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Going in September: where to cultivate your well-being for a Zen start

2021-09-08T04:17:28.945Z


TREND - Yoga, meditation, detox treatment, are the pillars of a new form of tourism in full swing. A break that more and more urbanites are giving themselves, for a recovery at the cleat.


Take a break.

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"Of course, but the off-season between summer and fall is the ideal period to detoxify your body, and especially your digestive system

,

"

says Julie Coignet, naturopath in Pérols (Hérault), who offered herself a cure detox ten days after returning from vacation.

On her blog, the young woman recounts this week's retreat which reconnected her to her inner self, at the Origine de La Pensée sauvage center in the mountainous Drôme region of the Vercors massif.

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Wild pansy is a flower of the fields, a tricolor violet, mauve, white and yellow with anti-inflammatory properties and detoxifying properties.

Applied to travel, it is the name of a concept created in 2007 by Thomas Uhl, also a naturopath, via tailor-made programs in the Vercors region, but also in unusual places, in Corsica, in Ibiza, in Switzerland, or even in Port-Cros.

Interior journey

In Port-Cros (Var), the Fort de Port-Man exclusively welcomes travelers from La Pensée sauvage, a specialist in trips to reconnect with oneself and with nature.

Wild Thought

We stop in the Var island. The site alone is good. The smallest of the Golden Islands off Hyères is a national natural park protected from overtourism and fishing. It emanates a positive energy such as Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the ace of aerial photography who no longer wants to fly

,

found refuge there and renovated a historic structure, the Fort of Port-Man, which dominates the Bay. It is in this private place, with four bedrooms and a yoga room, that

La Pensée sauvage

(lapenseesauvage.com) offers exclusive stays, where fasting or detox programs are complemented by hikes, outings in sea, rest and iodized cuisine (1). The ingredients of a real destination and not just a fitness cure.

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Leaving again in September has become trendy.

“I made my first retreat last summer, two weeks after returning from vacation.

And I thought it was awesome.

If we don't, we get dragged into a tunnel until Christmas

.

It is a very rare time in life to focus on yourself.

We eat lighter, we attend meditations.

And then leaving alone, after a vacation with friends or family, it's not bad, it opens up to others all at once, ”

says Claire, a sparkling, dynamic executive in Paris.

The young thirty-something is part of the 80% of women who make up the clientele of this niche of well-being tourism.

The island of beauty is its haven, like many specialists in healing in the heart of nature.

Among them,

Clairière & Canopée

(clairiereercanopee.com), specialist in micro-adventures dedicated to the well-being of the body and mind around fasting programs, fresh juices or supersmoothies developed by naturopaths.

"It's good to schedule it, because the stay is preceded by a week of food preparation, and followed by another week of food recovery"

, specifies Guillaume Charroin, co-founder and former guide.

Hike in the Drôme with Clairière & Canopée, specialist in healing in the heart of nature.

Gilles Reboisson

The post-containment travelers leave.

Destination Drôme (Biovallée between Dordogne and Provence) (2), Balagne, Cévennes, Alpilles.

The confinement was a time of meditation.

Many of us realized that we were drawing on our vital energy to follow a daily rhythm that no longer made sense.

We must not lose sight of it, ”

muses Guillaume Charroin.

Yoga and its core, meditation, are a pillar of the inner journey.

Practice the "sit spot"

The “sit spot”: sit in a landscape that we like for twenty minutes, without doing anything, and start over the next day.

Gilles Reboisson

You have to synchronize your breath with your steps. It's called Afghan walking, a new trend after Nordic walking, where you work your arms with sticks. The link with nature, with oneself, is also cultivated by remaining "calm and attentive like a frog", to use the title of the pretty best-selling meditation book for children by Eline Snel (Éditions Les Arènes). It is a question of practicing the “sit spot”: to sit in a landscape which pleases us during twenty minutes, without doing anything, and to start again the following day.

“Some may be annoyed, find the time long, others end up hearing noises. It is by repeating it that the link is created ”

, says Guillaume Charroin.

Massages, Ayurvedic cleansing rituals, workshops and conference complete the program, the last pillar of which is “the link with others”, woven of listening and benevolence.

Being an actor of your well-being within a group, by cutting your daily life to conquer yourself, this is the challenge of

Namastrip

(namastrip-retreats.com), a start-up launched by two travel fans and yoga, Séverine Bugeon, 34, and Marion Sibille, 31.

During the first confinement, their live retreat “Let go to live better at home”, at 35 €, was a hit.

She's still online.

“Previously, wellness tourism was essentially spas and thalasso.

We received, passive.

We propose to do our part of the journey towards our own transformation ”

, continues Séverine Bugeon.

At Namastrip, yoga is linked to surfing: through the search for balance, discipline helps to stand up.

And the “special back-to-school” stays are a hit.

But there are still a few places (3).

Everything is happening in France, while waiting to be sure to be able to recharge your batteries abroad without the obligatory fortnight, among other sources of anxiety.

"Staying zen, for me, it depends on the conditions of accessibility, depending on whether a Covid test of less than 72 hours or not is necessary"

, breathes in this direction Samy Bailly, head of the French market (50% of the clientele) from

Evaneos

(evaneos.fr), specialist in online tailor-made travel.

With his local agents, he tracks down the autumn destinations, including Madeira, Iceland, Morocco and Corsica are already selected.

In the same vein,

Zen & Go

(zenngo.fr), specialist outside our borders, offers to fly for yoga, qi gong or meditation stays in Montenegro, Greece or Italy (4).

Its new comprehensive insurance includes epidemic and pandemic guarantees,

"like the Covid-19, so that you can leave with peace of mind and insured before, during and after your trip"

.

Practicing the Afghan walk reveals the extraordinary power of breathing.

Gilles Reboisson

(1) With La Pensée sauvage, a Detox week in Menorca (Balearic Islands), between October 2 and 8, 2021: from € 2,800 per person in a double room.

Phone: 04 75 44 55 58.

(2) With Clairière & Canopée, one week in Drôme, from September 18 to 24, from € 790 in a shared room, up to 4 occupants.

Phone: 06 27 73 70 13.

3) With Namastrip, “Surf and Yoga stay in Biscarrosse”, from September 16 to 19, 2021, from € 590.

Phone: 01 84 60 62 50.

4) With Zen & Go, seven days wellness getaway and visits to Montenegro, from € 1,070, without the flight, for a departure on September 11 or October 9.

Phone: 09 80 32 90 42.

Source: lefigaro

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