Menu of Playshops
Each morning and each afternoon, you can choose to partake of a 2-hour playshop!
We'll connect with our creative "sweet spot" through a cornucopia of
play-centered, body-centered, spirit-evoking expressive arts.
All supplies will be provided for you.
We'll connect with our creative "sweet spot" through a cornucopia of
play-centered, body-centered, spirit-evoking expressive arts.
All supplies will be provided for you.
Luxuriate in the pure, child-like joy of putting color and pattern on paper. We'll show you how to get out of your own way and connect easily with your intuitive, spontaneous expressive self. Watch your creations emerge effortlessly and authentically. All supplies will be provided for you.
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You may have been journaling for years, but if you've never explored the wide-open fun and freedom of using expressive color, intuitive imagery and mark-making in your journaling practice, you're in for a life-enhancing treat! All supplies will be provided for you.
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What's next for you? What dreamy dreams are (psst...) calling your (ahem!) name? Let's place your order with the Cosmic Waitress. (She goes by the name Loulou over here in France, by the way.) You'll get focused help in creating your own personalized menu of small, pleasurable action steps that'll grease the skids like never before.
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This is not your daughter's yoga. This is yoga for you. You in all your curvy magnificence. You in all your glorious, perfectly-perfect imperfection. You who knows that a mellow asana sequence is its own sweet spot. Fancy pants not required. You'll also learn my own signature sequence for *HSPs, a reliable reset button for a frazzled and overstimulated nervous system.
HSP = Highly Sensitive Person |
What do you get when you mix one part walking meditation, one part sensory shindig, and add a heaping dollop of the artist's inborn glee at the dazzling minutiae of this precious world? A sublime way to absorb beauty.
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You know the kind of rest I'm talking about. It's the kind where, when you arise, you simply cannot recall a single thing that you were worried about beforehand. It's the kind where you feel innocent all over again. Forgiven. Soft. Brand-new. Edgeless, and whole.
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Learn this 3-minute pleasurable antidote to stressed, shallow habitual breathing and watch it open up your whole life while it imparts a calm centeredness & steady energy that lasts all day.
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Delicious guided visualizations and mouth-watering prompts to take your journaling practice to straight into the wild, succulent heart-and-soul of your essential self. Treasures abound!
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Are you poemcrazy? You will be!
Fingertips ready, eyes open wide, words will tumble out of you like popcorn in the dark. Watch words delight you, swoon you, tickle you, make you forget you ever thought you were not a poet. |
Harmony-inducing. Heart-expanding. Soul-recharging. One of my superpowers is my gift for inventing body-centered guided imagery sessions that bring you home to You.
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Learn a simple, body-centered way to meditate that welcomes all of you into you.
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I was going to call this 'dance', but I didn't want to scare you off! Dance — yes, dance, not dance how you might normally think of it, but rather moving our bodies for the sheer pleasure of it AND for the trusty access-to-knowing that simple movement gives. Tu-tus, boas and harem veils encouraged!
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Solo Adventures
If you want to skip any of the twice-daily group playshops,
you can create your own solo restorative recipe.
Here are some ideas to prime the pump!
you can create your own solo restorative recipe.
Here are some ideas to prime the pump!
Take a poolside nap |
Get a massage in
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Luxuriously lounge
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Nestled at the base of the 8th-century tower, high above the village, an exotic and succulent plant-lover's paradise awaits you! Well-worth the 10 euro entrance fee.
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Wander about the village and down by the riverside with your five senses as your guide. Poke around the potager gardens. Find a French nook or cranny to call your own for an hour or two.
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If there's one thing that rivers are sacred geniuses at, it's teaching us how to let go of what's not working. They teach us to open up to the Great Current of Everything's-All-Right.
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Float in the poolCome back to the motherlode, the womb, the cleansing place, the float-like-an-otter, swim-like-a-dolphin headquarters in your own backyard.
Or, just go for a swim. |
Paddle the gentle Orb RiverFloating down this sweet, sweet lady of a river may just end up being the highlight of your time in this magical place. Wrapped in the foothills of the Parc Naturel Regional du Haut-Languedoc, there's hardly a prettier, more sensuous river anywhere. Let the current re-pattern your nervous system for flow and ease. 36 euros.
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