Meet Patrizia Bortolin, the visionary wellness architect and grasp transformational coach who revolutionised luxurious wellness by ‘The Preidlhof Way’ on the prestigious Preidlhof Luxury DolceVita Resort in South Tyrol, Italy. Drawing from over twenty years of pioneering excellence in journey, wellness, and hospitality, Bortolin crafts wellness retreats that transcend conventional spa experiences. Her groundbreaking methodology merges psycho-emotional therapeutic with cutting-edge complementary drugs, immersive sensory experiences, and profound mindfulness practices. Her fusion of optimistic psychology, superior life teaching methods, and naturopathic knowledge creates life-changing experiences for shoppers and wellness professionals alike. Through her Glowing Flow Academy, Bortolin not solely shapes the way forward for wellness however nurtures the subsequent technology of wellness visionaries, embodying her unwavering dedication to sustainable, holistic well-being.
Can you inform us about your journey into wellness teaching and worldwide journey?
I’ve spent my complete profession immersed in journey and wellness; finding out, experiencing and repeatedly innovating. Drawn to the experiential facet of life and motivated by a pursuit of deeper concord, I’ve held conventional worker roles but at all times carried out myself as a coach and impartial guide—forging my very own path, nurturing my crew’s development and engagement, and fostering real connections with our visitors. Transformational wellness journey supplied the proper context, however true elevation, growth and profound perception solely got here fifteen years in the past, after I met my Glowing Flow accomplice, Stefano Battaglia, whose holistic lifestyle, therapeutic and spirituality reworked every part for me.
While my official title has typically been Director, I by no means fell into standard worker administration; as an alternative, I cast my very own management path, at all times uncompromising and impartial. Beyond Preidlhof, I’ve been concerned in a few of the most fascinating wellness ideas of the previous decade — creating, directing, and innovating wellness initiatives alongside passionate groups which are recognised among the many greatest on the planet, bringing contemporary, impactful concepts to life.
What does a typical day entail for you at Preidlhof?
I typically start my day sleeping beneath the celebrities in my suite’s personal loggia woke up by birdsong, village bells and the Tramontana breeze filling my lungs beneath calm, clear skies. Breakfast on the terrace amongst apple orchards, olive bushes and magnolias follows, earlier than setting off on a motorcycle tour or a mountain stroll. Mid-morning, I give up to ‘spa life’ and be a part of holistic lessons — laughter yoga, flow-rope, face-gym and aware consuming — then seek the advice of our complementary-medicine physician and evaluate visitors’ heart-rate variability. A buffet lunch leads into a day of spa therapies or an exercise with one in every of our retreat masters, and the day ends with a lightweight, plant-based dinner and a peaceable night beneath the celebrities.
Many of our suites function loggias with daybeds that rework into full beds wearing the identical linen as our indoor beds – enabling visitors to slumber beneath the celebrities and totally immerse in nature.
You are the inventive power behind ‘The Preidlhof Way’. What impressed this idea and the way do you implement it into your individual on a regular basis life?
The enchanting South Tyrolean panorama, the constant but pure rhythm of life right here, the numerous contradictions—the dance between introvert and extrovert, hermit solitude and social pulse—the contemporary, inexperienced slopes of Trapp Mountain forward and the sun-baked plateau behind: dry, intense, recharging. At Glowing Flow we designed our idea and spa retreats with pioneering holistic-health work, hands-on visitor immersion and our therapeutic strategy, whereas enhancing the human sources already right here and recruiting new expertise for this beautiful wellness providing. It all displays my life and my 24/7 function of making impartial, accountable, glad and developed groups. The Spa Team we constructed at Preidlhof is, for me, an “explosion of love”—and at all times a pleasure to return to.
On becoming a member of Preidlhof in 2019 you launched sensorial wellness programmes and transformational wellness retreats. What are the most well-liked or distinctive programmes you provide to shoppers?
Our Glowing Flow Trauma-Healing Retreat really stands aside—a world aside because of the extent of dedication and imaginative and prescient of the Retreat chief, Stefano Battaglia. It delivers profound affect and a deep sense of elevation, lifting thoughts, physique and spirit into the next state of readability, function and empowerment. It is a once-or-twice-in-a-lifetime expertise for deep transformation or therapeutic. We then provide a sequence of supportive retreats to maintain and harmonise these outcomes over time. Our Integrated Wellness signature programme is led by therapists knowledgeable in Traditional Chinese Medicine, shiatsu and complementary drugs, the place bodily and emotional rebalancing and pure rejuvenation exceed all expectations.
What is one piece of wellness recommendation you reside by?
Start with your self — do the internal work in the event you search change, love, sustainability, therapeutic, fulfilling relationships and concord. Be as pure as potential. Be your self.
Through your Glowing Flow Masterclass and Academy, how do you guarantee different wellness professionals profit out of your information and experience?
I intention to encourage the delicate, the inventive and the outsiders, those that have at all times struggled inside the superficial, typically harsh world of hospitality administration – and remind them that deep internal work, stable experience and sustainable practices are important to face out and keep away from the ‘wellness circus’: the parade of fleeting fads, Instagram-ready gimmicks and fast fixes that prioritise spectacle over real transformation.
In my Glowing Flow Masterclass and Academy, I combine rigorous inner-life practices —breathwork, motion and ritual—with skilled hospitality know-how and sensible mentoring, all grounded in sustainability. I consider wellness is a privilege that calls for practising what you preach, cultivating lasting concord, calm and pleasure in your spas and lodges reasonably than simply offering visitors with superficial experiences. Through immersive coaching, ongoing steerage and a supportive neighborhood, I guarantee each wellness skilled leaves able to embody movement, enhancing each their private journey and the wellbeing of these they serve.
What conjures up you relating to curating new health and sweetness ideas?
I’m an amazing internal life experimenter, and I consider that everybody should uncover their very own distinctive path to dwelling in movement. That embodied state the place thoughts, physique, and spirit align, permitting your genuine and inventive self to emerge and leaving you totally current and entire. Through my Glowing Flow strategy—and by drawing on each useful resource at my disposal, from breath-work and motion practices to aware magnificence rituals and nurturing neighborhood networks—I design various pathways that resonate universally but converse personally to every one in every of us.
Lastly, what are your goals for Preidlhof’s growth for the longer term?
I’m designing the brand new spa space; the guts and most vital a part of the resort—and it is going to be organised round our transformational wellness retreats and ‘The Preidlhof Way’, our holistic wellness philosophy that harmonises hedonic and eudaemonic wellbeing. We are very excited to convey this imaginative and prescient to life and improve this pivotal a part of the resort.
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