Equinox Retreat Cleanse, Release & Recharge

March 21st 💚

Back by popular demand is another one of our sell out Saturday retreats with our incredible resident teachers Julie Karmel & Claire Behrens 🌷

🌼 You will be able to deep dive into your yoga practice with 2 x two hour yoga, breathwork, mediation and crystal bowl healing workshops, delicious food, saunas and therapies. This is perfect for those who need to hit the reset button after a long dark Winter and need a Spring reboot & energetic recharge 🤸‍♀️

🌼We are delighted that our fabulous friend Tara from Boul Kitchen will be providing delicious seasonal & detoxing food 🥗🫚🥕🥙

🌱9:30am arrivals & cacao intention setting in the barn

🌱10am-11.30am Morning dynamic Flow Class

🌱12pm-2pm Rolling Long Table Boul Kitchen lunch

🌱11.30am-2.30pm Time for saunas, acupuncture, reflexology or massage

🌱2.30pm-4pm restorative yoga and Crystal Healing Sound

🌱 4pm-4.30pm Closing circle and goodbyes

Date: Saturday 21st March
Time: 9:30 - 4:30pm
Price: £125

Spring Equinox Afternoon Reset with Claire and Dervla

A long afternoon of Saunas, Yoga and Sound.  Press the Spring reset button with detoxing saunas, invigorating cold plunges, retorative Yoga and blissful Sound Bath.  Perfect for those who can't give up a Saturday but crave a few hours of nuturing and release.

Date: Friday 20th March
Time: 1:30 - 4:30pm
Price: £55

With Rachael Richards and Claire

Conscisous Connected Breathwork & Yin Yoga Workshop - Cleanse & Clear, Root & Rise.  This incredibly potent two hour workshop will combine the powerful practices of Yin Yoga and Breathwork.  We will be working to activate the Spring energy within, to release deep stress and activate healing.

Date: Tuesday 17th March
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Price: £45

Breathwork

Guided blissful breathwork deepens the connection to self, sooths the nervous system and prepares us to enter contrast therapy grounded in purpose and intention.  Preparation of mind and body deepens the impact and starts us from a place of calm and balance.

Just Breathe is a six week breathwork programme for those wanting journey breathwork or deepen their practice. 

Each week we will be diving deeper and deeper into this blissful meditation.  The perfect way to check out, de-stress and ready the mind and body for the coming weekend.

Dates: 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th March (every Thursday) 7pm - 8pm

Join Claire & Dervla for a deeply soulful evening to honour the New Moon 🌑 which marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year and the end of the year of the snake 🐍

Release that last layer and soften into the pause and the quietness that the dark moon naturally brings. The perfect time for reflection, release, letting go and looking forward to new beginnings with a peaceful open heart.

The Chinese New Year in 2026 will usher in the Year of the Fire Horse, starting on February 17, 2026, and signifies dynamic energy, ambition, and freedom, following the Year of the Snake. This elemental combination brings a focus on progress, passion, and decisive action, urging pursuit of personal goals with determination

£45 6pm-8.30pm

6pm arrival to a warming cup of cacao & a little quiet moment to set your intention for the evening

6.15pm-7.30pm Breathwork, Meditation & deeply Restorative Yoga.

7.30pm-8.15pm Sound bath

Drift home on a cloud of bliss ✨

Contrast therapy is the ancient practice of using both hot and cold to induce a multitude of health benefits. Combining Phil's background as a certified breathwork facilitator and ice bath guide and Vicki’s certification in Sauna Mastery we’ve developed a truly unique contrast therapy workshop to help educate and immerse you in an unforgettable experience.

Breathwork

Guided blissful breathwork deepens the connection to self, sooths the nervous system and prepares us to enter contrast therapy grounded in purpose and intention.  Preparation of mind and body deepens the impact and starts us from a place of calm and balance.

Cold water immersion (Vasoconstriction)

Starting (and ending) on cold we teach you how to gently warm the blood and calm your breathing before entering the cold in a best safe practice way. We’ll teach you about timings = benefit and how the system works using the cold as a hermetic stressor to activate the deepest parts of your physiology for contrast with heat.

Sauna (Vasodilation)

Using the latest science from some of the worlds leading experts as well as our own training we’ll guide you through best practice and how to use the sauna to it’s full advantage while practicing contrast therapy. We aim to expel the myths around timings and temperature and maximise the wonderful benefits of sauna in contrast therapy.

The contrast connection

The most important element of contrast therapy is timing, temperature and how to glide between the two.

£50

The Snow Moon signifies endurance, patience and the quiet strength needed to get through Winter. Take this time in the sauna to stoke your inner fire and gather strength.

You will experience a scented sauna ritual and body scrubs with essential oils that support this full moon all set to the perfect soundtrack. Juice shots and herbal teas also included.

£30.00 (4 spaces left!)

Sunday January 25th Men’s Fire & Ice Retreat (one more space left!)

Wim Hoff Inspired Breathwork, Sauna, Guided Ice Bathing

With Phil Gilbert

Come join us for a fantastic six hour workshop designed exclusively for men.

Gather around the warmth of the fire as we share stories, engage in honest discussions, and ignite our ambitions for the coming year. Experience guided activities that will help you confront your fears, shed old patterns, and awaken the strength within you.

Whether you seek personal growth, camaraderie, or clarity in your life’s direction, the Fire and Ice Winter Workshop offers a supportive space for self discovery and deeper connections.  Embrace this opportunity to ignite your spirit, and step into the new year with renewed purpose. 

What to expect;

• Body movement

• Blissful yet powerful breathwork

• Talking Sauna 

• Ice bath challenge

• Tug of war

• Hot food around the fire and reflections

Refreshments will be served throughout the day.  

Let us be the guides of your curiosity while remembering that all activities on the day are optional.

 10pm-4pm £125

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT AVAILABLE UNTIL 25TH DECEMBER - CONTACT FOR CODE

✨ January 24th 9:30am-4:30pm is our Saturday retreat with our incredible resident teacher Julie Karmel 🧘‍♀️

You will be able to deep dive into your yoga practice with 2 x two hour yoga, breathwork, mediation and crystal bowl healing workshops, delicious food, saunas and therapies. This is perfect for those who need to hit the reset button after a long summer of juggling work and school holidays and need a reboot before the autumn starts 🔥🍂

We are delighted that our fabulous friend Tara from Boul Kitchen will be providing delicious seasonal food over both days.

Deep dive into your yoga practice with our incredible resident teacher Julie Karmel

✨ 9:30am arrivals & cacao intention setting in the barn

✨ 10am-11.30am Morning dynamic Flow Class

✨ 11.45am-12.30pm Long Table Boul Kitchen lunch

✨ 12.30pm-2.30pm Time for saunas, acupuncture, reflexology or massage

✨ 2.30pm-4pm restorative yoga and Crystal Healing Sound

✨ 4pm-4.30pm Closing circle and goodbyes

This is perfect for those who need to hit the reset button after a long summer of juggling work and school holidays and need a reboot before the autumn starts 🔥🍂

We are delighted that our fabulous friend Tara from Boul Kitchen will be providing delicious seasonal food over both days 🫚🥕🥙

£125

Sunday January 18th Slow Sunday Session

Pilates Brunch Club with Saunas & Cold Plunges

With Becky Uden & Claire Behrens

9am-12.30pm £65

💫Join Nina Leeming of How to Love Your Garden & Claire Behrens aka The Acupuncturist for a special Winter wreath-making workshop, using locally foraged greenery and berries.. with a luxury twist of ribbons, feathers, cacao, restorative yoga, mindfulness & Wintering magic.

”We love being able to use locally foraged Sussex materials, enabling people to create a something that has a unique sense of place. Each wreath will be personalised by hand-picked seed heads and grasses, stunning feathers and an array of luxurious velvet ribbons to bring Christmas into the heart of your home. Come along and celebrate Winter with us.“

💫10am - Arrival into the yoga studio in the field. Claire will serve a warming & invigorating cup of cacao and guide you into a 20 minute seated mindful breathwork & meditation session. This will help ground you into moment and help unleash the inner artistic & creative flow.

💫10.30pm-12.30pm - Inspiring Wreath making workshop In the yoga studio

💫12.45pm - A delicious & nurturing seasonal lunch will be served around the kitchen table by Ayurvedic Chef Jo Lentaigne.

💫2pm-3.45pm: Claire will guide you through a Deeply Restorative yoga class into a 30minute yoga nidra meditation. Which is also called Yoga Sleep! Claire loves to chose the most beautiful soundtrack to aid feelings of release, peace and healing.

💫3.45pm Nourishing Energy balls and warm tea with be served to send you on your way home

💫You will leave the day feeling inspired with your stunning luxury Wreath and also deeply nourished and relaxed. The perfect antidote to the festive frenzy! Come and enjoy some Winter magic with us ✨

Time: 10am-4pm

Price: £110

Sunday November 23rd Slow Sunday Session

Saunas, Cold Plunges, Cacao & Pilates

With Becky Uden & Claire Behrens

9.15am-11.45am £45

(Early bird price £40 until 31.10.25)

Reclaim your Midlife Confidence
Ignite your inner Sparkle and Outer Glow

Thursday November 20th

Midlife make up, Styling, Facial Massage and Mindset shifting Workshops

With Jojo Blackwood, Emma Massingham, Chloe Lindsay Fynn and Claire Behrens

9am-4.30pm £165

(Early bird price £145 until 31.10.25)

💫 9am arrival to a warming cup of cacao & positive intention setting

💫 9.30am- 10.45am Emma’s Glow Up Facial Workshop

💫 Short break for loo, herbal teas, coffee and healthy energy balls

💫 11.15am-1.15pm - Midlife Makeup for Confidence with Jojo Blackwood

💫 1.30pm-3pm A healthy seasonal lunch with Stylist tips on shape and colour with Chloe served with a glass of bubbles 🥂

💫 3pm-4.15pm Rest, release, breathe and let go.  Mindful yoga, breathwork and Yoga Nidra aka Sleep.

💫 4.30pm Leave with a spring in your step and a head and heart full of useful tools

We’d like to do a clothes swap too. If everyone can have a rummage in their wardrobe for two preloved items in their wardrobe that no longer suit them or fit.  And we will have some festive dressing up fun!

✨GLOW UP FACIAL WORKSHOP✨

Emma Massingham form Space treatments, has over 25 years experience in holistic techniques, body work, holistic facials and yoga. She draws on all her lived experience to curate bespoke treatments and deliver workshops which are practical, educational and fun.  We will start with a grounding somatic practice and a lymphatic drainage sequence, to ready the body for face work.

We will make a bespoke oil suited to your skin type to aid our practical facial massage workshop. 

Techniques we will learn: 

✨Fascia release techniques

✨Face mapping

✨Lifting and sculpting massage techniques to tone, lift and encourage blood and lymph flow. 

✨As well as facial yoga techniques to really create lasting  lift for the face.

✨All of these techniques can be taken home to create an at home ritual as Consistency is key.

Learn life long skills to keep your face glowing and beaming out beauty from the inside out.

✨MIDLIFE MAKEUP MASTERCLASS✨

Jojo Blackwood, an accomplished MUA with 15 years experience in the industry will help you build self confidence, empowerment and self growth in this time of reinvention with a 2 hour hands on Practical Lesson, advice on all skin types and skin tones.

With the use of your own capsule makeup kit and her extensive knowledge and top tips, she will teach you how to unearth the secret to creating flawless, glowing skin.  Cracking the technique for hooded eyes, product placement, contouring, concealing dark circles, magically changing the shape of your face and features, lips plus much more.  

Discover exciting, just to the market products and a must have for your kit.

✨COLOUR & CONFIDENCE CONVERSATION✨

❤️Boosts Confidence

Wearing the right colours that compliment your natural tones makes such a difference to how you look and feel ✨

💙Enhances your mood

Knowing your colours helps you to choose colours that uplift your mood and has the ability create more calm, joy and more vibrant energy ✨

💛Simplify decision making

At a time in our lives where it feel like there is decision after decision to be made sometimes dressing for everyday or occasions can feel incredibly overwhelming. Knowing what colours work with your skin tone helps so much ✨

💚 Self acceptance

Embracing colours that suit you encourages a positive relationship with how you look and feel ✨

Love Chloe xx

✨REST, RELEASE, BREATHE & LET GO✨

Claire Behrens and founder of The Acupuncturist and our Wellness program at New House Farm.  She has been working in the health & wellbeing industry since she discovered Yoga in 1996.  She has a degree in Physiology & Psychology and has spent 25 years studying Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yoga, Nutrition, Meditation, Health Coaching and has been hosting wellbeing events for 20 years.  She is devoted to facilitating and helping people feel the best version of themselves.

Claire will end the day so that you can marinade in and contain all the good vibes the day.  Self acceptance and self belief often start with a balanced nervous system and balanced hormones. This is why in the midlife we start to yo-yo all over the place with our self image.  So after six hours of fun filled enquiring and being inspired, Claire wants to lead you into a deeply hypnotic restorative body practice, where we will embody all the positive words, feelings and learnings and let them marinate into our hearts & minds.  Where ultimately self love & acceptance originates from.  Our heart hears what our mind says. And where attention goes, positive energy flows.  We will close our day with 20 minutes of Yoga Nidra to a beautiful soulful soundtrack to carry you away into a deep rest state.  Letting you finish your day on a cloud of contentment & bliss.

Sunday November 16th Contrast Therapy Experience
Wim Hoff Inspired Breathwork, Yoga, Sauna, Guided Ice Bathing

With Phil Gilbert And Claire Behrens

9am-12:30pm £75

(Early bird price £65 until 09.11.25)

Hosted by Claire & taught by Becky from Uden Pilates

✨ 9am arrival to coffee & cacao & group one saunas

✨ 10am Pilates magic circle workshop in the barn with Becky

✨ 11am Saunas for group 2 and relaxing time reading, relaxing in the garden or barn

✨ 12pm Brunch

The Soulful Session Series - episode 4

Full moon Saunas, Cacao, Restorative Yoga & Crystal Bowl Sound Healing

4.30pm -6pm : saunas & cold plunges in the garden

6pm-7.30pm : full moon cacao circle intention setting into restorative yoga with healing crystal sound.

✨ September 20th 9.30am-4.30pm is our first Saturday retreat with our incredible resident teacher Julie Karmel 🧘‍♀️

You will be able to deep dive into your yoga practice with 2 x two hour yoga, breathwork, mediation and crystal bowl healing workshops, delicious food, saunas and therapies. This is perfect for those who need to hit the reset button after a long summer of juggling work and school holidays and need a reboot before the autumn starts 🔥🍂

We are delighted that our fabulous friend Tara from Boul Kitchen will be providing delicious seasonal food over both days.

Deep dive into your yoga practice with our incredible resident teacher Julie Karmel

✨ 9.30am arrivals & cacao intention setting in the barn

✨ 10am-11.30am Morning dynamic Flow Class

✨ 11.45am-12.30pm Long Table Boul Kitchen lunch

✨ 12.30pm-2.30pm Time for saunas, acupuncture, reflexology or massage

✨ 2.30pm-4pm restorative yoga and Crystal Healing Sound

✨ 4pm-4.30pm Closing circle and goodbyes

This is perfect for those who need to hit the reset button after a long summer of juggling work and school holidays and need a reboot before the autumn starts 🔥🍂

We are delighted that our fabulous friend Tara from Boul Kitchen will be providing delicious seasonal food over both days 🫚🥕🥙

✨Join us on Friday September 19th 10am-5pm - for a smorgasbord day of Functional Fitness, Yoga, Pilates, Sound Baths, Saunas, Ice baths & Breathwork with founder Claire, resident teachers Julie & Becky, our fabulous therapists Dervla & Isabelle and guest facilitators Nicole Croft, Rachael Richards and Phil from Salt Path Coaching. Pick and mix from the amazing array of talented wellbeing experts to create your dream day of wellness and relaxation 🫶🏼

Included in the price

✨ health shot on arrival

✨ 3 x yoga/pilates/fitness/Breathwork classes

✨group sound bath with renown opera singer Dervla

✨ picnic style Boul Food long table lunch (in the barn if wet)

✨ Thrive in the menopause Talk

✨ Sauna/Cold plunge

✨ Closing fireside ceremony

Not included in the price Reflexology, Massage & facial treatments and 1-1 Wimhof style contrast therapy session with Phil

The soulful session series episode 3
June 11th

Strawberry Full Moon🍓🌕 🌾
17.30-20.30pm
£45

SOLD OUT
email bookings@theacupuncturist.life to be added to a waitlist

• 5.30pm -6.30pm Hot Saunas & cold plunges by the pond

• 6.30pm - Claire’s signature spicy Cacao & intention setting in the magical barn

• 7pm - 8pm Restorative yoga into deep Yin

• 8pm - 8.30pm Crystal sound healing with Julie

• Full moon rising by the fire pit in the field

The Strawberry Moon 🌕 is one of the farthest full moons from the sun simply because Earth's orbit 🌍🌞 of the sun is slightly elliptical. That means there's a closest point and a farthest point in its orbit.

June's full moon, called the Strawberry Moon, will also be the first full moon of the summer. And because of how low the full moon will be positioned, it will appear larger than normal and may even appear to have a golden or orange tint 🧡

The 🍓🌕 is a powerful reminder that if you work toward something, your dreams 💫 can come true. As such, when it appears in the sky 🌌 , it'll light up your path and guide you toward positive growth and transformation 🙌

The Strawberry Moon 💛🍓 has to do with things coming into existence, or being illuminated ✨ It’s a time when people can see the fruits of their labor appear and they can gain deeper insight into how to achieve their goals.

June's full moon is in Sagittarius ♐️ while Jupiter is in Cancer ♋️ , which boosts our moods. It is also a good time to take stock of the blessings ✨ and abundance you have in your life while also slowing down and enjoying it all.

According to astrologer Popa, this month’s Strawberry Full Moon highlights the past while also looking toward one’s future. The Strawberry Moon is all about inviting people to reflect on how far they’ve come in their life and look forward to where they plan to go,” she shares. “This is a time to focus on all of your long-term plans and serious commitments.” ⚡️💥🔥

Community Sauna session - Hot & Cold Therapy

Community Sauna session - Hot & Cold Therapy

We are so excited to share the details of our Early Summer Beltane Celebrations 🌞🌸🌿

This is a time when Spring is at its peak and nature is bursting and blossoming with fertility and vibrancy. Beltane is a pagan ceremony that marks the halfway between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice. It is a time of year for dancing around the fire and rejoicing in the wonders of the changing seasons. It's the perfect time for celebrating fertility, but this doesn’t have to just be about making babies! It is also about curating a fertile mindset and rejoicing in abundant thinking, creativity and prosperity.

Here's what we have planned for each beautiful event:

🌿Beltane Celebrations - Thursday 1st May 2025 🌿

5pm-6pm saunas/cold therapy in the garden 🔥🛁🧊🌿

6pm-6.30pm cacao & mandala making moment under the oak trees 🌳🌤️🌸

6.45pm-8.30pm slow flow yoga into yin, breathwork crystal sound healing with Julie & Claire 💎🧘‍♀️🎶

Price - £40 without a treatment

Come and celebrate the passing of the Equinox and the arrival of Spring under the new moon

with Julie & Claire ✨ Thursday 10th April, 6pm-8.30pm

The Spring Equinox is all about celebrating the balance of light & dark.. of rebirth & growth and embracing change within the new season. So come and join us to ignite the Wood 🪵🌳 element within. We will sow the seeds of change within you, and let a more dynamic energy flow within. It’s a great time of year for a detox. And an energetic spring clean!

We must look after our bodies at the time of seasonal change. One day it’s sunny and warm, the next there is a chilly wind! So containing & preserving the Spring energy whilst our bodies start to stir with the ever increasing daily light is paramount. Spring is all about growth, rebirth & expansion, but we must not over do it. Like nature, there is no hurry right now to blossom & bloom

We will serve our signature spicy & warming Cacao on arrival and let you have 15mins of quiet time to reflect and journal 📝 what you’d like to let go of, what seeds of intent you’d like to bring into the evening and to plant with the arrival of Spring 🌷🌷🌷

Claire will open the class with gentle breathwork and mediation. Then Julie with ignite fire in our bellies with some dynamic but slow flowing yoga asana. Claire will take over and drop you into a deep Yin session before Julie seals the practice with crystal bowls, chanting & a long Savasana 🕉️

DM me or Julie to get on the presale list. Bookings going live on our website tomorrow

2pm-2pm Community Sauna session/ Hot & Cold Therapy 🔥🧊 £18pp

Come and celebrate the passing of Imbolc and the Snow Full Moon rising in the Eastern Sky 🌕🌌 with Julie & Claire ✨ Thursday 13th February, 6pm-8.30pm

As The Almanac teaches us so beautifully, Imbolc is the time of year when we begin to feel the earth quickening with signs of life 🌱Brave new shoots, who have survived the cold & dark are pushing through the hard earth to reach the light. The 1st of February marks the midpoint between the Winter Solstice 🩵& the Spring Equinox 🌙Although the sun is still low in the sky, it is rising a little further north, signifying a shift past the halfway point, and hence bringing with it a subtle quickening of hope. It is one of the major Celtic festivals celebrating light, fire & rebirth and a stirring of expectations of the season to come 🌿

🔥 Come and join us to ignite the inner flame within and to gently warm the earth of our new studio and of your own internal home. Just as the full moon in Leo inspires, we can radiate warm & vitality into our hearts, those of our family and of all our community.

☀️ We must thaw our cold bodies, like the earth too must do and gently awaken our energies with the ever increasing daily light. Gently but slowly, allowing radiance to flow in our hearts to to start to sow seeds of creative energy, while still taking things slowly and with care 🙌

🤎 We will serve our signature spicy & warming Cacao on arrival and let you have 15mins of quiet time to reflect and journal 📝 what you’d like to let go of, what seeds of intent you’d like to bring into the evening and to plant with the coming of Spring 🌷🌷🌷

🌬️ Claire will open the class with gentle breathwork and mediation. Then Julie with ignite fire in our bellies with some dynamic but slow flowing yoga asana. Claire will take over and drop you into a deep Yin session before Julie seals the practice with crystal bowls, chanting & a long Savasana 🕉️

A candlelit moment of quietness & reflection

Time: 4:30pm-7pm

Price: £35

Join Nina Leeming of How to Love Your Garden & Claire Behrens of Wild Wellbeing for a special Winter wreath-making workshop, using locally foraged greenery and berries.. with a luxury twist of ribbons, feathers, cacao & Wintering magic.

”We love being able to use locally foraged Sussex materials, enabling people to create a something that has a unique sense of place. Each wreath will be personalised by hand-picked seed heads and grasses, stunning feathers and an array of luxurious velvet ribbons to bring Christmas into the heart of your home. Come along and celebrate Winter with us.“

9.45am - Arrival into Claire’s cosy wellbeing studio.
Claire will serve a warming & invigorating cup of cacao and guide you into a 20 minute mindful breathwork & meditation session. This will help ground you into moment and help unleash the inner artistic & creative flow.

10.30 - 12.30pm - Inspiring Wreath making workshop
with Nina around Claire’s light filled kitchen table.

12.30pm - Lunch
Warming & nourishing spicy soup will be served to keep energies high before leaving around 1pm.

Come and enjoy some Winter magic with us

Time: 10am-1pm
Price: £75