We are continually inspired by vintage travel posters, postcards and photographs. When we were rebranding last year, these tokens were our main inspiration. Not only for the color and type, but for the memory they provoke. We wanted to share with you a collection of a few from some of the locations we are visiting this year. Hope you enjoy and tha it inspires you to travel somewhere with us in the future!
Our EPM team are avid readers and we wanted to share with you what we are currently into. We would love to hear back from you any suggestions. We want to make this a place we can share and exchange ideas, so comment away!
We always love catching up on their journal for recipes, informative articles, city guides and so much more. On the blog this week we wanted to share a super simple face mask you can make at home with ingredients you probably already have on hand. Enjoy and take some time to pamper yourself naturally with ease.
We are looking forward to several retreats in Tuscany this year and thought we would highlight some of the charming Italian towns we visit while there. (Our Itinerary changes depending on the retreat and time of year but this will give you some insight into the region.)
We are so excited to introduce to those of you who don’t already know her, our newest collaborator for our yoga + self care + cuisine retreat in Tuscany, Amy Commander! Amy has been friends with our founder Erin for many years and after last years Puglia retreat (Amy is also half of Boxerina) they have finally found the perfect collaboration in Tuscany.
As we transition from 2023 to 2024, we are taking stock of the last year, seeking out the truths we have learned and setting intentions for our 2024. In taking a little break this holiday season and letting our bodies and minds rest a bit, we have cleared some space to see what choices we can make in the new year that reflect what is most important to us.
We are excited to share some insight into a new retreat location, the Dolomite region of Italy! We will be collaborating with TARA STILES of STRALA yoga this APRIL and wanted our EPM community to know more about this gorgeous mountain region in northern Italy.
Our awesome collaborator, AMY COMMANDER is sharing with us her recipe for rose almond butter bars. These are the perfect treat to bring to your holiday parties. The rose really makes these something special!
We are so excited to announce a new retreat to our line up next year in Tuscany, YOGA + CREATIVITY + CUISINE! This retreat will be lead by our amazing guide Mindy Johnstone, you can read more about her HERE. Mindy sat down with us to tell us a little bit more about how this retreat came to be and what you can expect on this week of wellness, cuisine and travel journal creation.
We are super excited to get to share with our EPM family a little bit more about one of our collaborators that is near and dear to our hearts, TARA STILES. Tara is the co-founder of STRALA YOGA, best-selling author and wellness expert.
We are featuring Champagne, France as our location temptation this week! We are looking forward to our second annual New Years retreat this January. A few highlights of the region include the famous Champagne village of Epernay, the capital city of Reims and of course the vineyards and various producers of Champagne both small and large. We also spend the day in Paris soaking up the culture and cruising down the Seine.
If you aren’t familiar, we would love to introduce Ravello, a charming village on the Amalfi Coast. It has been named the ‘city of music’ and is known for its jaw-dropping views and ornate garden villas. This enchanting mountaintop town is located on Italy’s most beautiful coastline and its views have captivated countless souls, inspired famous actors, authors, composers, and artists for centuries.
We are happy to introduce to you, our newest collaborator, Alison Sager! Alison will be leading our TUSCANY retreat in summer 2024. She is a certified 500-hr RYT in mindful vinyasa, movement studies and restorative yoga instructor trained at the New England School of Yoga Therapeutics and has completed advanced studies in the intersection of Yoga, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Psychology, Movement Studies, and Contemplative Practice.
We are excited to learn more about one of our retreat locations, Puglia (pronounced "pool-ya"), a southern region forming the heel of Italy’s “boot”. It is known for its whitewashed hill towns, centuries-old farmland, olive trees, and a gentler pace of life with hundreds of kilometers of Mediterranean coastline.
We are so excited to highlight and get to know more about our friend Nicki Storey aka Nicki Positano of THE POSITANO DIARIES! Many of you might be familiar with Nicki from her and her partners popular YOUTUBE channel. Nicki also has a new book she has written and we can’t wait for it to be released!
We are thrilled to introduce our collaborator ALEXA DERIGGS, who will be leading our CROATIA retreat in June 2024. Dedicated to taking her practice on and off the mat, Alexa is a student and teacher of Yin, Power, Hatha, and Vinyasa yoga.
We are so excited to introduce the newest guide to our team, who will be leading the MOROCCO Align and Awaken retreat in 2024, AASIA LEWIS! Aasia is a yoga educator, certified somatic coach + bodyworker, and clinical speech-language pathologist (SLP), who is now based in Morocco.
Madeira is known as the “island of eternal spring”, or “the paradise garden of the Atlantic”, famous for its beautiful mountains, high cliffs, lava pools, magnificent dramatic landscape, greenery, exotic flowers, waterfalls and dark pebble beaches. It’s said to be like a floating botanical garden in the Atlantic, or Europe’s “Hawaii”.
We are so excited to have AMY COMMANDER back on the blog sharing her Good Karma Cookie recipe! Below is a link of her in the process of making these delicious treats;) We love that she gives the option to make these vegan. Thanks so much Amy!
We're so happy to share this post from our past guest Kristen Shoates. Kristens specialty is helping businesses, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, influencers, makers, artists and organizations of all kinds grow their brands through strategic storytelling. She has a background in journalism and over a decade of experience working as a copywriter and strategist at marketing agencies.
