Time with others, time alone
Are you longing for time away from the overwhelm and noise of busy life and time re-connected with nature and land? To become more of you, and to be entangled with the deeper well-spring of wisdom that comes from being whole-heartedly in and with nature? To shift your perspective and get a different view or slip inside a different skin? To walk into places with uncomfortable edges and hear the call of the Earth?
The Wild Hearth is our now six day, five night 'wild retreat'. It has grown because people have asked us for something that is doable in their busy lives, and is also enough time to really disconnect from the human-centric world and become realigned to the nature/wild. Research shows that four days in nature is the minimum it takes.
The Wild Hearth brings together a group of journeyers in the woods. We sit in Council - in circle together - explore the land with our senses and bodies, make ceremony together and listen with deep care to each others' stories and honour the beauty of life and land. Part of this time is a solo experience - a threshold time, where you are alone with nature, to make your own ritual and emerge as yourself in connection with the life that you come from.
We are guided by the rising energies between Beltane and Midsummer. Held by the map of the Four Shields from the School of Lost Borders and the dear woods themselves. We walk, talk, laugh, sing, cry, make, read poems, cook food and just be. A space to be who you are becoming within the Dream of our beautiful Earth.
What do you have to lose?
The Wild Hearth is our now six day, five night 'wild retreat'. It has grown because people have asked us for something that is doable in their busy lives, and is also enough time to really disconnect from the human-centric world and become realigned to the nature/wild. Research shows that four days in nature is the minimum it takes.
The Wild Hearth brings together a group of journeyers in the woods. We sit in Council - in circle together - explore the land with our senses and bodies, make ceremony together and listen with deep care to each others' stories and honour the beauty of life and land. Part of this time is a solo experience - a threshold time, where you are alone with nature, to make your own ritual and emerge as yourself in connection with the life that you come from.
We are guided by the rising energies between Beltane and Midsummer. Held by the map of the Four Shields from the School of Lost Borders and the dear woods themselves. We walk, talk, laugh, sing, cry, make, read poems, cook food and just be. A space to be who you are becoming within the Dream of our beautiful Earth.
What do you have to lose?
The Details for 2024
This is six days and five nights of guided time in nature, based at Young Wood in the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. Arrival is Friday afternoon, allowing you time to decompress from travelling and start to slip into a different pace. We start with supper and Circle together that evening. We finish at midday on Weds, giving time to pack down and prepare for entering the everyday once more.
One evening or night - as works with the group - will be offered as 'fasting' and a solo time; a vigil or ceremony that you make collaboratively with the nature and other-than-human that you meet. There is time built in to prepare for this, and then to come back and tell the story of your time.
Each day will have a simple rhythm. After breakfast we gather in a circle, with some teachings, Council and movement. Then into walking, or craft or further council and making lunch. After lunch, some solo time, then back together in circle, then making supper. After supper there may be free time or group time, this varies each day. We are guided by the Four Shields and the cycles of nature that emerge whilst we are together, including the New Moon and Beltane. We may explore to see spring flowers in the sunshine, or shelter together away from rain and storm. We will certainly sit around the fire, learn to make ceremony and listen deeply to the land.
The base camp offers composting toilets, outdoor camp kitchen, mains water, fire-pit area and a roundhouse shelter. You will need to bring your own camping equipment. We can help with this if needed, or if it is your first time camping - we aim for this to be as accessible as possible. Food (vegetarian) is included in the fee and the group will prepare food together in the camp kitchen and on the campfire as part of the programme. There are no bears or wolves, but the woods are home to many biting and stinging things, including ticks. So we suggest long trousers at all times, and plenty of insect repellant.
One evening or night - as works with the group - will be offered as 'fasting' and a solo time; a vigil or ceremony that you make collaboratively with the nature and other-than-human that you meet. There is time built in to prepare for this, and then to come back and tell the story of your time.
Each day will have a simple rhythm. After breakfast we gather in a circle, with some teachings, Council and movement. Then into walking, or craft or further council and making lunch. After lunch, some solo time, then back together in circle, then making supper. After supper there may be free time or group time, this varies each day. We are guided by the Four Shields and the cycles of nature that emerge whilst we are together, including the New Moon and Beltane. We may explore to see spring flowers in the sunshine, or shelter together away from rain and storm. We will certainly sit around the fire, learn to make ceremony and listen deeply to the land.
The base camp offers composting toilets, outdoor camp kitchen, mains water, fire-pit area and a roundhouse shelter. You will need to bring your own camping equipment. We can help with this if needed, or if it is your first time camping - we aim for this to be as accessible as possible. Food (vegetarian) is included in the fee and the group will prepare food together in the camp kitchen and on the campfire as part of the programme. There are no bears or wolves, but the woods are home to many biting and stinging things, including ticks. So we suggest long trousers at all times, and plenty of insect repellant.
Key Facts
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Dates: Friday June 7th arrival from 4pm & group supper at 6pm
to Wednesday June 12th 2024 close at midday Guides: Jenny Archard and Sarah Churchill Fee: £420-£495 (Deposit of £100 secures a place) depending on what you can afford. Full Payment due by May 1st. If booking after this date full payment required. Places: Maximum of eight Preparation: Nature connection activity and writing completed AT LEAST 2 weeks before. Information given on booking |
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