7 Day Detox Retreat in Mouzay, France with Fasting, Yoga, and Sound Healing
Detox Retreat in France
How about taking care of yourself and taking a real break? GoWild is the meeting of several passions: fasting, nutrition, well-being, and solidarity. Depending on the week, the fasting stays will have particular themes, which you can choose according to your desires and tastes.
Instructions will be offered in English and / or French.
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Highlights
- Sugar detox: Understand everything about daily sugar addiction and how to get rid of it
- Art therapy: Recharge your batteries by fasting while practicing art therapy sessions
- Keys to nutrition: Understand the keys to a balanced, rich, and lively nutrition
- Yoga sessions
- Sound healing (except on weekends)
- Hiking (10 km per day) or nutrition and cooking classes
- 1 workshop on nutrition and sugar detox
- 6 nights accommodation
Skill level
- Beginner
Accommodation
Facilities
- Swimming pool (outdoor)
- Table tennis
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Meditation garden
- Multilingual staff
- Picnic area
- Terrace
- Free bicycle
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Parking lot
- Wireless internet
You will stay at La Varenne in Mouzay, France. It is a completely renovated 18th-century farmhouse, offering absolute comfort, both inside and out. Nestled in a wooded park of five hectares, it welcomes you in an idyllic setting in the heart of the Loire Valley.
The cottages have been carefully designed and meticulously renovated, offering an enchanting setting in the heart of lush vegetation. In season, this environment will give you a feeling of comfort, tranquility, relaxation, and escape.
The swimming pool, covered and heated to a pleasant temperature of 30°C throughout the year, will allow you to swim in the middle of a green setting, regardless of the external weather conditions. This destination offers an exceptional setting for exploring the region and enjoying its cultural and natural treasures.
Program
What does a Buchinger-type fasting session look like?
Fasting consists of stopping all food intake, with or without water. It depends on the schools. At the physiological level, fasting begins from the 12th hour without food.
There are two main types of fasting: dry fasting and water fasting. There are several methods and varying durations for practicing fasting. At GoWild, they offer the Buchinger fast.
The Buchinger fasting method was devised by the German physician Otto Buchinger (1878-1966). During the fast, you'll take fruit and vegetable juices, herbal teas, filtered water, and broth, which provide minerals and vitamins. Herbal teas will also be used to stimulate the emunctories (organs that will release toxins from your body and clean it thoroughly during the six days).
Jeuner Chez GoWild offers gentle exercise, hikes, discussion workshops, themed weeks (sugar detox, anti-wrinkle, nutrition, art therapy, etc.). In short, you'll have a unique moment of letting go, deep cleansing, cell renewal, and rest.
Detox cure
The detox cure is not a diet. It is a support and / or a complement to a varied and balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle. Its purpose is to help the body eliminate toxins in order to help it "function" better.
During this type of treatment, it is recommended to consume fruits, vegetables, and plants that provide vitamins, minerals, and trace elements that promote the elimination of toxins.
Plant nutrition treatment
The goal of this week is to boost your fitness and help you get back on track, with reinforced nutritional knowledge. It is a journey to discover a diet that allows you to nourish your body while preserving the planet. Living food is based on the consumption of fruits, vegetables, oilseeds, seeds, and algae. This will be in raw form or in juice, mixed, sprouted, lactofermented, or dehydrated.
Who is it for?
- Anyone in good health who wants to take a real break and regenerate their cells to give their body a boost
How does a week go?
Depending on the week, the fasting cures will have specific themes, which you can choose according to your desires and tastes:
- Sugar detox: Understand everything about daily sugar addiction and how to get rid of it.
- Art therapy: Recharge your batteries by fasting, while practicing art therapy sessions to recharge your body and mind.
- Keys to nutrition: Understand the keys to a balanced, rich, and lively nutrition, in order to start off on the best possible foundation after a six-day fast.
Whatever the chosen theme, the structure of the days and the principles of fasting will remain the same.
The days will start with yoga sessions, a vegetable juice, and a gentle hike, followed by resting and massages as well as workshops on health-related themes.
Please note that Jeuner Chez GoWild will only suggest. You will be free to come to all activities or none; it's your time!
For all stays, yoga workshops on request and / or massages to relax as much as possible will be offered (not included in the price of the stay). Finally, there will also be a possibility of daily walks by the sea or in the forest.
GoWild
After dedicating 15 years of their life to humanitarian work in the field, Jeuner Chez GoWild made the decision to return to France and change careers to devote themself to their second passion: fasting. However, they could not completely detach themself from my first passion.
This is how they founded GoWild, a social enterprise which, in addition to allowing them to pursue their passion for fasting, is also committed to donating 10% of its profits to a humanitarian project.
In “GoWild,” there is the notion of letting go, of returning to the primitive state, to the wild state - because people are genetically programmed to fast; the ancestors fasted between two hunts until the next prey.
One's body fat, which is sometimes hated, is nevertheless the sign of this capacity for survival, of this predisposition to lack. People are more prepared to miss than to overconsume.
A typical day
- 09:00 Wake up slowly
- 09:15 - 09:45 Yoga, bodily awakening
- 09:45 Juice / mono-diet
- 10:00 - 13:30 Hiking
- 13:30 - 18:00 Personal time / rest / massage
- 18:00 - 20:30 Broth and workshops / practices / surprise guest / thematic talks
Included excursions
Hiking in the great outdoors naturally creates movement in all your fluids. Waste products stored in the body are more easily mobilized and eliminated.
Physical activity during fasting will stimulate your kidneys, heart, lung, and skin activity, as well as your elimination and regeneration systems. It will also improve your deacidification capacity and prevent muscle wasting due to immobility. It also raises your body temperature, which is very important during fasting, as people are often colder during this period.
Last but not least, it will help you occupy the time of a fasting day and enable you to discover magnificent regions of France and beyond - a great way to combine business with pleasure.
Instructors
Lucie Chatagnon
After choosing to be a vegetarian for ecological reasons 15 years ago, Lucie began to ask herself serious questions about the impact of food on people's health. As a coordinator in the international solidarity sector, she has lived in the Middle East, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. In her travels, she has noticed (among other things) that few cultures eat three times a day, and none of these countries eat sweet foods in the morning. Little by little, she changed her eating habits. She definitely adopted intermittent fasting, then gradually eliminated sugar from her breakfasts.
Location
The retreat will take place in Mouzay, France. Enthusiasts will appreciate Europe's largest prehistory museum at the nearby Grand Pressigny. Renowned wineries in the area like Chinon, Bourgueil, and Vouvray will thrill your taste buds. There are also markets with goat's cheese, rillons, rillettes, seasonal vegetables, as well as typical, affordable restaurants that will satisfy your taste buds.
Food
During the fast, you'll take fruit and vegetable juices, herbal teas, filtered water, and broth, which provide minerals and vitamins. Herbal teas will also be used to stimulate the emunctories (organs that will release toxins from your body and clean it thoroughly during the six days).
The following meals are included:
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Tea
- Detox juices
Things to do (optional)
- Aromatherapy
- Naturopathy
- Coaching sessions
- Pilates
- Acupuncture
Spa treatments
- Access to Jacuzzi, saunas, etc. (included)
- Massage - Relax deeply and let yourself be pampered with soothing massages, a revitalizing experience to pamper yourself (not included)
What's included
- Yoga sessions
- Hiking in beautiful places - 10 km per day (if there will be no time for hiking during this week, you'll focus on nutrition and cooking classes)
- Sound healing
- 1 workshop on nutrition and sugar detox
- Workshops and talks
- Airport transfer from Tours
- Access to the heated pool
- 6 nights accommodation
- Fresh vegetable juice
- 24/ 7 support and coaching
- Professional team by your side
- VAT
What's not included
- Airfare
- Airport drop off
- Yoga workshops
- Massages
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Tours Val de Loire Airport
41 km
Transfer included
Charles de Gaulle Airport (Roissy Airport)
248 km
Transfer not provided
Orly Airport
214 km
Transfer not provided
Arrival by plane
Please book your flight to arrive at Tours Val de Loire Airport (TUF). Transfer from this airport is included in the price. You can first fly to Paris, then take a train to Tours, and then a bus to Loches.
Jeuner Chez GoWild can plan to get clients in Tours if they ask, and it is included in the price. Or, clients can arrive in Tours airport and they will go to get them for free.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 34% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 5 days before arrival.
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