Murphy will be on hand to make sure all your needs are taken care of. She will prepare fresh, healthy meals, make sure the breadbag is put out for the boulangere in the mornings, show you the way to the farm shop and swimming lake, teach you how to play French billiards and maybe tell tales of the ancestors whose portraits hang about. As an experienced editor and journalist, she will be happy to offer advice on your writing.

 

Her parents were married in the adjacent church, both her children christened there, and she has celebrated a few birthdays at the château in Grand Meaulnes style, so knows how joyous a place it is. She can't wait to introduce you to some local specialties, such as Flamiche and Ficelle Picarde, and maybe make some elderberry fritters too. 

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Murphy started out in London as an arts editor and staff journalist at Vogue, Esquire, GQ and the Telegraph, and still writes the occasional feature for its Saturday magazine. In 2004, she moved to Cornwall to raise her family, where she booked performers for Port Eliot Festival over its 15 years and launched Cloud Nine Marshmallows, a brand of natural, handmade pillows of luxury that have earned eight Good Taste stars from the Guild of Fine Food. She is still getting her head around French bakeries' wildly varying opening hours.

Gillian is an American Yoga Teacher and Trainer (500 E-RYT, RYS, YACEP), Naturopath, Ayurvedic Therapist, and Adaptogen Educator specialising in Mycology. Yoga became a major part of Gillian’s life after giving birth to her son 15 years ago.

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Teaching for Gillian is a way to help others and find balance in the urban environment. As a practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine and Naturopathy, Gillian finds joy in working with homeopathy. and as a Reiki master, she has practised the healing arts through touch and redirection of energy. As an Adaptogen Educator, she uses her knowledge of Mycology to assist in the cultivation and uses of fungi to treat illnesses and to live a more centred life.

 

Gillian completed her first Yoga training (200 RYT) at the Sivananda Ashram in Orleans, France. In 2015, she completed her Kundalini Yoga training, an energetic technology as taught by master Yogi Bhajan. Gillian's advanced training (300 RYT) specialisng in Ashtanga and Iyengar was completed at the Association for Yoga and Meditation in Rishikesh, India in 2016. In 2022, Gillian completed her advanced training (300 RYT) at Sattva Yoga Academy in the Himalayas. 

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Gillian is the founder and lead trainer of Transformational Yoga, a school based in Paris that trains new Yoga teachers and offers workshops, classes, and retreats. Gillian has studied the teaching of higher education at Harvard University to bring more academic focus into the world of Yoga. She has written a book about cultivating Divine Consciousness called “Cosmic Yoga: From Shadow to Divine”.