Gentle yoga in The Beacon Studio suitable for all Mondays and Wednesdays 18:30 - 19:45pm
75 mins Gentle Hatha Yoga with Donna at The Beacon studio, Llandefaelog Fach, Brecon LD3 9PS, suitable for beginners, those wanting a gentle introduction to yoga, or a gentle stretch, strengthen and relaxation. Chair alternatives are provided for those not able to access the floor. Class suitable for beginners and for pregnant women post 16 weeks.
Purchase single class ticket for £10
Residential Womb Healing Training - Womb Wrapping, Yoni Steaming and Sacred Anointing
New for 2026!
Sanctuary of Sophia are delighted to announce our first Residential Womb Healing Training at the beautiful Beacon Retreat Centre in Brecon, Wales.
Join us for a deeply immersive 3-day training in Womb Wrapping, Yoni Steaming and Sacred Anointing – practices from the Temple of the Feminine Arts that support women through life’s transitions with ceremony, healing and sacred skill.
Dates
Friday 30th January – Sunday 1st February 2026
Venue
Beacon Retreat Centre, Llandefaelog Fach, Brecon, LD3 9PS, Wales
Facilitated by Accredited Associate Teacher Chloe
Reiki Level I Attunement
Donna is a Reiki Master, initiated by her teacher Diana Savil.
A Reiki level I attunement is a process where a Reiki master initiates a student into the first level of Reiki, opening them to the flow of Reiki energy. This process involves a series of attunements designed to connect the student with the Reiki energy and raise their vibration. In Reiki I, the focus is on self-healing and learning how to channel Reiki for personal use.
Monthly Women's Circle
Come and sit in community and sisterhood and revive the ancient ways!
Donna will introduce a seasonal topic - perhaps the current astrology or the season of the wheel of the year - and we will draw oracle cards. Donna will lead a visualisation journey with a goddess linked to the season or moon, and there will be a sharing circle and a creative activity (materials and hot drinks and snacks are included in the ticket price).
Monthly Women's Circle
Come and sit in community and sisterhood and revive the ancient ways!
Donna will introduce a seasonal topic - perhaps the current astrology or the season of the wheel of the year - and we will draw oracle cards. Donna will lead a visualisation journey with a goddess linked to the season or moon, and there will be a sharing circle and a creative activity (materials and hot drinks and snacks are included in the ticket price).
13 moon (Spring Equinox 2026 to Spring Equinox 2027) Magdalene Myrrhophore Mysteries foundation course (Online)
A 13 week journey into the myrrhophore oil bearer mysteries as carried by Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha. The course is hosted by Donna, an Avalon Rose Priestess, womb shaman and a certified aromatherapist. This course weaves together Donna’s aromatherapy qualification and all the subsequent deep dives into the Rose and Myrrhophore lineages, and brings you a beautiful journey into the sacred oils and their lineage carriers as master teachers, and prepares you to join the ancient lineage of oil bearers.
Embody the Myrrophore Priestess 2026 - 2027
Beginning Ostara 2025 - a full wheel of the year journey to embody the myrrhophore priestess, working with over 20 oils and covering the full spectrum of priestess arts.
Both in person and online options are available.
Monthly Women's Circle
Come and sit in community and sisterhood and revive the ancient ways!
Donna will introduce a seasonal topic - perhaps the current astrology or the season of the wheel of the year - and we will draw oracle cards. Donna will lead a visualisation journey with a goddess linked to the season or moon, and there will be a sharing circle and a creative activity (materials and hot drinks and snacks are included in the ticket price).
Monthly Women's Circle
Come and sit in community and sisterhood and revive the ancient ways!
Donna will introduce a seasonal topic - perhaps the current astrology or the season of the wheel of the year - and we will draw oracle cards. Donna will lead a visualisation journey with a goddess linked to the season or moon, and there will be a sharing circle and a creative activity (materials and hot drinks and snacks are included in the ticket price).
‘The Laurel Becomes Green Again’: Magdalene and Cathar Pilgrimage 2026
After many personal pilgrimages in the steps of Mary Magdalene and her ministry in southern France, I’m very happy to announce that I will be leading a pilgrimage to the Magdalene and Cathar sites in 2026.
We plan to visit all the famous sites connected with Mary Magdalene and the Cathars through both Occitania and Provence including Rennes le Chateau, Saintes-Maries -de-la-Mer, Sainte Baume and Montsegur.
I am a fluent French speaker, having lived in France myself. I have over 7 years’ experience of working with Mary Magdalene and studying Her mysteries in this region of France which I will be sharing through ritual, creativity, sharing and ceremony in the landscape, to facilitate everyone to come into their own gnosis of the many truths of Her and the Cathars, the lineage carriers of her ministry.
Vezelay Solstice Pilgrimage 2026
Come for the weekend, or as an extension to my Magdalene and Cathar pilgrimage in southern France - come with me to French Avallon to experience this beautiful site of Bronze Age healing, Templar initiations, and sacred Magdalene relics.
I am a fluent French speaker, having lived in France myself. I have over 7 years’ experience of working with Mary Magdalene and studying Her mysteries in this region of France which we will be sharing through ritual, creativity, sharing and ceremony in the landscape, to facilitate everyone to come into their own gnosis of the many truths of Her and the Cathars, the lineage carriers of her ministry.
Provisional itinerary and costs are available, and these will be confirmed by end Sept 2025. I can’t wait to share these amazingly beautiful and sacred sites and the pure love and wisdom of Mary Magdalene that flows through them.
Encounter with the Goddess in the Welsh Landscape: Women's Sacred Movement and Healing Retreat in Brecon Beacons with Sophia Blanton and Donna Gerrard
Sophia and Donna invite you to a third nourishing women’s weekend that weaves goddess embodiment work with local lore, story-telling, land-walking, and ceremony. Come join us and go deep within yourself and the landscape to embody your inner Goddess!
Goddesses of Land and Lake - Mid Wales Soul Pilgrimage
Come journey with myself and my soul sister Sophia Blanton as we immerse in the land and waters of my home, mid Wales.
Goddesses of Land and Lake - Avebury Soul Pilgrimage
Come journey with myself and my soul sister Sophia Blanton as we immerse in the land and Neolithic ceremonial landscape of our ancestors and my soul home of Avebury, Wiltshire, England.
Priestess of Sulis Water Healing Ceremony at Cross Bath in Aquae Sulis (Bath)
The city of Bath, or Aquae Sulis ‘The Waters of Sulis’ as the Romans knew her, is an ancient power place of the Britanno-Celtic Goddess Sul or Sulis, dragon mother, she whose breath heats the water as it emerges from the earth here. She was syncretised by the Romans with their goddess Minerva, and worshipped in a huge bathing and temple complex in the city. The Thermae Bath Spa is a beautiful modern spa complex that takes the hot water from the natural springs and routes them to a stunning rooftop pool and other beautiful steam baths and pools in the complex. Adjacent to the main Thermae spa building is a small Georgian era building called the Cross Bath, which can be hired for exclusive use. Now the Cross Bath is believed to be one of the most ancient, pre-Roman sites of goddess worship here.
Join me for a beautiful healing ceremony in the naturally heated waters of the goddess Sulis in Bath on 23rd July 2026, with a lunch buffet included
Spirit of Kernow - Cornwall Soul Pilgrimage
Come journey with myself and my soul sister Sophia Blanton as we immerse in the land, coastline and monuments of our ancestors as we are transformed in pilgrimage, land-walking and ceremony by the magical land of Kernow (Cornwall).
In the House of Morgan Le Fay: Women’s Healing Samhain / Calan Gaeaf Retreat
The season of Samhain / Halloween / Calan Gaeaf is the time when our ancestors would gather to mark the completion of the old year, and welcoming of the new. It’s a time when the veils are thin between the worlds of the living and that of the ancestors and it is a time which is rich in ancestral support for our healing journeys.
Morgan Le Fay called me to this place, so in turn I call you to her to gather as a tribe of sisters and call in Morgan Le Fay and her healing skills, call on the ancestors and the spirits of the plants and the land, as we dive deep into the elements and into the healing powers of herbs and essential oils to support our own healing journeys.
Monthly Women's Circle
Come and sit in community and sisterhood and revive the ancient ways!
Donna will introduce a seasonal topic - perhaps the current astrology or the season of the wheel of the year - and we will draw oracle cards. Donna will lead a visualisation journey with a goddess linked to the season or moon, and there will be a sharing circle and a creative activity (materials and hot drinks and snacks are included in the ticket price).
13 week (Samhain 2025 to Imbolc 2026) Magdalene Myrrhophore Mysteries online course
A 13 week journey into the myrrhophore oil bearer mysteries as carried by Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha. The course is hosted by Donna, an Avalon Rose Priestess, womb shaman and a certified aromatherapist. This course weaves together Donna’s aromatherapy qualification and all the subsequent deep dives into the Rose and Myrrhophore lineages, and brings you a beautiful journey into the sacred oils and their lineage carriers as master teachers, and prepares you to join the ancient lineage of oil bearers.
Monthly Women's Circle
Come and sit in community and sisterhood and revive the ancient ways!
Donna will introduce a seasonal topic - perhaps the current astrology or the season of the wheel of the year - and we will draw oracle cards. Donna will lead a visualisation journey with a goddess linked to the season or moon, and there will be a sharing circle and a creative activity (materials and hot drinks and snacks are included in the ticket price).
Priestess of Sulis Water Healing Ceremony at Cross Bath in Aquae Sulis (Bath)
The city of Bath, or Aquae Sulis ‘The Waters of Sulis’ as the Romans knew her, is an ancient power place of the Britanno-Celtic Goddess Sul or Sulis, dragon mother, she whose breath heats the water as it emerges from the earth here. She was syncretised by the Romans with their goddess Minerva, and worshipped in a huge bathing and temple complex in the city. The Thermae Bath Spa is a beautiful modern spa complex that takes the hot water from the natural springs and routes them to a stunning rooftop pool and other beautiful steam baths and pools in the complex. Adjacent to the main Thermae spa building is a small Georgian era building called the Cross Bath, which can be hired for exclusive use. Now the Cross Bath is believed to be one of the most ancient, pre-Roman sites of goddess worship here.
Join me for a beautiful healing ceremony in the naturally heated waters of the goddess Sulis in Bath on 23rd July 2025, with a lunch buffet included
Encounter with the Goddess in the Welsh Landscape: Women's Sacred Movement and Healing Retreat in Brecon Beacons with Sophia Blanton and Donna Gerrard
Sophia and Donna invite you to a second nourishing women’s weekend that weaves goddess embodiment work with local lore, story-telling, land-walking, and ceremony, this time journeying with Rhiannon and Branwen. Come join us and go deep within yourself and the landscape to embody your inner Lover Goddess!
Full moon vinyasa yoga and cacao ceremony
This year, I’m going to start a roughly monthly vinyasa yoga class (more energetic, flowing sequences, themed and/or building towards more challenging poses), on Saturday morning close to the full moon.
In the afternoon, we will follow with a cacao ceremony.
You’re welcome to join either the yoga or the cacao ceremony, or both.
Dark moon candlelit restorative (90 mins)
Following the successful trial of the candlelit restorative Christmas class on Dec 23rd, I’m going to do roughly monthly classes like this on the Friday closest to the new moon:
We’ll end with oracle card draws for the coming moon cycle, teas and snacks
November Cacao Ceremony
Join Donna, a certified Cacaoista (cacao ceremonialist) for a beautiful plant medicine ceremony, as the Wheel of the Year is in the season of Samhain / Calan Gaeaf, the time that was the New Year for our ancestors - a time to reflect on the year that has gone and reflect on what we want to cultivate in the cauldron that is the dark half of the year..
We will draw oracle cards, and then drink a ceremonial dose (42g per person) of lovingly prepared ceremonial cacao, grown by fairly traded, 100% organic and GMO free, small family businesses in South America. Donna will then lead you on a shamanic journey with the plant medicine and we will end with a closing circle.
13 week (Samhain 2024 to Imbolc 2025) Magdalene Myrrhophore Mysteries online course
A 13 week journey into the myrrhophore oil bearer mysteries as carried by Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha. The course is hosted by Donna, an Avalon Rose Priestess, womb shaman and a certified aromatherapist. This course weaves together Donna’s aromatherapy qualification and all the subsequent deep dives into the Rose and Myrrhophore lineages, and brings you a beautiful journey into the sacred oils and their lineage carriers as master teachers, and prepares you to join the ancient lineage of oil bearers.
September Cacao Ceremony
Join Donna, a certified Cacaoista (cacao ceremonialist) for a beautiful plant medicine ceremony, as the Wheel of the Year turns to Autumn Equinox, the powerful time of energetic balance between the light and the dark - a time to evaluate where we can celebrate the beauty in our lives, and gently release that which is no longer of service to us. We will draw oracle cards, and then drink a ceremonial dose (42g per person) of lovingly prepared ceremonial cacao, grown by fairly traded, 100% organic and GMO free, small family businesses in South America. Donna will then lead you on a shamanic journey with the plant medicine and we will end with a closing circle.
Priestess of Sulis Water Healing Ceremony at Cross Bath in Aquae Sulis (Bath)
The city of Bath, or Aquae Sulis ‘The Waters of Sulis’ as the Romans knew her, is an ancient power place of the Britanno-Celtic Goddess Sul or Sulis, dragon mother, she whose breath heats the water as it emerges from the earth here. She was syncretised by the Romans with their goddess Minerva, and worshipped in a huge bathing and temple complex in the city. The Thermae Bath Spa is a beautiful modern spa complex that takes the hot water from the natural springs and routes them to a stunning rooftop pool and other beautiful steam baths and pools in the complex. Adjacent to the main Thermae spa building is a small Georgian era building called the Cross Bath, which can be hired for exclusive use. Now the Cross Bath is believed to be one of the most ancient, pre-Roman sites of goddess worship here.
Join me for a beautiful healing ceremony in the naturally heated waters of the goddess Sulis in Bath on 24th July 2024., with a lunch buffet included
July Cacao Ceremony
Join Donna, a certified Cacaoista (cacao ceremonialist) for a beautiful plant medicine ceremony. We will draw oracle cards, and then drink a ceremonial dose (42g per person) of lovingly prepared ceremonial cacao, grown by fairly traded, 100% organic and GMO free, small family businesses in South America. Donna will then lead you on a shamanic journey with the plant medicine and we will end with a closing circle.
13 week (Beltane to Lammas) Magdalene Myrrophore Mysteries online course
A 13 week journey into the myrrophore oil bearer mysteries as carried by Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha. The course is hosted by Donna, an Avalon Rose Priestess, womb shaman and a certified aromatherapist. This course weaves together Donna’s aromatherapy qualification and all the subsequent deep dives into the Rose and Myrrophore lineages, and brings you a beautiful journey into the sacred oils and their lineage carriers as master teachers, and prepares you to join the ancient lineage of oil bearers.
13 week (Samhain to Imbolc) Magdalene Myrrophore Mysteries online course
A 13 week journey into the myrrophore oil bearer mysteries as carried by Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha. The course is hosted by Donna, an Avalon Rose Priestess, womb shaman and a certified aromatherapist. This course weaves together Donna’s aromatherapy qualification and all the subsequent deep dives into the Rose and Myrrophore lineages, and brings you a beautiful journey into the sacred oils and their lineage carriers as master teachers, and prepares you to join the ancient lineage of oil bearers.
10 weeks of Yoga and Self-Care Practices with the Sri Vidya Wisdom Goddesses
Join Donna online for 10 weeks online yoga and self-case practices with the ten tantric Sri Vidya (‘Wisdom’) goddesses.
This course is an accessible set of weekly 2 hour practices, hosted over Zoom, and supplemented with PDF documents and audio recordings. The practices will include yoga asana (posture work), pranayama (breath work), visualisation journeys, yoga nidra (yogic sleep/relaxation) and ayurveda (traditional Indian ‘life knowledge’).
Goddess Mandala Online Cauldron (Lammas Season)
Donna invites you to the second of our Wheel of the Year online ritual, sister sharing and creativity circles. This event will be celebrating the turn of the wheel to Lammas season, or First Harvest, associated with the archetype of the Mother goddess, gratitude and plenty.Come join us for story-telling, visualisation journeying, creativity and nourishing ritual.
The recording of the call will be available to all purchasers to listen back and enjoy indefinitely afterwards.
Rest and Recharge: The Beacon Signature Weekend Retreat
Donna and Jeremy offer you a warm welcome to our beautiful, magical home a few miles outside of Aberhonddu (Brecon, Powys, Wales, UK) for a restful weekend of yoga, walks in nature and delicious food, all within the stunning and deeply nourishing landscape of the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park.
Encounter with the Goddess in the Welsh Landscape: Women's Dance and Healing Retreat in Brecon Beacons with Sophia Blanton and Donna Gerrard
Sophia and Donna invite you to join them for a nourishing women’s weekend that weaves goddess embodiment work with local lore, story-telling, land-walking, and ceremony. Come join us and go deep within yourself and the landscape to embody your Inner Wild Huntress and Queen!
Goddess Mandala Online Cauldron (Beltane to Litha)
Donna invites you to the first of our Wheel of the Year online ritual, sister sharing and creativity circles. This first event will be celebrating the turn of the wheel from the Beltane season (May Day in modern parlance) , associated with the archetype of the Lover goddess, to the peaking of the light at Litha (Summer Solstice), which is associated (on the Avalonian wheel) with the element of water.
The archtetype of the Lover, and the element of Water align beautifully with the mythos of Venus-Aphrodite, so for this first online event we will be stirring Self Love with the Goddess Venus-Aphrodite into the cauldron, featuring story-telling, visualisation journeying, creativity and nourishing ritual.
A ritual box with items for your altar and to collectively create during the evening is available for purchase ahead of the event.
Rhiannon Rides : Workshop with Donna at Leicester Beltane Witch Fest
Join Donna for workshop at Leicester Beltane Witch Fest to explore, through storytelling, visualisation journey and a little gentle somatic movement suitable for all, meeting the goddess Rhiannon in her Lover archetype, welcoming home parts of ourselves that we may have exiled and finding our sovereignty!
Priestess of Sulis: Water Connection Ceremony at Cross Bath
Priestess of Sulis: Water Connection Ceremony at Cross Bath with Donna Gerrard
Join me for an event in Bath on 1st Sept 2022
The city of Bath, or Aquae Sulis ‘The Waters of Sulis’ as the Romans knew her, is an ancient power place of the Britanno-Celtic Goddess Sul or Sulis, dragon mother, she whose breath heats the water as it emerges from the earth here. She was syncretised by the Romans with their goddess Minerva, and worshipped in a huge bathing and temple complex in the city.
The Thermae Bath Spa is a beautiful modern spa complex that takes the hot water from the natural springs and routes them to a stunning rooftop pool and other beautiful steam baths and pools in the complex. Adjacent to the main Thermae spa building is a small Georgian era building called the Cross Bath, which can be hired for exclusive use. Now the Cross Bath is believed to be one of the most ancient, pre-Roman sites of goddess worship here, and in pathworking visualisation journeys, I’ve found myself drawn to ancient Aquae Sulis again and again. I created the poem below inspired by the images that I’ve seen in those visualisation journeys.
Are you called to birth something new?
Or perhaps you’d like to pray for the waters of the earth?
Join me for a powerful group ceremony at the Cross Bath.
You’ll need to bring a bathing suit. There are changing facilities, and you’ll be provided with a towel, bathrobe and slippers. Lunch at the Cross Bath is included. Vegan and gluten-free options can be provided on request.
The exchange will be £88 per person for the ceremony plus lunch.
For those who wish to join us, we can also tour the Roman Baths museum afterwards to see the remains of the huge ancient temple site. Entry tickets to the Roman Baths museum complex are not included in the Cross Bath ceremony exchange - they cost about £25 each.
Please contact Donna at donna@donnagerrard.com with any questions and we can get on a free consultation call via Zoom or FB Messenger.
Dancing Between the Veils: A Samhain / Halloween Retreat
Come be in community with us around the hearth fire to stare into the fire, tell stories, reflect on the year that is past, move our bodies, eat nourishing food and stir into the cauldron the rich nurturing mixture of wishes for your life and the way forward for the world.
Goddess Mandala Yoga Sussex Retreat with Donna Gerrard and friends At Tilton House, near Lewes, East Sussex
Donna is excited to invite 12 guests to join her for a weekend of her unique blend of Yoga and indigenous spirituality, inspired by her background as an ancestral witch and Priestess of the goddesses Brigid and Sulis, and of the Rose lineage, combined with nourishment for your mind and body. Donna leads healing and empowering retreats and immersions for women to connect with their intuition and their core power and passion, through practices of yoga, divination, mantra, music and movement. This residential immersion allows the chance to weave the threads of Yoga and the ancient spiritual traditions of the lands of Britannia, together to offer a deep and fresh perspectives on ourselves, our lives and our spiritual practice.
PRICES:-
£385 EARLY BIRD – Book before May 2020, £400 if booked after – based on sharing a twin bedded room.
£485 EARLY BIRD – Book before May 2020, £500 if booked after – based on a single private room (only 2 available)
NOTE: One TRIPLE room is on offer at a reduced rate of £15 less per person
SPECIAL POST-LOCKDOWN DISCOUNT: £350 per head
DEPOSIT of £150 (non-refundable) is required to reserve your place. The remainder is to be paid one month before the event.
PLACES STRICTLY LIMITED TO 12
PRICES INCLUDE
All yoga focus sessions as detailed in the schedule
Two nights of accommodation in stunning high quality rooms with spectacular views.
Six meals in total – 2 dinners, 2 lunches and 2 breakfasts (dietary focus shown below)
Use of the Cedar Wood Sauna (max 6 people at a time)
SCHEDULE
Friday
Arriving from 3 pm allowing ample time to group and settle. 5 pm Goddess Mandala Yoga class based on grounding, welcoming and settling, welcoming you to home to goddesses of Earth beneath and within. 7 pm dinner (see below for dietary focus) 8.30 pm candle lit Yoga Nidra will begin a deep process of rest and descent into a deliciously juicy weekend, and set you up for a great night’s sleep.
Saturday
7 am – Morning ritual, breathwork and meditation. 8 – 9 am Breakfast. 10am – 12 pm –Goddesses of Fire -Invigorating yoga and ritual to awaken the body and connect with the five fires that illuminate us and inspire. 12.30pm lunch – 1.30pm Post lunch divination workshop using cards and the elements. Afternoon - guided walk and storytelling to the Long Man of Wilmington (weather depending) – or time to enjoy a Cedar Wood Sauna (included in price) – or book a massage in the beautiful treatment room (priced separately – pre booking required). 7pm dinner – 8..30 pm candle lit evening visualisation journey
Sunday
7 am – Morning ritual, breathwork and meditation. 8 – 9am Breakfast. 10am – 12pm Goddesses of Water Yoga session – soothing and flowing yoga to heal and celebrate our circle . 12.30pm lunch. 1.30pm shared reflection and closing circle. 3pm refreshment and snack available as we prepare for our goodbyes.
FOOD
The chefs at Tilton House offer first class cuisine using seasonal vegetables and catering possibilities for any dietary requirements. Over this weekend detoxifying meals will be vegetarian and/or vegan where required.
Contact: donna@donnagerrard.com +447798881064
Instagram @firehawkyogini @goddesscircles
Butterfly, Spread Your Wings! Women’s Yoga and Wild Soul Retreat
Do you ever feel like there's a huge gap between the way you're living now, and the life of your dreams? Come and get WILD with us in deep Sussex and free your wild soul with practices of yoga, meditation and much more!
The Love Journey
The Love Journey continues the Goddess Mandala Yoga series of workshops. In this second workshop, we will work with the energies of Beltane, the May festival, the energies of the Goddess as Lover.
5 Day Post-Christmas Cleanse + Yoga
Let’s begin 2019 with a short seasonal health cleanse post the festive season! During this online event, you’ll learn a super simple way of using natural remedies, a tongue scraper and an Indian approach to healthcare.
Winter Solstice & Full Moon Guided Meditation and Celebration
Free online meditation and ritual to celebrate all that has been achieved and integrated during the last rotation around the sun, all that can be released, and setting intentions for the coming cycle.
Shakti Sadhana (Women's Yoga and Ayurveda) Workshop
Shakti Sadhana - yoga and ayurveda practices for women to help manage imbalances, particularly in autumn (vata season). This event can also be booked as part of 300 hour Teacher Training Immersions.
Embodying the Elements at the Sacred Garden Retreat
A gorgeous, intimate boutique retreat nourishing your body, mind and spirit with delicious vegan food, twice-daily yoga practices, and pilgrimages into nature and sacred sites around Glastonbury, plus optional extra teacher training sessions.