Day Retreats

The Soulful Session Series next event- Recharge & Renew
Come and celebrate the passing of the Equinox and the arrival of Spring under the new moon
with Julie & Claire ✨ Thursday 10th April, 6pm-8.30pm
The Spring Equinox is all about celebrating the balance of light & dark.. of rebirth & growth and embracing change within the new season. So come and join us to ignite the Wood 🪵🌳 element within. We will sow the seeds of change within you, and let a more dynamic energy flow within. It’s a great time of year for a detox. And an energetic spring clean!
We must look after our bodies at the time of seasonal change. One day it’s sunny and warm, the next there is a chilly wind! So containing & preserving the Spring energy whilst our bodies start to stir with the ever increasing daily light is paramount. Spring is all about growth, rebirth & expansion, but we must not over do it. Like nature, there is no hurry right now to blossom & bloom
We will serve our signature spicy & warming Cacao on arrival and let you have 15mins of quiet time to reflect and journal 📝 what you’d like to let go of, what seeds of intent you’d like to bring into the evening and to plant with the arrival of Spring 🌷🌷🌷
Claire will open the class with gentle breathwork and mediation. Then Julie with ignite fire in our bellies with some dynamic but slow flowing yoga asana. Claire will take over and drop you into a deep Yin session before Julie seals the practice with crystal bowls, chanting & a long Savasana 🕉️
DM me or Julie to get on the presale list. Bookings going live on our website tomorrow

Beltane Day Retreat
We are so excited to share the details of our Early Summer Beltane Celebrations 🌞🌸🌿
This is a time when Spring is at its peak and nature is bursting and blossoming with fertility and vibrancy. Beltane is a pagan ceremony that marks the halfway between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice. It is a time of year for dancing around the fire and rejoicing in the wonders of the changing seasons. It's the perfect time for celebrating fertility, but this doesn’t have to just be about making babies! It is also about curating a fertile mindset and rejoicing in abundant thinking, creativity and prosperity.
Here's what we have planned for each beautiful event:
🌿Beltane Day Retreat - Thursday 1st May 2025 🌿
✨ Energising sauna sessions in the garden
✨ Invigorating cold plunges
✨ Restorative and uplifting yoga classes with founder Claire
✨ Nurturing facials and reflexology treatments from Dervla @reflexologysolace
✨ Delicious and nourishing Ayurvedic food prepared by @jo_lentaigne
✨ Sound bath with renown opera singer @dervla
✨ A full beautiful day retreat with us 9.30am-4pm -
Price - £110 without a treatment
- £145 to include a half hour treatment

The Soulful Session Series - episode 3 💫 Saunas, Cacao, breathwork 💫
Grounding practices and Breathwork Session with guest teacher Rachael Richards from Wild Willow Wellbeing in Chichester
✨ Breakthrough Breath - is an incredible natural remedy for stress and anxiety, realigning your thoughts, finding clarity and purpose (along with many other benefits!). Rachael will share some powerful breathwork and somatic tools which can be incorporated into your daily life. We will then move into a full Conscious Connected Breathwork session with the theme “Manifesting and Connecting to your Intuition”
Price - £45

Community Sauna session - Hot & Cold Therapy
Community Sauna session - Hot & Cold Therapy

Community Sauna session - Hot & Cold Therapy (Copy)
Community Sauna session - Hot & Cold Therapy

Community Sauna session/ Hot & Cold Therapy
2pm-2pm Community Sauna session/ Hot & Cold Therapy 🔥🧊 £18pp

Reset & Renew with a day of Yoga, Cacao, Saunas & Sound
✨ 9.30am-11am Cacao ceremony with Giada into Slow Flow yoga with Claire 🤎
✨ 11am-1pm Hot & Cold 🔥🧊 Therapy or relax with a reflexology treatment 👣
1pm Bowl food Lunch with Boul Kitchen 🥗
2pm-4pm Restorative Yoga with Claire into an immersive Sound bath with Dervla

Breathwork workshop manifesting & connecting to your intuition - with Rachael Richards
Breathwork workshop manifesting & connecting to your intuition - with Rachael Richards from Wild Willow

Create and Radiate
Come and celebrate the passing of Imbolc and the Snow Full Moon rising in the Eastern Sky 🌕🌌 with Julie & Claire ✨ Thursday 13th February, 6pm-8.30pm
As The Almanac teaches us so beautifully, Imbolc is the time of year when we begin to feel the earth quickening with signs of life 🌱Brave new shoots, who have survived the cold & dark are pushing through the hard earth to reach the light. The 1st of February marks the midpoint between the Winter Solstice 🩵& the Spring Equinox 🌙Although the sun is still low in the sky, it is rising a little further north, signifying a shift past the halfway point, and hence bringing with it a subtle quickening of hope. It is one of the major Celtic festivals celebrating light, fire & rebirth and a stirring of expectations of the season to come 🌿
🔥 Come and join us to ignite the inner flame within and to gently warm the earth of our new studio and of your own internal home. Just as the full moon in Leo inspires, we can radiate warm & vitality into our hearts, those of our family and of all our community.
☀️ We must thaw our cold bodies, like the earth too must do and gently awaken our energies with the ever increasing daily light. Gently but slowly, allowing radiance to flow in our hearts to to start to sow seeds of creative energy, while still taking things slowly and with care 🙌
🤎 We will serve our signature spicy & warming Cacao on arrival and let you have 15mins of quiet time to reflect and journal 📝 what you’d like to let go of, what seeds of intent you’d like to bring into the evening and to plant with the coming of Spring 🌷🌷🌷
🌬️ Claire will open the class with gentle breathwork and mediation. Then Julie with ignite fire in our bellies with some dynamic but slow flowing yoga asana. Claire will take over and drop you into a deep Yin session before Julie seals the practice with crystal bowls, chanting & a long Savasana 🕉️

Winter Solstice Cacao Ceremony, Yoga & Sound Bath
A candlelit moment of quietness & reflection
Time: 4:30pm-7pm
Price: £35

Winter Wreath Making Class
Join Nina Leeming of How to Love Your Garden & Claire Behrens of Wild Wellbeing for a special Winter wreath-making workshop, using locally foraged greenery and berries.. with a luxury twist of ribbons, feathers, cacao & Wintering magic.
”We love being able to use locally foraged Sussex materials, enabling people to create a something that has a unique sense of place. Each wreath will be personalised by hand-picked seed heads and grasses, stunning feathers and an array of luxurious velvet ribbons to bring Christmas into the heart of your home. Come along and celebrate Winter with us.“
9.45am - Arrival into Claire’s cosy wellbeing studio.
Claire will serve a warming & invigorating cup of cacao and guide you into a 20 minute mindful breathwork & meditation session. This will help ground you into moment and help unleash the inner artistic & creative flow.
10.30 - 12.30pm - Inspiring Wreath making workshop
with Nina around Claire’s light filled kitchen table.
12.30pm - Lunch
Warming & nourishing spicy soup will be served to keep energies high before leaving around 1pm.
Come and enjoy some Winter magic with us
Time: 10am-1pm
Price: £75

Winter wellness Day
£55 for 3 hour workshop and includes cacao, nutritious energy ball & fresh tumeric health shot
For two groups of 10 people
Group 1 women
12pm-12.45pm Yoga with Claire to awaken & move the body
12.45pm-1.45pm Wimhoff inspired breathwork and mindset training to prepare for hot & cold therapy
1.45pm-3pm hot and cold therapy. Cold immersions and saunas 🔥
Group 2 men
3.15-4pm Yoga with Claire to awaken, mobilize & move the body
4pm-5pm Wimhoff inspired breathwork and mindset training to prepare for hot & cold therapy
5pm-6.15pm hot and cold therapy. Cold immersions and saunas 🔥
Cumnor House Christmas Charity Fair
Join me at Cumnor’s Christmas Fair in Danehill for a day of festive celebration in aid of the school’s charities of the year, The Cumnor Foundation and The Peak Adventure.
This year, Cumnor is creating a Wellness Zone alongside shopping, a food hall, Cumnor café and wreath-making workshops. We are offering four wonderful wellbeing classes with 100% proceeds supporting the charities. We will also be running a wellbeing stand for all your Christmas presents including bath salts, Amly Botanicals, Sensara and lovely candles and girlies wellbeing gifts. I’m also going to be selling Chuckle Soaps which are brilliant for the kids and stocking fillers!
Class prices are £10 if booked in advance, £15 on the day.
All proceeds go to charity.
8:30am - 9:30am
Morning Hatha Flow with Angela Nyman
Angela teaches yoga every Wednesday at Cumnor. She’s a kind, gentle soul who loves to teach a very traditional yet strong hatha based yoga practice. The perfect start if you’re new to yoga, or if you love to focus on alignment, strength, flexibility and mobility and practice in a calm and nurturing environment. Check out Sussex Yoga (sussexyoga.co.uk)for more info on her
11am- midday
Yoga with weights with Julie Karmel
Julie is a pocket rocket! Strong as an ox yet super soulful. She teaches with Claire at New House Farm every Wednesday & Friday. She will warm you up with yoga then get you fired up with weights & resistance bands! The class will end with a long relaxing yoga style stretch out. Look up Julie K Yoga for more info
12:15 - 1:15pm
Restorative lunch time yoga with Claire
Claire is the founder of The Acupuncturist and has been practicing Yoga & Chinese medicine for 25 years and loves to combine her passion for both on the mat. Her classes are deeply nourishing & nurturing and you will flow to music from Yang to Yin. You will enjoy Dynamic flowing movements into holding poses and a restorative end.
Class prices are £10 if booked in advance, £15 on the day.
Autumnal Yoga supper club
Hormone workshop & breathwork
Come and join us for a super soulful evening of restorative yoga & breathwork with Chinese Medicine practitioner & Yoga teacher Claire, followed by an incredibly informative and inspiring workshop with Naturopath & Herbalist Rachel Boon.
We will dive into why our hormones go array in the perimenopause and how we can help ourselves to achieve happier hormones and live in a more balanced, harmonious way.
5.45pm cacao on arrival
6-7pm restorative yoga & breathwork to mobilize and nurture our body
7pm-8.30pm workshop
8.30pm nutritious ayruvedic supper and Q&A around the kitchen table
Time: 6pm-9:30pm
Price: £60

Immersive Wim Hof Workshop
With Claire and Mat from Wise & Prime
Time: 9am-5pm Price: £135
Men’s Wellness - Stretch, Sweat and Breathe
With Claire and Mat from Wise & Prime
Time: 8:45am-12pm Price: £45

Full moon heart -opening breathwork
Join us for our incredible Autumn Equinox Wellness Day! As summer's warmth wanes and the leaves begin to turn, experience a shift in energy and vitality with the approach of the Autumn Equinox.
We'll celebrate the new season by honouring the Harvest Moon, closest to the equinox, which serves as a reminder of preparation and reflection as we transition deeper into autumn. We invite you to a day of rejuvenation designed to refresh both body and mind.
Experience a day filled with carefully curated wellness classes, workshops and nurturing treatments that will leave you revitalised, restored and ready to embrace the new season.
Let’s come together for a day of connection, renewal and seasonal celebration, embracing the transformative energy of the equinox and the guiding light of the Harvest Moon.

Supermoon yoga supper club
Wednesday, 16th October 2024, 6pm-9:30pm at New House Farm
Embrace the magic of the season under October's full Hunter’s Supermoon, the closest to Earth this year. The evening begins with a warming mug of cacao, followed by intention setting and a restorative yoga session led by @julie_k_yoga accompanied by the soothing sounds of crystal bowl healing.
After grounding your body and spirit, gather for a nourishing Ayurvedic long-table supper, lovingly prepared by @jo_lentaigne, to honour the abundance of autumn.
Spaces are limited, so please email bookings@theacupuncturist.life or head to the link in bio to reserve your spot.
We can’t wait to share this special evening with you! 🍁🙏✨
RESTORATIVE YOGA
Intention setting followed by a restorative yoga class
CRYSTAL SOUND HEALING
Soothing sounds of crystal bowls to heal the mind and spirit
AYURVEDIC LONG-TABLE SUPPER
Nourishing Ayurvedic supper, home-cooked by the wonderful Jo Lentaigne

Autumn Equinox Celebration
Join us for our incredible Autumn Equinox Wellness Day! As summer's warmth wanes and the leaves begin to turn, experience a shift in energy and vitality with the approach of the Autumn Equinox.
We'll celebrate the new season by honouring the Harvest Moon, closest to the equinox, which serves as a reminder of preparation and reflection as we transition deeper into autumn. We invite you to a day of rejuvenation designed to refresh both body and mind.
Experience a day filled with carefully curated wellness classes, workshops and nurturing treatments that will leave you revitalised, restored and ready to embrace the new season.
Let’s come together for a day of connection, renewal and seasonal celebration, embracing the transformative energy of the equinox and the guiding light of the Harvest Moon.
Men's Wellness - Stretch, Sweat and Breathe
With Claire and Mat from Wise & Prime
Time: 8:45am-12pm Price: £45