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)

Stéphane Faure
22 June  – 28 June, 2020

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

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.

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.

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

Come and spend time at Le Moulin on your own personal silent retreat.

3 August – 8 August, 2020

17 August – 22 August, 2020

23 August – 30 August, 2020

2 September – 6 September, 2020

A month-long yoga teacher training programme.

14 September – 12 October, 2020

15 October – 18 October, 2020

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.