Gail Aylward (Assistant)

Gail Aylward is director and co-founder of the Moulin de Chaves retreat centre in South-West France. She started practicing yoga in the early 1990s and sat her first silent meditation retreat in 1994 in India. Gail is a qualified Mindfulness, yoga and restorative yoga teacher, and teaches retreats emphasising a kind, gentle attention within both the meditation practices and yoga postures.

In 2005, Gail became a student of the Ridhwan school of the Diamond Approach of AH Almaas. Inspired and transformed by these teachings, she joined their 10 year teacher training program and was ordained as a teacher-minister in 2021.

Gail mentors students one to one, teaches retreats and assists in leading Diamond Approach groups.