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?
Next Event 2026
We're excited to announce that Wild Hearth will be returning in 2026. We can't wait to guide you through this journey of teachings, connections, and exploration once again.
Keep your eyes peeled; more information will follow.
Keep your eyes peeled; more information will follow.
Previous Event June 2024
This was six days and five nights of guided time in nature, based at Young Wood in the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. We started with supper and Circle together that first evening. We finished at midday on Weds, giving time to pack down and prepare for entering the everyday once more.
One evening or night - as worked with the group - was offered as 'fasting' and a solo time; a vigil or ceremony that you make collaboratively with the nature and any other-than-human that you meet. There was time built in to prepare for this, and then to come back and tell the story of your time.
Each day had a simple rhythm. After breakfast, we gathered in a circle, with some teachings, Council and movement. Then into walking, or crafting, or further council and making lunch. After lunch, some solo time, then back together in circle, then making supper. After supper there was either free time or group time, this varied each day. We were guided by the Four Shields and the cycles of nature that emerge whilst we were together, including the New Moon and Beltane. We explored to see spring flowers in the sunshine, or sheltered together away from rain and storm. We sat around the fire, learnt to make ceremony and listened deeply to the land.
One evening or night - as worked with the group - was offered as 'fasting' and a solo time; a vigil or ceremony that you make collaboratively with the nature and any other-than-human that you meet. There was time built in to prepare for this, and then to come back and tell the story of your time.
Each day had a simple rhythm. After breakfast, we gathered in a circle, with some teachings, Council and movement. Then into walking, or crafting, or further council and making lunch. After lunch, some solo time, then back together in circle, then making supper. After supper there was either free time or group time, this varied each day. We were guided by the Four Shields and the cycles of nature that emerge whilst we were together, including the New Moon and Beltane. We explored to see spring flowers in the sunshine, or sheltered together away from rain and storm. We sat around the fire, learnt to make ceremony and listened deeply to the land.
