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25-27 September |  Domnu Valley, North Devon

Rooted We Rise: A Sanctuary Retreat for Activists, Creatives & Changemakers

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Rooted We Rise is a weekend sanctuary for activists, community builders, and creatives who refuse to accept burnout and disconnection as the basis for the change we're working towards.

The systems we're resisting don't only live out there. Without our careful dismantling, they live on in us — capitalism's urgency becoming our default state, productivity culture turning the rest that should nourish us into a trigger, hyper individualism making us believe we have to do it all alone.

Rooted We Rise is a soulful collaboration of activists, creatives, and healers forging a culture of rebellious resourcing. The world we're building has to be created from a different place than the one we're resisting - and if we're going to be in it for the long run, we have to root deep and build capacity from the ground up.

Held in the ancient temperate rainforest of Domnu Valley, North Devon - we welcome you to the sacred lands that are home to our living regenerative community project.

Tending to our nervous systems is not a luxury. It is vital movement-building work.

In our hyper-individualist late-stage capitalist society, many of us have become disconnected from our greatest allies - the earth beneath us, the nervous systems that carry us, and the people around us. 

Join us for a curated weekend of held spaces, practices and workshops that will support your homecoming to what was always here:

Belonging in our bodies

Safely held spaces to land in your body, release the stress it's been storing, and tap into the deep wisdom of your inner compass - your nervous system. 

  • Guided morning grounding somatic practices

  • Conscious Connected Breathwork ceremony with live musical accompaniment

  • Somatics workshop with bodywork and breathwork practitioner and educator, Pippa Downs (Inner Sage Somatics).

Belonging to the land

Reconnect to the spirit of the land and cultivate your own connection with the deep wisdom of our plant and more-than-human allies. 

  • Animism workshop with Fern Raine (XR movement)

  • Guided foraging walk with Zena Winterbottom (The Native Herbalist)

  • Sauna session and cold dips in the streams that run through our valley.

You can't pour from an empty cup, and the world needs you in flow! 

Come. Let Mama Domnu hold you for a weekend. Let your nervous system remember what regulation feels like - and carry that back out with you into the work that matters.

The revolution is regulated. It begins with belonging. We can't wait to welcome you.

Belonging to each other

Co-regulation and collective visioning through play and creativity to inspire active hope and remember we are not alone. 

  • Storytelling and courageous imagination workshop

  •  Authentic Relating workshop with Pippa, learning takeaway skills to support you in connecting through words while staying grounded in the body.

  • Fireside musical jams in the teepee with songs of hope and resistance