It’s my weekend. Stays to take care of yourself from the start of the year

Stop living on autopilot; enter another time than that of the clocks without being afraid of being bored; do everything as if it was the first time …

To disconnect, you can participate in one-week courses organized by the French-speaking Federation of fasting and hiking. They take place all over France, by the sea and in the mountains. Coming from Germany, the practice of fasting and walking is attracting more and more followers in France. Anne Ducrocq is one of them. Author of twenty books including Meditations on Life with the psychiatrist Christophe André, she discusses this practice in her new book Spiritual breaks, 100 original places in France to recharge your batteries published by Gründ editions. “Every day, we take a natural fruit juice at noon, a vegetable broth in the evening and a lot of herbal teas, explains Anne Ducrocq. And to ensure: “No, fasting does not tire and does not make everything slack, even if we say to ourselves ” but if I do not eat how can I walk ”.

These are still walks from 2:30 to 3 hours. And the body, suddenly, it does something other than digest. It boosts the body and its defenses. Because he has time to do just that. ”

Anne Ducrocq

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And these stays are really the opportunity to dive into oneself. “We rest, we walk, we read, we take a nap with a hot water bottle, that things that we are not used to doing, it’s surreal in fact days like that. As a small idea of at the start of the year, it’s really giving yourself a gift, we don’t go whipping and suffering. No, no, we are giving ourselves a nice gift. “

Anne Ducrocq also suggests testing the meditation technique of the Dutchman Wim Hof, which invites travelers to swim in the middle of winter, especially in the Lac des Graves in Cantal. Nicknamed Ice man (the ice man), he proposes to awaken our ability to regulate our body temperature to adapt to the cold. “So the Wim Hof ​​method is to go and awaken this capacity that we haven’t done anything about for a long time. It is inspired by a technique of the Shaolin monks and a tantric method, the Toumo, it is a yoga, where you work on the internal heat, which allows in a physiological way to do what you want with your body temperature. It thus takes travelers to dive into absolutely icy waters while wearing swimsuits . So you go to Cantal, the Pyrenees, to Savoie to dive into a mountain lake. “

To begin with, you can opt for a four-hour discovery course (especially in Paris) or for a weekend.