Meet Our Woodland Team
Simon North / Tree Energy
TREE ENERGY MEDICINE DANCE is a nature-based workshop designed to support nervous system overload. Its focus is on teaching grounding, movement, using trees for meditation and breathing. Participation opens people up to the healing power of trees and Earth energy. By learning simple techniques people can learn to use nature to regulate the nervous system themselves. This can help with reducing stress, anxiety, poor sleeping, emotional overwhelm and clear painful stress patterns from the body. It all takes place within beautiful and peaceful woodland and involves connection to ancient tree and listening to the Earth. Simon North is a local VortexHealing practitioner, who started work with tree energy five years ago.
Chandra Gould / Gratitude Ceremony
The Despacho Gratitude Ceremony, ~ originating from the Andean region, particularly practiced by the Quechua people of Peru, is a sacred ritual embodying gratitude, reciprocity, and connection with nature and spirits. Central to the ceremony is the creation of a despacho bundle, intricately crafted from natural materials like flowers, herbs, seeds, and symbolic items. Each element symbolizes prayers, intentions, or expressions of gratitude, making the despacho a profound manifestation of participants' deepest emotions and aspirations. The Despacho Gratitude Ceremony is a profound spiritual practice fostering connection with oneself, Earth, and the web of life. It cultivates reverence, humility, and interconnectedness, reaffirming participants' place within existence. Shamanic Fire Ceremony with Ceremonial Song - Fire is a way for humans to connect with the outdoors elements and each other, creating a community gathering.Many cultures and spiritual traditions use fire ceremonies as a sacred ritual to honor deities, ancestors, or natural elements. Fire is often seen as a symbol of purification, transformation, and divine presence. Cleansing and Purification: Fire ceremonies are often performed to cleanse negative energy, purify the environment, or release emotional burdens. Participants may offer prayers, intentions, or symbolic items to be burned, symbolizing the release of negativity and the renewal of energy. Healing and Renewal: Fire ceremonies can be used for personal healing and transformation. Participants may write down their fears, traumas, or challenges on pieces of paper and burn them as a way to let go and invite healing energies into their lives. To cleanse and a powerful releasing despacho offerings can also be added to the fire.
Claire Winter / Walk and Creative Writing
Come a walking and creative writing adventure with Claire Winter from the Creatrix Journey.
Walk and Write to ignite your creativity and write the words that need to be written. Connect with the source, nature, and creativity in our walking and creative workshop in the woodland.
If you want to deepen your nature connection and want to explore creative writing, come and join us.
In this creative writing workshop, you will discover how to start writing creatively, explore poetry and reconnect with your creative passion and uncover your inner writer. Our fantastic expert Claire Winter will combine the use of her writing and journalism, coaching, and Nordic Walking background to help you to:
Join the circle and set your creative intent
Walk and Connect with Nature
Ignite your Creativity and Connect with the Source
Explore creative writing and poetry
Get expert guidance from coach, shamanic practitioner and former journalist.
Who is this for?
If you have words that need to be written
If you want to re-ignite your creativity
If nature and its energy calls you
If you want a creative outlet to get clear on your next steps.
What to bring: Please bring a notebook and pen and something to sit on.
“Claire's workshop was just magical. A picture perfect day, the location and weather with a gentle breeze and cool woodland journal bathing experience. The dappled shade danced on the page as I wrote in full flow. A delight for the senses. Both a creative and very cathartic experience."
Let’s make words come alive.
Claire is an ICF accredited coach, former journalist and copywriter who loves being out in nature. She loves to share her love of walking and writing with people. She truly believes you can walk your way to happiness. She often spends her weekends going on long walks or paddleboarding with her family and friends. She is a regular columnist for the Female CEO magazine, an award-winning podcaster. She is on a mission to help creative entrepreneurs, and change-makers ignite their creativity and share their gifts and stories with the world.
Estella Ramos / Dance for the Ancestors
Freedom Dance For The Ancestors - Dance has been used as a ritual since the beginning of time for rites of passage, celebrations, and even death. When we dance we dance for our ancestors, each step a prayer, an honoring and remembrance. This is an invitation to dance in freedom with no particular structure, from a place deep within the heart as we come together in commUNITY.' Estella is a Visionary and creator. ✨🌱 Her career in the well-being industry over 18 years has been diverse and ever evolving. Estella is the creator of the Conscious Buddy Community & Back To The Roots Fest which is all community focused, Estella has been running Conscious dance sober events for the last 6 years, runs Conscious retreats worldwide, & has initiated as an ancestral healer and Cacao facilitator Estella then trained to DJ herself 3 years ago & Freedom Dance was born.
Siobhan Emin-Prentice / Back to the Divine Mother
A sacred space for womben to come together in the woods and reconnect to the divine mother through honouring the Sacred wisdom of the earth and within the sacral chakra. Sacred wisdom sharing from each heart and soul to another, womban to womban. Shamanic drumming, vocal expression & activation, womb healing, movement, sisterhood with an offering to the Sacred mother of Gaia.
Charmaine Fyffe/ Foraging
Poor health, use natures wealth - reconnecting with natures healing through food. Join Charmaine for walks & foraging.
Alice McGuigan/ Belong - Embodying Nature
Join Alice for a fusion of guided movement with breath, sound and free exploration, designed to connect you with the patterns of nature and your own innate wildness. Inspired by the symbols, images and archetypes of the natural world, this session blends elements of yoga, primal movement, and therapeutic practices to awaken creativity, deepen self-expression, and cultivate a sense of grounded vitality. Tap into your inner wisdom and leave feeling energised and connected—ready to flow into the rest of the festival.
In collaboration with Earth Living - a soulful, soil-full community aiming to foster belonging by connecting with the rhythms and cycles of nature, within and around us.