Feminine Awakening Retreat in Southwest France
Domaine du Cardou · Puy-l’Évêque, Lot, France
Feminine
Embodiment
Retreat
A return to the body. A remembering of what it means to be fully, softly, powerfully you.
Discover your retreat
“Some places hold you before you even arrive.
Domaine du Cardou is one of those places.”
Tucked into 7 hectares of woodland on the heights of Puy-l’Évêque in the Lot, this 13th-century stone estate is where we slow all the way down. Through Yin Yoga, Breathwork, Fascia Therapy, and sacred ceremony — we let the body lead, and we follow.
Choose a group retreat with a fixed date, or a private immersion available all winter. Both fully guided, both completely held.
The location
Domaine du Cardou
Vallée du Lot
Perched on the heights of Puy-l’Évêque — one of the most beautiful villages in the Lot — Domaine du Cardou is a 13th-century estate that was once a halt on the St Jacques de Compostelle pilgrimage route. It has been welcoming people who need rest for a very long time. The approach through the wooded park feels like a signal: something in you begins to land before you’ve even arrived.
Stone buildings in classic Quercynois style, a jacuzzi terrace wrapped in bamboo and roses, a fitness room, and a lounge with sweeping valley views over the Lot. (The outdoor pool is open in warmer months — winter retreats enjoy the sauna, jacuzzi and the stillness of the estate in its quietest season.) Seven hectares of nature, 40 minutes from Cahors, at the edge of the Périgord and Quercy — far enough from everything to truly arrive.
Two ways to come
Choose your retreat
A group gathering with a fixed date, or a private immersion available all winter. Both fully guided, fully held.
Group Retreat · 17–21 May 2027
Feminine Embodiment
Group Retreat
A small group of women — eight at most — gathering for four nights and five days at the estate in Puy-l’Évêque. Daily Yin Yoga, Breathwork, Fascia Therapy, Cacao Ceremony and shared meals prepared by a chef. Time to land, to slow down, and to listen deeply to what your body has been trying to tell you all along.
We will also make a sacred excursion to Rocamadour — one of France’s most ancient pilgrimage sites — to visit the Black Madonna in her chapel carved into the rock. A moment of stillness and reverence at the heart of the week.
Private Retreat · Available all winter
Private Wellness
Retreat
Your own silent retreat — at your pace, in your own time. The luxury Wellness Suite holds a private in-room sauna and a private jacuzzi on the terrace, wrapped in bamboo and roses, open to the Lot valley sky. Completely yours.
Four nights, five days of deep individual guidance: Fascia Therapy sessions, daily Yin Yoga, Breathwork, and a personal Cacao Ceremony. Available all winter — choose the dates that call to you.
We can also arrange a sacred excursion to Rocamadour to visit the Black Madonna — an ancient pilgrimage site carved into the rock face, just an hour from the estate.
Every retreat includes
What the retreat holds
Daily Yin Yoga
Slow, floor-based practice that opens the connective tissue and tells the nervous system it is safe.
Breathwork Sessions
Transformative sessions that move what talking cannot. Held with full presence and care.
Fascia Therapy
Individual bodywork that addresses where the body stores what the mind hasn’t released yet.
Cacao Ceremony
Heart-opening ritual to open the retreat, and to close it. Sacred, grounded, beautifully simple.
Nourishing Meals
Whole, seasonal, lovingly prepared by a chef. Eaten together, slowly, as part of the practice itself.
Rocamadour & the Black Madonna
A sacred excursion to one of France’s most ancient pilgrimage sites — the Black Madonna in her rock-hewn chapel. Stillness and reverence at the heart of the week.
Your guide
Joyce Mol
I am a Yoga Teacher (RYT 200), Breathwork Guide, and Fascia Therapist rooted in somatic and feminine embodiment practice. My work lives at the intersection of the body, the sacred, and the deeply human.
I have been where you might be now — disconnected from the body, running on empty, wondering when the tiredness ends. I found my way back. That path is what I offer here.
Every retreat is small by design. I will know your name, your story, and what your body is asking for. That’s not a promise — it’s just how this works.
More about Joyce →
The book
Feminine
Embodiment
Fascia Release, Yin Yoga, Elemental Wisdom & Womb Healing
Releasing old patterns and wounds from the nervous system — this is the written companion to the work we do together in retreat. A guide to come home to your body, again and again, wherever you are in the world.
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