3 Day Summer Earth Living Retreat in Oxfordshire, England

Listen to the wisdom of the earth and receive its nourishment through wholesome plant-powered food and ritual. Feel the touch of natural water on your skin. Stretch your lungs with the breath of the forest and let your body and voice thrive in this rural landscape.

What to expect?

The earth living family is partnering with Hempen Co-operative to create a space for reconnection and celebration. Together, you offer a diversity of experiences from various beautiful heARTrtists including:

• Embodied yoga and creativity
• Primal Vinyasa
• CBD and hemp workshop
• Foraging
• Wild swimming ritual
• Forest bathing
• Voice activation
• Live music
• Fireside songs, stories, and ceremony

Inspiration

This retreat takes place a few days after the summer solstice: a point of high solar energy, power, strength, and joy. When you gather collectively, you let yourself be visible to one another. You can find assurance by courageously being seen, embracing your potential, and stepping into your full brightness.

About earth living

Earth living is a community celebration of wellbeing, art, and nature in reading. You are on the brink of burning out in all capacities, as individuals, communities, and globally. You explore different avenues to finding balance by providing opportunities for participation and engagement in a wide range of activities. From yoga and sound baths to storytelling and sustainable design, there is something for everyone to be inspired by.

Daily schedule

Friday

• 16:00 Arrival
• 17:00 Forest bathing

Ground and arrive - practice deep listening as you connect to nature through walking meditations and mindfulness practices.

• 19:00 Dinner
• 20:30 Opening circle
• 21:00 Starry night
• Yoga Nidra - a guided relaxation and visualization for deep sleep

Saturday

• 07:15 - 09:15 Belong

Rewild your body and voice through movement, touch, and sound. Discover the instrument of your body through this journey of re-activating and empowering your voice in nature. This practice includes sensory movement, self-massage, voice activation, and song.

• 09:15 Breakfast buffet
• 10:15 Wild swimming

The coolness of the river water invites your body to flow and cleanses your spirit. Walk 20 minutes through the countryside down to the River Thames and immerse yourself in the natural waters.

• 13:00 Picnic lunch by the river
• 14:45 Foraging workshop - Justine
• 18:00 Dinner
• 19:00 Cacao ceremony and fireside jam with Dom

Celebrate sound and free movement. Drumming, singing, and dancing around the fire. Optional ceremonial cacao.

Sunday

• 07:30 - 09:15 The shapes within with Karishma and Shareece

Embodied yoga and life drawing workshop includes meditation, movement, breathwork, and creative explorations through drawing or painting and ends with a performance.

• 09:30 Breakfast buffet
• 10:30 - 12:30 CBD and Hemp with Sophia

A talk and workshop exploring the power of hemp as a plant for personal and collective wellbeing.

• 13:00 Lunch
• 14:00 Wildcrafting workshop with Hemp
• 16:30 Closing circle
• 17:00 Departure

The retreat will take place in Goring Heath, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. Hempen is situated on a farm on Hardwick Estate and is surrounded by woodland, meadows, and farm animals. The River Thames is 20 minutes' walk away. All classes will take place outdoors, either under the stretch tent, in the woods, or river - somewhere in nature. Come and join Alice May Yoga in this beautiful, wild sanctuary.

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You will be provided with three meals a day, all cooked from scratch by an on-site chef and volunteers, and drinks included in the price. The menu will be a mixture of healthy, plant-based food, including lots of hemp-inspired recipes and home-grown vegetables from the garden, 100 percent vegan.

• All classes and workshops
• 2 nights accommodation
• All food and drink
• Hemp gift for guests

• Airfare
• Transport to and from the site
• Hempen's products (can be bought onsite)

• A reservation requires a deposit of 33% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.