Key Information
Date & Time: (3 days) Friday 29th May @ 5pm - Sunday 31st May @ 4pm
Where: The House at the Edge of the Woods, South Downs
Group size: maximum 4
Includes: all meals, accommodation, materials, saunas, guided sessions both in the house and the woods
Accommodation: shared or private rooms depending on availability.
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.
If resources are limited and you feel called to this event, please reach out to discuss. Our contact details are shared below.
A three-day retreat for women remembering the old ways of tending, listening, and belonging.
There is a kind of witchcraft that does not announce itself —
the kind that rises slowly from the land you walk,
the kitchen where you stir herbs into a pot,
the bones you carry in your memory,
the quiet knowing that has been with you for years.
Waking Up the Witch is a small, intimate retreat (maximum 4 women) for those who feel that tug.
Not toward performance or aesthetics — but toward place-based, lived, everyday magic: ritual, craft, companionship, and remembering how to listen.
This retreat is for women who want to come home to themselves, through the land, the hearth, the body, and the old ways of tending life.
If you're longing to be rooted and claimed by place and to deepen your relationship with the more than human and unseen worlds. If you seek the profound, the mystical, and the otherworldly.
We are laying a place at our table for you.
What We Do Together
Kitchen & Hedgerow Magic: Simple, practical, making teas, infusions, salves, offerings, kitchen rituals, herb-craft, and seasonal plant work.
Bone Memory & Inner Listening: Gentle practices that help you hear what has been waiting — through the body, breath, stillness, and the land. Explorations at the thresholds of intuition, magic and mystery.
Ceremony & Small Rituals: Fire gatherings, moonlit offerings, simple altars, blessing-making — ritual as part of ordinary life.
Walking the Woods: Slow time among the trees, listening for their teachings, gathering small treasures, learning the ways of attention.
Story, Conversation & Companionship: Circle time around the hearth, honest speaking, unhurried listening, remembering together.
Rest & Nourishment: Sauna, organic, foraged, homegrown and delicious food, quiet pockets of solitude, the freedom to wander, dream, write, or simply be still.
Nothing is forced. Everything is invitational. The pace follows the land, not the clock.
Where We Gather
The House at the Edge is in the South Downs National Park a beautiful dark skies area in the South of England.
The food forest garden includes over 60 fruit and nut trees, edible and medicinal herbs, berries, and vegetables and cultivated fungi. The sauna is heated by wood from our woods and chopped by Emma and her coppicing companions.
Ten minutes walk down the lane and across the field is 11 acres of ancient woodland lovingly managed by Emma's community of coppicers, craftsmen, women and tree lovers.
This home, shaped by seasons, ritual, and slow living, is a companion in the work — it softens, holds, and reveals.
Food & 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 the retreat: full of fermenting jars, dried herbs and kitchen witchery.
Who This Retreat Is For
Women who feel:– ready to slow down and reconnect with their intuition– curious about simple ritual and place-based magic– drawn to craft, herbs, the woods, and the unseen– longing for companionship with other women– needing deep rest and space to grieve and lay down sorrows– longing to feel rooted and in relationship with the world around them
You do not need experience. Just a quiet yes inside you.
A Note on the Word “Witch”
Here, witch means: Someone in relationship with land, intuition, ancestors, beauty, and the unseen threads that bind a life.Someone who remembers — or wants to remember — their way of tending the world.