Bespoke Retreats
Slow. Land‑rooted. Human‑scaled.
An invitation to step out of ordinary time.
Bespoke retreats at the House at the Edge of the Woods are slow, land‑rooted, and human‑scaled. They offer room to step out of ordinary time, to be held by the woods, the hearth, and the steady companionship of others.
Each retreat has its own flavour — grief tending, witch‑remembering, or kitchen magic — but all share the same ground: ritual, beauty‑making, nourishment, and a deep bow to the living world.
There is wholesome, organic food — homemade and often home grown. There is a wood‑fired sauna, an ancient woodland, and a beautiful cottage on the South Downs.
Grief Retreats
Held at the House at the Edge of the Woods and in the ancient woodland I steward. A place to grieve in company, to rest, to make beauty, and to remember what holds you. A place to be well fed with simple home-grown food. Wood-fired sauna. Walks on the South Downs. Rituals and ceremonies shaped by the land and by what you bring.
Available as 1:1 retreats or for small groups (maximum 3 people).
Immersive, spacious, communal.
Waking up the Witch
A retreat for women who feel the quiet tug of their intuition, magic, and bone memory. Waking Up the Witch is a ritual-rich, land-rooted gathering that weaves story, spell-making, ancestral tending, ceremony, and the wisdom of the body. A remembering of old ways and a reclaiming of your witching self — grounded, soulful, and connected to place.
Intuition, magic, and bone memory.
Rest & Repair
A retreat for deep restoration and remembering how to stop.
Rest and Repair is an invitation to step out of the grind of urgency and into a slower, kinder rhythm - one shaped by land, body, and breath rather than demand.
Held at the House at the Edge of the Woods and in the ancient woodland it rests beside, this retreat offers time to lay down what has been carried for too long, and to let rest become something more than collapse at the end of exhaustion.
Retreat Venue & Accommodation
The House at the Edge of the Woods is a beautiful, welcoming cottage set within the South Downs National Park, where the nights are dark and the stars still visible. It is a place shaped by quiet, care, and long attention.
The surrounding food forest garden is rich with life: over sixty fruit and nut trees, alongside berries, vegetables, cultivated fungi, and a wide range of edible and medicinal herbs. Much of what grows here finds its way into the kitchen and onto the table.
The wood-fired sauna is heated using wood gathered from the surrounding woodland and chopped by Emma and her coppicing companions — part of the everyday rhythm of tending and reciprocity that shapes life here.
A ten-minute walk down the lane and across the fields leads into eleven acres of ancient woodland, lovingly stewarded by Emma and a small community of coppicers, craftspeople, and tree lovers. The woodland is not a backdrop, but a living presence within the retreat: a place for walking, resting, listening, and being met by something older and slower than ourselves.
This home, shaped by seasons, ritual, and slow living, is a companion in the work — it softens, holds, and reveals.
Food and Nourishment:
Meals are homemade, organic, and often home grown or foraged — broths, herbs, slow stews, fresh bread, garden greens. The kitchen is at the heart of all our retreats: full of fermenting jars, dried herbs and kitchen witchery.
Where you will sleep:
Accommodation is shared across two beautiful room within The House at the Edge of the Woods:
One double room
One king room, available to a single person or a couple
Getting here:
We warmly encourage participants to travel by public transport where possible.
The nearest train station is Petersfield, with direct services from London and the south coast. The exact location and directions are shared once your booking is confirmed.
We are happy to arrange a lift to and from Petersfield station, so your arrival and departure feel unhurried and well held.
Please note:
I live with two small, non-shedding hypoallergenic dogs. They are very sweet, loving and mostly well-behaved. If you have a strong allergy to dogs then please let me know. There may be the possibility for them to go elsewhere for a few days.
