5 days immersed in the nature of the French Pyrenees and their revealing force
Initiation into Sri Vidya
A retreat to turn down the noise and hear yourself again.
To return to the wisdom that flows through the land and within you.
These 5 days unite the mystical presence of the French Pyrenees with incredible practices from the Vedic tantric tradition, emotional and inner exploration, silence, ceremony. Guided by stories and traditions that speak of deep love and pure courage, like Mary Magdalene and the Cathars.
We find ourselves during special days devoted to the Mother in her form as liberating warrior, guiding us beyond sabotage, doubt and inner blocks toward courage, clarity and the momentum to fully play life.
A wonderful initiation into the discovery of the feminine force and Sri Vidya, the knowledge that illuminates.
An intimate space to explore, feel, reflect and express yourself authentically, beyond masks and conventions, and reclaim your creative power.
During the auspicious time of NavaratriThe nine nights of the Divine Mother
5 Days · Southern France
Join me for 4 nights · 5 daysExperience the thousand fragrances of your soul
A frenetic society pushes us to lose touch with the magic of life and with what vibrates deepest within us. So many parts of us fall silent to coexist with the world’s noise, and we take on voices that are not our own, forgetting our gifts and uniqueness, and relying on outside authorities for answers to inner questions.
In the midst of so much confusion, we don’t need another course or another piece of advice: we need breath, silence, earth, to come back to feeling through the body.
This journey is for those who want to find themselves again, love themselves and support themselves. For those crossing a threshold of change, who want to open to the new, follow their own truth and find the clarity and courage to do it. These places are its catalysts.
The pilgrimage is a rite of passage.
It marks the crossing between an old identity and a new one, with presence and ritual, to strengthen the spirit and receive what is needed to fully close what has been and begin walking with trust into the new.
A time made for you.
Supported by nature, by places full of magic and by integrated practices, you will reclaim your power. A mind free of stories that aren’t yours, a body that returns to feeling, you remember your own capacities and that inner alignment that lets you walk the uniqueness of your life with courage, prosperity and joy.
Every step brings us back to the heart, to peace in relationship with the whole. Every step gives more rootedness and grace to believe in ourselves, in the uniqueness of our path, and to see how much beauty our presence brings into the world.
Devi is the intelligence of life.
She is the force that creates, sustains, destroys, conceals and reveals.
When we open ourselves to Her, we open ourselves to the experience that life is alive. That it is intelligent, dynamic, and constantly moving through a thousand expressions of creation.
Life becomes something to have reverence for, rather than something to simply consume, control or figure out.
We begin to experience the fullness of each moment.
She is life, revealing itself.
This retreat is a doorway into the truths of tantra. Tantra is not a theory, nor a matter of relational intimacy with a partner: it is intimacy with life. It is a way of being in life with your whole self: body, emotions, desire, silence.
In these days we enter Sri Vidya through practice: mantra, breath, ritual, listening to the body. You will receive initiation into the Panchadashi, the 15-syllable mantra of the Goddess, and you will learn to practice it every day, even at home. The Panchadashi is considered the sonic body of the Divine Mother: repeating it awakens her presence and her qualities within you. It is an intimate journey of discovery.
We are going to walk through incredible places such as Saint-Antoine de Galamus, the Throne of Isis, Rennes-le-Château, Bugarach, Montségur and the Fontaine des Amours.
We will bathe in sacred, pristine water, walk mystic mountains and sit in the presence of ancient stones, immersed in the songs of the birds. We will commune with the memories and the wisdom of the land in all her expressions.
Daily practices. Kriya and integrated yoga journey combined with emotional and somatic work. We will work with what is alive in the moment to lovingly support our own process while we tune to subtler and subtler layers.
Initiation into Sri Vidya and the Devi path. Sādhana, satsang, ceremonies.
Initiation into the Panchadashi mantra from the Saundarya Lahari, to awaken the experience of the goddess from within.
Meditation, contemplation, storytelling, tea ceremony, Yagya (fire ceremony).
The vastness of the inner landscape. Silence and a phone-free experience.
Photography to show you how you look through the eyes of the mother.
One-on-one meeting with Allegra.
Devi, the divine mother, is this very life.
The Devi teachings are where being and doing coexist perfectly.
Devi teaches us that life has to be play, that you cannot turn away from life.
Only the one who is fulfilled is liberated.
For those seeking a space to feel through the body, bring clarity to the mind, and reclaim strength, self-trust and a sense of home within, walking their own path with full presence, truth and the courage to express themselves.
For those who are looking for a space to deepen their intimacy with life, clearing the noise of other opinions, find silence and so find their own clarity.
For those crossing a threshold, a passage between one chapter of life and the next. For those letting something go, ready to embody their freest expression, but seeking inner strength.
For those who feel the call of the Mother to restore the feminine in the myth of our culture, to remember how to live with authority, and to create a life in resonance with their inner knowing.
For those tired of knowing spirituality only through the mind and concepts, seeking a real, direct transmission and awakening from within.
For those carrying a question that ordinary words do not know how to hold.
For those ready to let the illusion of isolation cut away the story of the hero who comes and saves everything, ready to belong to something greater and take their unique place in the puzzle of collective life. Remember your calling and your place in the world.
For those seeking a community of people at heart, a place to move and express themselves in authenticity and naturalness.
For those who really want to dive into Tantra, Sri Vidya, and the path of the Goddess, not as a concept or something cool, but as a real dedication and devotion to a high state of consciousness, to the fellowship of men, and to embodying the future that we all dream of, where power comes down from its pedestal and love, the love that unites all of us, takes its place.
For those who just want a vacation or are looking for an external fix.
For those who want to see all the places on a fixed schedule and who do not align with a slow, alive pace, where the real pilgrimage is the one within.
For those who do not value the lineage, the practices, and the inner work of recalibration and harmonization.
You will go through a transformation, held and supported every step of the way. You will be guided to see the patterns at work within you, to understand them, transmute them and install a new program. You will learn to listen to your inner voice and attune to your intuition.
You will rediscover the joy of believing in yourself after years lived in the illusion of your own inadequacy. You will remember how to walk through life with stability and courage, looking ahead without fear, open to growing, expanding and discovering more and more. You will experience how to hold clarity and express your voice, your wisdom and your gifts.
You won’t take home only the memory of these states and sensations, but also practices, a structure and an integration protocol to keep nurturing this new love relationship with yourself: the courage to walk your own unique path, the capacity to feel and let yourself be guided from within, and to meet life with wonder, curiosity and intimacy. A love relationship with life, in which you stay in alignment instead of fighting, feeling lost, or pushing against a wall.
Your nervous system is tuned to a certain band of frequency.
Sādhana expands that band, revealing the goddess concealed in reality.
Revealing more and more of life.
The goddess is inseparable from places. Every place where we turn our loving attention reveals you, Ma.
To be devoted to the mother means to open ourselves to the view of life as a living, vibrant pulse of consciousness. Resonance, a force of intelligence. She is the force that powers everything.
Opening to her relaxes us deep inside, lets us embrace challenge and pain as the thorn of the rose.
To include the feminine principle means to unify spirit with body.
She is awake in all beings who see life as a beloved, in those who are not there to conquer life, a story, an identity, but to love life, to be devoted to life.
The bells ring to the void in space and time.
We sing back to life.
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An exquisite, magical, unique location. A sanctuary where the book of love ripples through her waters.
Les Contes: a guesthouse, chapel, and place of pilgrimage nestled in the wild beauty of the Occitan Pyrenees, beneath the sacred gaze of Montségur.
A sanctuary of living waters, belonging, and wonder. Les Contes sits within walking distance of some of the most remarkable places in Cathar country.
