Weaving the Red Thread
We will gather and retreat for the time of Samhain (pronounced 'sow-wen') in the Celtic calendar on 29-31 October 2025.
Samhain is the time of letting go, when we return to the darker months of the year, when the veil between the worlds thins and the nights become longer. It is the time Mother Earth enters her menstruation, during which we will come together to re-member how to truly 'winter' together.
Under the guidance of animist artist, Tor Woven, we will each weave a 'womb wrap', a sacred and ancient textile woven to wear around your womb space to offer warmth, holding, love, support and protection. Woven for a woman at anytime during her life. Be that during her menstruating years, or menopausal years, during pregnancy or after giving birth, a holding to support a miscarriage or abortion. These wraps are supportive for all times of a woman's life.
Under guidance of yoga teacher Sherin, we will intuitively move and flow and breathe and dance. You will be nourished with sublime mystical poetry, entrancing music, earthy aromas, crystal and oracle card altars, and invited to turn every cell of your body into an ear and listen to your body's wisdom…
Together, we will remember that being in circle together as women – in nothing but our whole truth – is necessary and healing.
We will remember what it feels like to return home to love.
We will remember what it feels like to truly rest in the mystical wintery natural world around us, re-sensitising ourselves to the rich, fertile and complex soil beneath our feet, to the cool sacred waters of the Hawkwood spring, the ancient woodland, and to all the be-ings amongst us.
If this calls to your body, then drop us an email to take up your place:
sherinshefik@gmail.com and torwoven@gmail.com
699 British pounds- 888 British pounds
VENUE
Hawkwood is an educational charity set in a stunning Victorian building in the heart of the Cotswolds. It boasts 42 acres of bio dynamically farmed land with acres of gardens and ancient woodland to explore. It hosts a sacred well and a beautiful Woodland Meditation & Yoga Sanctuary.
The house has 28 bedrooms, with a mixture of single, twin and triple rooms, and 10 shared bath/shower rooms plus WC’s. There are two bedrooms in the house with an ensuite bathroom but all the other bedrooms feature a wash basin in the room, and guests share access to bath/shower facilities. Hand and bath towels are supplied.
Hawkwood is within one of the five valleys reaching out from Stroud - the Painswick valley - which is connected to many local and national public footpaths and within areas of outstanding natural beauty/scientific interest.
Easy on-site parking.
TESTIMONIALS
LOCATION
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Hawkwood is easily accessible.
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Address: Hawkwood, Painswick Old Road, Stroud GL6 7QW
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By Foot: Hawkwood is approximately half an hour’s walk from Stroud Centre.
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By Bicycle: Hawkwood is approximately 2 miles from Stroud Town Centre. Painswick Old Road and Wick Street are pleasant lanes to cycle along.
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By Car: From the west and north, take Exit 13 off the M5 and follow signs to Stroud centre. From the east, take Exit 15 off the M4 and follow the A419 past Cirencester to Stroud. If coming from the Oxford area, follow the A429 or B4425 off the A40 to Cirencester. Follow the A419 from Cirencester as above. From Stroud centre, follow the A46, then the Painswick Old Road (which is signposted ‘to Wick St.’).
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By Train: If coming by train, take a taxi from the Stroud train station (2 miles).
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By Plane: If coming by plane, the closest airports are Bristol, Birmingham and Heathrow. Take a bus/train from Bristol, Birmingham or Heathrow to Stroud. From Stroud train station, take a taxi to Hawkwood (2 miles).
FOOD
Good food is great medicine. And at Hawkwood, the medicine tastes delicious.
Hawkwood's food reflects their ethos: sustainable, ethical, and organic.
You will be served freshly-prepared plant-based meals using locally sourced & organic ingredients.
Their Victorian half-walled kitchen garden grows organic fruit, herbs and vegetables for the kitchen. They are also a member their tenant farmers scheme - Stroud Community Agriculture - where they collect organic seasonal vegetables on a weekly basis. All their other suppliers are as local, organic as well as ethical as possible.
All meals are home cooked and prepared daily on site by their experienced and dedicated kitchen team.
They can cater for almost all dietary requirements.
All teas (herbal and English Breakfast tea) and coffee are available throughout the day.
The all important food timetable is as follows:
– 8:30am: Breakfast
– 11am: Refreshment with homemade biscuits
– 1pm: Two course lunch
– 4pm: Refreshment with home baked cake
– 6:30pm: Two course supper
TESTIMONIALS
FEEDBACK
10/10
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YogaRetreat
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Poetic Yoga
Retreat
22-24 October
2021
10/10
Reconnecting to the Sacred
Retreat
24-26 June
2022
10/10
Tree Goddess Retreat
23-25 September 2022
10/10
Re-wild the
Feminine
Retreat
6-8 October
2023
FEEDBACK
10/10
Yoga Classes
10/10
Food & Drink
10/10
Venue
10/10
Overall Enjoyment
PRICES
£888 for a single room
£699 for a twin room
If you would like to create a payment plan (e.g. divide cost into 6 smaller payments and pay every month), that's no problem, please just drop us an email and let us what works best for you: sherinshefik@gmail.com and torwoven@gmail.com
giftcertificate
Do you really need to gift your loved one (more) material goods to show that you care for them?
What about a gift that says 'I love your soul' - go play - and come back as more of who you really are please?
What about a gift that says to your loved one 'I am willing to meet who you really are' - I am not scared.
If you would like a gift certificate, please let me know in the notes section of your order.
Each retreat is unique as the themes and energy emerge from the group, but essentially our time together will be a blend of vinyasa flow and yin/restorative yoga, somatic ecstatic dance, sacred rest, embodied intuitive movement, weaving our own sacred weave wrap, mystical poetry, moon cycle awareness, enchanting music, journalling, earthy aromas, nature bathing, healing meditations, story-telling, crystal and oracle card altars, women’s circle, freshly prepared locally sourced delicious meals, and comfortable accommodation to hold the weight of your queen body while you rest deeply.
