Our Story
Pure Heart Wellness is a nurturing space dedicated to helping women find their sparkle, reignite their joy for life, and experience the fabulous adventure of living their way.
Meet Maria Hayes
We're all on different journeys with a myriad of life experiences behind us. Still, sometimes we end up feeling hollow inside, like we're lost or wandering through a maze, wondering what happened to bring us to this point.
My name is Maria Hayes, and I'm a qualified yogi and lover of healthy food and living. I'm passionate about helping women live a fulfilled, intentional, and fun life. My Pure Heart Wellness programs and French Wellness Retreats do exactly that!
After working with me in my programs or coming on my 'Escape the Everyday' French Wellness Retreat, you'll feel like a new woman. You'll be focused, remember who you are, and will learn how to gently tread your own path – with intention and joy.
In my previous life, I worked hard in the corporate world, racing through each day, ticking things off my to-do list, and feeling stressed and disconnected from myself and the world. I was simply going through the motions without considering what I wanted for myself or my life.
Everyone kept telling me how lucky I was to have had so many 'great jobs', but they didn't know how empty these 'jobs' made me feel. They didn't understand the emotional cost of dedicating my life to those jobs.
I lost myself and was living a life completely opposite to my dreams and plans.
It was a shock to realise how far removed I had become from the person I once was.
2009 was the year I truly began my yoga journey…
I had moved between yoga classes for most of my adult life. However, at a time when my heart was yearning for deep change and I needed inner strength to get through the challenges in my life, I discovered a Radiant Light yoga teacher - and my life completely changed.
I completed the Radiant Light 12-month yoga training in 2009 and became a qualified yogi helping women through my yoga practice.
Then, in 2015, I realised I needed to make further changes and take total charge of my life.
How did I find my joy?
I was still living the corporate lifestyle, felt tired, worn out, and had lost my joy. Surely there was more to life? I needed to figure out my purpose. I needed to move away from wasting my life, living it for others, and doing mindless activities.
So, I bought a return ticket to Paris, two nights' accommodation and started what was meant to be a three-week French adventure.
Three months later, I owned a 300-year-old French farmhouse, quit my corporate job, and started the life I had dreamed of since I was 16 years old!
Yoga and France transformed my life.
It wasn't easy. But positive change often isn't.
After determination and doing the hard work, I now live a life I love. Every day instead of waking up exhausted, lost, and disillusioned, I have the energy and joy to live in a meaningful and positive way - intentionally.
I like to call my change of direction a 'pirouette'.
Isn't that a gorgeous image? A grown woman, laughing comfortably with joy, a sparkle in her eyes, and a dance in her steps.
Now, I call the beautiful village of Beugnon-Thireuil home. I've realised my dream of living in France while running Pure Heart Wellness from my 18th Century French Farmhouse as I teach others the tools to dance their own pirouette.
our wellness retreats are unlike anything you will find anywhere else. They are a safe place for women searching for their own true path.
Find your sparkle, dance your pirouette, and live a life that's intentionally yours.
Ignite your dreams… And, light up your life!
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Would you like a clear vision of your values and how to make them an active part of your life?
Through our 28-Day Intentional Life Workshop, give your mind, body, and spirit a health check to ensure they are aligned with your life vision.
• 28 Daily Sessions
• Workbook
• Private Facebook tribe of amazing like-minded women
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Join us on our glorious 7 -Day French Wellness Retreat.
If you're truly ready to pirouette and live life to the full, this is the retreat for you!
Far from an ordinary" retreat from life", ours is a beautiful experience that ignites your passion for life with plenty of fun in the serene French countryside.
It's unlike any other retreat and provides endless possibilities to create exactly the life you want.
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Say au revoir to overwhelm and frustration with our FREE Self-Care Masterclass!
We provide guidance and tips to help you:
• Escape the everyday
• Find your purpose
• Learn how to pirouette onto your intentional life path
“Maria is an exceptional person. She moves easily and gently through life with warmth, humour, kindness, and generosity.
She always made me feel so welcome and comfortable, plus she has had me in stitches laughing at her many funny stories.
Going on the French Wellness Retreat was an authentic immersion experience into Maria's gorgeous French life, the local community, and their gentle pace of life. It was an incredibly personal life journey, and it felt like being embraced in a soft, warm hug.
Her Farmhouse is gloriously French and beautifully decorated.
Coming home, I felt joyous, empowered, and centred, and that my creativity had been sparked. It's an experience I thoroughly recommend to every woman wanting to redirect her life and live with purpose.”
— Nina Winterbourne, Australia
FREE Self-Care starter kit
Say au revoir to overwhelm and frustration with our Self-Care Masterclass.
‘5 Tips to Escape the Everyday, Find Your Purpose & Live an Intentional Life.’
We provide guidance and tips to help you:
• Escape the everyday
• Find your purpose
• Learn how to pirouette onto your intentional life path