‘Remember Who You Are’ Retreat

A Pre-Christmas Wellness Retreat at the Glyn Clydach

Sunday 22nd November | 1:00-6:00pm
The Glyn Clydach

Join us for an afternoon of stillness, movement, colour and delicious food at the beautiful Glyn Clydach, to nourish you before the season takes hold.

 This year I’m joined by my beautiful friend Julie of Pause & Palette.

 The Afternoon

• Sound bath with a deeply restorative guided meditation: tailored to settle you before the season begins.

• Breath and Movement: my signature yoga, soft and strong, because both can exist together. My classes are renowned for connecting you back to yourself and remembering your strength and your softness.

• Paint along with Pause & Palette: watercolour exploring auras and chakras. You’ll start with a relaxed 20-minute introduction to water, colour and flow, then choose a final piece: a loose aura circle, or a more structured circle with rhythm and repetition. You choose the colours you’re drawn to, and no experience is needed.

• A two-course carvery to end the day.

 Everyone leaves with their own painting, a reminder of the time you gave yourself.

 Why Julie, and why “Remember Who You Are”

When Julie first came to one of my Yoga Junkie classes, her friend Carrie had suggested it.

 She arrived feeling lost and exhausted, having lost much of her confidence and not knowing how to find her way back to herself.

 She tells me she remembers giggling that first evening, despite everything she was carrying. I remember someone who needed a place to simply be as she was.

 She kept coming back. One evening I read a poem in class that moved her to tears. She messaged me afterwards to ask where the words had come from, so I put the book in a little bag with some candles and a handwritten note: “Dear Julie, remember who you are.”

 Over time, our teacher-and-student connection grew into a very special friendship. As her confidence returned, Julie began to ask what else she wanted to make room for. She has taught art and design for more than twenty-eight years, but her own making had taken a back seat. She began painting again, found the word pause, and Pause & Palette was born: unhurried watercolour sessions where people can slow down, follow their curiosity and enjoy making, without needing to know how it will turn out.

 Watching her do that has been one of the proudest things I’ve witnessed as a teacher. So when I started planning our retreat, there was only one person I wanted beside me.

 December asks a lot of us. Before it begins, come and spend an afternoon remembering who you are.