From Fire to Light: Embodied Wisdom Practice for Transforming Trauma Retreat 2026

Overview

This in-person/online hybrid retreat explores the uncharted interface between embodied approaches to transforming trauma and the powerful embodied wisdom and healing arts of the Tibetan Tantras. In this intensive weekend, Drs. Nida and Loizzo continue their historic dialogue on “Vajra Therapy,” exploring how the top-down arts of healing imagery and empowering narrative meet the bottom-up arts of self-massage, movement and breath-work to forge a crucible for transforming our habitual trauma body into fully awakened and embodied humanity. They will be joined by Mind & Life researcher Diego Hangartner and decolonizing family-systems therapist Chantelle Williams, who will help unpack how this embodied work transforms the microcosm of the human nervous system, at the same time as it transforms the macrocosm of our social and natural environment.

Co-Sponsored by Nalanda Institute and Sowa Rigpa Institute at Pure Land Farms Tuscany.

Tuition & Accommodations 

For those joining us in-person in Tuscany, we invite and encourage you to register for one of the onsite accommodations listed below. We have negotiated the following rates with a lovely hotel, Fattoria Antognoni, which is right next to PureLand Farms. 

If you are joining us virtually only, please register for the Zoom link here. There is no need to complete registration on this page.

Tuition for the retreat is included in the 2025-2026 Embodied Wisdom Program Tuition. If you are currently enrolled in this program, please check your email for a registration code.

*If you are joining us in Tuscany but wish to arrange your accommodations elsewhere, please register for the “Non-residential tuition and food”.

**Booking at the hotel is for individuals only (as it is done by available bed type). If you are trying to book a room for more than one person, please contact rahshaana@nalandainstitute.org

For all other questions, please contact rahshaana@nalandainstitute.org

Registration Tiers 

ONSITE: Bed in a shared room w/shared bath: ($238 * 3 nights) = $714 lodging + $417 tuition (=$1131 total)

ONSITE: Bed in private room w/shared bath: ($338 * 3 nights) = $1014 lodging + $417 tuition (=$1431 total)

ONSITE: Bed in private room, private bath: ($387 * 3 nights) = $1161 + $417 tuition (=$1578 total)

ONSITE: Private residence w/1 bed: ($445 * 3 nights) = $1335 + $417 tuition (=$1752 total)

OFFSITE: Non-residential tuition and food: $595 (be sure to arrange your own housing in Tuscany)