7th - 9th and the 15th July 2023
Retreat Brochure 7th - 9th & 15th July (pdf)
DownloadThe Healing Health Joy Collective invites you for a day or weekend of healing at Riversdale Lodge, a riverside oasis on the Thames at Bourne End, just 40 minutes from London.
We are bringing together our wonderful team of wellness practitioners for 3 days to heal wounds, nourish your physical and mental health, and reach outwards and inwards to find joy. Share a full programme of classes across 3 days; enjoy balanced, nutritious food; and unwind in this very special place by the water.
Join us for Yoga, Breathwork, Meditation, Singing, Sacred Ecstatic Dance, Embodiment, and
Life Coaching.
Do as much or as little as you like, as you take in the stunning location, relax in luxurious accommodation, enjoy healthy, delicious food and allow the hustle and bustle of the outside world to melt away.
Set on the banks of the Thames, facing West towards Winter Hill, Riversdale Lodge is a magical place, an exceptional sanctuary of peace and calm. Here you will find privacy, community and yourself. Originally built in 1890, this historic, charismatic house has been beautifully renovated to unite all the luxuries of a boutique hotel with all the comfort of a home. With 9 teachers to help you reconnect to your natural rhythms, you will leave refreshed and energised.
A long, tree-lined garden stretches from the house to the river’s edge, ending in a large jetty overlooking the Thames and Cookham Moor beyond. The flat lawn is ideal for outdoor yoga. Our riverside kitchen can be used for tea and treats by the water. You can also enjoy paddleboarding, canoeing, or wild swimming from our slipway.
At the end of the garden is our Meditation Orb, a warm, cosy space lit by twinkling lights, where you can participate in individual or group meditation sessions looking out onto the river. Above the studio is our roof garden, planted with medicinal herbs and vegetables.
The studio is lit from above via 3 enormous roof lights and at night you can see the fairy lights of the roof terrace. All mats, bolsters, straps, yoga blocks, eye pillows and blankets are provided. The yoga studio can spaciously fit twenty mats.
Our bedrooms feature superb beds with beautiful soft bedding and luxurious heated carpets. The River Suite is exceptional, with stone tub and wonderful views of the river. The newly fitted marble bathrooms have elegant Italian fittings, heated oak floors and the softest towels. In addition to the wonderful top-lit studio, there are several spacious living rooms, including a comfortable drawing room with a log burner.
Eat yourself well with our wholesome food, sourced from local, sustainable producers and prepared for you by our on-site chef.
Connection Evening Retreat - Friday 7th July - £55
4:00pm Welcome, with tea and cake
5:00pm Gentle Yoga Flow with Fiona Mack
6:30pm Drinks on the river followed by social supper
8pm Kirtan with Emily Cobie around the fire.
Kirtan is a call and response chanting practice born and raised by India’s bhakti traditions, with Bhakti referring to devotion and love, and many of the chants focus upon the devotion and love towards the divine. So bring your voice and let’s chant together.
Health day retreat - Saturday 8th July - £155
8:00am Meditation with Nicky Savage
In this session you will be gently taken through a guided meditation to open up to your intuition, enable self connection and insight and to bring some peace into your body and mind as you start your day.
9:00am Breakfast
10:30am Yoga for Energy and Vitality with Patricia Singh
“Movement is the song of the body” - Vanda ScaravelliThis yoga practice is designed to boost our energy and vitality, so we can navigate through our daily activities with a sense of lightness. Let’s move and breathe as we build strength and flexibility, however more importantly, let’s harness that natural energy that awakens our body, mind and soul leaving us feeling revitalised and rejuvenated.
1:00pm Lunch and Relaxation
3:00pm Sacred Ecstatic Dance and Chakra Bowls with Davinder Ojalla
MedYoga sacred dance is a reclamation of the Divine Feminine/ Kali/ Shakti power, designed to boost your confidence, creative expression, sexual health & intuitive skills. Resulting in feeling safer to communicate, let go & blossom with healthier boundaries. We will harness the power of spiritual devotion, sensuality & freestyle dance to reach the Goddess Climax that burns, cuts through & destroys the old and makes way for the new.
4:30pm Tea and cake
6:30pm Drinks on the river followed by social supper
8:30pm River of Song with Lisa Doscher
Tune in to the beauty and power of your voice in a natural way, feeling uplifted by the timeless practice of communal singing.
Healing day retreat - Sunday 9th July - £155
8:00am Awakening Song with Lisa Doscher
A gentle embodiment practice using the voice as a guide and anchor. Tune into your body and voice just as they are as we sound and move with awareness.
9:00am Breakfast
10:30am MEDYOGA for Embodiment & Soul Ecstasy!
"The Wound Is Where The Light Enters” MedYoga is a journey & powerful infusion of sacred movement, hatha yoga, sound & energy medicine suitable for complete beginners. Through sensual, playful, intuitive, somatic, yin/ yang embodiment & breathwork practices we find courage to take up full residence in every cell of our body, unleash our shakti/ kali power & awaken the tiger within, liberating us from the chains of trauma & past wounds. Leaving feeling safer in the body, inspired to evolve & ready to lead from the feminine heart.
1:00pm Lunch
2:30pm Breathwork with Oxygen Advantage® with Fiona Mack
Modern day science catches up with the ancient art of breathwork! Healthy functional breathing can transform your experience of life. This is something that was known thousands of years ago and why yogis practise many breathing exercises. These three key factors have an impact on our breathing function: biomechanical, biochemical and psychological. Using the Oxygen Advantage® We will explore each of these aspects of breathing, using scientifically proven methodology to bring a better understanding of what you need to do to improve your overall health, vitality and well-being.
16.30 tea and cake
5:00pm Self-Belief Boost with Katie Reay
“If you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right” Henry Ford This wisdom has been spoken in many ways over thousands of years, and expresses a fundamental truth - the first step towards any aspiration must be to believe in yourself, and be confident that you have what it takes to succeed. By tackling limiting self-beliefs and eliciting and bringing into consciousness our strengths, we can build our confidence and start believing that we can.
7:00pm Social supper
Joy day retreat - Saturday 15th July - £125
8:00am Breathwork Energise Meditation with Rachel Whitehead
Start your day as you mean to go on with this ‘rocket fuel’ class, inducing states of clarity, joy and inner peace. Combining an electric mix of movement, free dance, tapping, chanting and breath work
9:00am Breakfast
10.30am Joyful Acro Yoga-Union of Solar and Lunar with Rita Cox
"Movement offers us pleasure, identity, belonging and hope."-Kelly McGonigal
Our practice is an invitation to create joy through movement and partner work. As you move your body you create new and exciting pathways where creativity and happiness can bloom. The flow of Lunar and Solar polarities enable growth in self-confidence, in communication and trust in yourself and others. Let's come together to flow, play and unite through the magical practice of joyful movement.
1:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Kirtan with Emily Cobie
Kirtan is a call and response chanting practice born and raised by India’s bhakti traditions, with Bhakti referring to devotion and love, and many of the chants focus upon the devotion and love towards the divine. So bring your voice and let’s chant together.
4:00pm Tea and cakes and goodbyes
(There is a supper club to follow at 18.00 that is being run by @bignight__in, Why not do the day, the night and grab a bed for the night ! )
Evening ticket - 7th July £55
Day tickets - 8th, 9th, or 15th July £155
Weekend ticket - 7th - 9th July from £495
Add a night's accommodation to your day ticket - £50
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