Ayurveda, Yoga &
Sound Healing retreat
15 - 19 April 27
Tuscany, Italy
Price: from £1200
Jivita Ayurveda is collaborating with Francesca SanLorenzo from True2u yoga, Italy, to offer you a unique weekend experience combining the beautiful complementary practice of Ayurveda, Yoga and Sound Healing in the beautiful Tuscan landscape.
Experience enlightening Ayurveda Consultations and Detox advice with Anu Paavola.
Enjoy daily uplifting yoga and breath work with Francesca Sanlorenzo.
Eat the Ayurvedic way: Seasonal, Local and delicious!
Benefit from blissful Ayurvedic massage and treatments, Sound Body Massage and Yoga Therapy
Loose yourself in sound healing experiences
Delight in walks in Tuscan nature and breathe the bracing sea air!
Meet our Team
ANU PAAVOLA trained in clinical Ayurveda, Anu has created and nurtured since 2009 a wellbeing brand that is built upon the foundations of providing care, education, guidance and counsel to a wide spectrum of clients.
As a practitioner, Anu has had a chance to create healing opportunities for people who have not been able to find solutions through orthodox medicine and who suffer from conditions such as subclinical or undiagnosable conditions and chronic lifestyle disorders. Anu also tends to the needs of her community for stress management through body treatments from the Ayurvedic tradition. She is passionately dedicated to guide and educate people on their dietary choices and health management and provide them opportunities to learn both for self-development and for professional careers.
Anu’s first passion is to raise awareness of this ancient system of medicine and translate it to the language and practice of our modern days.
She is also the founder of Jivita Academy of Ayurveda and the author of Ayurveda Detox: How To Cleanse, Balance and Revitalise Your Body where she focuses on daily and seasonal cleansing practices that are the key in keeping healthy.
FRANCESCA SANLORENZO is a senior bilingual Yoga Teacher (Ita/Eng), International Teacher Trainer and Yoga Therapist and Sound Therapist who offers holistic non-dogmatic practices, accessible to all, that help cultivate body-mind strength and flexibility whilst restoring balance and wellbeing.
Francesca’s Yoga practice is rooted in the Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition and over many years has been influenced by Jivamukti, Scaravelli, Integral Yoga, Yin, Yoga Nidra, and LV Chair Yoga Method as well as Yoga Philosophy.
As a Yoga & Sound Therapist Francesca brings a personalised methodology that integrates ancient yogic wisdom with modern neuroscience and psychology. She offers evidence-based techniques and practices tailored to individual needs, to provide support for people in their healing journey of self-discovery, while empowering them to take an active role in their health and the development of new, sustainable, positive habits.
SUZY BROUGH has been working with Jivita Ayurveda since 2023 and has been trained in Ayurvedic massage, diet and lifestyle by Anu through Jivita’s Academy of Ayurveda.
She is a long established Vedic meditator and is passionate about the life changing possibilities of mediation.
She is delighted to be working with Anu and Francesca to make wellbeing accessible to all.
What is Included?
This four day retreat is full of wonderful healing and health promoting activities. Relaxation is the main focus in order to promote self-regulation, the body’s own innate ability to heal itself.
From morning until evening and overnight, all we do is create different experiences and learning opportunities to bring the body in a state of safety and comfort.
Four day training in Ayurvedic principles and practices
Daily yoga asana, pranayama & meditation practices
Ayurvedic Consultation & Detox advice
30 min Ayurvedic massage of choice
30 min Yoga Therapy or Sound Body Massage
Four nights accommodation in beautiful Agriturismo Podere l’Agave
All delicious home-cooked vegan friendly food
Seaside, sound healing entertainment & other group activities
Variety of treatments available on request (priced separately)
How much does it cost?
Private Room from £1200 (early bird)
5 days (4 nights Thursday to Monday)
Flights to Pisa Airport not included
(enquire for airport pick up)
Bring a Friend get both 10% Discount!
Payment plans available (see FAQ below)
A Typical Day
Wake from 7am and intake of warm water and herbal medication
- 7.30am Group yoga & breath work & meditation
- 9am Breakfast
- 10 – 12. 30pm Ayurvedic treatments, private sound healing, yoga therapy or rest
- 1pm Communal Lunch at Mama’s Taverna followed by rest
- 2 – 5.30pm – Treatments, Rest of Activity (Walks, Seaside Experience, Local tuscan Villages)
- 6pm Light supper
- 7.30pm Sound healing evening entertainment
Podere L'Agave
Podere L'Agave is a state of the art, beautifully renovated agriturismo farm in the picturesque countryside of Tuscany.
San Vincenzo’s rolling hills and sun-soaked beaches are the perfect backdrop to Podere L’Agave, a family-friendly location with breath-taking views. Enjoy freshly grown produce, heavenly olive oil and meet a bunch of friendly animals on this organic farm.
Promoting sustainable, organic and local living, Podere L’Agave is a perfect match with Jivita Ayurveda’s ethos. We are proud to be collaborating with them, creating unique and authentic Ayurvedic healing experiences, unparalleled to anywhere in the UK.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our prices include 4 nights accommodation, breakfast and lunch, an Ayurvedic health consultation, 30 mins massage treatment and a sound healing or yoga therapy session – as well as all group excursions to the beach and local villages. Any extra treatments or experiences can be requested at extra cost (see price list).
Full payment:
SUPER EARLY BIRD UNTIL 30th NOVEMBER £1200
PRETTY EARLY BIRD UNTIL 31st JANUARY £1300
NOT SO EARLY BIRD UNTIL 31st MARCH £1400
FULL PRICE LAST MINUTE £1600
Payments in full are refundable until 30th November.
Payment plans:
SUPER EARLY BIRD – £1200
Until 31st May for 12 MONTHS = £100
PRETTY EARLY BIRD – £1300
Until 31st July for £130 FOR 10 MONTHS = £1300
EARLY BIRD – £1400
Until 30th September for £175 FOR 8 MONTHS = £1400
PROMPT BIRD – £1500
Until 30th November for £300 FOR 5 MONTHS
Payment Plan payments are non-refundable.
After booking in, you will receive a welcome email and request to fill in the consultations forms and a meeting set-up in zoom for the initial consultation.
You should also read the terms and conditions on our website.
This program is designed to be a state-of-the-art experience of Ayurvedic practice and Sound Healing Arts.
We design the program to match the exact needs of the client.
Experience deep relaxation, rejuvenation, and holistic healing in a serene environment. Our expert instructors and therapists ensure a transformative journey, promoting well-being, balance, and inner peace. Rediscover your true self with us.
Added therapeutic services can be arranged at an extra fee.
The arrival is on Thursday. We can arrange a pick up from Pisa Airport.
Generally speaking, be prepared to eat simple yet delicious foods. For this reason, it would be good to avoid heavy evening meals towards the start of the arrival.
You will need comfortable season appropriate clothing for day and night, toiletries to cater for your most basic needs.
The closest airport is Pisa.
There will be a minivan transportation from and to the airport at £50 each direction. The departure is at 12pm from the airport on Thursday 15th. (TBC)
After three days
Our aim is to prepare your bodymind to be more resilient and adaptable in the varying life situations, not just be well in the retreat but to thrive in everyday life situations.
Get the Ayurveda Detox book
Your practitioner Anu is the author of Ayurveda Detox: How To Cleanse, Balance and Revitalise Your Body, available from Amazon, Waterstones and Blackwell’s.
Her book will inspire you to try pace your daily and seasonal rhythms in a way that additional detox programs become almost redundant. Ayurvedic living is detoxifying per se and if you haven’t experienced it yet, learn from this book and create a new detox program for yourself that not only cleanses you but teaches you habits of a lifetime.
Find out more about Anu’s Ayurveda Detox book.