Retreats 2020
Moulin de Chaves is dedicated to fostering a welcoming and open-hearted refuge for all people to explore life-transforming practices and teachings. We are committed to cultivating an awareness and appreciation of the value of diversity and to acknowledging the need to recognise and dissolve barriers that separate us from each other. We open our doors and hearts to all social identities including all races, classes, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, abilities, cultures and ethnicities.
(Some events may be added to or removed from the list below as the year progresses)
Retraite silencieuse d’approfondissement du programme MBSR
De la stabilité à l’auto-libération des pensées: méditer avec les émotions.
Stéphane Faure
22 June – 28 June, 2020
Language:
French
MSC
MSC Teacher Training is an intensive, 6-day residential program facilitated by a team of senior MSC teachers.
avec Christopher Germer, Christine Brähler et Inken Dechow
5 July – 11 July, 2020
Language:
French
Yoga and Meditation
Gail Aylward and Martin Aylward
13 July – 18 July, 2020
This retreat will interweave the practices of meditation with mindful movement and yoga practice, all as supports for insight, awakening, and freeing ourselves from habitual patterns. The retreat will include 2 periods of mindful movement each day along with silent and guided meditations, and meetings with the teachers. The movement practices are designed to greatly enhance the sensitivity and steadiness of mind in attending deeply to moment-to-moment experience, and to be integrative in bringing awareness and inquiry into all moments and activities of life.
Language:
English and French
Single tent and room spaces are now available due to some late cancellations.
More fully Human: Exploring Life, Love and Liberation
Martin Aylward
20 July – 26 July, 2020
Meditation practice is designed for us to live more fluidly and freely, to be more fully human in the various realms of our life. This retreat will explore the deepening qualities and realizations of the transforming heart, and their integration into an ever deepening human experience of life, love and liberation. Open to both experienced and beginning meditators.
Language:
English and French
Rest, Relax & Renew – Yoga, Meditation & Relaxation
This is a self retreat, a time to look after and nurture oneself. An opportunity to practice gentle Hatha Yoga, Mindful meditation, plus Restorative yoga, to foster self care and compassion. To start to let go of our habitual patterns in our body and minds, that can constrict our way of being. And instead open up to the possibility to fully rest, deeply relax and feel renewed in this moment.
Gail Aylward
3 August – 8 August, 2020
Language:
English
Personal Retreat
Come and spend time at Le Moulin on your own personal silent retreat.
3 August – 8 August, 2020
L’eveil et l’amour
L’oiseau de notre pratique vole sur deux ailes; l’un d’éveil et l’autre d’amour. Cette retraite silencieuse apportera un regard de sagesse et un cœur d’amour à l’exploration de notre expérience et nos vies. Les journées comprendront des méditations silencieuses et guidées, des réflexions et des discussions avec Martin, et des réunions individuelles et de groupe pour soutenir votre pratique.
Martin Aylward
10 August – 15 August, 2020
Language:
French
Yoga garden with Samantha Roy and Nina Fowkes
17 August – 22 August, 2020
Language:
English
ADM with Bob Stahl
23 August – 30 August, 2020
Language:
English and French
Your True Identity with Miranda Macpherson
2 September – 6 September, 2020
Language:
English
Retraite individuelle
Une opportunité d’approfondir votre pratique de méditation
12 October – 18 October, 2020
Language:
French
RETRAITE FONDAMENTAUX MBCL
Language:
French
15 October – 18 October, 2020
APPROFONDIR LE PROGRAMME MBSR: l’attention aimante dans la méditation
Stéphane Faure
19 October – 25 October, 2020
Language:
French
This retreat is now fully booked.
Mindfulness et Sagesse: One vision vaste d’une pratique illimité
Martin Aylward
26 October – 1 November, 2020
La pratique de la mindfulness est souvent présentée comme un moyen d’entraîner l’attention, de calmer le mental et de gérer le stress. Ces outils importants et libérateurs peuvent néanmoins se considérer dans une vision plus vaste de la pratique et la possibilité d’aller bien au-delà d’un bien-être conventionnel.
Language:
French
Living in community together, with time for meditation, communal living and sharing, and for your individual work and projects.
4 January 2021 – 3 April, 2021
(minimum stay 2 weeks)
Has Covid closed your office, allowing you to live and work where you choose?
In these socially distanced days, are you missing meditating with others, being with Sangha?
Have you dreamed of a longer stay at the moulin, integrating your formal practice into every day life?
This winter, we are opening the moulin for stays of anything from 2 weeks to 4 months. Living in community together, with time for meditation, communal living and sharing, and for your individual work and projects.
Language:
English and French