An Italy Retreat for Women Seeking Space, Nature, and Renewal…
Small-group alpine retreats combining yoga, mediation, and sesonal mountain experiences in the Italian Alps
Who This Retreat Is For
This Italy retreat is created for women who feel stretched by busy lives and are ready to pause, breathe, and reconnect. Whether you are a professional in need of space, a women navigating change, or someone longing for time in nature, these retreats offer a supportive and grounding experience in the Italian Alps.
Why Choose An Italy Retreat
Choosing an Italy retreat is about more than location. It’s about stepping into a slower rhythm of life, where deep-rooted traditions, nourishing food, and meaningful connection to the land are still part of everyday living. Time feels different here — unhurried, grounded, and restorative.
Our retreats in the Italian Alps offers space away from crowds, where nature quietly supports rest, clarity, and reconnection. Surrounded by mountains, fresh air, and open landscapes, it becomes easier to slow down, breathe deeply, and return to yourself in a simple, natural way.
Why The Aosta Valley
The Aosta Valley is a hidden alpine region where mountains, quite villages, and open landscapes create an ideal setting for retreat. Less crowded than other alpine destinations, it offers space to move, reflect and reconnect while staying grounded in local culture.
What Makes These Retreats Different
These retreats are internationally small, creating space for genuine connection and individual support. The experience blends daily yoga and mediation with seasonal mountain activities, like skiing, hiking, allowing both rest and gentle challenge in a supportive environment.
It’s this combination — nature, movement, rest, and thoughtful guidance — that makes our retreats a place where transformation can quietly happen.
Retreats For Women: Space to Breathe, Move and Reconnect
These Italy retreats are designed for women who want time to themselves without feeling isolated. May guests arrive alone and leave feeling supported, grounded, and reconnected.
There is no pressure to perform, achieve, or be anything other than yourself. The mountains have a way of gently reminding us that we are already enough — and sometimes, that is exactly what we need to remember. No prior yoga experience in required, only a willingness to show up frself.
Explore Our Italy Retreat Experiences
Throughout the year, we offer a range of Italy retreat experiences, including winter ski and yoga retreat, hiking and yoga retreats and alpine summer retreats. Each retreat is designed around the season and the surrounding landscape. While every experience is unique, they all share the same intention: time in nature, mindful movement, and space to return to yourself.
In winter, our retreats combine skiing with gentle yoga and restorative practices, allowing you to enjoy the energy of the mountains while deeply supporting the body. Crisp air, bright snow, and quiet evenings create a beautiful balance of vitality and calm.
In the warmer months, the focus shifts toward alpine walking, hiking, time outdoors, and slow, grounding practices surrounded by green meadows and open skies. These retreats invite a softer pace, connection with nature, and space to reset before returning to daily life.
Mountain Yoga Retreat For Women
Wellness Retreat For Women
Our Experiences…
Anita Collins
Anita has called the Aosta Valley home for the past 12 years. After graduating from the London College of Fashion, she spent 20 years working internationally in the fashion industry, living between Hungary, the UK, France, and Italy before choosing to settle in the Italian Alps.
Over time, her path shifted toward holistic wellbeing. Anita is a qualified Bowen Technique Therapist (Advanced Level) with further training in Anatomy & Physiology, Bach Flower Remedies, and is a certified AromaTouch Therapist working with essential oils.
Her approach combines professional training with a deep understanding of how the body responds to stress, lifestyle, and environment. Living close to nature, she believes in simple, grounding practices that help women slow down, restore balance, and reconnect with themselves.
Founder, Retreat Facilitator
Virna Ballerio
Virna is a highly experienced yoga and meditation teacher, Reiki Master, certified sound healer (trained in Nepal), and holistic practitioner. With an academic background in psychology, she later followed a more spiritual path, weaving together science, awareness of the mind, and energetic practices.
Her journey began in Thailand in 2013, where she first immersed herself in yoga. She continued studying, practising, and teaching in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and New Zealand, expanding into meditation, relaxation techniques, sound healing, Reiki, and Ayurvedic principles. She is a Yoga Alliance E-RYT500 teacher with over 850 hours of training and teaches Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin, Power Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Aerial Yoga, and Yoga Nidra.
Virna’s approach is holistic and theme-based, blending movement, breath, energy work, and deep relaxation. She supports each person not only physically, but emotionally and energetically, creating sessions that encourage self-awareness and inner balance.
Holistic Leader, Yoga Instructor
Frequently Asked Questions
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These Italy retreats are for women who feel the need to slow down, spend time in nature, and reconnect with themselves in a calm, supportive environment.
They are ideal for those seeking rest, clarity, and renewal, especially after busy or demanding periods of life, and for anyone who values small groups, natural surroundings, and meaningful time away.
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You don’t need to be highly experienced in skiing or yoga — just be open to gentle movement, fresh mountain air.
We adjust our yoga sessions to the group level. During the lesson we give choice of the asana in different level of difficulty and everyone follows their body’s way.
As for skiing - we welcome all levels, even non skiers or total beginners. We offer alternative program of snowshoeing, visiting the thermal spa etc. and there is the possibility to take the gondola up to the mountain and just enjoy the mountain air, relax with your book and join the skiers for lunch. Or take some ski lessons to see if you like it.
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Yes, absolutely. Many guests join on their own, and retreats are a wonderful place for solo travellers — the small group setting and shared experiences make it easy to connect and form new friendships naturally.
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A normal, general level of fitness is perfectly suitable for most of our retreats. The movement sessions and hikes are designed to be supportive and adaptable, with a focus on enjoyment rather than performance.
For walking-based retreats, the pace is comfortable and accessible. The only exception is our Foliage Trekking Retreat in October, which involves longer mountain hikes of around 5–6 hours with approximately 600 metres of elevation gain, and therefore requires a slightly higher level of fitness.
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Our retreats are rooted in real mountain life rather than a resort setting. Days are shaped by the natural rhythm of the Alps — balancing movement, rest, and time outdoors — rather than a packed schedule.
The combination of alpine nature, small group sizes, skiing or hiking, and mindful practices creates an experience that is both energising and deeply restorative. It’s less about doing more, and more about creating the right environment for you to slow down, breathe, and reconnect in a simple, authentic way.