Leaudelure in Provence

Follow the mountain range from mount Ventoux to the East, and you will reach the top of Lure, just before Sisteron and the route Napoleon. The Lure mountain is the soul of this part of the Alpes de Haute Provence, a real geological battlefield. Lure functions also as a natural watertower feeding the spectacular spring of Vaucluse and flooding periodically the center of Aix –the very heart of the Provence area- indeed. 

You will discover a sparsely inhabited Département, where the exotic mediterrenean nature manifests itself in many ways: at night through the crying owls and the millions of stars, and during the day by means of its everblue sky and its chasing eagles. They join the oaks, ages old in inviting you to participate in the activities of Leaudelure.

The instigators Gert and Willy have chosen this charming environment to welcome you in an authentic hamlet of the vallée du Jabron.

Come and inhale the perfume of thymus and lavender. Enjoy this pure wilderness, not far from home all by all. Stay here for a while: both your body and spirit will get revitalised in a couple of days.

The inhabitants have a tradition of great hospitability: they offer you delicious regional meals and lodging in their chambers d’hôte and gîte, whilst  Leaudelure proposes an attractive program, under guidance of highly skilled and qualified facilitators.

Gert Roscam

Studies romanic languages, French language and philosophy teacher with  Crea-langues in Provence (language courses for adults), and in Belgium, at the Artevelde College and St Lucas in Ghent.
As a disciple of Ton Lathouwers, autorised teacher and founder of Maha Karuna Chan, she actively practices meditation. Trainings in contemporaneous dance, the technique of body-mind centering (bmc), yoga and arabic danse. Instigator and danser in various productions both outdoors and on the stage.
This manifold forms of corporal expression foster the activities she will gradually introduce in Leaudelure, side by side with highly qualified teachers: meditation, work on the voice, body-mind centering and contemporaneous dance. Some of these workshops may even lnclude performances in situ, in nature. Mother of Karim and  Willy's partner.

Willy Weyns

Medical studies and doctor in hydrogeology at universities of Ghent (B) and Bordeaux (F). A decennium of acculturation in Africa, mandated by United Nations and variuos NGO's. Back in Europe, visiting professor in international curriculae at universities of Louvain (KULeuven), Brussels (VUB) and Toulouse: Human ecology. Non-academic philosopher, publisher and international consultant, invited by UNESCO in Bogor (Indonesia) and at Singapore by Asef, for the first 'talks on the hill' (intercultural confrontations on humans and nature). After ten years in European Parliament, he actually works in the Technology Assessment Institute (viWTA), where he organises citizens conferences about gmo's and brain sciences in the Flemish regional Parliament in Brussels. Painter-artist, he exhibits in Belgium and France. Member of 'Worldviews' of the late philosopher Leo Apostel, of the Federal Council of Sustainable Development, of the Federal Agency of Nuclear Control and of the Club of Rome. Father of three sons, grandfather of  twins and Gert's partner.

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