Wim Hof launches France training roundup, alpine retreats and new center events

The biggest change in Wim Hof’s France calendar is not the cold, it is the geography of access. What now stands out is a ladder of entry points in the southern French Alps, from a one-day Fundamentals Workshop to women-only retreats and a small, high-touch weekend with Wim Hof himself at the new Wim Hof Method Center France in Aspres-sur-Buëch.

The France roundup, published May 24, mapped late May and June across multiple regions and made the ecosystem look less like a single destination event and more like a growing local circuit. In Villar-d’Arêne, in the Écrins massif, Laurent D’acunto is set to lead a four-day retreat from June 5 to 8. A week later, from June 12 to 15, the new center in Aspres-sur-Buëch hosts Wild Presence, a women-only Wim Hof Method retreat led by Adél Gyepes. The center page also shows the basic entry point, a Fundamentals Workshop, alongside Wim Hof Weekends and week-long Wim Hof Method Travels.

The flagship draw is the June 19 to 21 weekend with Wim Hof at the center itself. The official listing prices it at €2,500, sets it from 6:00 PM on June 19 to 8:00 PM on June 21, and presents it in English. Only 24 people can attend, and accommodation, vegetarian meals and airport transfers are included. That packaging makes the weekend feel less like a mass seminar and more like a compact alpine immersion built for people willing to pay for proximity, time and logistics handled end to end.

The science veneer remains part of the pitch. Wim Hof Method materials point to a 2024 PLOS One systematic review that looked at nine studies on the method, and to a 2023 randomized study of 42 participants. The official site also frames the breathing work as the active component in a Radboud University Medical Center study. At the same time, cold-water practice still carries real risk, and the appeal of these retreats sits beside a steady caution about cold-shock responses and other hazards that make supervised practice matter.

Taken together, the France schedule shows where Wim Hof culture is gaining traction fastest: not just in one-off alpine escapes, but in repeatable local formats. The one-day workshop brings people in, the retreats deepen the commitment, and the community sessions for existing practitioners keep the practice circulating beyond the destination weekend.