4 Day Sacred Medicine Weekend Wellness Retreat in Lake District, UK
Healing Wellness Retreat in the UK
Join Sunny Brow Farm and step into a space for healing, connection, and self-reflection. The Spirit Medicine Retreats offer you the opportunity to explore your own authentic spirituality and experience a wide range of sacred practices. The sessions and 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.
Meet the instructors
Highlights
- Personal holistic massage or Reiki included
- Eclectic practices from yoga and the Earth spiritual tradition
- Cacao ceremonial lodge and transformational release breathwork
- Sacred ritual with the Celtic wheel of the year
- Daily delicious, (full board) freshly cooked, plant-based meals
- Tea station with tea/coffee and eclectic herbal tea selection
- 3 nights accommodation in a 5-star barn conversion
- Loving self-enquiry circles
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Yoga styles
3 days with instruction in English
Average daily hours of activity: 4.83
Accommodation
Facilities
- Dining area
- Environmentally friendly
- Fireplace
- Garden
- Kitchen
- Wedding
Sunny Brow Farm’s retreat accommodations are beautifully renovated barn conversions. There are four barns renovated into self-contained barn cottages. Two cottages take up the upper and lower parts of a Lakeland bank barn, and two are smaller and separate. All barns have bedroom/s, bathroom/s, living space, kitchen, and dining area. The barns have been lovingly renovated to allow modern fittings and style to sit alongside the old barn features and optional log burners. Characterful, yet with modern comfort, the barn accommodation will fulfill all your needs. They are all equipped with good Wi-Fi.
The yoga studio and massage rooms are nestled within the area of the barn conversions, and the studio overlooks woodlands and sheep pastures.
Itinerary of barns
- The Old Dairy – a ground-floor barn cottage with two private bedrooms – one double and one single - which share a bathroom and living space. This barn is also where retreat guests eat communally on a large oak table.
- Sunny Brow Barn – one bedroom that can be twin or double ensuite, with private living space.
- The Hayloft – upper floor barn cottage in a large renovated hay barn. Two twin or double ensuite bedrooms that share a large open plan living space.
- Bracken Barn – one bedroom that can be twin or double ensuite, with private living space.
Program
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 you come to presence, you naturally experience increased awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Here at Sunny Brow, they 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 you step into acceptance of both the pain and the beauty of you, you can embody an authentic way of navigating your life and your 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. They offer you the space to let go and transform. Rooted in earthy spiritual practices, Spirit Medicine Retreats invite you to permit your unfolding inner wisdom, welcome your natural process, and set yourself free.
Expect rituals inspired by the elements and 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.
Woven with careful thought from over 12 years’ experience of running retreats, the itinerary is full and ample, yet inclusive of personal space for your own adventures. Each Sacred Yoga session becomes bespoke for the group gathered, and can suit beginner or advanced practitioners.
Itinerary
Friday
- 17:00 - 19:00 Opening ceremony and share circle, intention setting, finding the breath, and meditation
- 19:30 Dinner
Saturday
- 08:00 Breakfast
- 09:00 - 12:00 Healing ceremony with yoga, ritual, and breathwork
- 12:15 Lunch
- 13:30 - 18:00 Inclusive Reiki or massage
- 18:15 Dinner
- 19:30 - 20:30 Healing circle and journey with crystals, plants, and sound
Sunday
- 08:00 Breakfast
- 09:00 - 12:00 Cacao ceremony with movement, breathwork, and sacred share
- 12:15 Lunch
- 13:30 - 18:00 Extra sessions available or enjoy a walk
- 18:15 - 19:15 Closing ceremony and final share
Monday
- 09:00 Breakfast
- 10:30 Departure (latest)
Instructors
Suzyanne Saunders
Suzyanne is the owner and manager of Sunny Brow Farm Holistic Retreats. In 2010 together with her husband, they bought a derelict Cumbrian farm, and self-renovated it into a retreat centre and family home. Suzy-Anne is passionate about spiritual development. She is a professional yoga teacher since 2004, shamanic practitioner, inner dance facilitator, breathwork practitioner, 'All Nations’ sweat lodge water-pourer, holistic therapist and Reiki master; and also, a blessed mum of three beautiful souls. She is always adding to her skill set and this year is undertaking a Rose Priestess Path.
Natalie Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander runs her own teaching and spiritual healing practice in Cumbria through which she offers her intuitively guided sessions, readings and workshops. Jane is an instinctive mystic, soul aware facilitator and accidental musician, who weaves shamanic-style transformative workshops and retreats. Sound plays a powerful role in Jane’s work. She uses her voice, words and non-linguistic chanting to facilitate altered states of consciousness.
Retreat location
Sunny Brow Farm is a beautifully renovated old Cumbrian farm, set within the hills and dales of the Lake District National Park. This allows easy access to the lakes, rivers, forests, villages, and beautiful hikes within the stunning South Lake District.
Sunny Brow Farm itself is nestled in the dale near Black Fell, with streams, sheep pasture land, and woodland directly on the doorstep. Being in such proximity to nature is such a gift for a quiet and natural stay.
The nearest village is Hawkshead (5-minute drive), and the nearest small town is Ambleside (10-minute drive).
Food
Sunny Brow Farm's food ethos is to nourish your bodies with natural, elegant, and really tasty plant-based cuisine. A love of seasonal, organic, home-grown, and wild foods from nature’s garden influences their menus. Using inspiration from these elements, they consciously plan and prepare the menus for the retreats. The menus are always seasonal to allow for a deeper connection to nature’s gifts at each time of year.
Their approach is rooted in macrobiotic principles, emphasizing gut health through healthy plant-based foods, whole grains, and optimum preparation methods like fermentation. They prioritize a wide variety of vegetables and predominantly unprocessed, plant-based ingredients. Sunny Brow Farm maintains a fully gluten-free and refined sugar-free menu. While their focus is primarily on plant-based foods, they occasionally incorporate natural organic yoghurt and farm-fresh eggs. They pride themselves on catering for all food intolerances at no extra cost to the guest.
On retreat, everyone enjoys meal times around a large oak table in their Old Dairy barn, a social space to enjoy like-minded fellow retreat guests, and the gifts of foods cooked, prepared, and served with love. They serve two large eclectic meals each day; plus, lighter breakfast and afternoon tea snacks are also available.
The following meals are included:
- Brunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Lactose Free
- Whole food
Things to do (optional)
The itinerary shows all the inclusive sessions on-site. On this retreat, Sunny Brow Farm does not offer any facilitated off-site excursions, but due to the location in the Lake District, many people choose to do their own hikes and / or wild swims. Sunny Brow Farm can give its recommendations for this if you wish.
- Book an extra treatment from the spa list
- Cozy down in your barn living space – maybe in front of a fire - with a book (there is a yoga / holistic book library if you wish), and a cup of tea or cacao (extra costs for logs and cacao)
- Enjoy a Lakeland walk / hike (varying from easy to more challenging)
- Wild swimming locally
- Enjoy a trip to Sacred Essence, a wonderful local shop (10-minute drive) selling great holistic goods.
- Enjoy a trip to Hawkshead village, Ambleside, Windermere, or Coniston
Spa treatments
On your retreat, one of the holistic massages is included per person in the price (this could be swapped for Reiki should you wish). There is a selection of additional treatments available to book at an extra cost. The list for these is below. Further information on each of these treatments is available in our retreat welcome pack, and/or can be discussed in person when you are here.
- Extra holistic massage: 60 GBP / 1 hour
- Hot stone massage ritual: 70 GBP / 1 hour
- Reflexology: 55 GBP / 1 hour
- Himalayan salt scrub massage: 65 GBP / 1 hour
- Ayurvedic massage: 60 GBP / 1 hour
- Indian head massage: 30 GBP / 1/2 hour
- Ginger compress with back massage: 65 GBP / 1 hour
- Reiki: 60 GBP / 1 hour
- Soul healing: 1 hour / 60 GBP
- Soul reading: 1 hour / 65 GBP
- Transformational healing: 1 hour / 60 GBP
- Crystal healing: 1 hour / 60 GBP
- Macrobiotic / dietary consultation: 60 GBP / time: 1 hour
What's included
- 5 facilitated sessions
- 1-hour personal massage or Reiki included
- 3 nights in 5-star accommodation in our beautifully renovated barn
- Daily nourishing meals and snacks
What's not included
- Extra massages – although they are available at an extra charge – see below
- Extra cacao – although it is available at an extra cost of 5 GBP per cup
- Logs for log burners – a package of all you need for a lovely fire 7.50 GBP (matches / kindling / firelighters and a bag of logs)
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer not provided
Manchester Airport
125 km away from your destination
Driving directions from M6
- Take exit 36 and head northwest towards Kendal and Windermere.
- At Sizergh, the road becomes the A591, but keep driving straight ahead towards Kendal and Windermere.
- You will pass Kendal and arrive at a large roundabout, take the second exit (straight on) towards Windermere. *When you arrive at Windermere, carry on following the A591 to Ambleside.
- When you arrive on the outskirts of Ambleside (Waterhead), you will come to a junction with traffic lights, turn left here onto the A5059 Borrans Road.
- You will pass the Waterhead pub and go through a twisting section of roadway.
- When the road straightens out, take the left-hand turning after the rugby club ground (signposted to Coniston and Hawkshead).
- Follow this road around to the bridge, then turn left, going over the bridge. You will now be on the A593.
- After approximately one mile, take a left-hand turn onto the B5286 towards Hawkshead, driving over the Brathay bridge.
- After approximately 1.5 miles, take a sharp right-hand turn. There is a signpost here for The Drunken Duck Inn.
- Drive up the hill and straight past the Drunken Duck Inn.
- After 3/4 mile, the driveway to the farm is on the right-hand side.
Arrival by bus
From the Windermere train station, you can catch the 505 bus. If you are feeling adventurous, you can ask the driver to drop you at the junction for The Drunken Duck Inn and Sunny Brown Farm; it’s a short two-mile walk from there.
Please note, if you choose to use public transport to get there, not only will they pick you up and drop you off in Hawkshead, but they will also pay for your first full day's bus pass (worth up to 22 GBP), which will give you unlimited travel within the Central Lakes Bus network.
Arrival by train
The nearest train station is in Windermere. From Windermere’s train station, you can use local transportation to reach Hawkshead Village. Free of charge transfer from Hawkshead Village is available upon request, but you have to call or email at least two weeks before your arrival to arrange this. On your departure, they would take you to Hawkshead Village too.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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