Hi. Just wanted to give you a review with regard to my yoga holiday at the Grand Hotel San Michele. The hotel, staff, food, rooms were all excellent. Nothing was too much trouble. Great food and accommodation, lovely to have a private beach.
The yoga with Lorna was excellent, based at a level where everyone felt they had achieved something over the week. Lorna is very knowledgeable, friendly and took the group of strangers to become friends and support to each other.
A great experience, l had never done a yoga holiday before, but will do again. All the travel arrangements Free Spirit had organised went to plan, thank you.
Kind regards Deborah June 2025 Lorna Chapman
Hi Jilly & Debbie. Just like to thank you both and Veronica. For an amazing yoga holiday. Location was fab. Shala was amazing. The views breath taking.
The hotel was fab too. Food was good most days. And what can I say about the yoga. Veronica is my teacher. And is amazing. But don't take my word for it. Experience it for yourselves.
Namaste Jan T September 2023 - Veronica Winters
Dear Debbie and Jilly, I had a fabulous holiday with Lorna in Calabria. Her yoga was great, she had a very varied group in terms of ability and tailored the classes to suit us all. It was challenging in the right ways for those of us who wanted a challenge, while you could take it easy if you needed to and the yoga on the beach at the end was perfect.
The yoga spaces were really good. The outside covered area at the hotel had wonderful views! We were inside for a couple of classes and that was a good space too.
The food at the hotel was delicious and plentiful. The rooms were comfortable and spotless, the cleaners were in every day while we did our morning yoga which was such a treat.
IWe travelled down there independently on the train which was very easy.we took the transfer back to the airport but that was not easy for the hotel as people were wanting transfers at different times. I think it is miles easier to do your own transfer and would recommend people do that, much much cheaper too.
Thank you for a fabulous holiday.. Best wishes Catherine - June 2023 Lorna Chapman
Hi Jilly, the venue in Calabria was amazing! Completely surpassed all my expectations! It was wonderful - and the weather was great, too
Shamita Ray Yoga Teacher May 2023
Hi Jilly, just to say I don’t know if you found San Michele but if you did, THANK YOU and well done. Loved the hotel and staff and the beating heart of the whole place, that is Ornella, the owner’s wife. What a find.
Many thanks. Sue (and Andy) - May 2021 with Margaret Rawlinson
Hello, I'm just back from Calabria, in south Italy, teaching a week of Mindful Yoga and Meditation. The venue was simply jaw-dropping, from the hotel terraces and their outlook on incredible coastline and private beaches, to the amazing gardens with diverse flowers in bloom, orchards and fields of green and vegetable goodness and an idyllic outdoor yoga deck perched high among trees with views of the ocean and abundant nature.
The hotel's staff, from owner to tea-boy, were warm, genuine and became like family. My guests on this yoga and meditation retreat were a diverse bunch and we were a small group. The dynamic all round proved beautiful. Feedback I've already received includes: "I've not just had a shift, I've been deeply impacted more than I could have imagined and in positive sustaining ways by the teachings of this week and the retreat." Another wrote to say, "this week will stay with me forever."
What the guests got from the week, the amazing views, the glorious peacefulness of having beaches to ourselves and evening walks through mind-blowing sunset-filled skies, the heart-touching hospitality... this is all welcome, of course
Extract from newsletter sent out by Divya who taught at this venue July 2019