Why Bella Retreats?

Bella Retreats was created as a way to share the beauty of unique retreats and traveling the world with as many people as possible.

Bella Retreats pairs inspired facilitators with stunning locations so that small groups can come together in harmony and connection with themselves, each other and nature.

Because the pace of modern life has become so full, it can be hard to stay centered among the many distractions. Going on yoga retreats gives you the chance to unplug, reset and reconnect with yourself. Starting your day by waking to the sounds of nature and yoga by the beach will refresh your body, mind, and spirit from the daily grind. When you go on a Bella Retreat, not only will you meet new people, experience new sights and sounds but you will return home feeling rejuvenated, inspired and transformed.

The founder and teachers at Bella Retreats believe that our life force energy is too precious and life is too short to be spent in drudgery or obligation. Take your time to enjoy this beautiful world and create some of life’s most memorable moments.

Meet Una Viggiani, Founder

Una Viggiani is an artist, astrologer, yogini, world traveler, mermaid, creative collaborator, and inspired instigator. She earned a degree in Fine Art from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her Master’s degree in Education at the University of Denver, but ultimately learned the most while traveling the world on a solo journey that lasted two years and took her to 22 countries.

Traveling, for Una, is a way to stay present and enliven the senses. She loves exploring new lands, discovering foreign markets and maneuvering her way through winding streets. Since, navigating the world comes easy for Una, she lives for taking the hard part out of traveling, organizing the details so others can have a relaxing and easeful experience. Throughout her travels, Una has made numerous connections, allowing her to open doors to hidden gems all over the world. She is able to professionally organize the logistics and details of retreat travel while simultaneously creating a fun atmosphere among the group.

Check out Una’s art, astrology and yoga classes on her website…. www.unaparadox.com

Una has a true talent for holding space. The retreat was orchestrated beautifully and had such cohesion and bliss tied into deep learning. Wonderful experience.

ASH

Una, your art brought me to a place that I had been forbidden to go my other people’s judgement of what I should be doing. Feeling the paint in between my fingers against the board, watching magic happen right before my eyes was such a powerful sensation that it still brings me to tears thinking about it. It unleashed so much that painting, especially with my hands, strongly calls to me and experiment without anyone’s judgements. I just want to say that you’ve made a MAJOR difference in my world and pray that I may cross paths with you soon again.

CHRISTINE

This was so much more than an art retreat. The journey into our souls and friendships we made opened our hearts in a profound and life changing way. I am forever grateful for Autumn Skye, for her dedicated teachings and gentle loving heart. I leave feeling refreshed, deeply nourished and saturated with fond memories to carry home.

KARA

“My first ‘out of county’ yoga retreat. Was not sure what to expect, especially since traveling by myself. But the whole event was far beyond my expectations. Tried it all!”

JOHN VALENTINE

Una is an amazing organizer, leader and friend. The trip was enlightening, fun, flexible and something will never forget. I would recommend Bella Retreats to anyone open to building new friendships, gaining inner wisdom and creating unforgettable memories!

ALUNA

BELLA RETREAT LEADERS

Una hand picks the teachers, instructors and retreat leaders based on their high integrity, commitment to their practice and wonderful positive outlook on life. Each retreat is hand crafted to create a unique experience based on the gifts of each teacher. No two retreats are the same.

Katie Armstrong
Katie Armstrong
Katie Armstrong is the founder of the yoga and lifestyle clothing brand, The OM Collection. Formerly a lawyer andcompetitive triathlete, Katie has practiced yoga since 2001 and been a daily meditator since 2007. Katie is certified to teach ashtanga yoga, anusara yoga and prana flow yoga as well as mondo zen meditation. Her passion lies in helping others fulfill their life’s purpose. She believes that a daily practice, regular exercise and a lifetime of self growth are the keys to happiness and a well balanced life. She has a love for travel and indigenous cultures and aims to contribute the health and wellbeing of the planet and its inhabitants through education, activism and cultural exchange.
AumRak
AumRak
Since 1977, AumRak has been blessed to channel the loving energies and messages of “MAMITA”, the name that she uses to refer to Mother Earth. As a timekeeper of the Sacred Mayan Calendar, an initiated Mayan priestess and a High Priestess of Melchizedek: she is here to serve the planet and humanity as an instrument in service of the living God/Goddess – to harmonize the energies of the four direction and activate vortexes for healing. As a teacher and interpersonal psychologist, AumRak offers workshops and seminars all over the world.
Amy Baker
Amy Baker
Amy Baker is a yoga practitioner based in Denver, CO. She went to her mat full of imbalance and disconnection. Through the grace of countless teachers and a dedicated practice, she came to find the aspects of practice that helped her discover what is needed to more skillfully ride the waves of life. With over a decade of diverse practice with Ana Forrest, Dharren Rhodes, Christina Sell, and Gina Caputo and a degree in Exercise Physiology from The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, I classify myself as a yoga mutt.

Her style has always been influenced by thoughtful, direct alignment and sequence with a heavy emphasis on breath. Her classes offer the sweat of vinyasa, the wisdom of anatomically sound sequencing, and the space to look within.

Keri Bergeron
Keri Bergeron
With a Masters in Physical Therapy, a 200 Hour Yoga Certification from Ana Forrest and over 10 years of experience, Keri’s depth of knowledge and experience strives to serve others on their journey to health.

Keri brings awareness to patterns both mentally and physically to enable healing and transformation within her clients and students. Understanding the physical aspect of the West and the spiritual aspect of the East allows Keri to provide the very best care for those she serves. Her practice provides the pathway to self-discovery along with the tools to autonomously care for yourself.

Natalie Cutsforth
Natalie Cutsforth
Natalie Cutsforth helps women and men on the path to inner-peace align with their soul essence, dissolving unconscious blocks and updating soul vows. She is a powerful clairvoyant who sees where healing is available through release of the charge from unresolved experiences in the soul’s memory. Natalie connects with the sixth-sensory world to free her clients to create the experiences they desire in this life. She makes mystical practices accessible, teaching energy awareness tools, ritual, and intuition skills. Natalie’s grounded approach to healing comes from equal acceptance of the raw realities of earthly life and the magic of unlimited possibilities.
Dev Darshan
Dev Darshan
Dev Darshan “DD” Haeg is the founder of Luminous Community, an organization dedicated to helping people live a soulful, sensual, sovereign life. She started meditating when she was five with her gram (although her grandma thought they were just staring at the walls) and has been teaching Kundalini Yoga for more than 10 years. While working at the publishing company Sounds True, she learned about the Akashic Records–the database of your soul–in a writing assignment and has been reading for ever since (nearly 7 years!) Currently she is focusing her passion and energy on becoming a pleasure coach to help couples and singles bring more juice, joy and intimacy into their lives. A former massage therapist and Peace Corps volunteer, DD delights in eating chocolate, reading good books while drinking coffee, rocking her Orange Theory workouts, dancing and lovin’ up on her two kiddos. She currently lives in Denver.
Patrick Harrington
Patrick Harrington
Patrick Harrington is living a life that inspires him. A former serial entrepreneur, Patrick once started businesses he thought would earn him enough money to live a life full of meaning and difference making. He was always searching for the means to an end. It wasn’t until yoga teacher training in 2001 that he found a way to combine his love of business with an end in itself. 14 years later, Patrick is the founder-owner of Kindness Yoga, a donation-based collection of studios that hosts scores of teachers and tens of thousands of yoga students annually.
Ellen Kaye
Ellen Kaye
Embarking on a class with Ellen Kaye often begins with a story, infuses the body with dance and ends in song. With an extensive background in movement, music, and theater, Ellen invites her students to courageously practice something bigger than the pose. She believes each moment we navigate on the mat is a reflection of our daily lives. Through precise alignment, an open heart and a sense of play Ellen encourage her students to fulfill their greatest potential. She approaches yoga the same way she approaches theater: learn the form, create the space, and the heart will flourish from the inside out. Lastly, a promise: she will sing you into a sweet Savasana.
Ixeeya Lin
Ixeeya Lin
Ixeeya Lin is the founder of Women’s Tent Nomadic Sanctuary and On Line School and W.O.M.B Dance method for womens sacred embodiment, dedicated to empowering women and helping them heal shame and modern burn out to reconnect to their wild divine wisdom within and a renewed trust of sisterhood. As a Women’s Shamanic Guide & Teacher, Ordained Priestess, Sacred Dancer, Wholistic Health Practitioner, and Yoga & Meditation Teacher, she is especially passionate about women reclaiming the rhythm of their Womb, the Seasons and Moon cycles to rise together in alliship with the earth.
Travis Rumsey
Travis Rumsey
Travis, CNSF loves explaining the science behind Neurosculpting, as well as guiding people to the transforming experience of creating choice in their life’s direction. In addition to being a Neurosculpting® facilitator, Travis is also a TRE® – Trauma & Tension Release Exercises – provider. He has deep, first-hand experience of how bringing the body into the Neurosculpting® process through TREs enhances and amplifies personal growth. He teaches these exercises to new CNSFs, as well as to the general public, helping them get the most out of their Neurosculpting® experience.
In his private coaching practice, Travis helps clients clear a path to an understanding of their essential selves, opening them to a life of strength and effectiveness.
Autumn Skye
Autumn Skye
Autumn Skye has been painting since she could hold a brush, developing a deep wonder for nature and the world around her. Amidst journeys to explore the world and share inspiration with the ever blossoming community, Autumn Skye otherwise lives and paints in her home north of Powell River on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. In her studio, she overlooks a sweeping expanse of ocean, islands, mountains, and sky. She considers herself among the blessed of the blessed.
Adam Sommer
Adam Sommer
Adam Sommer is an astrologer. He has been practicing professionally for nearly a decade, working with clients and students all over this beautiful world. By borrowing from many traditions and applying the techniques in his own life and the countless clients he has worked with, he has stumbled into what he calls, “Kosmognosis:” A direct and alive relationship with the cosmos—up there and in here—which infinitely informs the participant with the most unique strain of wisdom.
Carrie Varela
Carrie Varela
Carrie Varela is a yogi, Reiki Master, mystic, lover, traveler and modern day healer. She is passionate about helping people find good energy. She has been an avid yoga practitioner for fourteen years. Carrie has over 750 hours of yoga teacher training experience, taught over 3,250 yoga classes and lead 45 transformative Reiki trainings. Her lifelong passion for travel and adventure has inspired her to offer yoga, Reiki and healing retreats in some of her favorite places, both locally and internationally.
Lisa Wimberger
Lisa Wimberger
Lisa Wimberger is the founder of the Neurosculpting® Institute. She holds a Masters Degree in Education from the University of Stonybrook, NY and a Foundations Certification in NeuroLeadership. She is the author of NEW BELIEFS, NEW BRAIN: Free Yourself from Stress and Fear, Neurosculpting®: A Step-by-Step Program to Change Your Brain and Transform Your Life, and Neurosculpting® for Stress Relief. Lisa runs a private practice teaching Neurosculpting® techniques to clients who suffer from stress disorders. Lisa began her meditation practice at age 12. Hit by lightning at age 15, and clinically dead on multiple occasions, Lisa uses her traumatic experience as a vehicle for transformation.
Erin Wimert
Erin Wimert
Erin Wimert has been teaching yoga and barre full-time in Denver for ten years. She specializes in Vinyasa (Beginners-Advanced), Yin and Yoga Nidra and runs the barre program and teacher trainings at Endorphin. Teaching is Erin’s form of creative expression, it is a platform where she can create an experience, grounded in presence, for students to feel safe and become curious about getting to know their own hearts and minds. The sequences she designs, the language that she chooses and the music that she plays becomes a symphony of creation in real time, an expression and an offering of her most present self.
Jeremy Wolf
Jeremy Wolf
Jeremy Wolf’s interest in mind and body began at a young age when he became a teacher of Taekwondo and Capoeira. He is a longtime meditator and has formally studied yoga since 1998. In 2006 Jeremy received his Classical Yoga teaching certification in Nasik, India. He studies with a variety of teachers, especially Rod Stryker’s school of ParaYoga. Jeremy is also a Reiki Master and a DJ for French label Ultimae Records. His classes seek to incorporate the holistic practice of yoga, emphasizing the form’s deeply spiritual origin.
Niki Saccareccia
Niki Saccareccia
Niki Saccareccia is a Los Angeles based E500 yoga therapist and meditation instructor, teacher trainer and wellness expert. She teaches to empower others to be the main agent of positive change in their lives by reconnecting to the inner healing intelligence. She does this by facilitating first-hand experience of true relaxation and complete mental focus. Her background as a Clinical Behavior Therapist makes her teachings accessible to everyone, without watering down the timeless wisdom of yoga’s rich technology. Niki has had the great privilege of training with master teachers like Mark Whitwell, Leslie Kaminoff, Dr. Gil Hedley, and continues her ongoing study of yogic philosophy through the lineage of T. Krishnamacharya and Swami Satyananda Saraswati. She spent some time in northern Thailand learning basic Thai Massage and is the author of Roadmap to Mindful Living, a curriculum and protocol for developing sustained wellness behaviors blending the tools of Applied Behavioral Analysis and Yoga. She leads classes, workshops, trainings and international yoga retreats that create an embodied experience of our one true nature: relaxation, strength and focus. Niki is also deliberately practical: Students learn about their anatomy and the mentality moving them from one action to the next, while cultivating a deep sense of presence and physical improvement whether they are utter beginners or yoga teachers, themselves. She focuses on breath-based physical alignment and then blends the sacred philosophy of yoga’s holistic teachings into the physical experience.
Cameron Harrington
Cameron Harrington
Cameron Dabney Harrington is a Somatic Soul Coach, a lifestyle yogini and co-founder of Kindness Yoga Studios with her husband Patrick. After years of advanced Pilates training, Cameron received her first yoga certification in 2009 through the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. Since she has trained with numerous leaders around the US and is in the midst of a 1000 hour Ayurveda training with Shakti Ayurveda School. As a Somatic Soul Coach, Cameron guides her clients home to the innate wisdom of their bodies. She facilitates the awakening of their intuition and cultivates embodied leaders who create a positive impact in the world. Primarily Cameron is a mother who exemplifies and shares the art of living deeply while supporting the nervous system of the body, soul, and planet.
Elena Rose Davis
Elena Rose Davis
Elena Rose Davis is a holistic healing artist and Master Sattva Yoga Teacher. Elena began her career in the healing arts in 2005 when at the age of 18 she went to school to become a Massage Therapist. Elena’s background is in the arts, and she originally thought that Massage Therapy would be a nice job to do while pursuing her other aspirations. Little did she know that her career as a bodyworker would lead her to becoming a successful wellness entrepreneur and that her creativity would be channeled into fostering a wellness sanctuary. In 2009 Elena opened Peace of Mind Sacred Wellness in Denver, Colorado. At the time it was called Peace of Mind Massage as the focus of the business was providing bodywork. As the business grew, Elena was led to retire from massaging herself after 8 years providing hands on therapy to tens of thousands of people. She retired to focus on taking care of her ever growing team and evolving business and to also dedicate time and energy to self healing and expanding her spiritual life. In 2017 Elena visited India for the first time which is where she met Himalayan Yogic Master Anand Mehrotra who is responsible for creating Sattva Yoga Academy. Elena found a fountain of wisdom through this teacher and she studied under him for 3 years, attaining her Sattva Yoga Master Training after 500+ hours of education in the Vedantic traditions including Himalayan Kundalini, Kriya Yoga, Mantra, Pranayama, Vedic Meditation, Hatha Vinyasa, Mudra, and Tantric wisdom. She has now dedicated herself to stepping fully into her power as a teacher and healer. Elena spends half of the year traveling and teaching retreats, and when in her home base of Denver she shares and spreads her light with workshops, special events, and private sessions.

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