Retreat in Provence | Centering in Desire
A six-day immersion into leadership and somatic practices to bring more creativity and power into your work.
We’re not meant to move this fast, hold this much, or navigate it all alone. Still, many of us do — leading teams, raising families, tending to visions — with a quiet, steady hum of depletion beneath it all.
This retreat is a pause. A deep exhale. A return to rhythm, to feeling, to what’s true once the noise settles. It’s a space to remember what steadies you, what stirs you, and what’s ready to move through you next — shoulder to shoulder with women who see you clearly, and with coaches skilled in revealing the unconscious commitments that keep you from moving forward at your own pace.
Set in the fragrant hills of Provence, this six-day experience is a gathering of women ready to listen inward and reorient toward what is most deeply wanted.
We’ll spend our days in movement, in stillness, in circle — exploring the whispers that want to be heard, and voicing the visions we hold for our lives and the collective impact we can make.
Participants will look inward at the ways they organize themselves in stress and in pleasure, learning to track not only their mindsets but their nervous systems.
A deeper and more felt sense of one’s experience — guided by professional coaches and facilitators — lays the foundation for moving toward presence and center.
For Women Who Lead and Long
This retreat is for women navigating threshold moments — artists, technologists, mothers (or those on the path to becoming one), executives, and initiators — who are holding both inner and outer worlds.
It’s for those craving deeper embodiment and the company of women who also live and lead in high-stakes, high-sensitivity realms.
We’ve designed this time for pause and for presence — for barefoot walks, bold truths, and the kind of inner work that restores you to yourself.
It’s an invitation to come fully alive in your work, your relationships, your creative life — without needing to split yourself into parts.
What to expect
- Somatic practices to unwind stress responses and build capacity for presence
- Coaching on boundaries, leadership, desire, and nervous system awareness
- Daily time in nature to slow down, move, and remember your rhythm
- Tools for conscious communication and emotional resilience
- Shared space for reflection, connection, and creative experimentation
You will be nourished. You will be met.
The Women Holding You
Elisa Haggarty is a former corporate leader turned Conscious Leadership Coach & Somatic Coach, working to guide leaders and teams all over the world to shift the ways they approach leadership and interpersonal connection.
Elisa has coached thousands of leaders and executives in various industries to step into Conscious Leadership and create new relational patterns that result in deeper connection and innovation. Placing skill building at the forefront of creating emotionally agile and collaborative teams, Elisa helps professionals embrace organizational changes and challenges with curiosity, radical responsibility and psychological safety.
Elisa’s work in facilitation is experiential, collaborative and creates a practice lab for leaders to try on a new and invigorating way of communicating and leading.
Elisa is the host for The School of Unlearning podcast and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Kim Buisson is a strategist, facilitator, and multidisciplinary founder working at the intersection of creativity, technology, and embodied leadership.
Kim transitioned out of corporate life—where she served as Global Marketing Director for a billion-euro beauty brand in New York—into a path of creation, building and co-leading projects at the intersection of tech, wellness, and cultural media. She now heads growth at a tech startup reimagining how we fund and govern shared resources, while continuing to run her creative studio and an artist residency in an 11th-century monastery in Provence.
Kim’s work supports women across creativity, leadership, and motherhood—from the seed of an idea to full expression. A writer and mother of two, she designs spaces where nervous system awareness, desire, and presence ground both leadership and creative life.
Retreat Schedule
Arrival Day | Sunday — Arrive by 4pm
Guests settle into Lou Calen—rooms, garden, and rhythm.
Opening circle at sunset. A slow dinner, grounding practice, and time to land.
Sample Day | Monday–Friday (schedule may vary slightly)
- 8am - Morning movement
- 9am - Nourishing breakfast
- 10am - Somatic circle or coaching workshop
- 12pm - Shared seasonal lunch
- 2pm - Time for personal ritual, rest, journaling, or 1:1 care (add-on)
- 4pm - Afternoon options include local activities anchored in the practice
- 6pm - Evening practice or creative play (fire circle, writing, dancing)
- 8pm - Dinner with local wine, music, and storytelling
Departure Day | Saturday — Depart by 4pm. Check-out time for the room is noon.
A slow morning to integrate. Goodbye lunch. Final walk and circle to close the container. Pack, rest, one last walk, or swim. Departure.
Details
This retreat is limited to 15 women — an intimate group gathered for deep rest, creative reconnection, and meaningful presence, held in one of the most beautiful corners of Provence.
You’ll stay at Lou Calen, a thoughtfully designed eco-hotel in Cotignac, where some rooms open onto wild gardens and others overlook the cobbled village square. Meals are prepared by Michelin–starred Chef Benoît Witz using ingredients sourced from the hotel’s kitchen garden. The food is seasonal, refined, and deeply nourishing.
This all-inclusive experience offers six days of restoration, movement, deep coaching, and community — supported by two seasoned facilitators and the grounding beauty of the land.
Pricing
What’s Included
- Six nights at Lou Calen (private or shared room)
- Daily chef-prepared meals, beginning with dinner on the first evening (excludes alcohol)
- Daily Katonah Yoga®, breathwork, coaching, and guided somatic practices
- Curated excursions, rituals, and creative sessions
- Roundtrip airport shuttle from Marseille or Nice airports
- Access to gardens, terraces, and shared spaces
- Optional add-ons: 1:1 care, bodywork
