💚 Oh Italy… How to sum up this retreat when words just fall short. It’s going to take a few posts. 🍷 Everyone arrived, got situated into their apartments & we opened the retreat w/some much needed post-travel yoga followed by our first group dinner. ☀️ From tasting the culture, being in awe of cathedrals, daily local life, roaming the streets of Cortona, Siena, Montepulciano, & the most gorgeous drives through the rolling Tuscan hills… 🧘🏽♀️ As as a teacher & retreat leader, I get a very unique perspective. You see, I know people are going to come out of their shell. I know some people are going to unfurl once trust has been built. I know people come on retreat for very different reasons. And I KNOW - from a lot of experience - retreat changes people. 💚The details are ours & ours alone. But I will say there was the alchemy of heart break, quiet desperation and uncertainty, self discovery, unraveling of marriages and newer young and golden years love. And what a group it was! ☀️ I always anticipate the blossoming of those who show up & are genuinely present to the inevitable perspective shift retreat & international travel has to offer. 💚What I did not expect was what I would witness in myself, often reflected through the lens of others, & how much I’d be changed by this retreat. It is with profound gratitude to my home studio, @flowyogatx , who puts their trust in me to do the job of holding space for a group of people & to do so with energy, enthusiasm, & joy. This niche of my life’s work yields enormous sweet fruits for everyone involved. Using my craft to create travel opportunities to such beautifully rich places is LIFE GIVING & inspires me in ways nothing else can. I’m profoundly grateful to God I GET to do this work. Almost 27 years (& counting)! Endless 🙏🏼 to @luciasitalia @ladoganaitaly & team, @_marco_duranti_ & team, COP @cantineinnocenti , @andrea.truffle Flow Yoga, & EVERYONE present making our retreat what is was. W/O any one of you, it would not have been the same. 💚All Love, Sanieh ——— 🍋 🇮🇹 Got FOMO?! Stay turned for a few big retreat announcements! #Italy @saniehmorgan_atx