An agricultural engineer by training, Virginie worked for 18 years as an employee in the corporate world, holding management positions in marketing and wine. Three life-altering shocks rocked her world in 2013/2014: her husband left her, her house burned down, and she was laid off. These events forced her to re-evaluate her life, regain control and responsibility for it, and reconnect with herself, with her deepest inner self, and with her inner joy. To understand, accept, transmute, and transform trials in order to emerge stronger.

Today, Virginie Bertrand creates spaces for those who feel the call of life. Spaces where people come to lay down their armor, slow down, breathe differently, feel differently, love differently. Spaces where the body rediscovers its freedom, where life energy is set in motion again, where natural sensuality can awaken, and where the encounter with oneself and with others becomes more genuine, more conscious, more vibrant.

Creator of initiatory spaces, Virginie weaves living experiences at the crossroads of tantra, movement, breath, voice, relationships, walking, and travel. At l'Oasis, through immersive retreats, circles, Camino de Santiago walks, treks, and initiatory journeys: all are fields of exploration where external movement also becomes an inner path.

Founder of the Oasis Graine de Joie, a place for pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago and a venue for workshops and gatherings, she envisions spaces for connection, regeneration, and presence, where different ways of being together can emerge.

Virginie doesn't transmit a method; she opens a space, a frequency, a field of experience. And in this space, everyone is free to encounter what seeks to live, to circulate, to reveal itself.
A return to the body, to the sensuality of living, to the circulation of energy, to the simple—and sometimes overwhelming—joy of being fully alive.