EMBODIMENT | NATURE | SOUND
IN THE ELEMENTS
Hosted by Sophie Bolton
A Moving Experience
A return to the wild
For women who lead with their minds and are ready to lead with all of themselves.
"You carry the weight of the world from the neck up."
THE CALL
You spend your days steering a life instead of living it: holding space, managing everything, managing everyone. Highly effective. Living from the neck up. A physical stagnancy. A deeper, hidden block on the real you.
You need the mysterious kindness of nature. You need to be in it.
This experience is intimate and raw, held on private land in a rugged expanse of Dartmoor. The intellect finally rests. Unresolved tension moves out of your mind and honestly through your body.
We are calling in women who value truth over performance. Women who are willing to be vulnerable, wild, and fully human.
WHO IS THIS FOR
You'll recognise yourself here if:
You run (a company, a team, a household, a life) and you're good at it, but you're doing it from the neck up
You've tried the retreat that left you relaxed for a week and back to zero by the following Monday
You want depth, not another wellness weekend - You're ready to be around other women who've stopped performing "fine"
You'd rather feel something real than be kept comfortable
You don't need every hour of this to feel good to know it's working
It's for you if your body says yes, even if your mind makes up excuses
If comfort is non-negotiable for you, this isn't your experience. If it's negotiable, even nervously, it might be exactly your experience.
THE ELEMENTS
To Untangle The Mind, We Awaken The Body
Our real responsibility is to listen within - to stay present, and to respond to what we sense and feel. Movement shows you, through sensation, without judgement, what wants to come truthfully - a doorway to what has always been waiting for you.
A deep, immersive reset, rooted in the purest elemental reality.
Free-Form Movement
Drop the mask. Let rhythm unwind the mental knot and awaken visceral, unapologetic expression through guided sound.
Fire & Water
Sit with the warmth of a wood-fired sauna. Meet the biting clarity of clean river water when
you're ready, at your own pace - no extremes, just heat, cold water, and permission to feel both.
Healing Arts
Body-based grounding, yoga, and qigong to anchor your nervous system and expand your capacity to hold sensations.
The Fire Circle
Earthy, fire-cooked feasts and shared vulnerability alongside seven other ambitious, brilliant women.
Deep Listening
Time in silence with one element as your focus, an intention held in your heart. Listening, watching, smelling, feeling, until a movement, a sound, or a word emerges.
THE INVITATION
Reclaim Your Wildness.
Return As A Leader.
You will leave profoundly shifted. Not just “relaxed,” but fiercely alive, deeply embodied, and reconnected to your emotional truth. You will return to your life softer, wilder, and immensely more powerful.
Includes a shared sleepover stay in a 24ft yurt (mattresses on the floor, everyone together) plus a stretch tent for daytime gathering, wild sauna, expert somatic facilitation, curated fire-cooked dining, and a complimentary 1:1 embodiment coaching session.
This is In the Elements. Expect cold, possibly damp conditions: pack waterproofs and your warmest layers. There are no hot showers: just the freshest river water and endless sauna warmth. The weather is out of our hands, and if we get really real with ourselves, so is life. That's where the magic lies. Out here, nature leads.
6th-8th NOVEMBER 2026 - DARTMOOR, UK
Intimate container limited to 8 women. To secure your place around the fire, contact Sophie Bolton directly.
We don't know what the weather will do. It isn't ours to control. It's part of the work.
The river doesn't fight the rocks in its path. It moves round them, through them, over them, and keeps arriving at the sea. On this land, letting go isn't a metaphor. It's practice, watching the water choose its own way, again and again.
The land is already shaping this experience, the same way it's shaping me while I dream it into existence. It will shape you too, if you let it.
We meet in early November: the midpoint between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice, just after Samhain, one of the year's great fire festivals, marking the start of the Celtic New Year. Colder. Darker. Wetter. I ask myself why this time of year too. But there's a calling in me that's so strong: the wilder and the darker, the better.
What do you want to dream into existence when some of the creature comforts are taken away?
WORKING WITH THE UNKNOWN
Meet SOPHIE
I'm Sophie. I've spent years channelling music and movement to get people out of their heads and back into their bodies. It started in the woods, long before I knew what healing was about, at free parties: dancing till dawn around a sound system, everyone dissolving into one moving thing. Somewhere in that I found a deep knowing: that nature, movement and gathering around a fire take you to the exact same place, with nothing else needed. That knowing is what's brought me back to the woods now, sober, and deeper. *In the Elements* is that same instinct taken further: out of the party and into the wilds, with fire, river water that you could almost drink, and Dartmoor's visible and invisible magic that effortlessly connects you back in.
I'm not here to tell you who you are. I'm here to serve up the conditions where you find out for yourself.Your Questions Answered
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No. You need to be tired of doing it all from the neck up. That's enough.
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A genuine sleepover: one shared 24ft yurt, mattresses on the floor, all eight of us together, plus a stretch tent for daytime gathering. Not private glamping. There are no hot showers: washing happens in the river and the sauna. This is elemental by design, not by accident.
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Not in the conventional sense, and that's intentional. You may be cold. It may be damp. There are no hot showers. You'll sleep close to seven other women rather than alone in your own suite. What you'll get instead is something most retreats can't offer: a totally unusual experience that meets you where you actually are, not where a piece of pretty marketing pretends you will be. Bring waterproofs and your warmest layers, and come ready for weather that isn't guaranteed.
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No. It's somatic, embodied work held by an experienced facilitator, not a clinical or therapeutic setting.
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We will all arrive with a certain degree of anticipation. Be reassured: the sound of the river, the wind in the trees, and a warm, hearty fire will be enough to make you feel "home."
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[Book here] or contact Sophie directly to talk it through first. We can set up a discovery call.
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6-8 November | £1500Intimate container
Limited to 8 women
Secure your place around the fire