Rest Renewal Meditation – a silent weekend space held by Emma, a senior yoga teacher, retreat guide, sound and meditation facilitator.
An Invitation – Single Rooms from £500pp
In Lower Wensleydale, as winter lays her presence across the landscape, we too gather in the winter-womb of shared silence. Together we become a quiet collective, breathing beneath the same roof, held by a common intention to discover something truthful, something useful and something beautiful for our own lives.
As the longest nights draw near, we are invited into winter’s ancient wisdom: a season not of endings, but of gestation. Wrapped in darkness, we enter our own private sacred hinterland where the outer world grows still and our private inner world has room to speak. In that spaciousness, silence becomes both refuge and companion, gently ‘be-loving and be-longing’ us back to ourselves.
Only 10 Places Available
This is a women-only single-room accommodation weekend of shared silence, deep rest held as a self-guided retreat in the peaceful countryside of North Yorkshire. Bring your private secret longing into this shared energy of sacred silence.
What you seek is seeking you – Rumi. – And then, seek No-Thing
There are moments in life when our wellbeing need is NOT another retreat following the usual shared group wellbeing rota of rituals be it circles, cards, massage and stories around fire bowls. This weekend is built around ‘no-thingness’ and the courage of remaining in some emptiness as your eyes feast on the beauty of how winter slays trees bare, sends animal and plant life into hibernation and gives us coal black starry nights. We will mirror all that is winter too.
After we have said our hellos and eaten a shared evening meal on our arrival Friday we enter into silence and observe it until it is gently lifted over lunch on Sunday.
What are we seeking? The numinous. Invite your soul to whisper, or shout as you hear its song during this liminal space/time process.
This is not a retreat built around a timetable of activities or carefully choreographed rituals. There is no expectation that you should meditate for hours, embrace practices that do not resonate with you or follow someone else’s path to wellbeing. Most retreats have followed well-known rituals and practices and a timetable but this weekend honours something much simpler through collective silence: renewal, knowing, trust, self-love. There is nowhere to be and nothing to achieve and although this is a self-guided retreat, you are not alone.
Women’s heartbeats together
There is raw power held by a gathering of women who have also chosen to pause. The deepest wisdoms are within the body and get dissipated in service of our families, work, friends, parents
This is Your Weekend
Apart from a suggested arrival time from 4pm on Friday so you can orientate before we enjoy a group mealtime there is no fixed weekend schedule apart from meal times so that our cook can serve you hot food (it is winter). There is a set departure time on Sunday. In between arrival and departure, your time is your own, you may even choose not to eat.
Undiluted YOU YOU YOU. Guilt free.
You may spend the hours sleeping, reading, writing, walking, meditating, contemplating, watching the changing light or doing very little at all. Yoga will be offered on Saturday and Sunday morning. There may be a gentle gong bath on Saturday evening. The yoga is not themed, or set within a framework of teachings, it will be purely yoga as the class downloads to be taught.
Both are offered as invitations rather than expectations.
Accommodation is only in single-occupancy rooms Freshly prepared vegetarian meals are served throughout the weekend, vegan options available (please let us know if you are a vegan). Self-serve Teas, herbal teas and coffee will always be available from rising until c.10pm in the dining room.
NB. Dietary needs must be sent by email prior to paying for any deposit to ensure our cook can accommodate (eg coeliac) and to obtain the quote for any diet needs. We consider diet needs to be those medically diagnosed and following the advice of a NHS doctor.
Other Things of Note.
Fully staffed, two resident adult hosts, one non-resident cook, your safety is important. The house has 24-hour heating.
Gardens and grounds to explore – acres and acres. Hot tub, cold plunge tub, indoor swimming pool (heated to 29c) with endless current swim machine. If you swim alone, you must sign a form declaring you swim well and understand/take full responsibility of the risks of swimming alone. Optional yoga, optional soundbath, weather-permitting a fire bowl may be lit one evening to fire-gaze.
This retreat is for women who feel called towards simplicity rather than stimulation, come as you are.
We would be honoured to welcome you.
Rates (all House rooms use any of the house’s 4 bathrooms.)
Rate includes all meals, your accommodation, professionally laundered linen, towels, bathrobe, teas,coffee, any activitiy you choose to join (yoga, sound, fire, led-walk) and hosting by two adults and one cook.
Dietary Preferences – these can be accommodated with cook’s permission and if complicated – incur a supplement. Enquire before you place any online deposit booking.
Deposits for Places must be made online on our website. Choose the date 27th October and book the deposit for the room rate you wish to take.
Balances are by BACS – you will be informed. The balance due date 30th October 2026.
Room Rates
( All in single beds) with one king bed single occupancy room (see below)
Rate 1 – A large House room with a Park View £550
Rate 2 – A small House room with a Park View £525
Rate 3 – House room -Side view East/West. £500 (one king bed side view west £535)
Rate 4 – Cottage with Super-king or King bed, en-suite bathroom facilities/tea coffee facilities £650
Terms
We advise travel insurance as all payments are non-refundable.
Deposit to secure your place – 50% of room rate
Balance – (or entire retreat fee if booked within 5 weeks)is due 5 weeks before the retreat date.
Terms: If you cannot attend please use your insurance or find an appropriate female substitute for your place. Admin fees for any transfers apply (£60.) We may have a waitlist – enquire.
NB:
Women-Only Retreat
This retreat has been thoughtfully created as a women-only space, recognising the unique experience that can arise when women gather together in silence. To maintain the purpose and integrity of the retreat, bookings are open to adult human females.