Wellbeing Week - Free Hearts, Queer Retreat

Wellbeing Week is a series of free, small-group retreats created to offer local people time, space, and support to rest, reconnect, and feel part of something shared.

Across the week, we’re holding tailored wellbeing spaces for different parts of our community, recognising that wellbeing is not one-size-fits-all. Each retreat is designed with care, accessibility, and nervous system regulation at its core, blending gentle movement, breath, mindfulness, and sound.

This week is about prevention, connection, and collective care. Creating spaces where people can slow down, feel supported, and reconnect with themselves and each other before the natural shift into spring.

You’re welcome to join one session or attend multiple across the week.

A Queer Wellbeing Retreat

A safe, affirming space to rest and be yourself.

Brave Hearts is a welcoming retreat for LGBTQ+ community members, offering a calm and inclusive space to slow down, reconnect with the body, and feel supported.

This is a space rooted in safety, nervous system care, and gentle connection, with no pressure to share or perform.

What we’ll explore

Created with and for LGBTQ+ communities, this retreat offers a trauma-aware, inclusive space to soften, ground, and reconnect. The session blends gentle movement, guided meditation, sound bowl immersion, and group voice activation, supporting nervous system regulation and embodied expression.

Participants are invited to engage at their own pace, whether through movement, sound, stillness, or rest. Voice work is approached gently and invitationally, offering an opportunity for expression without expectation. This session centres safety, belonging, and self-connection, creating space to exhale, express, and simply be within a held and affirming environment.

Why this space exists

Queer communities experience higher levels of stress and marginalisation. Brave Hearts creates an affirming space for rest, embodiment, and collective care.

What you can expect to take away

Participants often leave feeling calmer, more settled, and quietly connected to themselves and others.

Closing the week together

Wellbeing Week gently closes on Sunday with an optional community gathering at Bay20 (W10 6JG) from 14:00 – 15:30.

All retreat attendees are warmly invited to join, and are more than welcome to bring friends and family if they wish, to spend time together, connect, and share the atmosphere. This is an informal, social gathering with conversation, laughter, and a community meal in the café.

Bringing a "Dish from Home” to share is entirely optional. This might be something you love and enjoy making, something familiar you’d happily share with others, or something new that represents you, your culture, or your story. A small offering, made or chosen with care. If you do bring food, please include a simple ingredients list so everyone can navigate dietary needs and allergies with ease.

How this has been made possible

Wellbeing Week has been made possible thanks to the generous support of .

Their funding enables Fiery Hearts CIC to offer these retreats free of charge, removing financial barriers and creating accessible, inclusive wellbeing spaces for the local community. We are deeply grateful for their commitment to supporting connection, preventative wellbeing, and opportunities for people to come together with care and intention.

🌿 About your facilitator

This session will be guided by Tafrina Du Bois.

Tafrina is a sound healing practitioner and founder of , offering trauma-aware, inclusive practices rooted in rest, resonance, and self-connection. Her work weaves sound, meditation, and voice to support nervous system regulation and emotional wellbeing. Tafrina creates deeply held spaces, particularly for LGBTQ+ communities, where participants are invited to exhale, express, and simply be.

All sessions during Wellbeing Week are offered free of charge and places are limited to keep the spaces calm, supportive, and well held.

If a session becomes fully booked, a waiting list will be in place. If you’d like to be added to the waitlist, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll be in touch if a space becomes available.

To help us prepare the space with care, we’ll send a short text message shortly before the session to confirm attendance. If your plans change and you’re no longer able to attend, we kindly ask that you cancel your ticket in advance so someone else can be offered your place.

Thank you for helping us keep these sessions accessible and supportive for everyone.

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