About Walter and Anna Linde
We are grateful that we wake up every day in our own little paradise in the French countryside. Away from the ‘musts’, rushing, stressing, and back to feeling, relaxing, and having space again to fully enjoy life, without the noise of society. We really feel at home here and we would like to share that feeling with you!
After selling my company, I, Walter, decided to pursue my dream: I bought a beautiful piece of land surrounded by nature where people can truly be themselves again. A place where there is room for nature lovers, those seeking peace and quiet, and people who want to work on their personal development. A few times a year, Anna Linde and I organize retreats ourselves, and the property is also rented out for retreats, workshops, training courses, or other events.
A little later, Anna Linde discovered Le Domaine Vert as a singer-songwriter, looking for an inspiring place in nature to write new songs. Quite unexpectedly, Cupid had traveled with her to the beautiful Corrèze, and she soon realized that Le Domaine Vert would also become her home. You can regularly enjoy Anna Linde’s beautiful narrative songs and her guitar around the campfire.
We welcome you to our grounds with great warmth and pleasure. We love to enjoy together everything that nature gives us here. Our grounds have an open, relaxed atmosphere and everyone is welcome. The decision to open our grounds only to people who want to attend a retreat, training, or workshop here is a choice we made from the heart: hosting these weeks makes us incredibly happy and we are grateful to be able to witness the personal development of others up close. It is therefore no longer possible to book a regular overnight stay or vacation on our grounds.
We hope to welcome you soon at Le Domaine Vert. Come and relax and recharge your batteries while participating in one of the retreats, training courses, or workshops organized on this site.
At Le Domaine Vert, Walter and Anna Linde regularly host retreats. They organize weeks for families, where parents can spend real quality time with their children and reconnect without outside distractions. They also organize weeks for adults who want to live life to the fullest and feel happier and/or freer. In today’s society, it is very easy to get carried away and be “lived.” We believe it is important to provide tools to help you get more in touch with yourself, so that you can, for example, make decisions based on your heart and feelings again, instead of constantly mulling over what the right decision is or, even more so, what is “sensible.” In addition to organizing retreats, Anna Linde and Walter also offer private mini-retreats on request, which you can put together yourself. Think of breathing sessions, tantric dance, energetic healings, relaxing in our hot tub or sauna, and so on.
During these weeks, we share experiences from our own lives. Anna Linde has naturally listened to her feelings her entire life. This meant that she didn’t always have it easy as a child, but she continued to trust her own feelings. If she didn’t want to do something because it didn’t feel right, she didn’t do it, even though others couldn’t always understand that. Once, after a minor altercation with someone else, a stranger on the street said to her: “If you always care about what other people say about you, you won’t have a happy life. You can only ask yourself whether you acted from a good heart.” Anna Linde still carries this advice with her to this day.
During her training as a Dutch teacher, Anna Linde gained a variety of experiences. Among other things, she worked with children with ADHD, ADD, fear of failure, and autism, and she supervised various projects. One of these was working toward a performance during an open stage event with five students who had severe fear of failure. Through the use of music, singing, and Anna Linde’s ability to make others believe in themselves, this project was a great success. In 2016, Anna Linde traveled to the jungle of Suriname with the Edukans foundation. There, she was paired with a Surinamese teacher to teach together and learn from each other. It was very interesting to see and recognize the differences in culture, education, and interpersonal relationships. Before Anna Linde moved to France, she worked as a reading consultant for the public library at ten different primary schools. Here, she coached and guided teachers and principals in the area of reading motivation within the school.
Over the past 20 years, Walter has filled his backpack with training courses in the field of self-development. These courses have given him a foothold in his busy life as the director of a successful company with more than 40 employees. With multiple offices, including one in Hong Kong, he has traveled all over the world and has had the opportunity to meet many people from different cultures. The combination of life experience and multiple courses has given Walter a solid foundation in self-development. During retreats, he knows how to gently coach you in the right direction, allowing you to discover for yourself what you need to further your personal development.
Below is a selection of courses and training programs he has completed and can wholeheartedly recommend:
MBC, mind and body – Roy Martina (2004)
EMDR – Floor Slagter
Nonviolent communication – VINE
Enneagram and coach training – Willem Jan van de Wetering
Quantum touch – Patousch
Tantra year-long training – Jan de Boer et al.
Bodywork – School of Shakti
Family constellations – Systemic View
Various retreats/training courses and workshops Biodanza, Tantric Dance, Ecstatic Dance, and massage.
