Wild Soul Rising: 3 Day Somatic Dance Retreat, Stroud, Cotswolds, UK

Reclaim Your Wild Spirit — a Visionary Somatic Dance Retreat
There is a part of you the world has not yet met.
For those who have spent years adapting to fit
– and are ready to reclaim their wild creative spirit. Through dance, nature, ritual, and creative soul expression.

Friday evening – Sunday 6th – 8th November 2026
Maximum 8 participants

A Secluded Woodland Sanctuary, Stroud Valley, Cotswolds, UK
You Have Held It Together Long Enough
You are competent, capable, and respected for what you do. You have held responsibility, carried vision, and navigated different worlds with skill.

You have spent years adapting to others, shaping yourself to fit, and are ready to return home to you.

You sense a gap between the person you are and the work you are putting out into the world. You feel a rising within you, but you don’t yet have the space or permission to let it move.

There is a part of you that is not polite, not contained, and not convenient. The part that knows what it wants, feels what it feels, and refuses to stay quiet any longer.

This is the part of you that longs to be felt, expressed and brought back into your life.

Why This Retreat Is Different
You are not looking for more information. You do not need another strategy, another framework, or another notebook full of ideas.

You are ready for more of you.

This is not a retreat where you simply learn techniques. It is a return to your inner knowing. Through conscious dance, breathwork, creative expression, and the elemental wisdom of the land, you will awaken your body’s intelligence and your soul’s voice.This is the space to stop adapting. To come home to yourself. Fully, unapologetically, at last.

Who This Retreat Is For:

This is for the visionary, the creative, the healer who feels a rising within them, but doesn’t yet have the space or permission to let it move.

Especially for those who have spent years holding space for others, adapting to meet them, and are ready to return to come home to themselves. Fully, unapologetically, at last.

You’ve been competent, capable, and respected. You’ve held responsibility and carried vision. But you sense a gap between the person you are and the work you’re putting out into the world.

This is especially for those who have spent years holding space for others, adapting to meet them, and are ready to return to come home to themselves. Fully, unapologetically, at last.

The Weekend Journey: Ground, Feel, Rise
Each day is a deep dive into an elemental theme, forming a continuous spiral of return to your most essential self.

Friday Evening Arrival: Grounding (Earth)
Come home to your body, your breath, your ground.
In this opening session we arrive, ground and connect to the group. We have an opening dance journey where we come back into embodied presence, slowing down enough to listen to our bodies again.


Saturday: Ground & Feel (Earth + Water)
Move with the emotional waters, tend the inner fire.
The second day invites you into the deeper currents of the heart. You’ll explore the emotions held in your body, not as stories to analyze, but as energy that can be moved, expressed, and transformed. This is where sensitivity becomes strength.

Sunday: Rising (Air & Ether)
Express the wild voice, let the full spectrum be seen.
The final day is about letting your authentic expression move out into the world. You’ll give shape and sound to your longings, visions, and truth. This is where you liberate your voice, your joy, and your creative power.

What Becomes Possible

A felt sense of your own ground, even under pressure

The freedom to express yourself more fully, without apology or performance.

A deeper trust in your emotional landscape and intuitive wisdom.

A renewed connection to your creative fire and the joy of making work that is truly yours.

The Setting: A Rural Yurt Sanctuary
We will gather in a beautiful rural setting of the beautiful Stroud Slad Valley, surrounded by nature, with a spacious yurt that has a wooden floor, warmed with a wood burner as our shared space for movement, reflection and connection.

Warmed by a wood burner, the yurt offers an intimate environment to slow down and reconnect. Outside, there is space to gather around the fire, share stories and enjoy the beauty of the autumn landscape and views of the Stroud Slad Valley. Five minutes away is a walk into leafy woods and a local viewpoint.

nb to learn more about your host see www.helenesu.com