Wintering Day Retreat: Sauchie Home Farm

As the days grow shorter and nature begins to slow, we invite you to step away from the busyness of everyday life and join us for a day of Wintering – a day retreat to help you embrace the quieter rhythm of the season.

Held by Susie from Pause & Breathe and Lisa from The Yoga Social, this nourishing day takes place at the beautiful Sauchie Home Farm, a rewilded biodiversity farm where nature is free to flourish. Surrounded by fields, woodland and wide skies, you'll have the opportunity to reconnect with yourself in a place that encourages stillness, spaciousness and rest.

Winter asks us to soften rather than strive. It reminds us that there is wisdom in slowing down, in turning inwards, and in allowing life to unfold without constantly pushing against it. Together, we'll explore what it means to "winter well" – letting go of the pressure to keep going and instead finding comfort, acceptance and renewal in the season.

Throughout the day, you'll be guided through gentle Qi Gong and deeply restorative Yin Yoga, exploring the qualities of the Metal and Water elements, inviting ease, resilience and quiet reflection. We'll also spend time in creative exploration, discovering poetry that helps us welcome the beauty and lessons of winter, before closing the day with a nourishing Yoga Nidra, allowing body, mind and spirit to settle into deep rest.

Whether winter is your favourite season or one you find challenging, this retreat offers a wee invitation to meet it with curiosity, compassion and openness. Leave feeling grounded, restored and ready to move into the darker months with a little more warmth, softness and trust.

This will take place on Sunday 29th November, 10am for a 10.30am start and finishing at 4.30pm. It's £85 to come along, which includes a nourishing lunch, hot drinks and snacks. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements. There is are limited reduced rate spaces available if the full price if unaffordable.There is the option to pay an additional £1, which goes toward our pay-it-forward spaces.

Our venue is Sauchie Home Farm near Stirling - a beautiful, quiet venue. There may be the option to car share, please get in contact if you'd be interested in this.

Meet Your Facilitators:

Susie is the co-founder of Pause & Breathe - a social enterprise that prioritises making wellbeing fully accessible. She is an accredited Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness teacher, Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator, Qi Gong and Chair Yoga Facilitator and is training to teach Nia Dance. Susie is passionate about creating safe spaces where participants can form connections and find community. She works with people to help them find self-acceptance, emotional balance and to get to know themselves better.

Lisa Mulube (She/Her) is a Yoga Therapist, Teacher, and Therapeutic Supervisor at The Minded Institute, London. She offers specialised yoga therapy programmes for mental health including stress, anxiety & ADHD and wellbeing programmes for workplaces. She offers her therapy services, indivdual and group yoga classes from her Yurt in the Fife countryside & online. Lisa is a mum of 3, lover of art & textiles where she first started her career in the early 2000’s and is passionate about making meaningful connections and encouraging people to discover the glimmers that exist in the everyday demands of modern life.