Deeper and longer than the Meeting As Silence retreat in 2022, The Sound of Silence is a week-long retreat in the wilds of Dartmoor. It’s a very precious opportunity to immerse yourself in the nourishing sound of silence and to explore a variety of unique explorations and inquiries to connect with the ever-present dimension of being that is prior to and beyond all of life, the silent, deathless space of being where that small, still voice within, speaks.

I’ll meet you there… Sshhhhh…..

Not suitable for beginners.

This workshop is an opportunity to explore the possibility of finding safety and pleasure in connection through a deepening awareness of, and value for, the effect of attunement to the natural pulse and play of space in connection.

This workshop is an opportunity to explore the nature of emotion - to inquire into how easily we get lost in the storm of over-identification with our own and other people’s emotions; relating to them as an enemy, as something to hide, manage, be ashamed of, or project out onto our environment - and then to discover and realise the possibility of emotion purely being the energy of life force in motion.

Meeting The Matrix - Shadows : Ideas: Projections - is an inquiry into the nature of embodied reality, exploring the possibility that the life we find ourselves living isn’t very real at all, but instead, founded on a shaky matrix of ideas, beliefs, projections. It’s an exploration into how we’re perceiving the nature of reality, where we’re perceiving it from, and the affect of a simple switch in perspective.

This workshop is an opportunity to explore the possibility and practice of growing up our young protective parts and wounded parts, so we might begin relate to life and those we encounter from a present time perspective rather than from the from the tight grip of our early-life history.

This workshop is an opportunity to explore what’s in the way of you living the depth, truth and authenticity you long for in your expression, actions and communication. And then to discover the very simple and real possibility of living from a place whereby your expressions, actions and words are a true expression of your inner world. Because we cannot expect to be fully heard or received if we’re not expressing the truth.

This workshop is an opportunity to explore the possibility of feeling free to be as you are, welcome in the midst of all and every moment of your life, the messy and laborious, the great and the glorious, nothing to fix or change, nothing to sort out or become - an opportunity to touch that place of already enough-ness. This is the end of all effort to be anything other than this… this moment… and this moment… and this moment. Always, already enough.

Meeting As The Mystery is a 4-night residential retreat opportunity, in deepest darkest Dartmoor, to explore and embrace the mystery of being - to relax the control function just enough to taste the wisdom on not-knowing.

This workshop is an opportunity to explore the effect that school (Day and Boarding), Religious Communities, and other institutions have had on your life. We’ll explore who you had to become to survive the environment, the people, the pressure, the trauma, the abandonment, the rules and routines, the indoctrinations and practices you were forced to accept as normal. We’ll explore how these survival strategies still inform and affect the way you live your life and then realise the potential in discovering your authentic self, free from the habit of institutional conditioning.

Deep in the heart of Dartmoor, ‘Meeting As Silence’ is a 4-night, residential retreat opportunity to explore our relationship to silence… to unpack the wounded patterns of behaviour that keep us in a state of constant distraction, and embrace the potential nourishment to be discovered when we dare to dive deep into its mysterious and bottomless depths.

This workshop is an opportunity to explore the crushing effect that shame has on our mental, physical and emotional wellbeing, our creative expression, our choices, and our capacity to fully express ourselves in the world. Together, we’ll reveal the cultural and familial roots of your shame, we’ll tenderly welcome the painful wounds it activates, and explore ways you might relate with it when it arises.

The nature of life is a subtle play of sensitivity and strength, of space and substance. Too much strength and we lose sensitivity, too much sensitivity and we lose the strength to act. This workshop is an opportunity to explore the dynamic at play in you - to discover the possibility for living from a place of sensitivity, whereby you can attune to yourself, to others and to situations you find yourself in, so you might respond from a place of strength with the capacity to act.

This workshop is an invitation to meet, explore and welcome the parts of you that tend to react to situations in favour of responding to them. These are the parts that keep us fixed in particular, often unhelpful, patterns of behaviour that limit our expression and inhibit us from living freely and truthfully. Relating to these parts as protectors rather than enemies allows the opportunity to discover the roots of them as the creative, adaptive strategies of our young and overwhelmed child selves. And from here we can begin to relate with these young parts, to discover the early hurts they’re attempting to protect us from, and to begin to heal the wounds that are keeping us in the past.

Deep in the heart of Dartmoor ‘Holding on ~ Letting Go ~ Feeling Held’ is a 4-night, residential retreat opportunity to dive deep into your life and explore old hurts, joys, memories, traumas, beliefs, conditioning, points of view, people & situations you’re holding onto, why letting go isn’t as simple as you’d hoped, and how it might be to feel so safely held by life that letting go happens naturally.

(Total cost £550 to include all tuition, accommodation & food. Max 12 participants).

Couples & singles welcome, Living This Love is an opportunity to explore the dance of intimate relating in day to day life. My husband Daniel will work alongside me, bringing a gender balance to the space, and we’ll welcome your difficulties in relating with as much enthusiasm as your potentials - together, we’ll explore early attachment styles, sexual polarity, the possibility for healing emotional and sexual trauma through intimacy, and the big question that many people bring to us in our couples work, which is how to be in relationship with another without losing yourself,

By harnessing the heart-opening power of vulnerability you'll discover the possibility for safety, pleasure & fun in intimacy you’ll discover the possibility and potential for greater depth, authenticity & connection in your relationships.

Non-residential

Couples & singles welcome, Living This Love is an opportunity to explore the dance of intimate relating in day to day life. My husband Daniel will work alongside me, bringing a gender balance to the space, and we’ll welcome your difficulties in relating with as much enthusiasm as your potentials - together, we’ll explore early attachment styles, sexual polarity, the possibility for healing emotional and sexual trauma through intimacy, and the big question that many people bring to us in our couples work, which is how to be in relationship with another without losing yourself,

By harnessing the heart-opening power of vulnerability you'll discover the possibility for safety, pleasure & fun in intimacy you’ll discover the possibility and potential for greater depth, authenticity & connection in your relationships.

Non-residential

This 2-day workshop is an opportunity to explore the richness and possibility of opening to all of life -welcoming the difficulty as well as the potential, the pain with as much interest and enthusiasm as the joy, your life, and everyone else’s, your death, as well as theirs.

Because if we can’t welcome it all, we find ourselves living in suspension; a kind of half-life where we close around the bits we don’t want, the bits we don’t like - were we contract into ourselves, cutting off from reality. Click image for more details…<3

This workshop is now full - please contact me if you’d like to join the waiting list.

Join me for a 2-day workshop to explore the nature of emotions; these intense, energetic sensations, sometimes glorious, often painful, that rise and fall and twist through our bodies. By inquiring into how you habitually relate to your emotions, we’ll create space to see if there’s another possibility, a fresh perspective, a new way to listen so they’re more able to support you in creating greater depth, authenticity and connection in your life. Click image for more details…<3

Fully Booked - if you’re interested I can put you on the waiting list.

My Spoken Heart is a tender exploration into how and why so much of what you are longing to communicate gets lost in translation. So if you’re tired of feeling misunderstood because you keep abandoning what you’re longing to communicate in favour of being right, or being nice, or defending or justifying your position - this workshop is for you. Click image for more details…<3

Join me for a delicious exploration into what happens when you begin to relax your grip on how you think things should be, might be, and could be, and instead allow yourself to fall into the gentle support and embrace of the invisible hands of love. For this is the place where true safety abides - where your sense of connectedness and love with all things is already present - where your inner guidance system is already and always up and running - where your are always, have always been held. Click here for more info…