Meet Our Healers
Rachel Whitehead / SOMA Breathwork
Rachel from Release – Find Peace is an EFT (tapping) and Matrix reimprinting therapist and a SOMA Breathwork instructor.
Rachel has been studying mastery of the breath to create positive, long lasting change to lives. This work sits alongside a 35 year long career in wellness, including her work in the fitness arena and 17 years as an EFT and Matrix reimprinting therapist.
Sandra Barnes / Cacao and Yoga Nidra
Sandra has been teaching Yoga in the UK for over 20 years since she settled here to raise her 2 children, her best friends Sofia & Matias, after years of exploring & working in many places across the world.
She is from Argentina & is often told her soothing words, accent & voice from the heart cannot be forgotten.
Starting her Yoga journey in her early 20's after studies in P.E at Buenos Aries University, Argentina, Sandra's home country.
She has an extensive professional fitness background stretching over 38 years that has left her with a deep understanding of safe & beneficial movement for the body. She has taught many fitness varieties, some of which include swimming to all ages including babies, to steps, aqua aerobics & more.
She started teaching & holding space for people at the age of 17, organising her own summer camps for children full of activity, creativity, swimming, music, art, cooking & beyond.
Across the last 20 years in the UK she has taught Yoga to all walks of life, from prenatal to baby yoga, toddlers, children, schools, teens, care homes & to a range of peoples individual needs, in an array of settings. This has left her with a clear vision of how Yoga can form & adapt to benefit all walks of life.
She feels yoga & all it offers is her ~ dharma ~ purpose in life & feels it has saved her on more than one occasion.
She dedicates alot of her time to family & loves being a mother & now abuelita! Now that both her children are older is enjoying dedicating herself evermore to yoga & loves sharing this path with her daughter.
Jo Winterton / Gong
I started practicing yoga over 25 years ago. Yoga, meditation and playing the Gong, have helped me to find my true path to happiness, well being, peace and joy. They help me to navigate the ups and downs of life, and I love to share the knowledge I have learned (and am still learning), in my yoga and meditation classes, workshops, Gong sessions and retreats.
Friday Gong Session:
Join me to create peace and stillness within! Enjoy gentle movement to ease out tension in the body, soothing pranayama, guided relaxation, then flow into a deeply relaxing gong sound bath.
Saturday Gong Session:
Embrace balance & harmony.
A restorative session to re set your nervous system - using techniques such as shaking, breathing and self massage. Then lay back for a deeply balancing & soothing Gong Sound Bath.
Sunday Gong Session:
Immerse yourself in loving kindness.
Make an intention to yourself that you are going to fill your mind, body and soul with love, joy and peace. Then get comfortable and settle into a deeply relaxing gong sound bath.
Zoe Hatch / Barefoot Singing
Barefoot Singing led by Zoe from Sound and Song. Journey more deeply into the world of singing in this profound vocal workshop that gives you the opportunity to process, heal and grow. Singing is an incredible journey of self discovery. It’s a whole body experience that enables us to get in touch with and express every part of ourselves. It’s a way to tune in, to listen and to give voice to our experience. When we use sound in playful and creative ways, we find new vocabulary, we can release and move on from the old and welcome in the new. We can become who we really are. Shy singers, non-singers and karaoke divas are all welcome to this inclusive workshop. You will be expertly guided towards building textured layers of harmony so that everyone can feel the warmth and resonance that comes when we bring our voices together. Sound and Song is a community interest company that uses song to facilitate health and wellbeing. We recognise that singing is a fundamental part of being human. It’s an essential piece of life’s jigsaw puzzle and we can’t quite be our whole wonderful selves without it, so we delight in creating opportunities for you to find your voice and to experience the joy of singing with others.
The session will be led by our founder Zoe Hatch - a warm, dynamic and engaging songstress and workshop facilitator. Singing together is such a special experience - we look forward to welcoming you.
Jess Symondson / Transformational Breathwork
Jess is a yoga and breathwork instructor whose vibrant style, coupled with her epic playlist, helps you to access your true nature: Joy!
Jess uses the breath as a key to access the deepest parts of your consciousness. Join her as she guides you through breathwork journeys that can take you to another planet.
Jess is the co-founder of Firelight, a wellness, retreats and events and hub that is nestled in a 250 acre farm in rural Buckinghamshire that aims to help people find a deeper connection with themselves, each other and nature.
Elly Held/ Nidra
A blissful 45 minutes in the healing Tipi with a beautiful Yoga Nidra. Elly will guide you through a heart led, deep relaxation where you can unwind and enjoy the therapeutic nature of Yoga Nidra. You’ll be spending much of the class lying down and will be guided by Elly through a deep relaxation with focus on the breath and visualisation.
Rebecca Whittaker / Grounding Somatic Practice
Release Stress & Tension Naturally - a somatic/body based workshop
I work with individuals (on a group or one to one basis) who experience symptoms of stress or trauma such as anxiety, depression and physical illnesses using various modalities that I have trained in over the last 20yrs. I have a background in coaching and nutrition and use these skills alongside TRE (Tension & Trauma Release Exercises), Havening and sound therapy to rebalance the ANS (autonomic nervous system) and bring the body, mind and soul into alignment. Our modern day lifestyles and choices mean that we are seeing and evergrowing, exponential explosion in these symptoms including mental health and a huge rise in self harming and suicides. Havening and other self-help modalities are the key to the future.
www.balanceandharmonyspace.podia.com
Didgeridreams / Soundscape
Didgeridreams is a collective of 5 multi-instrumentalists who lovingly craft a musical landscape that includes a wide range of instruments, drums, voice and sound. Anything is possible and each soundscape is unique, unrehearsed and a Devine offering of channelled music.
Claire Hickson / Poetry
Claire is a meditation guide, yoga teacher and soulful poet, author of In Light, a guided 7 step journey home to your essence. Teaching soulful yoga classes and Sacred Circles around Oxfordshire, she has a passion for holding nurturing, truthful and wise spaces.
You'll find her in the book tent all weekend selling signed copies of 'In Light', and welcoming you into the Heal tent on Sunday morning for a soul soothing, guided group meditation with stirring spoken word weaved in to touch your heart. Experience her 'FLOW' writing technique to heal through writing and connect with what matters most...your heart.
James Kinghorn / Wind and the Trees
Wind and the Trees (18+)
An exploration into the self, allowing you to connect to your own energy, an incredible experience for individuals and couples in a safe, fully clothed environment.
Based on the premise that we must gain awareness of our true selves before we can be in union with others. James will guide you through some of the history behind tantra, you will learn where tantra came from, its role in the modern day, and cover topics such as boundaries, consent, desires, and fears. This will flow into a light taster of different western / neo-tantric practices that will enable you to connect with yourself through some dynamic games with movement, breath, light touch, conscious connection, an eye-gazing meditation, and finishing off with a sharing circle. This workshop is great for anyone who is curious about tantra and wants to explore in a safe, fully-clothed environment. This is an all-inclusive event. You are encouraged to be true to yourself and identify as you see fit. All ages, genders, orientations, races, religions, or any expressions of yourself are welcome.
As there is touch involved, this is an adult-only workshop.
Come and explore the winds of change within yourself!