Life Crisis or Life Transition?

Most of us are fully aware when we are confronted with a life crisis. Whether it is a quarter- or mid- or late-life crisis, we know when it hits us. If you are getting divorced, moving house, having a baby, retiring, being made redundant, suffering from an illness, undergoing an operation, have an empty nest …

Why walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela?

Walking the Camino de Santiago is on many people's bucket lists, but a good number of these people are intimidated by the physical and mental demands of walking the full distance. With this in mind, I created the ReConnect with Yourself, with Nature and with Others retreats to offer you the opportunity to first walk …

Slow Tourism in the south of France

Five years ago, early one morning, I received an e-mail from a potential retreat guest. She was interested in coming to my new Christmas/New Year's retreat here in the south of France. “Do you support Slow Tourism?” she wanted to know. Slow tourism? What that supposed to be? According to Wikipedia Slow Travel and Tourism …

4 Best Walking Meditation Aids

On the second day of our stress management mindfulness meditation workshops, we introduce participants to walking meditation. We do a two-part walk. During the first half of the walk, we walk through the surrounding vineyards, woods, meadows and sunflower fields, in the company of one or more of our horses. During the second part of the walk, …

Mindfulness of Mountains

These are the mighty Pyrenées Mountains, the border between France and Spain that stretch from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Mediterranean in the east. Our Retreat Centre, Les Sources Sacrées, is 90 minutes north of this border, we literally live in the foothills of the mountains, sometimes also called Les Petits Pyrenées. On …