We welcome you with open hearts to

Wise Women Retreats

Winter residential - Rest, Reflect, Restore
Jan 30th-Feb 2nd 2025



Spring residential - Begin, Create, Grow
May 15-18th 2025

Summer residential - Joy, Balance, Flourish
August 21 - 24th 2025


“As the weekend went on it just made me realise how lucky I was to be with two very professional people.”

A small family business, Wise Women, has emerged, evolved and grown, with tender and loving care from Justine.

In conjunction with Miriam, a highly experienced psychotherapist, who specialises in women’s issues, Justine’s vision for Wise Women Retreats has been germinating for decades. Now, with the support of Miriam she is able to bring all her experience to providing a retreat that nurtures a woman’s body and psyche.

Miriam centres her practice around the principles of inclusion, acceptance and compassion and is passionate about developing a profession-wide understanding of working with diversity and difference.

You can read more about Justine (right), Miriam (left), Ted (centre) and the all those who work to make your retreat personal, healing and special, here: Our People.

Justine and her team create the physical, nurturing space, with unique and individual passion, creating a safe space for body mind and spirit to unravel and rest.

Bespoke therapeutic programmes, primarily for women but some workshops are open to others as well. Miriam is a psychotherapist with over three decades of professional practice and specialisms in women’s mental health and growth.

During the pandemic, Justine was part of Miriam’s online Nourish & Nurture Women’s Wintering Programme with virtual campfires! But Justine wanted real fires, real home-cooked nourishment and to provide physical space for nurture and rest.

Throughout your stay, you will meet Miriam, Anita and Justine on the led retreats.

Our therapeutic January retreat

January 30th - February 2nd 2025

There is nothing quite like this intimate, bespoke retreat and the nurturing activities inspired by our connection with nature and the seasons. 

The mind, body and nervous system are all attended to through our retreat weekends. We believe we are naturally inclined towards wellbeing, and that letting go, and being supported on retreat, allows our mind and body to restore itself.

Your Stay Includes: 

  • Delicious, locally-sourced, home prepared food.
    All dietary requirements catered for

  • 3 nights’ top rated accommodation for residential participants. 

  • Meditation, group work, self care practices and mindful ritual.

  • Deep Relaxation (Yoga Nidra) and a Healing Sound Bath.
    Healing practices designed to help you sleep, so your body, mind and energy can naturally restore overnight.

  • Sensory and mindful local walks.
    Gentle exercise combined with heightened awareness of our senses. Nature grounds, supports and reconnects us, and is part of the secure base we work with.

  • Restorative Yoga - this is not what you might have considered ‘yoga’, but is a specialist form of relaxation and gentle movement, focus, breath-work and body awareness.
    By helping your nervous system relax and feel safe, the group therapy is more effective. All abilities catered for, all equipment provided and the gentlest of options are always available.

  • Your own personalised Wise Woman Winter Retreat Journal

  • Use of several indoor and outdoor spaces to be alone.

The group will be held by a qualified and experienced GP and a qualified and experienced Psychotherapist and a qualified and experienced Yoga Teacher, we are also much more than our qualifications, as mature practitioners we work with a synthesis of healing models. We are supported by a qualified and experienced reflexologist. (See Our People).

3 Days & 3 Nights for £625

Day guests for £310
(includes everything except bed and breakfast)

Reserve your place now with a £235 deposit. We are also taking bookings for future events.

A typical retreat structure is here as a guideline.
Timings and topics may change to suit the particular needs of a group, the weather or availability.


Thursday 30th January: Evening

• Arrival time from 4pm
• Welcome refreshments (Justine)
• Settle in
• 6pm Dinner (Justine)
• 8pm Sound Journey (Anita)

Friday 31st January: Beginning

  • 8am Breakfast for residential guests (Justine)
    9.30 Opening session. Includes meditation and group sharing (Miriam)

  • 11 Hobbit second breakfast 

  • Quiet reflection time

  • 12.15 Therapeutic Group-work & consolidation journaling exercise (Miriam)

  • 1pm Lunch (Justine)

  • Quiet time for self reflection, journalling, reading, sleeping

  • 4pm snack

  • 5pm Group session (Miriam)

  • 6.15 pm Dinner

  • 8pm Deep Relaxation

  • Restful restorative sleep

Saturday 1st February: Building on the previous day

  • Breakfast for residential guests (Justine)

  • 9.30 Yoga session (Anita)

  • 11am Hobbit second breakfast (Justine)

  • 11.30 Group-work and guided visualisation (Miriam)

  • 1pm Lunch (Justine)

  • 2pm Quiet time for self reflection, journalling, reading, sleeping

  • Optional sensory walk

  • 4 pm snack (Justine)

  • 5pm Group session (Miriam)

  • 6.15pm Dinner (Justine)

  • 7.30pm Campfire indoors or out

  • Restful restorative sleep

Sunday 2nd February: Closing sessions

  • 9am Breakfast for residential guests (Justine)

  • 10am Group-work consolidation (Miriam)  visualisation leading to journalling topics & commitment to self for the season includes. Hobbit second breakfast (Justine) and a mindful creative experience

  • 1pm Lunch (Justine)

  • 1.45pm all bags to front hall

  • 2pm Closing rituals (Anita)

  • 2.30pm Depart

“All the care, you imparted and wisdom made everyone feel really comfortable together. We all came away with new insight and wisdom about how to move forward with our own lives and needs.”

Retreats

Additional Information

  • Retreats are not a substitute for professional medical or psychological support.

  • Deposits are non refundable.

  • If the event is cancelled, it will be rescheduled.

  • We ask that, for their safety, guests do not consume alcohol until all therapeutic sessions have finished. For example, at the evening meal or in the evening.

  • Guests must not use social drugs or undertake illegal activity during their stay.

  • No smoking on the premises.

  • We reserve the right to ask guests to leave if their behaviour is inappropriate.