About The Retreat
The Remembering Birdsong retreat is an expansive journey designed to restore vital energies as we build into the high days of summer. It is guided by Fern, an Embodied Yoga teacher and Awareness Facilitator with fifteen years experience of working with people. This retreat is an invitation for women who value an embodied life rich with feeling and intuition to gather for potent practices amidst meadows of wild flowers. We will work with a wide spectrum of practices to explore the unconscious holdings within the body and mind that can contribute towards feeling of "stuckness". Working in a nervous system informed way, Fern will support you to liberate stagnant energy, befriend your body in a true way and offer generous space for the magic of community and deep. Our hope is for your cells to shimmer with inspiration and for you to gather with like minded women who support each other to feel more relaxed in their skin, who own their gifts and give into the joy of life when she arises.
Itinerary
1Day 1
7:30AM - 8:30AM
Dynamic Meditation - each day we open with the same meditation that includes movement, voice and stillness. This becomes a take away practice that you can continue at home.
9:15AM - 11:00AM
Embody & Flow - a thematic and exploratory approach to yoga and movement that supports you to drop into your body's wisdom. You can expect movements that layer, build and repeat that inspire the curved, fluid nature of your human form. There is generous space for structured guidance, intuitive movement, tension release, and rest with the intention to bring regulation to your nervous system and open into the mystery of life.
12:00PM - 2:00PM
Free time. Melt your bones in the hot tub or take a revitalising cold plunge, hike in the moors, read a book in the forest, book in for a treatment, journal by the fire or take a nap.
2:00PM - 4:00PM
The Embodied Nervous System workshop - Learn how your nervous system is in a continual conversation with your body, your environment and your relationships. Fern will share how feeling states such as anxiety, fatigue, irritability and more are not just random experiences but an indication of the neurological pathways your body is operating within. This will feed our work over the course of the weekend to help you return to regulated states of joy, beauty and connection.
7:30PM - 9:00PM
Somatic rest and sacred sound - we always close our day with deep rest and integration before bed,
2Day 2
7:30AM - 8:30AM
Dynamic Meditation - each day we open with the same meditation that includes movement, voice and stillness. This becomes a take away practice that you can continue at home
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Embody & Flow - a thematic and exploratory approach to yoga and movement that supports you to drop into your body's wisdom. You can expect movements that layer, build and repeat that inspire the curved, fluid nature of your human form. There is generous space for structured guidance, intuitive movement, tension release, and rest with the intention to bring regulation to your nervous system and open into the mystery of life.
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Authentic relating - sacred journeys into the heart of womanhood guided by the art of compassionate communication practices. We work in small groups to help us discover more about ourselves and each other.
7:30PM - 9:00PM
Fire ritual - we gather together before the master of fire for an evening of sacred intention.
3Day 3
7:30AM - 8:30AM
Dynamic Meditation - each day we open with the same meditation that includes movement, voice and stillness. This becomes a take away practice that you can continue at home.
9:00AM - 11:00AM
Embody & Flow - a thematic and exploratory approach to yoga and movement that supports you to drop into your body's wisdom. You can expect movements that layer, build and repeat that inspire the curved, fluid nature of your human form. There is generous space for structured guidance, intuitive movement, tension release, and rest with the intention to bring regulation to your nervous system and open into the mystery of life.
1:00PM - 3:00PM
Authentic relating - sacred journeys into the heart of womanhood guided by the art of compassionate communication practices. We work in small groups to help us discover more about ourselves and each other.
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Sacred Dance - a blindfolded (optional) guided movement journey that encourages connection to the experience of your life and how it wants to express itself within a carefully crafted musical sound scape. An opportunity for you to connect into the sensations of the body invite any blocked energy to release. The session will close in ambient sound where the body can rest.
4Day 4
6:30AM - 8:00AM
Sunrise hike to greet the day from the Celtic fort.
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Vessel of Life closing nature ritual.
What’s Included
Four nights accommodation
All plant based meals from Thursday evening to Monday brunch
All practices with senior teacher
Not Included
Holistic Bodywork with Carolyn Holmes
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I come along solo?
Yes! 100% we welcome solo Retreaters. Everyone will be made to feel welcome and part of the group.
Reviews
Valerie
March 2022
Wow! Just wow, Fern took me on a journey of self discovery and healing - every part was a new learning tool. This was so much more than I expected, it was more than a retreat, it was a reset and reboot, into creating a better understanding of what I've been holding and about connection to all other women.
Jo
March 2022
Ferns signature Embody & Flow has such a special gift of being able to take you on a journey into a felt experience. She uses such beautiful language with imagery and visualisation so cleverly created from a thorough knowledge of the body. There are no shapes to make, nothing to achieve but there's always a sense of peace and clarity that reminds me who I am.
Rose
April 2022
I loved the content - it was very well executed. The meditation was very powerful and the sharing circles allowed a lot of lightness but also a stirring...I found myself having light bulb moments in the following weeks.
Abi
May 2022
The most amazing retreat I have ever been on. You go deep. Deeper than I've been but the work you do creates a healing I've also never experienced. And it was oh so needed. The magic that the entire team provide from the start to finish feels like you're part of a family. There's so much support, never any judgement, plenty of open ears and hearts, and I cannot wait to go back.
