Seasonal Self

Now in it’s 6th year, our flagship Nature as Nurture programme provides a unique experience to pause and reflect, to learn the lessons of this season and to discover how you can thrive at this time of year.  For many, this much-loved workshop is anchored in the diary each season, an eagerly anticipated time for calm, reflection, support and self-care. 

Providing a mini-retreat with time carved out of the busy schedule to explore what is happening in the natural world around you and in your own internal world.  An artful blend of meditation, discussion and nature-therapy the Seasonal Self provides profound and lasting insights as well as concrete steps for seasonal self-care.

Nature constantly changes and adapts to her surrounding conditions, gently accepting and embracing the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. The cycle is essential for nature’s health, vitality and continued growth and while we know these seasons in nature, we rarely acknowledge that our own bodies reverberate to seasonal changes as well.

Nature represents stillness and simplicity in winter, growing energy and creativity in spring, blooming fullness during the summer months and a process of harvesting, releasing and slowing down in the autumn. 

Many of us will recognise our own personal impulses and patterns reflecting in this cycle.  Yet, with busy lives, established routines and a culture demanding consistency, we often struggle to notice and to respond to these changes within us.

The Seasonal Self session gives us a chance to pause and quietly consider how we are at this point in the year. Through meditations, rituals and conversations we explore our personal joys and challenges of the current season. 

With part of the session taking place outside, we draw on the wisdom of nature as we consider how best to respond to our cyclical rhythms in order to thrive.