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In today's fast-paced world, it's common for the connection between our bodies and minds to become overwhelmed due to stress, anxiety, and the demands of everyday life. This retreat offers a space in which we can slow down, pay attention, and explore our relationship with ourselves and our bodies. Using evidence based therapeutic interventions, embodied practice and plenty of space to just be you, we hope you will leave feeling more empowered, resourced within yourself and able to make conscious choices that support balanced living.
But it's not all serious introspection—expect moments of joy, laughter, and genuine connections with like-minded individuals. This is a space for growth and community, where you'll be supported every step of the way. Guided by myself, along with my trusted collaborator Kristal, together we bring years of experience in psychotherapy, group work, yoga, meditation, and holistic wellness. Our focus is creating a fertile ground for you to let go, relax, learn, laugh, build friendships and leave feeling nourished inside and out.
If you feel inspired to join this retreat or simply have questions I offer a free 20 minute telephone consultation, to discuss whether this experience aligns with your needs and expectations, or book direct below.
Luxury Farmhouse Accommodation:
4 Nights & 3 Full Days.
Located in the serene countryside of Wales, our luxurious barn conversion provides the perfect backdrop for our community to join together for a weekend of self-exploration. Rooms are offered on a twin share basis, or if you need more spaciousness, doubles can be booked for one. Onsite parking & all amenities.
All-inclusive Meal Package:
3 x Nourishing vegetarian meals a day. Our vegetarian cuisine is all prepared fresh on site with mind and body nourishment at the core of the ethos. Please ask about dietary requirements, as these can be considered. This retreat will be alcohol free. Tea, coffee and herbal tea will be provided.
Daily Therapeutic Workshops & Embodied Practice:
Therapeutic workshops will be guided by Abbey, with embodied practices led by both Abbey and Kristal. A combination of evidence based therapeutic interventions and embodied practices to support you in your own self development. These sessions will be informative and educational, with space for curiosity, light heartedness and hopefully some laughter & fun.
Daily Yoga & Meditation:
Daily morning Yoga will be led by Kristal, open to all bodies and abilities. Kristal is a master at meeting people where they are and encouraging gentle exploration with a playful spirit. Optional meditation will be available each evening to support deep rest and relaxation.
Daily Check Ins, Sharing Circles & Ritual.
These are the tools we use to create community and foster deep connection. Daily space to check in with yourself and the group, to process what you are learning / feeling / discovering, to connect the dots as we move through the weekend together, and to create meaning.
Free Time:
Our hope for this retreat is that you will leave feeling fully resourced within yourself, saturated with new knowledge and awareness in abundance. However, we also know that to fully integrate the teaching quiet space to breathe is vital. Hence, we have incorporated free time throughout or schedule together. Space to just be you. read a book, have a chat, make friends, go for a walk, sleep, rest. Your time.
Online Integration Group:
3 weeks after our retreat you will have the opportunity to join our online integration group. A space to reconnect to the group, reflect on your time since leaving the retreat, offer support, share wisdom, learn and continue to deepen your growth.
A luxury 6-bedroom farmhouse nestled in the Welsh Countryside, with an impressive open plan living area, bespoke kitchen, and handmade dining table large enough to seat all guests. A wood burning stove in the living area, or a covered seating area outside with a fire pit for our evenings. Tastefully styled bedrooms, offering quiet luxury with a nod to Nordic simplicity. All rooms feature ensuite bathrooms or share a family bathroom (shared between a maximum of 4). A ground floor studio gives us ample space for yoga, workshops and our embodied practices. For those desiring a respite from the communal living areas, a snug awaits, which will be our quiet space during this retreat. Located in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, stunning landscapes surround this idyllic retreat located 4 miles from Denbigh, just next door to the Clwydian Range & Dee Valley National Park.
I’ve worked as a therapist with individuals in my Private Practice since 2018. Supporting them in their own personal development, I love my work, and get so much joy from assisting others in this exploration. However, over time I recognised that some of my clients needed something else, they needed a space to practice what we preached.
Hence, the birthplace of this retreat.
An opportunity to experience the benefits of group therapy, in a safe held environment, with like minded individuals. In my work facilitating group therapy, I am often in awe of the process in action, it meets a totally different set of needs than 1-2-1 therapeutic work. The group environment fosters a sense of acceptance, connection and belonging. All core human desires.
On this retreat I will be delivering evidence based therapeutic interventions and holding the boundaries of the therapeutic space, so that you can relax, enjoy and benefit from the community we will build together.
Yoga is my life, saturated with lots of fun! I’ve been practicing for 15 years and I am amazed how fresh the lifestyle continues to be. I came to yoga for exercise and quickly found it to be SO MUCH MORE. I am now passionate about sharing the meditative and relaxation benefits also. I've slowly become fascinated by alignment and breath. Recognising everybody is different and wanting to make Yoga accessible for everyone. I'd say I specialise in a Hatha flow style full of heart. For more than a decade I've been grateful for the opportunity to live and teach in communities, that focus on permaculture, yoga or shamanism. I love to connect with people and support their journey into this way of being. I'm a little obsessed with being in the kitchen and creating nourishing whole food vegan delights. Singing songs with my guitar lights me up. As does concise, clear, compassionate communication. As does Nature! I am a qualified masseuse and absolutely adore getting stuck into muscles that are crying for some TLC. See YOU on the mat!
18.00-19.00 Arrive & Settle In
19.00-19.30 Welcome Meeting
19.30-20.30 Dinner
21.30-22.00 Optional Meditation
08.00-09.00 Yoga
09.00-10.00 Breakfast
10.00-10.30 Karma Yoga
10.30-11.30 Morning Check In
11.30-13.30 Therapeutic Workshop No1.
13.30-16.30 Lunch & Free Time
16.30-17.30 Embodied Practice No1.
17.30-18.30 Evening Sharing Circle
19.30-20.30 Dinner
21.00-22.00 Optional Meditation
08.00-09.00 Yoga
09.00-10.00 Breakfast
10.00-10.30 Karma Yoga
10.30-11.30 Morning Check In
11.30-13.30 Therapeutic Workshop No2.
13.30-16.30 Lunch & Free Time
16.30-17.30 Embodied Practice No2.
17.30-18.30 Evening Sharing Circle
19.30-20.30 Dinner
20.30-21.30 Letting Go Ceremony
08.00-09.00 Yoga
09.00-10.00 Breakfast
10.00-10.30 Karma Yoga
10.30-11.30 Morning Check In
11.30-13.30 Therapeutic Workshop No3.
13.30-16.30 Lunch & Free Time
16.30-18.00 Cacao Ceremony
19.30-20.30 Dinner
21.30-22.00 Optional Meditation
07.00-08.00 Yoga
08.00-09.00 Breakfast
09.00-09.30 Checkout
This schedule may be adapted to meet the needs and flow of the group, as we find our rhythm together
Acts of service that benefit the group, as we live in community together. These may include: helping chop vegetables in the kitchen, building the campfire or helping set up our ritual space. We ask that everyone contributes 30 minutes a day to serve the flow of the retreat (within your capacity).
The work that’s on offer on this retreat is backed by insights from neuroscience, therapeutic theory and yogic principles. You'll rediscover the language your body uses to communicate with you, enabling you to understand your own needs and in turn meet them. The aim being that you are better equipped to navigate the ups and downs of life without becoming chronically overwhelmed, exhausted and burnt-out. We will approach this learning with a top-down / bottom-up approach, which in plain English means we engage the mind (top down) and the body (bottom up).
Using therapeutic interventions we will explore:
Using embodied practices, such as:
If your reading this thinking I have no idea what any of this means? Don't worry, by the end of the retreat you will. All of our workshops and practices are designed to support growth, which means we explore the edges of our comfort zones with curiosity and a light hearted gentle approach. Nothing is compulsory, respecting your body and boundary's greatly encouraged.
Shared Twin Room with Family Bathroom*: £500.00 (per person)
Shared Twin Room with Ensuite: 575.00 (per person)
Double Room with Family Bathroom*: £1000.00 (price for two)
Double Room with Ensuite: 1150.00 (price for two)
Double Room for one with Family Bathroom*: £850.00 (price for one)
Double Room for one with Ensuite: £1000.00 (price for one)
*Family bathroom will be shared between a maximum of 4 people
Shared Twin Room with Family Bathroom*: £600.00 (per person)
Shared Twin Room with Ensuite: £675.00 (per person)
Double Room for two with Family Bathroom*: £1200.00 (price for two)
Double Room for two with Ensuite: £1350.00 (price for two)
Double Room for one with Family Bathroom*: £1050.00 (price for one)
Double Room for one with Ensuite: £1200.00 (price for one)
*Family bathroom will be shared between a maximum of 4 people
No prior experience of therapy is necessary to join this retreat. However, to ensure this experience aligns with your needs and expectations I offer a 20 minute telephone consultation on request. This is simply an opportunity for you to ask any questions you may have to decide if what we are offering resonates with what you are looking for. Additionally, I am happy to be contacted via email or What's App if you would like to ask questions or for further information.
Feel confident to go ahead? Book now below.
£150.00 non refundable deposit required per person to book.
Remaining balance due: 1st March 2025
Dean Ornish