The retreat will be hosted by Donna and Sophia at The Beacon Retreat Centre in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales, UK, a stunning and deeply nourishing landscape.
The Beacon Retreat Centre, Brecon Beacons
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!
Watch Sophia and Donna talking about their 2023 retreat experience here:
Hearty vegan meals and accommodation in shared rooms in the beautiful house is included.
Single occupancy rooms are available at a supplement.
Alcohol with dinner is permitted but at additional cost or guests are welcome to bring their own drinks.
Your Hosts
Sophia is an Isadora Duncan Dancer and Mythic Dance Priestess. The dancing path has led her around the world to bring Isadora’s unique vision of the Dance and Dancer of the Future to diverse communities of women seeking a transformational, healing, moving path to what Isadora described as “the natural language of the soul (becoming) the movement of the body.” She has shared her work numerous times at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference, the Priestess Convocation in Crete as well as the Ashland Goddess Temple in Ashland, Oregon where she now lives.
Donna and Sophia as Medusa and The Morrigan at Glastonbury Goddess Conference 2022
Sophia and Donna invite you to:
An Embodied Immersion into Myth, Landscape & Healing Ritual Movement for Women
The ancient Mabinogion legends of the Queen Goddesses Rhiannon and Branwen reveal powerful themes of feminine sovereignty, resiliency and compassion that call to our souls today. Drawn by these ancient tales to the well of sacred memory, we will imbibe the healing power of the myths through our bodies, ritual practice and the stunning landscape of the Brecon Beacons range in Wales.
Housed at Donna's stunning, historic Beacon Retreat center in the midst of rolling green hills and forest, we will convene in a sacred Sister-Circle to renew our bodies, hearts and souls. Magical times await!
The Shape of the Weekend
FRIDAY, July 18:
- 3pm: arrivals and Welsh afternoon tea
- 5pm: Opening circle: Drum Journey with Donna to meet our two goddesses and set intentions for the weekend
- Dinner
- Sharing circle & story session with Donna
SATURDAY, July 19:
- 8 am: Gentle Goddess Yoga with Donna
- Breakfast
- 10-am 12 pm: Mytho-somatic Journey with Sophia. An evocative soundscape supports embodied ritual practice sequences to attune the body, activate coherence, and align body and soul for deeper transpersonal experience. Working somatically with the nervous system, we will awaken our synapses and establish coherency within ourselves and the group. Continuing on with Prayerformance practice, we will explore embodiment sequences to connect to the essence of the myths.
- 12-3 pm: Lunch and free time to walk the land, use hot tub or enjoy a personalised tarot/oracle reading with Donna
- 3-5 pm: Mytho-somatic Journey with Sophia. Building upon the resonance awakened in our first session, Prayerformance practice will invite us to move through our personal connections to mythic themes from the tales. Each woman will have the opportunity to express her archetypal gestures of connection to the Goddesses and be witnessed and affirmed in her embodied enactments of sovereignty and sacred union.
SATURDAY EVENING:
* Crown-Crafting
* Dinner
* Ecstatic Dance with Donna
SUNDAY, July 20:
- 8 am: Gentle Goddess Yoga with Donna
- Breakfast
- Day on the Land:
* Walking the sacred land to the breathtaking Brecon Beacon Waterfalls for a Sovereignty Ceremony & Goddess Portraiture by Sophia.
* Picnic Lunch
3 pm: Return to house
4 pm: Closing circle and ceremony
Please contact Donna at donna@donnagerrard.com with any questions and we can get on a free consultation call via Zoom or FB Messenger.