The Well

An off grid yoga and wellness yurt, nestled in a quiet corner of the forest in Bangor, Co. Down.
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Harnessing the alchemy of nature, community, wonder and a variety of expert led practices to connect you home to yourself.

24/04/2026

🌀✨SPACE✨🌀

This week, we went on a space exploration, only to discover, that the space within us, and the space around us, is all part of the same vast field.

Space is not separate from you, it is you.

Xx

22/04/2026

🌀YOGA YURT IN THE FOREST IN BANGOR🌀

Step onto the forest path, the trees and birdsong around you, already shifting something.

Come early to sip herbal tea and settle into the space of our eco yurt, designed for comfort and calm.

Here, our yoga practice is more than just physical movement, it’s a way to reconnect with your body, nature and yourself.

Offering a range of class styles, all closing with the deep rest of Yoga Nidra.

Come as you are. We can’t wait to welcome you 🙏

For weekly class bookings see link in bio or visit the-well.net

See you in the forest 🌱

17/04/2026

✨ NEW SCHEDULE ✨

Ooooohhhh… our first springtime in the forest, and it is a little bit magical 🌿 Birdsong, soft light, and beauty all around us as we practice.

Our new schedule begins next week, with each class style inspired by the elements, connecting us to the world around us, and the world within.

Follow link in bio to book or head over to the-well.net/book-now

You are so welcome here✨🙏

23/03/2026

🌀✨NEW CLASS: ETHER; Spacious, Liminal, Still✨🌀

Ether is the element of space. In this practice, we move away from the sometimes relentless “doing” and into spacious “being”.

Here, the physical practice of yoga is not placed at the centre, although we do begin with some gentle movement to support us to drop into the body, and to allow the nervous system to settle.

We will explore the more subtle terrain and practices of yoga, including breath and meditation. We close with an extended yoga Nidra, supporting us to melt into the liminal space between sleep and wakeful awareness.

Join us, to come home to the space that has always been there.

Beginning Tuesday 21st April 2000-2100
Continuing weekly
Now open for booking, link in bio✨🌀

Catherine x

13/03/2026

🌱BEGINNERS COURSE: STARTING 23rd APRIL🌱

Spring is springing, birds are singing, new growth is all around us…. so it feels like the right time for our next beginners course! This six week course will explore yoga in its fullest sense, designed for complete beginners and those who want to engage with their practice in a more meaningful way.

This will likely be the only beginners course we run this year, and we are almost half full 🙏

Any questions please drop me a wee message.

Head to the website (link in bio or the-well.net) for more info and booking ❤️

Catherine ✨🌀

Come as you are. This is where we begin.

Link in bio for booking via the website.

01/02/2026

🌀I MET MY BODY🌀

Well, that was unexpected! Halfway through the mesmerising training with , and a poem poured through me. I have never written a poem before, or even had the inclination to do so. But these words emerged in such a way that I sensed they should be shared.

I have shared them in the only way I know how, through the imperfection of a “one and done” recording, and choosing authenticity over hesitation. If there is one thing Ta**ra and Yoga teach us, it is to follow the wise, sometimes quiet, voice within ✨

So here I AM, doing just that.

With great love,

Catherine x

18/01/2026

Oh Bali 🫶 My 5th time stepping on the Island of the Gods, so called for a very good reason. This land has become one of my spiritual homes, the energies, the teachings, the devotion. A land where even cracks on the pavement serve as alters, a reminder that all is sacred.

Week one of the first module complete, we have moved from our fascia, dived into Ta**ra, yielded to Self, held each others hearts, connected with kidneys, cried puddles of tears on the temple floor, traced meridian lines through embryological development, chanted mantra, and have had mantra chant us. I am in awe of this work, the depth profound, and of course, as with any initiation of truth, life can never be the same.

Five weeks to go, hanging out in my back body, weaving webs of connection, inner and outer, micro and macro, through this permeable membrane of skin, REmembering: Everything is everything 🌀❤️‍🔥 xx

Grateful beyond words x

07/01/2026

🌀UPDATE: FOREVER A STUDENT🌀
Sometimes the practice asks us to pause, to immerse, to go deeper….

A deepening of the practice has been calling, and I have listened. I’m heading to Bali for six weeks to study an advanced training in yoga, somatics, non-dual ta**ra, and embodied movement. It’s something that’s been calling for a long time, both personally and professionally.

Closing The Well for a short while isn’t a conventional choice, but The Well has never been built on convention. It was born from listening closely, from trusting what feels true, and from allowing space for growth to happen organically. If I hadn’t followed those nudges before, there would be no yurt in the forest, no community gathering there now 🌱🫶

This time away is about depth, integration, and renewal, mirroring some of the very core values of The Well. I can’t wait to weave what I learn back into the space, the offerings, the classes, and the community when I return.

A few practical notes:
🌀All class passes will be extended/topped up so nothing expires while I’m away
🌀The Well will reopen the week beginning 23rd February 2026
🌀The class schedule is already live
🌀A 6-week beginners course will also begin that week

Thank you for the trust, the support, and for being part of this unfolding. I’ll see you soon with a fuller cup, and much to share.

With great gratitude and love,

Catherine x

21/12/2025

🌀SOLSTICE AND SPANDA🌀

The Winter Solstice is not a turning point we rush past.
It is a pause.

For a few days after the solstice, the light appears to stand still before it begins its slow return, the days not yet longer to the human eye, but there is movement alive beneath the surface.

In Kashmir Shaivism, this quiet stirring is known as Spanda, the subtle pulse of life that exists within stillness.
Not effort. Not force.
But the smallest initiation, the first whisper of movement after rest.

In classes this (and next!) week, we explore that pause, the moment at the end of the exhale, just as the inhale begins. We listen for what wants to move.
We follow tiny pulsations, barely perceptible, and notice the aliveness that is already there.

This is why we embody the cycles of nature, to remember that our bodies are not separate from them. That growth does not always look like striving. That light does not arrive by pushing darkness away, but by being born from it.

The practice serves as a remembering, that even in stillness, something is always quietly unfolding.

Happy Solstice loves, 🫶🌀

17/12/2025

🌱WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES🌱

Same season. Same trees.
A very different backdrop.

A year ago: bare ground, big vision, a lot of faith.

Now: a sanctuary in the forest, a growing community, plenty of special moments of connection, and of course the same autumn leaves as a reminder that nature keeps time better than we do.

Grateful. Rooted. Still growing.

Eternally grateful for where we are, and so excited for what is yet to come 🌀🫶

With great warmth, thanks and love to those who have crossed the threshold into the space this year.

Catherine x

04/11/2025

🌀AN EVENING GATHERING🌀

The nights are drawing in. Nature slows. And we invite you to do the same.

Wintering Well is an evening to rest, soften, and draw inward. We begin with Hawthorn tea, our native heart medicine, inviting inward reflection and bridging the seen and unseen. We then move into gentle practices such as yin and restorative yoga, somatic techniques and breath, to support regulation and inward awareness.

The night closes in Yoga Nidra, a journey into dreamtime, where boundaries blur and transformation quietly unfolds (this audio will be recorded and sent to you via WhatsApp for you to revisit through winter).

If you are craving a pause, restoration, or connection; to yourself, the rhythms of the land, or the unseen, this is your invitation.

Winter is not something to push through. It is a time to rest, integrate, and settle into the fertile darkness, composting what has passed, maybe even planting seeds, for growth when the light returns.

Friday 5th December
1900-2100
The Well, Quarries Farm, Bangor.
Exchange: £25

🌀Spaces are limited. Book your place now via the link in bio or at the-well.net 🌀

01/11/2025

🌀HAPPY SAMHAIN🌀
This weeks theme for practices at The Well was Samhain, the ancient Celtic festival that marks our descent into the dark half of the year, where one year ends and another begins. A time when the veil between the seen and unseen worlds thins, where we enter dreamtime, when nature turns inward, life retreats to the roots and growth pauses.

And so should we.

In our practices this week, we slowed down, drew our awareness inward, and embraced the descent into the fertile dark. We ended in the deep dreamtime of Yoga Nidra, where we rooted down and drew nourishment, becoming part of the very landscape itself.

This is the wisdom of Samhain, to rest, to listen, to trust the unseen. As we enter the dark half of the year, I hope you take time for rest, time to compost what is no longer needed, and maybe even plant some seeds of intention to bloom when the light returns.

🫶🌀

Address

Quarries Farm 403 Gransha Road
Bangor
BT197PX

Website

http://the-well.net/

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