Yoga holidays in Rome, Italy – introducing our yoga instructor Lise Baronet

Enjoy the flexibility of a yoga holiday in the beautiful pedestrianized village of Casperia that gives you plenty of free time to simply relax and enjoy a range of holistic therapies and spa treatments offered at this retreat. Throughout the year it has a range of special guest yoga teachers. Yoga teacher Lise Baronet taught at the retreat on 21 and 28 March, as well as 11, 18, 25 April and will be back next year from 20th March through to 21st May.

Learn about her teaching here:

What is her background?
Lise is from Canada and teaches in Port Stanley, a fishing and tourist village on Lake Erie, and in other parts of Ontario. With a background in competitive sports and ballet, from her first yoga class, Lise knew she was in the presence of a powerful holistic and spiritual experience that would lead her toward a different way of being, and of relating to others and to nature.

What are her qualifications?
She is a certified yoga instructor and yoga therapist through Yoga Alliance™.

What are her passions?
Lise is passionate about bringing yoga to everyone. She teaches private clients, at a hospice, yoga-on-the-beach classes, at retreats and in studios. She has also set up a program to provide free yoga for people who don’t have easy access to such a healing form of connecting the body, mind and spirit.

What is her teaching style?
Lise is trained in Heaven Hatha Yoga™, which is influenced by the Anusara and Sivananda styles. With a heart-centered approach, Lise incorporates bio-mechanically therapeutic alignment techniques to enhance an optimal experience of the asanas.

What is it like to be taught by Lise?
Lise is known for blending peacefulness, gentleness and humor, while inspiring her students to make their own discoveries of what yoga means to them. With sensitivity to the setting and to how students are feeling each day, Lise integrates mindfulness into the practice, allowing students to come to an awareness that leaves them feeling nurtured and rejuvenated in their bodies and minds.

This is what Lise has to say:
“Guests tell me they enter the beautiful, serene setting of Casperia, and immediately feel a sense of calm as they are welcomed by the retreat into a balanced way of living. Add to this caring hosts and staff, the wonderful therapeutic treatments; the pure air; the delicious food; and rejuvenation takes place.
Last season, some guests came at the beginning or end of many months of travelling different parts of the world, and all said this area of Italy is very special. Whether practicing yoga for the first time or for years, together, everyone deepened their experience of yoga, and their connection with nature and others. I felt that guests left the retreat with a lasting imprint of how to live with more kindness towards themselves, one of the many reasons I want to return. Teaching yoga at the retreat is an honor, and it feels like I’ll be coming home.”