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A place to come as you are
You are welcome here
This is a call to the woman who feels it in her belly and bones. The one who can no longer ignore the yearning for deeper connection, sacredness, authenticity and aliveness.
You do not need to arrive polished, certain or already healed. You do not need to be endlessly positive or know the right language. You are invited to bring the life you are actually living.
Circle is a place to loosen the mask. To speak when there are words, stay quiet when there are not, and be met without being managed, fixed or hurried towards an answer.
Circle lives in our bones
An ancient remembering
Women have gathered in circles across time: to share, grieve, heal, celebrate, make meaning and remember. The form is ancient, although many of us have lost the places where it happened naturally.
In a world moving at relentless speed, where so much of life is fragmented and carried alone, circle offers something increasingly rare: presence, deep listening and the experience of being part of something larger than the self.
This is not a new-age trend. Nor is it a performance of sisterhood. A well-held circle is a living practice: one that asks for intention, integrity and a willingness to meet what is actually here.
When the container is strong enough, grief can be welcomed, rage witnessed, joy celebrated and truths that have remained silent for too long spoken aloud.
Reviving the essence of the village
A radical act of reclamation
Not power over, but power with. Not one woman at the centre, but a living web of relationship, reciprocity and responsibility.
Rooted in matriarchal values
The ground beneath us
Not power over, but power with. Not one woman at the centre, but a living web of relationship, reciprocity and responsibility.
A cosy retreat set within six acres of serene grounds.
Inside, you’ll find a snug lounge with hideaway corners and a wood-burning stove for warming up after practice.
A gentle, healing presence; a sanctuary where you can exhale, soften, and remember what it feels like to be deeply held by the natural world.
Space to breathe.
Known for its fresh, homely and creative food, much is sourced from the garden. Our retreat menu reflects what we value most, nourishing, restorative, and delicious.
Your Guides
Held by experience, relationship and care
Tanya Forgan
Circle facilitator · Ritualist · Embodiment guide
Tanya is devoted to the revival of community, ritual and the human capacity to love. For three decades, her work has taken her from humanitarian settings and community spaces into trauma-informed circle work, embodied healing and the training of women who hold others.
She is the founder of Devoted, her six-month initiation in Circle holding, and her work is shaped by grief tending, belonging, social justice and the wisdom of the body.
Rooted in Ubuntu, I am because we are, Tanya’s work is a call to reclaim rest, reverence and community as birthrights.
Sophie Jane Hardy
Business Coach · Strategist · Creative Midwife
Over the past decade Sophie’s passion has been helping women bring their callings to life through ethical, soulful, intuitive businesses that move something meaningful into the world, whilst creating a sustainable income.
She draws on her background in environmental activism and not-for-profit communications, as well as filmmaking, and growing women’s networks, including the TreeSisters’ “Million Trees” campaign and Red School’s global menstruality movement.
Her approach is rooted in nature’s cycles and seasons and somatic processes to receive body wisdom. She weaves intuitive practices working with symbols, dreams and images with strategic, tried and tested business guidance.
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12–14 February · Florence House · With Tanya Forgan & Sophie Jane Hardy