New Year Retreat
Land, Sea, Sky ~Winter Dreaming
Within Cornwall's wild embrace, we remember what the modern world veils us into forgetting ~ that we are not separate from Earth. In our essence, we are expressions of her dreaming.
This retreat is an invitation to return to the truth of your belonging ~ to the land, to the waters, to the stars, and most profoundly, to yourself.
The Threshold
The turning of the year is not a calendar event. It is a threshold. A liminal space where the old cycle loosens its grip and the new one has not yet taken form.
If you have felt the call to cross it consciously, with ritual, intention, held by the land and sea and sky...
This is a retreat for you.
To mark the passage of the year in ceremony. To listen to what is being asked of you next. To be held by a landscape that has been holding ceremony for thousands of years.
A journey into the three realms; to release, attune, and emerge anew.
Land calls us into the descent, to see what is ending within our lives or needing to be shed and released.
Sea is the liminal realm of cleansing, vision, and renewal.
Sky is the return to life, bringing inner wisdom, new creativity and our gifts into the world.
Words From People Who Have Been Here Before:
"This is the best present I have ever given myself, ever!"
"A life-changing experience. I arrived exhausted and left feeling like myself again."
"In the miasma of forgetting, these retreats are deeply precious reminders of who we are on this earth, what is our calling, our work, our joy."
This is For You if You Are:
⭒ A practitioner, guide, creative, or hold space for others and want to be held yourself. Wanting to fill your own well before you pour again.
⭒ On a spiritual path, and are looking to deepen, connect with others and be inspired.
⭒ Drawn to earth traditions and shamanic ways, and you want to learn from the land directly, in ceremony, in the old way.
⭒ Wanting to cleanse and nurture your body.
⭒ Needing some time for stillness, reflection, re-tuning.
⭒ Wanting to strengthen your intuition and compassionate heart.
⭒ Wanting tools & practices you can carry home and weave into how you live, how you work, and how you hold others.
⭒ You are here to be part of the dreaming of a more beautiful world for the future. If you know, in your bones, that the world we are walking toward must be dreamt into being, and that your own remembering is part of the mending of our world.
LIMINAL SPACE, STONE, SOUND & STILLNESS
The retreat is a liminal and held space that you are invited to step into, leaving the outside world behind for a little while.
Working with earth wisdom & shamanic ways of our lands, deepen your connection with Nature and the Divine, aligning with your soul essence and the gifts you carry for this world, in these times.
Cleanse, re-balance, and begin the new year with inspiration, dreaming with the Earth.
We will journey with sacred sites and waters; work with ritual, breath, body, fire and sound, and enter the sanctuary of Nature to listen and attune with her rhythms.
Optional daily cold water immersions in the rivers and sea.
Cleansing, detoxing and nourishing with organic, plant-based meals, juices & smoothies.
Held within a beautiful venue, set in 7 acres of magical woodland, a mile from the sea, surrounded by holy wells and standing stones.
We honour the holy tears that flow of the love and grief that are eternally woven together.
We release, mend, grow and remember, make beauty, song and ceremony together.
We will enter into the sanctuary of Nature, to listen and attune with her rhythms; hear the gentle voice of the winds, the waters, the birds, the songs of the earth.
In the deep silence of the earth, we can touch the sacred, the holy; listen to the ancient voices of the earth, sing with the waters, dream with land, vision with the stars.
Daily Rhythm:
8:30am ~ Greeting the Day with movement & optional river dip
10:00am ~ Nutritional tonic smoothie and morning session
1:30pm ~ Plant-based lunch
2:30pm~ Afternoon journeying through the landscape
6:00pm ~ Quiet time for reflection and integration
7:30pm ~ Warming dinner and evening session
WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE FROM THIS RETREAT:
A nourishing sanctuary space to gather with like-minded kin for a week
• 6 nights accommodation in a beautiful Cornish house surrounded by ancient woodland
• Guided journeys within Cornwall's sacred sites and ancient landscapes
• Tools & Practices to carry home and weave into your life
• Optional wild river & sea dips for purification and renewal
• Song & sound healing journeys
• Daily movement and somatic practices
• Plant-based cleansing meals, smoothies, and herbal teas
VENUE & LOCATION
The retreat is being held in West Penwith (near Penzance) in Cornwall, in the South West tip of England.
West Penwith is a shining land seeped in history, myth & Celtic culture. With vast skies, cliffs, coves and windswept hills, surrounded by crystal blue sea, this is a special place for journeying and attuning with the ancient ways of our lands.
The venue is set in 7 acres of magical woodland, a mile from the sea. Relax in the lounge by the log fire, or in the sun-filled conservatory or secluded garden.
Accommodation is in large double or twin rooms with shared bathrooms. There are a couple of spots for campervans. Locals are also welcome to join as non residential.
NUTRITION
Breakfast: Nut milk & nutritional tonic smoothie
Lunch & dinner: Vegetable dishes / soup
Delicious meals of salads, soups, vegetables, smoothies, nuts and seeds.
No dairy, meat or gluten. Cleansing, detoxifying and nourishing.
All ingredients are organic, local grown where possible, vegan and gluten free.
GETTING THERE:
The retreat begins at 6pm on Tuesday 29th December and completes at 12pm on Monday 4th January 2027.
The venue is situated in West Penwith, Cornwall, and is 15 minutes from Penzance. There are regular trains from London / North England to Penzance, and you can then take a taxi (or rideshare)
INVESTMENT:
Returning retreat participants & Temple of Ioua members receive a £100 discount
Prices include accommodation for six nights, all your meals, and a week of guided journeys in one of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain.
BOOKING:
For more information and to register your interest for a space, please contact Lana
info(at)alunahealing.co.uk - Telegram / WhatsApp: 07475 749 967
Spaces are limited to 13. To register your interest, contact Lana.
ABOUT LANA:
"I am a singer, ceremonialist, and guide, and I have spent most of my adult life learning to listen to the land.
For over 25 years I have walked with earth wisdom traditions and sound healing. I have journeyed to sacred sites across these holy Isles of Albion, lived in wild places, and learned to commune with the land, sea, and sky as living kin. My lineage is woven through many lands, and my work is rooted in the ancient earth and the songs of starlight.
I have been leading retreats and sacred journeys for over 17 years. Through ritual, sound, and ceremony, I create spaces where people can remember, reawaken the songlines of the soul and enter into deep communion with the Earth as a living, breathing being.
I live in the Scottish Highlands, and I am the creator of Temple of Ioua (Aluna Healing), where I share retreats, courses, and one-to-one work. I am also a course creator within Weaving Remembrance.
To me, this work is a calling. If you feel the call too, you are most welcome here."
TESTIMONIALS FROM PREVIOUS RETREATS:
“Healing, Connected (to nature), Extraordinary” “Restful, Rewarding, Intense” “Touching, Profound, Inspiring” “Gentle, Deep, Transformative” “Expansion, Connection, Love & Beautiful New Friendships”
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“It is almost impossible to separate a ‘favourite part’ as the beauty of the retreat was its weave into an integrated whole; the magnificent land that held us; the deep gentle physical work with our bodies; the cleansing nourishment; the reflections within our circle of women; the prayer and remembering of the sacredness of life. In the miasma of forgetting, they are deeply precious reminders of who we are on this earth, what is our calling, our work, our joy.” ~ Nicole
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“Summarising two years of one-to-one lessons with Lana is a difficult task. Each one is different, fitted to the questions and concerns I’m facing or to an issue that Lana knows is meaningful to me. Yoga, meditation and energy work are the foundations of our time together, but these practices are interspersed with discussion, prayer, song, humour or simply learning to listen again.
Some lessons have been painful and there have been many tears; others have been filled with laughter and a true celebration of life. Through them all I am aware of Lana’s infinitely loving, strong, wise and non-judgemental support. She in turn reminds me that we are both in the presence of a far greater teacher. She challenges me constantly and slowly I’m peeling back the layers of ego, learnt behaviour and fear.
I come away from each session with a deeper understanding of myself, a stronger commitment to the Mother and a life focused on service and love, and more ideas of what’s possible. This is not an easy journey, but I continue to gather from Lana the tools I need to develop emotional and physical strength that I never thought I would have.” ~ Ingrid
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“Dear Lana,
Thank you for Everything. I honour the path only YOU have walked, that could lead to the transmission of these teachings the past 9 moons. YOUR way of BEING and SEEING and holding tender space is an example for me and a teaching in its own right. I struggled to find the right words to encompass all that you offered us because it was beyond words. It was multidimensional and other worldly. But I also want to point to how I truly acknowledge your ability to do both… to go DEEP into your own healing, transformation, death and rebirth, and full on SURRENDER to Life’s plan… while also holding space for our circle when the energies allowed. You truly Walk the Talk and for that I am humbled.”
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“Special thanks to Lana for creating such a gentle, nurturing space. I find it hard to find words to express what it is that you do, it’s so nuanced & magical.”
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“Lana, I could not be more grateful for your presence in my life. I feel so very deeply how much you care for all of us and give the right amount of support where needed whilst remaining respectful to the individuals path. I feel that humanity is not lost when the universe gifts us souls such as you. A more beautiful bridge has never existed. So much love and gratitude to you.”
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“I am still basking in the beauty of our Dartmoor gathering…”
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“This is the best present I have ever given myself, ever! I did not know what to expect, this is the first time I have gone on any sort of retreat and it was a life changing experience. The most outstanding feature of the retreat was how each day stretched us and took us deeper into our spiritual, emotional and physical cleansing, which led to amazing healing and re-connection to soul spirit in ways that I could not have even guessed. Thank you. You have set me on the path to living and healing, to discover and actualise my true path and life purpose. To reconnect to Spirit, Nature, the Ancestors and myself, is a gift that I have no words with which to thank you. Blessings and love to you always.” ~ Naluwembe
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“The retreat was a life changing experience. Years later, I still carry with me the experience of the retreat, the medicine walk and the teachings I received. It touched and shaped my life and I am so grateful.” ~ Sandra
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“I am deeply grateful for your unfailing non-judgemental support, your wisdom and your kindness, all of which fill me with confidence and a sense of the possibilities before me.” ~ Ingrid
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“A space filled with love that allows you to connect back with where you are from, creating time and room for reconnecting with your body, heart and nature, realizing what stops you from doing this more often so you can go back to the “real world” feeling a bit stronger and equipped to live a more fulfilling life more in tune with Mother Earth” ~ Wendy
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“I feel that this way of teaching and understanding myself and my place in the world is deeply wise. I would like to learn more. Life is short and these opportunities to grow and heal are precious.” ~ Amelia
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“THANK YOU for being beautiful ancient keys to the sacred doors of the soul… From my heart – I am very blessed to have found you. You are lanterns of warm glowing light, illuminating our paths to unfold as is destined. I now have insight into the beauty, grace, and simplicity of human nature at a deeper level – touched and embraced by this incredible Earth. I am in tune, lovingly honouring myself and have precision clarity. Loving whispers of Great Mothers song have breathed into my soul. I am home. Words are futile – experience is the path. Thank you so much”– Angela, London