An uplifting, spacious and healing spring retreat supporting connection
to ourSelves, each other, to Spirit, the Earth and our Ancestors.

During this weekend retreat, we’ll be enjoying:

• Walking in the surrounding fells, enjoying the unique environment of the Lake District​
  
• Unscheduled time to relax and connect with yourself, with the land and with others
• Daily group swimming opportunities in Tarn Hows (20 mins walk away)
• Ceremonial Cacao
• Gong Bath: melt into the vibration of Sound

Your Investment

Cancellations made more than 3 months before the retreat (15th February) – – Full refund less 5% admin fee
Cancellations made between 15th February and 1st April – – Refund less £150 (unless we can fill your place from a waiting list)
Cancellations made between 1st April and the retreat (15th May) – – No refunds

Testimonials

“It is a little difficult to put into words the gratitude I feel for the space you just held for me and others this weekend. I find it hard to describe it any better than sacred. The company, the food, the accommodation, the beauty of the area, the timetable. So perfect. I loved the dancing, chanting, walking, connecting, the variety of the Yoga, the sharing time, the meditation. The list goes on. I have felt rather like a vulnerable open wound these last few years and I cannot express how much both of you, The Yoga Hall, the Red Tent and this retreat have helped me to heal.”

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“Such an honour and a gift to be here with you beautiful goddesses. Thank you both so very much! Wishing you a thousand blessings and more on all you do, all you are and all you send out into the world and beyond! So much love and gratitude.”

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A poem dedicated to Lou and Laura in honour of their “Open to Light” yoga retreat, Florence House, 17-19 Sept 2021

Retreat, I said, to my family.
I’m going away, for a few days, to retreat, I said.
And I did.

Welcome, they said.  Welcome to time for you,
To retreat from your daily life and jobs and rushing and people and pets
and pushing and pulling and noise and demands from the outside world.
Welcome they said.  And I was.

Swim, she said. Let’s swim.
Let’s go to the ocean and swim.
Let the waves wash away the aches and the pains
and feel the water of life lift you up with the waves.
Watch the fish jumping and the seagulls feast with pleasure.
And I swam. And it felt good.
And I felt the water of life lift me up.

Dance, she said. Let’s dance.
Let’s dance to the Four Directions.
Back, forth, right, left.
North, East, South, West.
Dance, she said. And we did. And it felt good.
And we danced to the Four Directions.

Lean in, she said, lean in.
Lean in to the floor, supporting your back.
Lean in to the ground holding your bones.
Lean in to Mother Earth below you.
And I leaned in.
And the tears came, and the tears went.
And the body shook, and my heart ached.
And I let go of somethings I no longer needed to hold in my body.
Things I no longer needed to hold on my own.
I leaned in.  And I let go.

Rest now, she said. Rest, dear woman.
Rest in the arms of love.
Here’s a blanket to wrap yourself in.
And I did, I rested.
And I was bone tired, and it felt good to feel the tiredness, and I shed some tiredness deep within.
And I felt better for resting.

Be fed, she said. Be fed.
Take, eat, this nourishing food, while it’s hot.
Go sit quietly, eat and digest in peace.
And when you’re finished I will bring you cake. And she did.
And I ate. I ate cake.
And I felt full and warm and nourished and fed.
And it felt good to be fed by another.

Feast, she said. Let’s feast.
Let’s Feast on the love and the holding,
the safety, the space to retreat and to rest and be fed.
Feast on the leaning in, being wrapped in a blanket of love.
Lean in, she said. And I did.

And I felt loved, and safe, and nourished, and held, and fed, and rested.
And it felt good to retreat.
And it felt good to be me.

Open to light, they said.
And we did.

With much love to you all, wherever you are on your journey, may you find some more space to retreat.
Camilla x

Retreat Facilitators

Laura and Lou have been working together since 2006 and in 2011 started to team teach a monthly Restorative Yoga workshop. In January 2014 they jumped in a car and sped to their first ever Red Tent, held by the women of Brighton! Inspired and enthused, they co-founded Red Tent St Albans a month later. Soon after that they formed a small ‘Guardians’ circle to support the Red Tent space and have been sitting in Women’s circles ever since.

Laura Hinde

Laura was fortunate to find her teacher, Faustomaria Dorelli, in 1992. After 3 years of increasingly immersive classes with him at his Innergy Yoga Centre in West London (Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga and Bhakti Yoga in the form on Kirtan Chanting), he encouraged her to take the Yoga Teacher Training Course at the Sivananda Yoga Headquarters in Canada, which she completed in 1995. She remained living on the Sivananda ashrams for a year, teaching in New York State, New York City and on Paradise Island in the Bahamas, followed by a year at the Ann Wigmore Institute in Puerto Rico where she continued to teach Hatha Yoga and learn about Living Foods.

Returning to the UK in 1998 she continued to teach full time at Fausto’s Innergy Yoga centre, training and immersion in Hatha, Raja and Bhakti Yoga. Encouraged by Fausto, she began teaching women Pregnancy Yoga, first learning “on the job” with the women she taught and later training with Janet Balaskas at the The Active Birth Centre.

In 2002 she married and moved to St Albans, founding The Yoga Hall with her husband and fellow Yoga teacher, Finlay Hinde. The birth of their children in 2004 and 2008 motivated a whole new exploration of specialist women’s teachings, training with Birthlight (Uma Dinsmore-Tuli and Francoise Feldman) and Peter Walker (Developmental Baby Massage), as well as a post-natal apprenticeship with The Active Birth Centre.

Inspired by the spiritual depth of Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa‘s teaching, she travelled back to New York City in 2013 to undertake the Khalsa Way Pre-Natal Yoga training. This was where she experienced Kundalini Yoga for the first time and was deeply moved by the experience. It was particularly the quality of the women’s teachings that motivated her to a daily practice of Kundalini Yoga, and to begin exploring Kundalini Yoga more intensely.

In 2015 she took the Women in Power initiation.

In 2016 she completed her Kundalini Level 1 teacher training course at Amrit Nam Sarovar in the French Alps, From there and she continued into Level 2, a 3-year undertaking comprising 7 courses, completing in 2019;
Journey of Life Dynamics: Kriya and Ayurveda, Journey into the Mind: Trance and Transcend, Journey into Listening: From Blah Blah to Wah!, Journey into Sacred Geometry: The Language of Signs, Symbols and Numbers, Journey into Tantra: Shiva/Shakti Awaken!, Journey of the Soul: From Lineage to Destiny, and Journey into the Beyond: The Spiritual Warrior​.

Laura has completed The Path of Light, The Path of Love, and The Path of Mystery three levels of the self-mastery course The Masters’ Way, created by In’Easa mabu Ishtar working with the Ascended Masters of Light. This year she is taking The Path of The One Heart and The Harmonisers courses with the same teachers.