Lead with Love Yoga, Biking + Loving Life Retreat 🍕🇮🇹🍷🚴🏽♀️🧘🏻♀️ !!
Yoga, Pedal, Meditate, Eat, Drink, Repeat
We hosted a a nourishing, rejuvenating and festive retreat in the heart of Tuscany, Italy May 23-29, 2025 with Lead with Love Founder Gina Murdock, Professional Singer and Sound Healer Elisa Bava + Italian Musical Virtuosos “Los Criminales!”
Please enjoy our gallery of memories from this magical week. And remember, if this type of retreat speaks to you, please reach out to Gina here to stay in the loop for future Lead With Love retreats such as our upcoming Wilderness Retreat at Beyul, just outside Aspen, Colorado!
A huge shout out to Marco and Giuliana founders of Cicloposse, the premier biking and tour company in Tuscany, for curating AND CO-HOSTING this incredibly special itinerary with the best rides and experiences based on over 20 years of leading groups in this area. It is our pleasure to partner with our dear friends and fellow adventurers in Italy!
A big thank you to the beautiful humans that joined us for an intimate retreat with Lead with Love and Cicloposse — exploring the exquisite UNESCO countryside over the handlebars of our e-bikes or “muscular” bikes, relaxing in the hot springs, frolicking in the ancient villages and eating lots of delicious food while sipping local wines in our amazing hillside villa and nearby charming restaurants. Daily yoga and meditation classes with Elisa and Gina kept our bodies in tip top shape for all the adventures and luxurious sound healings that lured us to sleep at night. Camaraderie and adventure were the name of the game for this week in Tuscany.
We found nourishment and enjoyment in a captivating landscape with joyful friends honing our skills to lead with love in all of life. We were privileged to explore the best part of Italy by bike with local, professional guides attending to our needs and providing the best equipment and the inner landscape of our heart with yoga classes designed for cyclists as well as optional workshops to deepen this spiritual journey.
Our next Lead With Love Retreat is happening in August at Beyul just outside Aspen, CO! Click the button below to learn more!
Authentic Italy | Tuscany Region
With its lyrical landscapes, world-class art and a superb cucina contadina (farmer's kitchen), the Tuscan experience is perfectly in symbiosis with the land.
Your Hosts | Gina Murdock + Elisa Bava
Gina Murdock | Writer, Speaker, Yoga + Meditation Teacher, Community Organizer and curator of La dolce vita!
Gina Murdock
Gina Murdock is an Aspen, Colo. based writer, yoga & meditation teacher, inspirational speaker & community organizer. She is founder of the Aspen Yoga Society, The Aspen City of Wellbeing, Lead with Love, The Love Ninjas and the Mind, Body, Spirit Rx content brand. Gina’s mission is to shift culture from fear to love from the inside out. All of her endeavors are intended to help people thrive and find joy and freedom in mind, body and spirit. Gina and her husband Jerry created and support the Mind, Body, Spirit Series at The Aspen Institute hosting speakers and events to raise consciousness and honor “The Aspen Idea”. Murdock has a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica with a special emphasis on Consciousness, Health, and Healing. Gina is a certified Chopra yoga and meditation teacher as well as a certified Bikram and Vinyasa Flow yoga teacher and retreat guide who teaches internationally. Gina has had the pleasure of teaching yoga to such luminaries as Sir Richard Branson, Dr. Deepak Chopra, Actress Goldie Hawn, Musician Michael Franti and more. She taught yoga on Franti’s Soulshine Tour to hundreds of people, at Wanderlust Festival, Telluride Yoga Festival, Yoga on the Mountain and Yoga in Action Day and Lead with Love Summit in Aspen which she also created. Gina is also a published author and inspirational public speaker known for humor, enthusiasm, authenticity and vulnerability.
Gina is passionate about optimal wellbeing for the planet and people and leading from the heart. Her absolute belief is that we always have a choice and we can choose love when given the tools to create the awareness to do so. Gina is a founding member of Dr. Deepak Chopra’s Self Directed Biological Transformation Initiative and has willingly submitted her body to science to prove the effectiveness of mind/body practices on optimal health! Gina is an active board member of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES), The Center for Living Peace, The Aspen Brain Institute and CASA of the Ninth as well as an advisor to The Chopra Foundation and CTZNWELL. Gina is a former radio and newspaper journalist and contributor to Origin Magazine and Mantra Yoga and Health Magazine . She continues to write a monthly column for The Aspen Times as well as publish a monthly newsletter for Lead with Love called “Founder’s Letter”. Gina lives by these mantras: “Let the beauty you love, be what you do.” (Rumi); “Be the change you wish to see in the world” (Gandhi); and “WOOO-HOOO!” (Gina)
Elisa Bava | Professional singer and performer, vocal coach, certified sound therapist and yoga teacher
Elisa Bava
Professional singer and performer, vocal coach, certified sound therapist, 200 hrs yoga teacher, Elisa Bava strongly believes in the healing power of sound and movement.
After 15 years touring all over the world, recording for international djs, signing with Universal Music, taking part in music competitions such as “Eurovision Song Contest”, she’s now devoted to utilizing her voice and her profound connection to music as a healing and transformational tool.
She will guide you through practices that will facilitate release, help you find your voice, ignite your creativity, empower and rebalance your whole system.
From group activities to private sessions, there will be endless possibilities to work with your own sound and vibration with her.
And since she’s spent most of her life on stage, she’s always up for some fun dancing moves and will easily start a party that involves crazy outfits and singalongs! So be ready!
Elisa is also 100% Italian, loves Italian culture, food and wine and will be our first-hand connection to the beautiful Land that will host our retreat.
