Morning river swimming

Morning yoga 

Light breakfast

Forest bathing

Sound healing in the forest 

Lunch

Tree meditation workshop 

Earlyish dinner

Evening Mugwort ceremony with Yin and Nidra

Morning river bathing

Morning yoga 

Light breakfast

Tree meditation

Forest walk, identifying plants flowers and herbs, collecting  

Lunch

Nature Mandala making, smudge sticks and mandala drawing workshop 

Light Snack 

Cacao and singing circle  

Grounding snack 

Closing circle

Karen is the creator behind Plant Based Pirate, with over ten years experience in the catering industry. Her passion for plant based food has manifested in a variety of different cookery disciplines, from cafes and restaurants, catering for events and retreats, making and selling wholesale products, making raw chocolates, cakes and patisserie, performing live cookery demos at trade shows and food fairs and leading workshops and classes for a diverse range of participants.

Cooking professionally was not even on the radar until Karen applied for a job as gardener at a community farm. After an initial interview, the company suggested another position – based partly at the farm and partly at the community cafe run by the same organisation. Divine fate intervened and it was through this job, where Karen was planting, growing and harvesting food at the farm, then taking it to the cafe and turning it into fantastically fresh plant based dishes, that the professional chef was born, and Karen found her chosen calling.

This journey took her to a position as the opening Head Chef of the flagship Marylebone branch of The Gate, one of London’s oldest and most distinguished vegetarian restaurants. During her time at The Gate she was able to show how diverse and delicious plant based food can be, instigating changes to the menu which moved from having only 50% plant based dishes to being 100% free from dairy and eggs by the end of the year, and converting the owner and executive chef in the process!

Karen will provide us with delicious and nutritious, lovingly and creatively prepared meals throughout our retreat

Joe is a multi instrumentalist, artist and designer. With a strong passion for creativity and teaching others how to unlock their child like creative flow. Joe specialises in sound healing with the handpan, and likes to explore the connection between sacred geometry in all aspects of his life.
Jess has been on the path of the yogi, the seeker since a young age. She found the practice of yoga at 18 which brought her a lot of healing and insight. She has trained with traditional teachers in India and with modern approaches to the ancient system in UK and U.S. She resonates with the tantric path, the philosophy that being human is the deepest spiritual experience and it is through our bodies and experiences that we ultimately transmute all back to love and light and bliss. Heaven on earth, through this body, in this life. Her practice and teaching is informed by her love of dance, embodied movement and expression and is directed by our bodies intuitive and primordial wisdom. She believes in inner medicine, that each of us has the keys to our own healing and liberation we just need to be guided within to find it. She hopes her classes inspire and empower. She loves to hold space for expansion and celebration.

Jess and Joe of flowtwin were brought together by their love of music and sharing its medicine. They began hosting singing circles together in Sri Lanka focused around mantra and the ancient devotional art of singing kirtan from the Bhakti yoga tradition. The yoga of the heart. A practice that explodes the heart open to meet all the depths and heights of love. It’s expansive, it’s orgasmic, it’s amazing. 
Flowtwin love to share the power of Bhakti and raw self-expression as medicine for these modern times. They love to gather and celebrate life with all who feel called to feel their own inner medicine and sing and dance like the love we are. We hope you will join us to create positive vibrations together. 
We are truely grateful for all this path of music has brought us and we wanna share it with the world ?

Dmitry is a Yoga & Ayurveda wellness teacher, entrepreneur and author of unique programs on meditation and self development.

Dmitry has been giving workshops on breathing techniques and Yoga for over 8 years, and is fascinated with the healing and power of transformation these techniques offer to humanity. He is a dedicated daily practitioner and qualified to teach Kundalini Yoga and Hatha Yoga.

During the retreat I’ll be guiding you through gentle, steady yet firm Yoga asanas of authentic Hatha Yoga and also powerful kriyas sets of the Kundalini Yoga to awaken the flow of rejuvenative energy. We will learn to meditate with trees, methods of breath control and effective techniques of concentration and meditation. Trees are our best helpers in this. There will be group guided meditation sessions and also time for individual meditations with trees.

I believe that each of us has a seed of enlightenment within and we need a personalised approach in our yoga practice to effectively tap into it as we are all different in our body type, mental state and physical abilities. My classes are crafted towards people's needs and their nature. I feel very fortunate to be able to pass these tools of self development on to serve each participant, and help them to experience well being, growth & transformation.