Yoga retreat with Gérard Arnaud
with Gérard Arnaud and his assistant Millie Deniset
09 Feb 2025 to 16 Feb 2025
As every year for almost 20 years now, Gerard Arnaud will be holding a yoga retreat in Ashiyana This a unique opportunity to practice with Gerard Arnaud, renown French teacher who has nearly 50 years of teaching experience around the world.
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Every day will begin with 3-hour practice of Vinyasa yoga and workshops. After enjoying the lovely brunch and free time, we will meet again in the afternoon for a restorative and yin yoga, meditation and pranayama session before sunset.
An immersive experience to deepen your practice and learn more. All yogis and yoginis with a minimum of two years of regular practice are welcome to join.
For more information or to book, please fill out the form on the right
Sample of daily schedule
| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| 08:30 – 11:30 | Vinyasa yoga |
| Brunch and free time | |
| 17:30 to 19:00 | Yin, Restorative, Meditation & Pranayama |
| Dinner | |
| 20:30 | Free Time or Yoga Nidra/Sound Bath/Osho Meditation/Ecstatic Dance |
INSTRUCTORS
Gérard Arnaud
Director of Vinyasa Yoga Studio. He began yoga in 1969, and has been teaching and running teacher training programs since 1978.
He created his modern method of Vinyasa Yoga early 80s.
He lived in India for three years, and he has returned for many visits.
He was initiated into yoga and meditation by his master Sadh Sivalingam at Rishikesh.
He is certified by BKS Iyengar in Puna, Sivananda ashram in Rishikesh and practiced with Pattabhi Jois (Ashtanga Yoga) in Mysore (India) and Maui (Hawaï).
International teacher, he has taught in Rishikesh (India), in Canada, in the United States, in Australia in Europe, in Japan and he has enriched his experiences in Africa.
After studying Eastern Philosophy and trying different methods of meditation (Vedanta, Tantra, Vipassana, Zen), he has carried out long-term research in psycho-somatology, all the while pursuing an intense yoga practice.
In a socio-medical context, he has given classes in prisons, in orphanages, and in drug rehabilitation centers. These classes were accompanied by discussion and therapy sessions that he moderated with a psychologist.
He teaches classes at all levels, linking teaching and creativity to share his expertise with dancers, mimes, actors, musicians and athletes.
For him, yoga is also an art that rests on a rigorous technical foundation aiming to attain and create bodily and spiritual harmony.
Pricing & Accommodation
PRICE FOR ONE WEEK – EARLY BIRD OFFER UNTIL JUNE 30TH (+100 euros after this date)
Pricing
Double room (Price per person) :
– Eco lodge : 1100 euros
– Palm Grove : 1250 euros
– Raj : 1350 euros
– Raj Luxury : 1550 euros
Single room (Price per person) :
– Eco lodge : 1400 euros
– Palm Grove : 1550 euros
– Raj : 1650 euros
– Raj Luxury : 1850 euros
