✨ Reclaiming the Feminine: The Lost Art of Receiving - Sat Sep 26, 10:30AM BST | EmilyBruce.Yoga
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✨ Reclaiming the Feminine: The Lost Art of Receiving
SAT SEP 26, 10:30 AM - 5 PM BST (SAT SEP 26, 10:30 AM - 5 PM BST)

Saturday 26th September 2026 | 10:30am - 5pm
The Yoga Loft, Station Mill, Alresford (Josie's Lunch Included!)

A day retreat for women who are tired of carrying everything.

You are capable, dependable and strong.

You get things done. You keep going. You hold everything together.

From the outside, it may look like you're coping brilliantly.

But beneath the surface, perhaps you're tired of constantly striving, overthinking, pushing through and carrying the weight of everyone else's needs.

Perhaps you've become so practised at doing that you've forgotten how to simply be.

So many women spend years living in a state of constant action. Planning. Managing. Achieving. Caring. Solving problems. Meeting expectations.

These qualities are valuable. They have helped you build a life, a family, a career and a reputation.

But when doing becomes our default setting, we can lose touch with something equally important: our ability to receive.

To receive rest.

To receive support.

To receive pleasure.

To receive intuition.

To receive life as it unfolds.

To receive money and abundance and the things our heart truly desires.

This nurturing day retreat invites you to step away from the pressure to achieve and reconnect with a more balanced, heart-centred way of being.

A way of living that honours both your strength and your softness.

A way of moving through life with greater ease, trust and alignment. Reconnecting with your true power and essence.

What You'll Experience

Throughout the day, we'll explore the relationship between the masculine and feminine energies that exist within all of us.

Together we'll explore:

  • The hidden costs of constant striving and over-achieving

  • Why so many women become disconnected from rest, intuition and receiving

  • How to recognise when you're operating from stress, pressure and control

  • The power of balancing action with ease

  • Practical ways to bring more flow, softness and self-compassion into everyday life

  • Feminine wisdom, intuition and cyclical living

  • The role of receiving in creating a more fulfilling and sustainable life

  • A delicious lunch enjoyed together at the amazing Josie's just next door

The day will blend teaching, reflection, discussion, yoga, meditation and deep rest, allowing you not only to understand these concepts but to embody them.

The Transformation

From

  • Constant doing

  • Overthinking

  • Pushing through

  • Feeling responsible for everything

  • Living in your head

  • Measuring your worth through productivity

  • Running on adrenaline

To

  • Self trust

  • Improved intuition connecting to your own inner wisdom

  • More ease in all areas of your life

  • Self-compassion

  • More presence

  • More easily being able to receive, removing your energetic blocks to receiving

  • Living from the heart

  • A deeper connection to yourself

Your Day

10:30am Welcome Circle

11:00am Gentle Yoga Flow

12:00pm Workshop: Reclaiming the Feminine

1:30pm Lunch

2:30pm Yin Yoga, Meditation & Deep Rest

4:00pm The Art of Receiving Workshop

5:00pm Closing Circle

5:30pm Finish

This retreat is for you if:

✓ You're always the one everyone relies upon

✓ You find it difficult to switch off and relax

✓ You feel guilty when resting

✓ You struggle to receive support, compliments or help

✓ You are successful on the outside but feel disconnected from yourself

✓ You've done personal development, therapy or self-work but still find yourself repeating old patterns

✓ You're longing for more calm, ease and balance in your life

✓ You're ready to stop surviving and start living more fully

No previous experience of yoga is required. All practices will be gentle, accessible and welcoming.

Meet Your Facilitators

Emily Bruce

Yoga Therapist, Meditation Teacher and founder of School of Creative Wellness.

Emily helps women move beyond stress, overwhelm and burnout through an integrated approach that combines yoga therapy, breathwork, movement, meditation and deep rest. With a particular passion for supporting women in midlife, her work bridges modern understanding of the nervous system with the timeless wisdom of yoga.

Known for creating warm, welcoming and deeply restorative spaces, Emily's teaching invites women to reconnect with themselves, soften self-criticism and cultivate greater calm, resilience and self-trust. Through gentle yet transformative practices, she helps women move from simply coping to living with greater ease, balance and fulfilment.

Shilleen Wilson

Money Energetics Coach, Strategic Business Intuitive and founder of Success Breakthrough Coaching.

Shilleen helps women identify the hidden beliefs, patterns and energetic blocks that keep them stuck in cycles of overworking, overthinking and striving. Drawing on her background in banking, business, personal development and energy work, she combines practical tools with deep inner transformation to help women create more ease, flow and alignment in their lives and businesses.

Passionate about helping women step out of pressure and into possibility, Shilleen's work explores the connection between mindset, self-worth, intuition and receiving. Through powerful reflection exercises and practical insights, she helps women reconnect with their inner wisdom and create success in a way that feels nourishing, sustainable and create wealth and success in alignment with their true purpose.

A Gentle Invitation

You do not need to become someone new.

You do not need fixing.

You do not need to strive harder.

Perhaps what you need is simply space.

Space to pause.

Space to listen.

Space to soften.

Space to remember the parts of yourself that have been waiting patiently beneath the busyness.

Join us for a day of movement, reflection, rest and reconnection as we explore what becomes possible when we stop trying to hold everything together and learn, instead, to receive.

This is your invitation to come back to yourself.

Investment: £139

Spaces are limited and previous events have sold out.


Station Mill Health and Fitness
Station Road, New Alresford, England, SO24 9JQ

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