5 Days Nature Painting and Meditation Retreat with Yoga in Corsica

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Join Destination Namaste on a visual journey within on the magical island of Corsica. On this retreat, you will learn to observe nature from a totally new perspective, as you refine your eye you’ll be able to represent it through different techniques such as pencil, water color and acrylics. Nature has been the most represented subject together with the human body since our first rituals and depictions on the walls of caverns. Paula believes that everyone has an artist inside, it’s just about loosing our fear, letting go and going with the flow.

Daily program

Wednesday

• 15:00 Welcome drinks and introductions
• Free your hands and mind drawing session - free time
• Dinner and opening circle
• Evening visualisation meditation

Thursday

• Morning herbal tea and snacks, yoga, and brunch
• An introduction to landscape painting (theory)
• A meditative nature walk
• Basic color theory and landscape painting
• Tea, coffee, and snacks
• Free time
• Dinner
• Evening meditation - landscape memory visualization

Friday

• 08:30 Light breakfast
• Nature walk, taking pictures, and doing sketches
• Lunch - painting session on canvas (of the landscape you visited in the morning)
• Dinner
• Evening visual meditation

Saturday

• 08:00 Morning herbal tea and snacks
• Yoga - brunch
• Painting session of a landscape in nature: bonifacio (weather permitting)
• Tea or coffee snack time
• Interior sketching exercise
• Aperitivo
• Dinner

Sunday

• Morning closing meditation session
• Herbal tea and snacks
• Final painting session (either finishing first or second canvas or interior sketch or painting)
• Closing brunch
• Presentation of each participant's paintings
• 14:00 Retreat closes

• Painting in nature
• Nature walks around the south of the island
• Beach walks

This retreat will take place in Porto-Vecchio, Corsica, France. Corsica nearest airport is Airport Figari. The beaches around Porto-Vecchio are simply stunning and count the world-famous Palombaggia and Santa Guilia amongst their number. All have pearly white sand and glittering turquoise sea, surrounded by lush countryside. With shallow waters, they are ideal for swimming.

In the heart of the Mediterranean, just south of Italy, lies the French island of Corsica (also known as “Kaliste” in Greek, meaning ‘the most beautiful). It is a wild and untouched jewel just over an hour’s flight from Paris. As global travelers, Destination Namaste can attest that there is something magical about this place that leaves visitors in awe of its raw and powerful beauty.

Corsica is a spectacular granite mountain in the sea, allowing for a vast variety of landscapes from the tip of its summit, to the edge of the sea. For nature lovers it is nirvana. With breathtaking landscapes, an abundance of natural rock formations, a multitude of hiking trails in the "maquis" (a type of fauna and flora which smells heavenly and of which many essential oils are made of and that can only be found in Corsica) it will enliven your senses.

It offers white sandy beaches where you can find solitude, and limitless time and space; a perfect place for yoga lessons, sacred hikes, stand up paddle boarding and more. A true hidden treasure that's a natural beauty where Destination Namaste would like to preserve and share with you in the most conscious and respectful way possible to travel. Join Destination Namaste for a once in a lifetime experience on an island well worth discovering.

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Savor yummy simple and delicious vegetarian meals with a touch of seasonal Corsican produce and love!

You will learn to observe nature from a totally new perspective, as you refine your eye you'll be able to represent it through different techniques such as pencil, watercolor, and acrylics. Nature has been the most represented subject together with the human body since the first rituals and depictions on the walls of caverns. Destination Namaste believes everyone has an artist inside, it’s just about losing your fear, letting go, and going with the flow.

• Transfers from Figari airport
• 4 nights accommodation
• All meals and beverages
• All activities and workshops in the retreat outline
• A art kit to get you started
• Transport to hikes around the island

• Flights to Corsica
• Travel and medical insurance during your stay, so please make sure you have this upon arrival

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 25% 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.