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.
Retreats at Domaine Bonneblond
In 2026, we hosted our very first retreat at Domaine Bonneblond: Wild Heart Retreat. An intimate weekend with six women from Paris, Marseille and Lyon, filled with yoga, movement, breathwork, sound, wellness and long moments together around the table.
The collaboration began in a special way. Mia and Eva met in India, where they connected through their shared love of yoga, connection and creating space to step away from everyday life. One year later, that meeting continued at Bonneblond.
Mia brought her own vision and programme. We took care of everything around it: accommodation, meals, wellness, beautiful spaces for the sessions and all the practical details needed to help the group truly settle in for a few days.
It became a beautiful collaboration and, for us, immediate confirmation that Bonneblond naturally lends itself to retreats.
Mornings can begin with yoga on the back terrace, overlooking the vast French countryside. For smaller groups, there are intimate spaces near the wellness area at the edge of the forest, where the trees seem to curve around you and the birds almost become part of the session. When the weather is less favourable, the wooden loft of the old barn offers a warm indoor space for yoga, breathwork, sound healing or workshops.
That is why we also love opening Bonneblond to other yoga teachers, coaches and facilitators who want to organise their own retreat here.
You bring your programme, your vision and your group. We think along with you about everything around it: accommodation, meals, spaces for sessions, wellness and the practical organisation of your stay.
Whether you are dreaming of an intimate yoga retreat with a small group, a wellness weekend or a retreat combining coaching, movement and nature, we would love to explore how Bonneblond can support your programme.
Dreaming of organising your own retreat in France? Tell us what you have in mind. We would love to think along with you.
Read more about the Wild Heart Retreat. Or get in touch with us through our contact form.
What is Kundalini?
Kundalini is about awakening your life energy through the seven chakras, often described as energetic 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 the reality of the tradition.
“These videos are theatre,” our teacher in India said while drawing on a blackboard with chalk.
Online, you often see people shaking, hyperventilating or reacting dramatically, but this is far removed from what Kundalini practice is actually about.
Kundalini is not something you simply awaken in a single session. It can take years. And when the body does move, it is often more like a gentle wave travelling through the spine. Nothing explosive. Nothing like the dramatic images that are so often shared online.
Kundalini is a powerful practice and can be approached in a safe and grounded way. The breath becomes more spacious. Energy begins to make itself known gently, like light slowly reappearing from behind a cloud.
Vritti, desh and kaal
Three words we carry with us in every class we teach here, helping you understand what you experience on the mat.
- Vritti is the pattern or fluctuation of the mind. The waves of thoughts that continue to appear, sometimes gently, sometimes like a storm.
- Desh is the place. The earth beneath your feet. Bonneblond, surrounded by the green French countryside, where the landscape seems to slow your breath without you even noticing.
- Kaal is time. The moment in which you practise, free from schedules and obligations. The kind of time that finally seems to stretch again when you are on holiday.
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. Perhaps because we practise in the middle of nature. Perhaps because everyone who joins brings their own story with them. The air smells of grass, sometimes freshly cut, sometimes warmed by the sun. And when it rains, you feel the wooden floor of the loft beneath you while listening to the soft rhythm of water running down the roof. Vinyasa here is not a workout. It is a ritual. A way to sink back into your body, create space across your chest and begin the day feeling a little lighter.
Kundalini on request
Our Kundalini sessions are more personal. We adapt them to who you are, how you breathe and what you need in that moment. A session begins by bringing awareness to the breath and working with mantras, followed by a kriya. It is a powerful and deep practice. No theatre. No drama. Just you, your breath and the nature surrounding you.
Why yoga feels different on holiday
Maybe it is because you move differently here. Slower. Maybe it is because the air feels lighter and the nights are darker. Maybe it is because silence here is genuinely quiet. Whatever the reason, yoga on holiday seems to reach a little deeper. You step off your mat with a clearer mind, a warm body and the feeling that you have rediscovered something you sometimes lose sight of at home.
The breath and ancient yogic wisdom
Not an equation, but a philosophy. According to yogic tradition, someone who breathes fifteen times per minute could live to one hundred years old. 15 breaths per minute. 60 minutes. 900 breaths per hour. Over 24 hours, that becomes 21,600 breaths a day. It is not mathematics that needs to be taken literally. It is a reminder that a calmer life begins with a calmer breath. That is why we practise abdominal breathing here. The way a baby breathes. Soft. Undisturbed. Effortless.
Reserve a mat
Whether you join us for Vinyasa on the wooden platform, by the lake, or for a gentle Kundalini session in the loft while the rain falls outside, you are very welcome. Simply send us an email or message. We will have a mat ready for you.
About Eva
Yoga found Eva at exactly the moment she needed it. During the Covid period, she was studying in Berlin — day after day in the same room, surrounded by the same four walls and the same feeling of stillness.Yoga brought light into a period that felt quiet and heavy. It became a space where she could breathe again.
In 2024, she completed her 200-hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training, certified by Yoga Alliance. After her first full high season at Bonneblond in 2025, she travelled to Rishikesh, at the foothills of the Himalayas, a place deeply rooted in the history and tradition of yoga. Surrounded by the mountains and the rhythm of nature, she continued her studies with a 300-hour Kundalini training, 50-hour Yin Yoga training and Reiki.
