Elemental Woman Transformative Retreat 2025

THE INVITATION

Join us on the Elemental Woman Retreat for a week-long deep dive into our wild and wise womanhood. Creating a brave group container to support us in connecting more joyously to ourselves, each other and the natural world. Weaving together a full spectrum of enlivening practices. 

A juicy week in community to liberate your elemental woman! 

​Through the week we will be exploring our 'yes', our 'no', our shadows, our light, our struggles, our gifts, our capacity to give and receive pleasure, our edges and our comfort zone. We will dance with our wild woman. This can be challenging work, but that's where the growth happens!

“This retreat was life changing and life affirming. My confidence and self-love has grown tremendously - as a result I feel more able to deal with the ups and downs that life will throw at me. I am truly grateful for this experience and new found friends. I cannot recommend it more highly.” — SARAH, BRISTOL

WHAT TO EXPECT

Each day will follow a similar rhythm, with every session being optional.

Example Timetable (subject to change)
07.30 - Meditation, breath & dance - meeting the Great Wisdom Goddess, archetype and element for this day
08.30 - Breakfast
10.00 - Yoga session & group process linked to themes 
13.00 - Lunch & free time
16.00 - Afternoon workshop & land connection ceremony
19.00 - Dinner
20.00 - Evening workshop

GROUNDING - orientation and connection
- Opening 
- Welcoming the inner child, the good girl and the independent woman > preparing them for the challenges and gifts of the week ahead!
- Making the altar
- Yoga nidra

EARTH - loving & abundant mother
-Non-dualism as a pathway to honouring the homes of our bodies and this Earth
- Earth ceremony
- Meeting the land
- Restorative yoga and bedtime story

BLOOD - wild & embodied creatrix
- The wisdom of cycles & spirals
- Exploring jealousy
- Menarche ceremony
- Playful competition!

WATER - sensual & curious adventuress
- Water ceremony & wild swim
- Shame tending
- Reclaiming our pleasure ceremony (with optional breast and yoni massage)

FIRE - humble, clear & courageous warrior
- Fire ceremony
- Anger tending
- Awakening your power, asking for what you want, learning how to give and receive ‘no’, finding your ‘yes’

AIR - playful, wise & compassionate healer
- Grief tending
- Voice work for healing 
- Mantra japa

SPACE - liberated & joyful queen
- Cacao & dancing the elements ceremony - embodying the prayer
- Sound healing & parts integration meditation

INTEGRATION - elemental woman
- Elemental Women counsel
- Honouring each other
- Final celebration and close

“I can say whole heartedly that I have come away a better person and it has catapulted me into improving and changing my life even more than before. Becoming better for myself and those that I love. Going on this retreat is one of the best decisions I have ever made.”

WHO IS THIS FOR?

The experience is for cis-women and non-binary folk who were assigned female at birth and are wishing to explore & celebrate the parts of them that wear the story of ‘woman'. Unfortunately the site is not accessible for those with certain physical disabilities - please contact Megan to discuss further. 

Taking part in this retreat requires adequate mental and physical health to be self-responsible within group processes; we are all facing the horrors and joys of life and your whole self is fully welcome, but do get in touch if you have any concerns or questions.

WHY COME?

“It was like we were learning all the things we should have been taught in school! Also, the space I had to release, process, heal, cry, speak, feel - I wasn’t expecting this. I honestly healed parts of me I didn’t know needed healing and released emotions/traumas I didn’t know were there or needed releasing - a huge thank you for that and the safe, beautiful space provided” - JESS

​To meet our different parts with curiosity and compassion, to connect to the richness of our bodies and the deep wisdom that can be found there, to unlearn the bullshit and remember our truths, to question single-stories of ‘woman’ and step into the full-fat version of ourselves, to touch into our unique gifts and the profound power of community.

This will be a gentle yet brave, welcoming yet challenging, soft yet strong space for you to be held and from that loving place, explore your edges. All workshops are also optional, with free time each day.

WHO ARE THE FACILITATORS?

Megan (she/her) -  I will be leaning into my experience of holding space for people for the last 15 years, including working with severely traumatised people in my NHS role as a clinical psychologist, running workshops and retreats, delivering training and supervision, co-leading yoga teacher trainings, and co-founding the Bristol Yoga Roots Project.

Izzy (they/them)- brings a wealth of experience from their time working in community mental health and domestic violence settings, as well as being a fantastic yoga & dance teacher and retreat facilitator 

Shell (she/her) & Ellen (she/her) - Shell will be serving up three delicious meals a day, plus snacks and drinks, with assistance from Ellen. You can see Shell's incredible creations for our last elemental retreat here. Already drooling thinking about being fed by her each day again!

Lisa (she/her) - will be offering her heart-warming and rave-reviewed massages in the breaks (at an additional cost)

ANYTHING ELSE?

When not in the yoga space you can enjoy the chill out areas, peaceful gardens or the sauna. Only a short trip away is the colourful town of Totnes and the River Dart, ideal for wild swimming. The retreat space is surrounded by the glorious Yeoland, with altars to the different elements across the landscape. In the free time in the afternoon there will be craft activities and trips to the river or coast that are optional. Massages will be offered at an extra cost, and if you haven’t eaten Shell’s food before, prepare to have your experience of ‘retreat food’ completely redefined!

“There are so many things to say about this retreat, it operates on so many levels – but it's one word, transformative, that runs through my thoughts. If you can go, you should grab it with both hands. I wish I'd experienced this retreat as a young woman too, it would have transformed my life sooner. None of it is easy; but just to be, to feel at home in a safe group of women, who will listen to you and tell you of their own experiences, opens up your mind like a flower. It makes you feel less alone, less small, more powerful as a woman; and who doesn't need that in this world?” - GILLIAN, CHESTER, 56 YEARS OLD

A webpage with images and links to videos is here.

Are you feeling the call? We would LOVE to welcome you in to this circle of love, empowerment, vulnerability, strength, mystery and playfulness. You are so welcome, as you are. Reach out with any questions to elementalwomanretreats@gmail.com 

With love and power
Megan + the team
🖤

CANCELLATION POLICY
Cancellations refunded (minus £50 deposit) up to 60 days before the retreat or at any time if you can fill your space. Deposits are non-refundable to cover admin time.