8 Day Yoga and Meditation Retreat and Energy Healing Course in Occitania, France
France Yoga Retreat and Energy Healing Course
This week's program of the Energy Healing Course consists of 12 sessions of 2 to 4 hours. You start the days with yoga and meditation, followed by theory and practical sessions in energy healing work, alternating with free afternoons and evening sessions with another meditation and healing session, in a rhythm that befits the season. All afternoons are free to relax and enjoy the beautiful nature at and around La Borde Blanque!
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Highlights
- 4-module course
- Daily yoga and meditation
- Energy healing course acknowledged by INEH
- 3 delicious vegetarian meals daily
- Coffee and tea breaks, snacks
- 7 nights accommodation
Accommodation
Facilities
- Dining area
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Terrace
- Yoga studio
- Free parking
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet access
- Library
La Borde Blanque is a spacious and charming country house. It offers various opportunities to be together as well as to draw for some private space, both indoors and outdoors. As a guest, you are welcome to enjoy the whole house and garden, including:
- 8 large beds, which can accommodate up to 15 guests
- A spacious living room with an open fireplace and connected to an open terrace
- An adjoining library
- A spacious dining room connected to a large covert terrace
La Grande Salle
La Grande Salle is your yoga and meditation studio for your retailers and training. It is characterized by its natural stone walls, high wooden ceilings, large windows, a lovely view over the surrounding country, and adjoining balconies. It is 130 meters square and is fitted with central heating and 2 bathrooms.
Kitchen
There is a spacious kitchen where the cook prepares delicious vegetarian meals for the guests. They consciously choose the groceries, loving to support the local and organic farmers in the region and following the seasons as much as possible.
Lac de Montbel
The garden surrounding the house and La Grande Salle has big shady trees and a wide lawn, leading to the lake 'Lac de Montbel'. La Borde Blanque has a private lakeside area with comfortable grass and is surrounded by trees, offering complete privacy. The water is clean and pure and delightful to swim in.
Program
Overview
This beautiful retreat is a true treat for body, mind, and soul! It is an enriching combination of a yoga and meditation retreat in the beautiful natural environment of La Borde Blanque and the international Energy Healing Course (acknowledged by the International Network for Energy Healing (INEH)).
Healing from the Soul
This international two-year course, in Esoteric Healing, is based upon the principles of health and disease, as described in the books of Alice Bailey. The Energy Healing course is given according to the directions of the INEH: International Network of Esoteric Healing. At the completion of the course, the graduate receives a certificate of the INEH.
Program
At La Borde Blanque, they offer these four modules in the form of week retreats, combined with yoga and meditation training. A beautiful blend of balancing your body with yoga, balancing your mind with meditation, and learning how to align with your soul to work with energy for the benefit of the whole, including yourself as well as others.
This week's program of the Energy Healing Course consists of 12 sessions of 2 to 4 hours. You start the days with yoga and meditation, followed by theory and practical sessions in energy healing work, alternating with free afternoons and evening sessions with another meditation and healing session, in a rhythm that befits the season. All afternoons are free to relax and enjoy the beautiful nature at and around La Borde Blanque!
Daily Schedule
- 08:00 Herbal tea and fruit ready
- 08:30 Yoga asana
- 09:30 Meditation
- 10:00 Breakfast in silence
- 10:30 Energy Healing Course Theory and Practice
- 13:00 Lunch
- Afternoon free
- 18:00 Dinner
- 19:30 Meditation
- 20:00 Energy Healing Course Theory and Practice
- 21:30 Closing
Wednesday evening is a free evening.
Purpose of the Course
A healer develops from within and by education and training one may qualify. The main aim of the course is a growing awareness, development of intuition, inner alignment, and the ability to use these skills for the sake of physical and mental health in its broadest sense. This may apply to one’s own health, other people’s health, and the health within an organization, or society. ‘Healing’ literally means ’to become whole'. This may apply to many areas in work or life. A graduate of the course is able to work as a healer and will be able to apply his or her skills according to their own insight.
What is Energy Healing?
Their Energy Healing method was originally called: Esoteric Healing. This comprises working with subtle energy to enhance healing from within. This implies healing from the soul. The underlying philosophy is the view that we are more than our body and psyche. Everything is energy. Each human being and each living being has an energetic body, which encompasses and penetrates the physical body. This energy body, or energy field, exists in more dimensions, like the emotional-, mental-, intuitive-, and soul body. The energy field functions as a blueprint for the physical body. Disturbances in this energy field, in whatever dimension, may lead to physical complaints and illness or to psychological problems.
Method in Esoteric Healing
In Esoteric Healing, the therapist will try and restore the balance in energy on the more subtle levels, so healing can take place. This is done through meditation. It is not necessary to have physical contact with the client. The therapist guides the energy from the inner core of the client through the several centers and paths of energy to the damaged parts in the energetic field. This way the self-healing ability of the client is coaxed back into action.
This method is a creative process implying personal development, which is central in the course.
Integral health care
Esoteric Healing is a worthwhile therapy, not instead of, but complementary to regular medicine. Esoteric Healing concentrates on discovering the causes of disease, by which symptoms are reduced and possibly disappear. In their view co-operation between complementary medicine and regular health care is in the interest of mankind.
Curriculum
The course is built on 3 components:
- Meditation-training, to develop awareness and intuition and to learn to be able to work from inner alignment
- Theoretical lectures, esoteric perspectives on a variety of topics in relation to personal and spiritual growth, and aspects of health and disease, life and death
- Practical sessions, to study methods and techniques of balancing subtle energies and energy channels and centers in different dimensions
Topics:
- Meditation
- Development of intuition
- Personality work: awareness and handling of one's thoughts, emotions, and blockages
- Aspects of disease and health
- Rules and laws of Esoteric Healing
- Ethical aspects of healing
- Introduction to Esoteric Psychology
- Constitution of the human being within the cosmos
- Birth and death
- Listening skills and counseling
- Dealing with clients
- Sensitivity and Diagnostics
- Learn to manipulate energy
- Introduction to anatomy and physiology
- The subtle bodies: structure, function, and mechanisms
- Practical exercises with the balancing of the chakras
- The energetic field and the chakras
- Scientific research in the energetic field
Instructors
Elleke Van Kraalingen
Elleke's journey in yoga and meditation began when she was a child. In her early teenage years, she spontaneously started to meditate, following an inner guideline and set off on the path of yoga. Yoga and meditation became a way of life. For more than 35 years now she has been teaching the ancient form of Raja Yoga with love and passion and for 25 years she has been training yoga teachers. In your daily life at La Borde Blanque lies an invitation and challenge to practice the yoga way of life, each day, every minute.
Pieter Hiemstra
Originally he is a physiotherapist. In his practice, he came across the borders of what physiotherapy can offer. In search of wider horizons, he specialized in manual therapy and chiropraxy but soon he met new limitations. In 1997, he came in touch with esoteric healing. Within this field, he still experiences inner growth, through which the possibilities of treatment reach beyond borders. He completed the teacher training in esoteric healing. For more than 10 years, he has trained people who intend to help themselves and others to find an inner balance through esoteric healing.
Location
La Borde Blanque is an authentic French country farmhouse. It is located on the crest of a hill with a magnificent view over the surrounding country. It has a private lakeside beach on the beautiful Lac de Montbel, with clear and clean water to swim.
The 12-acre estate in the foothills of the Pyrenees is defined on one side by the natural boundary of the river Hers and on the others by the lake and the neighboring forest. Old pilgrim routes through the varied landscape offer many opportunities for hiking.
At La Borde Blanque, they like to live in an ecological and sustainable way. On the property, there is a natural spring, from which they receive their mineral water, and their solar panels provide almost all the energy.
Food
3 delicious vegetarian meals per day and coffee and tea breaks and snacks are included.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
What's included
- 7 nights accommodation
- 3 delicious vegetarian meals per day
- Coffee and tea breaks and snacks
- Daily yoga and meditation sessions
- Energy healing course
What's not included
- Flights
- Airport transfers
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Barcelona–El Prat Airport
185 km
Transfer not provided
Girona–Costa Brava Airport
133 km
Transfer not provided
Toulouse–Blagnac Airport
90 km
Transfer not provided
Carcassonne Airport
38 km
Transfer not provided
Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport (Fréjorgues Airport)
174 km
Transfer not provided
Béziers Cap d'Agde Airport
118 km
Transfer not provided
Driving directions from Toulouse
- From Toulouse you can follow the A61 and A66 to Pamiers (Direction Foix, Andorre)
- Turn to Mirepoix
- At the second roundabout in Mirepoix, you turn right to Lavelanet
- In Aigue Vives, you turn left to Leran
- In Leran, you turn right to Montbel
- When you follow this road, you can turn right to St Colombe
- At this point, you can see the sign and turn onto the entrance road to Borde Blanque
Arrival by airplane
Please arrange your flight to arrive at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport (TLS), Barcelona–El Prat Airport (BCN), Girona–Costa Brava Airport (GRO), Carcassonne Airport (CCF), Montpellier–Méditerranée Airport (Fréjorgues Airport) (MPL), or Béziers Cap d'Agde Airport (BZR).
On request La Borde Blanque tries to connect participants who travel through the same route and times in order to share the transfer time and travel costs. Alternatives of shared transport:
- Shared transport with private car: Some of the participants come with their own car and are willing to pick up others
- Shared transport with a rental car: Some participants like to rent a car and are willing to share their rides with others
- Shared taxi: When La Borde Blanque cannot make a match with participants with private or rental cars, they can order a taxi for you, which can be shared by more participants
Arrival by bus
International busses like Eurolines and Flixbux can take you to Toulouse Matabiau, the central train station of Toulouse. From there to La Borde Blanque, you can continue by train or taxi.
GPS
42°57'38.9"N 1°58'51.2"E, 42.9608, 1.9809
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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