Francesca Marchi School of Yoga
satyanandayoga tradition
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 of Peace
(symbol of Francis of Assisi that unites all religions
Hermitage of the Carceri Assisi
Our Residence
An ancient farmhouse
in a historic estate Period residence
It is a gift and a privilege to be guests in this place and in a land of holiness.
An ancient farmhouse
immersed in the immensity of the woods and olive groves at the gates of Assisi
where the gaze is lost in the infinite beauty of Creation that spoke to Francis
and it is here that the Soul finally breathes and finds Peace
https://www.agriturismo-lamontagnola.it/agriturismo-umbria-con-piscina/
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)
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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
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
LONG WEEKEND/VACANZA BREVE
DAL 1 AL 23 AGOSTO SU RICHIESTA E SU DISPONIBILITA' ANCHE
LONG WEEKEND/VACANZA BREVE MINIMO 3 NOTTI
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 31 maggio
COSTI (a persona)
SETTIMANE (7 notti/8 giorni)
DA SABATO A SABATO O DA DOMENICA A DOMENICA
Camera singola €1390
Camera doppia condivisa €890
Camera tripla/quadrupla condivisa €850
Long weekend (3 notti/4 giorni)
Camera singola €890
Camera doppia condivisa €690
PERIODI DIVERSI SU DISPONIBILITA' E FARE RICHIESTA DEL COSTO
Assisi & La Verna
Ritiro lungo 2 SETTIMANE
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.
Reservations
To participate in residential Yoga Programs you must:
fill out the registration form for our Yoga School
Amateur Sports Association and Social and Cultural Promotion Body
CSEN affiliate
+ deposit of
€250 for weekends and short programs
€35 0 per week and long holidays (from 5 days upwards )
by Bank transfer
The bank transfer details will be sent to you at the time of booking
sending a copy to:
SMS or whatsapp at 3480806129
In case of cancellation for justified reasons, the deposit will be refunded in full with a voucher to be used for another Yoga date in Capri or another Yoga Retreat 2024.
The balance must be paid by bank transfer
max within 30 days prior to your arrival.
We are at your disposal for any request or clarification and to facilitate your reservations.
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