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6th - 10th nov 2026 | PRICES FROM £1127 PP

The Sacred Dark Retreat:

Guiding women through loving transformation

 
 

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No one benefits from a woman disconnected from her power.

As women we hold an innate power inside of us and yet it can feel complex to access it.

Many of us have been socialised to question our own intuitions and sensitivities, disconnect from our bodies and desires, forgetting how it is our waters that carries the mystery of life and that is worthy of immense honour.

Instead of sitting in the seat of authentic womanhood, we can become fragmented, lonely, numb

angry and stripped from the very sacredness that feeds us. 

No one benefits from a woman disconnected from her power.

Not her partner, family or children, community or our shared collective.

No one.

We are the

 
 

darkness not just a lack of light, but a force that hums with aliveness. 

You are invited to join 15 women at the alter of womanhood on a five day retreat in magical Marvao.

These five days will be an opportunity to meet yourself exactly where life finds you — to tend to your deeper layers as we descend into winter.

Through an integrated retreat programme, you will be guided into deep connection with yourself — in body, heart and word. You will also be guided towards connection with other like-minded women through group practices and ceremony; and with all the wild magic of our retreat home.

I know that for many, true connection can feel vulnerable as it means being truly seen and felt for who we are, even the parts of ourselves that feel safer in hiding. Yet it is through practising expressing ourselves freely that we interrupt patterns of minimising our power and wisdom, which over centuries, women have become very skilled at.

This gives your unique female system the opportunity to feel: you can be exactly who you are and still belong.

A woman who finds this level of safety in herself moves through the world differently — softer and steadier in herself, with the courage to be who she is in any room, in any role. She is able to build life from her most authentic inner place.

The Location

Serra Vida is our retreat home. Wild nature within boutique accoomdation .

 
 

01/ ceremonial herbal sauna with wild nature views

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03 / pools of water to cleanse

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Almighty corks, wild river and ancient rocks are all there for your discovery.

 

02 / ancient forest path to the river

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This retreat is for you if.

  • You want to practice embodied yoga, moving in connectin with your own felt wisdom within structures that guide, not dictate.

  • You want to retreat that is rooted in whole humaness, that integrates emotional, somatic and spiritual work, where there is structure and space, togetherness and silence.

  • You want your female nervous system to be touched with authenticity and heart knowing that being in community is healing community.

  • You move through a healing journey that is not about fixing, becoming better or more than, but about deepening intimacy withourselves, including discomfort.

  • You want to work with your “people pleaser”, “good girl”, “agreeable one”, accessing the power behind her not as something to fear but something to feel.

  • You want to call your power back from anything that has dishonoured you and release the charge from any place where you are operating in survival.

  • You are curious about the practice of animism, the communion with nature as an intelligent, living being who you can live relationally with.

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What’s included.

A full retreat programme of three retreat sessions facilitated by Fern every waking day. Including:

  • Embodied Yoga, Movement, Dance

  • Somatic exploration + practice

  • In depth self enquiry + group work

  • Sacred Ritual + Herbal Sauna (Shona)

  • Burn Ceremony

  • Deep rest practices, sacred sound, meditation, yoga nidra

2x group integration calls following the retreat.

Integration meditation following the retreat.

Five day accomodation at Serra Vida including wild river swimming, pool, sauna.

A full nutritious menu by resident holistic chef Chloe Cossy.

Bonusus:

All participants who book before ______ recieve an online 121 Awareness Facilitation session with Fern (worth £250)

 
 

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Our Previous Guests

The Food

Home cooked nutritious food served to you three times per day by our in house Chloe Cossy

 
 

MORNING SMOOTHIES

HEALTHY BRUNCH

HEARTY DINNERS

 

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Daily Schedule

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Make it stand out.

Words from my students

MEET YOUR GUIDE

Hi, Im Fern. Embodied Yoga Guide, Awareness Facilitator specialising in support women, to live in power and presence

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Meet the team

 

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Meet the Team

  • Jessica Aron

    SENIOR YOGA TEACHER

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  • Kiara Morde

    Facialist

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  • Tim Brogan

    MEDITATION TEACHER

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Pricing & Rooms

 

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Travel information

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01 / FLIGHTS

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02 / TRANSFERS

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03 / VISA

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