Cantico delle Creature or Song of Messer the Sun Brother

Francis of Assisi

Most High, almighty, good Lord, Yours are the praises, the glory and the honor and every blessing. To You alone, Most High, if you know, and no homo is dignified to lie to You. Praised yes, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Brother Sun....

Praised yes my Lord, for sister Moon and the stars... Praised yes my Lord, for brother Wind... Praised yes my Lord, for sister Water... Praised yes my Lord, for brother Focu..., Laudato si' mi Lord, for our mother Earth...

Praised yes my Lord, for those who forgive for Your love... Praised yes my Lord, for our sister Corporal Death...

Praise and bless my Lord and thank and serve them with great humility.

Saint Francis called it the Canticle of Brother Sun and, after 8 centuries, it is still the most famous prayer of thanksgiving that involves the whole world. Francesco feels himself on the move as the traveling companion of all creatures: men, animals and plants as a single family.
Tommaso da Celano writes:
"If he saw expanses of flowers he stopped to preach to them and invited them to praise and love God as beings endowed with reason, in the same way the crops, the vineyards, the stones and the woods, the beautiful countryside, the running waters and the gardens green, the earth and the fire, the air and the wind, with simplicity and purity of heart he invited us to love God.
And he called all Creatures by the name of brother and sister."

the Yoga Retreat will be particularly inspired by the theme
Awareness of the divine Energy in Nature present in every form of Creation
guided by the thoughts of Francis and Clare of Assisi

ASSISI & LA VERNA

Yoga & Sacred Forest Retreats

August 11-24

weeks and short holidays

max bookings by June 5th

ASSISI

City of Peace

Mandir della Pace
(simbolo di Francesco d'Assisi che unisce tute le Religioni
Eremo delle Carceri Assisi

la nostra Residenza

Un antico Casale
Dono e privilegio essere ospiti in questo luogo e in una terra di santità
Un antico Casale
immerso nell'Immensità dei boschi e uliveti alle porte di Assisi
dove lo sguardo si perde nell'Infinita bellezza del Creato che ha parlato a Francesco
ed è qui che l'Anima finalmente respira e trova Pace

LA VERNA
The Forest, the Hermitage of Francis, the Holy Mount
"Non est in toto sanctior orbe mons"
(There is no holier mountain in the world)

Assisi & La Verna
they are places that preserve and continue to give to the whole world,
without asking anything,
the history and thoughts of Francis of Assisi, of Chiara, of their companions on the Way.
Coming to these places means making an immense gift to our heart.
Come not to seek or to have
but to leave what covers our eyes,
preventing ourselves from seeing the Beauty of Creation that vibrates within every Breath.
It is only when Awareness awakens
that we understand through Life the true great meaning of Love.

I love these places very much and I feel like I'm part of it all too...

This is where I wait for you
to offer Yoga to everyone,
the great Yoga that was given to me many years ago
the great Yoga which belongs to no one and which continues to flow from heart to heart,
the ancient Yoga of millennia and millennia that humbly wants to give every human being the key to reach our true home that resides in the heart.
And to reach it... it is necessary to leave...

Francesca

e noi...

YOGA E MEDITAZIONE

ASSISI

NATURA & SPIRITUALITA'

CAMMINI NEI BOSCHI & SENTIERI DI ASSISI

LUOGHI DI PACE E MEDITAZIONE

LA VERNA

UNA FORESTA E L'EREMO DI FRANCESCO

STILE DI VITA YOGA & RIFLESSIONI

RELAX PACE SERENITA' & BUON CIBO

Programma (di massima)

Settimana 11-17 agosto

ASSISI

1 GIORNO

Arrivi e sistemazione in camera dalle 14

ore 16,30-17,30 Tisane d'Estate di Benvenuto

ore 18-20 Presentazione e Introduzione al Programma

Pratica della sera: Asanas e pranayama - Meditazione

20.30 Cena

Dopocena e programmazione del giorno dopo

2 GIORNO

ore 06-07 Mantra Sadhana Meditazione del mattino e Sankalpa

7-8.30 Yoga del mattino: Surya Namaskara - Asanas - Pranayama energizzanti

9-10 Colazione a buffet dolce/salata

11-15 Cammini meditativi Assisi / il bosco della Tenuta / relax / tempo libero

Pranzo libero / al sacco

ore 16.30-17.30 Tisane d'estate

ore 18-20 Yoga della sera: Esercizi preparatori, Asanas e Pranayama calmanti - Meditazioni (Yoga Nidra, Antar Mouna, Ajapa Japa)

20.30 Cena

Dopocena sotto le stelle

3 GIORNO

PROGRAMMA YOGA DEL MATTINO IDEM COME GIORNO PRECEDENTE

Ore 9-10 Colazione

ore 10.30 Cammini meditativi Assisi //boschi della Tenuta / relax / tempo libero

Pranzo libero / al sacco

18-20 Yoga della sera: Esercizi preparatori Asanas e Pranayama calmanti - Meditazioni (Yoga Nidra, Antar Mouna, Ajapa Japa)

Ore 20.30 Cena in giardino

Dopocena sotto le stelle

4 GIORNO

ore 7.00-9,00 Sankalpa e Mantra tradizione vedica

7.30-8.30 Yoga del mattino: Surya Namaskara - Asanas - Pranayama energizzanti

9-10 Colazione a buffet dolce/salata

11-15 Cammini meditativi Assisi /boschi della Tenuta /relax / tempo libero

Pranzo libero / al sacco

ore 16.30-17.30 Tisane d'estate

Ore 18-20 Yoga della sera: Esercizi preparatori, Asanas e Pranayama calmanti - Meditazioni (Yoga Nidra, Antar Mouna, Ajapa Japa)

20.30 Cena

Dopocena sotto le stelle

5 GIORNO

FERRAGOSTO!

ore 06.-08 PREGHIERA AL FUOCO - mantra e canti devozionali tradizione vedica

9-10 Colazione a buffet dolce/salata

11-15 Cammini /Picnic di ferragosto e Bagno al fiume

ore 16.30-17.30 Tisane d'estate

ore 18-20 Yoga della sera: Esercizi preparatori, Asanas e Pranayama calmanti - Meditazioni (Yoga Nidra, Antar Mouna, Ajapa Japa)

20.30 Cena di Ferragosto

Dopocena sotto le stelle

6 GIORNO

PROGRAMMA YOGA DEL MATTINO IDEM COME GIORNO PRECEDENTE

9-10 COLAZIONE

10.30-16 Cammini meditativi Assisi e boschi circostanti alla Tenuta / relax / tempo libero

pranzo libero / al sacco

ore 18-20 Yoga della sera: Esercizi preparatori, Asanas e Pranayama calmanti - Meditazioni (Yoga Nidra, Antar Mouna, Ajapa Japa)

ore 20.30 Cena in giardino

Dopocena sotto le stelle

7 GIORNO

PROGRAMMA YOGA DEL MATTINO IDEM COME GIORNO PRECEDENTE

9-10 COLAZIONE

10.30-17 LA VERNA Visita al Sacro Eremo e la Foresta -

( gli orari potranno essere modificati in base all escursione a La Verna-auto proprie o su richiesta pulmino per tutti )

pranzo libero all Eremo o al sacco

ore 18-20 Yoga della sera: Esercizi preparatori, Asanas e Pranayama calmanti - Meditazioni (Yoga Nidra, Antar Mouna, Ajapa Japa)

ore 20.30 Cena in giardino

Dopocena sotto le stelle

8 GIORNO

7-8.30 Yoga del mattino e Conclusione del Programma - Riflessioni insieme

9-10 Colazione

10-11 PARTENZE E SALUTI

Settimana 18-24 (25) agosto

PROGRAMMA IDEM COME LA SETTIMANA PRECEDENTE

Un Programma rivolto a tutti

Loving the World
The positive vision of Nature derives from the belief that the image of the Creator is reflected in it A sense of brotherhood emerges between man and the cosmos that is profoundly different from other religious trends of the Middle Ages that despised the earthly world
The legend Antiqua San Francisci writes
"Returning from La Verna with the stigmata received from the Lord imprinted on his body, exhausted with strength, Francis stopped in San Damiano where Chiara and her companions lived and had prepared a simple hut for him in the center of the Convent of San Damiano. There, after 50 days of agony, one morning he called the friars and, full of joy, taught them the new song he had composed: "Most High almighty, good Lord. Praised are you, my Lord, with all your Creatures.."

La Verna

Sanctity founded on rock. Still, cold, immense. La Verna is a place you can't miss going to.

To get to La Verna you have to go up. If you get there on foot it is tiring but even arriving by car you can sense the preciousness and particularity of the place. And be silent to admire it.

This Holy Mountain was the only thing “owned” by Saint Francis. It was a gift from Count Orlando.

Francis went together with his friars to be closer to God. He had his bed on the bare rock, he spent days and nights praying in the woods, crying out to God, the only Lord of his life.

Francis hid in the most remote ravines or looked for a solitary place in the woods, he didn't want even his friars to see him when he retired to pray. It was his secret place, the place where only God can enter.

And no one else. Each of us has a place like this in our hearts, but it is often hidden or forgotten due to too many worries in this world.

Francis reminds us of Silence. Loneliness. As a Gift from Heaven.

But Mount La Verna is there to bear witness to something even bigger, humanly inexplicable, something that escapes human reason, control, understanding.

Mount La Verna commemorates the night between 16 and 17 September 1224 when Francis "took the last seal from Christ"

(v. 107 – canto XI – Paradiso).
First in history, he was pierced in the flesh by the cross of Christ. Francis - who had long been asking God to let him experience the love and pain that he had felt in his Passion - had a vision of a six-winged Seraph and, as soon as the vision disappeared, he saw the gift that the Lord had given him . The flesh of his hands, feet and side was bloody and pierced, just like the flesh of Christ on the cross.
A mystery of infinite beauty, Francis would have liked to keep the secret between himself and God, but he couldn't. The smell of sanctity was already being felt within his fraternity and among all those who had had the grace to meet him.
The stone on which Francis stood when he was visited and nailed is today kept in the splendid chapel of the Stigmata, a unique place in the world for its beauty and depth. Andrea della Robbia's crucifixion scene moves you at first glance. And the phrase “O vos omnes qui transitis per viam attendte et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus” (O all of you who pass along the street, stop and see if there is pain similar to mine), written at the base of the sculpture, it screams the pain and the pierced and resurrected love softly and leaves you speechless. So that you can say nothing other than "Deus meus et omnia",

My God and my all, my God and my all, my God and my all.

PRENOTAZIONI MAX ENTRO 5 GIUGNO

COSTI (a persona)

11-17 agosto (6 notti/7 giorni)

Camera singola €1290
Camera doppia condivisa €890
Camera tripla/quadrupla condivisa €850

(1 notte extra 17-18 agosto)

€100 camera singola-€60 a persona camera doppia -€50 a persona camera tripla/quadrupla

Long weekend (4 notti/5 giorni)

14-18 agosto

Camera singola €890
Camera doppia condivisa €690

18-24 agosto (6 notti/7 giorni)

Camera singola €1290

Camera doppia condivisa €890

Camera tripla/quadrupla condivisa €850

Assisi & La Verna

Ritiro lungo 11-24 agosto

Camera singola €2390

Camera doppia condivisa €1490

Camera tripla condivisa €1390

IL COSTO COMPRENDE:

Soggiorno e pasti vegetariani: colazione, cena vegetariana/vegan (cucina della tradizione/Om Home Restaurant).

Tisane del pomeriggio/sera, Concerto e Apericena di Ferragosto.

Programma Yoga e Meditazione.

Tessera associativa Csen valida 12 mesi necessaria per frequentare le attività della nostra Associazione sportiva e culturale affiliata alla Csen.

COSTI EXTRA

pranzi, pulizie e cambi biancheria extra (€15 a volta), taxi navetta €15 a persona a tratta in orario comune che verrà deciso sotto data. Transfer privati €35 a tratta.

La notte extra all'Eremo della Verna.

PRENOTAZIONI MAX ENTRO 5 giugno

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