Embodied Ecology Retreat: Gift & Gratitude

The Embodied Ecology retreats provide an opportunity to explore relationship - your relationship to yourself and your own body, your relationship to others and your relationship to earth. We invite you into an exploration of connection, belonging, play, tenderness, vulnerability, curiosity, love, grief and, as the holding element to all of these, presence.

We will soak in the healing goodness and create space for the challenges that come with a return home into our feeling bodies and into relationship with that which we are: nature. We will be drawing from permaculture, ecological principles, biomimicry, biophilia and other nature based practices to tap into the restorative and regulating patterns of the natural world and our own being. We’ll meet the edge of what it truly means, this being human in an individual body, yet part of a collective, an ecosystem, and ecology itself. What is it that’s common to us all and where do we find freedom within the natural boundaries of our existence?

For the autumn retreat ‘Gift & Gratitude’ we explore the generosity of the natural world and our ability to receive the gifts we are offered. Autumn is a time for harvest and integration of what was given to us and what is already available, whether those are physical gifts of the land or lessons we have learnt, friends we have made or projects we have embarked on over the course of the year. We will engage in practices that allow us to stop and appreciate the little and big things that give us life, support, resource and capacity to be more fully here.

The week will include workshops, relational practices and a variety of somatic practices such as sound, movement, resourcing, etc. 

Joining our retreat you can expect to embark on a journey that involves sharing, enquiring, contemplating, crafting and connecting with other humans and the more-than-human. We endeavour to create space that allows you to bring all of yourself into relationship with what we are exploring.

While trauma-informed, the retreat is not a replacement for therapy and if you see it as that, please talk to us before signing up. 

Please note:

You can also register your interest in the retreat and Dre or Mich will be in touch within a week to complete registration with you.

We will initially require a deposit of £100 which becomes non-refundable by June 30th 2025. The full fee will need to be paid by August 29th 2025, a month before the start of the retreat. You can pay in instalments leading up to August 29th, in which case we recommend 4 regular payments.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Monasterino, Centre, Siena, Italy