Women’s bodies: women’s wisdom: 6 days of deep healing on the Mediterranean
Sunday 4th October -
Friday 9th October 2026
You are a wise woman. You care for your loved ones and your community.
Your own body is also calling for care.
You don’t need another spa day. You don’t need more tea and chats.
We do love tea and chats… but we also know that talking about our lives isn’t enough to change our habits, heal our wounds, and embody a new way of being.
“I have fallen in love again… With myself, with my body… with my life.”
- Elisabeth
“This has truly been one of, if not the most wonderful weeks of my life!
I’ve loved every single moment of it all.”
- Kath
Calling our sensitive and soulful women!
Join us for Women’s Bodies: Women’s Wisdom, our 6-day somatic healing retreat on the Mediterranean Sea.
This intimate and luxurious gathering of wise women is unlike anything else you will ever experience in your lifetime.
You need this if you’re bored of talking in circles about your issues and trying to endlessly think positively. You want something different. You want more.
More respect. More reverence. More fun. More music. More nature. More pleasure. More nourishment. More body-centred care.
You’re ready to honour your body as sacred. You understand this to be medicine for many issues we face today.
Our 6 somatic medicines (breath, touch, movement, sound, holy oils, ceremony) are potent, tailored to your specific needs, and designed to connect you to the deep knowing of what is right for YOU.
When we say tailored to your needs, we mean it.
Dietary requirements? Not a problem.
Mobility challenges? We’ll support you.
Extra time and space and 121 care to process what you’ve been feeling? We have that for you.
We gather in mystical witchy Altafulla on the Costa Daurada of Catalunya, Spain.
Wise woman: were you held in respect and wisdom during the most sacred transitions of your life?
Menarche (your first bleed).
Pregnancy, motherhood, post-partum.
Miscarriage, loss, grief.
Menopause.
Your elder years.
It’s unlikely, many of our women have never been held in ceremony before.
You may have never been witnessed in respect and reverence for everything you’ve already walked through in your life.
You are ready to get out of your head and into your body.
You are ready to pour generously back into your own body, to feel deeply nourished and cared for.
You are ready to explore the 6 somatic medicines: breath, touch, movement, sound, holy oils and ceremony.
You are ready to feel supple, alive, open to life, free, grounded, connected to your own embodied wisdom.
Held by a mother-daughter lineage of healers, Emily and Jan Holden, with many decades of combined experience holding our community of women through their most vulnerable and challenging experiences.
Sunday 4th October - Friday 9th October 2026
6 days, 5 nights in a beautiful seaside hotel on the Costa Daurada of Catalunya, 25 minutes from Reus airport (direct connection to Stansted, transfers included)
£1695 for a twin en-suite room. Come with a friend and share a room together.
£2095 for a double en-suite room all to yourself.
Payment plans available.
Here, our community shares their experience of being on retreat with us on the golden coast:
“Thank you so much for the wonderful safe space you held to allow us all to heal at the right pace in our own right ways. This is such a precious and great thing and has such great value. ”
“For me the retreat was a perfect balance of activities and rest, welcome and space.”
“This Autumn Flow retreat will always be remembered and live in my psyche with love and joy.”
“A huge thanks to Emily for each wonderful day. What she does and knows is amazing.”
“Heartfelt thanks to Emily, Jan and Jane and all of the beautiful brave strong ladies who will be held in my heart forever and always - til we meet again!”
“This retreat has restored my body, my home. I have been surrounded by the beauty of this amazing place. I want to tell everybody they must do this.”
Your privacy is sacred to us.
We do not film or photograph our women on retreat.
You deserve unobserved, intimate and boundaried sacred space.
“I could not have predicted I would feel such love and connection with this tribe of strong, creative and alive women. My sisters. I take home with me the sprouted seeds of deep connection and love. This is what I was seeking, and this is what I have found. Thank you for this transformative experience in the most beautiful of places on the planet!”
Wise woman, you are ready to receive:
2 x daily 90 min sessions on the 6 somatic medicines: breath, touch, movement, sound, holy oils and ceremony.
A medicine map for your life: the wisdom I wish I had been given when I was a girl becoming a woman. Decades of wisdom and study condensed onto one beautiful page.
Daily guided beach walks, swimming in the Mediterranean and the hotel pool.
3 holy oil blends to anoint yourself with and take home with you. Organic, high quality, and deeply potent plant medicine.
Nourishing vegetarian meals, snacks and drinks all prepared with love.
Easy return transfers from Stansted to Reus airport, all included, only 25 minutes from our retreat beach hotel.
Beautiful inspiring yoga studio only a short journey from the hotel with all the equipment provided (yoga mat, somatic practice mattress, cushion), surrounded by gorgeous tropical gardens, a central chill-out pagoda and a pool.
Check it out in the 1-min video here:
ENSUITE DOUBLE ROOM - single occupancy - your own double room and bathroom all to yourself for £2095
ENSUITE TWIN ROOM - shared with one other person: you may wish to come with a friend. £1695pp
What’s included
Meeting at Stansted airport, we travel from the UK as a group.
Return airport transfers from Reus airport to Altafulla.
Delicious, seasonal and local food for breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner.
An intimate, friendly hotel with a pool and gorgeous garden, 1-min from the sea.
A short journey from the hotel, a gorgeous yoga studio, garden, pool and outdoor chill-out area (check it out here in this 1-min video)
Group activities every morning, afternoon and evening
Sensitive and skilled facilitation by Emily and Jan, experienced teachers and holders of sacred space
Yoga equipment is all provided for you (mat, mattress, cushion) so you don’t need to squeeze it into your suitcase!
Organic and high quality holy oils, ceremonial cacao, and a bundle of sacred herbs to work with in ceremony.
3L of bottled water in your room on arrival
Not included
Flights.
Transfers from other airports or at other timings.
Final celebration dinner at a local witchy old town restaurant.
Massage with Emily’s husband Cristian, qualified massage therapist.
A typical
retreat day
8.30am: Meet Jan and Jane for healthy hydration and a morning check in
8.50am: Travel together to the yoga shala
9.00am: Body and breathwork practice with Emily to introduce today’s theme, to invigorate and awaken the body. You’ll move, breathe, sing, release tension, unleash your voice and feel your power
10.30am: Delicious homemade breakfast in the garden
11.30am: Guided group work on today’s theme with Emily and Jan
1.30pm: Return to the hotel to rest and restore
2pm: Fresh, local and seasonal buffet lunch in the hotel
3-5pm: Siesta time, relax, read, sleep, beach swim, pool swim, have a massage…
5pm: Tea and snack in the garden
5.30-7pm: Group beach walk to a nearby cove, sunset swim or exploring the historic old town.
8pm: Light vegetarian dinner at the hotel
9pm: Closing circle for the day with Jan and Jane
The setting
On the Mediterranean coast, our cosy seaside hotel is 1-min walk from stunning Altafulla beach.
Both our hotel, and our gorgeous yoga shala, are nestled in beautiful gardens, each with their own pools and chill-out spaces…You’ll be spoilt for choice as to where to relax!
And if golden sandstone castles are your thing, there’s one glorious castle right at the end of the beach, and another huge castle on top of the hill, nestled in a fairytale old town, filled with witchy symbols, medieval doors and hidden corners…
Altafulla is only 25-mins from Reus airport, with direct flights from London Stansted. Enjoy an easy journey, where every step is taken care of by our supportive team.
The practices
Enjoy juicy, sensual and intuitive movement practices, suitable and adaptable for all bodies.
Learn different breathwork practices for your desired feeling: calm, clarity, or an energy boost.
Share your thoughts and feelings during group work, accessing deep wisdom you never knew you had.
Sit in sacred circle with other women, listening and sharing from the heart.
Enjoy the medicine of music, chanting and soulful singing, accompanied by Emily and her shruti box and frame drum.
Let your spirit soar in our opening and closing beach ceremonies, honouring the water and the sacredness of our shared journey.
Enjoy the healing powers of delicious plant-based foods and nourishing drinks.
The food
Vegetarian, local and seasonal, with an emphasis on fresh produce and homemade treats.
We hydrate first and do our body+breathwork practices on an empty stomach, so we feel more comfortable working with our insides.
Breakfast is served in the garden at our yoga shala, homemade by Jan and Emily.
Lunch is a generous and delicious seasonal buffet, at our gorgeous seaside hotel.
Tea and homemade snack every afternoon.
Dinner, also at our seaside hotel, is lighter than the lunch buffet, with a different soup and salad each night, so you go to bed feeling comfortable and satisfied.
Your hosts:
I’m Emily Holden, your retreat leader, holder of sacred space, and teacher of somatic practices for self-healing (combining breath, touch, movement, sound, holy oils and ceremony).
My whole life I’ve wondered how best we can support each other to feel well, at home in our bodies, connected to ourselves and each other.
After many years of struggling with disordered eating behaviour and poor body image, I felt stuck with the psychological solutions around me that encouraged people to endlessly talk about their issues. As a linguist and teacher, I was highly verbal, a confident speaker, and was able to articulate my struggles with ease. But I still didn’t feel healed.
The missing link in my own healing, and that of the people of our community, has been to get out of our heads and into our bodies. So now I continue to study and teach what I know truly works: somatic practices for self-healing.
To guide these practices within a sacred space that honours the beauty of the natural world around us: this amplifies the medicine infinitely!
You’ll find me at the crossroads of bodywork and somatics, earth-based spirituality, and the sacred feminine.
Thank you to my teachers, who are generous and plentiful! Marc Acquaviva, Helen Eadie, Reggie Ray, Jalaja Bonheim, Elayne Kalila Doughty, Diana Dubrow, Clara Davaar… to name just a few!
Thank you to my best and most beloved teacher, my mum Jan…
Jan Holden is your retreat chef, holder of sacred space, and wise woman who attends you at the thresholds. Jan’s lifelong commitment to health and healing has led her to study and practice nursing, kinesiology, palliative care, birthkeeping, nutrition, whole-food cooking, and soul midwifery. Having attended hundreds of births and deaths, she is an emotional anchor for her community in their most vulnerable moments. Her food is luscious, deeply nourishing and made with love and care.
Flights
To benefit from the free transfer included in your retreat, please book the following flights:
Ryanair
Outbound - London Stansted to Reus.
Sunday 4th October 13:35 - 16.50
Return - Reus to London Stansted
Friday 9th October 19.30 - 20.45
Booking and payment
Payment is taken via bank transfer to our UK account. A non-refundable deposit of £750 is required to secure your spot. If you’d like to pay in installments, that’s fine with us, we can work something out together.
The final balance is required 2 months before the retreat start date.
Thank you
We know that attending a retreat and investing in yourself in this way is a big commitment. We appreciate you taking the time to read all of this infomation, connecting with us, and asking your intuition if this is truly the right gift for you. We’d be so happy to have a chat with you also about our offering, so message me on Whatsapp if that might help you to gain some clarity:
Emily 0034 613077371
Wise woman, claim your space in the circle now.
6 days, 5 nights on the Costa Daurada of Catalunya on our Autumn Spirit retreat.
Sunday 4th October - Friday 9th October 2026
Includes return airport transfer from Reus airport to Altafulla (at specified group timings).
A beautiful ensuite twin room, shared with one other person.
6 days, 5 nights on the Costa Daurada of Catalunya on our Autumn Spirit retreat.
Sunday 4th October - Friday 9th October 2026
Includes return airport transfer from Reus airport (at specified group timings).
Your own spacious double room, with ensuite bathroom.