The Nature Within: Autumn Edition
Step away from the noise and busyness of everyday life and immerse yourself in a peaceful weekend at Trigonos. Inspired by summer’s vibrant energy, this retreat harnesses the season’s creative force to help you manifest and bloom a deeper connection with yourself and nature.
Embrace the season’s invitation to slow down through guided forest bathing, cacao circle, connecting with the land and grounding nature meditations. This is your chance to pause, breathe, and restore balance – surrounded by the healing power of nature and a supportive community.
This is your chance to pause, breathe, and restore balance – surrounded by the healing power of nature and a supportive community. Join us for The Nature Within, escaping to recharge and renew with a transformational nature filled weekend at Trigonos.
Join us for The Nature Within, escaping to recharge and renew with a transformational nature filled weekend at Trigonos.
Retreat Highlights:
Forest Bathing & Meditation: Be guided through this therapeutic practice that guides you on a journey of remembering that you are apart of nature too. Nourishing your mental, physical and emotional health.
Nature Meditation & Practices: Throughout the weekend they’ll be opportunities to deepen your connection and gather new tools from rising with nature, to grounding and deep rest with Mother Earth.
Fireside Cacao Circle: Gathering together to share ceremonial grade cacao, a gentle plant medicine that deeply nourish the body, soothes the mind and awakens the spirit. With heart-connection meditation, autumn release practice & gentle conversation.
Biodynamic Farming: Awaken your connection to the land with a hands-on soil to plate workshop as we learn about the importance of ancient farming and the role it plays in living in harmony with nature
Self Reflection Activities: Guided nature practices, journaling and creative exercises to explore your the nature within sprinkled throughout.
Sharing & Discussion Space: Enjoy a safe community space to share, reflect, and grow together.
Solo time: Embrace peaceful moments for yourself to read, rest, write, or swim
What to Expect:
Deepen your Connection with Your Natural Self: Enhance your self-understanding through self reflective activities and connecting with nature.
Disconnect from the Modern World: Escape the hustle and bustle of daily life to flow with the calming rhythm of nature with an option digital detox to truly unwind too.
Deepen Your Connection with Nature: Shift from the mind to experience the present moment by moment through your sensory body in harmony with the natural world.
Nourish Your Wellbeing: Rejuvenate your mental, physical, and spiritual health through the healing power of nature.
The weekend weaves together restorative practices to nourish your energy with self-connection activities to nurture your true self throughout.
This Retreat will Help You:
Rediscover Your Connection to Nature: Remember that you are a part of nature, it is where you were created to thrive. Nature is there to guide and support you whenever you need
Restore Your Balance: Replenish and realign your physical, mental, and spiritual health with nature and its cycles
Deepen Self-Understanding: Gain clarity about your desires, needs, and aspirations at this stage of your path
Learn nature practices: Add new activities to your toolbox that you can continue to use at home to take care of you
Who is this Retreat For?
You are feeling overwhelmed and anxious with the world today and need to be in a safe, calming space where you can ground, heal and re-centre
You are feeling lost and unsure and would benefit from a nurturing supportive environment to support you on your personal journey where you can learn tools and utilise workshops
You are curious to explore or deepen your connection with nature and how it can support you with living in harmony
You are feeling burnt out and need to switch off from the everyday (and technology) to creates space for self-care and recharging your batteries
Join us at Trigonos for a nourishing weekend of renewal and self-discovery that will leave you with a sense of peace, clarity, and a deeper connection to both yourself and the world around you.
This restorative retreat will leave you feeling rested, released and recharged after having disconnected from your everyday life. You will support your wellbeing by experiencing the amazing benefits of nature of quietening the mind.
Amanda will show you how connect with the natural world and become present. You will leave at peace and with a better understanding of yourself. You will gain a greater awareness of your own wellbeing needs and how to maintain these once home.
The retreat is open to anyone curious to slow down to nature’s pace, disconnect from the modern world and come into balance.
“The experience left me with a whole feeling that I haven’t had for years. A feeling that things are just as they should be. In that way there was something transformative and transcendental for me.”
About the Facilitator
Amanda is passionate about bringing nature into modern everyday life to boost wellbeing, and deepen self-connection so you can create the life you love. Her home is a stone cottage in the Macclesfield hills where she walks the land and loves any excuse to stumble into a cafe for a cuppa, and cake!
Amanda’s personal journey re-connecting with nature in her late 30s led her on a journey of transformation. In 2019 she reached a fork in the road. Stuck in a cycle of feeling disconnected from herself, and with the stresses of a demanding fashion career taking its toll on her wellbeing she made a decision to brave uncertainty and change her life. With nature as her guide she has reconnected with her true self, uncovered her soul’s calling and, created a new life, and business, that she really loves.
Working with organisations such as National Trust along with corporate and private 1:1 and group clients Amanda serves from the heart as a guide, coach, mentor and trainer.
“Amanda has a true gift holding such a gorgeous, safe, calm space to explore and share.”
An Insight to the retreat…
FRIDAY
1600-1800 Arrival & tea served until 5pm
1800 Welcome - open the space together in circle as the sunsets
1900 Dinner together
2015-2115 Nurture your path - journaling, intention setting & candlelight deep rest
SATURDAY
0700 Rise with nature - guided meditation & sunrise
0730 - 0830 Breakfast together
0930-1200 Forest-bathing to connect with nature
1200 Free time 1300 Lunch together
1400-1600 Biodynamic farming workshop
1600 Teatime
1700 Creative connection workshop with nature
1800 Freetime & sunset
1900 Dinner Together
2000-2115 Cacao circle - heart connection meditation, release fire practice & conversation
SUNDAY
0700 Rise with nature - guided practices & sunrise
0730 - 0830 Breakfast together
0900-1000 Freetime
1000-1200 Forest-bathing - grounding practices to relax & integrate the weekend
1300 Lunch together
1400 Closing circle - gathering weekend gifts, onward journeys
1500 Goodbyes - departure
“There was no pressure to do things, but you were gently guided. Amanda does a great job of making you feel included, cared for and valued.”
What is Forest-Bathing:
Forest-bathing, or Shinrin-Yoku as it’s known in Japan, means “to bathe in the atmosphere of the forest or to take in the forest through our senses.” More than just a walk, this mindful and deeply restorative practice invites you to slow down, become present and awaken your senses. Helping you to switch off from everyday distractions to notice all that is within you and that surrounds you in the natural world. Suitable for all ages and fitness levels, it offers a welcome pause from modern life—whether to unplug and simply be or as a path to self-discovery, healing and gentle restoration. "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." Albert Einstein Please note: This experience is about immersing yourself in the atmosphere of nature—there is no swimming involved.
Benefits of Forest-Bathing
• Reduced stress – lowers adrenaline and cortisol, helping you to unwind
• Improved mood – alleviates anxiety and depression, promoting a sense of calm
• Enhanced cognitive function – boosts focus, memory, and concentration
• Increased energy – combats fatigue, leaving you feeling revitalised
• Better sleep – improves sleep quality and duration by 20%
• Balanced nervous system – helps to calm the body and mind
• Reduced blood pressure – supports heart health and metabolic function
• Strengthened immune system – increases the production of ‘natural killer’ cells that fight illness
• Combats social isolation – promotes a sense of connection and community
What is Ceremonial Grade Cacao?
Ceremonial cacao is raw, natural chocolate grown on ancient ‘criollo’ cacao trees in the Amazon rainforest. It has a long history and is known to have been drunk since the 1st civilisation of the rainforest, the Olmecs who laid the foundations for cacao’s sacred use. Mayan elders considered cacao one of their most powerful deities, becoming known as the “food of the Gods” due to its medicinal and spiritual benefits.
A cacao circle brings people together in deeper connection to open the heart and enhance wellbeing in a transformative, calming, and blissful space. Which involves savouring cacao in a sensory-rich, mindful way, paired with meditative practices. It’s a gentle yet powerful way to connect with your inner wisdom and create a shared sense of unity with others.
“The water that runs through the heart”
Benefits of Cacao
• Supports heart health - stimulates the cardiovascular system, increases blood flow, and lowers blood pressure.
• Boosts energy & vitality - contains theobromine, a natural stimulant that provides a gentle, long-lasting boost without the jitters or crash associated with caffeine.
• Powerful superfood - packed with antioxidants, protein, magnesium, iron, calcium, and zinc.
• Stabilises mood & reduces stress - by reducing cortisol (stress hormone) levels helping to ease anxiety and overwhelm. • creates a sense of calm & emotional wellbeing – rich in serotonin, dopamine, melatonin, and tryptophan, which help regulate mood, and promote relaxation.
• Induces a natural “blissful high” – contains anandamide which creates a pleasurable, euphoric feeling similar to the gym high.
• Enhances brain health - boosts cognitive function due to PEA which increases mental clarity, focus, and concentration.
• Natural relaxant - high level of magnesium help relax muscles, ease tension, and promotes better sleep.
• Supports women’s health – can help alleviate PMS symptoms, regulate mood, and support hormonal balance.
“I would highly recommend Amanda’s events for anyone looking to reset and take some time for themselves. I guarantee you’ll leave feeling refreshed and inspired!”
Cost
Residential – Prices are from £432.00 per person. Prices includes facilitator fees, accommodation and all-inclusive catering.
You can choose from the following options:
Single Occupancy -Double Bed Ensuite £612.00 per person, Single Bed Ensuite £582.00 per person, Single Bed Non-Ensuite £462.00 per person.
Shared Twin Occupancy - Double Bed Ensuite £462.00 per person, Single Bed Ensuite £447.00 per person, Single Bed Non-Ensuite £432.00 per person.
Non Residential – Price is £283 per person. Price includes facilitator fees, and all-inclusive catering except breakfast.
Concession - Trigonos offers 30% discount off residential rates, and 10% discount off for non-residential rates, for Nantlle Valley Residents, unemployed and retired.
Terms and Conditions
A non-refundable £100 deposit is required within fourteen days of booking to secure your place. The remaining balance is then due twenty-eight days before the event start date.
The deposit will be retained for any cancellations up to twenty-eight days beyond the event start date.
The full cost of the event will be retained for any cancellations made within twenty-eight days of the event start date.
We advise that you take out insurance to cover against any costs incurred should you have to cancel.