Rest Root Rise
Rest Root Rise
23rd - 26th October 2025
A retreat with nature, connecting to self and others to restore joy and build confidence to move forward.
Over these 3 full nights and days, we offer a spacious place, invitations to restorative playful movement, cooling lake swims, deep somatics and integrative herbalism to grow the tools we need to make a change in our communities.
We’re offering subsidised spaces, payment plans and pay it forward options to honour values of equity. Scroll down for more details.
Moving and learning with purpose
If you are someone this resonates with, yet feeling exhausted by grief, personal and collective, overwhelmed and unsure how to feel connected, find joy or validate your own skills and intuition, this is a space for you.
✧ Lake swims to replenish
✧ Saunas to release
✧ Herbalism to root into the land
✧ Movement to feel into our body
✧ Nourishment to restore and build
✧ Integration to move forward with confidence
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This is a time to build and receive strength with our bodies in nature to find what we can give each other and the wider world in return.
We imagined what we would need to do this, so have created this retreat as a blueprint for what this could look be and share skills we have learned that carry us forward.
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Exclusive use of The Mill Retreat Centre, various room options and rates, some with en suite or shared bathroom (between 4 or 5). See below for more details or visit The Mill Retreat Centre website.
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Expect fully vegetarian and plant based inclusive seasonal menus from Only Love Kitchen. Able to cater for varied dietary requirements. We have full board and round-the-clock access to hearty snacks and drinks to nourish.
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Spending time resting, restoring, discussing, moving, learning, growing and consolidating. If you’d like to learn the retreat schedule, scroll below for what we’ve got plans. All further details will be sent to you via email as you book.
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Optional routes e.g. group minibus from London (additional £133 return), solo train travel to nearby stations + taxis. View address and suggestions on The Mill Retreat Website. Get in touch if you want to discuss this before booking.
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We feel it is more important to be able to share this space to nurture and grow, especially if your work and group is for the greater good. See below for details.
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If you’d like to chat more about whether this is the right space for you, need to discuss access arrangements or specific needs, get in touch with either of us anytime: maria@healingweeds.co.uk or movingwithmegyoga@gmail.com or we can speak on the phone.
Who are your facilitators
Meg Nasse (she/ they)
Meg is a movement facilitator and holistic bodyworker. Meg invites curiosity, playfulness, and non-dual tantra philosophy into the practices shares.
What is movement practice
“When we move, everything moves.” (Satu Tumelo) From a society wrapped in individualism, coming back to practices that remind us of the wider webs we are part of are essential for seeing the truth. Instead of using practices for escapism, how about drawing our attention into complete presence, so that we can ride the waves of what is here now in this human experience. Not by looking away, but by sitting, moving, breathing with all that is. Then perhaps collectively we can come into the very essence of our being.
Maria Fernandez Garcia (she/ her)
Maria (she/ her), student of medical herbalism and lover of plants, people and how the two intertwine as a force for health and wellbeing knowledge.
What is herbalism practice
The knowledge that you can go outside, find a plant that will help ease your hay fever symptoms feels like knowledge we should all know, yet we’re at a loss for over the counter remedies that sometimes don’t quite work enough. Knowing which wild medicines that grow around us and feeling how these natural substances move in your body with confidence means you can learn about dose, regularity and methods of extraction based on your own needs. You will leave these workshops equipped to take care of yourself and others.
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Retreat Schedule
We’ll create plenty of space over these days to explore the local landscape; swim, walk, draw, write, sing or just be. We have full access to The Mill Retreat Centre and nourishing snacks and drinks throughout.
Thursday
Arrivals
5pm Welcome + embodied movement practice to shake off and ground
7pm Dinner
9pm Tea ceremony; meeting the plants we’ll get to know more
Friday
7am Optional early morning dip and gentle intro to wild swimming
8am Morning practice, open and release
9:30am Brunch
Freetime
Tea + Snacks
Foraging for medicine making; a workshop in self-confidence
Study and integration
7pm Dinner
8pm Evening fire circle + sauna
Saturday
8am Shake the Dust, opening to grace and joy
9:30am. Brunch
Herbal community care; integrating principles of plant medicine
Tea + Snacks
Study and integration
7pm Dinner
8pm Myofascial release + yin to connect
Sunday
8am Shake the Dust, rest to rise in movement
9:30am Brunch
12pm Final practices, intentions and closing circle
Departures from 2pm
The Mill Retreat Centre
Vision and purpose
Kolinka Zinovieff's vision for the Mill Retreat Centre is for it to be used by groups who are doing work for the good, and hold the highest ethical standards. "I think the ethos, energy and atmosphere of a place is reflected and enhanced by the type of people who use it. It is for this reason I strictly vet who is able to use the Mill Retreat Centre.”
Offering full board with delicious organic cuisine or the option of self catering and exceptionally good value while maintaining the highest standards.
The Mill Retreat Centre is set in 30 acres of stunning grounds. With a spectacular 10 acre lake, a beautiful river running underneath the centre, and views of enticing woodland. All combine to make the Mill Retreat Centre a natural paradise for people and wildlife alike. Enabling one to simply be and relax, by going on lovely walks round the lake, to bird watching to unwinding next to the sparkling river.
All beds are made up with Egyptian cotton sheets, feather and down pillows (hyper-allergenic options) and lovely thick 100% wool blankets or thick warm duvets.
If you’d like to discuss which room might be best for your needs, no question is too small, get in touch!
Payment plans
We want to offer spaces that feel as affordable as possible for those who want to join us. Prices remain as above but can be split into 2 or 3 installments over three months (including £100 deposit initially to secure place).
Partial bursary fund
We have set up a partial bursary fund with ourselves, The Mill Retreat Centre and your donations (if you feel able, option below) for this purpose. We feel it is more important to be able to share this retreat space as a place to nurture and grow, especially if your work and group is for the greater good.
Applications
Our ethos is about offering the most inspiring place, to passionate and inspiring people and groups. If these options are more suitable for you, please get in touch with us to find out more and apply maria@healingweeds.co.uk or movingwithmegyoga@gmail.com or we can speak on the phone.
Long Address of the Mill Retreat Centre
Mill Retreat Centre
Moulin de Breteuil
Breteuil
Lafresguimont-Saint-Martin
80430
Somme
Hautes-de-France
France
