🌿 Rural French Wilderness & Gentle Retreat

Yoga, Baking/Cooking & Slow Living with Animals in Rural France

Welcome to Rural French Wilderness & Gentle, a 5-day beginner-friendly retreat set in the heart of rural France, where forest paths, a flowing river, and friendly animals become part of your daily rhythm.

This is not a retreat about perfection or performance.
It is about slowing down, breathing deeply, moving gently, and reconnecting with joy — through yoga, baking, nature, and simple living.

Wake to birdsong.
Stretch beside the river, in the fields, forest or on the terrace.
Have fun & bake some cakes with your own hands (veganized).
Share quiet moments with donkeys, hens, dogs and cats.
And return home calmer, lighter, and inspired.

No yoga experience needed. Just a love of nature, food, and a slower pace of life.

🌿 What You’ll Experience

✨ Gentle yoga & meditation for beginners
🥐 Hands-on vegan baking/cooking
🐴 Time with donkeys, hens, dogs & cats
🌳 Forest walks & riverside pauses
📓 Journaling, reflection & deep rest
🍽 Nourishing, home-style meals
🌙 Starry nights & calm evenings

🧘‍♀️ Yoga for Real People

All yoga is:
✔ Beginner-friendly
✔ Slow & supportive
✔ Adaptable for all bodies
✔ Pressure-free

No complicated poses. (no handstands, headstands or back bending!) No spiritual jargon.
Just breathing, stretching, and feeling good in your body.

🥐 Vegan Bake & Cook with me!

In a relaxed, joyful way.

You’ll make one or two of this plus dinner on the last night:

• Madeleines / cakes

• Desserts

• Seasonal tarts

• Simple dinner

You’ll take home:
📖 A printed recipe of what you have made if you  would like
👩‍🍳 Confidence to bake vegan at home

🌳 Nature & Animals

This retreat is immersed in nature:

• Forest trails at your doorstep

• A peaceful river for reflection & relaxation

• Donkeys grazing in nearby fields & forest

• Hens providing daily chatter and judgement

• Friendly dogs & cats snoozing in the calmness of tranquility

Animals are part of daily life here — grounding, joyful and quietly therapeutic.

🏡 The Setting

You’ll stay in a charming rural French farmhouse surrounded by:

• Rolling countryside

• Forest and water

• Silence, stars & fresh air

Private rooms in the Bergerie.
Simple comfort, natural beauty, and heartfelt hospitality

5 Days / 4 Nights

Small group (2-6 guests maximum)

What’s Included

✔ Accommodation
✔ All meals
✔ Daily yoga & meditation
✔ Baking /cooking  ingredients
✔ Forest & river experiences
✔ Recipe to take home
✔ Yoga mats & props
✔ Welcome gift

(Pick up and drop off at 2 local airports Brive & Limoges & railway stations at Uzerche & Brive)

💌 Is This Retreat For You?

This retreat is perfect if you:

Want a break from the chaos of the world

• Are new to yoga or returning gently or curious about yoga but not confident

• Recently burnt out

• At a life transition

• Or simply needing space to breathe feeling tired, overstimulated or disconnected

• Crave nature and animals, feels called to slow living for a break

• Want rest without rigidity, wants warmth, not wellness pressure

• Want real France, not tourist France

Not ideal if you:
✖ Want intense workouts
✖ Need luxury spa services
✖ Prefer rigid schedules
✖ Don’t like animals or countryside living

✨ Leave Feeling…

🌿 Calmer
🥐 More creative
🐴 Grounded
💛 Reconnected
🌙 Deeply rested

My Unique Offering

I am offering something rare:
💛 A retreat that is nurturing, creative, rural, animal-filled and deeply human
Not trendy. Not intense. Not exclusive.
But soulful, real and unforgettable.

Get in touch to find out more or book with me directly x