Le Crapaud Sonneur, a wellbeing centre in Burgundy

About the venue

15th-century family house - home-grown vegetables in the kitchen - pool & large sauna in the woods overlooking a 3 ha lake.

Cyrille & Valérie welcome you to Le Couvent, the place they call home. Here we try to live close to nature while leaving as light a footprint as possible.
At the top of this hill in the Nièvre, we have made room for a large permaculture vegetable garden, a forest garden, a few beehives for biodiversity, a heritage orchard, edible hedgerows and a reed-bed water treatment system. We have also planted a truffle orchard and set up a tank to grow our own spirulina. We serve generous, tasty vegetarian food, made mostly with vegetables from the garden and fruit from the orchard.

For your activities and downtime:

• a heated 36 m² yoga room with mats and cushions provided, plus a projector
• a living/dining room with a library (48 m2)
• two changing rooms
• a tea corner
• a south-facing pool looking out over the valley
• a large sauna for 15 people beside the pond in the forest
• a 3-hectare pond with its own rowing boat, a 96 m² platform and a shelter from sun and rain: ideal for meditation or group practice outdoors
• comfortable accommodation surrounded by nature: cabins and barrel huts
• one large dormitory for 5 people in single beds

There are lovely walks close by, in the Amognes forest, along the Loire or in the surrounding woods.

Sleep surrounded by nature

Three pretty solid-wood cabins (La Vallée, La Forêt, La Truffière), set apart on the hillside, serve as bright, comfortable bedrooms opening onto a terrace facing the valley. A highly efficient stove provides extra heat when needed. Suitable for people with electromagnetic sensitivity, the cabins were built with local timber. La Truffière has a 140/190 double bed, La Forêt a large 160/200 double bed and La Vallée two 90/190 single beds.