The Zen Academy, 1A Estate Yard, Atherstone on Stour (2026)

08/04/2026

✨New Flourish Summer Women’s Day Retreat dates are here ✨
Soul-nourishing retreats for women ready to reconnect, reset, and rise.

📆 Sunday 10th May — Lygon Arms, Broadway
📆 Sunday 14th June — Cowslip Meadows, Laughton, Leicestershire
📆 Sunday 5th July — Berry Farm, Cirencester

🕙 All retreats run from 10am–5pm and include a beautiful nourishing 2-course lunch.

Flourish is a journey back to inner calm and reconnection with yourself. It’s a full day of emotional healing, energetic clearing, and inner empowerment.

As always, I’ll be joined by two beautiful practitioners for Qi Gong and sound therapy, as I hold the energy for the day and guide you on this journey back to yourself.

If you’ve joined me before, each retreat flows a little differently, so there will always be something new to experience.

This time, we’ll be opening our hearts with cacao, moving into Qi Gong — a gentle mind-body practice using movement, breath, and focused awareness to help balance energy, calm the nervous system, and support overall wellbeing.

We’ll journey with the inner child to strengthen self-worth and boundaries, release people-pleasing patterns, and in the afternoon I’ll hold a beautiful womb healing ceremony before we close with sound healing, oracle cards, and reflection.

This is your space to pause, soften, and remember who you truly are through:

🌿 Nervous system healing
🌿 Empowerment coaching for self-worth & inner child healing
🌿 Cacao ceremony & soul journey
🌿 Movement and somatic release through Qi Gong or yoga
🌿 Womb healing
🌿 Sound healing & individual Reiki
🌿 Oracle readings, journaling, and integration tools
🌿 2-course lunch in a peaceful luxury setting
🌿 Comfy airbeds so you can fully relax

This day is designed to meet you where you are — and gently guide you into who you’re becoming.

Who is this for?
For the woman who is ready to pause, soften, and remember who she truly is. Whether this is your first step or you’ve been on the healing path for a while, you will be held, supported, and empowered.

Included in your day:
• Full-day transformational retreat
• 2-course buffet lunch (all dietary needs catered for)
• Group + 1:1 energy work
• Integration resources
• Optional WhatsApp support group
• All equipment provided (mats, bolsters, blankets, etc.)

Until 20th April:
📍 Early-bird price: £139 for one space
👭 Two spaces for £250
After that, spaces will be £159

💌 Optional payment plan available
£70 deposit, with final balance due 10 days before the event

🎟 Limited capacity | Booking now open

If you’d like to secure your space, send me a DM, WhatsApp message or email hello@thezenacademy.co.uk

Due to a technical issue, online booking for these dates won’t be live on the website until next week, but I wanted to share them here first and with my mailing list.

✨ Come home to yourself
✨ Restore. Reconnect. Rise.

07/04/2026

There are moments in life when you know something truly special has taken place, even if you can’t fully find the words for it yet.🩷

The Flourish retreat weekend in March was one of those moments. 🩶

For four beautiful days, we shared sunshine, sea air, nourishing food, heartfelt conversations, laughter, stillness, and connection. ✨

What unfolded was more than a retreat — it was a soul-led sanctuary for healing and reconnection. We sat in circle, opened our hearts through cacao, journeyed with blue lotus tea, explored our energetic blueprint, planted sunflower seeds as we set intentions for the Spring Equinox. We returned to nature through the healing power of the sea, including a beautiful early morning clifftop meditation. 🌊 🌻☀️🫶🫖

One of the most powerful parts of the weekend was the Heart Alchemy™ ritual, where each woman created a kintsugi heart. Breaking it open, naming the moments, memories and experiences held within her heart, and then gently gluing it back together with gold. 💛💝

It felt like such a beautiful reminder that all we have lived through becomes part of us. The cracks are not flaws. The heartbreak, the healing, the love, the grief, the lessons and the growth all shape who we are. We are perfectly imperfect, and still whole.

My intention for this retreat was to create a small, intimate space where eight women could feel seen, heard, held and nurtured. A space where they could step away from the noise of everyday life, soften, feel safe, and come back to themselves.

And that is exactly what unfolded. 💫

There was something so special about witnessing each woman settle into the space, open in her own time, and reconnect with her own truth. It wasn’t about fixing anything or having all the answers. It was about creating enough safety for each person to hear herself again, to breathe more deeply, to laugh more freely, and to remember who she is beneath it all.

I feel so deeply grateful to every woman who shared this journey and trusted the space enough to show up exactly as she was. It was a truly magical weekend, and one I will hold in my heart for a long time.

I’m also incredibly grateful to our wonderful chef Nina from who poured so much love and care into every dish she created for us. Her food nourished us beautifully throughout the retreat. 🥗

I’m now gently planning the next Flourish retreat for early October/November 2026, and I’m so excited to share more soon. 💫

If this speaks to your heart and you’d like to be the first to hear the details, comment “waitlist” below and I’ll send them to you first 🙏💫

02/02/2026

✨Only One Room Now Available✨

Extraordinary is personal. It is the life that feels unmistakably yours.

Over three nourishing nights by the sea you will slow down, soothe your nervous system, and go deeper than wellness. You’ll meet your energetic blueprint through your seven energy centres — so you can become the architect of your own life.

Salt on the air. Sky opening. Time that belongs to you.

We begin softly — the body settles, the mind quietens. Warm, colourful breakfasts cooked with care. Coastal wandering and circle time that helps you remember who you are beneath the noise. Spacious afternoons for journalling, a sea dip if you fancy, or a cup of tea with your feet tucked under you. Evenings for candlelight, ceremony and dinners that feel like a hug from the inside. You arrive curious and leave clear. The sea does some of the work. Your energy does the rest.

Across the weekend you’ll be guided through experiences like Conscious Connected Breathwork, an energy mastery + chakra journey, cacao + Future Self activation, a coastal path walk with clifftop meditation, and Reiki + crystal sound bath — all held in meaningful ritual and honest conversation.

And this is more than a coastal weekend — it includes a pre-retreat Zoom + WhatsApp community, light 1:1 access with me throughout, and a 60-minute integration, reading + healing session when you get home.

📆 20–23 March 2026
📍 North Cornwall, UK

Full details & booking link 🔗:
https://www.thezenacademy.co.uk/flourish-by-the-sea/

02/02/2026

During a conversation last week, I was guided back to this poem. I didn’t recognise it by its title at first… but reading it again, it landed differently — like something that becomes more profound with time and wisdom.

It's called - A Reason. A Season. A Lifetime.

For me, it speaks not only to people, but to experiences too: seasons come and go, each one asking something different of us. A gentle reminder to notice the gifts, learn what you can, and let go with gratitude when it’s time 🩷✨

We reflected on a similar theme at the Rest & Manifest half-day retreat yesterday — such a beautiful group of ladies. As always, I didn’t take photos because I was busy holding space, but the support in the room was everything 🫶

Looking forward to next week's retreat and holding space for another group of wonderful ladies. 💫✨

14/01/2026

January can turn the volume up on the inner critic.
With “new year, new you” everywhere, it’s easy to start looking at yourself through judgment, comparison, and impossible standards.

But what if this month isn’t about reinventing yourself…
What if it’s about meeting yourself honestly?

When you soften the way you look at your life, you start to hear your inner dialogue more clearly.
And clarity changes everything.

Because once you notice what’s actually happening inside you, compassion has room to appear — especially for the parts you’ve been pushing away, ignoring, or trying to “fix.”

From that place, choices become wiser and more natural:
you eat, move, rest, and work in response to what you truly need… not what your critic demands.

That’s where balance begins.
The inner critic settles.
Resistance eases.
And your energy stops getting pulled between control and rebellion.

So the old January pattern — discipline → burnout → guilt — can be replaced with something sustainable: honest, gentle, and guided from within.

No force. No punishment. Just a steady return to yourself. ✨

01/01/2026

Happy New Year 2026 ✨

We are stepping into the Year of the Horse — a year of movement, freedom, courage, and momentum. After seasons of inner work, this is a time to trust ourselves, follow what lights us up, and move forward with heart-led intention 🐎

Numerologically, 2026 is a 1 year, inviting fresh beginnings, new pathways, and the planting of seeds for what we wish to grow. A powerful reminder that we get to choose again — consciously and courageously.

May this year support you in reconnecting with your truth, taking aligned action, and honouring the rhythm of both rest and expansion.

To support this energy of intentional beginnings, under the Snow Moon in February I’ll be holding Flourish: Rest & Manifest — a half-day intention-setting retreat designed to help you slow down, clear what you’ve been carrying, and realign with what truly matters before the year fully unfolds 🌕

If you feel called to begin this year with clarity, rest, and intention, you can find the details here:
🔗 https://www.thezenacademy.co.uk/flourish-rest-align-2026-intention-retreat/

I’m so excited for what’s unfolding and look forward to walking alongside many of you in the year ahead ✨💜

26/12/2025

Most people don’t realise how much they’re carrying until the year comes to a close.

You move through the year holding responsibility, emotion, expectation, and momentum — often without stopping to notice how heavy it’s become.

The space between Christmas and New Year naturally invites reflection.
A pause.
A moment to listen inward before the year ahead truly begins.

Under the Snow Moon in February, I’m holding Flourish: Rest & Manifest — a half-day intentional retreat created to support you to slow down, clear energetic noise, and realign with what truly matters to you.

This is a gentle space to:
💫 ground and rest your nervous system
💫 clear obstacles and release what isn’t yours
💫 remove the filters created by stress and emotional overload
💫 realign your energy so your intentions come from clarity, not pressure
💫 open your heart through ceremonial cacao
💫 reconnect with your desires and your future self

Healing here isn’t about fixing — it’s about creating space, removing interference, and allowing your own inner wisdom to come forward.

The experience is supported by crystal sound healing and group Reiki, held within a calm, intentional space for women.

✨ Early bird is available until 31st December
✨ Only 10 spaces per date

📆 Sunday 1st or Sunday 8th February 2026
📍The Lygon Arms, Broadway, Cotswolds
Investment:
£65 early bird until 31 December 2025 / £75 standard
Bring a friend: £120 early bird for two, £140 standard for two

🔗Book here: https://www.thezenacademy.co.uk/flourish-rest-align-2026-intention-retreat/

24/12/2025

Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas 🎄

Thank you to all of my lovely clients who have allowed me to hold space for you this year — whether through 1:1 work, women’s circles, or retreats. It has been truly incredible, and I’m so grateful for each of you 💜

I hope the festive period gives you time to reconnect with yourself, catch your breath, and fully rest.

I’m so excited for what’s to come and look forward to seeing you all in the New Year ✨

11/12/2025

I do not share these very often, but one of my clients posted the most heartfelt review on her Instagram last week, and it truly touched me.

I remember the exact moment she walked into my circle in Stratford. She had actually been searching for a hiking group, but life had other plans and somehow she found her way to me instead. What followed was not me fixing her, but her choosing herself and allowing me to guide her as she reconnected to the parts of her she had hidden.

She runs a brilliant and joy filled business of her own and brings so much love to the dogs of Warwickshire. She was never lost. She simply needed someone to shine a light while she found her way back to herself.

It is hard to fully describe the work I do, because the experience is different for every woman. The magic comes from the honesty, the courage and the willingness to show up. What I can promise is this: if you let me guide you and hold you as we move through the resistance in your body, mind and emotions, you will discover the strength and clarity that has been within you all along. It is not a quick fix, but the results are always worth it.

Thank you for this beautiful review, and thank you to everyone who chooses me to support them on their journey. 🩷

10/12/2025

You do not have to start 2026 with more pressure, resolutions and “should's”.

You can begin with rest.
With healing.
With a clear, gentle sense of what you actually want from the year ahead.

That is exactly why I created:
Flourish: Rest & Manifest, 2026 Healing and Intention Setting Retreat.

A half day women’s retreat at The Lygon Arms in Broadway, Cotswolds, where you will be guided through meditation, healing and intention setting so you can step into 2026 feeling calmer, clearer and more empowered.

You can choose from two dates:
Sunday 1 February 2026, 1 pm to 5 pm
Sunday 8 February 2026, 1 pm to 5 pm

Across the afternoon you will experience:
💫Gentle guided meditations and a nervous system reset so your body can finally exhale.
💫Cacao for heart opening and emotional clarity, with space to journal on what you are ready to release and invite in for 2026.

💫A grounded look at manifestation, where you connect your desires with your thoughts, emotions and real-life actions.

💫Crystal sound healing and group Reiki to ease tension, support emotional healing and help you feel lighter and more regulated.

💫A future self meditation and a printed 2026 Empowerment and Intention Map that you will take home with you.

This is a relaxed, welcoming space for women who have been carrying a lot and are ready to put some of it down, reconnect with themselves and move into 2026 with purpose and softness.

There will be teas, coffees and cakes, a cosy private room and a small group size so you feel seen, safe and supported rather than lost in a crowd.

Investment:
£65 early bird until 31 December 2025 / £75 standard
Bring a friend: £120 early bird for two, £140 standard for two

Full payment secures your place. Spaces are intentionally limited.

If you are craving a softer, more healing and intentional start to 2026, I would love to welcome you.

👉 Booking link: https://www.thezenacademy.co.uk/flourish-rest-align-2026-intention-retreat/

09/12/2025

It’s a wrap on my autumn Flourish women’s day retreats for this year, and as always I am humbled that these incredible women chose to put themselves first and trusted me to hold space for them.

Flourish is a day to honour yourself and bring genuine safety back into your body and mind. It is a space to witness the emotions we suppress in everyday life and to take clear, grounded steps to move forward. When we slow down enough to let the body feel safe, acknowledge what is present and reconnect with the parts of ourselves that feel hidden, clarity rises. From clarity comes empowerment.

We shared tears, laughter and friendship. The beautiful surroundings of The Lygon Arms, along with the Christmas lights, added to the feeling of magic throughout the day.

I was supported by wonderful practitioners this time. Angie Latham brought her quantum sound work that helped shift our internal state at a deep level. Becki Morris and Sophie Burrard Lucas held the group with heartfelt yoga and movement, creating safety and presence in the body.

I can never fully put into words what these days offer, because they always meet you exactly where you are. My intention is to bring knowledge, energy and guidance that supports you, activates what is ready to change and gently shows you a way forward.

Thank you, ladies. ♥️

My next half day healing events will focus on rest and manifestation. We will explore what you need to release, what you want to call in for 2026 and how to align your energy with the life you want to create. Full details here:
https://www.thezenacademy.co.uk/flourish-rest-align-2026-intention-retreat/

29/11/2025

I have had a last minute space become available for the Flourish healing & empowerment day tomorrow (Sun 30th) @ The Lygon Arms in Broadway. A beautiful day & a chance for much needed rest & healing ! DM or message for more details! 🙏✨

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