This is my 3rd article on the subject, so these articles about fitness, well-being, and body maintenance are becoming a regular appointment. It’s true that this is a subject I find important in my daily life and that I therefore want to share with you.

Here is my new little selection of fitness, beauty, and well-being tips in Paris and the Ile-de-France region, but that’s not all…

My Yoga Pass, to try yoga for free in Paris

A 29-year-old yogi, Alex has launched a non-profit project to promote the practice of yoga in Paris: Mon Yoga Pass.

Indeed, many people do not dare to try yoga because they do not know which style to practice. Alex’s goal through the blog, the newsletter, news, and the pass is to demystify yoga and make it more accessible, helping everyone find the style and teacher that suits them.

This multi-studio yoga pass (available upon simple request on the site), valid for one month, gives access to one class at each partner studio/teacher. It is free, only requiring in exchange that you follow the group on Facebook to support the movement.

A national day to experience sports as a family

The Famillathlon is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is meeting in Paris this year, today at the Champ de Mars, on Sunday, September 21, and in many cities in France from September 13 to October 4, 2014.

This unique and unifying event is open to everyone in many cities, the goal of this day being to introduce families to the practice of sport and to facilitate connection and solidarity through numerous free activities.

For this new edition, the event will focus on the benefits of sport and quality time spent as a family.

Participating municipalities: Paris (75), Saint Cloud (92), Chartres (28), Nevers (58), Bargemon (83), Saran (45), Bouzy (51), Marseille (13), Maromme (76) …

More than 100 activities and sports workshops will be offered at the Famillathlon events, as well as hundreds of hours of entertainment and activities in France with 230 associations, clubs, and leagues gathered, not to mention the celebrities and top-level athletes to meet.

The Défi Run arrives in France for the new school year

The Défi Run is an event organized as part of the Fit Challenge ASSU 2000 this coming September and October.

This sports/health program has been offering free coaching sessions open to everyone since last March, mixing running and Fitness in 8 French cities, led by 9 internationally renowned French athletes (Brahim Asloum, Stéphane Diagana, Marc Raquil, Muriel Hurtis, Christine Arron, Jean Galfione, Leslie Djhone, Bob Tahri, and Mehdi Baala).

The Défi Run race will be organized in three major French cities:

Villeneuve d’Ascq on Sunday, September 28 (first departures from 8:30 am), at Parc du Héron
Nice, on Sunday, October 5 (first departures from 8:30 am), on the Promenade des Anglais
Paris, on Sunday, October 19 (first departures from 8:30 am), at the Bois de Vincennes

On a 5 or 10 km course marked with fun obstacles, the 9 great athletes have specially concocted 4 major challenges for the participants, focused on a specific physical skill:

The Agility challenge
The Speed challenge
The Strong challenge
The Resist challenge

At the finish, there is no ranking, but the possibility to compare your physical abilities with those of the 9 champions.

A partner village with a free sports course for children and various activities (photo booth, signing and photo area with Champions…) will be open for each race starting at 5 pm on Saturday and all day Sunday from 8 am.

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Practical info:

From €10 for the 5 km and from €15 for the 10 km

Possibility to register as a group – Races open to everyone from 12 years old for 5 km and from 16 years old for 10 km

The Yogis of the Heart

This new solidarity wellness event is organized by and for the benefit of the association Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque.

This is the 1st major solidarity Yoga gathering in France which will be held this Sunday, September 21, in the magical and inspiring setting of the Orangerie of the Château de Versailles.

This 1.5-hour collective session with 700 yogis will be guided by Laurence Maman, a trainer at the French Yoga Institute for over thirty years. She will be supported by a team of volunteer teachers who will individually assist each participant. The practice is accessible to both beginners and advanced practitioners.

This event will help save the lives of two children with heart defects.

Price: €25 per session, including a Yuj gift bag, a sample of Nature et Découvertes organic essential oils, and a yoga magazine.

Schedule: session from 11:30 am to 1 pm

Dress code: white, nothing but white!

Mat: Nature & Découvertes provides a yoga mat to each participant for the duration of the practice.

Find or awaken your inner dancer on OnyDanse

OnyDanse

is a website that gathers all the information on dance classes/workshops in Paris and the Ile-de-France region. There is also a blog to provide extra class descriptions and show ideas.

The site allows you to find in one click a selection of good addresses to find the class you need (Special Beginner tab), detailed articles (class tests, discoveries, and dance news), and gift sets to treat yourself or others to dance classes.

BodySano

The BodySano method, dietary coaching and slimming aesthetics, is based on 3 complementary pillars:

free and private coaching every week
a personalized diet plan by a nutritionist
natural food supplements

The good deal:

during your first visit to BodySano, you will be entitled to a free health assessment (which I obviously tested to be able to tell you about it).

The latter will allow you to have a very precise knowledge (thanks in particular to an ultra-technological scale) of your state of health (ideal weight, muscle mass, bone mass, metabolic age of your organs) and the direction your efforts must take to reach your ideal weight.

It also allows you to know your fat excess, but also water (water retention), because the certified nutritionist who does the assessment explained to me that depending on the type of fat present more strongly in a person, the method to lose it will not be the same at all.

As a bonus, the institute also offers facial and body slimming treatments.

BodySano

70 rue de Lourmel 75015 Paris

Saint-Jean-de-Monts and its personalized Fitness and Wellness program

The seaside resort of Saint-Jean-De-Monts in Vendée offers a personalized Fitness & Wellness program for free for everyone, all year round!

The stay advisors at the tourist office of Saint-Jean-de-Monts welcome the public every day for information and, more specifically, by appointment, in an area dedicated to the Espace Odysséa, to offer a personalized “Fitness and Wellness” program.

At the end of this meeting with a “wellness” advisor, you leave with an activity program (based on the benefit sought) that you have the possibility (not the obligation, hey!) to book at the end of the meeting.

The benefits have been defined in partnership with the professionals of the thalasso-spa of Saint-Jean-de-Monts.

Information at the Tourist Office: 67 esplanade de la mer – 85160 Saint-Jean-de-Monts

The ANCV Sports Coupon

From September 13 to 21, the Agence Nationale pour les Chèques-Vacances (ANCV) is a partner of the 5th edition of the “Sentez-Vous Sport” (Feel the Sport) Week organized by the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) and sponsored by Tony Parker and Laure Manaudou.

This great sports festival invites all French people to discover various sports disciplines for free.

It is also an opportunity to highlight the ANCV Sports Coupon which has facilitated access to sports practice for everyone since 1998.

ANCV Sports Coupons are payment instruments issued, under certain conditions, by a social organization, a service, or a local authority, to allow for the payment of, for example, a portion of licenses or classes taken in a sports association or club.

Who can benefit from it? Private sector employees (works councils), civil service employees or retirees, recipients of certain partner Caf (Family Allowance Funds).
How to get it? From the works council or equivalent in the civil service, at the town hall, the general council and the regional council, at the departmental directorate in charge of social cohesion.
Where can it be used? The ANCV Sports Coupon comes in the form of a voucher with a value of €10, €15, or €20. It can be used at accredited sports associations and clubs.

Its validity period is two years plus the year of issue and it can be exchanged at the end of this period.

It allows you to pay for subscriptions, licenses, classes, workshops… for more than 130 sports activities in 30,000 associations and clubs, especially in France (football, basketball, judo, dance, horse riding, cycling…).

Firming your body with Provitea’s Viteaslim

We will end this article with a good deal and a small giveaway with Provitea, a new brand of food supplements Made in France.

The brand’s innovative formulations are created by a Doctor of Pharmacy, a specialist in nutrition. The raw materials have also been selected and production is controlled by a renowned French laboratory.

With 3 capsules per day, Viteaslim helps reduce cellulite and burn fat thanks to its formula containing grape marc, bitter orange, pineapple, green tea, svetol, Vitamins B1, B5, and B6, and chromium.

GIVEAWAY:

Provitéa is offering one of my readers a box of Viteaslim to try the product (value: €26.90).

To participate, simply leave a comment below this article telling me about your fitness, well-being, sports, health tips…

A lucky draw among the answers to this question will determine the winner of the prize. Good luck everyone!

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– contest start date: Sunday, September 21, 2014 – deadline for entry: Saturday, September 27, 2014 and result the next day on the blog in an edit of this article