A long weekend for community members invested in slow & gentle practices, dedicated to unravelling, deeply slowing down, and resting into more subtle and connected states, through the wise, transformative and healing tradition of yoga.
- 5pm Thursday 20th March – Late morning Sunday 23rd March
- Long and spacious yoga practices
- A community-centred therapeutic approach
- Time in nature and the surrounding woodland and meadow
- Choice of shared twin or private rooms
- Delicious and plentiful vegetarian food (with vegan options)
- Scheduled and lightly held quiet time
The Offerings
Yoga and Therapeutic Practices
This is a weekend for slowing down and resting deeply. Lou and Lisa take a trauma-sensitive, therapeutic, and non-performative approach. This means the classes will be gentle, playful, and accessible.
Over the weekend we will use a range of yoga practices (forget your downward dogs) to reconnect with ourselves, spending lots of time easing in and playing on the ground, not worrying too much about what shapes we make, or what we ‘Get Done’. There will be restorative practices, where we build intentional nests to feel contained and safe enough to drop in to comfort and softness. We will use Yoga Nidra to rest deeply and visit the regenerative wilds of our imaginations and dream-worlds. All of these practices will be lovingly held by a framework of yoga philosophy, to truly experience yoga as a transformative and radical unravelling of the many cultural constraints, hierarchies, and nonsense we find ourselves bound up in.
Lisa and Lou both bring their own specialisms in yoga therapy, ritual and magick, massage therapy, body listening, conscious dance, social justice and liberation centered approaches throughout the weekend.
Enjoying Nature
Whether you want to laze under the ancient oak trees with a book, meet the on-site animals, or get out and explore the onsite woodland and rolling hills, the whole retreat takes place on land where community has been cultivated and planted in the earth.
Quiet Time
There will be plenty of time and space over the weekend for quiet unwinding and contemplation. We want the weekend to feel totally unrushed and spacious, so your multi-layered self can slow right down, rest fully, and breathe deeply. We will hold periods of quiet throughout the weekend to carry the stillness we are co-creating deeper.