7-Day Women's Joyous Retreat In France's Enchanting Loire Valley
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7-Day Women's Joyous Retreat In France's Enchanting Loire Valley
Académie Le Grippault, Avenue de la Coupure du Parc, Chaveignes, France
Up to 8 in group
June 1 - 7, 2025
Retreat Highlights
- Stay in a chateau, private rooms with their own en-suite bathroom each
- One osteopathic treatment by a certified D.O. on day 1 to get you started and aligned so you can enjoy the 7-day experience fully
- Daily movement with gentle yoga and QiGong in the private forest on the domain, weather permitting
- Access to a 16th century farmhouse as a playground
- Self catered meals to build community and learn new ways
- Locally sourced organic produce
- Daily excursions to local places of interest such as a goat farm, a basket weaving cooperative, a chateau where Joan of Arc is said to have stayed overnight, a wine tasting in a chateau with the Count himself, a visit to the local farmer's market
- Sound baths in the evening for a sound night of restorative sleep
- Camp fires
About this Retreat
Liva is the host of your retreat, supported by the team of facilitators/teachers.
She will be leading meditations as well as creativity workshops and games.
Editor at Large for Holistic Therapist Magazine and Holistic Health Magazine, she's a former financial journalist, turned diplomat, turned marketing and communications agency owner, but her passion is in lives well lived. Liva has been a certified leadership coach since 2008.
She provides accountability coaching, and nervous system calibration, using traditional coaching, supported by neuroscience, as well as modalities inherited from her lineage from Madagascar and others rooted in the teachings from her mentors around the world. Liva has lived and worked in 13 different countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and in the U.S.
Liva's goal is to bring more connection and more authenticity, one grounded nervous system at a time, by way or meditation, play, creativity and building community.
She lives in and restores a 16th century farm in France's Loire Valley, which she opens to retreats as the "playground", while attendees stay at a chateau where the bulk of the wellness activities take place.
You can schedule a 1:1 coaching session with her on the topic of your choice or work with her later when you are back home.
Dixie is our QiGong teacher.
She is a 50+ biology and health teacher, co-founder of the Pause Pod Community and of the Life In The Pause conference and podcast, which all evolve around helping women with their transition into peri- and menopause.
Dixie is also dreamer and doer, self-care connoisseur, born and reared Caribbean country gal, health & wellness educator, Qigong practitioner, veggie juice drinker, smoothie consuming operator, and beauty & wellness founder.
At the retreat, she will be leading QiGong and will have 1:1 consultations on well-ageing. One per person during the retreat.
After that, you can book her once you're back home for remote consultations or you can join the Pause Pod Community.
Dixie lives in the U.S. but she loves traveling and you may meet her along the way!
Michel is a Doctor of Ostepathy (D.O.) and he will be present at the very beginning of the retreat to provide 1:1 sessions with each and everyone of us so we can start our week well aligned, body and mind.
Michel loves people and living beings in general, but in a visceral way. He likes that he can be useful by bringing peace through his practice of osteopathy.
You can book extra sessions with him directly if you wish to have him come work with you another time during the retreat.
Géraldine is coming from Switzerland to be with us and she will be leading the yoga and breathwork sessions during the retreat. She is an avid Yoga practitioner and teacher. Based in Switzerland, she and Liva met during a yoga retreat a few years back.
Aside from yoga, Geraldine is also an astute paraglider and has traveled the world to embrace her newfound passion, which started as simply something to conquer her fears.
Details of this retreat
Join us for an unforgettable Summer experience. A unique approach, a one-of-a-kind format: a luxury summer camp-meets-retreat week
An exclusive Women's Summer Camp with all the wellness treats of a retreat in the enchanted Loire Valley of France. Immerse yourself in a week of adventure, relaxation, and self-discovery. Connect with like-minded women in their 50s, explore the beauty of the region, and create memories that will last a lifetime.
Come as strangers, leave as lifelong friends
This is for you if you are 50+, and are craving a fun, restorative, rejuvenating, supportive, and pampering break .
We designed it with your well-being in mind, around four key pillars: PLAY, CREATIVITY, PAUSE and COMMUNITY.
An intimate group of 8 women maximum to make unforgettable memories thanks to our highly-curated program with full integration of REST.
Better than camp counsellors, a dedicated team of experts to care for you: a holistic executive coach (our founder, pictured here), a yoga teacher, a Qiqong and well-ageing specialist, an Osteopath (D.O.), a sound bath expert
A space out of time with a supportive women's circle where you get to have fun, be pampered in gorgeous surroundings, eat delicious food, discover local culture, rest, feed your soul, and, the kicker, ... all you have to do is to ease yourself into it and let yourself be gently guided. Self-care reloaded!
An exclusive Women's Summer Camp with all the wellness treats of a retreat in the enchanted Loire Valley of France. Immerse yourself in a week of adventure, relaxation, and self-discovery. Connect with like-minded women in their 50s, explore the beauty of the region, and create memories that will last a lifetime.
Come as strangers, leave as lifelong friends
This is for you if you are 50+, and are craving a fun, restorative, rejuvenating, supportive, and pampering break .
We designed it with your well-being in mind, around four key pillars: PLAY, CREATIVITY, PAUSE and COMMUNITY.
An intimate group of 8 women maximum to make unforgettable memories thanks to our highly-curated program with full integration of REST.
Better than camp counsellors, a dedicated team of experts to care for you: a holistic executive coach (our founder, pictured here), a yoga teacher, a Qiqong and well-ageing specialist, an Osteopath (D.O.), a sound bath expert
A space out of time with a supportive women's circle where you get to have fun, be pampered in gorgeous surroundings, eat delicious food, discover local culture, rest, feed your soul, and, the kicker, ... all you have to do is to ease yourself into it and let yourself be gently guided. Self-care reloaded!
Schedule
This is the blueprint of our schedule. A lot of activities are elective. You may always stay at the chateau and enjoy the beautiful property or you can join in the activities. The schedule has been designed to balance fun, rest, community, local immersive experiences and self-reflection.
We encourage a deep immersion and authenticity in your experience, therefore, the camp-retreat is 100% alcohol free.
We encourage a deep immersion and authenticity in your experience, therefore, the camp-retreat is 100% alcohol free.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
Liva RJ x SoulXplorers, Académie Le Grippault, Avenue de la Coupure du Parc, Chaveignes, France
Directions
We will coordinate flights and trains with you. Here's the gist:
- Land at Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) June 1 early AM.
- Hop on the direct train from CDG airport to Saint-Pierre des Corps train station at 11.09 AM.
- We're picking you up, get in the car! Details to be sent after you have confirmed your attendance.
- Ditto if you're already enjoying Paris beforehand, get on the train going to Saint-Pierre des Corps from Gare Montparnasse on June 1.
- If you're driving to us, we will provide you with the details too. Plan to arrive on June 1 at 3 PM.
- Land at Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) June 1 early AM.
- Hop on the direct train from CDG airport to Saint-Pierre des Corps train station at 11.09 AM.
- We're picking you up, get in the car! Details to be sent after you have confirmed your attendance.
- Ditto if you're already enjoying Paris beforehand, get on the train going to Saint-Pierre des Corps from Gare Montparnasse on June 1.
- If you're driving to us, we will provide you with the details too. Plan to arrive on June 1 at 3 PM.
Accommodation
Each guest has their own private room, with their own en-suite bathroom. If you wish to come with your bestie, you may do so and you will then share the room, pyjama party style! We have a grand hall and a salon which we will use for indoor activities. We also have a music room with instruments as your disposal, to be handled with care, of course. The chateau owners are also leaving a collection of vinyls for us to enjoy.
Price per person. Private room with en-suite bathroom at the chateau; 3 meals a day; Access to the 16th century farm playground activities; access to all activities, including wellness, mindfulness, art, cooking workshops, one local immersive cultural experience a day; pick up and drop off at the train station. Excludes travel. We pick you up at the train station on June 1 and drop you off on June 7
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
The full story of Château Grippault remains a mystery up to now, with only snippets of its past being known so far. Of course, you will get a tour when we arrive. Better yet, this is where we will be spending the week. Aside from the grand salon and the dining hall, the gorgeous, authentic interiors include a music room, complete with a piano, which you are welcome to use if you play, and an entire collection of vinyls too as well as books.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
We will cook together based on the availability of locally sourced produce: vegetables, meats, milk, cheeses, fruits, etc. We will make variations to accommodate as much as we can.
What's Included
- All the activities on the program, including the wellness treatments
- One private treatment with an osteopath (Doctor of Osteopathy, or D.O.) ,
- At least one private coaching session over the 6 days,
- At least one session with our well-ageing specialist over the 6 days,
- Daily yoga and Qigong, sound baths
- Accommodation in private rooms with your own en-suite bathrooms
- Breakfast, lunch, dinner // whenever possible, we will cook together in a workshop format to teach you new, healthy ways and build community
- Access to both properties, the château and the farmhouse,
- Access to the private forest and the pool of the Chateau
- One excursion/immersive local experience per day
- Welcome pack merch
- Pick up from Saint-Pierre des Corps train station on June 1 (see details below) and drop off on June 7
- All the supplies for our activities:
- - Various painting modalities
- - Beading
- - Cherry picking
- - Potager (vegetable garden)
- - Gardening
- - Restoration
- - Dancing
- - Star gazing
- - Cooking workshops
- - Forest / countryside walks
- - Board games
- - Grass bowling
- - Badmington
- - Pétanque (boules)
- - Swimming
- - Modeling clay
- - Dog petting
- - Reading
- - Doing sweet nothing!
What's Not Included
- - extra osteopathic treatments to be booked directly with the D.O.
- - subscription to the well-ageing Pause Pod Community and extra consultations with our expert
- - relaxation coaching, visualization and accountability coaching subscriptions
- - horseback riding if available (they get booked fast)
- - concierge services to help you organize an extension to your stay in the region
- - your travel to and from here (except train station pick up and drop off, see details below): flights, trains, car rental, etc
- - insurance for your whole trip, including cancellation insurance
- - personal expenses including at local markets or spots, such as gifts or other items, extra food or drink you purchase outside our provided meals or during our excursions. Please ask us if you have any doubt
- - medical expenses
- - Merch other than the welcome pack: it's available on our Etsy store
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