Live events at The Acorn Wellness Retreat, in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire 2026-2027
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Fri 17th July 2026, Magdalene Medicine
The Acorn, Brimham Rocks Road, Hartwith, Harrogate, HG3 3HB
9:30 AM arrival for welcome tea | 10 AM–3 PM retreat
£110 per person
Maximum 10 participants
Held at The Acorn Wellness Retreat @acornretreat in the peaceful Nidderdale countryside near Harrogate, Magdalene Medicine is a gentle and restorative rose-themed retreat inspired by the wisdom, devotion and heart consciousness of Mary Magdalene ahead of her festival day on 22 July.
This day is centred around replenishment, reflection and deep rest. Working with the energy of the rose and the ancient concept of nous — the eye of the heart — you will be guided through practices that invite softness, insight and reconnection with your inner wisdom.
Expect a slower, nurturing pace with meditation, guided reflection, relaxation practices and ceremonial cacao held within the calming atmosphere of the Lotus Studio.
The day includes:
Welcome tea on arrival
Cacao ceremony *
Guided reflections and meditation
Relaxation and restorative practices
Nourishing plant-based lunch
Magdalene Medicine can be experienced as a beautiful stand-alone retreat day, or paired with the Rose Reclaiming retreat day, also at The Acorn on Friday 31st July, for a deeper journey into the rose path and sacred feminine healing.
* Please check with your GP or healthcare provider that ceremonial cacao is suitable alongside any medications, supplements or health conditions you may have.
Fri 31st July 2026, Rose Reclaiming
The Acorn, Brimham Rocks Road, Hartwith, Harrogate, HG3 3HB
9:30 AM arrival for welcome tea | 10 AM–3 PM retreat
£110 per person
Maximum 10 participants
Rose Reclaiming is a more embodied and empowering day retreat at The Acorn Wellness Retreat @acornretreat, inviting you to reconnect with the sacred feminine through the wisdom of the rose and a compassionate reclamation of the body.
Where Magdalene Medicine focuses on restoration and inner listening, Rose Reclaiming centres on remembrance, embodiment and returning to yourself without shame. Through guided practices, reflection and ceremony, the day creates space to soften inherited narratives, deepen self-acceptance and reconnect with the sacredness of your own body and feminine expression.
Held in the tranquil Lotus Studio, the retreat includes:
Welcome tea on arrival
Cacao ceremony *
Guided meditation and embodied practices
Reflection and sacred feminine exploration
Plant-based lunch
Rose Reclaiming can be attended as a powerful stand-alone experience, or alongside Magdalene Medicine, which also takes place at The Acorn on July 17th, as a two-part immersion into restoration, embodiment, and the deeper teachings of the rose path.
* Please check with your GP or healthcare provider that ceremonial cacao is suitable alongside any medications, supplements or health conditions you may have.
The Acorn, Brimham Rocks Road, Hartwith, Harrogate, HG3 3HB
9:30 AM arrival for welcome tea | 10 AM–3 PM retreat
£110 per person
Maximum 10 participants
Held at The Acorn Wellness Retreat @acornretreat in the peaceful Nidderdale countryside near Harrogate, Magdalene Medicine is a gentle and restorative rose-themed retreat inspired by the wisdom, devotion and heart consciousness of Mary Magdalene ahead of her festival day on 22 July.
This day is centred around replenishment, reflection and deep rest. Working with the energy of the rose and the ancient concept of nous — the eye of the heart — you will be guided through practices that invite softness, insight and reconnection with your inner wisdom.
Expect a slower, nurturing pace with meditation, guided reflection, relaxation practices and ceremonial cacao held within the calming atmosphere of the Lotus Studio.
The day includes:
Welcome tea on arrival
Cacao ceremony *
Guided reflections and meditation
Relaxation and restorative practices
Nourishing plant-based lunch
Magdalene Medicine can be experienced as a beautiful stand-alone retreat day, or paired with the Rose Reclaiming retreat day, also at The Acorn on Friday 31st July, for a deeper journey into the rose path and sacred feminine healing.
* Please check with your GP or healthcare provider that ceremonial cacao is suitable alongside any medications, supplements or health conditions you may have.
Fri 31st July 2026, Rose Reclaiming
The Acorn, Brimham Rocks Road, Hartwith, Harrogate, HG3 3HB
9:30 AM arrival for welcome tea | 10 AM–3 PM retreat
£110 per person
Maximum 10 participants
Rose Reclaiming is a more embodied and empowering day retreat at The Acorn Wellness Retreat @acornretreat, inviting you to reconnect with the sacred feminine through the wisdom of the rose and a compassionate reclamation of the body.
Where Magdalene Medicine focuses on restoration and inner listening, Rose Reclaiming centres on remembrance, embodiment and returning to yourself without shame. Through guided practices, reflection and ceremony, the day creates space to soften inherited narratives, deepen self-acceptance and reconnect with the sacredness of your own body and feminine expression.
Held in the tranquil Lotus Studio, the retreat includes:
Welcome tea on arrival
Cacao ceremony *
Guided meditation and embodied practices
Reflection and sacred feminine exploration
Plant-based lunch
Rose Reclaiming can be attended as a powerful stand-alone experience, or alongside Magdalene Medicine, which also takes place at The Acorn on July 17th, as a two-part immersion into restoration, embodiment, and the deeper teachings of the rose path.
* Please check with your GP or healthcare provider that ceremonial cacao is suitable alongside any medications, supplements or health conditions you may have.
Sat 29th and Sun 30th Aug 2026 Somatic Shamanism: Your Fleshy Knowing as the Tree of Life
Two-Day Immersive Workshop
The Acorn, Brimham Rocks Road, Hartwith, Harrogate, HG3 3HB
Each day runs from 10 AM to 3 PM
Self-catering workshop — please bring your own drinks and lunch.
£180 total for the two-day workshop
A creative, embodied and deeply personal two-day workshop exploring Somatic Shamanism — a grounded, trauma-informed and non-bypassing approach to shamanic practice rooted in the wisdom of the body.
Based on my own professional, academic and lived experience, alongside the teachings within my Girl God Books published workbook, this workshop invites you to reconnect with your own fleshy knowing — the intelligence held within your body, ancestry and nervous system. Together we will explore the body as the Tree of Life: a living portal of memory, insight, connection and transformation.
Shamanism is the oldest spiritual practice known to humankind. Across cultures, medicine women and men understood the body, nature and spirit as deeply interconnected. Somatic Shamanism returns to this knowing through an embodied approach that honours safety, groundedness and lived experience. Rather than transcending the body, we enter through it.
Through ritual, reflection, creativity and guided practices, you will begin constructing your own medicine wheel and developing a personal somatic shamanic practice rooted in your unique experience, archetypes and ancestral wisdom.
This workshop is both experiential and creative — designed for those wishing to deepen their relationship with body, spirit, earth and intuition in a meaningful and accessible way.
Workshop Structure and Schedule:
Session 1: 10 AM–12 PM
Lunch Break: 12 PM–1 PM
Session 2: 1 PM–3 PM
Day One
Session 1 — Become the Tree of Life
An introduction to Somatic Shamanism, embodiment and the Tree of Life as a map of connection, awareness and journeying through the body.
Session 2 — Construct Your Wheel
Begin creating your own personal medicine wheel through reflection, symbolism, creativity and embodied inquiry.
Day Two
Session 1 — Discern Your Archetypes & Allies
Explore the archetypes, energies, ancestral threads and natural allies that support your personal path and practice.
Session 2 — Accessing Your Fleshy Knowing
Cultivate practices that deepen your connection to bodily wisdom, intuition, sensation and inner guidance.
Please bring to both days:
Your own lunch, drinks and snacks
Stones, shells or crystals
Natural objects and symbolic items
Pens and pencils
A notebook or journal
Any meaningful objects connected to your personal journey
About the Work
Somatic means “of the flesh,” and this shamanic process cultivates your own fleshy knowing — the wisdom held within your blood, bones, organs and lived experience.
This workshop offers an overview of shamanism and the Tree of Life while guiding you through practices that activate your own embodied shamanic awareness and connection
“Embark on a powerful journey of self-discovery – or indeed rediscovery – between your body, ‘your fleshy knowing’, your relationship with the natural world, and your ancestral heritage as you become the Tree of Life...”
— Barbara O’Meara, Visual Artist, Writer and Celtic Shamanic Practitioner
“Where our minds are vexed by modernity, with even our wilder hopes limited by reason and logic, our creaturely bodies house and animate our strangest imaginations... We wield the intelligence of the flesh, our ‘fleshy knowings’ as Kay Louise Aldred describes them.”
— Danielle Dulsky, Founder of The Hag School and author of The Holy Wild
Two-Day Immersive Workshop
The Acorn, Brimham Rocks Road, Hartwith, Harrogate, HG3 3HB
Each day runs from 10 AM to 3 PM
Self-catering workshop — please bring your own drinks and lunch.
£180 total for the two-day workshop
A creative, embodied and deeply personal two-day workshop exploring Somatic Shamanism — a grounded, trauma-informed and non-bypassing approach to shamanic practice rooted in the wisdom of the body.
Based on my own professional, academic and lived experience, alongside the teachings within my Girl God Books published workbook, this workshop invites you to reconnect with your own fleshy knowing — the intelligence held within your body, ancestry and nervous system. Together we will explore the body as the Tree of Life: a living portal of memory, insight, connection and transformation.
Shamanism is the oldest spiritual practice known to humankind. Across cultures, medicine women and men understood the body, nature and spirit as deeply interconnected. Somatic Shamanism returns to this knowing through an embodied approach that honours safety, groundedness and lived experience. Rather than transcending the body, we enter through it.
Through ritual, reflection, creativity and guided practices, you will begin constructing your own medicine wheel and developing a personal somatic shamanic practice rooted in your unique experience, archetypes and ancestral wisdom.
This workshop is both experiential and creative — designed for those wishing to deepen their relationship with body, spirit, earth and intuition in a meaningful and accessible way.
Workshop Structure and Schedule:
Session 1: 10 AM–12 PM
Lunch Break: 12 PM–1 PM
Session 2: 1 PM–3 PM
Day One
Session 1 — Become the Tree of Life
An introduction to Somatic Shamanism, embodiment and the Tree of Life as a map of connection, awareness and journeying through the body.
Session 2 — Construct Your Wheel
Begin creating your own personal medicine wheel through reflection, symbolism, creativity and embodied inquiry.
Day Two
Session 1 — Discern Your Archetypes & Allies
Explore the archetypes, energies, ancestral threads and natural allies that support your personal path and practice.
Session 2 — Accessing Your Fleshy Knowing
Cultivate practices that deepen your connection to bodily wisdom, intuition, sensation and inner guidance.
Please bring to both days:
Your own lunch, drinks and snacks
Stones, shells or crystals
Natural objects and symbolic items
Pens and pencils
A notebook or journal
Any meaningful objects connected to your personal journey
About the Work
Somatic means “of the flesh,” and this shamanic process cultivates your own fleshy knowing — the wisdom held within your blood, bones, organs and lived experience.
This workshop offers an overview of shamanism and the Tree of Life while guiding you through practices that activate your own embodied shamanic awareness and connection
“Embark on a powerful journey of self-discovery – or indeed rediscovery – between your body, ‘your fleshy knowing’, your relationship with the natural world, and your ancestral heritage as you become the Tree of Life...”
— Barbara O’Meara, Visual Artist, Writer and Celtic Shamanic Practitioner
“Where our minds are vexed by modernity, with even our wilder hopes limited by reason and logic, our creaturely bodies house and animate our strangest imaginations... We wield the intelligence of the flesh, our ‘fleshy knowings’ as Kay Louise Aldred describes them.”
— Danielle Dulsky, Founder of The Hag School and author of The Holy Wild
Somatic Shamanism & Energy Medicine Wheel 2026-2027 (Sept, Oct, Feb, April)
A four-part day retreat journey
The Acorn, Brimham Rocks Road, Hartwith, Harrogate, HG3 3HB
Each day runs from 10 AM to 3 PM
£110 each day
Friday 4th September Serpent Medicine - Shed old skins
Friday 30th October - Jaguar Medicine — Connect to Power
Friday 5th February 2027 - Hummingbird Medicine — Soul Light
Friday 9th April 2027 - Eagle & Condor Medicine — Union with Source, Within and Without
Rooted in the teachings and archetypes of the Four Winds and evolved through my own gnosis, professional learning, lived experience and trauma-informed nervous system practice, this body of work is what I call Somatic Shamanism — an embodied and grounded approach to healing, reconnection and remembrance.
Each retreat day offers space to work deeply with one direction of the medicine wheel and its corresponding archetype, element and transformational themes.
Together, the wheel becomes a complete healing journey — returning you to the earth, your essence and the interconnected nature of life itself.
Retreat days include ceremonial cacao*, guided somatic and shamanic practices, reflection, meditation and a nourishing plant-based lunch.
While each retreat can be experienced as a powerful stand-alone journey, completing the full Medicine Wheel offers a deeper and more integrated unfolding through body, emotion, mind and heart.
Friday 4th September - Serpent Medicine — Shed old skins
Arrive at 9:30 am for welcome refreshments
Plant-based lunch provided
£110 per person
At the threshold of Mabon, the Autumn turning point, we enter a time of grounding, release and embodied recalibration — a return to the body and the wisdom of the earth.
Are you ready to activate your life force energy held in your root chakra and reconnect with your vitality, safety and sense of embodied abundance?
This Somatic Shamanism and Energy Medicine retreat weaves together ceremonial cacao*, deep embodied practice, guided somatic and shamanic practices, meditation, reflection, and shamanic journeying as we work with the archetype of the Serpent. The Serpent is the ancient force of nature within us — the intelligence that grounds us into Mother Earth and supports transformation through shedding.
Serpent teaches us how to release old identities, outgrown patterns and protective layers that no longer serve. It coils through the body as a force of renewal, supporting rebirth through grounded presence.
This is a powerful day for initiating change, stabilising the nervous system and returning to your natural vitality and flow.
*Please check with your GP or healthcare provider that ceremonial cacao is suitable alongside any medications, supplements or health conditions you may have.
Friday 30th October - Jaguar Medicine — Connect to PowerArrive at 9:30 am for welcome refreshments
Plant-based lunch provided
£110 per person
At Samhain, the veil thins and we are invited into the depths — the emotional, ancestral and intuitive realms of being.
Are you ready to activate your intuition and instinctive intelligence held in your sacral chakra, build emotional resilience and reconnect with your personal power?
This Somatic Shamanism and Energy Medicine retreat weaves together ceremonial cacao*, guided somatic practice, meditation, reflection and shamanic journeying as we work with the archetype of the Jaguar. Jaguar moves with precision through darkness and teaches us how to see clearly when things are hidden or unclear.
Jaguar energy supports emotional sovereignty, healthy boundaries, ancestral healing and the release of inherited patterns and unconscious entanglements. It restores courage, clarity and deep inner strength.
This is a potent day for emotional recalibration, empowerment and reclaiming instinctive knowing.
*Please check with your GP or healthcare provider that ceremonial cacao is suitable alongside any medications, supplements or health conditions you may have
Friday 5th February 2027 - Hummingbird Medicine — Soul Light
Arrive at 9:30 am for welcome refreshments
Plant-based lunch provided
£110 per person
At Imbolc, we move toward light, renewal and emergence — the first stirrings of vision, clarity and creative life force.
Are you ready to activate your sacred self, clarify your vision and reconnect with your soul’s direction through the throat and third eye energy centres?
This Somatic Shamanism and Energy Medicine retreat weaves together ceremonial cacao*, meditation, guided somatic and shamanic practices, reflection and shamanic journeying as we work with the archetype of the Hummingbird. Hummingbird carries the medicine of lightness, precision and possibility — the ability to move between worlds and make the impossible possible.
Hummingbird energy supports expression, aligned action, intuitive clarity and the embodiment of joy as a guiding force. It reconnects you with your soul’s direction and your capacity to speak and act from truth.
This is a day for inspiration, alignment and sacred creative emergence.
*Please check with your GP or healthcare provider that ceremonial cacao is suitable alongside any medications, supplements or health conditions you may have.
Friday 9th April 2027 - Eagle & Condor Medicine — Union with Source, Within and Without
Arrive at 9:30 am for welcome refreshments
Plant-based lunch provided
£110 per person
At Ostara, the Spring Equinox, we enter a portal of equal light and dark — a moment of integration, expansion and new creation.
Are you ready to weave together doing and being, mind and heart, spirit and body — and step into alignment with Source through embodied presence?
This Somatic Shamanism and Energy Medicine retreat weaves together ceremonial cacao*, embodied practice, guided somatic and shamanic practices, meditation, reflection and shamanic journeying as we work with the archetype of the Eagle and Condor. Together they represent expanded consciousness, heart-led vision and the union of earthly and spiritual perspective.
Eagle/Condor energy supports clarity, wholeness and the ability to see from a higher perspective while remaining rooted in embodiment. It helps dissolve internal conflict and aligns you with the path of the heart.
This is a powerful day for integration, visioning and beginning to weave your future into form.
*Please check with your GP or healthcare provider that ceremonial cacao is suitable alongside any medications, supplements or health conditions you may have
A four-part day retreat journey
The Acorn, Brimham Rocks Road, Hartwith, Harrogate, HG3 3HB
Each day runs from 10 AM to 3 PM
£110 each day
Friday 4th September Serpent Medicine - Shed old skins
Friday 30th October - Jaguar Medicine — Connect to Power
Friday 5th February 2027 - Hummingbird Medicine — Soul Light
Friday 9th April 2027 - Eagle & Condor Medicine — Union with Source, Within and Without
Rooted in the teachings and archetypes of the Four Winds and evolved through my own gnosis, professional learning, lived experience and trauma-informed nervous system practice, this body of work is what I call Somatic Shamanism — an embodied and grounded approach to healing, reconnection and remembrance.
Each retreat day offers space to work deeply with one direction of the medicine wheel and its corresponding archetype, element and transformational themes.
Together, the wheel becomes a complete healing journey — returning you to the earth, your essence and the interconnected nature of life itself.
Retreat days include ceremonial cacao*, guided somatic and shamanic practices, reflection, meditation and a nourishing plant-based lunch.
While each retreat can be experienced as a powerful stand-alone journey, completing the full Medicine Wheel offers a deeper and more integrated unfolding through body, emotion, mind and heart.
Friday 4th September - Serpent Medicine — Shed old skins
Arrive at 9:30 am for welcome refreshments
Plant-based lunch provided
£110 per person
At the threshold of Mabon, the Autumn turning point, we enter a time of grounding, release and embodied recalibration — a return to the body and the wisdom of the earth.
Are you ready to activate your life force energy held in your root chakra and reconnect with your vitality, safety and sense of embodied abundance?
This Somatic Shamanism and Energy Medicine retreat weaves together ceremonial cacao*, deep embodied practice, guided somatic and shamanic practices, meditation, reflection, and shamanic journeying as we work with the archetype of the Serpent. The Serpent is the ancient force of nature within us — the intelligence that grounds us into Mother Earth and supports transformation through shedding.
Serpent teaches us how to release old identities, outgrown patterns and protective layers that no longer serve. It coils through the body as a force of renewal, supporting rebirth through grounded presence.
This is a powerful day for initiating change, stabilising the nervous system and returning to your natural vitality and flow.
*Please check with your GP or healthcare provider that ceremonial cacao is suitable alongside any medications, supplements or health conditions you may have.
Friday 30th October - Jaguar Medicine — Connect to PowerArrive at 9:30 am for welcome refreshments
Plant-based lunch provided
£110 per person
At Samhain, the veil thins and we are invited into the depths — the emotional, ancestral and intuitive realms of being.
Are you ready to activate your intuition and instinctive intelligence held in your sacral chakra, build emotional resilience and reconnect with your personal power?
This Somatic Shamanism and Energy Medicine retreat weaves together ceremonial cacao*, guided somatic practice, meditation, reflection and shamanic journeying as we work with the archetype of the Jaguar. Jaguar moves with precision through darkness and teaches us how to see clearly when things are hidden or unclear.
Jaguar energy supports emotional sovereignty, healthy boundaries, ancestral healing and the release of inherited patterns and unconscious entanglements. It restores courage, clarity and deep inner strength.
This is a potent day for emotional recalibration, empowerment and reclaiming instinctive knowing.
*Please check with your GP or healthcare provider that ceremonial cacao is suitable alongside any medications, supplements or health conditions you may have
Friday 5th February 2027 - Hummingbird Medicine — Soul Light
Arrive at 9:30 am for welcome refreshments
Plant-based lunch provided
£110 per person
At Imbolc, we move toward light, renewal and emergence — the first stirrings of vision, clarity and creative life force.
Are you ready to activate your sacred self, clarify your vision and reconnect with your soul’s direction through the throat and third eye energy centres?
This Somatic Shamanism and Energy Medicine retreat weaves together ceremonial cacao*, meditation, guided somatic and shamanic practices, reflection and shamanic journeying as we work with the archetype of the Hummingbird. Hummingbird carries the medicine of lightness, precision and possibility — the ability to move between worlds and make the impossible possible.
Hummingbird energy supports expression, aligned action, intuitive clarity and the embodiment of joy as a guiding force. It reconnects you with your soul’s direction and your capacity to speak and act from truth.
This is a day for inspiration, alignment and sacred creative emergence.
*Please check with your GP or healthcare provider that ceremonial cacao is suitable alongside any medications, supplements or health conditions you may have.
Friday 9th April 2027 - Eagle & Condor Medicine — Union with Source, Within and Without
Arrive at 9:30 am for welcome refreshments
Plant-based lunch provided
£110 per person
At Ostara, the Spring Equinox, we enter a portal of equal light and dark — a moment of integration, expansion and new creation.
Are you ready to weave together doing and being, mind and heart, spirit and body — and step into alignment with Source through embodied presence?
This Somatic Shamanism and Energy Medicine retreat weaves together ceremonial cacao*, embodied practice, guided somatic and shamanic practices, meditation, reflection and shamanic journeying as we work with the archetype of the Eagle and Condor. Together they represent expanded consciousness, heart-led vision and the union of earthly and spiritual perspective.
Eagle/Condor energy supports clarity, wholeness and the ability to see from a higher perspective while remaining rooted in embodiment. It helps dissolve internal conflict and aligns you with the path of the heart.
This is a powerful day for integration, visioning and beginning to weave your future into form.
*Please check with your GP or healthcare provider that ceremonial cacao is suitable alongside any medications, supplements or health conditions you may have
