We recently did an IG Live recording hosted by our founder Erin Lewis, with our collaborators TARA STILES (Iceland) and DR. AVANTI KUMAR-SINGH (Bordeaux) about the upcoming retreats we will be doing together. We wanted to answer questions and sit down to get a sense of the general vibe and itineraries for these exciting retreats. If you want to watch the conversation you can head over to our instagram HERE.

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.

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 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 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.

This week we are spending some time with our guest relations and operations manager, Sarah Roseberry. Sarah handles guest relations, press, off-site coordination and outreach of EPM.

This week we are spending some time with our founder, Erin Lewis. Erin has impeccable taste so we are thrilled to find out what Erin has on her bedside table …

We are super excited to announce our collaboration with Sam Katz in Tuscany this year! We thought it would be great to find out a little bit more about this super talented, gorgeous woman we are sure to learn so much from…

We are so excited to get to know a bit more about Julian Hyzler, one of our wonderful collaborators on retreats throughout the year. We have had the privilege of working with Julian through his company Easel and Lens for years now and he is not only a truly talented painter, but also as anyone that has been on retreat with him knows, and absolute fount of knowledge! He graciously sat down with us and allowed a peak into his history, inspirations and things he looks forward to in the upcoming year…

e are so thrilled to share our new look with everyone! Inspired by vintage travel postcards, we hope our new design evokes the same amount of excitement for new adventures as it does in us!

Happy New Year, EPM family! We are so grateful to have the most wonderful team of leaders and guides for our retreats. We wanted to kick off the year with an interview with Mindy Johnstone, our collaborator joining us on many retreats this year including Costa Rica, Bali, Ischia, Amalfi and South Africa….

Erin Lewis is a busy lady. Based in Italy, Erin founded EAT.PRAY.MOVE 10 years ago and still plans and leads nearly all of our retreats. We caught up with Erin to ask her some questions that our readers and guests may not already know. Find out more about her below!

We have a new face around here: our new admin intern, Caitlin! Based in NYC, she joins us with a unique background, skills and interests that are right in line with our philosophy at EAT.PRAY.MOVE! We asked if she could tell our guests more about herself, as they might hear from her in the future!

When I was 19, I fell in love with an Indie Kate Winslet film called Hideous Kinky. It was about a young English woman who moves with her two small daughters to Morocco and gets lost in the soul of the place. I watched it over and over, taking in the colorful souks, the music, the sufi poetry, the vast desert and mountain landscapes, pink city walls shaded with orange blossoms and roses and silver pots of sweet mint tea. 

We want to be able to offer something to our guests when they aren’t on retreat, so we are committed to bringing you offerings from our retreat leaders to bring you some extra sources of grounding, creativity, energy, and more. First up, we have Jen Carter, who often leads our Mindful Movement retreats with yoga and meditation.

We are so thrilled to finally introduce our newest team member, Sarah Scarborough! 

At EAT.PRAY.MOVE, we have been so lucky to cross paths with some incredible teachers in multiple fields of study, and Sarah is no exception. Not only is she a certified yoga teacher, but she is an expert in all things tea related: she is the creator and tea buyer for Firepot Nomadic Teas, a Nashville based company serving the highest quality organic and ethically sourced tea from around the world. 

Well, it's that time again. We have an anniversary to celebrate:

EAT.PRAY.MOVE has now held 75 RETREATS! 

For all of my life, it has seemed like there are two types of people in the world: adventurous or not. If my beginnings would have told me anything, it would be that I was not going to be much of a traveler. I was the kind of kid that would stress out and get homesick if I went to a friend’s house for a sleepover. (I even took my own food with me.)

This month, we decided it would be fun to introduce our readers to one of our retreat hosts, so we interviewed Nika, our host on our retreat location in Croatia. 

As I was scrolling through our photo albums for media photos last week, I got curious. I started counting and realized-- we hit the 50 retreat mark! (Well, technically, we're at 51.) But I thought it was momentous and worth celebrating. 

Many of us at EAT.PRAY.MOVE have experienced profound benefits from the practice of meditation...

We're so happy to announce our ever-growing EPM family. Michelle Lee is our newest contributor and will be involved in ourMOVE+MANIFEST retreats...

We're so happy to introduce to you our newest collaborator over here at EAT.PRAY.MOVE! Currently living in the heart of New York City in Soho, Jen Carter teaches yoga and meditation at top New York yoga studios as well as to corporate and private students...

At the very end of June we headed to our home-away-from-home of Italy and enjoyed a week among the sunflowers with a fun group! Since many of the guests were Americans, we even celebrated the 4th of July with a private fireworks show put on just for us on the hillsides of Tuscany. Then later in July we returned to the villa in Tuscany for another week of village tours, Italian cuisine, thermal spa visits, and yoga under the Tuscan sun!