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Weave Provence Into Your Retreat

These facilitators and experiences grow from the land around Le Mas Méjean, our family home in Saint Rémy de Provence. Each one is someone we know and trust, chosen for the care they bring and the way they listen to this place. Together, they let your retreat draw directly from the light, the hills and the quiet wisdom of the Alpilles.

Camilla Di Maiolo

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Camilla Di Maiolo

Hatha Yoga and Ayurveda

Born into a family with both Indian and English roots, Camilla discovered yoga in her twenties, a discovery that quietly reshaped the course of her life. She deepened her practice while living in Japan, then trained in the traditional Sivananda Vedanta lineage in Madurai, India. For nearly twenty years, she has been sharing yoga in Provence, carrying that lineage into the light and rhythm of this land, and bringing the wisdom of Ayurveda quietly into every class.

Her morning sessions are rooted in traditional Hatha Yoga, a gentle invitation to awaken the body, calm the mind and return to the breath. Through mindful movement, conscious breathing and moments of stillness, participants begin each day grounded, refreshed and open. Suitable for all levels.

Virgilia Roux

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Virgilia Roux

Naturopath, tailored massage

Virgilia trained at École Aesculape in Meyreuil, one of France's most established naturopathy schools, and spent close to a year studying massage traditions in Marie Galante, in the Antilles. Her work moves between ancestral knowledge and contemporary technique, drawing on manual drainage, energy work and a close attentiveness to tension and ease.

Each session is shaped by what the body is asking for that day, never a menu decided in advance: Massage Holistique to calm the mind and welcome emotion with gentleness, Massage Détox through manual lymphatic drainage, Ko Bi Do to release the tension held in the face. Virgilia listens to your body the way the land listens to weather, closely, without hurry.

Julie Erk

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Julie Erk

Private chef, Barigoule Kitchen

Julie is a private chef in Saint Rémy, cooking as Barigoule Kitchen. First trained in art history, she opened a Provençal bistro in New York, then a café in Barcelona, before returning to the Alpilles like coming home. For the group, she cooks lunch and dinner, generous, colourful plates dressed with wild flowers, garden herbs or olive branches picked nearby.

Her cooking follows the seasons, artichokes and courgette flowers in summer, Jerusalem artichokes and squash in winter, a Provence enriched by her travels. Meals are shared around one table, the way they are in a family home, and the curious are welcome in the kitchen, where she happily shares her produce and her recipes.

Nora Jaccaud

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Nora Jaccaud

Memory Guardian, retreat photographer

Nora captures the essence of a retreat through images, with a presence so discreet that participants stay immersed in their journey without ever feeling observed. Before retreats, she created Human Postcards, one minute portraits of more than 400 people around the world, and learned there how to create trust in any setting.

She has since been Memory Guardian for some 25 retreats across Tuscany, Costa Rica, Mexico, Portugal, Ibiza and Morocco. Her images become a lasting memory for participants, and authentic material for the retreat leader. She speaks French, English, Spanish and Polish.

Agathe Lazaro seated in the garden of Le Mas Méjean among the cypress trees, Saint Rémy de Provence, retreat curator

Curated by Agathe

Beyond the Mas, outings chosen for your group

Around Le Mas Méjean, Provence offers far more than any list could hold. So rather than a catalogue, I offer what years of hosting have taught me: to listen first. I take the time to understand your retreat, its intention, its rhythm and the people you are bringing, then I suggest the encounters and outings that will deepen it, and arrange them with people I know personally.

A few of the experiences we can weave in:

A private encounter with Alexis, dowser and medium, for karma cleansing and the release of ancestral lineage
Walks in the Alpilles, gathering native plants along the paths
Visits to sacred sites of the Divine Feminine
Tasting the land, seasonal fruits and vegetables, local wines and olive oils

Each proposal is shaped for your group, never taken from a menu.

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