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4 Day Clay Weekend, Meditation, and Yoga Retreat in Overijse, Flemish Brabant
Sous Les Tilleuls, Langeweg 27, 3090 Overijse, Belgium
Belgium Yoga Retreat
Expert tip: This is one of the most popular yoga retreats offered in Belgium.
You can call it "retreat", "yoga retreat"; but in fact, what is that exactly? It is an exploration of your own potential within a secure space. It is a journey with like-minded people or total strangers that may become friends. It is stunning landscapes and reconnection to your instincts through nature and good food. It is an ode to dedication, discovery, silence, passion, and release. It is healing. Enjoy the process of making. Overcome the fear of change. Let go of your expectations!
Meet the instructors
Théo & Laura
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Highlights
- 2 daily yoga workshops
- Daily meditation sessions
- Daily pranayama sessions
- 1 clay workshop per day
- 3 nights accommodation
- Vegetarian meals (brunch, snack and dinner)
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
4 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: French
Group size: Maximum of 15 participants
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
09:30
Check-out Time:
18:00
The house
Imagine, around a large garden nourishing the eyes, the body, and the soul, different buildings named after trees, women, and men sharing their knowledge. Others in search of meaning and links who come to transform, discover, and experiment, Muriel, Didier, and their neighbors who offer all their talents to complete the well-being of your stay; here is a magnificent ecosystem in motion, an oasis, a cocoon.
The vocation of the place is to inspire other ways of being in a relationship with oneself, others, nature, and the world, to live on Earth differently, to dare to be a pioneer, to experiment with other skills and know-how, in joy, simplicity, sharing, gratitude, with eyes and heart wide open!
Two elegant and comfortable lounges with their bookcases filled with plenty of books on art, crafts, photography, permaculture, philosophy, and more invite you to pause, rest and reflect. The single and double rooms with shared baths are situated in the old part of the mansion.
The kitchen-veranda dining room, the garden, or the terraces will offer you the ideal ambiance to enjoy the finest homemade and vegetarian cuisine.
The garden
A long garden with an orchard, flowery field, vegetable garden, large greenhouse, and a natural swimming pool invites you to relax and leave everything behind. In the center of the four houses is the soul of the place; a nourishing Eden, a rejuvenating oasis, a protective, even healing cocoon.
For more than 100 years, behind a charming house sheltered by tall lime trees, this magnificent garden sloping gently towards the south and protected by a thick hawthorn hedge, inspired many visitors. At that time, eight long glass greenhouses housed a sun-sweetened table grape, a great tradition of the region. Numerous fruit trees and a vegetable garden ensured a certain degree of food autonomy.
The yoga and meditation room
A century-old house, "where everything is order, beauty, luxury, calm, and pleasure" as Charles Baudelaire wrote in his "Invitation Au Voyage". The yoga and meditation room is a large and bright room with wood paneling and parquet flooring will give you a wonderful space for internal and external exploration.
Program
Workshops
During this retreat, you will enjoy workshops that are:
- A symbiosis of the benefits of yoga and clay
- A fusion of two worlds, with calming, soothing, and healing properties
- An alliance of ancestral practices, to offer a means of reconnecting to your creative potential, to explore the intelligence of our bodies.
Clay
The aim of the daily clay workshops will be to find new ways of self-expression while discovering more about hand-building techniques, sculpture, and land art. You will work with different kinds of clay, only with your hands and very few tools. Every class will be given in an outside space or directly in the magnificent garden, to stimulate your imagination and to allow you to fully immerse yourself in nature.
Yoga
In the yoga classes, you will learn useful tools to ground yourself while preserving a sense of lightness and playfulness. Through strengthening and flexibility, you will cultivate deeper body awareness and learn to listen to the intelligence of your body.
Different styles of yoga such as Forrest yoga, Vinyasa flow, Hatha yoga, and Yin yoga are the base for healing sequences accessible for all levels that will help you to understand your body's needs.
A special focus on alignment and the therapeutic benefits of each pose will ameliorate your posture and help to prevent you from common pain like back and neck pain. Further to that, you will cultivate a daily meditation practice and you will learn breathing techniques to increase your concentration and to help release stress and tension.
Symbiosis of yoga and ceramic
The exploration of the symbiosis of yoga and ceramic began with a precise reflection of what these two ancient traditions mean to you. Through their own practice, by teaching and learning with and from their students, they have experienced the healing and grounding qualities of breath, movement, and contact with the material clay.
The aim of the retreat is to liberate your creative potential and reconnect to your senses through the exploration of yoga and clay. Breath is connection. Pranayama helps you to develop a deeper connection between your body and your mind. It promotes relaxation and mindfulness and supports somatic and emotional health.
Movement is life. Yoga allows exploring the different layers of your body, the physical, the mental, and the spiritual. In your daily yoga and meditation sessions, you will learn how to find a deeper sense of body awareness and discover the interrelation of motion and rest.
A therapeutical approach offers healing ways of practicing yoga and understanding the needs of the body. By building strength and flexibility, you will find an inner and outer balance to grow. Earth is grounding. The contact with clay is a direct connection to nature, it offers a grounding approach to yourselves and your surrounding.
It stimulates your haptic sensations, and your potential to focus, and teaches detachment from expectations. In the daily workshops, you will experience the purity of natural hand-dug clay and liberate your ability to create rather than produce. Nothing will be kept, liberate from the pressure of a final result.
Daily schedule
- 08:00 Meditation
- 08:30 Pranayama and yoga
- 10:30 Brunch
- 13:00 Clay workshop
- 16:00 Snacks
- 18:00 - 19:00 Yin, pranayama, and meditation
- 19:30 Dinner
Instructors
Théo Michel
Théo is a ceramist from the French Alps, based in Brussels. His exploration of ceramic began in a little pottery village in France where he learned the ancestral art of throwing on the wheel and got interested in wood firing. His path led him to Brussels to learn more about fre-arts as a blacksmith and to teach pottery classes at l'Atelier des Tropiques. His current interest is the material clay itself, as well as the exploration of textures, forms and shapes. Furthermore, he aims to find pure and real experience while working with clay and to research the benefits for the body and mind.
Laura Lenhardt
A singer-composer and yoga teacher based in Brussels; to find a complete way of expressing herself, she explores the interrelations between her passions of performance and creation. Through her work with her voice, presence, and movement, the importance of the body as the first instrument became evident and her work as a vocal and yoga teacher allowed her to cultivate deeper body awareness, groundedness, and self-refection. Since 2018, she has given workshops and masterclasses on the topic of "Yoga and Voice" and is working with like-minded artists and holistic educators in Europe and beyond.
Retreat location
The retreat will be held at Sous Les Tilleuls at Overijse, a magical, inspiring, and welcoming place that invites you to inhabit the earth as a poet.
This Yoga Retreat is vegetarian-friendly
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Food
You will enjoy two daily vegetarian meals (brunch and dinner) made with love and treasures of Muriel's garden.
The following meals are included:
- Brunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Organic
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
What's included
- 2 yoga classes daily
- 1 clay workshop daily
- Pranayama
- Meditation
- 3 nights accommodation
- All classes and workshops
- 2 meals daily and snacks
What's not included
- All travel expenses
- A yoga mat
- Sheets (85 x 200 centimeters)
- Personal expenses
- Towels
How to get there
Recommended Airports
BRU
Brussels Airport (Zaventem Airport)
17 km
Transfer not provided
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 100% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
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