Escape to Meadowsweet Retreat — a nature-rooted sanctuary born in Tuscany and now blossoming worldwide. Reconnect with the wild through permaculture, foraging, homesteading, and soul-nourishing rituals for body, mind, and spirit.
Meadowsweet Retreat — a place to reconnect, restore, and remember.
A note from our founder anya
I’m Anya Lily, the founder of Meadowsweet. These retreats began as a seed of a dream in Dorset, England, inspired by the slow rhythms of the countryside where I grew up. I spent much of my childhood with my mother, an intuitive herbalist and forager, learning the quiet language of plants and their healing gifts. I also lived in India with my father, a yoga teacher, where I experienced the depth and stillness that yoga and meditation can bring.
Meadowsweet was born from the weaving together of these two worlds — the earthy wisdom of the wild, and the inner journey toward peace.
What began in England has since rooted deeply in the wild mountains of Tuscany, where we now hold our core retreats in collaboration with a beautiful nature reserve. Over time, Meadowsweet has also begun partnering with other like-hearted, nature-driven sanctuaries around the world, extending our vision globally while staying grounded in the same values: simplicity, presence, and deep reverence for the Earth.
After many years working as a restaurant consultant and mixologist — a path I loved — I felt called to create something more nourishing, more connected. And so, Meadowsweet became that space: a sanctuary for others to slow down, come back to themselves, and fall in love with nature again.
Over the past few years, we’ve cultivated not only the land, but also a way of being — one that’s rooted in seasonal living, stillness, and community. We host workshops in permaculture, beekeeping, wildcrafting, and homesteading, all nestled among the forests, waterfalls, springs, and meadows that surround us.
Each retreat is created as a space to nourish your body, mind, and spirit. We believe that self-love is the starting point for meaningful transformation — and that with care, attention, and time, we all have the capacity to grow, to bloom, and to thrive.
Whether you’re joining us in Tuscany or at one of our partner locations around the world, you are so welcome here. We can’t wait to meet you, and to share the quiet, powerful magic of this work with you.
With love,
Anya Lily
Founder of Meadowsweet
Our home in Tuscany
Fosini, Radicondoli
During the retreat you will stay in tastefully restored Tuscan villas, cottages and luxury bell tents in the meadows, near the village of Radicondoli. The design allows the luminous energy of nature to blend seamlessly with the spacious interior landscape of calming green and soft natural hues, a stone carved fireplace and creamy stone floors throughout.
The rose scented garden gazing over an untouched valley provides many places in which to unwind and reflect, be it sipping wild fennel tea on the wisteria patio or sprawling on a luxurious daybed tucked away under a tree.
During free time guests can lounge by the salt water infinity pool, share stories around the fire pit, rub on locally sourced clay to detoxify their skin before rinsing in the natural springs, read a book in the apple orchard, practice yoga on the oak tree deck, explore the vineyards, hike to a waterfall or discover panoramic viewpoints.
The closest airports are Pisa and Florence, about 1.5 hours away and the closest city Siena.
This is a paradise that's difficult to leave.
