Returning Home: The Felt Heart - a women’s somatic day retreat for strength, calm & inner renewal.
15 February 2026 10.00-16.00 Newton Meadows, Shropshire
Join me for a deeply nourishing day of connection, reflection, and embodied presence. Returning Home: The Felt Heart is my invitation to pause and return to yourself - through movement, breath, and stillness. This is a space to feel grounded, supported, and fully at home in your body connecting inot your heart in movement, breath and sound and its inner wisdom and messages.
Through an expert blend of Buff Bones®, Franklin Method®, and polyvagal-informed somatic practices of the Leven Institute you can expect:
💓 Somatic Movement & Embodied Journalling - Tune into the subtle language of your body and deepen self-awareness through gentle, guided practices.
💓 Buff Bones®️ for Grounded Strength -Explore bone and joint health in a way that feels empowering, accessible, and deeply supportive for your nervous system.
💓 Heart-Centred Breathwork - Awaken the felt sense of the heart and breath, calming the mind while creating spaciousness within.
💓 The Art of Self Soothing - through somatic self touch and sound
💓 Reflective Space in an Embodied way - Journalling prompts and soft somatic practices to guide you inward with care.
💓 Our setting is the beautiful Garden Rooms at Newton Meadows, where, weather permitting we will venture outside and carry out some of our practice. There are beautiful gardens to explore, the pine trees and on a clear day views of the Shropshire Hills. Inside we have a cosy log cabin for the day and real fire to active our own sense of inner cosy and wellbeing!
💓 A light vegetarian lunch is provided, and of course chocolate cake and hot chocolate, because life is about balance!
💓This retreat is for you if:
You long to slow down, reconnect with your body, and feel more grounded and present. Whether you're navigating midlife, seeking deeper embodiment, or simply in need of a day to realign - you’ll be held in a space of warmth, professionalism and care by a regulated expert in Somatic Movement Education and Somatic Movement Therapy as well as a faculty member of the renowned system of movement that is Buff Bones® designed for the needs of midlife women.
Leave feeling:
Replenished. Reconnected. Rooted in your body.
Empowered through softness.
And home.
Meeting yourself. 💓
Spaces on all of my retreats are limited to ensure a personal and spacious experience.
Reserve your place now and give yourself the gift of coming home.
Led by me, Sarah Pritchard - Level 4 Expert Franklin Method® Educator, Faculty Member of the Buff Bones® movement system which is designed for healthy bones and joints for women, Comprehensive Pilates Teacher, and Somatic Therapist completing her clinical supervision (Leven Institute) this immersive day retreat weaves together movement, mindfulness, and nervous system education to support deep restoration and lasting resilience. All of my work is regualted and externally verified giving you assurance of my qualifications, continuous training and expertise.
I’d love to welcome you back into your body for the season ahead with the special work and power of somatic movement and therapy and my unique expertise which comes from my lived experience.
Find your ground. Come home to your heart. Rest into your breath. Reconnect with your calm. Rediscover you.
This retreat requires you to be able to get up and down from the floor unaided. If you have current injuries or are working with a physiotherapist, therapist or are under medical supervision you need to message me before booking.
“Personally, I valued the space and the small group which created a very personal experience with a clear connection to the other participants, whose stories were very powerful. I loved the softness of the approach and the connection to the beautiful and powerful act of breathing and how breath connects to all systems of the body (the soma) including physical, emotional and spiritual. Breath is apparently such a simple act and yet such a beautiful act of self care and healing which can easily be incorporated into daily life and practice.”
“I attended your pelvic floor workshop about a month ago, and I wanted to thank you again. It was truly eye-opening for me, and I deeply value everything I learned. I can honestly say that the embodied approach you teach feels like something my body needs and deserves—especially after years of pushing my body and dealing with pudendal nerve inflammation a little over two years ago”
“The retreat day was so relaxing in terms of location- beautiful rural scenery, warm almost festive sense of comfort from the fire, and healthy snacks and drinks on offer. Sarah brought the potentially baffling area of somatics to life and made it really relatable. For someone like me with a significant eye issue I learned techniques to refresh tired eyes and feel more comfortable. It was fascinating to hear about the vagus nerve and how your well-being can be enhanced and senses enlivened and refreshed with somatic movements.”
