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Retreats with Spirit
Who are you when you aren’t doing what you normally do?
Retreats offer you the chance to step away from the rhythms and routines of your everyday and to move into another way of being you. In the magic of the stepping away, you give yourself the chance to see yourself anew.
I love weaving retreats and spending time in the special community they create. They are a really special part of my work. It is such a gift when people return again and again. I co-create all my retreats with Suzy-Anne of Sunny Brow Farm Holistic Retreat Centre in Outgate, nr Ambleside.
Soul Friend
Suzyanne and I a little over 10 years ago quite randomly (isn’t it always the way) and there was an immediate connection. I am not sure either of us really knew what was going to unfold as we stepped into friendship together. There was a moment when we were participating in a workshop and together we fell into holding space for a third person and it just felt right. In that moment, we sowed the seeds of the retreats we were yet to hold. Sometimes, mid retreat, I catch Suzyanne’s eye and it feels exactly as it did that day. Other times, when we are mid some quirky ceremony we have dreamed up, I look around and I can’t quite believe we are doing it. Suzy always blames me for the strangest ideas but I think its her influence….
Suzyanne is an extremely skilled facilitator. She has been teaching yoga since her early twenties. Her practice of yoga has led her to deepen her spiritual wisdom and grow her interest in many different facets of self development and spiritual life. Like me, she loves Earth Rooted Spiritual practice. She is a shamanic practitioner, Inipi Lodge Water Pourer, Transformational healer, Reiki Master, massage therapist and trained macrobiotic chef. You might like to check out her recipe book ‘Conscious Cookery.’ Its a joy. She is currently training as a Rose Priestess of the Mary Magdalene Lineage
Sunny Brow Farm
Sunny Brow Farm Holistic Retreat centre is an amazing place in the heart of the Lakes. Its been lovingly and skilfully regenerated and rebuilt by Phil (Suzyanne’s husband and master builder) and its been quite something to watch it grow and change over the last decade.
Suzyanne and Phil share their home with retreat and self-catering guests throughout the year. Its a very special place, anchored by their marriage, vision and hard work. The amazing barn cottages are surrounded by woodland, fields, plants and the beautiful beck. Along with Phil and Suzyanne’s family, its peopled by sheep, dogs, cats and the wildlife which make it a space where we can all reconnect and unwind. Its one of the true blessings in my life to be able to work here and to be nourished by Sunny Brow.
4 Special Retreat Styles
Together with Suzyanne, I offer four different types of retreats. Our Sacred Medicine Retreats offer a range of spiritual practices - yoga, breathwork, simple rituals, cacao ceremonies, healing massage or Reiki - which are offered with a healing focus. These are suitable for beginners and more experienced practitioners of yoga and of spirituality.
We offer two women only retreats. Our Spirit Woman Retreats are facilitated through cacao ceremony, ritual and yoga to nourish and support you. These are also suitable for anyone new to yoga, or to spirituality and to cacao. They are a little more intense than the Sacred Medicine Retreats. Our Spirit Women Initiations are powerful ceremonial spaces created to offer a deep dive into Self and Spirituality. We recommend that you have previous experience of retreat, ceremony and deeper spiritual self-exploration before booking one of these.
Our Spirit Earth Lodge Retreats are a little different as they include learning spaces as well as ceremonial ones. They are rooted in Earthy spiritual practice and the Medicine Wheel. The shorter Earth Spirit Lodges are a great next step with Earth Spirituality. Our October Earth Spirit Lodge is suitable for people with more experience of spiritual practice and self-work as it includes a Sweatlodge
Retreat lodges for the purification and honouring of the Earth and your body. Time in circle with Great Spirit, our Earth relatives, the ancestors, your guides and guardians to support your awakening. These retreats aim to awaken your soul memories of ways of walking with Spirit through life and draw on the elements, the medicine wheel and spiritual ideas, wisdom and beliefs that develop your conscious connection with the natural world.
Suzy Anne and I draw on our Earth-rooted transpersonal spiritual practice to co-create dynamic spaces where we can all explore what it means to be incarnate on the Earth here and now. In essence, this is a retreat to explore the nothing, the everything and your earth walk in between.
If you feel it is time to journey more deeply into the transpersonal reality of the dream weave, shed skins, and develop your understanding so that you can further embody your practice; then Earth Spirit Lodge is calling. This retreat maybe for you if you are interested in learning new ways of becoming present through your connection with the natural world or if you are curious about developing your spirituality through the mysteries of creation. At their heart is the process of our embodiment – so expect deep healing and emotional release. Join us for a unique and magical experience which includes ritual yoga, Earth based spiritual practices, transpersonal healing, ceremony, massage, movement, and cleansing food, on the land and in the sacred studio spaces at Sunny Brow.
Our Autumn midweek Earth Spirit Lodge retreat includes a Sweat Lodge. These are powerful, deeply healing retreats that offer a little more challenge - best if you already have some Earth Spirituality experience.
Our Earth Spirit Winter Lodge retreats are shorter and the lodge experience is created through ceremony and ritual. These retreats allow you to take the next step into your Earth Spirit Practice.
Earth Spirit Lodge
Jan 23rd to 26th 2026 (Weekend)
Jan 26th to 30th 2026 (Midweek)
Sept 11th to 14th 2026 (Weekend)
Sept 14th to 18th 2026 (Midweek & Sweat lodge)
2026 & 2027 Dates
Jan 22nd to 25th 2027 (Weekend)
Jan 25th to 29th 2027 (Midweek)
Oct 1st to 4th 2027 (Weekend)
Oct 4th to 8th 2027 (Midweek & Sweat lodge)
Calling all wise women, wild women, healers, Earth spirit dreamers & women who dance with the moon. Come join us for ceremonies, journeying, moving beyond your wounding, embracing your body, freeing your voice and sitting in sacred sisterhood. Sacred Women Initiations offer you a space to hear your Self and to realign with your essence. Birthed with deep awareness of Gaia, woven from myth, and steeped in magic, these retreats offer you a powerful way to come home to all that you are. As the Summer Solstice beckons, under the full moon, we gather for initiation into sacred womanhood through the body. Awaken your senses as a spiritual pathway to your Soul.
So often, women have received the message that the unique journey of womanhood is best hidden. Together we will celebrate all that makes us whole and honour our femininity as a sacred gift and bring the magic of our experience to the light.
These 4 day initiation retreats include one-to-one sessions, ceremonies to honour and empower, ritual to recognise the mysteries of the feminine, connection with the Earth, deeply nourishing yoga, time in circle, and a little creativity. Each one is different and follows the energy of the time of year and what is rising through the collective. June dates include a day long sweat lodge ceremony .
Spirit Woman Initiations
June 8th to 12th 2026
November 23rd to 27th 2026
June 7th to 11th 2027
November 22nd to 26th 2027
2026 & 2027 Dates
Spirit Woman Retreats
Weekend retreats to connect you with
the mysteries of Womanhood
This retreat is an invitation to connect with your embodied experience of yourself as a unique pathway to empowered spirituality. These retreats are great if you are looking to go a little deeper but aren’t quite ready for an initiation. Each retreat unfolds as a journey which will support you to understand more of what makes you the soulful woman that you are.
By working with cacao and with yoga, we invite you into the transformational experience that is waiting for you as you connect deeply to body and soul. At the core of this retreat, is the wisdom of embodied awareness and the knowing that the path of being present with our internal experience brings us the insights, creativity and peace to be who we are born to be.
The retreat offers ritual space, cacao ceremonies, yoga, wholefoods, massage and circle time with like-hearted women to open your inner pathways back to love. Its a unique way to take time out just for you.
2026 & 2027 Dates
May 18th to 22nd 2026 (Midweek)
June 5th to 8th 2026 (Weekend)
November 20th to 23rd 2026 (Weekend)
26th February to March 1st 2027 (Weekend)
1st March to 5th 2027 (Midweek)
June 4th to 7th 2027 (Weekend)
November 19th to 22nd 2027 (Weekend)
Sacred Medicine Retreats
Medicines for the Soul
Join us and step in to a space for healing, connection & self reflection. Our Spirit Medicine Retreats offer you opportunity to explore your own authentic spirituality & experience a wide range of sacred practices. The sessions & treatments create stepping stones into presence, supporting you to release blocks, beliefs and emotions that are preventing you from connecting with your authentic self. This retreat offers you a space for ‘sacred pause’ and a chance to cultivate loving awareness as you come into presence.
At the core of this retreat is the wisdom of embodied awareness and the knowing that the path of being present with our internal experience brings us the insights, creativity and peace to be who we are born to be.
When we come to presence, we naturally experience increased awareness of our thoughts, feelings and emotions. Here at Sunny Brow, we offer you space to honour and welcome all that you feel. Allowing deeper awareness of the whole of you, brings a special form of empowerment and peace. As we step into acceptance of both the pain and the beauty of us, we can embody an authentic way of navigating our lives, and our humanness.
Woven from Suzy-Anne and Natalie’s extensive experience supporting people to reconnect with who they are meant to be, this is more than just another retreat. We offer you the space to let go and transform. Rooted in earthy spiritual practices, Spirit Medicine Retreats invite you to give permission to your unfolding inner wisdom, welcome your natural process and set yourself free.
Expect rituals inspired by the elements & Mother Earth, healing massage or Reiki, cacao ceremony, gentle transformative yoga, journeying and soulful meditation. Enjoy nourishing, healing plant-based cuisine, gentle plant, crystal and energy medicines, all held by the beautiful land and renovated barns at Sunny Brow Farm.
Each retreat responds to the needs of the people who come, allowing you to strengthen and stretch your body, release your mind, soften and heal your heart. You will leave revitalised and refreshed, with a new sense of connectedness to what matters most to you.
2026 & 2027 Dates
Weekend Oct 2nd to Oct 5th 2026
Midweek Oct 5th to Oct 9th 2026
Weekend May 14th to May 17th 2027
Midweek May 17th to May 21st 2027
Weekend Sept 10th to Sept 13th 2027
Midweek Sept 13th to Sept 17th 2027
Connect with Sunny Brow Farm Holistic Retreat Centre
To avoid chaos and confusion Suzy handles all the bookings for our shared retreats. Email is the best way to connect with her.
Email Suzy for more info or to book
