A rare opportunity to begin healing the parts of you that protect your heart ,within the powerful landscape and energies of Avalon.
Glastonbury has drawn seekers, mystics and travellers for centuries. There is something about this ancient landscape that takes you into transformation naturally.
We'll enter this landscape together and explore Parts Work in a completely different setting moving between ancient sites, The Abbey, the Tor, the Well and a beautiful private home overlooking Glastonbury Tor.
This is an intimate retreat for just five people, giving us the space to go deeper while still leaving plenty of room for rest, exploration and simply enjoying being in Glastonbury.
For four nights, we'll have exclusive use of a beautiful countryside home with uninterrupted views towards Glastonbury Tor. The house has been chosen not simply for its comfort, but for the atmosphere it creates,, and only ten minutes walk to the sites. This is a place where you can truly slow down, breathe and reconnect.
Enjoy cosy evenings beside indoor and outdoor fires, soak beneath the stars in the hot tub, share music, laughter and meaningful conversations, and savour delicious chef-prepared meals created with care. Every element has been chosen to help you feel deeply nourished, supported and at home.
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A warm and intimate sanctuary where you can rest, connect and immerse yourself in the experience. Spacious and views of the Tor.
Deeply held group sessions exploring your inner protectors, heart connection and vision.
Including the Abbey, Chalice Well, Mary Magdalene Chapel, and Glastonbury Tor, woven into the retreat process.
Experiential practices to support presence, connection and integration
A nourishing self-serve breakfast with quality ingredients, tea and coffee.
Simple, wholesome meals provided so you can stay nourished throughout the retreat.
Beautiful shared dinners to deepen connection and celebrate the journey.
Relaxed singing and music nights by the fire.
Arrive in Glastonbury and settle into your beautiful home beneath the Tor.
As evening falls, we'll gather around the fire together for the first time.
We'll begin with a welcome ceremony and opening meditation, setting an intention for the journey ahead.
We'll introduce the Parts Work we'll be exploring and begin to turn our attention inward.
Then we'll share our first meal together.
The journey begins here.
We'll begin the morning with meditation and an experiential embodied Parts Work session, meeting the protective parts that have shaped the way we move through the world.
Then we'll enter the ancient landscape of Glastonbury Abbey.
There is something powerful about walking among these ancient ruins,structures that have endured, fallen and remained.
I will share some of the myth and legend and also show specific power spots such as the egg stone.
Here we'll explore your own inner structures.
What have you built to protect yourself?
What has your protector carried for you?
And what happens when you begin to meet it with curiosity rather than resistance?
We'll have time afterwards to explore Glastonbury itself. its old streets, independent shops, sacred spaces and curious corners.
Later we'll return to the house for integration, a beautiful evening meal and an evening around the fire.
The day begins quietly with meditation and a deeper Heart Garden journey.
We'll turn towards what lies beneath the protective layers.
The places within you that may have been waiting for attention.
The things you long for.
The qualities you want to cultivate.
The parts of your life that are ready to grow.
Then we'll walk to Chalice Well.
Archaeological finds suggest that the waters of the spring may have been used by humans for over two thousand years.
The water doesn’t come from above. It comes from below and so is not dependent on rainfall and begins its existence deep within our Mother, the Earth.
We'll spend time in the gardens, allowing the atmosphere of the Well and the landscape around it to become part of the experience.
There will be space for silence, reflection and simply being there.
Later, you'll have time to wander Glastonbury or return to the house to rest.
In the evening we'll gather for food, music and fire.
Our final full day begins with meditation and a powerful Parts Work session.
Having spent time meeting the protectors and reconnecting with the heart, we'll turn towards the inner visionary.
What becomes possible when your protective parts don't have to run everything?
What have you been longing to do, create or experience?
What is asking to emerge now?
Then we'll make our way to Glastonbury Tor.
We'll climb above the town and take in the extraordinary landscape of Avalon.
From here, the perspective changes.
We'll take time at the summit for reflection, an activation and a guided experience around vision and deep soul purpose.
Then we'll return to the house for our final integration.
And as evening arrives, we'll leave the inner journey for a while and celebrate.
A beautiful final dinner together.and one last fire, music and time.
A slow final morning.
Breakfast together.
Time to pack, reflect and take in the Tor one last time.
We'll gather for a closing circle, bringing together what you've experienced and considering what you want to carry back into your life.
Then, around midday, we'll say goodbye.
But the journey doesn't end here.
Your Heart Garden integration session afterwards gives you space to revisit what opened, what shifted and what you want to nurture once you're home.
James Elphick is rooted in decades of supporting others through change. From twenty years working in therapeutic social care to leading deep transformational retreats and one-to-one journeys.
His work weaves intuitive insight, body-based awareness, and Parts Work into a grounded path of healing and wholeness.
James creates safe, compassionate spaces ,both online and in person, where people can meet the parts of themselves that have long waited to be healed and step into greater clarity, ease, and self-trust.
He has led five transformational group retreats, as well as joint collaborations.
He shares his time between Corfu Greece, London and Asia.
