About this Event
Join us for an immersive ladies only Retreat. The session includes a:
- Slow-Flow Yoga Session
- Reflective Writing Workshop
- Nourishing light meal & good company
Ticket fee: £40
A few concession tickets will be made available for those who are unwaged/ on low income. Please get in touch if you cannot afford the full fee.
7% of proceeds will be donated to refugees in Lebanon.
The invitation
Somewhere between the noise and the doing, we lose ourselves. We feel it as overwhelm and often as a quiet sense of disconnect.
This is an invitation to return to the centre. Breathe in. Arrive in the body.
Write from that centre; where stillness cultivates, and the noise begins to quiet, so you can listen closely and tend with softness.
We invite you to return to your centre, through a grounding yoga session and a reflective writing practice designed to help you slow down and reconnect.
Yoga, Breath & Meditation
We’ll begin with gentle breathwork to help you arrive and settle, followed by a slow-flow, mindful yoga flow. The session will close with a guided meditation, supporting you to feel grounded and reconnect with your natural state. This is a space to pause, soften, and reconnect—cultivating a sense of balance across mind, body, and soul, with tools you can carry into your everyday life.
Reflective Writing Workshop
Following a short break, we will do a gentle writing workshop designed to guide you back to yourself—to what feels true, steady, and heart-felt beneath the noise of everyday life. Through guided prompts and quiet reflection, we use writing as a way to reconnect with your inner voice, allowing thoughts and feelings to surface without pressure or expectation.
This is a soft, accessible space where you are invited to come exactly as you are—no writing experience needed. Rooted in care and compassion, the workshop offers a moment to slow down, listen inwardly, and return to a sense of clarity, presence, and self-connection.
Your Hosts
Rawnak Jassm - Yoga Instructor
A Yoga Alliance certified Instructor, trained at Ashtari Yoga School, Indonesia, with 16 years of personal practice. She is trained in movement, breathing and meditation practice and is a specialist in community participation and inclusion.
She has a passion for creating inclusive spaces for women and linking up her practice with spirituality, mysticism, justice and nature.
Maryam Alsaeid - Writing Facilitator
A Poet and Pharmacist based in the UK. She holds an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Manchester Metropolitan University, where she studied under leading contemporary poets. Her work has been published in journals including Acumen, Poetry Ireland Review, Eche, and others, with a debut collection forthcoming.
Alongside her writing, Maryam creates and facilitates workshops for women that explore writing as a tool for healing, self-expression, and emotional depth—offering gentle, reflective spaces to reconnect with the self through language.
*Note on Venue Access: situated on the 3rd floor of the historic John Swift Building. It is an authentic industrial loft space which is reached by stairs only. We consider those three flights a complimentary warm-up before you even step onto the mat.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Yoga Republic MCR, 19 Mason Street, Manchester, United Kingdom
GBP 40.00
