8 Day Traditional Non-Dual Hatha Yoga Immersion in Beautiful Beaujolais, Saint-Just-d'Avray
2370 chemin de Longeval Domaine de Longeval 69870 Saint-Just-d'Avray, France
Intensive Yoga retreat in Beaujolais
This life-changing journey will purify you at the physical, psychological and mental levels. You will experience a beautiful transformation and savor in the joy of living with an open Heart. Over the course of eight days, you will participate in Hatha Yoga sessions, practice meditation, and purification techniques, while also immersing yourself in traditional spiritual principles and visions from classical yoga including the Non-Dual tradition of Advaita Vedanta.
You will also experience living in a community dedicated to living with an open heart and have the opportunity to participate in weekly events such as Bhajans (devotional singing).
Note: this yoga course is offered in three different parts - Week 1, Week 2 and Week 3 - with each week building upon the previous week's teachings. You can choose to participate in any one of the weeks but preferably you would do them in sequential order. If you are interested to book the whole 3-week module please see our different listing (22 days Traditional Non-Dual Hatha Yoga Immersion) where we offer a 30% discount on the tuition price.
Please see below under Programs for the week 1-3 dates.
Meet the instructors
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Highlights
- 2 daily Hatha yoga sessions
- Daily morning meditations practices (optional)
- Daily evening lecture series on fundamental yogic topics
- Extracurricular activities including movie nights, devotional singing
- 7 nights accommodation
- Daily vegan meals
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
6 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: French
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
14:00
Check-out Time:
10:00
Facilities
- Restaurant
- Yoga studio
Lodging at our center.
Program
This is a holistic course that creates the conditions for the revelation of your real nature, the spiritual heart. It is a life-changing journey in which important yoga topics are introduced in both a practical and theoretical way.
The practice of Hatha Yoga provides an intimate inner knowledge of the physical body, bio-energies, and chakras (energy centers), as well as of your ultimate nature. A contemplative attitude and an awareness of the Spiritual Heart is an important part of the practice.
In this immersive retreat, a typical day of practice includes:
- 1 hour of meditation (optional)
- 4 hours of Hatha Yoga practice (Asana and Pranayama)
- 2-hour lecture
- Mini-lectures on purification techniques and meditation practices
You will learn about:
- Hridaya Hatha Yoga principles and the stages of performing an asana
- Both the practice and the symbolic significance of asanas, yogic techniques, and warm-up exercises
- The yogic system of chakras
- Nadis (subtle energy channels), the subtle bodies, and the polarity of energy
- Ramana Maharshi‘s Self-Inquiry meditation
- The infinite power of the spiritual heart
- Yogic purification techniques
- Cultivating proper attitudes for a life lived from the heart
- Pranayama - the control of the energies through the breath
- Simple concentration and meditation techniques
Arrival and Orientation
Check-in is at 2 p.m. on the day of arrival. Please arrive in time to get settled into your accommodations prior to the orientation session that will begin at approximately 5 p.m. The course starts at 8 a.m. the next day. Check-out is at 10 a.m. on the date of departure.
Schedule
- 07:00 - 08:00 Meditation
- 08:15 - 09:00 Breakfast
- 10:00 - 12:30 Hatha yoga
- 12:30 - 13:15 Lunch
- 13:15 - 15:00 Free time
- 15:00 - 17:00 Hatha yoga
- 17:15 - 19:00 Lecture
- 19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
- 20:00 - 22:00 Free time or optional activities
Week 1 - 3: Dates for May to December 2021
Week 1:
- 23 - 30 May 2021
- 4 - 11 July 2021
- 15 - 22 August 2021
- 3 - 10 October 2021
- 14 - 21 November 2021
Week 2:
- 30 May - 6 June 2021
- 11 - 18 July 2021
- 22 - 29 August 2021
- 10 - 17 October 2021
- 21 - 28 November 2021
Week 3:
- 6 - 13 June 2021
- 18 - 25 July 2021
- 29 August - 5 September 2021
- 17 - 24 October 2021
- 28 November - 5 December 2021
Instructors
Antoaneta Gotea
Antoaneta Maria Gotea was born in July 1972, in Bucharest, Romania. The memories from her early age about her father practicing complicated physical exercises (known in yoga as uddiyana bandha) and unusual breathing (pranayama) synergistically connected with her mother’s teachings about the existence of subtle bodies and reincarnation and this blossomed later in a genuine spiritual aspiration. Her search for an authentic spiritual path led her at the age of 21 to a yoga course while she was a student at Politechnical University in Bucharest. She studied Raja Yoga and Mahavidya Yoga.
Sahajananda
Sahajananda, the main founder of Hridaya Yoga, is a meditation and hatha yoga teacher with over 30 years of experience. His message conveys the non-dual tantric teachings. An engineer in electronics by education, Sahajananda started practicing yoga and meditation in 1981, the year in which yoga was banned in Communist Romania. This fact only brought him more depth, determination, and spiritual aspiration. In 2012, Sahajananda was instrumental in creating the headquarters of Hridaya Yoga in Mazunte, Mexico. In 2018, the project expanded and Hridaya Yoga France was founded.
Gesine Leicht
Gesine found in the teachings of Hridaya a well of personal transformation and a fountain of freedom. Being a practitioner of Hridaya Meditation and Yoga since 2012, she has a deep love and appreciation developed for the teachings and the community. Since completing the teacher training in 2015, she has taught in both Hridaya centers and also brings the practice of contemplative yoga to different social projects. Sharing the Hridaya philosophy has become a joyful passion – seeking into the Heart of each moment a life purpose.
Valentina Cannavò
Valentina arrived at Hridaya Yoga Mexico in 2012 and fell in love with the encompassing vision and teachings of the Heart. She completed the HTTC in 2014, benefiting from the transmission of the teachings and presence of Sahajananda. Inspired by the depth of the Heart, Vale teaches Hatha Yoga classes, 3- and 10-Day Hridaya Silent Meditation Retreats, and yoga and meditation workshops in Europe, Asia, and America. Valentina regularly dedicates time to her personal practice with lengthy periods of solitude and dark room retreats.
Luna Cabasés Corral
Originally from Spain, Luna teaches with the certainty that life can be lived from the Heart, in full openness, and with a loving desire for all sentient beings to reveal their real nature, to come into the fullness of who they truly are. As she continues on the path, she welcomes the constant invitation to verify the certainty of the teachings through direct experience, emphasizing that the ultimate authority is the Heart. She continually finds the inspiration to live in a witnessing embrace of All That Is, in which a deeper Freedom and Naturalness arise spontaneously.
Retreat location
This Yoga Retreat is vegetarian-friendly
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Food
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
The following drinks are included:
- Water
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Organic
- Yogic
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- Daily meditation practices
- Daily Hatha yoga sessions
- Daily lectures
- Extracurricular activities including movie nights, Bhajans (devotional singing)
- Daily vegan meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- All meals from dinner on the day of arrival to breakfast on the day of departure
- 7 nights' accommodation
What's not included
- Airfare and airport transport
- Personal expenses
- Hot drinks
How to get there
Recommended Airports
LYS
Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport
55 km
Transfer not provided
Arrival by airplane
The cheapest option to reach Hridaya Yoga France from Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS) is to take the Lyon ExpressTram. It will take you to Lyon Part-Dieu station in 30 minutes. Lyon has two train stations, Lyon Part-Dieu, and Lyon Perrache. Both of them have connections to Chambost-Allières, a village near Longeval. In Lyon, buy a train or bus ticket to Chambost-Allières and get on a train. Hridaya Yoga France provides a pick-up service from the bus stop in Chambost-Allières (3 EUR).
Arrival by bus
- Big bus companies (Euroline, Megabus, etc.) link Lyon to Paris and other major European cities (Torino, Barcelona, Geneva, Zurich, Frankfurt, etc.).
- Buses usually arrive at Lyon Perrache or Lyon Part-Dieu train stations. From these stations, you can get a combination of train and bus to get to Domaine de Longeval
By bus / train from Lyon to Longeval
Lyon has two train stations, Lyon Part-Dieu and Lyon Perrache. Both of them have connections to Chambost-Allières, a village near Longeval.
- In Lyon, buy a train / bus ticket to Chambost-Allières and get on a train to Lozanne.
- Change from the train to a bus in Lozanne. The bus will be waiting for you at the train station and is included in your ticket.
- The bus will drop you off in the village of Chambost-Allières, about 3 kilometers away from Domaine de Longeval.
- You can buy your ticket in advance at trainline website
Walking from Chambost-Allières
- You can walk from Chambost-Allières to Longeval in about 35 minutes via local roads. However, if you decide to do this please be sure you have a good sense of direction.
- We offer a pick-up service for 3 EUR several times daily from the bus station in Chambost-Allières, coordinated with the TER bus schedule. You may request a pick-up by contacting us after your booking.
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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