Workshops & More…

From yoga and dance, to cacao and temazcal sweat lodges, to silver casting and confidence classes - below you’ll find what we have on offer at Wonderment Retreat Festival.

  • Make Your Own Vera Cruz Amethyst Crystal Talisman with Joodaboo

    An introduction into the basics of crystal healing, focusing on this magical little crystal, the Vera Cruz Amethyst. You will learn how to choose the right crystal for you, how it works and how it can help you, followed by making your own talisman.

  • Breathwork with Ben Bidwell

    Breathwork has the power to unlock us in ways we don't experience in our day to day lives. This session will utilise the power of the breath, alongside powerful music and guidance, to bring love alive in a deeply impactful and healing way.

  • Temazcal Sweatlodge with Root of The Gods

    Temazcal Sweatlodge - A type of Sweatlodge, a Temazcal is an ancient purification ceremony; for relieving stress, cleansing toxins from the body, releasing negativity and revitalising life force. Especially beneficial for your immune system & balancing mind, body & spirit. Essentially, it is a steam bath in a natural dome. Large rocks are heated on a fire outside, then placed inside a natural bowl in the center of the dome & doused with water and herbs. The medicinal steam & the power of the natural elements help us to open and cleanse. As a key part of indigenous medicine, it has been used widely for thousands of years for the treatment & prevention of disease, stress, weight loss, depression, skin conditions, fibromyalgia & much more.. The Sweatlodge dome itself represents the ‘Womb of the Earth’ as its energy is distinctly nurturing, bringing us closer to our and Pachamama.

  • Blue Lotus Yoga Class with Nurture by Nina

    A flowing yoga class inspired by the Egyptian Blue lotus flower. We will be journeying with the sacred oil which is connected to our 3rd eye chakra.

    The third eye heightens our spiritual awareness of movement and change, our knowing that there is a time for endings as well as beginnings. It is having the ability to release old thought patterns and embrace the new. It is ceasing to fear the unknown.

    Come and connect to your intuition and use this practice to open and build awareness in your ajna chakra to begin to see everything in your life more clearly.

  • Silver Jewellery Workshops in Sand Casting with Issi Bulloch

    Sand Casting is one of the oldest forms of Casting, where you create a mold in sand of Little treasures collected from the festival, like acorns, twigs and leaves, and then pour molten silver into the mold to create your own unique piece of jewellery, a mementos of people’s experiences at the Festival.

  • Guided Shamanic Journey with Alex Pardhy

    An hour long guided shamanic journey to the mushroom teachers for insight, wisdom & guidance, with time to share at the end. No medicines consumed!

  • Scent & Sound Journey - Taking Flight with Emma Winter

    A transformational scent & sound journey with the purpose of transcending our earthly bodies, allowing ourselves to take an omnipresent flight from the microcosm out to the macrocosm and back again.

    This session aims to shift stagnated energy, creating space to allow us access our own innate intuition and use the power of our imagination to transition into the next chapter in time for Autumn Equinox.

    Bring a mat, blanket, water, eye pillow and an intention of what you’d like to call in for this upcoming seasonal chapter. We will begin with some somatic exercises before settling into savasana and allowing the sound waves to permeate every cell of your body and take you on your flight.

  • Shakti Dance with Dirish Shaktidas

    Get up and get moving with this shakti ecstatic dance ! Stretch your body and clear your mind with these charged up guided moves that are made to awaken your energy!

    This is an exhilarating experience, enhances coordination, increases your dynamic flow of energy, and awakens your creative spirit!

    A perfect relief from a hectic workday or an intense week. Open to all levels, this class will move you to flow into your body bringing regeneration, enhancing coordination, increasing stamina, and giving you a whole new repertoire of movement.

    Follow step by step dance movements that target the shoulders, hips, back, and other tight areas that may hold stress. The class is taught in 8 phases which gradually add layers to connect with your dynamic flow of energy and self-expression. Finishing with a supreme relaxation and balancing movement meditation to develop inner peace and harmony.

  • The 'Wild Wise Woman' Sisterhood Women's Circle with Siân Rose Bennett

    This is a simple but ancient healing tradition of women gathering in Circle to share. All spectrum of stories, emotions and voices welcome here, no matter how quiet your voice or simple your tale. Circle is a sacred space away from the social norm of feeding back and giving advice, here we simply listen with our open hearts, holding each others words, stories and truth. We will ground through meditation, connect into the powerful, loving energy of Circle and, if called to, share with our voices, as our female ancestors once did. We will finish in some playful movement to integrate any shifts that have occurred. Anyone who identifies as a woman or non binary is welcome.

  • Love In Action - The Wild Heart with Damian Nola

    Love In Action is an invitation for you to awaken to your ‘divine uniqueness’ and to bring that into embodied living. More than healing for mind, body and spirit, it is that which calls you into intimate connection with the whole, bringing to an end the suffering caused by the illusion of separation or division. It is that which opens you to the boundless potential that lives within you and calls that potential into action, bringing a greater depth of conscious presence, joy and vitality into your life. An invitation to allow the sacred nature of your being to move you always and in all things.

    Join us for an exploration of the gifts of wildness, heart, freedom and play - the SHA - our primordial Earth Spirit married with the Divine Presence that pulses through all of life - bridging spirit and form - together in a alchemy that opens you to deep pleasure, radical aliveness, clarity, wisdom and love.

  • Sacred Sexual Healing: I am Love! with Chelsea Canovas

    Are you willing to consider your sexual self as sacred?

    Soften into the Divine Feminine through Magdalene energy and the Rose. We will journey with sacred oils & somatic movement to land into a tender space where we allow ourselves to truly receive. All welcome.

  • Complete Confidence with Helen Parker

    We are all born into the world with confidence. As babies, we are not afraid to ask for love, attention and nourishment. In fact, we demand it! Then something shifts, we can get knocked down and we lose faith in ourselves. We get back up again though something may have been changed and lost in the process. I describe confidence to my clients as like ‘inner titanium’, a deep knowing and trust that no matter what you know you’re going to be OK.

    In this workshop, we're going to delve into confidence, what it means to you, where you want to get to and what is holding you back. We'll explore three main areas of the Brain, Body and Being so you come away with insights, inspiration and tools to positively affect your inner confidence, daily. Finally, a group confidence hypnosis will ignite you with your divine right to shine!

  • Presence Through Performance with Liam Scarth

    For adults and young adults.

    Performance is as Sacred Act. A Dance with the Creator.

    Enjoy a selection of games and exercises designed to bring you into greater presence with yourself and those you co-create with.

    We will explore creativity through writing, movement, voice and character creation. You will leave with the seed of a performance you can grow on your creative journey.

  • Hearth to Home Meditation with Siân Rose Bennett

    Let us ground, connect, release and restore, bringing ourselves home and whole to the present moment. A lovingly guided meditation journey to music, to arrive back home, centred in our hearts and rooted down into our Mother Earth. Utilising the energies of Fire and Earth, will shall remember who we are, where we are and why we are. Finishing with some free movement to integrate and connect our mind, body and soul.

  • Pilates and Somatics with Liz Chandler

    A sensory experience through movement and exercise.

    Including but not limited too :) releasing tension, improving your alignment, flexibility, breathing and spinal fluidity.

    Learning how the core and other stabilisers can make you stronger and pain free, to help you move and be, with grace and ease.

    "Change happens through movement and movement heals" Joseph Pilates

  • GAGA / People Dance with Liz Chandler

    Created by Ohad Naharin the Director of Batsheva Dance Company.

    Everyone is a dancer! Feel the pleasure of movement in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere. Have fun! All abilities and ages are welcome!

    You will be guided by descriptions to help stimulate your imagination, explore movement and sensations. Connecting to the music and at times only our breath.

    Always staying in the flow, it’s up to you how fast or slow you go. Listening and feeling the body trying to maintain our connection to pleasure and breath.

  • Skincare Foraging and Face Mask Creation with Earth Remedies

    A two-hour face mask foraging workshop with two parts. A foraging walk followed by a fresh face mask creation workshop. Focusing on skincare, plant connections and folklore.

    This workshop is designed to connect you to the energies of the season and pay attention to what is going on in the plant world.

    **You get to take home your own handmade fresh face mask created from wild herbs and berries.**

  • Guided Morning Facial Routine with Phoebe from Earth Remedies

    Phoebe, creator of Earth Remedies skincare brand, will guide you through a 5-step morning facial routine to step into the day with your glowing self! Guiding you through skin tips and ritualistic skincare.

    This workshop will include a personal skin consultation, how to exfoliate effectively, a lymphatic drainage massage and a freshly foraged facemask from the Wasing land.

  • Reclaiming The Witch with Georgie, Sister Suppers

    We will explore the history of The Witch in Europe, uncovering hidden truths and reflecting on whether we continue to feel the impact in society today, and within ourselves. We will recognise our individual power, and celebrate this, reclaiming and reframing a word that would have once had catastrophic effects before closing in ceremony and honouring those that paved the way for us.

  • Joy Alchemy with Chris Fitchew

    Our spiritual journey, personal development path and self-mastery adventure can sometimes lead us down some dark, scary roads, deep within, as we confront our shadow self, whilst gathering the wisdom we need to understand who we are, why we are here and what are our purposes.

    With our ever-changing world, and new dimensional frequency shifts being felt more and more each day, it is important to be able to align our own metaphysical and inner emotional systems with these changes.

    Honouring and balancing our natural cycles of yin and yang by knowing how to navigate from deep yin states of contemplation and reflection, which may sometimes stir our shadow emotions of lack, sorrow, sadness anxiety, and fear, but then having the tools to be able to quickly pivot into yang states of happiness, love, gratitude, joy, and wonder. Joy Alchemy is the process of transforming negative emotions and experiences into positive ones, particularly joy. This may involve cultivating gratitude, mindfulness, and self-awareness, among other practices. A keynote talk on Joy Alchemy may explore these concepts in more depth and provide practical tools for cultivating joy in everyday life.

  • Intuitive Tarot With Raul

    Raul will guide us through a group tarot workshop exploring:

    • What is Tarot?

    • Archetypes

    • The Hero's journey

    • Imagery, symbolism, astrology, numerology.

    • How to connect with your own Tarot deck.

    Raul is an intuitive tarot card reader with more than 3 years of practice. His unique perspective on the Tarot goes beyond the archetype meanings, creating a warm and welcoming experience where you will feel comfortable and safe to explore insights that will help re-discover yourself, your potential and worthiness.

    Tarot is such a great device to ask for guidance on any matter, from relationships, to work and projects, and self development.

    Raul's intuitive reading's alchemy will inspire, empower and uplift your spirit.

  • Sound, Sauna & Yoga with Chelsea Canovas & Nurture by Nina

    Start the day by the lake with gentle yoga and guided sound, as well as a cleansing sauna, and an option to swim in the lake.

  • Divine Magic with Damian Nola

    Often, we think of magic as something that only exists in fairy tales, as something unreal or make believe, but magic is all around us, present in every moment, every breath, we need only look with open eyes, an open heart, an open mind – to the miracle of creation, the beauty and absolute wonder that any of this even exists to know that magic is real.

    Magic is what created all of this, manifested something out of nothing.

    When we appreciate life as magical, ourselves as magical, the world as magical, a subtle yet profound shift emerges, somehow, we begin to open to life in a new way, we realize life to be far more mysterious, far more sacred, far more precious than we could possibly define. Every element of life becomes filled with an awareness of that ‘living mystery’ from the most practical everyday tasks to the most subtle and sublime experiences of what we might term the transcendent. The extraordinary becomes ordinary, the ordinary – extraordinary.

    Join us for an exploration of the transformational power of magic and what it offers you uniquely as an invitation into the joy of life.

  • The Science and Spirituality of Wellbeing with Sam Patterson

    Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. What brings one person bliss might be another’s headache, but there are some habits and practices that have a long spiritual history of improving wellbeing.

    As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, what can science teach us about taking control of our happiness?

    In this two-hour workshop, we’ll put the hands of spirituality and science together as we explore ten practices that have empirical scientific backing behind them. We’ll also explore the ways in which aspects of spiritual practice can be validated by science.

    Is happiness genetic? How can we tailor our practice to our own personality? Can we be happier?

  • Ecstatic Tribal Dance with Tim Collins

    A fusion of ecstatic dance & group connection practices to heighten cohesion in the space and raise vibrations.

    Uplifting, multilayered atmospheric dance music designed to move your body & soul and stimulate the vibrant power which resides in us all.

    Together we activate the energy of joy, freedom, and connection.

  • Walks and Wild Swimming

    A fresh and invigorating swim in the lake is the most refreshing thing to do in the morning, at the end of your day or in between workshops.

    When it comes to walks, the surroundings are vast with paths, fields, woods and lakes to explore whenever the mood takes.