Are you ready to deeply cleanse and strengthen your body, mind and soul from the inside out? with a weekend of learning, inspiration and charging your life force with the power of the elements?
~ Sweat Lodge/Temazcal ceremony.
~ Ice Bath ceremony.
~ Wild swimming opportunities.
~ Connected breathwork for trauma release and expanded consciousness.
~ Functional breathwork exercises for nervous system regulation.
~ Movement and meditation practices.
~ Relaxing Yoga Nidra before bed - Zzzzzzz.
~ Fireside Song Circle & Cacao.
~ Two nights of luxury accommodation.
~ Homegrown, home cooked and largely organic clean food all prepared for you with LOVE.
Our individual journeys within ancestral medicine, shamanic practices, bodymind medicine and breathwork have inspired this fusion of our most powerful tools - the Fire & Ice elements.
Are you ready to break through your own barriers and liberate yourself?
How do we work?
We honour and harness the power of ceremony; ritual, intention and prayer in every part of this retreat. Eating, sleeping, practicing, breathing, walking, communing, sharing, we will shift into living in all ways with intention.
Along with our own lived experiences, ancient and modern research into heat & cold exposure have increased overal health, vitality and life longevity.
Deepen your Connection with Nature
Increase your Resilience
Break Through Negative Beliefs
Regulate your Nervous Sytem
Shed Stress
Increase Energy
How does it work?
Using a heat therapy twice a week for up to 20 minutes reduces the risk of heart disease and other significant health conditions by 20-25% and by up to 50% when using 5-7 times a week.
Cold exposure can have similar effects by creating what is known as hormetic stress in our system. In other words, by intentionally creating low levels of stress in our body and adapting to that stress by getting cold or hot intentionally, we activate brown fat, something our ancestors knew about only too well in their outdoor, daylight and cold exposed lifestyles.
If you then add breathwork and nervous system regulation practices into the mix, you are creating a full-power experience for yourself, taking charge of your body’s innate capacity to regulate stress and extend your life.
Ancient wisdom, and so simple!
What does it cost?
Earlybird/Concession (limited number - please apply before March 31st):
Shared twins - £585.00
Lux dorm - £528.00
Single -£622.00
Double -£820.00
King - £840.00
*double rooms based on single occupancy price, for extra person additional £450
Full Price:
Shared twins - £688.00
Lux dorm - £622.00
Single - £732.00
Double - £962.00
King - £990.00
To pay a £350 deposit (non refundable) or book your place and pay in full, please go here:
https://www.rootofthegods.com/pages/fire-ice-retreat
Your facilitation team are -
Ahau & Robyn:
Co-founders of Root of the Gods, a project that preserves and re-activates sacred wisdom. Together they hold space with joy, strength & compassion.
Ahau is a Mexican Medicine Man working with Traditional Medicines of his culture for the past 11 years, holding ceremonies & workshops. Living fully in his life purpose of being of service to humanity. Ahau is a great teacher with a humble heart, his lessons and words valued by many communities across Mexico.
Robyn is a British Creator, Sacred Space Facilitator, Medicine Woman & Natural Living Advocate - leading through a powerful, grounded approach to connected living. Robyn has traveled the world as a student of anthropology and ethnobotany - studying the roots of our cultures and learning how they positively guide and support our human experience.
Steph:
Steph Magenta is a UK based breathwork facilitator and teacher, and the co-founder of Integrative Breath Facilitator Training School. She is a licensed bodywork therapist and shamanic practitioner with a background in substance misuse and addiction research. She also holds over three decades of work in detox, healing, sexuality and somatic practice which informs her grounded, heart centred and trauma aware approach to the practice of breathwork. Steph has worked extensively with plant medicines for healing.
Come join us for this truly inspiring, healing retreat!
For those interested:
Cold Exposure study:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3732384
Heat exposure study:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30077204/
Breathwork studies:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6070065/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25869930/