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23 Mar 2024
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Description
Dear workawayers,
We are Sanne (44) and Marcel (52). A dutch couple living their dream in one of the most beautiful places in France. Here you can see more stars then you can imagine, hear foxes play and owls hunt at night. Here you can enjoy the silence, while birds of prey are gliding above the fields.
We came here to start a shamanic retreat centre. We give several retreats a year focusing on personal healing and getting in contact with nature.
Besides our business we are busy becoming self sustainable and living in harmony with nature as much as possible.
All the help needed is for private projects. You will not be working on any projects related to our business.
We like to welcome you in our own little paradise.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Apart from learning all kinds of skills from the work there is to be done, we can offer you a taste of our spiritual and shamanic activities like:
- taking part in shamanic rituals
- drum circles (a very nice way to start the day and greet the sun)
- meditation
- enjoy a personal healing session from Sanne or Marcel
- learn how to make your own shamanic power object
And also there are opportunities to:
- practice your english, learn dutch or teach us some words in your home language
- learn to cook typical dutch dishes
Help
We need help with all kinds of tasks around the house and on the field, including:
- maintenance of fields and forest
- chopping wood for the fire places (main house and gîte). We mainly use fallen trees from our own land.
- barn cleaning and renovation
- building a chicken run
- harvesting the blue berries, plums, kiwis and chestnuts. And making all kinds of products with it.
And if this list is done... Don't worry, there's always something else to do...
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
German: Intermediate
French: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
We like to become more fluent in French. We can teach you the basics or help you improve your skills of the dutch language and the english language.
Accommodation
You will be staying in our gîte depending on availability and there is always plenty of room to put up a tent. The gîte has a double bed and two single beds on the open second floor. On the first floor there is a small living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. When you prefer a tent (with view!), there is the possibility of a shower tent and a compost toilet in a tent, or you can use our bathroom.
Meals will be together, but there is also the possibility to cook your own meal.
What else ...
Our little village is about 30 minutes drive away from the capital of the Cantal, Aurillac. Other nice places in the area to visit are Montsalvy, Entraygues, Espalion, Estaing, Conques.
We can drive you to places, but not every day. There is also some public transportation sometimes once or twice a day, but not very frequently.
When you are travelling by public transport, we can pick you up at the Aurillac train/bus station.
There is an official cycling route of about 130km going through the village.
And there are many beautiful hikes in the area.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can possibly accept pets
We are animal loving people, having two dogs and many cats of our own. We really don't want to exclude workawayers with pets, but please contact us first to see what the possibilities are in order to make it a pleasant stay for all the animals.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (4)
We really enjoyed her company. Together we made some tourist trips and we spend a lot of evenings talking about life and the relation with shamanism and nature.
We enjoyed some… read more
He is willing to learn and then to find out what he… read more
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We really enjoyed her company. Together we made some tourist trips and we spend a lot of evenings talking about life and the relation with shamanism and nature.
We enjoyed some… read more
He is willing to learn and then to find out what he… read more
We had a lot of interesting conversations about self-sustainability, nature,… read more
When we had… read more
He helped us clearing the forest path after a big storm knocked down some trees. He works very hard with a lot of energy.
Together we started giving the terras a make-over. Painting the big oak beams with a nice blue color. And Roy took care of the pruning on and around the terras. He knows a lot about trees… read more
Angéla is always in a good mood no matter what the work for that day would be. She does all the work full of energy. Together we chopped fallen trees into wood for the fireplace, planted tomatoes in the vegetable garden, spend two days brush cutting the roadside and… read more
I wish the best… read more
Their input was very helpful. They are both full of ideas and we enjoyed discussing possibilities.
They are hard working, very kind and really going for the job to be done.
We really enjoyed their pleasant company.
Thank you Cor & Anneke for all your… read more
On their beautiful property we stayed in a gîte which was old/historic on the outside and very modern/comfortable on the inside.
Sanne & Marcel are pioneers, very kind and openminded. In a couple of days, we were working together as a team.
Together we made the first part of the kitchen garden… read more
