Embracing Our Authentic Joy
This is a five-day / four-night spiritual workshop in Tuscany that happens just once per year. New York therapist Valerie Simon, LCSW, PAT, comes over to Italy to join Rome-based artist Claudia Palmira for a deeply transformational experience. We uniquely use psychodramatic techniques in combination with yoga and optional massage. The location is a gorgeous hilltop farmhouse with views extending to the Tyrrhenian Sea, enhancing the deep relaxation and letting go we do together.
It’s been said that it’s imperative to enjoy life!
Ye it is easy to lose sight of everything that brings us happiness with the chaos of our daily routines. Between family, work, finances, and so much more, we often forget everything that has led us to who we are, and what our deep pleasures and joy come from. In order to bring awareness and practical applications of happiness back to your real life though, you must first break away from real life. We will go deep in our explorations to uncover and support your version of joyful living.
Last minute booking is now available for anyone spontaneous enough to take the leap!
This intensive course will take place on the 29th & 30th of September, each running from 10A – 530P with an hour break for lunch.
HypnoBirthing® teaches amazing relaxation techniques and tools. It introduces a level of calmness that allows for a much more comfortable and easier birth. With HypnoBirthing® you will learn to work with your body and allow it to do what it is so beautifully designed to do, birth! Your birthing partner will be fully educated and confident in their ability to support you during your birthing day and you, as a couple and a team will learn to work together to welcome your new baby in a manner that is so gentle and comforting for your new child.
What will you learn:
- Relaxation/Self-Hypnosis techniques to eliminate fear and tension that cause long labors and discomfort.
- Visualisation, breathing and deepening techniques to produce a shorter, more comfortable labor.
- We debunk the myth that pain must accompany normal birthing.
- Why women in other cultures birth almost entirely free of discomfort and how to achieve it for yourself.
- How the mother’s body is designed to work in harmony with nature throughout labor and how to facilitate your birthing body to avoid discomfort.
- Practice in deep relaxation during and between contraction/surges.
- The 4th trimester, postpartum bonding, the importance of delayed cord clamping, extended skin on skin and the breast crawl.
- Explaining the importance of having a well-made birthing plan and how to write it.
- Â The vital role of your birthing companion as your birthing-day unfolds.
If you would like to reserve your space, please write to info@belliesabroad.com
Click here for reading testimonials from Margaretha’s previous happy clients.
Join our lovely Elisa Antonielli, pediatrician and mother of four, in Villa Doria Pamphili for a morning of nursery rhymes and songs in English. In case of inclement weather the group will meet inside of  the children’s library at Villino Corsini. The group is open to everyone and their children, no matter what the level of English may be!
Join our lovely Elisa Antonielli, pediatrician and mother of four, in Villa Doria Pamphili for a morning of nursery rhymes and songs in English. In case of inclement weather the group will meet inside of  the children’s library at Villino Corsini. The group is open to everyone and their children, no matter what the level of English may be!
Money raised from participation will be donated to Joel Nafuma Refugee Center.
Participants bringing clothing may arrive at 5pm to lay out your pieces.
The exchange will begin at 5 pm. Come to participate, you make take home whatever your heart desires.
All leftover clothing will be donated to the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center.
We will also use this as a chance to collect items for the mothers and children who frequent the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center. We would kindly ask for diapers, baby creams (even if half used), wipes, gently used, clean baby clothes and children’s clothes as well.
Sweets for sale from Dolly’s Tea Service by Esme Amber.
Join our lovely Elisa Antonielli, pediatrician and mother of four, in Villa Doria Pamphili for a morning of nursery rhymes and songs in English. In case of inclement weather the group will meet inside of  the children’s library at Villino Corsini. The group is open to everyone and their children, no matter what the level of English may be!
Perfectly timed as we go into Halloween and Holiday Events…
Vintage dress up and shopping at SiTenne with Vintage Expert, Stylist and Rome Community Manager of Girl Gone International, Désirée Marie Townley of The Cut and The Cloth.
Entrance is FREE, prosecco is always appreciated!
*Homemade sweets by Dolly’s Tea Service
*Meet Lydia Witt of The Sewing Cooperative, our go-to seamstress
*Vintage Dress is not required but will be greeted with enthusiasm.
This is your chance to ask questions and meet one another.
Let us go into the Fall, with our ‘pencils sharpened’ and more importantly; dressed in a pencil skirt 😉
In the windows some masks made by Alessio Fratini
This is a really special event and will be full of fun and fashion!
Join our lovely Elisa Antonielli, pediatrician and mother of four, in Villa Doria Pamphili for a morning of nursery rhymes and songs in English. In case of inclement weather the group will meet inside of  the children’s library at Villino Corsini. The group is open to everyone and their children, no matter what the level of English may be!
The greatest part of doing this birth course all of these years has been meeting you wonderful people! We now have parents from over 40 different nations and 6 continents (yes 6! One of our dads was stationed in Antartica for a while so we are claiming it!). We would love to have you join us to see your old classmates, their latest additions and meet other lovely new families.
We will have an early aperitivo potluck at Gabriella’s house on Sunday October 28th. Please let us know if you are able to come and what you are able to bring whether it be food, drink, plates, utensils, whatever is easiest for you by writing to info@belliesabroad.com. Sweets will be provided by Dolly’s Tea Service so we are sorted on that front.
Looking forward to hugs and snuggles!
