Unfurl, Open, Become.
Retreat with Spirit
Who are you when you aren’t doing what you normally do?
Retreats offer you the chance to step away from the rhythms and routines of your everyday and to move into another way of being you. In the magic of the stepping away, you give yourself the chance to see yourself anew.
I love weaving retreats and spending time in the special community they create. They are a really special part of my work. It is such a gift when people return again and again. I co-create all my retreats with Suzy-Anne of Sunny Brow Farm Holistic Retreat Centre in Outgate, nr Ambleside.
Soul Friend
Suzy and I met about 10 years ago quite randomly (isn’t it always the way) and there was an immediate connection. I am not sure either of us really knew what was going to unfold as we stepped into friendship together. There was a moment when we were participating in a workshop and together we fell into holding space for a third person and it just felt right. In that moment, we sowed the seeds of the retreats we were yet to hold. Sometimes, mid retreat, I catch Suzy’s eye and it feels exactly as it did that day. Other times, when we are mid some quirky ceremony we have dreamed up, I look around and I can’t quite believe we are doing it. Suzy always blames me for the strangest ideas but I think its her influence….
Suzy is an extremely skilled facilitator. She has been teaching yoga since her early twenties. Her practice of yoga has led her to deepen her spiritual wisdom and grow her interest in many different facets of self development and spiritual life. Like me, she loves Earth Rooted Spiritual practice. She is a shamanic practitioner, Inipi Lodge Water Pourer, Transformational healer, Reiki Master, massage therapist and trained macrobiotic chef. You might like to check out her recipe book ‘Conscious Cookery.’ Its a joy.
Sunny Brow Farm
Sunny Brow Farm Holistic Retreat centre is an amazing place in the heart of the Lakes. Its been lovingly and skilfully regenerated and rebuilt by Phil (Suzy’s husband and master builder) and its been quite something to watch it grow and change over the last decade.
Suzy and Phil share their home with retreat and self-catering guests throughout the year. Its a very special place, anchored by their marriage, vision and hard work. The amazing barn cottages are surrounded by woodland, fields, plants and the beautiful beck. Along with Phil and Suzy’s family, its peopled by sheep, dogs, cats and the wildlife which make it a space where we can all reconnect and unwind. Its one of the true blessings in my life to be able to work here and to be nourished by Sunny Brow.
4 Special Retreat Styles
Together with Suzy, I offer four different types of retreats. Our Sacred Yoga Retreats are created around the practice of yoga and offer lots of yoga classes curated to facilitate your spiritual development. These are suitable for beginners and more experienced practitioners of yoga and of spirituality.
We offer two women only retreats. Our Spirit Woman Retreats are facilitated through cacao ceremony, ritual and yoga to nourish and support you. These are also suitable for anyone new to yoga, or to spirituality and to cacao. They are a little more intense than the sacred yoga retreats. Our Spirit Women Initiations are powerful ceremonial spaces created to offer a deep dive into Self and Spirituality. We recommend that you have previous experience of retreat, ceremony and deeper spiritual self-exploration before booking one of these.
Our Earth Spirit Lodges are a little different as they include learning spaces as well as ceremonial ones. They are rooted in Earthy spiritual practice and the Medicine Wheel. The shorter Earth Spirit Lodges are a great next step with Earth Spirituality. Our week long Earth Spirit Lodge is suitable for people with more experience of spiritual practice and self-work.
Retreat lodges for the purification and honouring of the Earth and your body. Time in circle with Great Spirit, our Earth relatives, the ancestors, your guides and guardians to support your awakening. These retreats aim to awaken your soul memories of ways of walking with Spirit through life and draw on the elements, the medicine wheel and spiritual ideas, wisdom and beliefs that develop your conscious connection with the natural world.
Suzy and I draw on our Earth-rooted transpersonal spiritual practice to co-create dynamic spaces where we can all explore what it means to be incarnate on the Earth here and now. In essence, this is a retreat to explore the nothing, the everything and your earth walk in between.
If you feel it is time to journey more deeply into the transpersonal reality of the dream weave, shed skins, and develop your understanding so that you can further embody your practice; then Earth Spirit Lodge is calling. This retreat maybe for you if you are interested in learning new ways of becoming present through your connection with the natural world or if you are curious about developing your spirituality through the mysteries of creation. At their heart is the process of our embodiment – so expect deep healing and emotional release. Join us for a unique and magical experience which includes ritual yoga, Earth based spiritual practices, transpersonal healing, ceremony, massage, movement, and cleansing food, on the land and in the sacred studio spaces at Sunny Brow.
Our September Earth Spirit Lodge retreats are a week long and include a Sweat Lodge. These are powerful, deeply healing retreats as the whole week allows us to keep opening and unfolding into more of who we are.
Our Earth Spirit Winter Lodge retreats are shorter and the lodge experience is created through ceremony and ritual. These retreats allow you to take the next step into your Earth Spirit Practice.
Earth Spirit Lodge
Sept 8th to 15th 2023 (Week Long Retreat)
Jan 19th to 22nd 2024 (Weekend)
Jan 22nd to 26th 2024 (Midweek)
Sept 6th to 13th 2024 (Week Long Retreat)
2023 & 2024 Dates
Calling all wise women, wild women, healers, Earth spirit dreamers & women who dance with the moon. Come join us for ceremonies, journeying, moving beyond your wounding, embracing your body, freeing your voice and sitting in sacred sisterhood. Sacred Women Initiations offer you a space to hear your Self and to realign with your essence. Birthed with deep awareness of Gaia, woven from myth, and steeped in magic, these retreats offer you a powerful way to come home to all that you are. As the Summer Solstice beckons, under the full moon, we gather for initiation into sacred womanhood through the body. Awaken your senses as a spiritual pathway to your Soul.
So often, women have received the message that the unique journey of womanhood is best hidden. Together we will celebrate all that makes us whole and honour our femininity as a sacred gift and bring the magic of our experience to the light.
These 4 day initiation retreats include one-to-one sessions, ceremonies to honour and empower, ritual to recognise the mysteries of the feminine, connection with the Earth, deeply nourishing yoga, time in circle, and a little creativity. Each one is different and follows the energy of the time of year and what is rising through the collective. June dates include a day long sweat lodge ceremony .
Spirit Woman Initiations
June 12th to 16th 2023
November 20th to 24th 2023
June 10th to 14th 2024
November 18th to 22nd 2024
2023 & 2024 Dates
Spirit Woman Retreats
Weekend retreats to connect you with
the mysteries of Womanhood
This retreat is an invitation to connect with your embodied experience of yourself as a unique pathway to empowered spirituality. These retreats are great if you are looking to go a little deeper but aren’t quite ready for an initiation. Each retreat unfolds as a journey which will support you to understand more of what makes you the soulful woman that you are.
By working with cacao and with yoga, we invite you into the transformational experience that is waiting for you as you connect deeply to body and soul. At the core of this retreat, is the wisdom of embodied awareness and the knowing that the path of being present with our internal experience brings us the insights, creativity and peace to be who we are born to be.
The retreat offers ritual space, cacao ceremonies, yoga, wholefoods, massage and circle time with like-hearted women to open your inner pathways back to love. Its a unique way to take time out just for you.
2023 & 2024 Dates
June 9th to 12th 2023
November 17th to 20th 2023
June 7th to 10th 2024
November 15th to 18th 2024
Sacred Yoga Retreats
In a world that is in need of compassion and embodied love, the path of yoga offers us a way to sacred connectedness with life, each other and ourselves. At this time of social and cultural change and transformation, we are all invited to release old ways of being and to come into right relationship with the Earth and those we love. True yoga offers us a way to yoke Soul and body. It is a pathway that allows us to come to rest in our complete selves so that we might know peace and understanding.
The ancient yogis documented the philosophy of yoga as a way of navigating the mystery of Self and the purpose of life so that we might experience a state of Oneness with all things. Sacred Yoga retreats share this intention. We offer a mixture of healing yoga practices, meditation, sharing and discussion in alignment with these deep philosophies of yoga. For Suzy and I, this deeper intention of yoga is central to our personal spiritual lives and we create these retreats and share from this place.
Each retreat responds to the needs of the people who come, allowing you to strengthen and stretch your body, open your mind and expand your heart. We draw on our extensive experience supporting people to reconnect with who they are meant to be. More than just another yoga retreat, Sacred Yoga offers you the space to transform. The yoga style is largely yin, with some restorative practice and a little hatha flow. The emphasis is on how you can cultivate presence in your practice and with how you can develop both strength and sweetness. The retreats include a complementary healing massage and you can book extras too (at additional cost.)
Weekend March 10th to 13th 2023
Midweek March 13th to 17th 2023
Weekend May 19th to 22nd 2023
Midweek May 22nd to 26th 2023
Weekend Sept 29th to Oct 2nd 2023
Midweek Oct 2nd to 6th 2023
2023 & 2024 Dates
Weekend Feb 23rd to 26th 2024
Midweek Feb 26th to March 1st 2024
Weekend May 17th to 20th 2024
Midweek May 20th to 24th 2024
Weekend Oct 4th to 7th 2024
Midweek Oct 7th to 11th 2024
Connect with Sunny Brow Farm Holistic Retreat Centre
To avoid chaos and confusion Suzy handles all the bookings for our shared retreats. Email is the best way to connect with her.
