Iamcheyoung

I bring joy to people and help them feel better, through coaching & treatments, retreats & training.

Treatments include massage, acupressure and Reiki; Coaching 1:1 for personal or professional development; Training in Stress Management, Mindfulness and Meditation - individuals or groups; Private retreats in the Forest of Dean (for 1 or 2 people); Group retreats at carefully selected venues across the UK; Corporate packages available.

05/09/2025

Morning walk joy. 🍁✨️🫶

04/09/2025

✨ RETREAT FAQs! ✨

You’ve been sliding into my DMs with questions about the Autumn Equinox Retreat (and I love your curiosity 🥰). So here’s a quick-fire round of answers to the things everyone’s asking:

💛 Do I get a discount if I bring a friend?

YES! Absolutely. Good vibes are even better shared. Bring a friend, share a room, and you’ll get a significant discount.

💛 Will I have to actively participate in all activities?

Nope. This is YOUR retreat. Join the dancing, the sound bath, the stillness, the stretches, or curl up with a cuppa and watch the trees do their thing. No pressure, ever.

💛 Do I need any prior experience?

No way. You don’t even need to know your chakras from your elbows to join us. 😉 Everything is guided, gentle, and open to everybody, every level.

💛 Are there any extra costs / what’s included?

It’s all in. Accommodation, nourishing meals, workshops, complimentary treatment, sound bath, guided sessions, hot tub, the whole lot. No surprises, and no need to bring your wallet.

💛 What DO I need to bring with me?

Your beautiful self. Comfy clothes, maybe a journal, maybe your fave blanket / a yoga mat if you have one… But really, you just need you. Everything else will be here waiting.

I cannot WAIT to welcome you! 🌿✨ The energy around this one is already so special. I love Autumn, and especially the Equinox.

Any other Qs? Drop them below ⬇️ or DM me, I’ll answer everything.

Only ONE solo room left, by the way 👀. Is it yours??

03/09/2025

🌗✨ Yin + Yang isn’t just a funky black-and-white symbol… it’s the story of life itself.

The shady + the sunny side of the hill.
The inhale + the exhale.
The ebb + the flow.

And right now, as we move toward the Autumn Equinox, we’re smack in one of those transition points, when yin begins to rise, yang begins to fall, and Nature oversees ‘a cosmic balancing’.

🍂 Summer transitions to Winter VIA AUTUMN
🌙 Day slides into Night VIA DUSK
🔥Hot becomes cold VIA WARM

These in-between phases aren’t side notes, they’re where the real *stuff* happens.

Traditional Chinese Medicine reminds us: balance isn’t static, it’s a dance. And each of us carries yin + yang inside us, constantly shifting, constantly rebalancing.

So here’s my invite. Notice your own transitions this week.
Where are you moving:

From doing → into being?
From loud → into quiet?
From active → into rest?

How are you feeling the pull of Autumn??

Honouring the Natural Rhythms around, and within us, is where the magic happens. Going with the flow, rather than forcing things when the timing is off...

Through learning to discern the right time and season for things, we can ensure we stay ‘balanced’, rather than falling off the tight ropes of our own creation.

02/09/2025

Last night's sunset. ☀️✨️😍

01/09/2025

A BIG WELCOME TO AUTUMN!! 🍁🍂🌤
It's my FAVOURITE season!!!

Here, right on time, just as Nature always is.
Not clock watching, nor counting down days on the calendar...
But rather tuning into the rhythms and cycles, and what is right, when.

I'm REALLY ready for Autumn, partially because I made the absolute most of the Summer... And am tired now lol!

And ready to retreat. 🙏✨️😁

That's one of the keys to life for me. 'Making the most' of each season.
Allowing the rhythms and the flow, and going with them, rather than fighting against them.

Wishing you a wonderful Autumn, whatever you're up to! 😊✨️🍁

If you don't live in the Forest of Dean, then I highly recommend a visit over the next couple of months.

The colours will be simply magical!!! Nature painting pictures, with a gorgeous Autumn palette of yellows, golds, orange and red!

31/08/2025

Enjoying the last of my summer flowers from the garden.
Especially the gladioli!!! They are my favourite flowers but this is the only one that made it in the garden this year. I picked it because it was in an obscure spot I rarely see... and decided it needed some company...
The others came willingly to join it, and they all now have 'pride of place' in my kitchen. Bringing me joy every time I see them. Several times a day... 🌺✨️🫶

29/08/2025

**Only ONE Solo Room Left **

I can’t quite believe it, but the Autumn Equinox Retreat is filling up… and there’s *just ONE solo room left*!

This is going to be one of those weekends you remember forever:

✨ 3 days of mindfulness, meditation, sound baths, movement and stillness

✨ Deep reset for body, heart, and mind

✨ Shared meals, private treatment, hot tub, laughter and (re)connection

✨️ Autumn Equinox workshop, and magical sunrise ritual in silence

If you’ve been sitting on the fence, THIS is your nudge from the universe.

Come. Join us! And let’s return to stillness together… With a LOT of joy on the way. 🌞

28/08/2025

Awww just received this photo. More silly hat antics! This time at the amazing Rainbow Summer Camp 'festival' / community gathering. 10 days in a field with lots of lovely hippies (near Westbury on Severn). Simply magical!

I sound bathed, I shamanic journeyed, I danced, I met new friends, reconnected with old ones, and sat round and stared into fires... I had to take Dukie with me (as he needs medication four times a day now), and whilst that was challenging at times, it was also lovely to see him settle into it, and by the end I think he was gutted to come home! Me too.

I should finish unpacking and landing properly today (I've had back to back clients since I got back on Monday, interspersed with some lovely walks in 'our' woods)...

There are always great lessons and opportunities for growth, spending extended time with others. And I'll likely be processing and integrating for weeks, and missing all the lovely characters I see once a year at this 'one of a kind' gathering for months!

Can't wait for next year!!

27/08/2025

After 10 days of festival life (mud, music, mayhem, magic) this little pause felt like a reset button.

✨ I never really know what the water will do…
Sometimes the sparkle shows up just as I hit record. Sometimes it doesn’t. But I only ever take one. (Two if it’s a total disaster 🤪)Because these aren’t staged. They’re witnessed.

This one? Soudley Ponds. A hanging tree, water alive with light. And me, lucky enough to be there for it.
Just 90 seconds. Press play. Breathe with me. Sometimes, stillness is waiting in the simplest places.

22/08/2025

This Was It. The ACTUAL Moment I Received My Book!!!

Not a slick, staged “announcement.”
No glam backdrop. No curated lighting.
Just me, in comfy leggings, washing machine whirring in the background, filming something that was honestly meant for my mum, my partner, my kids… my people.

But this felt too special not to share more widely.

So this was IT. The actual moment my book arrived!! Now, don't get TOO excited. It's not for sale. Yet. ;-)
It’s not perfect. Not finished.
But real. Tangible. Bound.
And mine. (Well… almost.)

This version, Draft Three, is heading out to 10 wonderful reviewers. Some are Traditional Chinese Medicine peeps, some are reflexologists, acupressure therapists, Bowen practitioners… and some are simply curious humans who bring their own lens. All of them are helping me shape this into the best version it can be before I send it off to publishers in September. Fingers crossed. Universe nudged.

The Professor (yes, that Professor) gave his feedback on Draft 1 and 2. His comments are in. The voice is clearer. The framework is strong. The bones are aligned. (Literal and metaphorical.)

There’s more to do, of course.
I'll be adding appendices, references, and several new bits (I've already got new ideas... you know me 😉 ). The diagrams need polishing, but I hear publishers like to use their own illustrators anyway. So… we’re nearly there. Nearly.

Honestly? I’m so happy with how it’s come together.

And if you make it to the end of the video, yes, that little squeal was real.
This isn’t a finished product.
But it is a real moment.
And I wanted to share it with you.

I’m off to hand these copies over to my brilliant reviewers (and pick up some dog food. Balance, right? 😅)

Thanks for being on this journey with me. 💛

P.S. If the video quality isn’t perfect, that’s because this wasn’t a campaign. It was a moment. And I’m really glad I caught it.
Che x

19/08/2025

I’ve already taken bookings for my Autumn Equinox retreat!! And am getting even more excited (if that’s possible!). BUT someone asked ‘Why Retreat? What’s the point?’. GOOD QUESTION!

My answer?

Because the world is moving SO fast nowadays.

We are bombarded with information, and things to do, from dawn til dusk.
Our nervous systems are frayed.
So many of us are carrying far too much. Quietly.

But the impact of ‘soldiering on’ is not just on us. It’s on everyone around us too. Ever heard the phrase ‘You can’t pour from an empty cup?’.

It’s so true.

And in this way, as those following me for a while will know I’ve said before:

SELF CARE ISN’T SELFISH. IT’S *ESSENTIAL*.

On retreat we return to our bodies.
We sit with silence and let the stillness speak.

Our nervous system resets.

And our minds ‘catch up with the filing’. 😉

On my Autumn Equinox retreat, we will have a hot tub (WHOOP!), everyone will get a treatment, there will be movement (possibly even dance!), mindfulness, meditation, a sound bath, nutritious and delicious meals, space to ‘just be, and a GORGEOUS Autumn Equinox ritual – on the MONDAY morning (early though – like before 7am… so if you need to get off early / afterwards, you are welcome to).

You don’t have to earn rest.
You are allowed to stop.
Your soul is worth tending to.

If your body is whispering that you need this… Come.

Let’s return to stillness.
Together.

X Che

🧡 Autumn Equinox Retreat
📅 Sept 19th–22nd
🌲 Devauden, NP16
✨ With Che Young , The Cosmic Dove

16/08/2025

! SPECIAL AUTUMN EQUINOX RETREAT !

Wow. Well it's been a VERY hectic few days pulling everything together, as I *had to swap venue last minute*!! 😬✨️👀

One of those 'happy accident' things that means this will be a MUCH nicer retreat (we will have a hot tub for a start!!! 🎉).

I'll spare you the whys, except to say it's really important to me that the vibe and energy are right at these venues...

I'm SOOO looking forward to this one.

To sharing with those who come the true ancient traditions associated with Equinoxes (and Solstices).

It was bumming me out ( 😁 !!) seeing retreats at these special times of year that didn't have the ancient traditions at their heart.

And it motivated me to get myself into gear to run this one! I love the Autumn Equinox especially.

There are just 12 places.

SO! Get in touch soon f you'd like more info or to book. Either via messages, or to my email (listed on one of the squares - where you'll find pics of the venue and some more details too...).

I'm excited to see who's going to join me!!! 😁✨️🫶

Address

8 Westfield Road
Cinderford
GL142QP

Telephone

+447714286489

Website

http://www.cosmicteapot.co.uk/

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