Area: Unite

Homecoming – Three keys to free the heart when navigating challenging relationships with Summer Forest & Esther Nicklin

SUNDAY | 915 – 1045 | UNITE

When we have a breakdown in communication with someone in our lives be it a partner, friend, family member or colleague it hurts. This can be incredibly disempowering especially when we have no control over the other’s response and feel stuck in our own stories. Or perhaps a relationship has ended, but the pain of feeling unresolved lives on. 

When we shut down our hearts in one area of our lives, we often find ourselves blocked and shut down in others. How can we get “unstuck” and open our hearts again? How can we return to peace and empowerment within ourselves?

In our time together we will discuss three essential keys to free our hearts in times of difficulty including the not-so-secret (and not so easy) key to peace: surrender. We will then do a short guided visualization and meditation practice to move toward healing the challenging relationships in our lives. And finally, we will close with a Reiki healing from Esther Nicklin to send us off grounded and supported. 

The ideas in this workshop draw philosophically from three rich streams: the concept of surrender in the Bhagavad Gita, the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Tonglen and the spiritual text A Course In Miracles. 

Free your heart. Let love win. Take a stand for peace.

Led by Summer Forest. Featuring support from Reiki Master Esther Nicklin.

Elevate & Anchor – Yoga with Emily Gilchrist

FRIDAY | 14:30 – 16:00 | UNITE | BY DONATION

This empowering class with Emily encompasses principles of mindful movement, breathwork and grounding yoga poses, giving you the opportunity to recenter, reset, re-balance and the space to nourish, breathe and nurture, leaving you empowered and centred, radiating from the inside, ready to hit the dance flow in full flow!

www.emilyoga.com
Instagram – @emilyoga.luv

Inner Child Flow Hoop Workshop with Adam & Lauren

SATURDAY | 19:30 – 21:00 | UNITE

We have been hooping and teaching hoop for 6 years and discovered that too often we get so stuck in learning the technical parts of the tricks that we forget about our flow. Freedom of expression and movement is such an important feeling and some of the best flow artists have thrived because of the way they move rather than having every trick technically perfect. We will use a range of exercises to let go & tune into our bodies natural flow whilst having a lot of fun and embodying the idea of play.

Instagram:
@coley.hoops
@adam.floatinghome

Sensual Cacao Ceremony with Deya CacaoAmor

SUNDAY | 17:00 – 18:30 | UNITE

Cacao is a sensual and loving sacred plant. Harnessing the bliss compound Anandamide, Serotonin and Dopamine which Cacao helps us produce, and the love biochemicals of Phenethylamine found in Cacao, this ceremony will help you to connect with your heart and yourself, in a very loving way. We will create an intimate and safe space for your whole being to feel connected and open to explore sensuality through your senses with Cacao. 

Deya (Dia) CacaoAmor is ceremonies – delight – voyages. Wildly loving Cacao Sorceress. She grew up drinking Cacao in Ecuador and has been sharing in ceremonies since 2014. Nature lover and founder of CacaoAmor. She exports ceremonial grade Cacao from her homeland, collaborating with a local cooperative taking care of biodiversity, expanding the nurturing Medicine of Cacao to the Seven Directions.

www.cacaoamor.com 
Instagram @cacaoamor
fb.me/cacaoamortantra

Grounding Ritual with Charlie Cheeseman

FRIDAY | 9:00 – 10:30 | UNITE

There is a moment between landing at Noisily and the opening ceremony, a sacred pause. An opportunity to arrive in your body, to clear anything you don’t want to carry with you this weekend, so that you can give your full presence to the woods. 

This workshop is an embodied ritual, working with breathwork, movement, meditation and sound to calibrate to your centre before it all begins. 

Guided by Charlie, a certified breathwork facilitator, we’ll move through four stages:

Grounding: the stabilising energy of the earth element, anchoring and orienting the body, nervous system regulation.

Clearing: the transformative energy of the fire element, alchemising blocks and limiting beliefs.

Connecting: the expansive, communicative energy of the air element, feeling into the physical and subtle bodies, deepening connections.

Resourcing: the fluid and adaptive energy of the water element, healing and replenishing. Self care practices to support your mental and emotional wellbeing through the weekend.

We’ll intentionally turn towards the full spectrum of sensations, emotions, thoughts, and energies that arise within, welcoming our wholeness, our messiness, our weirdness and our aliveness!

After the workshop, for those who wish to, we’ll gather and weave into the main opening ceremony together for lift off. 

Straight from the Heart with Alison Powell

SATURDAY | 11:30 – 13:00 | UNITE

Alison Powell is passionate about creative writing and the ways the written word can connect us to our heart’s desires. She loves the way that the page can allow us to drop into our intuition and our own inner wisdom. She is an experienced facilitator, teacher and NLP Master Practitioner and has delivered workshops, courses and talks on the power of creativity to heal and transform. Her work invites you to bring your whole self to the page: to show up and uncover what it is that you really want to say.  Alison approaches everything she does from a framework of kindness and compassion and truly believes that everyone has a right to write. She will help you find your authentic voice and bring your truth to the world. 

In Straight from the Heart you will experience a series of guided meditation, breathwork and writing experiments that will bring you even more deeply in touch with who you really are. Expect to leave the workshop with words you want to share, an open heart and an even greater sense of presence and appreciation for the world. Whether you have a regular writing practice, a secret burning urge to write, or simply a curiosity about what it might be like to put your own words into some kind of shape, you are fully welcome in this workshop space. There will be time to write plus a chance to share your words if you wish.

Paper and pens will be provided, but you are really welcome to bring your own journal or notebook along.

For more about Alison and her work visit www.writeclub.org.uk or find her on socials as @hellowriteclub 

Transformative Sound Meditation Ceremony with The Faraway Tree Therapies

SUNDAY | 15:00 – 16:30 | UNITE | By donation

Kate from The Faraway Tree Therapies will guide you through this beautiful, transformative ceremony of meditation, breath, sound healing and reiki. This workshop will soothe and restore your nervous system, support you to connect to your inner wisdom, and experience blissful altered states of consciousness. 

You’ll begin by receiving a personal energy cleanse using palo Santo, then you’ll sit together in a short guided meditation, with intention setting and affirmations, to strengthen your healing and transformation.

You’ll be guided through some gentle breathing practices to release any stress or tension you have been carrying around with you.

Next you’ll get comfy and cosy, laying down for a guided deep relaxation meditation, to quiet your mind and relax your body, before you bathe in the sounds of instruments that have been used as healing tools for thousands of years. You will be immersed in the therapeutic vibrations and frequencies of crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, shamanic drum, gongs, rattles, chimes and more. Kate is a reiki master and will be sharing healing reiki energy with each participant. 

Some of benefits include:

* Reduced stress

* Relief from anxiety

* Better sleep 

* Released emotional blockages

* Better mood

* Improved focus

* Mental clarity

* Creative insights

* Profound physical restoration

* Deep peace

* Balanced heart rate & BP

• These instruments are designed to activate the parasympathetic nervous system bringing you into deep relaxation. 

• The frequency of these sounds will bring your brain waves into alpha tetha which is the state we enter just before sleep or when in a deep meditation, here we heal and rejuvenate at a cellular level. 

• There will some be short moments of silence throughout the session. 

• You may drift into thought at times which is perfectly ok, you can choose to stay in your thoughts or you can bring your focus back to the sounds. 

• You may drift off into sleep this is also perfectly ok, you will be guided back at the end of the session. 

• If you want to move or get up please do! 

• Wear loose fitting clothing, bring blankets and pillows, eye masks and anything else for your comfort. 

Kate is a registered mental health nurse of 16 years and a holistic therapist. If you experience any emotions during or after the session that you would like to talk about please let Kate know, she is there to support you.

Kate merges a variety of scientific and spiritual teachings, with her personal and professional experiences, to bring a unique offering.  She is a senior nurse practitioner in nhs crisis mental health services and has a private clinic, The Faraway Tree Therapies, on a boat in Hertfordshire. 

Kate is a certified reiki master, kundalini yoga teacher and meditation teacher. She is trained and certified in Tantra, sound healing and shamanic practices, various talking therapies, mentoring and wellness coaching.

Kate’s classes and workshops are deep, introspective, wholesome and healing, sprinkled with love and magic. She looks forward to sharing her offerings with you. 

https://www.thefarawaytreetherapies.com/

Journey to Intimacy – a tantric workshop with Ian Young

SATURDAY | 15:30 – 17:00 | UNITE

In this workshop we will journey together towards connection and intimacy. This begins with active meditation to embody ourselves and then tuning into and understanding our own needs, wants and desires as well as our boundaries. We will then practice expressing these to others in a safe environment where we can be heard. And for genuine connection to happen we need to be able to express a no as well as a yes and also to be able to hear and receive a no and to be more accepting and comfortable with that. If we can say and hear a no then the yes becomes more trustworthy. We use practices from tantra to become more comfortable with more challenging experiences and perhaps more difficult emotions so that we can face more of life with more ease. The workshop will include the use of touch as this is one of the most powerful ways to connect with others but we will only use non-sexual touch. Touch is often lacking in our lives and can be a truly powerful way to be present and to truly feel oneself.

https://www.ianyoungsomatics.com/

Foundations of Ayurveda: Identify your Dosha, with Chala Ayurveda

FRIDAY | 12:00 – 13:30 | UNITE

The roots of Ayurveda took hold in India 5000 years ago and continue to flourish in the modern age. The system incorporates mind, body, and spirit to establish abundant health. ‘Ayurveda’ can be translated to mean the science of life, with ‘Ayu’ meaning life and ‘Veda’ meaning science. 

Gemma and Sophie are passionate about sharing the wisdom of Ayurveda so that people may learn about themselves on a deeper level and use this knowledge to prevent ill health and flow with the cycles of nature.

During this workshop, you will learn the foundations of Ayurveda including the importance of the five elements, the six tastes, and the three doshic energies that govern life; vata, pitta and kapha. You will learn how to identify your own dosha but most importantly, why this isn’t fixed and changes as we move through the different seasons of life.

Come and dip your toes into this sea of ancient knowledge with us and leave feeling more connected to your inner truth of how to bring balance to your whole self.

Sophie 
www.sownourished.com
@sownourished  

Gemma
@chikitsa.ayurvedicwellness 

Heart Activation – Shamanic Breathwork Journey with Hazel Joanna

SATURDAY | 9:30 – 11:00 | UNITE | By donation

In this ceremony we will be calling upon Goddess Oshun (African Goddess of love and fresh waters) to activate divine love within our hearts.

The heart chakra is an important centre within our energetic system. It is here that we can old onto negative emotions such as anger, resentment and disappointment that stop us being able to fully open and express our hearts. Working with the breath is very powerful at shifting old energies and opening up this important juncture.

The session will begin with intention setting and a gentle bodily warm up using qigong and movement before beginning a practice of conscious connected circular breath where participants will be lying down. Throughout the session we will be using sounds to activate the chakras, along with breath retentions.

Benefits of Breathwork

-deep states of relaxation / bliss
-aha moments 
-strengthening of respiratory system 
-release old stories and stuck emotions 
-energising 
-strengthen immune system.

It is Advisable to avoid eating an hour before and to avoid intoxicants before attending the session. If you have high blood pressure or a history of mental illness please inform the facilitator in advance.

About the facilitator

Hazel is passionate about creating sacred space. After delving deeply into her own healing and experiencing the powerful benefits of both breathwork and plant medicine she went onto train with ‘Celtic Breathwork’ and ‘Anchoring the light’. Originally from the Uk, Hazel moved to India in 2004 to pursue a career in Bollywood. She met with success but after ten years in Mumbai she was burned out and disillusioned and it was here that her journey back to wellness and equilibrium began.  Though her path is very different now her love of dance and music continues and she brings that into all of her work.  Her ceremonies are an ecstatic mixture of movement, breathwork and visualisation.

Instagram @phosforescence