Yoga holidays in Rome, Italy – introducing our yoga instructor Sierra Campbell

With over 10 years’ experience of offering yoga retreats, healing treatments, activities and nature excursions in the heart of Italy, this yoga retreat knows how to deliver a yoga holiday with a difference that will relax, revive and restore you. It has a range of special guest yoga teachers throughout the year, and if you decide for a holiday on 1 August or 8 August 2013, you will be taught by the lovely Sierra Campbell.

Read more about her teaching here:

What is her background?
Sierra is from the USA and will join the retreat again in August. She began her journey with yoga after a car accident, leaving her with immobility and chronic pain. She has been a daily practitioner of yoga since 1999 now and is currently a primary instructor and the Director for Urban Yoga in Phoenix, Arizona, where she teaches regularly to all levels from beginner to advance.

What are her qualifications?
Sierra studied meditation with the Himalayan Institute during two years of spinal rehabilitation. In 2010, she received 200 hours of Vinyasa Flow Yoga training with Ganga White and Tracy Rich at the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, California and she also completed a yearlong course through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York.

What are her passions?
Sierra offers private sessions to those seeking medical intuitive insight, nutritional consulting and hands-on Reiki and yoga. She is an ovarian cancer survivor and attributes the daily practice of yoga (including meditation & pranayama), nutritional wellness and creative writing to sustain a healthy, cancer-free life.

What type of yoga does she teach?
Sierra teaches all levels from beginners to advanced, blending influences from Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, Iyengar and Yin/Restorative yoga.

What will learning with her be like?
Sierra shares a peaceful, healing presence and enjoys teaching all levels, focusing on alignment and integrity in each pose and the breath as the vehicle to deepen the practice.

See here what Sierra has to say:

“The Retreat does a great job of taking care of their guests’ needs and it makes teaching there enjoyable. The beautiful village embraces everyone and the pace of authentic Italian life is conducive to relaxation and inward reflection. The Yoga practice spaces as well as the spa treatment rooms are vibrant with energy and conducive to healing and transformation. The best part is the bonding between guests who arrived as strangers and leave life-long friends in some cases.
I feel blessed to meet and teach Yoga to guests who are often from different countries, speak different languages, have varying levels of Yoga experience yet share the same goal during their stay: to relax, rejuvenate, enjoy good people, good food, good yoga and maybe a little vino. I look forward to August to meet new friends and to facilitate yoga.”