Experience Meditation and Art in Conversation with Nature
Aix-en-Provence

Discover mindfulness and art in Provence. Experience renowned artworks, nature, and meditation for a refreshing, creative, and reflective day.

Duration: 9 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Aix-en-Provence - Your private driver will pick you up from your hotel and take you to Chateau La Coste.
  • Gate, by Tadao Ando - We will explore each artwork and the surrounding nature, with an introduction to the artists’ work and its connection to mindful practices. A guided meditation related to the theme of the work (5 minutes) will be included, along with time to experience the artwork and its space with open senses.

I) First stop

    1. Tadao Ando - Door
      (theme: opening to the experience)
      20 minutes
    1. Hiroshi Sugimoto - Mathematical model
      (theme: observing without intellectualizing)
      20 minutes
    1. Yoko Ono - Wish trees
      (theme: multiplicity)
      20 minutes
    1. Richard Long - Circle of Riverstone
      (theme: interconnectedness and circles)
      20 minutes
    1. Tom Shanon - Drop
      (theme: perception)
      20 minutes
    1. Paul Matisse - Meditation Bell
      (theme: vibration)
      20 minutes

  • Restaurant Francis Mallmann en Provence - Guidance for mindful eating will be provided (included)
    (10 minutes)

  • Lunch time (not included)
    (Four restaurants are available on the domain)

  • Oak Room, by Andy Goldsworthy - 7) Richard Serra - Aix
    (theme: dimension and space)
    20 minutes

    1. Andy Goldsworthy - Oak room
      (theme: deep time)
      20 minutes
    1. Tadao Ando - Chapel
      (theme: wabi-sabi)
      20 minutes
    1. Kengo Kuma - Komorebi
      (theme: the marriage of heaven and earth)
      20 minutes

  • Chais de Vinification, by Jean Nouvel - Time allowed for options:
    Exploring the rest of the domain and preferred artworks (free time)
    2 hours

  • Chateau La Coste en Provence - Your private driver will take you back to your hotel

What's Included
  • Private transportation
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
Additional Information

Ephemeris Mindfulness provides a calming, reflective, creative and multisensory experience for anyone looking to reconnect with nature, art, slowing down, and a certain joie de vivre, an expression that in itself embodies life in the south of France and the Mediterranean, leaving you with a refreshed way of looking at art and nature, inspired to see beauty in anything that surrounds us.

During this day we’ll experience a special selection of up to 10 artworks from internationally renowned artists, drawing a line to mindfulness and contemplation, surrounded by nature.

Vineyards, pines, cypresses, olive trees, lavender, the perfume of Provence itself offering a new reading for contemporary art, and a way to apply mindful presence to such a surrounding.

Location
Aix-en-Provence
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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