Gentle yoga in The Beacon Studio suitable for all Monday evenings restarting Mon 2nd Sept 2024 18:30 - 19:45
Sep
2
to Sep 26

Gentle yoga in The Beacon Studio suitable for all Monday evenings restarting Mon 2nd Sept 2024 18:30 - 19:45

75 mins Gentle Hatha Yoga with Donna at The Beacon studio, Llandefaelog Fach, Brecon LD3 9PS, suitable for beginners, those wanting a gentle introduction to yoga, or a gentle stretch, strengthen and relaxation. Chair alternatives are provided for those not able to access the floor. Class suitable for beginners and for pregnant women post 16 weeks.

Purchase single class ticket for £5 or book in for entire Autumn Term Oct 21st - Dec 23rd (10 classes) for £40.

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13 week (Samhain 2024 to Imbolc 2025) Magdalene Myrrhophore Mysteries online course
Oct
22
to Jan 28

13 week (Samhain 2024 to Imbolc 2025) Magdalene Myrrhophore Mysteries online course

  • Online via Zoom and Facebook with dedication ceremony in Glastonbury (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A 13 week journey into the myrrhophore oil bearer mysteries as carried by Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha. The course is hosted by Donna, an Avalon Rose Priestess, womb shaman and a certified aromatherapist. This course weaves together Donna’s aromatherapy qualification and all the subsequent deep dives into the Rose and Myrrhophore lineages, and brings you a beautiful journey into the sacred oils and their lineage carriers as master teachers, and prepares you to join the ancient lineage of oil bearers.

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November Cacao Ceremony
Nov
23
12:00 PM12:00

November Cacao Ceremony

Join Donna, a certified Cacaoista (cacao ceremonialist) for a beautiful plant medicine ceremony, as the Wheel of the Year is in the season of Samhain / Calan Gaeaf, the time that was the New Year for our ancestors - a time to reflect on the year that has gone and reflect on what we want to cultivate in the cauldron that is the dark half of the year..

We will draw oracle cards, and then drink a ceremonial dose (42g per person) of lovingly prepared ceremonial cacao, grown by fairly traded, 100% organic and GMO free, small family businesses in South America. Donna will then lead you on a shamanic journey with the plant medicine and we will end with a closing circle.

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In The Path of Mary Magdalene: Pilgrimage in Southern France with Donna Gerrard
Jun
8
to Jun 20

In The Path of Mary Magdalene: Pilgrimage in Southern France with Donna Gerrard

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I'm so excited to announce that, a couple of years after planting my seeds of intention, I’m leading a Mary Magdalene pilgrimage in Southern France in June 2025..

We plan to visit all the famous sites connected with Her through both Occitania and Provence: Rennes le Chateau, Saintes-Maries -de-la-Mer, Sainte Baume as well as some of the lesser known and more secret locations I have found on my previous travels in the region.

I have over 7 years’ experience of working with Mary Magdalene and studying Her mysteries in this region of France which we will be sharing but, more importantly, through ritual, creativity, sharing and ceremony in the landscape, we will be working with some of the aspects of The Magdalene to facilitate everyone to come into their own gnosis of the many truths of Her.

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September Cacao Ceremony
Sep
21
12:00 PM12:00

September Cacao Ceremony

Join Donna, a certified Cacaoista (cacao ceremonialist) for a beautiful plant medicine ceremony, as the Wheel of the Year turns to Autumn Equinox, the powerful time of energetic balance between the light and the dark - a time to evaluate where we can celebrate the beauty in our lives, and gently release that which is no longer of service to us. We will draw oracle cards, and then drink a ceremonial dose (42g per person) of lovingly prepared ceremonial cacao, grown by fairly traded, 100% organic and GMO free, small family businesses in South America. Donna will then lead you on a shamanic journey with the plant medicine and we will end with a closing circle.

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Priestess of Sulis Water Healing Ceremony at Cross Bath in Aquae Sulis (Bath)
Jul
24
2:00 PM14:00

Priestess of Sulis Water Healing Ceremony at Cross Bath in Aquae Sulis (Bath)

The city of Bath, or Aquae Sulis ‘The Waters of Sulis’ as the Romans knew her, is an ancient power place of the Britanno-Celtic Goddess Sul or Sulis, dragon mother, she whose breath heats the water as it emerges from the earth here. She was syncretised by the Romans with their goddess Minerva, and worshipped in a huge bathing and temple complex in the city. The Thermae Bath Spa is a beautiful modern spa complex that takes the hot water from the natural springs and routes them to a stunning rooftop pool and other beautiful steam baths and pools in the complex. Adjacent to the main Thermae spa building is a small Georgian era building called the Cross Bath, which can be hired for exclusive use. Now the Cross Bath is believed to be one of the most ancient, pre-Roman sites of goddess worship here.

Join me for a beautiful healing ceremony in the naturally heated waters of the goddess Sulis in Bath on 24th July 2024., with a lunch buffet included

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July Cacao Ceremony
Jul
6
1:30 PM13:30

July Cacao Ceremony

Join Donna, a certified Cacaoista (cacao ceremonialist) for a beautiful plant medicine ceremony. We will draw oracle cards, and then drink a ceremonial dose (42g per person) of lovingly prepared ceremonial cacao, grown by fairly traded, 100% organic and GMO free, small family businesses in South America. Donna will then lead you on a shamanic journey with the plant medicine and we will end with a closing circle.

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13 week (Beltane to Lammas) Magdalene Myrrophore Mysteries online course
Apr
16
to Jul 23

13 week (Beltane to Lammas) Magdalene Myrrophore Mysteries online course

  • Online via Zoom and Facebook with dedication ceremony in Glastonbury (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A 13 week journey into the myrrophore oil bearer mysteries as carried by Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha. The course is hosted by Donna, an Avalon Rose Priestess, womb shaman and a certified aromatherapist. This course weaves together Donna’s aromatherapy qualification and all the subsequent deep dives into the Rose and Myrrophore lineages, and brings you a beautiful journey into the sacred oils and their lineage carriers as master teachers, and prepares you to join the ancient lineage of oil bearers.

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13 week (Samhain to Imbolc) Magdalene Myrrophore Mysteries online course
Oct
26
to Feb 22

13 week (Samhain to Imbolc) Magdalene Myrrophore Mysteries online course

  • Online via Zoom and Facebook with dedication ceremony in Glastonbury (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A 13 week journey into the myrrophore oil bearer mysteries as carried by Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene and her sister Martha. The course is hosted by Donna, an Avalon Rose Priestess, womb shaman and a certified aromatherapist. This course weaves together Donna’s aromatherapy qualification and all the subsequent deep dives into the Rose and Myrrophore lineages, and brings you a beautiful journey into the sacred oils and their lineage carriers as master teachers, and prepares you to join the ancient lineage of oil bearers.

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10 weeks of Yoga and Self-Care Practices with the Sri Vidya Wisdom Goddesses
Oct
3
to Jan 21

10 weeks of Yoga and Self-Care Practices with the Sri Vidya Wisdom Goddesses

Join Donna online for 10 weeks online yoga and self-case practices with the ten tantric Sri Vidya (‘Wisdom’) goddesses.

This course is an accessible set of weekly 2 hour practices, hosted over Zoom, and supplemented with PDF documents and audio recordings. The practices will include yoga asana (posture work), pranayama (breath work), visualisation journeys, yoga nidra (yogic sleep/relaxation) and ayurveda (traditional Indian ‘life knowledge’).

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Goddess Mandala Online Cauldron (Lammas Season)
Aug
24
7:00 PM19:00

Goddess Mandala Online Cauldron (Lammas Season)

Donna invites you to the second of our Wheel of the Year online ritual, sister sharing and creativity circles. This event will be celebrating the turn of the wheel to Lammas season, or First Harvest, associated with the archetype of the Mother goddess, gratitude and plenty.Come join us for story-telling, visualisation journeying, creativity and nourishing ritual.

The recording of the call will be available to all purchasers to listen back and enjoy indefinitely afterwards.

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Rest and Recharge: The Beacon Signature Weekend Retreat
Aug
18
to Aug 20

Rest and Recharge: The Beacon Signature Weekend Retreat

  • The Beacon Retreat Centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Donna and Jeremy offer you a warm welcome to our beautiful, magical home a few miles outside of Aberhonddu (Brecon, Powys, Wales, UK) for a restful weekend of yoga, walks in nature and delicious food, all within the stunning and deeply nourishing landscape of the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park.

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Encounter with the Goddess in the Welsh Landscape: Women's Dance and Healing Retreat in Brecon Beacons with Sophia Blanton and Donna Gerrard
Jul
21
to Jul 23

Encounter with the Goddess in the Welsh Landscape: Women's Dance and Healing Retreat in Brecon Beacons with Sophia Blanton and Donna Gerrard

  • The Beacon Retreat Centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Sophia and Donna invite you to join them for a nourishing women’s weekend that weaves goddess embodiment work with local lore, story-telling, land-walking, and ceremony. Come join us and go deep within yourself and the landscape to embody your Inner Wild Huntress and Queen!

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Goddess Mandala Online Cauldron (Beltane to Litha)
Jun
30
7:00 PM19:00

Goddess Mandala Online Cauldron (Beltane to Litha)

Donna invites you to the first of our Wheel of the Year online ritual, sister sharing and creativity circles. This first event will be celebrating the turn of the wheel from the Beltane season (May Day in modern parlance) , associated with the archetype of the Lover goddess, to the peaking of the light at Litha (Summer Solstice), which is associated (on the Avalonian wheel) with the element of water.

The archtetype of the Lover, and the element of Water align beautifully with the mythos of Venus-Aphrodite, so for this first online event we will be stirring Self Love with the Goddess Venus-Aphrodite into the cauldron, featuring story-telling, visualisation journeying, creativity and nourishing ritual.

A ritual box with items for your altar and to collectively create during the evening is available for purchase ahead of the event.

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Rhiannon Rides : Workshop with Donna at Leicester Beltane Witch Fest
Apr
30
10:00 AM10:00

Rhiannon Rides : Workshop with Donna at Leicester Beltane Witch Fest

Join Donna for workshop at Leicester Beltane Witch Fest to explore, through storytelling, visualisation journey and a little gentle somatic movement suitable for all, meeting the goddess Rhiannon in her Lover archetype, welcoming home parts of ourselves that we may have exiled and finding our sovereignty!

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Priestess of Sulis: Water Connection Ceremony at Cross Bath
Sep
1
to Sep 2

Priestess of Sulis: Water Connection Ceremony at Cross Bath

  • The Cross Bath, Thermae Bath Spa (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Priestess of Sulis: Water Connection Ceremony at Cross Bath with Donna Gerrard

Join me for an event in Bath on 1st Sept 2022

The city of Bath, or Aquae Sulis ‘The Waters of Sulis’ as the Romans knew her, is an ancient power place of the Britanno-Celtic Goddess Sul or Sulis, dragon mother, she whose breath heats the water as it emerges from the earth here. She was syncretised by the Romans with their goddess Minerva, and worshipped in a huge bathing and temple complex in the city.

The Thermae Bath Spa is a beautiful modern spa complex that takes the hot water from the natural springs and routes them to a stunning rooftop pool and other beautiful steam baths and pools in the complex. Adjacent to the main Thermae spa building is a small Georgian era building called the Cross Bath, which can be hired for exclusive use. Now the Cross Bath is believed to be one of the most ancient, pre-Roman sites of goddess worship here, and in pathworking visualisation journeys, I’ve found myself drawn to ancient Aquae Sulis again and again. I created the poem below inspired by the images that I’ve seen in those visualisation journeys.

Are you called to birth something new?

Or perhaps you’d like to pray for the waters of the earth?

Join me for a powerful group ceremony at the Cross Bath.

You’ll need to bring a bathing suit. There are changing facilities, and you’ll be provided with a towel, bathrobe and slippers. Lunch at the Cross Bath is included. Vegan and gluten-free options can be provided on request.

The exchange will be £88 per person for the ceremony plus lunch.

For those who wish to join us, we can also tour the Roman Baths museum afterwards to see the remains of the huge ancient temple site. Entry tickets to the Roman Baths museum complex are not included in the Cross Bath ceremony exchange - they cost about £25 each.

Please contact Donna at donna@donnagerrard.com with any questions and we can get on a free consultation call via Zoom or FB Messenger.



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Jul
10
to Jul 12

Goddess Mandala Yoga Sussex Retreat with Donna Gerrard and friends At Tilton House, near Lewes, East Sussex

Donna is excited to invite 12 guests to join her for a weekend of her unique blend of Yoga and indigenous spirituality, inspired by her background as an ancestral witch and Priestess of the goddesses Brigid and Sulis, and of the Rose lineage, combined with nourishment for your mind and body.  Donna leads healing and empowering retreats and immersions for women to connect with their intuition and their core power and passion, through practices of yoga, divination, mantra, music and movement. This residential immersion allows the chance to weave the threads of Yoga and the ancient spiritual traditions of the lands of Britannia, together to offer a deep and fresh perspectives on ourselves, our lives and our spiritual practice.

PRICES:-

£385 EARLY BIRD – Book before May 2020, £400 if booked after – based on sharing a twin bedded room.

£485 EARLY BIRD – Book before May 2020, £500 if booked after – based on a single private room (only 2 available)

NOTE:  One TRIPLE room is on offer at a reduced rate of £15 less per person

SPECIAL POST-LOCKDOWN DISCOUNT: £350 per head

DEPOSIT of £150 (non-refundable) is required to reserve your place.  The remainder is to be paid one month before the event. 

PLACES STRICTLY LIMITED TO 12

 

PRICES INCLUDE

All yoga focus sessions as detailed in the schedule

Two nights of accommodation in stunning high quality rooms with spectacular views.

Six meals in total – 2 dinners, 2 lunches and 2 breakfasts (dietary focus shown below)

Use of the Cedar Wood Sauna (max 6 people at a time)

 

SCHEDULE

Friday

Arriving from 3 pm allowing ample time to group and settle. 5 pm Goddess Mandala Yoga class based on grounding, welcoming and settling, welcoming you to home to goddesses of Earth beneath and within. 7 pm dinner (see below for dietary focus) 8.30 pm candle lit Yoga Nidra will begin a deep process of rest and descent into a deliciously juicy weekend, and set you up for a great night’s sleep.

 

Saturday

7 am – Morning ritual, breathwork and meditation. 8 – 9 am Breakfast.  10am – 12 pm –Goddesses of Fire -Invigorating yoga and ritual to awaken the body and connect with the five fires that illuminate us and inspire. 12.30pm lunch – 1.30pm Post lunch divination workshop using cards and the elements. Afternoon - guided walk and storytelling to the Long Man of Wilmington (weather depending) – or time to enjoy a Cedar Wood Sauna (included in price) – or book a massage in the beautiful treatment room (priced separately – pre booking required). 7pm dinner – 8..30 pm candle lit evening visualisation journey

 

Sunday

7 am – Morning ritual, breathwork and meditation. 8 – 9am Breakfast.   10am – 12pm Goddesses of Water Yoga session – soothing and flowing yoga to heal and celebrate our circle . 12.30pm lunch. 1.30pm shared reflection and closing circle.  3pm refreshment and snack available as we prepare for our goodbyes.

 

FOOD

The chefs at Tilton House offer first class cuisine using seasonal vegetables and catering possibilities for any dietary requirements. Over this weekend detoxifying meals will be vegetarian and/or vegan where required.

 

Contact: donna@donnagerrard.com +447798881064

Instagram @firehawkyogini @goddesscircles

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