Pyrenees Mountains stillness holidays, retreats and sabbatical leaves.
A quiet place for stillness retreat, rediscovering
your real best self, walking, hiking, reflection, life
review and sabbatical leave.
Experiencing the calm and natural beauty of the Pyrenees Mountains.
Walking holidays, break, sabbatical or time-out staying in a simple old Pyrenees
farm house,
Contemplative and enjoying nature made to measure trekking and hiking French and Spanish Pyrenees:
Mountain Retreats
Guide service.
, 4 weeks of slowing
down, retreat as an hermit, experiencing wild natural beauty and
stillness, rediscovering the healing power of innate natural
meditation and what disembarrassed from any ideology 'awakening'
really is.
in the Pyrenees mountains
Experiencing the Pyrenees mountains.
Walking holidays and stays in our 1794 former Pyrenees farm
house.
A simple shared guest house about 200m from the village of Arquizat.
Open all year long. Room for a few (3) guests. Minimum stay 6 overnights. Shared self catering. Calm and
stillness in the midst of in the Ariege Pyrenees' Regional Nature
Park, South of Toulouse on the border with Andorra and Spain.
The Ariege county is a wildest and most
beautiful part of the Pyrenees : plenty of mountain lakes and
walkable peaks. Nature all around, footpaths, hundreds of marked trails from easy to
more difficult, 1, 2, 3 our more hours to a days walks in our
valley and the valleys and mountains around.
All you need for a resourcing mountain walking holidays,
contemplating and enjoying nature, stillness and mountain views.
A nice, simple, rustic place for your life review
retreat, yearly retreats, a break, a
longer time-out or your sabbatical leave.
Pyrenees house a place to stay, reflect, read or write. You
get a simple room with mountain view, a bed, a table, a chair, a
cupboard, an armchair, nature all
around and stillness.
More on walking holidays, staying
and simple living in the
Pyrenees Mountains.
Made to measure hikes and treks, personalized private
guide
service
Private hikes and treks (minimum 6 overnights) high
up in the wild mountains, off the beaten paths are possible
between half of June to end of September. = After and
before snow.
Resourcing real
Although you probably won't meet Pyrenean brown bears, wolves or
lynx, there still are some but they're very shy. More probably you
may observe chamois, ibex, vultures and eagles, encounter half wild
horses, meeting goats or sheep, ... .
Experiencing adventure, awe,
outstanding natural beauty and stillness along unpublished or
unknown high level route paths (HRP) and trails.
Rambling
up into the high mountains along high hidden and forgotten paths,
enjoying wildlife, landscape, flowers and encounter.
More on
these private made to measure simple living hikes and treks.
Intensive hiking mountain retreat
rediscovering stillness and it's innate
healing processes.
4 weeks intensive. A self guided retreat into solitude to
rediscover your innate natural meditation and life review processes. Only for
you if spirituality, developing and integrating your
body-awareness, reliability, empathy, commitment, sense of justice
and love are central to your way of life.
'No guru, no
mysticism'
hiking, fasting and
meditation retreat.
Experiencing the healing power of slowing down and simple living the
closest possible to nature. Rediscovering stillness, contemplation,
hiking, camping in the wild and the Pyrenees mountains, just being.
Resourcing holidays for body and soul. Stillness, contemplation,
awareness and your own critical reflection of how you live. Hiking and exploring the Pica d'Estats massif, rediscovering
your deeper self.
More about hiking mountain retreats.
Sabbatical
leaves and longer stays for reflection, study, writing, ...
If you're looking for a place for your sabbatical leave, if you appreciate stillness, simple living and the quietness of nature near a small mountain village, why not consider Le Castel? Here's a simple room waiting for you: just a bed, a table, a chair, an armchair and a wardrobe. We're living in stillness, there's no radio or television, wifi is available but why wouldn't you include some internet-fasting?
Costs for nourishment and beverages are shared. We are veggie lovers, eat dairy and fish however no meat. Only supper is taken together. You can have breakfast and lunch as is convenient to you for a longer sleep, going for day strolls or an hike. Each of us helps in washing dishes, basic house and garden keeping.
You may find more information on our walking holidays page or just contact Richard to stay here for a week or two to hum the atmosphere.
Joining
in our stillness, tranquility and adventurous hikes is intentionally affordable :
What we pay is a membership fee: 450, 500, 550, 600, 650, 700, 750 or more € according to our revenues, fortune and how important having a shared mountain retreat in the Pyrenees is to us.
A membership fee because we want you to take part in community living : we prepare meals together or alternately (costs are shared), all of us participate in keeping house and garden clean, peaceful and quiet.
Pyrenees House is an affordable place offering the Pyrenees, stillness and tranquility.
Time for your yearly life review, walking, hiking, discovering and exploring the Pyrenees mountains respecting nature and wildlife, retreat, turning inward, reflect, read, write, relaxing and taking it easy.
If you wish, there is opportunity for guided walks, hikes or counseling or spiritual direction.
Richard, our resident, used to combine training existential therapists, doing some summer work as a licensed Mountain Leader and teaching phenomenology. He's an experienced counselor (soft Gestalt, client centered and focusing oriented).
More information ? joining
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