About The Retreat

2026 Dates

12th – 17th July

Join us for a restorative and healing retreat in the Italian countryside on this special collaboration with yoga teacher and wellness enthusiast, Amy Commander.

In our private boutique villa you will be surrounded with breathtaking views, mesmerizing sunsets, and a wonderful sense of peace – the perfect setting to nurture yourself and your spirit.

What better place to be inspired by fabulous cuisine and local organic farming. We’ll enjoy daily yoga, meditation, wellness tips and tricks, cleansing juice/smoothie recipes, cultural sites, spa treatment, healing meditations and astrology readings!

Yoga with Amy will be offered each day to get our bodies and minds ready to experience the present moment and get the most out of our week. The wellness workshops will be included to get close guidance from Amy as we start each day with healthy mindset. As we set off on our day trips (many focused around cuisine), we can try out our new tips to help digestion while indulging in the Italian lifestyle.

Plus even though we’ll be in Italy nearer to the high season, we’ll be staying on the border of Tuscany and Umbria with smaller villages and spread out countryside – avoiding the major tourists hubs. So you can relax, soak in the Italian sunshine, enjoy the sunflower season, and live “la dolce vita”!

Your Retreat Hosts

AMY COMMANDER

Amy found yoga in 2003 after a knee injury from long distance running. Following the advice of a friend, she started taking classes in an effort to help get her knee healthy enough to continue running in marathons and racing. It did not take long for her to realize that yoga was a much healthier and more sustainable form of mental and spiritual exercise, eventually leaving running behind in favour of yoga.

In 2008, Amy opened her first yoga studio that she successfully ran for over twelve years. In addition to being a studio owner and having over 14 years experience actively teaching, Amy is an accomplished intuitive.

Having completed her advanced training with Astrologer Debra Silverman, Amy enjoys providing in-depth astrology readings to support members in their healing journey.

She is also a certified master Reiki healer, an oracle/tarot reader, and certified holistic nutrition counselor. After losing one of her closest friends to cancer in 2020, Amy went back to school for nutrition, successfully graduating from IIN (Institute for Integrative Nutrition). Amy has since started a new business, Yogi Bites, offering nutrition services of all kinds, including home baked goods. She is the owner of “The Studio”, in St Augustine Florida.

Cuisine

Healthful food is part of the retreat, drawing on the in-season harvests from the local area. Daily breakfast is prepared on-site, and the itinerary includes most dinner and lunches as well, many incorporating a visit or experience in the nearby area.

We’ve carefully chosen delicious and fresh meals from renowned restaurants and chefs that will give guests an expansive experience of the cuisine. Throughout the week,

we will get to sample several of the regional specialties like olive oil, coffee, wine, pecorino cheese, maybe even some truffle if we are lucky! We’ll relish in a range of local eateries, like cantinas, family osterias, and award-winning chefs, and we’ll have hands-on experiences with an Italian cooking class.

Plus on this WELLNESS + HEALING + SELF CARE week, Amy will be incorporating some of her food tips and recipes of YOGI BITES into our experience.

Accommodation

Located on the border of the regions of Tuscany and Umbria, Porsenna Hotel & Spa is a grand country house amid the fields and rolling hills of the countryside, just a short distance from Lake Chiusi and Lake Trasimeno. Our group will enjoy an exclusive stay and private book-out of the hotel during our week together.

The hotel boasts spacious guest rooms, the on-site restaurant and an outdoor pool, as well as massage rooms. Beautiful gardens surround the buildings with various areas for us to meet and relax, as well as stretch out in the daily yoga classes that will be offered to guests.

Here, we are surrounded by historic and ancient Etruscan towns, hilltop villages, and storybook scenery. It gives us a perfect home base to explore the area on our day trips and see what this green heart of Italy has to offer.

Retreat price

6 days / 5 nights (Jul 12-17, 2026)

Inclusive Retreat Price = $3595 Single Room, ($150 discount per guest for sharing* room. 3 shared rooms available)

Deposit to hold space = $1500

Max # Guests = 14

Includes

• Private villa accommodation (spacious bedrooms each with private bathrooms, linens)
• Daily Breakfast
• Selected Lunches & Dinners
• Welcome Aperitivo & Orientation Reception
• Transportation to/from day trips
• Daily yoga/meditation class
• Daily healing classes
• Use of yoga mats
• Use of hotel amenities (pool, gardens, etc.)
• Regional Tastings – winery, olive oil, cheese, etc
• Olive Oil Tasting / Aperitivo
• Wine Tasting Lunch
• Cheese Farm Visit, Tour, Lunch
• Walking tour of Etruscan hilltop town, Chiusi
• Thermal Spa Visit + Spa Treatment
• Visit and dinner to Umbrian town
• Visit to Cortona
• Cooking Class
• Healing Sound Bath Experience
• Personalized Astrology Reading
• Taxes

Does not include

• Airfare
• Insurance

Day Trips

Our day trips will allow us to experience the many unique landscapes and activities that this area has to offer. We will begin our week with a visit to the nearby Etruscan hilltop town of Chiusi, where we’ll enjoy a walking tour and a stop for a pizza lunch.

Later that day, we’ll head to another beautiful village and an award-winning design hotel for an olive oil tasting. We will learn from an olive oil sommelier about the nuances and profiles of this elixir before enjoying a gourmet dinner with a stunning view.

The next day, we’ll venture a little further afield towards the Val d’Orcia and its iconic rolling Sienese hills to a hidden winery in a stunning architectural setting.

Here we’ll have a tour and tasting followed by a visit to a thermal spa where we can enjoy a treatment and time in the healing Italian “terms” waters. By the middle of the week, we will recharge with downtime on site where we can enjoy the scenery, the pool, some yoga, astrology readings, and a food class for lunch before heading out that evening to explore a beautiful Umbrian town and have a cozy dinner out.

We will also fit in a visit to the town of Cortona, famed from Under the Tuscan Sun, and a visit a cheese farm with a tour and tasting lunch. Finally, we’ll enjoy an energetic reset in an intimate sound bath before our final farewell dinner. ding to another neighbouring village and castle for a Michelin tasting dinner.

What past guests have said

“My wife and I have participated on four of these retreats. Each time we have been completely captivated by the experience. The locations are absolutely spectacular. The food and wine is local, healthy, fresh and delicious. The daily trips are personal, structured (but not overly so), enthralling, adventurous and chic. This is not your uncle’s travel guide tour. Erin offers an intimate and deeply restorative experience. It is invitation to form lifetime friendships with people who are curious, joyful and fun. Many times we feel like we are not only getting a sense for a place but being invited to peer behind the veil and see what is invisible to many travelers, all informed by Erin’s appreciative eye for beauty, story and style. Finally the yoga is inclusive and healing. I love the music, the settings, the flow and Erin’s ability to meet you where you are at in your practice. This is our first choice for international travel, personal restoration and inspiration. We highly recommend the experience!”. – Rene – California, USA

“I can’t thank you enough for the amazing experience in Italy. It was everything I needed and then some. Thank you to both of you for your hospitality, fun spirit, teaching of yoga/art and warm presence. It was a blessing to me how our group came together and had such a fun time…I will most definitely be back on one of your retreats in the future.” Jessie, California, USA

”This retreat in Tuscany was the perfect balance of culture, relaxation, and joie de vivre. Erin curates a retreat that makes you feel the furthest thing from a tourist, exposing you to the local haunts and gems of Tuscany. Thank you for so many beautiful memories made in Tuscany. I can’t begin to tell you what an amazing time I had! What an incredible, beautiful, and graceful woman you are. I can’t wait to join you around the world again! Thank you.” Marja, New York

How to get here

Located just outside of Chiusi, Tuscany, Italy

AIRPORTS: Rome Fiumicino Airport (FCO), Florence Peretola Airport (FLR). From both airports there are easy train connections to the station nearest the hotel. Full details on how to best arrive will be given to guests.

TRAIN STATION: Chiusi/Chianciano Terme

We can provide recommendations for a private driver or public transportation. Taxis are available at any time from Chiusi Station, and private cars are available for door-to-door service from airports. Train station is just 15 min from hotel.

Booking

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