sauces. The owners have lovingly cared for this house and continue to make olive oil from its bountiful grove.
Program
This ultra-relaxing, fun, inspiring, and transformative retreat is for adults with any level of art or yoga experience, including those with none.
About Intuition Painting®
These sessions invite you to explore with pure creative freedom and express authentically using paint on life-sized easels. By focusing on the process, not the product, you let go of perfection, comparison, and control and start trusting your intuition, both inside the studio and out. Practicing raw expression through the medium of paint, you release, restore, and ground yourself; you can swiftly process emotional blocks; and reconnect with sacred wisdom, making way for clarity and new possibilities.
The resulting paintings become visual diaries, offering insights about your inner world and giving guidance for your life. Participants of Intuition Painting® experience renewed connection with their imagination and a deeper understanding of themselves.
For some of you, it may have been decades since you painted. It will be surprising to you how quickly you will reconnect with the joy playing with colors and following the fun. For others, you may make art for a living and are feeling the need to begin making art for yourself again. However you arrive, the time spent in mindful creative bliss and exploration will result in joyful, colorful accidents and the appearance of mysterious figures and shapes that will do wonderful things for your brains.
The Benefits
Intuition Painting® helps you to:
- Let go of perfection and control
- Strengthen intuition
- Discover your unique visual voice
- Feel more energized and empowered
- Increase your personal vitality
- Reveal limiting beliefs
- Release the pressure to perform
- Breakthrough creative blocks
- Practice mindfulness in a dynamic process
- Transform unconscious patterns that don't serve you
The Movement
Let the daily yoga and movement sessions help support your journey by easing your body and mind back into a relaxed flow. Let yourself explore movement and spontaneous writing with the Authentic Movement sessions.
The Activities
Each retreat weaves in a unique, optional event in collaboration with a local artisan, farmer, or chef from the area, so that the weeks can offer both familiarity as well as novelty for our repeat retreaters.
Included excursions
An afternoon trip and photo tour Greve in Chianti, Montefioralle, San Casciano, or other nearby quaint villages is included.
Instructors
G. Montine Blank
Montine is a certified transformational coach, life alignment strategist, and Intuition Painting® master facilitator, and founder of The More You. Montine and a team of assistants lead one-of-a-kind wellness retreats in gorgeous settings around the world, each brimming with meditation, mindfulness, intentional creativity, personal inquiry, yoga, authentic movement, and more.
Tina Fletcher
Yoga crossed Tina's path some 11 years ago when she moved to Italy. She was looking for a teacher or yoga class in here but those days in Tuscany you wouldn't find it so easily. But they say, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. That is exactly how it happened with her. From that moment on, yoga became twice a week practice for her and she also began to feel positive changes in her moods, motivation and in total balance and wellbeing. She completed teacher training with Esther Lim here in Italy. She's a certified 200 Ashtanga yoga flow teacher and has been teaching since 2011.
Chiara Scarselli
Chiara is an expert therapist in Ayurvedic-Yoga massage, who integrates subtle but intense work on an emotional and energetic level from deep relaxation and release.
Location
This retreat will take place in Strada-in-Chianti, located in Tuscany, Italy, and is the principal town in the Chianti wine district which stretches south of Florence to just north of Siena. Greve in Chianti is a short distance from Florence, Pisa, Siena, or surrounding towns.
Nearby places
- Florence - 30 minutes
- Rome - 3 hours
- Pisa - 1.5 hours
Features
Activities
- Art classes
- Massage
- Wine tasting
General
- Barbeque facilities
- Dining area
- Fireplace
- Kitchen
- Luggage room / storage
- Multilingual staff
- Special menu request
- Yoga deck
- Yoga studio
Services
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Parking lot
Food
Enjoy mouth-watering meals prepared by experienced, health-conscious cooks using local and organic ingredients.
They welcome us with a traditional aperitivo and prepare our every delicious meal Tuscan style, with seasonal, fresh ingredients and an eye towards nutrition and health. Our dinners include local wine, various courses to satisfy every diet, and out-of-this-world desserts.
Light snacks and naturally infused waters will also be served. Dietary restrictions are honored.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
- Alcoholic beverages
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Pescatarian
- Seafood
- Lactose Free
- Other dietary requirements on request
Things to do (optional)
Additional activities offered vary based on the season and availability. You will have the option to add one or more of the following types of activities for an extra charge:
- Ayurvedic Massage with Chiara
- Shopping in nearby village of Greve
- Site-seeing/ Photo tour to surrounding areas
- Wine tasting
- Artisan cooking class
Spa treatments
One-hour or two-hour Ayurvedic massage sessions will be available for booking for an additional cost with our extremely talented and highly popular therapist Chiara. Her work is rooted in Ayurvedic-Yoga and integrates deep relaxation with subtle work on emotional and energetic levels.
What's included
- 3 daily Italian gourmet meals
- 5 nights accommodation
- Afternoon visit to stroll around Greve in Chianti or San Casciano
- All art materials
- All day accessible painting studio
- Daily intuitive painting workshops
- Daily yoga class
- Light fare and snacks
- Morning meditation sessions
- Spontaneous movement, dance, and play
What's not included
- Additional activities
- Airfare
- Massage appointments
- Meals outside retreat premises
- Transport to and from Florence SMN Train Station (The More You has a private shuttle service available for an added fee)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
97 km
Transfer not provided
Pisa International Airport
76 km
Transfer not provided
Florence Airport, Peretola (Amerigo Vespucci Airport)
19 km
Transfer not provided
The More You offers private transport to and from the retreat location for an additional fee from the SMN Florence train station. If you arrive at the Florence Airport (FLR) there is an easy shuttle or taxi to get to the SMN Florence Train Station. Pick up at SMN Florence Train Station is at 2:30 p.m. on day 1 and drop off is at 2:00 p.m. on day 6.
Arrival by airplane
We recommend booking your flight to arrive at Florence Airport, Peretola (Amerigo Vespucci Airport) (FLR). You may also choose to arrive at Pisa International Airport (PSA) or Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ), where you can take a train to the SMN Florence Train Station and take The More You private transfer to the retreat for an additional fee.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
- The deposit is fully refundable if the booking is cancelled up to 180 days before the arrival date.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 60 days before arrival.
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