poster for Embodied You Winter retreat. Pale blue colours. Photo of sunlight streaming through snowy wood and a photo of Dom, Celine, Fiona and Carolina
About the event
“Embodied You” Mid Winter Retreat
Time & Location
07 Feb 2026, 10:00 – 17:00
Choseley House, Lutman's Haven, Knowl Hill, Reading RG10, UK
Let us guide you through a sensory rich experience of self-care tools and techniques to nourish and support you through the depths of the winter season. The primary aim of this retreat day is to help you deepen your felt sense of your body, release accumulated tensions and stresses and to release any unhelpful patterns that have been wired into your nervous system.
Throughout the day you will be guided into and through grounding and nourishing practices that you can take home with you & share with your family & friends.
This day retreat will consist of:
• Heart opening Cacao Ceremony
• Qi Gong & Eneregy Exercises to balance your energy levels
• Touch for health with Shiatsu and Massage
• Yin Yoga
• Shamanic Sound Bath with Gongs, Drums, Bowls, Flutes and rattles
• Somatic movement pracitices to help you to replenish and warm your system
• Nutritious Vegan Feast and snacks throughout the day
With over 70 years of trainings and practitioner hours between Celine, Fiona & Dom you are sure to recieve deep insights, experienced wisdom and incredible take aways to help you ground, release and realign for theWinter season.
This day retreat is fully catered for with a welcome tonic and snack, a delicious seasonal lunch and afternoon tea by nutritional chef Carolina Greer-Correa of The Healing Kitchen.
Your Facilitators:
Celine Samson
Cèline Samson is one of the UK’s foremost holistic health practitioners with over thirty five years of experience in the various modalities of bodywork. She has trained literally hundreds of practitioners through her school and has more recently integrated embodiment workshops into her practice.
Armed with a fascination for the interconnectedness of mind and body, Cèline will take you on an insightful voyage of discovery by using experiential exercises that focuses on self-care, mind & body connection and somatic awareness.
Fiona Carson
Fiona is a highly skilled, intuitive holistic health practitioner and energy healer , with 25 years of experience, specialising in Zen shiatsu, Chinese Medicine, Energy healing, Kinesiology and Vibrational sound healing.
Fiona’s mission is to help you feel better on every level, to support and empower you to connect with your body and your energy system, to raise your vibration in order to heal, grow and thrive. She runs regular workshops teaching self-care and energy exercises based around the Five Elements system in Traditional Chinese medicine.
Fiona came to the healing arts through martial arts and music (she was a DJ for years).
Fiona has clinics in Reading, Marlow and Thatcham and the Royal Berks Hospital and is delighted to be teaming up with Celine and Dom for this special retreat !
Dominic Hatcher
Over the last 15 years Dom has studied in schools of Mayan Medicine, Tibetan Buddhism, Kabbalah, Amazonian Plant Medicine, Bhakti Yoga, Reiki, Trauma Release Excersise, Trauma Informed Yoga and Embodied Sound Work.
Dom’s formal trainings include Sivananda Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga, Trauma Informed Yoga, Kirtan, Reiki, Voice Activation and Trauma Release Exercise.
Dom continues to study & practice embodiment, sound and trauma recovery practices as well as working with plant medicines.
In 2020 Dom founded Cacao Sita Cacao, incorporating Ceremonial Cacao into his offerings.
Dom now offers workshops, retreats and classes for Hatha & Yin Yoga, Kirtan (Devotional Chanting), Cacao Ceremonies, Sound Therapy, Voice Activation, Embodiement & Trauma Awareness in the Berkshire & Oxfordshire areas.
If you have any questions or would like some more information please email Dom at sayhello@cacaosita.com
Investment:
Early Bird: £125 ( Until January 10th)
Full Price: £145