Your Retreat Instructors
Johnny and Eleni met through Ra Yoga Studios in Long Beach, CA. They developed a friendship based on their similar perspectives around teaching yoga, shared Pisces star signs, and related Mediterranean heritages (Johnny = Italian and Eleni = Greek). Leading a retreat together felt organically aligned and led them to the planning of this Bella Parea Retreat!
Johnny La Pasta
Johnny is movement & mindfulness teacher with 11+ years of experience teaching yoga, fitness, meditation, and mindfulness. He is known for his creative and challenging classes, uplifting and inspiring themes, fun and thematic music, and relaxing and soothing meditations. As an Italian-American, Johnny grew up with a love of good food and a passion for bringing people together around a table. The Bella Parea Retreat with Eleni gives him the opportunity to bring his love of yoga and Mediterranean centric food and wine together to create a rejuvenating and fun experience for all of you.
Eleni Lotakis
Growing up Greek American gave Eleni an appreciation for the important things in life: a simple lifestyle, good food, connection through community and family, meaningful work, and faith. It
seems that to live well is somehow part of the Greek DNA. It is this passion for life well lived that she brings to the Bella Parea retreat. It is her meraki (labor of love) to extend her philoxenia (hospitality) along with Johnny for weekend she hopes will leave a little of the Greek passion for life imprinted on your heart and in your soul.
