Retreat on Your Street is an opportunity to experience a range of meditative and reflective practices: yoga – meditation – contemplation – reflection – sound bath – drumming circle – community – connection – collaboration.
The event begins on Friday evening, 22 September and continues through to Saturday evening offering a broad range of different workshops. A Saturday General Admission ticket (£5) permits entrance to any of the 12 15-minute ‘taster sessions’ taking place throughout Saturday and to three of the longer workshops. Other workshops are offered by vendors on an individual ticketing basis.
Full details of the programme of workshops and the taster sessions are given below.
Workshop Programme
Friday 22nd September 2023
6pm – 7.30pm Friday Night Chill: Yin Yoga & Sound Bath – Alex & Duncan
Opening the first Retreat on Your Street which this beautiful yin yoga, meditation & live sound bath to welcome in a blissful night’s sleep.
Alex has practiced yoga throughout her adult life & has been teaching it for over a decade. She specialises in
Vinyasa Flow balancing this with the beautiful practice of Yin & Restorative Yoga. A mindfulness coach &
menopause mentor, Alex’s passion is supporting women during this life changing transition to reframe & embrace
this as a period of beautiful transformation as we evolve to welcome in the best years of our lives ahead of us.
Duncan Forrester is an experienced drummer and percussionist who has been playing professionally and semi-professionally for over 40 years.
Admission £22. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-chill-blissful-sleep-tickets-681660303317?aff=oddtdtcreator
Saturday 23rd September 2023
10am – 11.30am Wake-up & Flow Yoga with Alex
A dynamic start to Retreat on Your Street!
Alex has practiced yoga throughout her adult life & has been teaching it for over a decade. She specialises in
Vinyasa Flow balancing this with the beautiful practice of Yin & Restorative Yoga. A mindfulness coach &
menopause mentor, Alex’s passion is supporting women during this life changing transition to reframe & embrace
this as a period of beautiful transformation as we evolve to welcome in the best years of our lives ahead of us.
Admission £11. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wake-up-flow-yoga-tickets-681706371107?aff=oddtdtcreator
11am – 12.30am The MindTravels Experience with Mark
Working on the borders between mindfulness and mental health awareness Mark Hutchinson’s often incisive but always ultimately gentle spoken word , combined with the recorded improvised piano playing of Josh Johnston produces a meditative workshop with unique qualities.
Each MindTravels experience allows participants to sense an intimate journey of exploration, healing and hope. Mark’s unique use of dates and texts adds unexpected dimensions.
Hear MindTravels latest podcast HERE.
Tickets: General Admission ticket
12noon – 1pm Mindful Wreath Making workshop with Kelly
Wreath masterclass with wide selection of colours, scents and fragrance.
Based in Evesham, Worcestershire, Perfect Petals UK is a luxury, award-winning florist using British blooms. As a small business, the creative team provides a bespoke service to ensure you have maximum fun during the workshops. Your unique floral arrangement is crafted with your theme or style, with your vision at the heart of each design. Owner Kelly sources British flowers for her creations and takes inspiration from the nature of Warwickshire and the Cotswolds.
“Just completed a spring wreath making afternoon. It was really relaxed, fun and we all left with beautiful wreaths. Kelly is so lovely and fun, definitely hope to do more” Nikki
Admission £25. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mindful-wreath-making-tickets-678068369747?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile
12noon – 1pm Skincare & Make-up workshop with Vicky
Vicki is a skin-care expert, make-up artist & hairdresser. She shares all her wisdom about skincare in this FREE workshop.
Register for this session at this Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/s/retreat-on-the-street/332364332548622/
1pm – 1.45pm Meno Workshop with Alex
Discover more about what’s going on during The Menopause, the umbrella term for peri-menopause, menopause & post menopause & natural, holistic ways to manage symptoms & navigate this life changing transition.
Alex has practiced yoga throughout her adult life & has been teaching it for over a decade. She specialises in
Vinyasa Flow balancing this with the beautiful practice of Yin & Restorative Yoga. A mindfulness coach &
menopause mentor, Alex’s passion is supporting women during this life changing transition to reframe & embrace
this as a period of beautiful transformation as we evolve to welcome in the best years of our lives ahead of us.
Alex is a menopause survivor herself! She credits a daily practice of self-care based around yoga, meditation &
mindfulness, time in nature, gratitude, energy management & self-compassion in easing the enormous transition
the menopause presents. She believes that by embracing these practices the menopause can become a period
of beautiful transformation as we evolve to welcome in the best year’s of our lives ahead of us.
Tickets: General Admission ticket
1.30pm – 2.30pm In this time of ‘no time’ find ways to manage anxiety – time for change! – Anxiety workshop with Emily
Now is the time to feel the power you have in managing your stress and anxiety. Time for change is here, what are you waiting for? Try this.
Practical ways that work to help you manage your anxiety. Anxiety is telling you something, understand what it is, acknowledge it and then let me show you how you can move forward.
Emily supports her clients to reconnect mind, body and soul. Enabling a gaining of insight to the power they already have, encouraging new perspectives which in turn allow a moving forward and freedom in choice and clarity. Emily has been a hands on therapist for nearly 20 years. Working with the mental, emotional and day to day stresses of her clients she has been able to help so many of them find their own solutions to ensure that they are living their best lives. All these aspects of us make us whole, everything in our lives is connected. Join Emily to really find out what it is that needs support in change.
Admission £10. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-this-time-of-no-time-find-ways-to-manage-anxiety-time-for-change-tickets-673951145017?aff=oddtdtcreator
3pm – 4pm Your Vision Your Life – Workshop with Sarah
Sarah is a confidence & empowerment coach, passionate about self-love and self-acceptance. She works with women who want more – even if they’re not sure what- but a lack of confidence and self-belief is holding them back.
Sarah facilitates her clients to feel energised, excited and to live their best life using her method of clarity, reinvention & action. Sarah is on a mission to support women to live life to the full, follow their dreams and have the confidence to be boldly themselves. To live a life more than “fine.”
Sarah qualified with Beautiful You Coaching Academy, continual learning and personal development is one of Sarah’s passions in life and she’s here to enable all those she works with to unlock their passions and live a life of MORE.
Join us for an empowering in-person workshop, “Your Vision Your Life,” where we’ll dive deep into shaping your future.
Admission £15. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/your-vision-your-life-workshop-part-of-retreat-on-your-street-tickets-672312202897?aff=oddtdtcreator
3.30pm – 4.30pm Live EcoNidra for Deep Relaxation with Claire
Claire is a mindfulness and nature connection coach, forest bathing guide, sound therapist and certified EcoNidra teacher. Dedicated to helping people slow down, reduce stress and live with more presence, she leads regular EcoNidra sessions online and runs courses, retreats and events in and around the Cotswolds.
Econidra is a deeply relaxing, healing and transformational practice that nourishes mind, body and soul. Based on the ancient yoga nidra (yogic sleep) and incorporating elements of forest therapy it’s an embodied practice that is both restful and rejuvinating. By encouraging a sense of connection with our own nature as well as the nature around us it helps to calm our nervous system and promote a profound sense of wellbeing – it’s said to have the same effect on the body as 3-4hrs good quality sleep.
This will be a unique opportunity to experience an in-person EcoNidra session at Retreat on Your Street where I will guide you on a triple journey through your senses, your body and the natural world. All you need to do is lie down and listen!
Please bring yoga mat, blanket and anything else you might need to be comfortable for example pillow and/or bolster.
Admission £10. Tickets: https://buytickets.at/intunewellbeing/973100
4.30pm – 5.30pm Quantum Wealth Mastery Activation with Rhoda
Activate your Wealth Mastery and Manifestation Codes through tapping and clearing your Energetic Field.
Rhoda is an Energetics, Life and Business Mastery coach working with soul driven individuals who are here to ripple effect into the world for the greater good. Rhoda helps those who are here to raise the global vibration frequency yet feel they have hit ceilings and are stuck. Sherparing her clients across the gap from stuck, to lit up, Rhoda facilitates clients to re-pattern their nervous system, clear their trauma to heal, unlock their wealth activation, and create a life of effortless abundance and magic.
Having mentored under Donny Epstein, Angie Dairou, Dana Fonteneau, to name a few, Rhoda has created her own unique energetic style working with ancestral, soul and dimensional energy, to crack open the life abundance and wealth that has been within you all along, and is waiting to be unleashed.
Admission £18. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quantum-wealth-mastery-activation-tickets-673824817167?aff=oddtdtcreator
6pm – 7pm Drumming Circle Duncan
Duncan Forrester is leading your session. He is an experienced drummer and percussionist who has been playing professionally and semi-professionally for over 40 years.
He says, ‘I have been absorbed in music from a very young age. I played my first gig, as a drummer, at 13, a profound moment that has shaped my life. By the age of 21, I was playing professionally in a signed band that toured the UK, Europe, and the US. I’ve been playing professionally and semi-professionally ever since. Some 40-plus years later and I’m still hooked. Music has supported and sustained me throughout my life.
In 2019, I purchased my first gong. It has opened a new world of possibilities. I’ve grown fascinated with the ambient and deeply relaxing nature of the soundscapes the gongs, bowls, bells, and percussion enable me to create and the sense of peace and wellbeing they evoke.
The transition to performing sound baths has been a natural and therapeutic journey for me, one that I feel compelled to share.’
Admission £15. Tickets: https://buytickets.at/duncanforrestersoundbaths/976150
7pm Closing Ceremony with Mark
Come and find a quiet centre to conclude out day.
Tickets: General Admission ticket
Taster Sessions Programme
During Saturday, there are 10 fifteen-minute taster sessions of the longer workshops. For only £5, the General Admission enable you to attend any (or indeed all) of these sessions PLUS two of the longer workshops:
11am – 12.30am MindTravels with Mark
1pm – 1.45pm Meno Workshop with Alex
Taster session timetable
10am MindTravels Meditation – Mark
10.30am Skincare & Make-up – Vicky
11am Mindful Wreath Making – Kelly
12pm Anxiety Q&A – Alex & Emily
1.30pm Your Vision Your Life – Sarah
2.30pm Live EcoNidra for Deep Relaxation – Claire
3pm Quantum Wealth Mastery Activation – Rhoda
4pm Drumming Circle – Duncan
4.15pm Yoga for Menopause – Alex
5pm MindTravels Meditation – Mark