Kutumba - Yoga Classes, Events, Retreats

Happy New Year 🥳☀️

What an incredible year its been of gathering and community!

We've had some beautiful celebrations of nature and nurture and look forward to creating more magical moments with you throughout 2024

We hope you have a gentle start to the New Year and keep finding moments to celebrate life's little gifts, however small they might be ✨️

🌞 KUTUMBA SUMMER RETREAT 🌞

June 28th - 1st July 2024

Hidden Valley Yurts
Wye Valley
Wales

We are excited to be taking bookings for our annual summer retreat.

Yoga, workshops, music and food are abundant throughout the 3 days we all come together.

🛖 Shared yurts
🛁 Hot tubs
🌳 Nature
🧘 Yoga
🥑 Fresh Food
🎶 Music
🙋 Community

We welcome as our guest musician, bringing her timeless voice to our ears.

Please reach out with any questions, payment plan options or general enquiries.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Love

Seanie + Shell

Kutumba serves food for the soul 🖤

will be cooking for us on our next day retreat in November with a dish to help balance the body and the season.

Think warm, spices, cosy and nurturing 🌱

Shell cooked for us on our first ever retreats and we can't wait to have her back in the kitchen for November. Her food is delicious and made with so much love!

Spaces still available for 19th Nov. day retreat 'Balance'

Link in bio!

Meet Claire .botanics who will be joining us on our day retreat this November 19th.

We will be celebrating the healing properties of Hawthorn and guiding us through making a oxymel to take home.

Hawthorn (Crataegus spp.) is a native shrub adding a red hue to hedgerows right now with its abundant, rich berries.

Hawthorn is a heart tonic both emotionally and physically.

A few clinically proven highlights:

❤️ Regulates blood pressure, supporting both low and high BP conditions.

❤️ Lowers cholesterol dissolving calcium and plaque deposits supporting conditions such as Arteriosclerosis.

❤️Supports better circulation, helping blood get to the peripherals, indicated for cold hands and feet and conditions such as Raynaud's Disease.

Link in bio for our November workshop if you'd like more info, and DM or email to sign up!

'Balanced' A state of being in which the body is always naturally looking to come back to, should we give it the right environment.

Every body has a unique state of balance and will search for different qualities in order to balance depending on how we are in every arriving moment.

We are also influenced by our surroundings so we may also share some of these qualities due to the seasons or our immediate surroundings.

Our upcoming day retreat in November focuses on balance, firstly balancing the Autumn season which in Ayurveda is Vata, a time which naturally has more dryness, cold and movement. We may seek grounding and warm, moist food like soups and stews 🥰

Through practice and enquiry we also encourage you to tune into what you personally seek for balance at this time. Perhaps you need uplifting as the Winter draws close, or perhaps more rest, self care or social time due to other commitments.

We will practice yogasana together to connect body and mind, we then share a warm Ayurvedic lunch to balance. In the afternoon our special guest Claire Goulding .botanics will be giving us a 2hour workshop where we learn about the healing qualities of hawthorn, making an Oxymel to take home 🖤 We close the day with sound bath and nidra.

Full details in our bio. Early bird tickets currently on sale

How do you seek balance?

BALANCE

A day retreat to inspire and support.

We believe in being well, and have cocreated a very special day to bring you into your body, inspire a deep sense of listening, and support you through the transition to winter.

Early bird tickets available.

DM for more details.

🧡🍒🧡

Thankyou to all of you that showed an interest in our summer gathering this year!

We have hit capacity and are packing ready to go!

We will be back next week behind the laptop and will make sure to send those of you that didn't manage to get a space an email with next year's dates!

Lots of love and gratitude

Seanie + Shell

Happy Solstice folks!

We have been soaking up the sun, celebrating this time of new beginnings, marking the longest days of sun!

Solstice has been celebrated since the pagans holiday of Litha. When the sun ceases to rise anymore and we reach the peak!

Take time to feel the sun on your face, to feel gratitude for the energy fire gives us inside and out.

Last night I attended a beautiful fire ceremony and the guardian reminded us of the deep relationship fire has, how it takes anything we offer it and transforms it into fuel, into light, into warmth.

May your harvest be fruitful one and all.

Solo or couples bell tent accommodation!

Most of our retreat is in shared communal yurts, but we 1 bell tent available for 29th June weekend if you'd like to join us and feel like your own space would be more preferable.

We can take a couple, 2 friends or one solo applicant in this tent, please contact us for more details and you can see full retreat information on www.kutumbaretreats.com

Link also in bio

Book together and also receive 10% off!

KUTUMBA

Hey folks!

Do you know why we chose this name for our gatherings?

It was important for us to find a word that captured all of our intentions, something that really held the roots and also allowed our offerings to grow in whatever way they needed to.

Sanskrit is a rich, and deep language and most words have many meanings.

Kutumba literally translates to mean family. When you research deeper it can also invite us to create a string family, a healthy community.

We knew this was the one, our intention is to include, to bring together and nurture the things us humans need to flourish.

Come and join us this summer, exploring your inner connection and forming new loving friendships.

29th June - 3rd July


30 minutes from Bristol, lift shares available.

See you there!

Glamping Yurt Accommodation

Our retreats bring you closer to nature, nestled into the surroundings as much as possible.

For our June Retreat, home for the weekend is the gorgeous in the Wye Valley, Wales. We are so delighted that the sun is shining and Summer is in full swing!

They're yurts are bright and cosy, each with its own decking, and seats that overlook the whole site, the perfect spot for your morning cuppa :)

Each yurts also has its own bathroom, and bath (we love this :) ), and the kitchen space is a communal terrace to relax with your fellow retreaters!

We can't wait to bring you to this site in 2 weeks!!

We still have a couple of last spaces available if you feel called to join us on a journey of nourishment.

Full details on the website! Link in bio or www.kutumbaretreats.com

Here's what our wonderful guests have to say about our retreat. We appreciate your feedback so much!

And it helps us shape our future experiences to support you even further on your journey and making your trip away for the weekend as easeful as possible.

This year we listened and bought our retreat closer to Bristol. We also added an extra day which also made the commute easier on a Thursday, hurrah!

Meet Claire! Our Summer retreat massage therapist :)

This June the lovely Claire will be staying with us for the weekend and offering a range of treatments that will help sooth and settle your system as you land in the beautiful surroundings of the Wye Valley.

Claire is offering holistic, aromatherapy, reflexology and Indian head massage from a gorgeous bell tent.

If you'd like to join us in June and book a treatment with Claire, full retreat details are on the link in our bio, we have spaces available to stay in the gorgeous yurts!

is a beautiful oasis in the heart of the Wye Valley and we can't wait to spend a weekend of nourishment with you!

The power of touch!

Recieving love through conscious touch through the medium of massage, reiki, bodywork, holding, hugging, holding hands…. the list goes on.

Touch is the first of our senses to develop and remains emotionally central throughout our lives.

Massage in particular can allow us to understand the flow of energy within the body in a deeper way, working with the fascia, we can unravel.

Research suggests that being touched can also lower your heart rate and blood pressure, lessen depression and anxiety, boost your immune system and even relieve pain!

Simply put it’s an important part of well-being.

We have some amazing people within our community who offer touch.

There is always magic happening in the kitchen on retreat.

Whether it's the love that's being poured into the food, the creativity that's arising, new flavours being created or the guests that can't seem to stop congregating and wondering what's for dinner...

The kitchen is a buzzing hub of excitement and positive energy!

Our chefs are passionate about using seasonal and fresh wholefoods, making the body come alive.

Food is one gateway in for prana (life force) to nourish not only our mind and body but our soul.

The food we serve on retreat is so important and a huge part of our offering.

Meal time brings a grounding energy, a time to connect with others and nourish. We like to find a fine balance between food to inspire and food to feed the soul. Food that feels electric but also a home from home!

When the food is good, it enriches the experience on retreat... imspiration flows, old memories are sparked and new ones are created.

Our chef this June is , vegan and lover of plants! As a yogi and massage therapist Anz also understands the power of food on retreat and can feel into just what you might need to balance the day and warm your belly with absolute delight!

Spaces available for our June Wye Valley Retreat, link in bio!

Sacred Song

Our special guest on this June is the wonderful ! She brings her incredible voice to warm our souls and hearts on the Sunday afternoon.

Sacred Song can be medicine in many ways, and for some of us that might be an inspiration to find our voice too. Whether through song, asking for what we need or establishing boundaries… finding voice can help us step into our power. To understand that our thoughts, opinions amd gifts matter.

Song creates vibration, vibration can release and release encourages flow.

Eliza sits close to both our hearts as we've journeyed with her on a few occasions including our advanced teacher training so we can't wait to have her on retreat with us!

To sing a sacred song is a deeply powerful and intimate practice that has the power to bypass the clutter of the mind and anchor us into the power of the spiritual heart.

These songs are prayers woven in time, of time and for us all to keep remembering that which is sacred.

Since we began back in 2021 we have carefully selected our guests to come and join us on retreat bringing with them their gifts and powerful voices.

was our first guest! His tribal, powerful yet gentle presence was medicine to us all during lockdown.

2022 our dear sister Tallulah Rendall weaves her prayers, her beautiful voice is still echoing in our hearts today.

This year we are very excited and honoured to have Eliza Hope Kenyon Medicine Singer in concert for us on the Sunday afternoon. Eliza has been a part of our teaching journey and it feels so good to have her here this year.

To all our guests past, present and future we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the voices you bring and the medicine you create.

https://www.kutumbaretreats.com/special-guests

✨️ Opening to Receive ✨️

When the body is relaxed we are spacious. When the body is stressed we create a contracted localised awareness.

Spaciousness allows us to be open to receive, for we cannot receive when there is no space.

Just a plant needs room to grow, we also need room to grow.

Being around nature can help us relax and draw us in the para sympathetic nervous system, the state in which the body is healing and always searching for homestasis.

Our retreats are set deep in nature to help you soften and relax into our offerings that also encourage you to unwind and receive, and also help you define more of what you may need in your life to create spaciousness in your day to day.

Can you notice the parts of your life that are spacious and give gratitude to that?

Spaces available on our June retreat.... full details www.kutumbaretreats.com

✨️ Community ✨️ is at the core of us here Kutumba

🍃 Retreat into Nature 🍃

Kutumba Retreats take place amongst the elements, helping us feel more at home, as we are part of nature afterall…

The elements gift us with inspiration to support our unfolding, flourishing and healing.

Each retreat we arrive with an opening circle, welcoming in what you might need from the next few days together. Intention, awareness and acceptance can help you leave feeling more balanced, joyful and at peace.

✨️ Exciting update for Summer retreat! ✨️

Hello everyone, we have some wonderful news for you! This has been brewing for a little while and we are delighted to announce that our special guests for our June Summer retreat will be the incredible Eliza Hope Kenyon Medicine Singer ♥️

Joining for the Sunday afternoon for a special intimate concert Eliza will be warming our soul with beautiful song. Eliza sits close to both our hearts as we've journeyed with her on a few occasions including our advanced teacher training over 2022 so it feels so right to welcome her to the Kutumba retreat this Summer.

See the recording below of Eliza live earlier this year.

https://youtu.be/WVdi7lL3D1A

Also we are getting lots of questions about payment plans, yes we can support you! Please reach out if you need some help making this possible and you would like to join us.

Warm Wishes,

S+S

Full details here: www.flowwithshell.com/retreat

Eliza Hope Kenyon

Hello Everyone! We have 3 spaces left for our mini afternoon retreat on Sunday. Reach out if you feel called! Or bookings via this link: https://bookwhen.com/space238?start=2023-03-05T00%3A00%3A00.000%2B00%3A00 =ev-sii7-20230305130000

YOGA. GONG BATH. FOOD.

✨️ March Afternoon Retreat ✨️ Sunday 5th March Space 238

Music, food and yoga, the sacred trio that lies at the heart of Kutumba ❤️

Kutumba is the sanskrit for family and we believe that the more we connect to self love, the more we find our truth and tribe 🙌🏻

Time on the mat offers each of us the space to remember and reconnect. Space to listen to our body and understand what may be needed to stay balanced. Self love and time to listen within allows us to show up more present and fully with others.

We have a gorgeous afternoon of nourishment planned inviting you to move, play, rest and connect over a delicious heart warming meal from the cafe.

Many of our amazing Kutumba family will be here so a great chance to come say hi and reconnect 🥰

Our Kutumba tribe is growing! Your ticket from this event can be offset against our Summer retreat if you’d like to join us in June too!

DM to book

Love Seanie + Shell
Seanie Louise Flow with Shell - Yoga and AcroYoga Classes in Bristol

**Tickets for this event can be offset against our Summer retreat if you'd like to join us in June!**