Come and live a transformative 3-day fasting experience under the supervision and valuable advice of Éric Simard.
During this stay, you will be invited to deepen your knowledge of the principles of fasting, in all its forms, both in theory and in practice. Alongside, various activities will give you the opportunity to refocus and fully savour each moment.
- Connection with yourself
- Trail outing
- Full presence
- Evening fires with group discussions
- Yoga and breathing
- Morning activation
- Meditation
- Walking trails
- Finnish sauna* For those who want to reach a full 72 hours of fasting, do not eat on the day of your arrival, Thursday, December 4.
OTHER SERVICES ($)
- Blood glucose and ketone tests with interpretation (additional fees)
- Fasting optimization with BASE Probiotics and Vitoli Healthy Aging (additional fees, products available on site)
Your retreat teachers
Three voices. One light.
Éric Simard
PhD in biology
Eric Simard is behind important discoveries to slow down the aging process.
A scientist by training, he has always been particularly interested in the environment and human health. During his bachelor’s degree, he relaunched the aquatic ecology laboratories at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, mobilizing professors and developing two new research programs.
Already working on a third research program, this time in human health, while still in graduate school, he decided to pursue this subject for his PhD at INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier in Laval.
His graduate studies were supported by 7 excellence scholarships and 5 awards/honours.
Hélène Léger
Hélène Léger has worked in the field of well-being for more than 45 years. First as an acrobat, where she explored the body’s movement before broadening her practice to the harmonization of mind, heart and spirit. This path has been nourished by a lifetime devoted to inner exploration and personal transformation.
Immersed from a very young age in the world of yoga and personal development, Hélène has studied many approaches in depth, especially therapeutic approaches focused on emotional structures. For more than 10 years she took part in intensive workshops with Drunvalo Melchizedek, mainly in Arizona, deepening her understanding of the subtle dimensions of being.
She is a certified teacher of the Yoga of Integral Learning, an approach to energy structures passed on by Master Shin Shiva, recognized in India as the supreme Shaiva Yogi of Kundalini. This quest led her to travel the world, enriching her vision and her practice.
Since 2011, Hélène and her husband have owned the Centre de Vie in Ripon, a place of renewal for health and well-being, where she also offers energy treatments in individual sessions or group workshops.
Since 2022, she has led workshops called “Revealing the Invisible”, in collaboration with medium Mélanie Hotte.
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Michel Stornello
Naturopath, Iridologist, Yoga teacher
Graduate of the EESNQ (École d’enseignement supérieur de naturopathie du Québec)
Michel Stornello, N.D., offers private consultations in naturopathy and iridology, with a global and personalized approach to the body’s terrain. His guidance focuses mainly on healthy lifestyle habits, such as a balanced diet, suitable physical activity, quality sleep, and good management of emotions and stress, with a view to prevention and supporting the body’s terrain.
Co-owner of the Centre de vie since 2011, Michel supervises the guided fasts and renewal cures as well as participant support, ensuring that stays run smoothly in a safe and educational setting that respects his scope of practice.
Also known as Swami Vijetananda, Michel is a yoga master (Acharya). At the Centre de vie he teaches Yoga Flow, Hatha Yoga and Meditative Yoga classes. He trained in the Saraswati (Sivananda) lineage, as well as with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, David Swenson, Richard Freeman and several other Ashtanga yoga masters.
With 45 years of yoga practice, Michel offers a unique, deep and committed teaching style, guiding each student toward a conscious union of body, breath and mind, with joy, presence and harmony of movement.
The services offered are part of a health education and well-being approach. They are not a medical act, do not make any diagnosis and do not replace medical or nutritional follow-up.
TOPICS COVERED IN THE TALKS
- The biological basis of fasting
- Why fasting can be beneficial for health
- The different types of fasting
- Fasting to stimulate repair and slow down aging
- The pulsed approach
- Review of fasting and the pulsed approach
- Fasting to build resilience
- Fasting and muscle mass
- Fasting and the microbiota
- 3 days, 3 times a year?
- Review of the longevity day
- Why slow down aging / the benefits
- What to base it on? (the dimensions of science)
- What to act on? (Functional longevity)
- My longevity protocol
Omega-3 fatty acids and cancer. Samuel Fortin, researcher.
- What are the impacts of omega-3s on different types of cancer?
- Why would omega-3s have an impact on cancer?
- For which cancers have positive effects been observed so far?
INCLUDED, Centre de vie
Accommodation for 3 nights
Bedding, bath towels, full access to the site.
INCLUDED, The event
72 hours of fasting
Explanations of the health benefits of thermotherapy
PDF of the talks
Breaking the fast on Sunday morning with bone broth
Group lunch on Sunday
Treatments available à la carte at the holistic clinic
Schedule:
- Arrival from Thursday, 2 p.m.
- 1st group meeting at 5:30 p.m.
- Departure on Sunday at 3 p.m.
