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Retreats for Women
Retreats give you time out from a busy schedule. They offer the opportunity for deep relaxation, self-healing and a chance to reflect on your lifestyle. Many of us lead very stressful lives and we do not give ourselves the chance, either to rest, or to review what might need changing to reduce stress in our lives.
We have often lost touch with our ability to relax and with our internal intuitive resources. A retreat gives you the chance to stop as you are guided into stillness and relaxation. This facilitates access to your own innate source of wisdom, a place where you can find supportive answers to any current dilemmas.
~ Upcoming Retreats for Women in 2012 ~
Silent Retreat 21st-24th May
Meditation and Walking Retreat October
Silent Retreat for Women
Florence House, East Sussex, 2 Minutes Walk from the Sea
21st—24th May 2012
Sharing or Single Rooms
Price: Residential Full Board:£375 Sharing;£455 Single
Gillian will be running this Retreat with Marion Howells
• A time for self-inquiry, reflection and quiet contemplation to restore peace and harmony within yourself and your life.
• An opportunity to deepen your conscious awareness, restore your energy and re-vitalize your spirit
• Enjoy meditative walks in the beautiful landscape and on the sea shore
• Enjoy delicious award winning vegetarian food
A simple retreat program will be offered to guide you into relaxation, stillness and silence and support you as you release emotion, explore self-inquiry and deepen your access to your inner realms of peace. This will include early morning and evening stretching and guided meditation, small group meditation and satsang sessions, free movement sessions designed to help release tension from the body, contemplative walks in the beautiful landscape and on the seashore and walking the labyrinth which we will create in the garden. We will use all the venue resources including the Yurt and gardens. In the evening we plan to gather around the lit fire pit in the garden, and deepen our stillness by chanting and singing together.
Florence House sits on the brow of Seaford Head, Sussex in the midst of wild landscape and fresh sea air. It is a much loved venue for retreats and workshops and embraces divine inspiration, the sacredness and potential of each individual and the healing power of the landscape. It is an ideal spot for a meditation retreat, has immediate access to beautiful walks and is located in its own beautiful gardens, including a walled garden perfect for reflection.
Florence House is renowned for its delicious and creative home cooking by their own chefs using ingredients that are mostly organic, locally sourced or grown in their own kitchen garden.
The accommodation offered on this retreat is sharing or single occupancy in triple, twin, double or single rooms. Bathrooms are separate with up to two people sharing. All rooms have scenic views and are themed to reflect their harmonious design and express their personality.
For more information and to book a place please call Gillian on 01372 722816 or email gillie_lenane1@hotmail.com
Meditation and Walking Retreat for Women at Florence House East Sussex, October 2012 Details to be Announced
Previous Retreats
North Cornwall-Meditation and Walking
Chalice Wells-Stillness Retreat
The 'F' Factor Awakening the Feminine one Day Workshop
Meditation and Walking Retreat for Women - North Cornwall
The Bluff Centre, nr Tintagel, North Cornwall
Dates to be arranged for 2012
Are you in need of rest, recuperation and re-vitalisation?
We still have places available on this Retreat in September.
Experience deep relaxation in a beautiful venue by the sea.
Restore your energy and revitalise your body, mind and spirit.
Enjoy meditating and walking in peaceful and spectacular North Cornwall coastal scenery.
Explore your creativity and have fun through guided workshops.
Watch the sun set over the sea while enjoying delicious home cooked food and like minded company.
Bluff Centre is stunningly located on the North Cornish coastal path at Treknow near Tintagel. It has the most spectacular views looking west over the coastal cliffs and sea. Originally a study centre, it has recently been refurbished to a very high standard as a guest house and the artistic interior reflects the beautiful scenery surrounding the house. The owners, Marianne and Charlie are delightful and dedicated hosts who create a truly welcoming and charming environment for their guests. Marianne's cooking is excellent and she has designed a varied and delicious menu for us. We will have exclusive use of the venue and the retreat will be full board for 4 nights including breakfast, packed lunch and dinner and the price of £350 also includes all refreshments during the day and all activities.
You will be able to choose from a programme of meditation, relaxation, creativity workshops and walks. The meditation programme is suitable for all levels and if you are a beginner this will be an excellent introduction and if you already meditate this will help you to deepen your practice. There will be a short walk each day of between 3-4 miles and of moderate difficulty. These will include both coastal and moorland walking. We have discovered that the combination of meditation and walking encourages you to feel relaxed and also energised.
Gillian has successfully run several previous residential retreats. She will be joined by her colleague Sheila Jolly, a teacher and artist, who will be facilitating two optional fun sessions on exploring your creativity. No artistic experience necessary! These workshops will provide opportunities for your individual heart songs to energise themselves. We will allow creativity to arise and flow within each of us using a variety of materials (provided). Working this way releases any inhibitions we may feel about our own ‘artistic’ endeavours and will enable beautiful results.
Included in our walks will be visits to places of special interest such as Tintagel castle (the legendary birthplace of King Arthur), the oldest stone circle in England called Fernacre on Bodmin Moor and a magical hidden waterfall, St. Nectan's Kieve. During the walks we will be including time for meditative walking, reflection and tuning in to the energies of our beautiful surroundings to both cleanse and support our Being.
Sheila Jolly is also an Accredited Journey Therapist and together we will create a loving and practical embrace for you to completely relax,unwind, be yourself and become refreshed by the supportive and lively energies of the Cornish landscape. .
Some testimonials from previous retreat participants:
“Well organised and I have come away feeling very relaxed and calm” Jaqui R.
“Thank you for an enjoyable, relaxing and health giving few days” Caroline S.
For more information about the venue, you can visit www.bluffcentre.co.uk
For more information or to make a booking, please contact me on 01372 722816 / 07867542456 or e-mail me, or simply download and fill in a booking form.
Stillness Retreat - Chalice Well
Little St. Michael’s Retreat House, Chalice Well, Glastonbury, Somerset
Full board 3 nights
Dates to be arranged for 2012,
This was hugely successful and our participants told us that they returned from our Retreat feeling ‘incredibly nurtured and completely chilled’. Other feedback included:
‘thank you for a profound and calm space’ JB
‘I had a very special weekend with you at Chalice Well and will feel the benefit for a long time’ JR
‘Although I came with some trepidation as I hadn’t been to a retreat before, I thoroughly enjoyed it’ JM
‘I was able to allow a deep feminine healing to occur and felt very blessed to be with such special women in a gorgeous setting’ BT
This is a rare opportunity to stay in the dedicated retreat house of Little St. Michael located in the beautiful sacred garden of Chalice Well, Glastonbury. Both house and gardens form a living sanctuary with a deeply peaceful atmosphere and the Spring waters are believed to have healing properties. Chalice Well is the most continuously cherished Holy Well in Britain and since 1959 has held the vision of re-awakening spiritual energies.
We will have exclusive use of this special venue including private access to the gardens in the evening and to the prayer and meditation sanctuary in Little St. Michael’s known as the Upper Room. The retreat will be full board including breakfast, packed lunch, dinner, daytime refreshments and the price also includes guided meditations and relaxation sessions and walks to visit the Goddess Temple in Glastonbury, the Tor and Wearyall Hill.
I will be co-facilitating this retreat with Val Winchester, an experienced crystal healer and meditation group facilitator.
For more information on Chalice Well, please visit www.chalicewell.org.uk
For more information or to make a booking, please contact me on 01372 722816 / 07867542456, or e-mail me, or simply download and fill in a booking form.
The 'F' Factor - Awakening the Deep Feminine
One Day Workshop
Dates to be arranged for 2012
As women we carry immeasurable grief living in a dualistic, competitive, non-intuitive world that offers little of the innate feminine—beauty, harmony, unconditional support, soft all-seeing wisdom.
How can we balance this worldly reality with the Matriarchal lineage within us that yearns to express and share? How can we guide our children, our families, and the world toward this softer, more cooperative, and deeply spiritual reality?
How can we feel this ourselves?
The understanding we need to integrate our worlds comes from the connection to our own Divine Feminine Essence.
Our Journey together will explore and deepen the embrace of Feminine Archetypal Energy by calling upon Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, Sophia and Others, creating a Sisterhood of Love and Compassion in which we all participate. As we share this embrace with the women present we anchor this into our bodies, opening our Feminine Essence to flow into our lives, effortlessly guiding and supporting ourselves and others.
Venue: Little St. Michael’s Retreat House, Chalice Well, Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury, Somerset, BA6 8DD See above for description of the venue.
To book a place contact Gillian on 07867 542456 / 01372 722816 or e-mail gillie_lenane1@hotmail.com
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“A beautiful
retreat with
lovely company,
stunning views
& walks, and
two excellent
facilitators”
Barbara T.
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