Soulstar & Self Recovery

https://www.soulstar-wellness.com/event-details/sacred-rhythms-where-love-lives

Time & Location
15 Aug 2026, 12:00 – 16 Aug 2026, 17:00

Nab Cottage, Rydal, Ambleside LA22 9SD, UK

About the event
Sacred Rhythms: Where Love Lives. August Weekender at Nab Cottage

August Sat 15th–16th | Rydal Water, Lake District

In the last weekend of June we gathered, we danced, we breathed and we connected in a way that surprised even us. The feedback has been extraordinary, and the energy in that barn, in the lake, around the BBQ, told us everything we needed to know: this is something special, and people want more of it.

So we're doing it again, before the summer slips away.

We're inviting you to join us for a weekend Sacred Rhythms experience at Nab Cottage, a stunning and atmospheric barn setting tucked between Rydal Water and Ambleside, surrounded by fells, fresh air and that particular Lake District stillness that makes everything feel a little more possible.

This isn't a big scale production. It's intimate by design. We're keeping it to fourteen people, so the connections are real, the conversations and experiences go deep, and everyone gets the space they need to fully arrive.

Saturday

Arrive from mid day and settle in. We come together for dinner amid the beautiful surroundings of Bridlewater in Ambleside, then head to Nab's Historic Barn for an evening social with a difference. A proper throwback to the house and soulful house classics of the 1990s and 2000s. The kind of set that gets shoulders moving and voices joining in, whether you meant them to or not.

Through simple breathwork woven into the evening, you'll be gently guided to let go of self-consciousness, quiet the inner critic, and move with freedom. No pressure, no dance experience required. Just follow the breath, trust the beats, and let the music do the rest.

Relaxed, joyful, a little nostalgic. Finish around 11pm, because Sunday really matters….

Sunday

Breakfast from 8am, then into the heart of the weekend. From 10am to 4pm, with a break at midday, we'll move through breathwork, qigong, yoga, ecstatic dance, soundscapes and time for reflection and connection, each practice building on the last, designed to open something up rather than just tick a box.

We'll close the way these things should close: a barbecue together, a dip in the lake, the whirlpool bath and sauna waiting for tired bodies and open hearts.

Overnight stay included. There is a choice of 7 rooms, some twin, some single, some en suite, some shared bathrooms.

Its beauty is in its shared simplicity. All meals included. Please ask for more details.

Nab Cottage has a rare kind of magic after dark, and the weekend is built around the rhythm of arriving, settling, and staying present together, not just dropping in for a session and driving home.

Spaces are strictly limited to fourteen, and after last week we expect this to move quickly.

In summary:
Arrive Saturday afternoon with options for reiki and massage.

Saturday Evening Dinner and Afterparty in the amazing barn

Saturday Night Accommodation (inc breakfast on Sunday)

Sunday 10-5 Sacred Rhythms Event @ Nab Cottage, qi gong, yoga, beats, breathwork, somatic release, soundscape, dance, lunch snacks, refreshments and BBQ

Come on in, come on in where love lives.

Sacred Rhythms - Where Love Lives | Soulstar Sacred Rhythms August Nab Weekender - Spaces are strictly limited to fourteen, and after last month's response, we expect this to move quickly. Come on in, come on in — where love lives.

A little Friday Round-Up from Soulstar

What a week.

We’re are nearly one week on from the retreat already!!! However the glow is still very much with us all. Watching people arrive carrying so much and leave a little lighter that never gets old. Again Thank you to everyone who was part of it.

Looking ahead, our next event is coming together beautifully, this time an overnight stay at Nab Cottage. Where there will be more space, more time, more of the deep work, In fact more of everything that equates to goodness. Dates are confirmed for August and details are coming very soon. If your body is already saying yes, keep an eye on this page.

For those following the Balearics Beats & Breath series “the Ibiza chapter” the mid season gathering is almost here. This one is a little hotter, a little wilder, and a little more electric. At this event the landing has already been and We are partnering with a club night to bring a natural high experience to the island and the bay, no substances needed, it’s hugs not drugs. The natural high just breath, sound and the kind of collective energy that Ibiza does better than anywhere on earth.
This event is fully booked but we’re building a reservation list for any last-minute spaces. Drop me a message if you want to be on it.

As for me, I’ve had a fabulous week half in the studio at Soulstar and half out in the world. And this weekend I’m heading into a family weekend with the people I love most. Exactly the kind of medicine I need.

Happy Friday, everyone. Rest well.

You asked for it. I listened.

You wanted mindfulness I got qualified. You wanted movement I was already trained in breathwork & qigong. We added matcha because sometimes you just need something warm to hold.

Introducing Matcha, Mindfulness & Movement a monthly reset for your body, mind & spirit.,

A little matcha. A little qigong. Some breathwork. Some honest conversation about why we all need this one intentional moment a month.

Places are limited. Booking opens soon.

Be here. Be you. Belong.
Drop a 🍵 below if you want to be added to the waiting list.

You asked for it. I listened.

You wanted mindfulness I got qualified. You wanted movement I was already trained in breathwork & qigong. We added matcha because sometimes you just need something warm to hold.

Introducing Matcha, Mindfulness & Movement a monthly reset for your body, mind & spirit.,

A little matcha. A little qigong. Some breathwork. Some honest conversation about why we all need this one intentional moment a month.

Places are limited. Booking opens soon.

Be here. Be you. Belong.
Drop a 🍵 below if you want to be added to the waiting list.

LET ME TELL YOU -
Your body isn't broken

LET ME SAY IT AGAIN TO YOU-
Your body isn't broken.

WHAT YOUR BODY IS -
It's been brilliant at protecting you.

Every time you freeze in a difficult conversation, avoid conflict, or feel completely overwhelmed by something that seems small that's not weakness. That's a nervous system that learned, at some point, that these responses kept you safe.

The problem isn't the protection. The problem is when that protection runs on autopilot long after the threat has gone.

This is where somatic work begins not by fighting your body's responses, but by gently teaching it that it's safe to respond differently now.

At Soulstar, this is the foundation of everything I do.

Save this if it resonates. Someone in your life might need to hear it too.

There is something beautifully different about this photo.

Usually, at a retreat or event, my camera roll is overflowing. I’m capturing moments, taking behind-the-scenes photos, and making sure every special memory is documented.

But after Journey From Solstice, I noticed something… there was hardly anything there.

At first, I wondered why. Then my wonderful collaborators started sharing their photos, and it became so clear.

This time, I wasn’t behind the camera.

I was completely present.

I was breathing, moving, laughing, connecting, holding space, receiving, and joining in alongside everyone else. Instead of documenting every moment, I was living it.

And I think this photo captures that perfectly.

It’s a gentle reminder that sometimes the most meaningful moments aren’t the ones we photograph they’re the ones we fully experience.

Thank you to everyone who made this retreat so magical. AND a mega Thank you to the beautiful souls Christiana and CH who were much better at multi tasking and managed to be present, to enjoy partake and captured the moments I was too busy to get.

My heart is so full.

Your body has been keeping score.

Every time you swallowed your words, smiled through the discomfort, or held your breath to keep the peace your nervous system felt it. The jaw tension. The tight chest. The exhaustion that sleep can’t fix.

That’s not weakness. That’s your body holding what your voice wasn’t allowed to say.

The path to healing isn’t just in the mind it lives in the body, in the breath, in finally letting the truth move through you instead of getting stored inside you.

You don’t have to perform calm anymore.

Listen to your body. Honour it. Speak it. Release it.

What has your body been trying to tell you lately? Drop it in the comments this is a safe space.

Journey from Solstice

A tribute. A memory. A beginning.

It started with a feeling.

February. A cottage called Nab. A door that opened not just into a building, but into something softer a place that held you before you even asked to be held. I stood in that stillness and felt it: and knew right in the first breath that this was just somewhere that something truly special could happen.

And so the question was asked, quietly at first, then with growing courage could we? dare we? would they come?

CH a little hesitant, this threw me as he was usually always a YES, Christina took no persuading, she like me was a resounding we absolutely must!

Then Ellie, across a dinner table, gave CH and I a soft nudge that only the truly confident can give not a push, but a permission. You are ready. Do it.

And so Journey from Solstice was born. A follow-on, a honouring, a deepening of what we had already begun together. This was not just an event. This was an act of creative courage from a trio who believed that what we had to offer was worth the risk of offering it fully.

What followed was the beautiful chaos of creation.

Voice notes at odd hours. Track after track considered, felt, accepted, released. The three of us, in months of constant conversation, a thread of what about this, yes, no, how does it fit, what does it need, where does it land. The timing. The sequencing. The crafting of something that had never existed before and could only exist because we three chose to go all in and to make it together.

We knew we were not just planning an event. We were composing an experience.

We arrived at Nab the night before, and as soon as we arrive I felt it again that same softness, that same safety, that quiet of a place that wraps around you and says rest here, you are looked after. We slept well. We ate well. We were absolutely held by Ellie and Paul our hosts in this their extraordinary home, a place that gives without asking, that nourishes without fuss.

And in the morning, we were ready. The women came. They brought everything they had their tiredness, their longing, their open hands and willing hearts. And what was waiting for them was a day that moved through the body like breath itself.

We moved through yoga sequences anchored to heartbeat. We explored somatic release the kind that asks the body to speak what words cannot. We raised our vibrations through sound and beat frequencies that seemed to bypass the thinking mind entirely and land somewhere older, truer. We danced with Ecstatica wild, free, ungoverned. We cold-dipped. We were still. We were loud, and we praised. Boy did we praise.

We raised the roof. This is what happens when women gather not to compete but to rise.

When the energy in a room is not comparison but communion. When the woman beside you is not a mirror for your insecurity but a witness to your becoming. A community was built this day at Nab Cottage not from sameness, but from shared willingness to feel, to move, to be moved.

New beginnings, beating.

To Christina and CH thank you for saying yes when it would have been easier to wait. For the voice notes and the vision, for the trust that what we were making was worth making. It was.

To Ellie and Paul Nab Cottage is not just a place. It is a presence. Thank you for sharing it, and for the quiet generosity with which you hold everyone who steps through your door.

To every woman who came you were not just attendees. You were co-creators. You brought the energy that made the energy possible.

Journey from Solstice was one day.

The next one is already waiting.

If you felt called to read this you are already invited.

Breathwork & the body’s need for safety.

It can be hard to explain why safety matters so much in a breathwork session.

Many of us have seen or lived the cathartic style: fierce rocking, wailing, screaming for release. I’ve been there. At the time I loved it, craved it, wanted more. And I understand why.

But something has shifted for me.

Now I experience breathwork differently. Transformation doesn’t require intensity. Even 5 minutes of coherent breathing can move something profound because the body responds so beautifully to balance, to stillness, to being held.

The body doesn’t want to relive trauma. It doesn’t want to crash out of its window of tolerance. It wants to witness old emotions, feel energy shift, make conscious connections.

Healing happens when the body feels safe enough to say ok, I’m ready to let some of this go.

When we lose touch with the body’s subtle cues of release because we’re caught up in cathartic noise we don’t heal. We spiral.

Safety isn’t passive. It’s the foundation that makes real transformation possible.

This is the beauty for me of Soulstar and Sacred Rhythms we encourage witnessing not bypassing.