4 Day Conscious Leadership Retreat in Provence, France

Villa des Baumes, 1613 Chemin de Camp Long, Cornillon-Confoux, France

Holistic Wellness

A sanctuary of breath, beauty, and embodied awakening

Provence Conscious Leadership Retreat

Join Śakti Sphere on an intimate three-day immersion for individuals and conscious leaders seeking inner regulation, clarity of perception, and embodied intelligence. Śakti Sphere provides the holistic methodology — the Śakti Mandala Conscious Leadership 8-Petal Pathway, a structured leadership framework supporting decision clarity, resilience, and purpose-led action.

Meet the instructors

Bav Tailor

Bav Tailor

Born in London, of Indian / East African heritage, and nomadic in spirit, Bav’s global upbringing and travels inform her innate sensibility towards human potential and cross-cultural consciousness. Since founding her conscious luxury business in 2013, she has woven a philosophy of mindful evolution into her company, mentoring a new generation of wellness creatives and conscious leaders through her teachings, immersive workshops, and luxury mindfulness offerings.

Marcella Carrara

Marcella Carrara

Marcella Carrara guides leaders and organisations to transcend physical and mental limitations through the Poesia Somatica methodology — a sophisticated tapestry based on the Feldenkrais® Method, Pilates, and the expressive arts. She cultivates ecosystems where movement, poetry, and neuroplasticity converge to release stagnant patterns, aligning the individual’s internal architecture with their external performance. Through her bespoke somatic journeys, Marcella empowers teams to inhabit their potential with grounding, clarity, and an "inventive mind," essential for navigating the complexities of modern conscious leadership.

Highlights

  • Restore fluidity and release held tension
  • A deeply personalised pathway of renewal
  • Awaken perception through the ancient art of natural perfumery
  • Fusion of energy work, somatic awareness, and creative expression
  • Moments of stillness and integration within nature, gardens, and private sanctuaries
  • Awaken the soul essence whilst anchoring one’s inner and outer ecologies
  • 3 nights accommodation
  • Full board meals

Yoga styles

3 days with instruction in English

Staff also speaks English

Accommodation

The villa hosts three serene shared accommodation bedrooms alongside the independent Olea Studio, a garden-facing sanctuary designed for restoration and solitude which accommodates four persons. The Musa Bajoo Double Room frames gentle views across the hills, while the Pakira Trio Suite and Æonium Trio Room open onto a balcony overlooking a cypress-lined patio, offering soft vistas of the gardens and pool.

Food

Seasonal nourishment is curated by a private chef, offering refined, locally inspired cuisine guided by the rhythms of the land and the desires of each guest — an elegant expression of Provençal abundance.

Meals included

  • Breakfast
  • Dinner
  • Lunch

Program

Guided by Marcella Carrara and Bav Tailor, the retreat includes:

  • Somatic Regeneration

  • Diamond Fēng Shuî Alchemy

  • Sensory Intelligence and The Art of Sacred Scent (Masterclass by Christèle Jacquemin)

  • Conscious Leadership Mastery

  • Human Design Mechanics

  • Yogic Pranayama and Shaolin Temple Europe Arts

  • Numerology Life Paths insights

Together with Poesia Somatica, Śakti Sphere offers organisations a contained, transformational leadership intervention that strengthens:

  • Decision-making under complexity

  • Emotional and cognitive resilience

  • Values-led leadership and long-term vision

  • Human capital sustainability

This retreat positions leadership wellbeing not as a benefit, but as a strategic capability — cultivated through experience, integration, and conscious alignment.

Inspired by l’art de l’harmonie intérieure et extérieure — the art of inner and outer harmony — the retreat unfolds as a living dialogue between self-cultivation and sensory presence. Here, breath, movement and human design awakening become the bridge between the physical, energetic, and poetic self, guiding participants into a state of integrated awareness and quiet coherence.

Through the integration of the Śakti Mandala Awakening Journey (Śakti Sphere) and the evocative somatic methodologies of Poesia Somatica (Marcella Carrara), participants are led through a deeply personalised pathway of renewal. This refined fusion of energy work, somatic awareness, and creative expression cultivates a space that is both grounding and expansive — where inner alignment is reflected effortlessly in the outer experience.

Across three days, guests are immersed in a refined rhythm of:

  • Somatic movement and soft body engineering to restore fluidity and release held tension by Poesia Somatica using a unique methodology that combines the Feldenkrais® Method and movement by certified Holistic Therapist Marcella Carrara.

  • The uniquely created Śakti Mandala 8-Petal Pathway by Bav Tailor is an immersive journey that supports the release of limiting patterns, awakening the soul essence whilst anchoring one’s inner and outer ecologies. Integrating ancient wisdom with modern modalities, the experience weaves together Neurowellness through Fēng Shuî Alchemy, Human Design Mechanics, yogic pranayama breathwork and Shaolin Arts movement attuned to the pine-rich air and natural cadence of Provence

  • Sensory Intelligence and The Art of Sacred Scent - Awakening perception through the ancient art of natural perfumery.

    An intimate masterclass in the ancient art of natural perfumery, guided by Artisan Parfumeur Christèle Jacquemin, whose 25 years of experience in the fragrance world bring depth, artistry and savoir-faire to this sensory ritual. Guided through a curated palette of 100% pure botanical essences, precious resins and aromatic plant oils, you will compose your own bespoke, spiritually resonant fragrance — a personal olfactory signature, uniquely yours, created through intuition, memory, and the senses.

    As you explore the origins of sacred scent, Christèle will share stories and fascinating anecdotes from the world of perfumery, revealing how aromatic plants have accompanied ancient rituals, cultural traditions, and the human experience for centuries.

    This masterclass becomes a sensory leadership experience — an invitation to slow down, awaken perception and explore how scent, memory, and emotion shape your experience of yourselves and others.

This retreat is a threshold — a subtle yet profound recalibration of breath, body, and awareness.

Participants leave with embodied tools, refined sensitivity, and a renewed relationship to their inner landscape. The experience supports the harmonisation of mind, body, and energetic fields, cultivating clarity, creative expansion, and a deeper sense of purpose.

In the stillness of Provence — amidst pine, light, and breath — a quiet transformation unfolds, one that continues to resonate long beyond the retreat itself.

The Śakti Mandala Awakening Journey 8-Petal Pathway

Awaken your self-mastery through Bav Tailor’s uniquely created Śakti Mandala Awakening Journey 8-Petal Pathway — envisioned from her own self-embodied journey.

The Śakti Mandala is the heart of the awakening journey. A sacred immersion to guide you home to your essence through the ancient arts of self-love, balance, and embodied wisdom. Rooted in the unique Śakti Mandala 8-Petal Mentoring Pathway, Bav Tailor quintessentially curates a holistic tapestry of ancient wisdom, experiential learning, and transformational practice tools, designed to guide individuals and organisations towards heightened self-mastery, ethical influence, and conscious impact. Her work seamlessly blends spiritual insight with executive discernment, helping curious beings cultivate presence, harmony, and purposeful action.

Goal: The goal of Śakti Sphere Retreats is to create restorative experiences that support inner balance, conscious connection and holistic wellbeing. Through nature immersion, sacred cultural wisdom, sensory healing and self-mastery practices, each retreat is designed to help individuals slow down, reconnect with themselves and cultivate a more harmonious and intentional way of living.

Each guest leaves with unique tools and practices to support their ongoing self-development, empowering them to create greater harmony between success, health, relationships and inner wisdom in their everyday lives.

Methodology: Through her self-embodied transformation, Bav guides individuals, leaders, creatives, and organisations to release old patterns through self-awareness, align inner/outer energies by cultivating home and work space energies where presence, purpose, and performance flow in harmony. Together with her sacred Śakti Holistic Artists and ancient wisdom from her Masters, her uniquely created Śakti Mandala 8-Petal Pathway Awakening Journey, explores Diamond Fēng Shuǐ Alchemy space flow, Human Design Mechanics, Shaolin Arts for mind/body sensibility, yogic pranayama breathwork, Ikigai Soul Driven Alignment, Light Language Transmissions, Somatic Regeneration, chakra sound healing, Sacred Life Audits, and the exploration of Śakti-Shiva (Yin-Yang 5 Elements Balance, cultivating harmony between inner balance, relationships and energetic connection) and Moon Compass Alignment — a sacred mentoring immersion to navigate you home to your soul essence through the ancient arts of self-love, balance, and embodied wisdom.

Suitability: Bav Tailor’s Śakti Sphere Retreats are suitable for:

  • Multi-cultural Individuals seeking rest, balance, and nervous system restoration in an overstimulated world

  • Women, men, and all gender identities seeking deeper connection, healing and self-discovery

  • Young people and families aged 8+ wishing to cultivate mindfulness, creativity, and emotional wellbeing

  • Professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives experiencing burnout, stress, or digital fatigue

  • Wellness seekers interested in holistic living, sacred rituals, and conscious personal growth

  • Those navigating life transitions and seeking clarity, grounding, or renewed direction

  • Couples, friends, and communities wishing to deepen connection through shared experiences

  • Individuals curious about ancient wisdom traditions, cultural immersion, and self-mastery practices

  • Anyone longing to reconnect with themselves, others, and the beauty of presence

Benefits: Bav Tailor’s Śakti Sphere Retreats are designed to support:

  • Nervous system restoration

  • Sensory healing

  • Sacred cultural immersion

  • Conscious connectivity

  • Embodied self-mastery

  • Regenerative living

  • Masculine–Feminine Energy harmonisation

  • Energetic spatial harmony

More than a retreat, this is a rite of passage. A remembering. A return. A rebirth.

What's included

Included

  • 3 nights accommodation
  • Full board meals
  • Sauna and outdoor pool facilities
  • All Śakti Sphere workshops and rituals

Not included

  • Flights
  • Transportation
  • Personal expenses

Retreat location

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Villa des Baumes, 1613 Chemin de Camp Long, Cornillon-Confoux, France

Nestled in the heart of Provence, embraced by eight hectares of fragrant pine forest and rolling hills, Villa des Baumes offers a sanctuary of stillness, refinement, and elemental beauty. This private estate unfolds across an expansive 3000 square metres of secluded grounds, where nature and architecture exist in quiet, effortless harmony.

Getting there

Nearest airports:

  • Marseille Provence Airport (MRS) · 20 km away
  • Nîmes-Arles-Camargue Airport (FNI) · 56 km away

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