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Cotswolds Sound Healing & Yoga Nidra Retreat
27th-29th September 2024
Bourton-On-The-Water.
Join me for this end of summer, weekend women’s retreat designed for deepest nourishment and rest. During our time together we’ll create space for healing & restoration through ceremony, sound healing and Yoga Nidra practice (yummy yogic sleep meditation).
Set in a beautiful Cotswolds Stone House with our own private wild swimming lake, this luxury two night retreat is an opportunity to feel nurtured & nourished as we take a pause from our busy lives to come back home to ourselves.
The deeply restorative practices of Yoga Nidra & Sound Healing invite us to slow down, tend to our nervous system and activate the body's self healing pathways as we begin to re-claim our energy from within.
Saturday’s heart focused Cacao Rose Ceremony will provide a gentle, nurturing space to tune into stillness, connect to our inner guidance system and be present to whatever is arising at this time. The Fire ceremony will facilitate a space to purify and release what no longer serves to create space for the new.
Our retreat space will be held by the elements of the beautiful, natural surroundings and we’ll be supported in our daily practices by the soft, gentle qualities of Rose, Cacao and Nidra.
Everything on the retreat is an invitation and you can take part in as much or as little as you feel. The program is spacious so there’s ample time to enjoy the lake, explore local walks, receive a yummy massage or simply rest. This peaceful space will allow you to unwind from busyness, settle into beingness and leave feeling rested, connected and renewed.
* This retreat is open all who identify as women
Limited spaces only 12 available
Your Weekend Includes
Morning Gentle Movement Practice
Sacred Cacao Rose Sound Ceremony
Alchemy Crystal Bowl & Gong Sound Baths
Yoga Nidra Meditations (also known as Yogic sleep)
Daily wild swimming in our own private spring fed lake w/paddleboard
Nourishing vegetarian food, lovingly prepared by our personal chef
Luxury accommodation in a beautiful Cotswolds Stone House
Group Healing Meditation
All teas, drinks, snacks & refreshments
Fire Ceremony
Optional Extras
We’ll also have our very own on-site holistic therapist offering treatments if you would like to book this as an added treat : )
Investment
Bed in luxury Triple room with private en-suite: Early bird £555 p/p Late Bird £575 (SOLD OUT!)
Bed in luxury Twin room with shared bathroom: Early bird £575 p/p Late Bird £595 (SOLD OUT!)
Bed in luxury Twin room with en suite: Early Bird £605 p/p (sold out!)
Single Occupancy of a double room with shared bathroom £665 (space available)
EARLY BIRD BOOKING TILL 1ST AUGUST 24
A £200 deposit is required to secure your place on this retreat.
Payment plans available
Our Location
Our retreat home is set within walking distance of the pretty Cotswold town of Bourton On The Water. The property is surrounded by beautiful fields & meadows with footpaths just waiting to be explored and is a ten minute leisurely stroll into town.
What We’ll Be Eating
Sample Itinerary
Friday
4.30pm Arrivals
6.30pm Plant based Evening Meal
8pm Opening Circle & Yoga Nidra and Gong Bath
Saturday
8-9am: Gentle Morning Movement Practice & Himalayan Bowls
9.15am: Breakfast
Free Time (Time to explore, nap, book a healing session or massage)
12pm: Sacred Cacao Rose Sound Ceremony
2.30pm: Plant Based Lunch
Integration Time (naps, pampering: all welcome)
7pm Plant Based Evening Meal
8.30 pm: Fire Ritual
9.30pm: Nidra nap to send us off into a peaceful sleep
Sunday
8-9am: Gentle Morning Movement & Sound Healing
9.15am Breakfast
10.15am: Free Time
12pm: Group Healing Meditation
1pm Lunch
2pm: Closing Circle
3.30pm: Goodbyes & depart
Your Guide
Louise Shiels
Louise is Sound Healing Practitioner and Yoga Nidra guide empowering people to re claim their vital energy through therapeutic rest systems. She holds nurturing spaces for groups and individuals to slow down, find embodied connection and experience more peace and well being.
She has been on a deeply transformative plant medicine journey since 2014 and offers groups the opportunity to experience gentle plant medicine ceremonies to explore and connect to the bodies’ wisdom and process the stories that are held there towards integration and wholeness.
Louise works with a variety of instruments including Planetary Earth Gong, Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls, Himalayan Singing bowls, harmonic chimes, voice, lap harp and various percussive instruments.
Food With Shell: Retreat Food Redefined
Shell’s food really is medicine for the mind, body & soul. Our retreat guests are continually awed at the amount of love goes into these yummy creations, we’re super excited to have Michelle with us again.
“When I cook for retreats I want to offer a new experience whilst making the guests feel at home, cooking to compliment the days activities. As a yoga practitioner I have an awareness to what might be that perfect meal to start and end the day, and lunches that are wholesome, light and energising. I work with the seasons celebrating produce that is fresh and local, adding extra vibrancy as I draw on Ayurvedic cooking principles.”
Practicalities
Arriving By train - the nearest train station is Moreton In Marsh which is an 18 minute taxi journey to the house. If you would like to share a taxi with other guests then I can co ordinate this for specific times.
Parking - There is plenty of parking on Site
