The group will gather together around the camp fire to close the session with a delicious, warming meal – Wasing Organic Farm beef marinated in red wine, thyme and garlic, then slowly cooked with caramelised onions, carrots and butterbeans. Finished with winter chanterelles, fresh herbs and Lemon Oil, this nourishing supper will be the perfect end to a unique evening. (A delicious vegetarian supper will always be available if requested in advance)

Whilst we can’t promise a clear night to see the moon and stars, we can promise that you will be able to experience the rejuvinating power of nature in a peaceful and welcoming setting, that is beautiful in any weather!

Our Winter Solstice Half Day Retreat includes:

• Welcome circle
• Inward-focussed Winter Flow Yoga practice (incl Somatic Movements, breathwork and meditation)
• Silent woodland walk and hilltop meditation
• Cacao ritual
• Wholesome treats
• Journaling (guided by journal prompts)
• Time to reflect and set intentions
• Use of essential oils and self-massage
• Restorative Yoga (incl optional light hands-on touches)
• Deep guided relaxation and luxuriously long Savasana
• Take-home seasonal reflections

Please make sure you wear something comfortable and warm, and bring suitable clothing and footwear for our walk, and pen and paper for journaling.

Your host

Senior Yoga Teacher
Maura Barber-Oosterhuis

Maura’s love of yoga is infectious. Her guidance is ‘soulful and seasonal’ and focuses on deepening breath, body and self-awareness. Committed to offering a heartfelt experience she will encourage you to reach further by breathing fully and feeling deeply. Her 25 years of yoga experience range from the dynamic Ashtanga and Vinyasa Flow Yoga to the gentler Somatic Movements, Yin and Restorative Yoga. With a keen interest in mindfulness and meditation Maura’s unique style is infused with these. She feels hugely inspired by the teachings of Ayurveda and loves sprinkling her offerings with little gems of Ayurvedic wisdom. Always taught from the heart, Maura’s gently flowing yoga is a compassionate blend of deep breathing and mindful moving.

“I love celebrating the seasons. Recognising and honouring the changes in nature always encourages me to adjust my own rhythms accordingly. Moving with the energy of the Earth feels beneficial on many levels and definitely helps my day to day life flow with more ease. Honouring the seasons with like minded people is always a powerful experience, it would be lovely to have you with us!” – Maura (Tranquil Flow Yoga)

Emma Winter – Emma harnesses the alchemy of sound as well as the power of creativity and imagination to facilitate multi-sensory immersive spaces and embodied experiences that allow participants to soar and traverse our planes of consciousness. Emma’s sonic immersions really encourage participants to allow themselves to release, playfully explore and take a journey of expansion using sound as their guide.

Monica Bazzani – Monica is a qualified sound therapist, Reiki Master, and Qigong teacher. Monica is passionate about sharing sound and its many healing benefits on the body, mind and nervous system, and during the Sound Bath will blend gongs, crystal singing bowls, Tibetan bowls, and other percussion to create a rich, resonant soundscape.

Andy Hobson – Andy is a world-renowned spiritual teacher and professional musician, best known for his warmth, authenticity and sense of humour. Seamlessly combining the healing tones of crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, wind chimes, Native American flute, guitar, the calming sounds of nature, and enhanced with ambient digital effects.

We will begin the day at our beautiful yoga studio with a warm welcome circle.

You will be guided through a somatic breathwork journey, where you will explore how the breath can dissolve old layers of tension, heal emotional blocks, and expand your capacity to give and receive love.

After a delicious and nourishing lunch, we will immerse ourselves in the ancient woodlands as we walk to the beautiful wild swimming lake, where you are welcome to dip in the rejuvenating waters and rewarm in the stunning wood fired sauna.

The day will continue back at the yoga studio with another guided somatic breathwork session, allowing integration time to expand your awareness and reconnect to your inner clarity.

Throughout the day, you will be held in a safe, nurturing space designed to open the heart, anchor you into the present moment, and awaken a deeper sense of compassion and connection.

Whether you join us with your partner, on your own, or with friends, everyone is welcome.

What the day includes:
• Guided, heart-opening breathwork journeys
• Somatic movement & gentle stretching
• Nature immersion
• Optional wild swimming and sauna session
• Herbal tea, healthy snacks, and a delicious vegetarian lunch

We will then share some nourishing cacao, to help open our hearts and be lead through some self-reflection and journaling to help us understand our patterns better and begin to form an intention to move forwards with.

Followed by a delicious vegetarian lunch, gluten free options are available.

Jess will share some simple but powerful tools that you can easily implement into your lives to create change in mind and body.

We will be lead in a silent walk through the stunning Wasing woods and en route we will spend some time connecting and immersing with nature and the trees, which has been scientifically shown to boost our immune system, improve sleep, increase energy levels, reduce stress, and improve mental wellbeing.

Arriving to a beautiful lake and wood-fired sauna, we will experience through a cold-water immersion and sauna experience. No experience is necessary for this and it’s such an invigorating and empowering experience!

In the afternoon we will practice yin and restorative yoga and allow all tension and stress to melt away.

And conclude the day with a powerful crystal sound bath.

You will receive a follow up email including the tools and practices we share on the day and recommended reading to help you implement and build further on this day of empowerment and inner strength

Includes:

• Yoga
• Meditation
• Breathwork
• Yoga Nidra
• Sound Bath
• Cold Water Immersion
• Wood-fired Sauna
• Nature Immersion
• Nourishing & tasty lunch (gluten free option available)
• Herbal teas & delicious sweet treats
• Cacao

Your guides on this journey

Jess Horn

Jess is a Senior Yoga Teacher, teaching workshops and leading retreats across the world, a Yoga Teacher Trainer and Teachers Mentor.

Practicing for over 20 years, she has found it to be an empowering, transformational and supportive practice and is passionate about sharing the tools that support her in living a more empowered and conscious life, with others

Particularly interested in teaching meditation, movement and mindfulness which she feel’s is so necessary to help deal with the challenges of modern living.

Jess skilfully provides a space where everyone feels comfortable, and can challenge themselves safely, whether they are complete beginners, or more experienced yogis.

Jess is also a fully certified Sound Healer and loves to share the profound and magical experiences of the alchemy crystal bowls.

Jess has been featured several times in Yoga Magazine, OM magazine and collaborates regularly with Yoga Matters.

Tania Park

Tania is a Forest Bathing Practitioner, Massage Therapist, and the Wellbeing Coordinator at Wasing.

Having found huge support in her personal journey through yoga, meditation, contrast therapy and breathwork, she is passionate about holding space for people to enable them to take a pause from the business of life and reconnect to their inner selves.

Tania is delighted to be offering these day retreats at Wasing, with the intention of providing people with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the healing properties of the natural world.

At the end, you will feel grounded, calm and relaxed.

The instruments which will be used through the session:

• Crystal Bowls
• Koshi Chimes
• Tingsha

Ensure that you wear warm, comfortable clothes.

Herbal tea will be served after the session to create the further relaxation in your body and mind.

Note:

This session is not suitable for anyone suffering from epilepsy, tinnitus or sound sensitive conditions, pregnancy (1st trimester) and anyone with metal plates in the body. If you are expecting, please do reach out to us prior to booking onto the workshop, so we can ensure our teacher is able to support you and your baby through the session or advise otherwise.

For this workshop, Visy will provide the all elements needed to create your very own shamanic drum – the wooden frames are made from sustainably sourced ash, with each frame carefully crafted by Visy.

The skins are made from buffalo hide and responsibly sourced.

Each person will also be gifted with a beater, handmade by Visy using branches foraged from Wasing woodlands, for this workshop.

Visy will guide everybody through the drum making process, step by step, with the group being kept small to ensure individual attention and guidance.

Aftercare will be provided, and Visy will be available for post-workshop drum advice.

We offer two ticket options, you can choose to make either an 18 inch drum, or a 22 inch drum. 

This special, one-off workshop will take place at our beautiful studio, The Pavilion, at Wasing Estate.

The workshop runs from 10am until 6pm and includes plenty of time for breaks, and the day will conclude with a special ceremony led by Visy, to bless the drums and give thanks to the natural world for providing the materials needed to create these unique and bespoke shamanic drums.

I have recently made my own drum with Visy and it was the most magical process from the start to finish. So much love and effort went into making my new sacred drum and I love using it in my yoga and sound healing sessions. I am very grateful that I could be part of this process and see it step by step. Visy is very knowledgeable, very passionate about these magical instruments and he pays an attention to detail. I would 100% recommend if you wish to create something magical for yourself.’ – Veronika, Yoga teacher & Sound Practitioner

T&C’s apply

We will then journey into the ancient woodlands at Wasing estate for a guided forest bathing session.

Mindful time spent in nature has been shown to boost our immune system, improve sleep, increase energy levels, reduce stress, and improve mental wellbeing.

A pause for a delicious vegetarian lunch

Lovingly prepared by Colline’s Kitchen, using fresh and locally sourced ingredients.

The group will then be guided through some gentle Qi Gong exercises and shown some acupressure points.

Qi Gong helps to regulate lymphatic flow, connects us to our bodies, and helps clear any stagnant energy. It has many health benefits, can bring clarity and focus to the mind and is very gentle so suitable for all levels of fitness.

Visy will guide everybody through the drum making The day will close with a deeply relaxing gong bath and a carefully crafted goody bag to take home with you.

Gong Baths use vibrations to bring the body into a state of rest. As a result of today’s hectic lifestyle, our nervous system can spend a lot of time in ‘fight or flight’ . The vibrations during a Gong Bath lower the brain waves, bringing you into the ‘rest and digest’ state, where your body can start to regenerate and heal at a cellular level.

Tania & Monica are passionate about sharing these restorative practices, and you will be shown techniques that you can take home with you to incorporate into your daily routine, as well as being gifted a carefully crafted goody bag.

Sunday Soul Retreat includes:

• Cacao
• Forest Bathing session in ancient woodlands
• Delicious vegetarian lunch
• Guided Qigong session
• Gong Bath
• Gift bag

Your guides on this journey

Tania Park

Tania is a Forest Bathing Practitioner, Massage Therapist, and the Wellbeing Coordinator at Wasing.

Having found huge support in her personal journey through yoga, meditation, contrast therapy and breathwork, she is passionate about holding space for people to enable them to take a pause from the business of life and reconnect to their inner selves.

Tania is delighted to be offering these day retreats at Wasing, with the intention of providing people with the opportunity to immerse themselves in the healing properties of the natural world.

Monica Bazzani

Monica is a qualified sound therapist, Reiki Master, and Qigong teacher.

Monica is passionate about sharing sound and its many healing benefits on the body, mind and nervous system.

During the Gong Bath Monica will blend gongs, crystal singing bowls, Tibetan bowls, and other percussion to create a rich, resonant soundscape.

Each gathering includes:

• an explanation of the chakra we are working with
• a guided intention-setting meditation
• gong bath and sound immersion
• integration time with optional journaling and chance to pick an oracle card
• herbal tea and grounding snacks
• a gifted organic roller oil blend for the specific chakra

What to expect

Upon arrival at our beautiful Yoga Pavilion, you will find a comfortable space to lie down – we supply yoga mats, bolsters, eye-pillows and blankets, you are also very welcome to bring your own if you prefer.

We begin with a short-guided meditation to help you settle and bring focus to your intentions. From there, you will be bathed in the sounds of the gongs and other instruments, allowing the vibrations to gently realign your energy and bring you back into balance.

After the sound, you’re welcome to take your time re-emerging, to journal, pick an oracle card, sip a nourishing herbal tea, and enjoy a grounding snack.

As a gift, you’ll also receive a beautiful chakra-specific essential oil blend to use during the session and take home with you.

Your host – Monica Bazzani

Monica is a qualified sound therapist, Reiki Master, and Qigong teacher. Monica is passionate about sharing sound and its many healing benefits on the body, mind and nervous system, and during the Sound Bath will blend gongs, crystal singing bowls, Tibetan bowls, and other percussion to create a rich, resonant soundscape.

About Wasing Estate

At Wasing, we see things differently. That we are inherently part of nature and that what harms the planet ultimately harms us. Everything is connected. Wasing Wellbeing is a dedicated & unique space for revitalising and healing experiences, guiding your journey towards powerful personal care and sustainable health and wellness. These sessions take place at Wasing’s beautiful Yoga Pavilion.

Please note:

Not recommended for those with pacemakers, metal implants, tinnitus, sound sensitive conditions or epilepsy or those who are pregnant in their 1st trimester. We do not offer any medical advice whatsoever. You attend the event at your own risk. If you have any health-related queries, please consult with your Doctor before making a booking. T&C’s apply