This immersive Fantasy Photoshoot Retreat with Master Photographer Ida von Aves Château de Puy Vidal returns for a second time as we journey into your inner myths and archetypes—embracing strength and vulnerability, grief and joy, beauty and pain. Guided by visionary photographer Ida von Aves and expert hair and makeup artist Sarah Scherer, you’ll explore and celebrate a self-image rooted in compassion and power.

Drawing on classical art and her mastery of light and shadow, Ida will help you embody your inner villain, queen, knight, or goddess—becoming a living work of art inspired by the Medieval, Renaissance, and Pre-Raphaelite eras.

This is more than a costume or a scene — it’s a creative rite of passage. Through archetype work, cinematic styling, and the gaze of an artist’s lens, you explore the inner figures that live within you: the muse, the heroine, the sorceress, the goddess, the wanderer. The camera becomes a mirror that reveals not performance, but truth — the part of you that has always been powerful, playful, and alive.

And through gathering with other women on the same journey, the experience deepens into something profoundly personal. Exploring these archetypes in community amplifies the healing — witnessing and being witnessed transforms self-expression into self-recognition.

Guided by artists who understand both the theatrical and the tender, you’ll inhabit your story completely. The Château’s history, beauty, and atmosphere become your stage; the light becomes your collaborator.

You leave not only with photographs, but with proof — of your courage to be seen, your belonging among kindred spirits, and your capacity to turn imagination into embodiment.

Step through our enchanted doors—where muses gather and myths come alive.