Reconnect with divine nature, shed your fears, and become empowered to step into your true self.

Natural Flow Yoga Retreat is a unique opportunity to embody nature's tranquil bliss. Move your body and breath in rhythm to the percussive sounds of live instruments and the melodic song of the wild birds. 

Journey into the broadleaf woodland to meditate in the dappled stillness of the forest, discovering the plant medicines and guides growing at your feet. Find the deep softness in your heart to open up your relationships with others. 

Rejoice in playful gratitude, dance and sing with conscious musicians chanting their living prayers into the night sky. 

Dare to meet the spirit of fire in a shamanic ceremony of hot coals and flame. Plunge into the restorative cold of the river, connecting with the flowing life lines of the land.

An invitation to connect with nature and to remember your natural self that is whole, healed and well. 

We will be living together as a community on the land at Hardwick Estate. We offer you daily wild swimming in the river waters, reviving yoga practices, guided meditations with ancient trees,  authentic workshops, sound healing, art therapy and a chance to connect as a community through empowering ceremonies. There will be opportunity for therapeutic body work and personal healing treatments.

Come with us on a journey of joy, creativity, rest and courage. Music weaves through the days, supporting your yoga practice, guiding you into meditation and inspiring uplifting celebration. Use your hands to connect with elemental nature through sacred craft work. Allow your body and mind to relax into the cool green embrace of the meadows. Break through your boundaries and find your inner strength.

A space to connect with nature, community & your natural self

Natural Flow is a unique harmonising of all the restorative power of a true retreat, combined with the joyful celebration of conscious tribal gathering. We hold secure and safe space for profound experience in meditation, movement and ceremony and we raise the vibration the way our ancestors did - through percussion, live music, song, and opportunities to find your true inner strength.

Nowhere else will you find such a gorgeously multifaceted event, bubbling over with authentic mindfulness and deeply in love with life. Incredible musicians will share the good vibes to restore and replenish you, storytelling and singing by the campfire will give you the heartwarming gift of community connection. 

A full immersion amidst the living wisdom of the ancient oak trees and wild water of Hardwick Estate. 

Surround yourself with 500-year-old trees, wildflower meadows, stunning scenery, magical sunset views, wonderful wildlife & your community.

We hope to be able to accommodate all who are interested & feel drawn to come together as a community.  

We have tickets available for the Full  Retreat: Friday evening - Sunday evening which are limited in numbers to facilitate a deep experience of rest and reconnection as a community.

Your Tickets include:

✔️ 2.5 days of full immersion into sacred lands and your beautiful self!

✔️ All activities, classes and workshops.

✔️ Fire Ceremony.

✔️ Delicious Ayurvedic food: 

Friday dinner,  3 meals on Saturday and 2 meals on Sunday. A selection of hot drinks will be available throughout the day.

✔️ Ground rent for your own tent.

The retreat begins on Friday evening 24th July and ends on Sunday evening 26th July 2026.

Camper vans & caravans are welcome, dogs must stay at home!

This retreat is free from drugs, alcohol and intoxicants which cloud the mind.

All tickets are booked on this website - tap the green Select button on the right to secure your place. 

For those who would like to combine the fun of the retreat and the karma of the service, we have a few Seva Tickets. These tickets are designed for those who enjoy getting involved in the running of the retreat by giving the core crew a hand with whatever is needed to be done on the day, or those who can't afford the full price of the tickets but still want to come.  If you’re keen to be involved, apply here.

We will be eating fresh, organic, locally grown plant based meals lovingly prepared according to the Ayurvedic principle of food as medicine. Ayurveda views food as both nourishment and a primary tool for self healing, essential for balancing the mind, body, and spirit.

This approach blends flavourful ingredients with health benefits, creating meals that satisfy your senses while enhancing your vitality with culinary richness and balance. We use a pallette of sattvic ingredients to ensure that your food supports your yoga, mediation and cleansing practices, leaving you feeling nourished, balanced and strong. Here we move beyond calories and macronutrients to embrace food as a tool for creating harmony, balance, and optimal health.

As much as possible of our gorgeous fruit and veg will come from Tolhurst Organic farm, based on site, who use stock free farming to produce the lowest possible carbon footprint, cruelty free food. Their work is truly inspiring and aligned with our ethos of re-connecting and re-aligning with mother nature to live in more harmony.

We have various accommodation and ticket options available. Participants are welcome to bring their own tents, campervans or caravans, or choose from one of our pre-erected tents. 

From deluxe glamping experiences to basic tent packages, we have a range of options to suit every budget. All accommodation is in our gorgeous riverside campsite, with fresh water, outdoor hot shower cabin, riverside sauna, composting toilets and a sparkling river to swim in! Flushing toilets are right next to the camping field, surrounded by lush green forests and wildflower meadows.

Our retreat takes place in a secluded and serene riverside setting on a community run rural estate in the Thames Valley. Surrounded by lush green forests with ancient oaks, rare wildflower meadows with astounding biodiversity and the glistening waters of the upstream Thames, this unique location is easy to get to, yet feels deeply held in wild nature.

All accommodation is in our secluded riverside campsite. There is fresh water available, hot shower cabins, riverside sauna, composting toilets, and a sparkling river to swim in! 

Workshops are held in an open structures, and out in the meadows and forests to truly experience immersive nature.

Hardwick estate is only 40 minutes by train from London (Paddington), and just 20 minutes by car from Junction 12 on the M4.  Easily accessible from the main transport hubs at Reading, yet set in the rolling countryside of the Chilterns AONB, Hardwick is ideally located for a weekend getaway of peace and tranquility.

By Air

The closest airport is London Heathrow - LHR - which is only a 1 hour car journey from the retreat venue. There are direct train and coach services from LHR to Reading, our closest city. From Reading it is a a seven minute onward train journey to Pangbourne, our closest village or a 20 minute taxi or car journey to the retreat venue.

By Train/Taxi

There are direct trains to Pangbourne, our closest village, from London (40 minutes) , Reading (7 minutes) and Didcot Parkway (20 minutes). From Pangbourne it is a 40 minute walk or a 10 minute taxi or car ride to the retreat venue. We give out some local taxi numbers in our booking confirmation, and we recommend you make a reservation with them for your journey if you plan to travel this way - we are in a rural location so they do not wait by the station and there is no Uber!  

By Car

The retreat venue is just 20 minutes from Junction 12 on the M4, halfway between London and Bristol.
If you have a spare seat in your car and are happy to share a ride, or if you need a lift to the gathering, here is the link to the our retreat community Whats app group: Natural Flow Shares

Arrive from mid-afternoon and settle into your bell tent or cosy accommodation, taking time to wander the land, breathe in the fresh air, dip into the river and leave the busyness of everyday life behind.

Our first touch as a retreat group will be an Ayurvedic introduction with Karen, where the principles and guiding wisdom for the way the program has been curated, and how the food has been created and divined, will be shared. A chance to discover more about your own internal balance of elements and how we can interact with our environment to bring harmony and restoration to the body.

As evening falls, we'll enjoy a nourishing dinner before coming together for an opening ceremony led by Dmitry Glazkov and with contributions from all of our specially invited guests and co-collaborators. Through gentle intention setting and shared presence, we'll begin creating the container for the weekend ahead.

We end our first night around the campfire, accompanied by the ethereal tones of Aylon Akhande with her soaring, sensuous vocals, accompanied by incredible violinist Kartik Raghunathan. Together their soulful, devotional music spires into the stars, and with magic and firelight, we'll begin the journey into natural flow.

We greet the morning with an invigorating combination of expansive stretch, a wild swim and a wood-fired sauna. There's something magical about stepping into cool water as the world wakes up around you.

For morning practice, a rare chance to experience Dmitry's asana teachings. Rooted in hatha movement and himalayan yoga; drawn from the original kundalini parampara; and using the wisdom of ayurvedic personalisation in practice, this session of awakening posture and energising breath revolutionises your start to the day. Discover reserves of energy you never knew you had through power yoga techniques developed by Dmitry to support postural integrity, and work directly with the functional movement required for sitting meditations and supple daily physicality.

Late morning is devoted to voice activation with Api Acasco– a playful and liberating exploration of sound, expression and authentic voice. Api is a dynamic musician whose otherwordly and profound sound work reflects her explorative spirit and deep connection to diverse musical traditions. Expect to be guided through cathartic vocal release, group singing and empowerment, with Api's distinctive sound and grounded orchestration drawing on her exploration of jazz, free improvisation, circle singing, Spanish Folklore, West African drumming, Persian percussion, Hindustani raags, Aboriginal roots, Latin-American folklore, shamanic chants and indigenous traditions.

After lunch, participants choose their own adventure. One path is to journey into the woods for an immersive afternoon of creativity and connection. Chris Parks is a leading druid, storyteller and wisdom keeper of the British Isles. He takes you on a forest art vision quest, introducing the liminal nature of the woods as you walk up into the native broadleaf forests above Hardwick. Pausing deep in the thickets and groves, you are invited to create sacred art and craft, using the materials around you for inspiration and divination in a moving meditation of symbolic objects.

Back down by the river, on the other path, Dmitry explores altered states of consciousness with power of pranayama. Experience a powerful combination of breathwork drawn from ancient yogic traditions - breath practice which completely and utterly enriches your whole being with life-force prana. Saturated, the mind touches the cosmos, dancing on the edges of everyday perception, and the subliminal becomes the sublime. Accompanied by the sanctifying sounds of Lorena Rodrigo on chimes, crystal bowls and gong, this is a vast trip for the consciousness of the soul.

As dusk settles, we join for somatic movement with Anjeli, in elemental alignment - a session which uses the Ayurvedic understanding of the elemental world within and without to focus on how the five elements reiterate our interconnectedness to nature. Anjeli will guide us through each element with meditation, embodied movement, breath and voice, using nature as a teacher and mirror, softening and unwinding through intuitive, embodied practice.

The day culminates in a shamanic fire ceremony, accompanied by live musicians, drumming and spirit. As the flames leap, you are invited to leap higher, jumping the blaze and then conquering the hot coals as you walk barefoot on the embers. Face your fears and connect with the bravery of raw elemental force.

And after this, bringing us into sattva, into balance, into being, are the unbelievably talented Magic Tree Collective. Listen in wonder as these fairy musicians channel the sound of the gentle wild of the English landscape. Hear the song of the trees and of the river, the rich meadows and rolling downs, brought into audible frequency by these wondrous sonic enchanters.

Our final morning begins gently with another optional wild swim and sauna, offering one last opportunity to immerse yourself in the elements.

Dmitry guides our final morning yoga session, allowing space to integrate the experiences of the weekend. Build on your strengthening practice from the day before as you add another level of resilience to your physical body, while finding stillness and centre in the flow of movement. Enter the day lithe and stretched, with ease of motion and calmness of mind.

We take a meal together, replenishing our energy

Late morning brings a nourishing yin and bhakti yoga session led by Emily Cobie – an invitation to soften, rest and reconnect with gratitude and joy. 

Find all encompassing relaxation in the passive engagement of yin yoga, with extended pose holds allowing time for the nervous system to calm down and find the space and patience to fully rest. Emily weaves into this the ancient yogic path of devotion and 'yoga of the heart' - bhakti yoga. Rather than using physical postures it focuses on channeling human emotions—such as love, reverence, and surrender—into a deep, spiritual connection with the Divine or universal consciousness. A beautiful way to bring our weekend home.

Following lunch, we gather for a closing ceremony, sharing reflections and carrying the essence of the weekend with us as we prepare to return home.

Departures begin in the afternoon, leaving with rested bodies, open hearts and a renewed sense of connection – to ourselves, to nature and to one another.

Chris Park

is a Druid of the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids, artist, musician, wisdom keeper and storyteller, immersed and versed in the ancient lore and wisdom traditions of the Isles of Britain. He is a folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, specialising in pipes, whistles and flutes and various strings, mainly versed in British folk music, song and dance, with a passion for Breton and French music too.

From arts and crafts, ancient technologies & eco-building to apitherapy, educational projects, solstice ceremonies & pilgrimage, Chris works with the liminal and the luminary, revering the traditions and wisdoms of this land and bringing this light to modern spirituality, ritual and animism.

He can be found holding space for the sacred as a ceremonial leader at numerous festivals and events across the UK, including Medicine Festival and Nature Awakening, has appeared as the resident Druid on BBC documentary, Surviving the Stone Age, and gives talks, lectures and guest appearances at events all over the country.

Chris knows the lands, waters and trees of Hardwick well, and we are very excited to share the special magic of Natural Flow with him. He will be co-hosting our Opening and Closing Ceremonies, venerating the elemental powers in our Fire Ceremony where we jump the flames and walk the hot coals, and leading the group into the forest on the Saturday afternoon for a druidic art pilgrimage, to connect with nature's creative energies.

This will be special!

Magic Tree

And for our Saturday evening headline slot, we are super excited to welcome back Api Ascasco with her latest collaborative project, Magic Tree Collective. When we saw the creations of this amazing group we just had to have them come to perform for you all.

With musical works such as 'Conversations with a Yew Tree', and 'Bluebell Forest', and their recent series of seven concerts where they have directed their intentions, music, and prayers, to each direction. East, West, South, North, Sky, Earth and Here & Now, we knew that we had to share this incomparable blend of nature inspired composition, deeply rooted in wild spirituality, seasonal cycles and shamanic ceremonial sound.

Etheric, tingling, timeless and truly enchanting, they weave sounds of cello, violin, drum and voice to create incredible soundscapes. This is a soul shivering moment not to be missed.

Magic Tree Collective will be providing the rhythms and the beats for your dancing feet after the Fire Ceremony, and then bringing your energy into sattva, into ground, for a full circle through the ceremonial landscape.

Karen Buckland

Crafting beautiful, nourishing and heartfelt food is Karen's way of fulfilling her highest purpose. Serving people with joyful, nutritious meals made from earth-kind plant ingredients, is honouring the abundant and sensuous gifts of the planet's divine nature.

Karen spent many years at the top of the restaurant industry working as a Head Chef in London running fine-dining kitchens, and successful event catering businesses at large events getting top reviews in Guardian and other media. Using this experience combined with a keen interest in holistic health and environmental sustainability, along with an understanding of Ayurvedic approaches to cookery and diet, Karen weaves the alchemy of food to make your whole self feel more vibrant, more alive, and more healed.

Karen is a co-founder of Sadhama, running wellbeing retreats throughout the year and teaching online courses and classes.

Dmitry Glazkov 

Dmitry is a co-founder of a multiple award-winning Sadhama, running wellbeing retreats around the world throughout the year and teaching online courses and classes.

Dmitry has a decade of experience teaching yoga, meditation, breathwork, and pranayama. In his classes, he shares a deep and powerful toolkit of techniques, drawing on Yogic, Vedic & Slavic traditions, as well as concepts of meditation and mindfulness taught by Buddhas. Dmitry has completed teacher training in Hatha and Kundalini yoga and is an Ayurvedic practitioner and Panchakarma specialist. He is passionate about studying original texts to reach the ultimate and authentic sources of knowledge. By highlighting the fundamental and infinite number of characteristics which make each one of us unique, practices taught by Dmitry are tailored, bespoke and deeply transformative for each individual, as they connect with the wholeness of their nature. 

Aylon Akhande

And for our Friday night musical guest, we have the angelic talent of Aylon Akhande. Aylon explores spirituality through devotional music, a form of expression rooted in love and reverence for the Divine.

Blending heart-opening songs with ethereal arrangements, her music is an invitation to journey within oneself and surrender to the healing power of music. Aylon's original songs and compositions, alongside traditional mantra and kirtan brings creates moving and glowing moments of pure sacred sound. 

We are delighted to welcome her to open our fireside musical circle as our retreat weekend begins. Find her on Spotify to hear a little of her magical offerings.

Emily Cobie

is a powerhouse of yogic energy, and we are honoured to have her join us for Natural Flow this year. She will be leading a Yin & Bhakti Yoga session on the Sunday of the retreat, incorporating deep release posture and mantra.

Founder of The Open Shala home of yoga and Oh Shala Community Festival, Emily is an experienced and highly practiced student and teacher of Bhakti Yoga, the practice of devotional yoga. Her mission is to share the power of Yoga & Mantra, mainly through Asana Practice & Kirtan, as a way to connect to divinity and collective consciousness.

She began learning Yoga & Mantra eight years ago with her Teacher Ajay Kumar in his Shala, Shtalam 8 -Ashtanga & Vedanta Centre. Since then, Emily has been inspired and honoured to be a student of Yoga and Bhakti and has spent the last few years sharing Kirtan & Yoga in Buckinghamshire and numerous festivals and events in the UK.

This is a golden chance to join a class with one of the most dynamic Bhakti yoga teachers working in the UK today. Emily says, ‘My core values lie in a practice of love, kindness, compassion and service in community. Through the medium of Bhakti Yoga we can call on divinity to open our hearts as we move and chant together, weaving magic and collective healing.'

Oh, what a perfect fit for Natural Flow!