Holding The Lion’s Paw
Heroine’s Path Summer Retreat
Walking ourselves back to our agency, our innate courage, the full reservoirs of the heart, healthy Wild energy and JOY.
5TH- 7TH JULY 2024
FOREST RETREATS, HILL FARM
Tintern, Monmouthshire
Wales
NP16 6ST
Nearest station : Chepstow, Just 2.5 hours by train from London
This is gentle deep transformative work made for these times; a fully embodied experience calling yourself back home.
This work forms a cauldron of guided practices in which we ourselves brew, and return to the knowing deep in our bones, that we are wild, communal free beings.
We recover and call back lost parts of the self held in a container of time told practices which alter our consciousness to enable change.
We do it together.
We do it witnessed in love.
We do it in nature’s hands.
We are forever changed by it.
Walk with us…
WHAT TO EXPECT
This is the weekend of The Heart.
We gather for three days in a wild space, allowing the absorbent and sentient presence of nature to hold us.
We cycle between the deep healing practices of:
Environmental Art therapy
Radical and sensitive group therapeutic work, held in the palm of the land.
We seek to hear the internal block that is ready to be revealed to us, the one that is currently holding us back. Together we voice it and work as a group to resolve it, release it and transform it.
Somatic embodiment
Embodied physical and Breathflow practices drawing us down into the space of the body and the parasympathetic nervous system, gifting us with tools of honouring, igniting, releasing and deeply connecting to all that we carry with us in the body.
Esoteric Practices
Esoteric practices including Imrama ( visioning and dream journeying) and community Ritual nourishing the spirit, vision and a much needed perspective of surrender and holding within the greater Universe and each other, reminding us that we are not alone in our journey of grief, love and experience, so presumed in our current paradigm.
There will also be
Story telling
Women’s circle
Music, song and voice work
Forest bathing
for joy is an essential part of healing.
All of our practices are interwoven & enable us to reach deeper in to the enfolding of our soul.
“I felt nurtured and supported throughout, this helped me to open to the practices and go with whatever arose.”
”I feel so blessed and privileged to have found my tribe in you three amazing ladies and indeed all the beautiful souls who were there for our gathering to welcome in Beltane. Some strong connections and bonds were forged between us as a group that cannot be broken by distance.”
The Space…
A magical location overlooking the Wye Valley
We gather at Forest Retreats, based at Hill Farm Tintern; an eco-retreat centre overlooking The Wye Valley, nestled in the forest and immersed in nature.
Hill Farm, Tintern is a 15-acre site with spectacular views across the Wye Valley and nestled in nature. The site accommodates 12 people in yurts plus extra camping spots for tents or vans.
Based at Hill Farm, Tintern is only 20 mins drive from the M4 and other transport links, but remote enough to feel like to you are retreating from everyday life.
We will be moving between a yoga studio ( though we are not doing traditional yoga!), a shala, and ancient woodlands to ensure we have the coziest and most comfortable space to contain our practices.
We eat together, practice together and dream together.
Address:
Hill Farm
Barbadoes
Tintern
Monmouthshire
Wales
NP16 6ST
https://forestretreats.co.uk/contact/
Nearest Train station : Chepstow is the closest station and Abbey taxi’s (01291-625847) is a local company. Pre booking a taxi is essential and takes around 20 mins to get here from station.
Chepstow is just 2 hours and 20/30 mins from London Paddington station, and a 20 min taxi ride from the retreat centre.
Is it for me?
We hold women who hold others.
The care takers, the birth workers, the birthers, the teachers, the mothers, the therapeutic workers, the creators, the holders.
Chances are you are one of these because it is predominantly women who hold positions of care working paid or unpaid in our society
We give you space to breathe, integrate, be , Feel.
A safe container.
Come if you need holding, come if you yearn for belonging, a voice, some joy, some peace and some release….
Transformation can be held in the softest containers because it is there that we feel safest to thrive.
DAILY SCHEDULE
FRIDAY 5th July
ARRIVAL : All guests may arrive from 4pm
Settling in
5.30pm : Dinner
7pm : Meeting Your Instinct
Opening Circle & Attuning to the space and one another through Imrama, breath, and Community ritual.
SATURDAY 6th JULY
MORNING
Meeting The Heart
through
Integrative Breathflow, embodied movement
Creating communal Alters and Amulets with natural objects
AFTERNOON
Meeting your Block
in nature through Environmental Arts Therapy.
Dinner 6pm
8pm Night time by the fireside
SUNDAY 7th JULY
MORNING
Meeting your Capacity.
Softening, releasing and expanding the nervous system with Imrama, dream visioning, breath & story.
AFTERNOOON
Closing circle with an enlivening and reaffirming group integration practice ending at 3.30pm
We shift through the tapestry of our practices feeling into the energy of the group and the way the work moves. We will move between the ancient woodlands, the shala and the yoga studio fluidly, listening to the sun, the group and what is needed in the moment. Therefore this schedule may shift. move and be adapted on the day.
FOOD AND ACCOMMODATION
All accommodation will be in cosy yurts. All food will be vegan, nourishing, wholesome and lovingly prepared.
Are you in?
All are welcome, whatever part of your personal journey and the Heroine’s Path you find yourself on.
For some this will be a continuing deepening experience into the spiral, for others an initiation into cyclical living.
Join us around the fire amongst the canopy and roots of our native woodland for an initiation of change in your life, deep transformation, and belonging.
We promise to make you feel like the tender and valuable sou; that you are in, in every way.
HOW TO JOIN….
This is an intimate and small retreat for just 13 women enabling and ensuring that you have a VOICE, and space to be an integral part of the group and time to integrate and process all that we are moving through. Booking early is advised to ensure your spot.
Contribution : £450
Please be in contact if you would like to have an alternative method of payment.
Follow the link below and enter the correct amount ( either full or deposit), and a note/reference to say you are joining the retreat, to save your place.
“Thank you so much for a wonderfully special, magical and nourishing 3 days. Thank you for creating a space which shone with love and kindness where I felt so safe and held and a space where I could be me! I will carry this time in my heart”
“I just wanted to share how much I enjoyed the Heroine's path retreat. I loved the way the practices wove together. I have continued to feel grounded and more connected this week, to my true self and the natural world”
Do you crave more courage?
Do you need to find your Inner Fire?
Do you need more balance for the Fire you have?
Do you find it hard to act on your needs?
Do you yearn for deeper connection to your heart?
Are you looking for a way to tangibly connect to the natural world?
Are you longing for belonging with the land, the planet, the stars, with community?
Do you sense restrictions deep down within you that feel like they are holding you back?
Do you yearn for practices to uplift?
Do you wish to work with the cycles of healthy maturing so that you can step forward into a deeper more profound experience of every cycle of womanhood?
“So what is the point of this reclamation and focus, this calling back of what has been lost, this running with the wolves?
It is to go for the jugular, to get right down to the seed and bones of everything in your life, because that’s where your pleasure is, that’s where a woman’s Eden lies, that place where there is time and freedom to be, wander, wonder, write, sing, create and not be afraid.”
PLEASE NOTE : All payments and deposits are non refundable. You are more than welcome to pass on your place to another in the event that you cannot make it.
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