Two mornings a week, surrounded by green
In the morning at Domaine Bonneblond, when the grass is still cool from the night, the sun rises. A moment when most tents are still zipped shut, a quiet time before most families wake up. This is where our yoga mats are waiting. Two mornings a week we offer vinyasa yoga here. Calm, accessible, created for beginners and for anyone who wants to reconnect with the basics. No rush, no performance. Just breath, movement and the gentle rhythm of the morning.
After the experience of the first season, it has become the restful and favourite moment of the holiday, a brief step out of family mode. If it rains, we move to the loft of the old barn. A wooden space where you can hear the drops on the roof, as if nature itself is setting the cadence of the breath.
Kundalini as you don’t see it on social media
Kundalini is about awakening your life energy through the seven chakras, described as wheels within the body. It is a practice that has spread around the world in recent years, but often in a form that has little to do with reality. “These videos are theatre,” our teacher in India said while drawing with chalk on a board. Online you see images of people shaking, hyperventilating or reacting dramatically, and that is far removed from the truth. Kundalini does not awaken in a single session. It can even take years. When the body moves, it is often a gentle wave through the spine. Nothing explosive, nothing like the images people share virally. Kundalini is powerful and a safe method. Breath that becomes more spacious. Energy that reveals itself gently, like light reappearing after a cloud.
Vritti, desh and kaal
Words we carry with us in every class we give here, helping you understand what you feel on the mat.
Vritti is the pattern or fluctuation of the mind. The waves of thoughts that keep returning, sometimes soft, sometimes like a storm.
Desh is the place. The earth beneath your feet. Bonneblond, in the green heart of France, where the landscape slows your breath without you even noticing.
Kaal is time. The moment in which you practise, free from schedules, free from obligations. Time that finally stretches again on holiday the way it was meant to.
They are simple words, but they colour the entire practice. They bring you back to yourself, back home.
Vinyasa in the morning sun
The vinyasa classes at Bonneblond have something intimate about them. Maybe because we practise in the middle of nature. Maybe because everyone who joins brings their own story. The air smells of grass, sometimes freshly cut, sometimes warmed by the sun. Or you feel the wooden floor of the loft beneath you when it rains, and hear the soft tapping of water running down the roof. Vinyasa here is not a workout. It is a ritual. A way to sink into your body, to find space in your chest, to begin the day more lightly.
Kundalini on request
The kundalini sessions are more personal. We tune them to who you are, how you breathe, what you need. The session begins with a focus on breath, mantras, and then a kriya. It is a powerful, deep practice. No theatre, no drama. Just you, your breath and the nature around you.
Why yoga on holiday feels different
Maybe because you walk differently here. Slower. Maybe because the air is lighter and the nights are darker. Maybe because the silence here is truly silent. Whatever it is: yoga on holiday works more deeply. You step off your mat with a clear mind, a warm body and the feeling that you have rediscovered something you sometimes lose at home.
The breath and ancient yogic wisdom
Not a calculation, but a philosophy. According to yogic tradition, someone who breathes fifteen times per minute can live to be a hundred years old. 15 breaths per minute, 60 minutes, 900 in an hour. 24 hours makes 21,600 breaths a day. It is not mathematics you need to take literally. It is a reminder that a calm life begins with a calm breath. That is why we practise abdominal breathing here. The breath the way a baby breathes. Soft. Undisturbed. Effortless.
Reserving a mat
Whether you come for vinyasa on the wooden deck or by the pool, or for a gentle kundalini session in the loft when the rain falls: you are welcome.
Just send us a short email or message. We will lay the mat out for you.
About Eva
Yoga found her at exactly the moment she needed it. During the covid period she was studying in Berlin, day in, day out in the same room, the same four walls, the same stagnant energy. Yoga brought light to a place that felt quiet and heavy. It became her breathing space.
In 2024 she completed her 200-hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training, certified by Yoga Alliance. After her first high season in 2025, she travelled to Rishikesh, at the foot of the Himalayas, the place where yoga originates. Between the mountains and the rhythm of nature, she deepened her practice with a 300-hour Kundalini training, 50-hour Yin Yoga training and Reiki.
