The Conscious Self

20/11/2025

Inner Awakening is live ✨

Our newest retreat is now open for bookings, and I’m so happy to finally share it with you.

🌍 Location: Brinkburn, Northumberland ~ riverside estate on the River Coquet.

📅 Dates: 28th – 30th August 2026

👥 Spaces: 20 places only

🍽️ Food: All meals & refreshments included

🎁 Yogi starter kit gift

🧘‍♀️ What’s included: All classes, sessions & practices

💸 Investment: Early bird until end of Jan 2026 (£50 off)
£850 shared / £1700 single (payment plans available)

🔐 Deposit: £200 non-refundable, balance due 8 weeks before

More information and booking below👇

https://theconsciousself.co.uk/retreats/the-inner-awakening-retreat/

The Inner Awakening Retreat is a weekend immersion at Brinkburn, Northumberland ~ a riverside estate cradled by woodland and the River Coquet. Across three days we’ll explore the balance of your inner sun and inner moon 🌞🌙 ~ your vitality, intuition and deeper truth.

Amy and Rebecca will weave together yoga, Angelic Reiki and sacred sound to create a soft yet powerful space where your body can unwind, your mind can quieten and your heart can open. Brinkburn itself feels like part of the practice: a hidden estate held in a wooded ravine, with a twelfth-century priory, stone buildings, riverside cottages and a beautiful barn for our sessions. Step outside and you’re on woodland paths, lawns and the riverbank ~ nature here is not a backdrop, it’s the main teacher 🌿

This retreat has been carefully designed to give you time to slow your nervous system, find stillness and remember who you are beneath the noise of daily life. There will be shared meals, gentle connection with others, space for silence and reflection, and the sense of being lovingly held as you stand on the edge of change.

If you feel called to join us at Brinkburn for Inner Awakening, email conscious@theconsciousself.co.uk to claim your space and we’ll guide you through the next steps. ✨🏡🌿

Big love The Conscious Self Team 🙏🏻💚🪬

19/11/2025

Happy intentional men’s day fellas!

Here is to the great fathers, brothers, uncles, husbands, grandfathers, partners, and everything else in between. To those of you who are being accountable, disciplined and facing the suffering head on. Persistent in the face of the odds, rolling the bolder up that hill everyday. Day after day.

The indomitable human spirit is alive and well within you. It cannot be lost.

Here’s to the men who are staring down that mirror and coming up against habits and trauma that are not your own, who are rewriting the generational patterns that have hindered your forefathers.

Heres to the open, the honest, the fallible, just, kind and compassionate men. To the warriors, the monks, magicians and soldiers that provide, care and are courageous everyday. To the hardworking 4am, dawn till dusk, dirty hands and I will make something of myself men. The for my family men, the for a better life men, for a better world men.

I honour you, lord knows you are doing more than enough yet feel like you are doing nothing.

Take a moment fellas, have a little look back at how far you have come.

Big love and respect,
Aaron 💚🪬🙏🏻

Tag a great man below let him know you are grateful👇

18/11/2025

Where the Philosophical and breath meet! 🪬🫁

Now i know most of us know that yogic philosophy and tradition understand the breath to be the vehicle for “prāṇa“ (life force). Chāndogya Upaniṣad teaches that prāṇa is the “vital breath” and “life principle,” the essence that other senses depend on; when prāṇa threatens to leave, the other faculties beg it to stay, acknowledging it as “the hub of all that defines a person.”

But did you know that the breath is a theme throughout theology and philosophy, even Ancient Greek philosophy and stoicism proclaim the breath is a cosmic force that brings life to the inanimate “pneuma”. Pneuma, a blend of fire and air that is present in everything giving all things, from stones to animals, their cohesion, structure and activity. In the inanimate it gives them their structure a holding together. In animals and humans it becomes psychē (soul) and at the highest level rational soul. The stoics believed the cosmos to be an intelligent single living being; the body is material universe and Its soul is divine, fiery pneuma infused with logos (reason, order, pattern)…

Therefore, you’re not just swapping gases. You’re exchanging, mixing, and circulating with the living breath of the cosmos.

“That which possesses thought is what people call air… by this everyone is governed… there is not a single thing which does not share in it.” ~ Diogenes of Apollonia (5th c. BCE)

The breath is the life giving, nature’s greatest gift and it is no wonder each culture has its own tradition of breathing practices. From the Japanese Zen breathing, kokyū in martial arts to Tibetan (Buddhist & Bon).

The breath is what connects us all to each other, to everything that came before us and what will proceed us.

“You have been formed of three parts, body, breath, and mind. Of these, the first two are yours… The third alone is truly yours.“ ~ Marcus Aurelius

Breathe deep, the cosmos breathes with you. 🌌💚

18/11/2025

🌲 Festive Forest Sauna at Hamsterley 🌲
Boxing Day & New Year’s Day Specials

Christmas chaos out. River, fire and stillness in. ✨

Join us in Hamsterley Forest for a festive wild sauna session and (optional) cold plunge at the waterfall. Think crackling fire, the sound of rushing water, starlit skies through the trees, and that deep, calm feeling only hot and cold therapy in nature can give you.

A short, beautiful woodland walk from the car park leads you down to our wild forest sauna spot. Please arrive a little early so you can enjoy your full hour of sauna time.

🔥 What to expect
• Wood-fired sauna by the waterfall
• Optional cold dip (if you feel called)
• Nature, stillness and space to reset
• Cozy festive vibes around the fire

🎄 Festive twist
Wear something Christmassy: a silly hat, a jumper, festive socks… go for it.
And feel free to bring s’mores or treats for the fire to share and enjoy afterwards.

⚠️ Please note
• To get into the water and the spot it is on wild terrain and you take part at your own risk.
• This is a wild spot with uneven, sometimes muddy terrain: good footwear is essential
• Please bring a torch or head torch for the walk to and from the sauna
• If the weather is really bad we may postpone for safety and your ticket will be rolled over to another date

📖 Before you book
Please read our Terms & Conditions on the booking page.
By booking, you confirm you’ve read, understood and agree to the T&Cs.

🎟️ Limited spaces — bookings via the link in bio.
Come close out the year, or step into the new one, in the forest by the waterfall with us. 🌿🧖‍♀️🧖‍♂️

Booking below 👇

https://theconsciousself.co.uk/eventbrite-event/boxing-day-new-years-day-wild-sauna-wild-swim-hamsterley-forest/

Details Date: December 7 Time: 01:00 pm - 07:00 pm Click to Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/full-moon-sauna-moonlight-swim-hamsterley-forest-tickets-1972520135825 Organizer The Conscious Self Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-conscious-self-43079589903 Venue Blackling Hole Car Par...

17/11/2025

🌕 COLD SUPER MOON AT THE WATERFALL

Sauna & Cold Immersion | Hamsterley Forest | Sunday 7th December

🔥🧊 Fire • Water • Deep Winter Reset

Under the dark arms of Hamsterley Forest, the Cold Super Moon rises bright and immense, lighting the river and trees in silver. The waterfall roars, breath clouds in the air, and the forest feels both wild and deeply still. Every inhale is crisp, clean, and alive.

This gathering isn’t just an experience, it’s a threshold. The fire burns beside the waterfall, steam rises from the sauna into the night, and you move through the cycle of heat and cold, tension and release, effort and surrender.

As we arrive at the last full moon of the year, we come together to let the old year soften its grip. To empty out what we don’t want to carry into the next chapter, and to tend the quiet flame of resilience within.

📍 Hamsterley Forest Waterfall Sauna, County Durham
📅 Sunday 7th December
⏰ Evening sessions – 1-hour slots available

✨ The Cold Super Moon invites us to honour rest, to gather our warmth, and to move slowly, intentionally, into winter’s deepest stillness.

Hamsterley holds a rare kind of magic – water, flame, and forest woven together. Under the full moon, it becomes a living sanctuary of the elements, a place to breathe out the year, reclaim your calm, and remember what grounded peace feels like. 🌿

🔗 Book your space:

https://theconsciousself.co.uk/eventbrite-event/full-moon-sauna-moonlight-swim-hamsterley-forest-2/

Or head to our Instagram bio 👆

💌 Any questions, send us a message 💚

Details Date: December 7 Time: 01:00 pm - 07:00 pm Click to Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/full-moon-sauna-moonlight-swim-hamsterley-forest-tickets-1972520135825 Organizer The Conscious Self Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-conscious-self-43079589903 Venue Blackling Hole Car Par...

17/11/2025

🌲 Festive River Sauna at Howsham Mill 🌲
Boxing Day & New Year’s Day Specials

Christmas chaos out. River, fire and stillness in. ✨

Join us at Howsham Mill for a festive wild sauna session and (optional) cold river dip in a beautiful private spot. Think crackling fire, mist over the water, and that deep, calm feeling only hot–cold therapy in nature can give you.

A short, beautiful 5 minute walk from the car park leads you through the woods to our riverside sauna. Please arrive a little early so you can enjoy your full hour of sauna time.

🔥 What to expect
• Wood-fired sauna by the river
• Optional wild dip (if you feel called)
• Nature, stillness and space to reset
• Cozy festive vibes around the fire

🎄 Festive twist
Wear something Christmassy – a silly hat, a jumper, festive socks… go for it.
And feel free to bring s’mores or treats for the fire to share and enjoy afterwards.

⚠️ Please note
• To get into the water you must be able bodied
• If the weather is really bad we may postpone for safety – your ticket will be rolled over to another date

📖 Before you book
Please read our Terms & Conditions on the booking page.
By booking, you confirm you’ve read, understood and agree to the T&Cs.

🎟️ Limited spaces — bookings via the link in bio.
Come close out the year, or step into the new one, by the river with us. 🌿🧖‍♀️🧖‍♂️

Booking below 👇

https://theconsciousself.co.uk/eventbrite-event/boxing-day-new-years-day-sauna-wild-swim-howsham-mill/

Details Date: December 26 Time: 09:00 am - 04:00 pm Click to Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/boxing-day-new-years-day-sauna-wild-swim-howsham-mill-tickets-1972479087047 Organizer The Conscious Self Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-conscious-self-43079589903 Venue Howsham Mill how...

16/11/2025

Last one of the year!

🌕 COLD MOON AT THE LAKE

Sauna & Wild Swim | Ellerton Park Lake | Sunday 7th December

🔥🧊 Fire • Water • Stillness

The final full moon of the year, the Cold Moon arrives as winter truly begins to settle in. It’s a moon of honesty and clarity – a time to release the noise of the year and step into the quiet of deep winter.

By the glowing fire and cold, dark waters of Ellerton Lake, we gather to close the year in ritual. The body softens in the heat. The breath sharpens in the chill. The mind clears beneath the cold, bright moon.

This isn’t just sauna and swim – it’s a year-end reset. A chance to honour everything you’ve moved through, and to step into winter with intention rather than exhaustion.

📍 Ellerton Park Lake, North Yorkshire
📅 Sunday 7th December
⏰ Evening sessions – 1-hour slots available

✨ The Cold Moon invites reflection, truth, and stillness.
Let this be your last elemental gathering of the year – a closing chapter of 2025 and an opening into deep rest, presence, and quiet strength.

Ellerton remains our sanctuary of elements: firelight flickering on the lake, laughter carried on the night air, and the gentle companionship of those called to reset under the moon. 🌿

🔗 Book your space:

https://theconsciousself.co.uk/eventbrite-event/full-moon-sauna-moonlight-swim-ellerton-lake-all-2026-dates/

Or head to our Instagram bio 👆

💌 Any questions, send us a message 💚

Details Date: January 4 Time: 02:00 pm - 07:00 pm Click to Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/full-moon-sauna-moonlight-swim-ellerton-lake-all-2026-dates-tickets-1970603469023 Organizer The Conscious Self Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-conscious-self-43079589903 Venue Ellerton Par...

16/11/2025

Lots of sauna fun this weekend at three spots!

Howsham Mill 📍
Hamsterley Forest 📍
Ellerton lake 📍

The water is really cooling down now with the average temp being around 9 degress in the bodies of water we use for a dip! 🧊

The sauna is still red hot however, temperatures at around 80-100 degrees… making sure you guys get a really good sweat on and are warmed up from your dip! 🥵

We love a wild location so if you know of a spot we would love to hear about it 🎙️

Thank you everyone!

Lots more to come including the last Full Moon Sauna of the year!
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For more bookings please see below 👇

https://theconsciousself.co.uk/conscious-events/