A Six-Night Retreat in Somerset, England

June 4–10, 2027 | 42 Acres

Templed is a six-night retreat that I co-facilitate with Joanna Haines. It is an invitation to step outside the usual pace of life and enter a different quality of attention, shaped by practice, relationship, landscape, silence, conversation, and the particular group of people who gather.

Each Templed retreat is created in relationship with the place that holds it. We don't bring an identical retreat from one location to another. The landscape, history, atmosphere, ecology, and unique character of a place become part of what we listen to and part of how the retreat unfolds.

Next June, we will gather at 42 Acres in Somerset, England.

Entering a Quieter Pace

Retreat gives us the unusual opportunity to interrupt the momentum of ordinary life. The patterns, responsibilities, conversations, technologies, and familiar environments that continually organize our attention begin to loosen, creating room to notice what may be difficult to hear within the speed of everyday living.

Our days will move between contemplative and embodied practice, meditation, intentional walking, meaningful conversation, silence, time in nature, personal reflection, and genuine rest. There will be times when we gather and times when you are given space to be alone. Some practices will invite inward attention; others will bring us deliberately into relationship with the land, the group, and the life around us.

There is a thoughtful structure holding the week, with enough spaciousness for us to remain responsive to what is actually happening and what the retreat may be asking of us as it unfolds.

An Exploration of the Sacred

The word Templed points toward one of the deeper inquiries at the heart of this retreat.

Across cultures and throughout history, human beings have created temples, made pilgrimages, consecrated places, entered silence, gathered in prayer, and sought relationship with something experienced as holy or sacred. We are interested in entering that territory experientially.

What do we recognize as sacred? What changes when we approach something with reverence? Is sacredness inherent in particular places and experiences, or does our quality of attention participate in what becomes perceptible? What does it mean to be in right relationship with something we consider holy?

We do not need to arrive with shared answers to these questions.

Templed creates a place in which we can live with them for a while.

Glastonbury & Pilgrimage

During the retreat, one day will be devoted to personal exploration in Glastonbury, a place shaped by centuries of pilgrimage, devotion, mythology, spiritual practice, and seeking.

Rather than telling you what Glastonbury is or what you should experience there, we want to give you time to encounter it.

You may be drawn toward particular sites, histories, stories, landscapes, or traditions. You may experience something profound, something subtle, resistance, curiosity, beauty, uncertainty, or very little at all. The invitation is to pay attention to the place, to your own response, and to the meanings that begin to form around what you encounter.

This day becomes part of the larger inquiry of Templed: our relationship with place, perception, reverence, and the sacred.

How Joanna & I Facilitate

Joanna and I bring different histories, experiences, capacities, and ways of perceiving into Templed. We share a deep respect for contemplative practice, embodied experience, the intelligence of place, and the importance of creating conditions in which people can encounter themselves honestly.

Between us are many years of contemplative and embodied practice, inner inquiry, retreat facilitation, and accompanying people through meaningful periods of exploration and change.

We do not arrive with every moment of the retreat predetermined. We create a strong container and a considered flow for the week, while remaining attentive to the group, the place, and what is actually unfolding. At different moments, one of us may lead, the other may support, we may work together, or we may allow silence and the environment itself to carry more of the experience.

This responsiveness is part of the practice for us as facilitators.

While many people know me through Yoga Nidra, Templed is not a Yoga Nidra retreat. The work is also not organized around one spiritual tradition or a single modality. Practices are chosen because of what they make available within the larger movement of the retreat.

Our role is to tend the conditions carefully and invite depth without deciding in advance what another person should discover.

Who Templed Is For

Templed is intended for people who have already engaged meaningfully with their inner lives and feel ready to enter retreat with openness, maturity, curiosity, and personal responsibility.

You do not need to share a particular spiritual belief or arrive with certainty about what words such as sacred, holy, consciousness, or spiritual mean. A willingness to enter sincere inquiry is more important.

You may find yourself here because something in your life is changing. You may be longing for quiet, depth, reconnection, or a period of sustained attention. You may be drawn to the landscape, to contemplative practice, to questions of the sacred, or simply to the feeling that it is time to step outside your usual environment and listen differently.

Whatever brings you, we ask that you come willing to participate fully, respect the experience of others, and allow the retreat to meet you in ways you may not be able to anticipate.

An Invitation

There is something particular about leaving the familiar, travelling to a place, and choosing to give several uninterrupted days to attention.

For centuries, people have done this through retreat and pilgrimage. They have gone into monasteries, temples, wilderness, mountains, forests, and places held as sacred. Some were searching, some were listening, some were devoted to prayer or contemplation, and some followed an inner pull toward an encounter they could not yet name.

Templed belongs, in its own contemporary way, to that ancient human impulse.

For six nights, we will gather at 42 Acres and give ourselves to that encounter through place, practice, relationship, our own experience, and the questions that accompany us.

There are currently six places remaining for Templed Somerset.

If you feel drawn to join us, Joanna and I would love to welcome you.

For full retreat details, accommodation options, pricing, and the application process, follow the link below.