Registration is now Open!

ITALIA HARVEST RETREAT

yoga . art . gastronomia . wonder

w/ Micheline Berry, Joey Lugassy + Artists

October 12th to 19th . 2024

Tenuta di Paternostro, Tuscia Countryside . Rome

ABOUT THE RETREAT

For over 25 years, Micheline Pierrette Berry has been guiding adventurous souls on transformative ”off the beaten track” journeys across the globe, aimed at embodying creativity and forging deep connections with self, other and nature. Next up: Italia!

"My curated journeys are born from decades of fostering genuine bonds with local communities, nature, art, and culture in hidden gems from Brazil and Spain to Cuba and Italy. I've long dreamt of taking a group to discover Olivia Mariotti’s enchanting Tenuta di Paternostro—a sanctuary estate just an hour from Rome, where magnificent thoroughbred horses roam freely and are the equine therapists of the land.”

Micheline has crafted an immersive itinerary featuring daily somatic practices, live music and dance sessions, exclusive cultural discoveries, relaxing soaks in the region's mineral-rich hot springs (termes), and, of course, farm-to-table Italian dining. Guests will also participate in an authentic olive oil cultivation experience at Tenuta di Paternostro.

Your week amongst a revery of olive groves, grazing horses, thermal springs, volcanic lakes, Etruscan grottos, local artisan villages, and a rolling countryside will return you home inspired and well fed from a bountiful harvest of beauty, care, and creative mischief. Copious amounts of homemade pasta and local wines included. ;)

Need more info? Contact us at: michelineberry@gmail.com

TAKE A SNEAK PEAK:

RETREAT INCLUSIONS

(what your fee covers)

Villa

7 nights / 7 days uniquely beautiful accommodations at the 30-hectare estate LA TENUTA DI PATERNOSTRO in the Tuscia region of Italy, one hour outside of Rome. Your home for a week in the spell of the sensuous that Olivia Mariotti has created at La Tenuta, filled with contemporary art and nooks of wonder inside and out. Included in each room are concierge amenities, housekeeping & the constant care of our ever affable House Butler, Romy. 

GASTRONOMia

Farm-to-table Italian Culinary Delights: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner daily + one sunset Italian Aperitivo (from Oct 12th dinner to Oct 19th breakfast) with the exception of 3 meals when we are out free range roaming on eco and cultural excursions. Hands on Olive Harvest/Olive Oil Cultivation Experience at the Tenuta, including 1 bottle of olive oil you will take home.

SOMA + PSYCHE

Daily yoga/movement practice & meditation w/ Micheline Berry. Some classes accompanied by the live music of Joey Lugassy + Guest Percussionists.

TERME + NATURA

Your home for the week on a 30 hectar sanctuary of rolling hills, olive groves, wild flower fields, Etruscan meditation cave and thoroughbred horses running wild and free. 1 complimentary group Equine Therapy session (Individual sessions available for extra fee). 1 Entrance and lounge chair at Terme dei Papi - Traditional Italian outdoor mineral hot springs. (Individual massages and spa treatments available for extra fee). Hike at Lago di Vico followed by a lakeside lunch at one of the best restaurants in the region. (lunch not included in fee).

ARTE + CULTURA

Live Percussion + Dance event under the stars at our Villa. Free Range Roaming around Italy’s best kept secret, the artisan village of Viterbo, followed by lunch out. (lunch not included in fee)

NOT INCLUDED in your fee:

Airport Transfers (to/from Tenuta di Paternostro)

Alcohol (local wines available for purchase on your tabs)

Massages & Spa Treatments at Terme di Papi

Individual Equine Therapy Sessions

Optional Guided Cultural Tours

Italian Cooking Lessons

PLANNING YOUR TRIP

RETREAT START: October 12th, 2024

You may arrive anytime after 2pm

5:30pm sunset meditation + aperitivo / welcome dinner.

RETREAT END: October 19th, 2024 11am after breakfast

guests may linger on property but must exit rooms by 11am. 

ARRIVAL BY AIR:  Rome FCO Airport 

ARRIVAL BY TRAIN: Viterbo Station 

AIRPORT/TRAIN TRANSFERS: Taxi to/from Tenuta di Paternostro

(After registration you will be given detailed instructions for arrival to the estate.)

REGISTRATION

10% EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT when paying In full by August 30th

Use code ITALYHARVEST2024

RETREAT FEE: US$1950 - $4250

DEPOSIT: $500 to hold space

TO REGISTER GO TO:   https://www.michelineberry.com/register

CONTACT

michelineberry@gmail.com

WhatsApp: +1 310 625 8182

Micheline Pierrette Berry is a bi-racial Artist, Producer, Embodiment Catalyst and Filmmaker. She has spent the past 27 years teaching embodiment frameworks as a way to spark creativity, build empathy, heal trauma, and reconstruct new generative narratives and perspectives. Her immersive trainings and retreats offer brave and catalytic spaces to let go, transform, make art, and give forward propulsion to one’s endeavors. Her clients range from rock stars to luminaries from every walk of life.

Her work is informed by the seminal contributions of Victor Turner on ritual process, comunitas and rites of passage; Post-Modern Dance studies with pioneers in the field including Simone Forti; decades of Buddhist meditation and yoga studies; West African & Afro-Brazilian percussion and dance; and the inimitable art of Laurie Andersen.

Her recent immersive work ranges from designing somatic pedagogy for world-building processes at the Guild of Future Architects to Founding & Directing Liquid Asana Trainings (a 15 year yoga & embodied leadership program) to co-producing and co-creating For Freedoms’ first podcast SOLEFUL and 1day Immersive Retreats for The School of Lived Experience. She based in Los Angeles, CA and São Paulo, Brazil.

Bookings & Contact: michelineberry@gmail.com

SOLE ‘Art of Care’ 1-day Retreat

with Micheline Berry, Miguel Rivera & Michelle Woo

August 10th, 2024

Register HERE (space limited! only 10 spots remaining)

SOLE SUMMER 1-DAY RETREAT SERIES - The Art of Care

Sponsored and Co-Presented by For Freedoms, SOLE expands its immersive podcast series (SOLEFUL on Spotify/Apple) to create our first collaborative, artist-led retreat series focused on the Art of Care. SOLE's 'Art of Care' Retreats are centered around somatic experiences, meditation, music, soulful gastronomy, and creative practices which can spark renewal and inspiraton for culture workers, caregivers, and artists of all walks of life.

The SOLE 'Art of Care' Retreat Pillars:

1. Reconnection: Somatic Practice & Elemental Wisdom

2. Deep Listening: Meditation & Mindfulness

3. Creative Rewilding: Imagination & Embodiment

4. Regeneration: Immersive Nature & Earth-based Practices

August 10th facilitated by Micheline Berry, Miguel rivera & Michelle Woo

Come practice, share a meal and together surrounded by a panoplay of art and light!

As we collectively navigate these turbulent times, we hope to be a guide for the creative heart in urgent search of renewal and strength. Hosted at a stunning, private Artist loft in the heart of Venice, CA we will move and meditate to live percussion with Micheline, share the soleful gastronomy of Michelle Woo and participate in a native "prayer tie" ritual, connecting in a visceral way to who we are as rhythm and nature itself.

August 10th / Private Artist Loft / Venice CA

10am Retreat Begins with Invocation by Miguel Rivera

10:30am Opening Circle

11am-12:30pm Movement Meditation/Somatic Journey with Micheline Berry and Live Percussion (artists tba)

12:30-2:00pm Food For The SOLE: Home-Cooked Culinary Love by Chef Michelle Woo

2:00-3:30pm Celebrating our Ancestors Native Tie Making with Miguel Rivera

3:30-4:00pm Closing Circle with Miguel, Micheline and Michelle

Open to movers of all walks of life and all levels of practice!

+exact address in Venice, CA will be given upon registraton

+your registration fee is Tax Deductible!!

+wear clothes you can move/dance in

About our SOLE August 10th Retreat Series Facilitators:

Miguel Rivera is a writer, translator, award-winning sound editor, mentor and musician and currently works with at-risk youth, Armed Forces veterans, communities in recovery, formerly incarcerated individuals, as well as those seeking wholeness and guidance. His work builds unity, interdependence, and resilience across cultures in the US and world-wide.

Micheline Pierrette Berry is an artist, producer, embodiment catalyst and filmmaker. She has spent the past 27 years teaching embodiment frameworks as a way to spark creativity, heal trauma and reconstruct new narratives of radical imagination, identity and belonging. Her immersive trainings and retreats offer brave and catalytic spaces to make art, build community and transform.

Michelle Woo is a cultural producer, art historian and curator based in Los Angeles. She is a Co-Founder of For Freedoms, an artist-run organization that models creative civic engagement for which she received a ICP Infinity Award in 2017 and a National Art Award in 2022. Her diverse role includes strategy and design of national campaigns, public art initiatives, exhibitions and programming. She also advises artists and organizations on business management and cultural strategy.