Escape the Everyday
7-Day French Wellness Retreat
Re-discover You
Ignite Your Dreams and Light Up Your Life in France!
Do you need time away from your everyday life to clear your mind, breathe deeply, relax, and reconnect with yourself?
Your ‘Escape the Everyday’ 7-Day French Wellness Retreat is a French immersion that will transform your life and leave you breathless at the possibilities for a wonderful new life.
Your days are full but gentle and unhurried.
You’ll breathe in the beauty of France, French culture, food, and her people.
You’ll share in stories and laughter and have fun as we guide and teach you how to create a new, intentional life that will continue long after your return home.
Join us!
7-Day ‘Escape the Everyday’ French Wellness Retreat
Learn how to gently tread your own path – with intention and joy.
Heal your body, mind, and soul during seven days of curated activities designed to start you on your journey towards a balanced, meaningful, and fun life.
Your Host | Maria Hayes
Yoga and France transformed my life!
It wasn’t easy. But positive change often isn’t.
After a healthy dose of determination and 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.
My journey to France began when I needed to heal my body and soul. So, in 2015, I left my old corporate life behind to realise my dream. To live in France while running Pure Heart Wellness from my 18th Century French Farmhouse and teach others the tools to dance their own pirouette and live joyfully.
My wellness retreats are unlike anything you will find anywhere else. They are a safe place for women searching for their own true path.
Over the years, I’ve learned from other Retreat guests. They’ve given me hope, made me feel humble, shown me new ways of looking at life’s problems, and have shared their recipes and wonderful stories that have made me laugh until I cried happy tears.
I hope to give you the same experience.
Find your sparkle, dance your pirouette, and live a life that’s intentionally yours.
“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
The Itinerary
Escape for 7 days on an adventure of discovery
Live a French life of appreciation and pleasure while building the stepping stones to your intentional life.
We’ll work on your mindset, fears, self-limiting beliefs, and the old habits holding you back and keeping you stuck.
You’ll feel a little more French every day, taking care of how you dress and walk.
You’ll slow your pace to allow space and time to embrace the wonders around you.
Every day of the ‘Escape the Everyday’ French Wellness Retreat, you will enjoy delicious healthy food and a cleansing detox from your normal life.
You’ll escape your troubles and learn how to comfortably live a full life in the company of your family and friends while being yourself.
Your guide, Maria, is someone you can relate to.
She’s ready to help you embrace your uniqueness, accept your reason for being, and find self-confidence.
Are you ready to stop wandering aimlessly through life?
Here’s a taste of what to expect on the ‘Escape the Everyday’ French Wellness Retreat!
Day 1: Arrive in Paris
Maria greets you at your hotel accommodation to begin your ‘Escape the Everyday’ French Wellness Retreat.
Leaving behind any judgement and expectations, as you spend the first few days leaning into “letting go”. This transition stage of the retreat allows you space to settle, relax, release and enjoy the first phase of our retreat - daydreaming.
One of the best places to do this …. in the City of Light … Paris
Day 2: joie de vivre in Paris
Paris adventures today with special plans afoot to make your day memorable. Beginning with spa treatments, gastronomic delicacies, picnic lunch in Luxembourg Gardens, a walking tour and lingerie fitting to remind you of how wonderful life is when we allow ourselves time to have fun.
Day 3: Bonjour Beugnon-Thireuil
Arrive at Maria’s gorgeous 18th Century French Farmhouse.
You will be delighted when your eyes behold the old stone building, cathedral ceilings, wide timber floors, ancient fireplaces, and exquisite French collections blending old with new in a gorgeously creative way.
You will feel immediately transported to a time of charm, warmth, safety, and village life.
Our focus today is on reconnecting with yourself and your intuition.
Day 4: Vision Journal
Journal writing can act as a channel to our self-reflection as well as fostering awareness of our emotional well-being and helps to improve problem-solving skills. Some like to use it as a goal setting tool, to track personal growth and capture precious memories.
The process of putting thoughts into words can lead to increased clarity making it a powerful and accessible form of self help to reduce stress.
Taking your journaling to the next level and adding visual prompts allows us to amplify the benefits by engaging multiple senses. Visual cues make the journaling process more vivid and compelling, contributing to a richer holistic experience.
Our Vision Journal is looking forward, from this day on, how it can aid us as a tool to build on finding our purpose to live intentionally.
Day 5: COULON THE GREEN VENICE OF FRANCE
Slow down on magical boat ride in a peaceful haven steeped in fairy-tales and legends, a wonderful place for daydreaming. Secret canals lined with duckweed, rows of ash, willows and poplars give it a unique charm
A time to reflect, mediate and journal as you glide along the canals and breath in the calm and beauty of this magical space.
Day 6: Local delights and paths of the past
Today is another wonderful day of exploration into the history of life in this region, where you tread the same stone paths of discovery as pilgrims through the ancient village of Parthenay. Embrace on your own mini pilgrimage and wonder at the resilience of those in past eras.
You will enjoy yoga and meditation, time to work on your Vision Journals and an afternoon of pre-booked massages, facials, pedi/manicures or dig into your special gift bag for some lovely products to pamper yourself.
Day 6 : Chateau Dinner Experience
Tonight is a delectable Chateau Dining Experience. Dress to impress!
Day 7: Your new life begins!
Your final meditation and yoga flow starts your day and will draw on all you’ve learned and experienced over the past 7 days.
A delicious farewell brunch before you depart, eager to embrace life, full of passion and purpose!
