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Purely Practice: A Diamond Approach® Retreat

With Tejo, Gail Aylward and Geoff Caird

May 27 - 31, 2026

Moulin Cancellation Policy: click here 

  • Single room, communal bathrooms – €430.00
  • 2 person Room, communal bathrooms – €350.00
  • 3 person Room, communal bathrooms – €310.00
  • Single Cabin, communal bathrooms – €430.00
  • Single en-suite room with wheelchair access – €490.00
  • Single en-suite room – €490.00
  • 2 person room with private Bathroom – €450.00
  • Single Moulin Tent, communal bathrooms – €390.00
  • 2 person Moulin Tent, communal bathrooms – €310.00
  • Camping (own tent) – €270.00

Please note that participants who are not able to attend a full retreat will not receive a refund for arriving late or leaving early.

Registration opens: Jan 19, 2026
Registration opens: Jan 19, 2026

 A Diamond Approach® Retreat.
Open for new people interested in finding out about the Diamond approach and its path and practices, and for existing students wishing to dive deeper into the work using meditation sensing and practice of inquiry.

Language: English

Each spiritual path has its own unique teachings, yet the teachings only come alive and transform the individual consciousness through the specific practices of that path. In these 4 days we will unfold, dissect and apply the 3 main practices of the Diamond Approach™. We will have a chance for in depth practice, time to examine our relationship to practice, and explore the various barriers, difficulties, and fruits of in depth practices on our inner process.
We will explore the 3 main practices of the Diamond Approach®.

Meditation – the practice of dis-identification with content of our consciousness, the development of the belly center and essential Will through specific meditation practice.
Sensing – the practice of sensing, looking and listening and conscious movement, that can develop our embodiment and experience of essence.
Inquiry – the art and practice of open ended inquiry which penetrates and illuminates our consciousness, bringing about experience, understanding and insight to the nature of our consciousness.

The practice of meditation and sensing and Diamond Inquiry® bring about a powerful deep transformation our consciousness.

This retreat will be a support for experienced students of the DA® to come and have a dedicated period of simply doing the meditations, open inquiry, and practices of presence of the DA. It is also an opportunity for people new to the DA to get an in-depth expereince of how the practices can lead to depth and revelation.

This retreat is open to all, feel free a friend!
For more details contact Gail Aylward

Online participation
Details on how to participate online will be sent closer to the time.

Please note that the online participation is for EU/UK time zones only.

Daily schedule – is in CET ( Central European Time) zone 

The schedule below is a rough guide for both in-person and online participants.

(Please note it is not finalised and can be subject to change)

7.30  – Optional sit
8.00  – Breakfast
8.50  – Life practice – Karma yoga
9.45  – End of Life practice
10.00 – Teachings in the hall
13.00 – Lunch
16.00 – Teachings in hall
19.00 – Supper
20.30 – Practice session
21.30 – Rest or optional sit


Teaching fee:
The teaching and admin fee for in person attendance is €350
The teaching and admin fee for zoom online is €400

To register for this event, there are 2 steps.

1 step – to pay the teaching fee, contact Geoff Caird at geoffcaird@gmail.com

2 step – Once the teaching fee has been paid, you need to book and pay for your accommodation via the ‘Book now’ button

Teaching fee Refund Policy:

If a participant should cancel this event up to 2 months before the starting date, the teaching fee is refundable less a €75 administration fee. If cancelled up to 1 month before the event, 50% is refundable. If cancelled less than 1 month before the event, there is no refund.

If the organisers should cancel this event, it would return all monies paid by participants for teaching fees.

Participants may wish to take out an insurance to cover themselves in case of any eventuality.


 

About the Teachers

Tejo

Tejo Jourdan has been teaching the Diamond Approach since 2006 and has been a student of this work since 1990 he now teaches the Diamond Approach® in Germany and the United Kingdom. After several years in India he worked in California as a building contractor for 25 years he is passionate about meditation and the […]

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Gail Aylward

Disillusioned with her banking career, Gail Aylward left her life in the city, and started practicing meditation and yoga in the early 1990s in India and in Europe.  After some years, she began to teach retreats offering the combination of these ancient practices. She co-founded Moulin de Chaves meditation retreat centre in SW France in […]

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Geoff Caird

Geoff Caird runs a craniosacral body therapy practice working with trauma and nervous system regulation. He is also a family systems and Gestalt in organisations facilitator. From an entrepreneurial background, Geoff has started and developed several businesses. Geoff has been a student of the Diamond Approach since 2000 and was ordained as a teacher in […]

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