Spirit of Place ー VOICE OF PLACE
Tune into the voice of place with Andrea Langlois, ritual facilitator and guide in listening to the living world through nature constellations. Over 3 days in the French Alps, embark on a journey to explore how you can connect with and be guided by the spirits of place. Learn how to walk through life in conversation, reciprocity and harmony with the natural world.
In English language.
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Finding our deepest belonging to place asks that we be ready to be in relationship. Our relationship to place runs deep — sometimes as a source of rootedness and belonging, sometimes as a site of loss, longing, or dislocation. We are forever connected to the places that have shaped us — the land we grew up on, the places we return to, the ones that call us without quite knowing why. What if that pull is not just personal, but relational? What if place has something it wants to say? Place is not just a location. It is a living gathering of memory, experience, and meaning — where past and present meet, and where human and more-than-human life are intertwined. Over three days, we will move together through a deepening arc: arriving into relationship with the land around us in the French Alps, listening deeply, and integrating what we've heard into our lives. Through ritual, time outdoors, and the embodied practice of systemic constellations — a relational, embodied way of making visible what is hidden or entangled in a place — we will come into dialogue with elements of place: the ancestors, the waters, time, and the more-than-human world around us. What becomes visible reminds us that our decisions and well-being are interconnected with the health of the places that hold us. What emerges is not just insight, but our remembered belonging and how to be in right relationship with the land. You will leave with:
• a felt sense of what it means to be in conversation with place
• a way of listening you can bring home — to the land you live on, steward, or love
• threads of meaning that connect your personal story to the wider living world No previous experience needed. If so called, participants are welcome to travel with a personal question — whether it is about the land on which you live, the land you steward, or a land project you are working on.
Program
Friday, August 21st 14h - Arrival and welcome 15h - Connect with the land and experience a collective offering ritual 16h - Opening circle and exploration of our personal relationships to place 19h - Home cooked nourishing dinner * 20h30 - Gather around the fire at Alma La Masure.
Saturday, August 22nd 8h - Breakfast * 9h - Morning circle 10h - Learn how to connect with nature as a resource through the practice of Nature Constellations (exercises outside) 13h - Lunch break outside * / ** 14h - Explore the unseen story of place with Nature Constellations 18h - Quiet time in nature to integrate, and journal 19h - Home cooked nourishing dinner * 20h30 - Gather around the fire at Alma La Masure.
Sunday, August 23rd 8h - Breakfast *
9h - Integrate the perspective of place in our lives 10h - Closing circle
13h - Lunch *.
* Please share with us your dietary preferences, if any.
** Subject to weather conditions.
What to bring
Comfortable clothing for both inside and outside A rain coat and warmer layers just in case Hiking shoes or breathing sneakers A water bottle and a backpack A hat, sunglasses and sunscreen A towel for our daily outdoor activities A bathing suit just in case A journal and a book A biodegradable offering to give to the land - like local flowers, herbs, walnuts from the Savoie region; or wood, stones, water from where you live.
Transport
Please arrange your own transportation to and from La Masure. We offer to come and pick you up at the train / bus station in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, the biggest town nearby, if you need a ride from town.
The closest airports are Geneva International Airport (GVA) in Switzerland or Lyon Saint Exupéry (LYS) in France.
Price per person
3-day workshop: 300 euros.
From Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. Bring your own meals and arrange your individual accommodation. 3-day workshop + food & accommodation provided by Alma La Masure: 650 euros.
2 nights in a private room in the hamlet of La Masure (option to share a room also available - just contact us for more details).
6 nourishing homemade meals beginning with dinner on Friday and concluding with lunch on Sunday.
Cancellations overview
60+ days - 95% refund Between 60 & 30 days - 50% Less than 30 days - no refund We suggest you find a replacement in the unfortunate event you had to cancel.
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For questions and bookings,
please contact us here.
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