[Online] Exploring the Art of Wintering - Full Day Retreat

“All beginnings start in the darkness, in the fecund earth, the pulsing womb. It is not spring where life suddenly appears out of nowhere, but now in these inward months.”

Brigit Anna McNeil

What is your relationship with the darker months, the darker times of your life?

In this full-day online event, we will explore our relationship with the dark using the natural world as our mirror. We will listen deeply and connect with our body, each other and the land, exploring how this winter story can teach us about our own human journey.Let us come together and learn how we can move to the rhythms of the natural world once again.

This is an online adaptation of our in-person event to allow more people to experience the transformative power of deep nature connection. You can join from anywhere in the world - please note the retreat takes place during daytime hours in GMT timezone.

What to expect:

Our online day together will begin with a virtual council, where we will share teachings from the eco-centric wheel on the season of winter and have guidance on how to move through the world with embodied awareness.

Following the online council you will be invited to walk on the land for up to 3 hours before we meet again to reflect, share and tell our stories.

Despite what the over culture may tell us, we don't have to start the new year with a bang announcing to the world our plans for the year ahead.

Let yourself take time to compost what no longer serves, dream, alchemize and lean into the mystery of the dark.

“This season of winter, for me, is always a time to think about change and transformation, about all the ways in which we might allow the long, cold dark to strip us down to the bones of who we are. Every year, letting winter strip us bare; letting the final leaves that we’re clinging onto fall. Letting it all fall, and seeing what still holds us upright. And from that point of strength, choosing the ways in which we might bend.”

Sharon Blackie

Timings for the day - all times in GMT:

10 am - 12 pm Opening Circle

12 pm - 5 pm Time Alone in Nature

5 pm - 7 pm Story Council and Closing Circle