Temple of the Healing Rose
20 June 10-5.30pm
Jo Charlesworth & Elizabeth Whiter
Slowing down is a radical act of self-love
Come and join us for a luxurious day retreat at Chealsfield to reignite your Divine Feminine Heart Intelligence. Reconnect with your body and step into the sacred feminine, reclaim your wholeness and power.
We will journey together into the sacred portal of the womb as we connect to our bodies and explore the healing power of the Rose through meditation, breath work, movement, music and sacred ceremony. Release what is no longer needed and set new intentions. Take time and space for yourself, be present, honour your body with heart opening Cacao, Rose and nourishing foods and teas.
9.30-9.55am Arrival and Registration
10am Opening Rose gateway ceremony to anoint you to enter the sacred space within the healing barn to the gentle sounds of nature playing in the background. You are invited to bring with you a sacred item such as a photo, crystal, amulet, feather, ornament or candle, that has meaning to you. Inside, the healing barn will be set up with a central, circular altar with Roses in the middle and crystals. Each of you will place your sacred offering on the altar.
After a short opening of the Rose Circle of Friendship with Jo and Liz, we will ease into gentle somatic movement and activate the chakras from the Root to the Crown to ground with Gaia and Pachamama. This is an opportunity for you to bloom at the heart centre and find joy and creativity with your pelvic presence. Surrender yourself to your creative gifts and ground the Rose Root energy at the heart of the Earth. Connect to the celestial realms and the height of the Summer Sun as the Solstice rays activate your light codes at the crown energies. Direct source energy, innately YOURS brings awareness and enhances your own inner temple of light.
Attuned and ready to receive activation to the higher frequencies Liz will then lead a short meditation to meet the Spirit of the Rose with everyone choosing an oracle card to journey forward. There will be time for journaling, channelling, downloads and automatic writing from your higher self.
Time for a refreshing homemade herbal tea, or other beverage of your choice and some home-made sweet offerings. We regroup into our seated Rose circle as Jo leads the heart womb breath followed by the sacred story of the Rose and the Divine feminine connection.
With so many wonderful female deities Jo will be sharing and honouring some of the more well-known female lineage of the Goddess energy. Feminine champions such as Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena, Bast, Isis, Venus, Diana, Kuan Yin, Ostara, Yemanya, Mother Mary, Hathor, Guinevere, Sedna, Lakshmi, Rhiannon, Tara, Mary Magdalene. Some of these female energies will already be resonating within your soul as you are drawn to remembering the wisdom of your ancestry to our origins.
At lunch we ask you to bring vegetarian food to share. Let’s create a wonderful healthy, feast to celebrate union, connection and sisterhood.
After lunch Liz will be sharing the rose doctrine of signatures as we look through the lens to all parts of the rose: petals, stem and leaves. Enjoy tasting the home made rose glycerine and inhaling the various rose aromas as every rose is resilient and has an unforgettable story to tell!
Then to the fire ceremony with Jo and Liz– Release and burn, set new intentions! As we surround the fire pit burning bright, it’s a wonderful opportunity to raise the vibration of intention to set us free with chanting, singing and drumming. Everyone will partake playing a variety of rattles, drum and gong.
The final ceremony of the day is where the rose is calling us to receive the deepest healing and positive transformation for change at a cellular level:- Jo and Liz assisting, will lead the Divine feminine sacral activation ceremony through the Munay-KI Shamanic rites with a rose laced cacao ceremony to drink and enjoy. Within the13th womb rite ceremony will include new creations to be birthed and anointing all sisters and connecting through the Rose heart womb breath in a final walking meditation.
As the workshop draws to close there will be a short sharing circle followed by everyone receiving a gift pouch:-
a bottle of organic rose hydrolat spray (worth £15)…memories of the timeless aromas the rose elicits
a bottle of organic edible rose glycerine (worth £12) to taste and remind us of the sweet nectar on our lips perfumed with rose aroma
a goddess gift pouch
This is a wonderful opportunity to embrace your feminine side and if would like to wear something summery, soft and floaty like a dress, jewellery, flowery headband or head garland you are very welcome.
Please feel free to express yourself how ever you wish. Jo and I will be dressed for the occasion.
Meet your facilitators
Jo Charlesworth
is honoured to have been a member of the Healing Animals Organisation since its inception. Jo is part of the teaching faculty at HAO, co-teaching our beautiful Relax HAO Equine massage which Liz and Jo co-created, and Relax Canine Massage.
After many years of working with her own body, she is deepening her knowledge and practice through the Shamanic Way of the Womb with the Sanctuary of Sophia, training as a womb Priestess. This is a deep and personal journey which also offers training to allow the teachings to be offered to other women, healing one womb at a time. Having completed the facilitators in person training in 2024, Jo is excited to bring these sacred offerings to our retreat day.
Elizabeth Whiter
is thrilled to be co-facilitating this sacred day of honouring who we truly are in the height of the summer Solstice with sound, sacred ceremonies in the rose gardens, transformational downloads and channelled insights in a loving sacred safe space we all know as coming home to our authentic self. Liz is passionate about all aspects of the Rose and it’s aromas and the elixir of vitality it provides us to deepen our connection with ourselves. Liz and Jo will be sharing with you a variety of rose preparations and offerings to help you embody and embrace new beginnings.