The Experience

Balancing between Goodbye & Hello

Grief’s invitation Into extraordinary

When was the last time you:

• walked through the deep, fierce & challenging aspects of life with a light and open heart?

• felt secure, aligned and peaceful - no matter the circumstances - as your true self?

• moved freely from imagined possibility to creation in your life?

  For most of us the answer is almost never.

Instead stuckness shapes your life.

The foundation of this stuckness is fear and grief.

The Experience is a unique 2-month Immersion that invites you to traverse the grief’s threshold in a new way, on every level of your life.

From grief into joy. From depletion into empowerment. From burdened to creation. From stuck to free.

Together, we will dive gently into the questions that life is continuously asking you:

• Can you walk lightly into EVERY goodbye and hello?

• Can you live from an OPEN, trusting heart as your true self?

• Can you accept life’s GIFT of grief?

• Are you secure in your daily commitment, courage and capacity even when the loss is great or change is unexpected?

During our time together, you will learn how to work with the patterns that have shaped you and gently release the heaviness that you have been carrying. You will learn to begin to ease your tension and begin to answer ‘Yes!’ to what life, and your soul, is calling you toward.

We are talking about LIFE. And we are talking about DEATH in all of the ways it shows up in life.

Partnering with NATURE as an ally. This immersion intentionally occurs during the transition between Winter and Spring.

Winter is the season doing less and letting go. A time to be still and rest. To receive the quiet and soul nourishment by turning inward. It’s nature’s way of dying in order to live – and your invitation to pause.

Spring is the season of rebirth & expansion. A time of unrushed unfolding. An invitation to step forward with new energy. To birth your expanded identity for this year - one that embraces what was lost and creates from the gifts of that loss. Spring is nature’s offering for renewal, possibility and hope.

Between winter and spring is a threshold. How you cross this threshold, physically and metaphorically, is how you live. It is also, most likely, how you will die. (You don’t change your patterns just because death approaches.)

These thresholds appear frequently in your life as PORTALS in every small grief/loss you live. Learning how to navigate these portals will transform your experience of life, death and everything in between. Unfortunately, most of us don’t know how to traverse these horizons without accumulating heaviness, tension and stuckness.

When you don’t know how to curate your experience of change and loss, it WILL curate you. This will stop you from living fully, freely and openly. Again and again and again.

This is for you if

• You know you are stuck in grief from the recent present, or from the past. This weighs you down.

• You feel that the sadness, loss and changes in your life takes you out of living a life you love.

• Navigating change is a struggle. You want to move forward in your life, your business, your relationships or your health and you can’t take the step you know you need.

• You are struggling with the ageing process. You believe ‘I’m getting older and this is just the way it is.’

• You feel buffeted by your life, and lack steadiness in midst of difficult experiences.

• You know you carry stress & tension in your body, mind and emotions. This is creating your life.

• Your life is already extraordinary and you know you want to release patterns holding you back so that you can create your next level.

Your Transformation EXPERIENCE

22 February - end April - on Zoom & Telegram

In Person Gathering 22-24 March in Bronham, UK

The human journey is an invitation to know your true self and to continually expand.

We are here to learn to learn to BE. To be ourselves, in alignment with our soul. Allowing life to be lived through us.

Out of this alignment, we can then use our gifts, our voices, our unique talents to BE of USE. This could be for your family, in relationships, in your business or by creating your dreams.

Yet most of us live stuck in what we feel, think and live. Hidden underneath most of our stucknesses is a grief yet to be navigated.

In our culture, we are not taught how to move through grief and loss. Instead we label them a tragedy, a sorrow; something that is a handicap and a negative instead of a great gift.

Loss is as much a part of life as living is.

Loss is an invitation and a guide post. It invites you to step over and through your boundaries and horizons.

When you know how to move well on this voyage of discovery, life will become an experience of portals rather than challenges. You will feel safe and secure in yourself through all of life’s invitations. You will build your own inner wellspring of unending support.

What are the GRIEFS that are portals for either stuckness or expansion?

• Health and Ageing

• Ending a relationship

• Navigating parenthood

• Leaving someone or something; or being left

• Evolution / Growth / Expansion

• Death

If you are ready hold life, love and grief as an invitation — not a tragedy! — you can expand your life into the realm of extraordinary, everyday.

In our time together, you will:

• Discover the hidden patterns that are holding you back (some of which you may have carried for decades!)

• Discover how many hellos and goodbyes you bypass in an attempt to stay rooted in what you know.

• Be invited to rest, be nourished and to explore the elements of your life in a way you haven’t before.

• Begin to understand how to work with the tension, overwhelm, frustration, grief or stress you feel.

• Dare to hear and answer the ever-growing claxon call from your soul to you.

• Create a toolkit of physical, mental, emotional & energetic practices that will become your new stable foundation.

• Embark on the work to create new mental / emotional pathways that give you a new grief story and lived reality of joy.

• Explore how you can take back your power through grief, change and how you reminesce.

The Immersion Experience at Brook House

Each day you will be invited to expand through a variety of group and individual experiences. These will include sensing somatic movement practices, coaching, personal exploration exercises and group conversations. You will also be invited to take time for yourself for reflection and integration.

An Energetic Journey

Pain, loss & grief comes to everyone. Every loss may impact you differently. Sometimes you will feel its echo in your body. Sometimes it will ricochet mentally or emotionally. And sometimes it will drain you energetically.  How you navigate this pain; how you listen and respond to the reality of each experience determines whether you add to your tension & load or whether you can walk lightly forward into the liminal space between grief and love, sadness and joy with grace and ease. Together, we will explore this.

An Ancient Journey

Brook House is built on an ancient pilgrimage site, with the spiritual Mary Line directly running at the front of the house and through the village of Bromham.  In our time there, you will walk where the pilgrims walked. You will feel the energy of those who came before you and will stand in the present, knowing there will be those who will follow after you. You will discover how to connect to and lean into your ancestors so that they become a resource in your life today.

The Stone Circles at Avebury

Our in person weekend starts in Avebury with a visit to the largest stone circle in Europe, also the oldest known stone ring in the world. This site is one of the greatest marvels of prehistoric Britain built sometimes between 2850 BC and 2200 BC. These circles pre-date Stonehenge by about 800 years are offer the perfect energetic, organic and ancestral place to open our weekend.

Nature’s Journey

Nature is an ally that always offers grounding to keep us tethered to the earth when grief tries to pull us away. As much as possible (weather permitting) we will take advantage of nature and the energy of the land at Avebury and in the outdoor gardens and woodlands surrounding Brook House. This will support your weekend experience and teach you new ways to use nature as a foundation in your life.

The Rhythm of your Days at Brook House

Because each group and you are unique, Denise doesn’t provide a specific itinerary for The Experience. She prefers to give you an invitation to awake into each new day, open to what may unfold - the ultimate practice of goodbye - hello. Denise also feels into the needs of each group and offers what is needed most when it is needed. Know that each day will include time together and individual time for you to integrate what you have learned, discussed and explored.

Your experience Before & After The Weekend

It is all too easy to escape your life for one fabulous weekend, only to return to your old rhythms and rituals shortly after you return.

How often have you done this? With trainings, courses and retreats? This experience is NOT that.

Throughout our two months together, you will be supported by group calls and an ongoing Telegram experience. This work begins at the end of February. In addition, after your stay at Brook House, you will receive a 1:1 coaching call with Denise empowering you in your unique journey onward.

THE DETAILS

WHAT’S INCLUDED 

• A Move Well Experience that includes the power of small group interaction AND 1:1 coaching specific to you.

• Work that encompasses all layers of your being: body, mind, emotions, energy & soul and embraces gentleness & ease.

• SCIENCE: Learn how to support your body, brain & nervous system as a way into dissolving hidden patterns.

• BODY: Integrate nourishing sensing somatic practices to change your tension, your health & how you move. (No experience required)

• MIND: Become aware of how your thoughts and mental patterns are part of what is keeping you stuck. Learn to dissolve and create your mindset in a new way.

• EMOTIONS: Grief and loss experiences and life challenges can trigger some difficult emotions. Discover how you can navigate these feelings so that they flow through you instead of overcoming you.

• SOUL: Learn to uncover and live from alignment with your true self, your own voice and in your life’s purpose.

• Two online group calls (will also be recorded) bookending our 2 month Immersion

• An ongoing Telegram experience offering trainings & practices to support you in your journey

• A 60-minute 1:1 coaching / mentoring session with Denise after the in person retreat

• A visit to the Avebury stone circles to open our retreat weekend.

• A 2 night retreat at Brook House in Bronham, UK (Note: You will need to book & pay for your room @Brook House separately)

• While at Brook House (in addition to the above):

  • All nourishing meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner and afternoon tea & cake. Coffee and tea will be available all day, self-serve. The food is seasonal, locally sourced and meat as well as vegetarian / vegan options are available. In short: you will be VERY WELL FED.

  • Daily space for rest, quiet contemplation, reflection and integration

  • Embracing nature and the energy of the land to potentially include but not limited to: forest bathing, star gazing, nature soaking, water story technique and more (weather permitting)

  • The possibility of field trip and walk in the ancient Avebury Standing Stone Circle

Dates

We begin from 22 February and complete at the end of April with our Telegram Experience. This platform gives you Move Well training, coaching, practices, prompts and a chance to Q&A with Denise.

You will receive the dates / times of our group calls in February. These calls will be recorded if you are unable to attend.

The in-person experience at Brook House runs from for 3 days/2 nights from 22 March.

Rooms & Pricing

Only 5-7 spaces are available. You will be part of a small group in this bespoke experience.

There are 6 luxurious, spacious rooms at Brook House, each with ensuite bathrooms. Each room is unique and filled with handcrafted details, antiques, the highest quality linen and towels and the prospect of deeply restful, quiet nights.

There is a very large master bedroom (runs the length of the house! Great if you want to indulge and/or bring your partner). There are also 2 Kings, 2 Doubles and a Twin room (perfect for sharing with a friend).

Your investment for The Experience is £1919 + the cost of your room.

Room rates range between £140-£300 per night and are booked directly with Brook House. (Please book your room after you book the retreat.)

If you attend with a friend or a partner and wish to share a room, you will each book The Experience and one room for you both to share (please discuss room requirements directly with Brook House.)