PUGLIA, IT, YOGA RETREATS

2025
TBA

LOCATION
Salice Salentino, Italy

WHAT
We love November in Puglia, when the crowds are gone, the weather usually is still sunny and the price is a little lower. This retreat is specifically designed for yoga practitioners and teachers who want to dive deeper into the connection between body and mind and the role trauma and stress plays. On this retreat we stay 5 nights // 6 days in a beautiful restored farmhouse in the middle of the countryside, eat local plant-based food, join a pasta workshops with a local nonna, book a massage treatment or SUP class and take a a cold plunge in the salt water pool.

TEACHER
Suze Retera [Msc] has a background in Psychology and is a certified Yoga teacher and Yoga Nidra Facilitator, teaching yoga since 2006. She is also a certified Body Oriented Trauma Therapist and Orthomolecular Therapist and combines this with specific practices like TRE® [Trauma Release Exercises], Functional Range Conditioning [FRC®] and Family Constellations in her private practice in Amsterdam. She is also available for 1:1’s during the retreat.

A program filled with strong vinyasa yoga classes, somatic practices, TRE®, lectures on the fascia system, psoas, vagus nerve and more. You will learn about the functioning of your nervous system and how to regulate it. Even though these practices are powerful and healing, the approach during the retreat is lighthearted and geared towards offering you the tools to navigate your own life experiences during and long after.

Top, proprio magnifico. Amazing surroundings, high quality food and super guidance by Suze. Have done many retreats but this one absolutely tops them all. Never change! - ACE and LAETITIA, NL

LOCATION
For this retreat we will be back at Masseria Pezza, a luxurious farmhouse surrounded by vineyards and olive trees, and the ideal place to retreat. The house has six bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms, a large kitchen and living room, indoor yoga space with cosy fireplace and a salt water pool for a cold plunge. Bed linen, towels, shampoo and soap are provided in your room. For this retreat we can host up to 11 guests.

There are some very good reasons why everyone seems to be going to Puglia right now. Down here on the edge of Europe, you feel other worlds. The heel of Italy’s boot combines fairytale landscapes with trulli, whitewashed towns, olive groves on red soil and interesting architecture. The retreat house is 20 minutes away from the beautiful sandy beaches on the Ionian Sea, Torre Lapillo, Punto Prosciutto, Salina dei Monaci, Punta Prosciutta, Torre Colimena, spiaggia del Conte and Torre Borraco. Let yourself be inspired by the Apulians, masters at living life in the slow lane and enjoying the small pleasures in life.

FOOD + DRINKS
Puglia is where you’ll find the most plant-based dishes; dozens of different types of leafy greens, sun-ripened vegetables and fruits, beans and bread and pasta made with ancient local grains as senatore Cappelli and monococco.

Our focus lies on sourcing the best produce from Puglia, we work directly with farmers who love their craft. We believe that making healthy choices in life doesn’t have to be hard at all, food that will not just nurture your body, but is tasty at the same time. We don’t serve coffee and alcohol but will make it up with our 5 superfood mylks, Japanese green teas and herbal teas.

PROGRAM
Day 1 — arrival day
check-in after 16.00
17.00 group welcome & grounding practice
19.30 dinner

Day 2
08.00 vinyasa yoga
10.00 breakfast
11.00 massages
14.00 lunch
17.30 workshop Safety & The Nervous System - Theory & Exercises
19.30 dinner

Day 3
08.00 vinyasa yoga
10.00 breakfast
11.00 energy healing or acupressure treatments
14.00 lunch
17.30 workshop Polyvagal Theory & Regulating the Autonomic Nervous System - Theory & Exercises
19.30 dinner

Day 4
08.00 vinyasa yoga
10.00 breakfast
14.00 lunch
15.30 pasta workshop
17.30 workshop Stress, Trauma, and Physical Health - Theory & Exercises
19.30 dinner
20.30 yoga nidra

Day 5
08.00 vinyasa yoga
10.00 breakfast
12.00 plant-based cooking workshop
14.00 lunch
17.30 workshop Trauma Release Exercises (TRE®) - Theory & Exercises
19.30 dinner

Day 6 — departure day
08.00 vinyasa yoga
10.00 breakfast
11.00 check-out

THIS TRIP IS IDEAL FOR
Everyone is welcome on our retreats; all ages and levels, couples, friends, family and solo travelers. Most of the food will be plant-based with local fruits and vegetables from nearby gardens and we can accommodate most special food requests. If you’re looking for a small retreat nestled in nature than this one is for you.

FLIGHTS + TRANSFER
The nearest airport is Brindisi, but if you are flying from Amsterdam we recommend to book the direct flight to Bari with Transavia. We will organize a transfer from there to the retreat house or you can rent a car. We highly recommend to stay a few days longer in Puglia. The natural pool Acquaviva, Castro, Tricase, Monopoli, Locorotondo, Alberobello, Cisternino, Ostuni, Bari, Polignano a Mare and Matera are the must-see places.

PRICING
Shared triple room with ensuite bathroom: 1.300€ per person
Shared twin room with ensuite bathroom: 1.400€ per person
Single room with ensuite bathroom: 2.000€ per person

NB1 a payment of 500€ non-refundable deposit is required to hold your spot
NB2 payment plans are available

INCLUDED
• five nights in a luxury accommodation
• daily vinyasa yoga classes and therapeutic practices
• breakfast, lunch and dinner
• fresh juices, health shots, superfood mylks and herbal teas
• pasta workshop with a local nonna
• Apulian welcome gift

EXTRAS
• airplane tickets
• transfers
• car rental
• SUP class
• massage treatments
• Kobido face lift massage
• 1:1’s with Suze
• travel and trip cancellation insurance

FLEXIBLE BOOKING POLICY
If authorities won’t make it possible to travel, you get 100% of your money paid towards the retreat back or you can move to a new date in 2024. Please note that payment of 500€ non-refundable deposit secures your place. The remaining balance must be paid 4 weeks before the retreat starts. Cancellation requests submitted within 30 days of retreat date, 50% of total amount [less deposit] will be refunded. Within 14 days of your retreat: sorry but no refunds given. We recommend that you purchase your own travel insurance.

BOOKINGS
info@casadiyoga.nl