This week only: $3,000 (then $3,600 after June 7th).

Extremely limited spots.

Early registration is recommended, especially if you’d like to stay at our main hotel perched over the Mediterranean (which will sell out soon).

Registration includes: All retreat sessions • Expertly guided meditations • Positive psychology exercises • Breakfasts • High-end dinners • Guided hiking & swimming • Private boat excursion & optional snorkeling.

Guests are responsible for travel, lodging, and lunches.

WHO THIS IS FOR

This retreat is for you if you want to:

• Feel calmer, lighter, and more joyful

• Deepen your mindfulness practice in a beautiful setting

• Spend time with kind, interesting people - your peers and new lifelong friends

• Enjoy Italy (& this extraordinary island that beguiles Jeff Bezos, Beyonce, Jay Z and others!) without planning any details

• Learn new meditation techniques & exercises to live mindfully

• Return feeling renewed, inspired, and expanded

SCHEDULE

We’ll be based at the spectacular Villa Lidia, a private villa at La Piazza Hotel, overlooking Panarea’s harbor, turquoise water, and the volcanic islands beyond. Our days will include guided meditations, positive psychology exercises, hikes, sea swims and optional snorkeling (right from our hotel!), a private boat excursion, relaxed group meals, and nighttime meditations under the stars.

Our retreat will begin Tuesday evening and end Friday morning, and you are welcome to come early or stay late (or never leave).

COMMUNITY

The Path retreats are known for fostering community, and this retreat will nurture a spirit of kindness, friendliness & openness. As you meditate, you become more authentic, more “you,” and with this, it becomes easier to connect with others on a deep level.

In Panarea, we will live with no pretense, only the relaxation of being our true selves, and feeling accepted and supported as we are. Our retreats are renowned for forming deep friendships, and we know this Panarea retreat will do the same - we’re excited already!

MEDITATIONS

During this retreat we’ll step through phases of cultivating joy.

Day 1 |We’ll start by calming our minds, releasing circling thoughts and settling into spaciousness and openness through mindfulness meditations designed to bring us towards stillness. We’ll also celebrate our opening night with a social sunset at the world-famous Raya overlooking the sparkling boats in Panarea’s harbor, enjoy dinner at a beloved family-owned restaurant and close with a meditation under the stars.

Day 2 | Today we’ll move towards a state of non-judgement, learning and practicing how to live without rumination & a constant flow of preferences. We will train our minds for this through meditation and powerful positive psychology exercises, including on shifting perspectives. We’ll also enjoy a late afternoon (optional) hike and sunset swim - before dinner at Panarea’s most acclaimed rooftop restaurant.

Day 3 | On this day we will cultivate kindness towards ourselves and others and practice a new positive psychology exercise designed to bring us towards a state of gratitude and loving-kindness. After lunch we’ll also enjoy a private, captain-led boat tour of the island, including optional snorkeling in two spectacular coves you can only reach by boat. We’ll head to the Raya for a closing aperativo (seltzer & juices available too) and then a relaxed group dinner overlooking the sea.

Day 4 | For our closing day, our meditations will bring us further towards openness, joy and non-duality, a joyful feeling of connection with others, including friends, loved ones, all living beings, and also ourselves.

You will emerge from this retreat feeling calm, centered, relaxed - and inspired to continue living with more ease, joy, & delight.

Join us (limited spaces):

Getting to Panarea

• If you enjoy ferry rides, you can take a direct ferry from Naples to Panarea:

  • SNAV 2:30pm (5 hours 5 min)

  • Siremar 8pm (11 hours 35 min)

• Dina goes to Panarea each summer and strongly suggests:

  • 1. Fly to Catania - many European cities have direct flights. (If you can’t decide where to fly from, Madrid & Rome have flights to Catania :)). If you are arriving day of, please make sure you land in Catania in time to make the 4:30pm ferry.

  • 2. Bus, taxi, shuttle or helicopter from Catania airport to Milazzo (or helicopter directly to Panarea).

    • a) Buses leave at the following times: 9am, 10am, 11am, 12:30pm, 1:45pm, 3:30pm, 4:30pm, 5:30pm, 7pm and 9pm. The bus costs 13 Euros. Click here for the Giunta bus schedule. The ticket booth is directly outside the airport, on the right, and it’s easy to snag tickets just before. You MUST buy a ticket before boarding. Italians love tickets and won’t sell them on buses, only in advance.

    • b) Shuttles leave at the following times: 9:30am, 11:30am, 2pm, 4:30pm, 6:30pm, 9:15pm and 11:20pm. The company is Alibrando and the price is 25 Euros; click here for more info and to book a shuttle. Look for the Alibrando logo shirt. If you can’t find the shuttle driver at baggage claim, call them at 0909288585 - if your phone doesn’t work just ask anyone at the airport to call for you (people are friendly - most are heading on vacation, and anyone working at the airport will know the Alibrando drivers in bright shirts!). You MUST book these 24 hours in advance.

• c) Taxi. There are many private taxi options. A taxi will cost (approximately) 165-188 Euros.

• d) You can also take a helicopter directly to Panarea! This is $500 and you can book it here.

• e) A night in Sicily. If you want to enjoy Sicily before heading to the islands, you can spend a night in Taormina. There is a bus from the airport to Taormina and then you’ll take a quick taxi from the bus station to your hotel. There is no public transport from Taormina to Milazzo, so just ask your hotel to book a taxi for you from Taormina to Milazzo. You can stay at the Four Seasons for your White Lotus fantasy :), or for a more simple option, Hotel Casa Adele is lovely.

Almost there!

3. Ferry to Panarea (yay). You’ll take a Liberty or Siremar ferry. Please purchase the ferry ticket in advance.

Click here to book a ferry. Or go direct to Liberty (which has the most options). (17-29 Euros)

Ferries leave Milazzo at the following times: 6:00am, 7:00am, 7:30am, 8:00am, 9:30am, 12:30pm, 3:45pm, and 4:30pm. The last ferry leaves Milazzo at 4:30pm, so make sure you get to Milazzo in time to make this if you arrive day of. You will only need 10 minutes from your taxi / bus / shuttle arrival to board the ferry, or if you purchased your ticket in advance you’ll only need around 3 minutes. All transportation drop-offs are right next to the ferry terminal.

Note: You can also come one day early and spend the night on Vulcano (It’s lovely, Dina is spending much of June there :), and the last ferry to Vulcano leaves Milazzo at 7pm! You’ll then take a very short ferry from Vulcano to Panarea in the morning).

You will then arrive in Panarea, a magical island with no cars - only cobblestone pathways, wonderful restaurants and crystal clear water.

• You can also take a train or flight from Rome to Calabria and take a ferry from Reggio Calabria to the nearby island of Lipari and then a very quick ferry from Lipari to Panarea!

  • The ferries from Reggio Calabria to Panarea are at 8:45am, 12:55pm and 7:10pm and are on Liberty boat lines. You can book the ferry here.

If You’re Flying to Europe

If you’re flying to Europe, we suggest flying to any city with a direct flight to Catania. (Or you can take a direct overnight ferry from Rome).

If you don’t know where to fly, Rome may be easiest because there are a lot of direct flights from Rome to Catania!

If you fly to Rome, you can stay at any hotel of course, but if you’re looking for a recommendation, Dina loves:

• Boutique Hotel Campo di Fiori (mention Dina Kaplan and they may offer a good rate!). This is directly in the heart of the old city, in Campo di Fiori (did you guess that?). Best rooftop in Rome (shhhh don’t tell too many people).

• Hotel San Anselmo (mention that you are a “friend of St. Stephen’s” (Dina’s high school) and they may offer a good rate. This is in the quieter Aventino area of Rome, right by Orange Park, Dina’s favorite park in the world.

• Hotel Villa San Pio (mention that you are a “friend of St. Stephen’s” (Dina’s high school) and they may offer a good rate. This is also in the quieter Aventino area of Rome, right by Orange Park. This will be less expensive than the above hotels but is still lovely.

REFUND POLICY: 100% refund until June 10th. 50% refund until June 20th. No refunds after this.