Time with others, time alone
Are you longing for time away from the hectic and slightly crazy world, and time re-connected with nature and land? A space to gently unfurl from the stresses that we create in this everyday, mechanised, technological life? To become more you, and also to be connected to the deeper well-spring of wisdom that comes from simply being whole-heartedly in nature? To shift your perspective a little, and get a different view? To meet with nature on her/his terms and slip inside a different skin?
The Wild Hearth is our new five day, four 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 will bring a group of like-minded journeyers together in the woods. We will sit in Council, explore the woods with our senses and bodies, make ceremony together that works for us and listen with deep care to each others' stories. Part of this time will be a solo experience - a threshold time, where you will be really alone with nature. Our guides will be the season, the cycles, the Four Shields model from the School of Lost Borders and the woods themselves. We will walk, talk, laugh, sing, cry, make, read poems, cook food and just be. This is a space to be yourself, within the greater Dream of the Earth.
This Wild Hearth happens over Beltane, so there will be fire, magic and the energy of the New Moon, so a great time for new beginnings...
What do you have to lose?
The Wild Hearth is our new five day, four 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 will bring a group of like-minded journeyers together in the woods. We will sit in Council, explore the woods with our senses and bodies, make ceremony together that works for us and listen with deep care to each others' stories. Part of this time will be a solo experience - a threshold time, where you will be really alone with nature. Our guides will be the season, the cycles, the Four Shields model from the School of Lost Borders and the woods themselves. We will walk, talk, laugh, sing, cry, make, read poems, cook food and just be. This is a space to be yourself, within the greater Dream of the Earth.
This Wild Hearth happens over Beltane, so there will be fire, magic and the energy of the New Moon, so a great time for new beginnings...
What do you have to lose?
The Details
This is five days and four nights of guided time in nature, based at Young Wood in the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. One night 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.
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.
Key Facts
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Dates: Saturday April 29th to Wednesday May 3rd 2023
Guides: Jenny Archard and Sarah Churchill Fee: £400-£475 (Deposit of £100 secures a place) depending on what you can afford. Full Payment due with 8weeks of your booking, or by April 1st. Places: Maximum of nine Preparation: Nature connection activity and writing completed 2 weeks before. Information given on booking |
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