Join us for gatherings in the garden with our vibrant programme of music, making, learning, feasting, medicine and land tending. Here you'll find community, nourishment, joy, wisdom and a renewed sense of connection to nature.
Travelling from far? Stay in one of our bespoke built cabins or converted 17th-century barns →
Mistletoe Medicine Making Day
Join us for a one-day immersion learning plant spirit connection practices, alchemy and medicine making with Charlotte Pulver. This is a very special focused Medicine Making Day working with the Mistletoe plant in discovering its incredible healing benefits and ways. This will be a highly informative, transformational and joyous day.
Mistletoe Medicine Making Day - SOLD OUT
Join us for a one-day immersion learning plant spirit connection practices, alchemy and medicine making with Charlotte Pulver. This is a very special focused Medicine Making Day working with the Mistletoe plant in discovering its incredible healing benefits and ways. This will be a highly informative, transformational and joyous day.
When Someone You Love Is Dying
A heartwarming gathering in which we will share and explore how we can care for and hold the person we love - and ourselves - in all that we’re feeling. Together, we’ll open our hearts to greater love, understanding, and compassion.
This workshop is being offered as a collaboration between Lucy Lord at The Sacred Death Centre and Simon Gardiner, End of Life Counsellor & Companion.
The 12 Sacred Wounds: A 2-Day Astrology Workshop with John Wadsworth
The Zodiac is the medicine wheel of the Western Mystery Tradition. It is an ancient emblem of the soul, hard-wired into our collective imagination, and its twelve signs offer up twelve powerful gateways to wholeness and healing.
Rewilding the Feminine: A Retreat for Balance, Release & Renewal
As the season turns and we feel the golden hush of autumn settle over the land, this retreat invites you to come home to yourself. To soften. To remember. To rewild.
Autumn Equinox
Join us for a soulful retreat honouring the Autumn Equinox, a time of balance, transition, and renewal. Set amidst the sacred landscapes of Glastonbury, this intimate gathering invites you to reconnect with nature, embrace the changing season, and nourish your body, mind, and spirit.
Women’s Wellness Workshop Group
Join us for a Women’s Wellness Workshop, a supportive gathering rooted in the principles of Naturopathic Therapy, with seasonal sessions. Through community, education, and shared experience, this workshop is a space to connect, learn, and explore holistic ways to support your well-being.
VESSEL
Join Ashleigh Page for a nourishing retreat held in the heart of The Apothecary Garden. Through movement, ritual and rest, you'll be guided to honour your body, reconnect with your inner self, and share space with a circle of like-spirited women.
Rose Medicine Making Day
Join us for a one day immersion learning plant spirit connection practises, alchemy and medicine making with Charlotte Pulver. This is a very special midsummer rose focused Medicine Making Day, working with the abundance of roses at the Apothecary Garden in discovering its' incredible nourishing, healing benefits and ways. This will be a highly informative, transformational and joyous day!
Rose Medicine Making Day
Join us for a one day immersion learning plant spirit connection practises, alchemy and medicine making with Charlotte Pulver. This is a very special midsummer rose focused Medicine Making Day, working with the abundance of roses at the Apothecary Garden in discovering its' incredible nourishing, healing benefits and ways. This will be a highly informative, transformational and joyous day!
Rose: Womb Heart Alchemy Retreat
You’re invited to a weekend retreat to immerse in the alchemy of rose, heart, and womb. This sacred journey is designed to awaken your sensuality, enliven your senses, and deepen your connection with the spirit of the rose. Together, we’ll explore the profound realms of the sacred feminine while visiting the sacred sites of Avalon including Chalice Well, White Spring and the Tor.
For the Love of the Rose
Join us for this immersive workshop, celebrating the rose as a symbol of divine love and a source of beauty and wisdom. Guided by Anaïs Theyskens (Path of the Magdalene) and Chloe Isidora, both devoted to the sacred medicine of the rose, we will explore its many dimensions throughout the day.
Apothecary Rose Alembic Day
We invite you to an inspiring journey through the Apothecary Garden with our Rose Alembic Day. Immerse yourself into the essence of the rose, deepen your connection to nature and your heart.
Rose Medicine Making Day
SOLD OUT - NEW DATES ADDED
Join us for a one day immersion learning plant spirit connection practises, alchemy and medicine making with Charlotte Pulver. This is a very special midsummer rose focused Medicine Making Day, working with the abundance of roses at the Apothecary Garden in discovering its' incredible nourishing, healing benefits and ways. This will be a highly informative, transformational and joyous day!
Rose Medicine Making Day
SOLD OUT - NEW DATES ADDED
Join us for a one day immersion learning plant spirit connection practises, alchemy and medicine making with Charlotte Pulver. This is a very special midsummer rose focused Medicine Making Day, working with the abundance of roses at the Apothecary Garden in discovering its' incredible nourishing, healing benefits and ways. This will be a highly informative, transformational and joyous day!
Harnessing Your Creative Intuition
Step into a day of deep connection, creativity, and self-discovery in the tranquil and healing surroundings of the Apothecary Garden, near Glastonbury with Ali Hutchinson.
Soul Constellations: Practitioner Training
Designed to facilitate deep healing and reconciliation at a Soul and Spiritual level, this work will deepen your own Soul connection and Soul aligned path and allow you to help others in living Soul connected and enriched lives.
Spring Seed Planting Morning
Join us in the Garden as we come together to awaken the sleeping seeds that have been resting in our community bundle all winter. This gathering is a chance to reconnect, nurture the land, and plant the intentions we set last autumn.
Venus Rose Autumn Retreat
Please contact erikatourellyoga@gmail.com for more info and booking.
Beautiful things happen when women come together, when we nourish, respect and celebrate one another, when we let go of the societal pressures and just be. When we gather in a sacred container as our most authentic selves, we uplift, support and inspire each other, and as a sisterhood we rise together.
Join us for a weekend of ritual and ceremony as a way to honour, celebrate and connect with the natural cycles of the earth as we find a sense of peace and balance in our lives. Rituals provide a space for contemplation and focus, allowing us to reflect on our values and our innermost desires. They help to bring purpose and meaning to our lives, help us to feel connected to something biggers than ourselves, promote well-being, and bring comfort and stability to our lives.
Autumn heralds the descent into Winter. We can sense the coming darkness. There may be a sense of melancholy as we wave goodbye to the long, light-filled days. The leaves are changing colour and falling from the trees. It’s a time of release and letting go. We have passed the Autumn Equinox and are preparing to meet Samhain (Sah-wen), the beginning of the Celtic New Year.
To help nourish and support our healing journey over the weekend, we will draw on the gentle and heart-opening plant medicines of Rose, Cacao and Tea.
Rose calls us to awaken the divine feminine within, symbolising love, beauty, and spiritual transformation, much like Venus, the goddess who embodies these qualities. The Rose invites us to explore her symbolic significance and unlock the profound wisdom she holds, guiding us on a heart-centred path and fostering a sacred relationship with our Hearts, Wombs, the Earth and the Mystery of Life.
Rich in compounds that are perfectly aligned to human health and wellbeing, ceremonial-grade cacao offers the highest levels of flavonoids, bliss molecules, antioxidants, minerals and binds directly with the feel good receptors in our brain, positively influencing our mood, and reducing stress, and anxiety.
Amie Roberts will be offering her beautiful Cha Dao Ceremony - 'the way of tea' - which is an ancient practice with a long standing lineage of tea sages, masters and teachers. It integrates tea as a plant, a beverage and a tradition, as well as a medicine for the body, mind and spirit.
Throughout the weekend, you'll have the opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations, participate in a wide variety of somatic, meditative practices, explore the beautiful garden that serves as our sanctuary, as well as visiting the exquisite and magical Chalice Well Gardens with the Red Spring waters running through, and The White Spring. We will climb the gentle hill up to the famous Glastonbury Tor.
Whether you're looking to gain new insights, meet like-minded women, or simply take a moment for yourself, this retreat offers the perfect setting. We believe that every woman carries a wellspring of wisdom within her, and this retreat is designed to help you tap into that inner resource.
Schedule (may be subject to slight changes)
Friday
2pm Arrivals and settling in.
4pm Opening Circle and Restorative Yoga
6.30pm Welcome Dinner
8pm Spinning Wheel Talk and Yoga Nidra
Saturday
8am Chia Pot / Tea
8.30am Somatic Awakening
12pm Lunch
2pm Venus Rose Releasing Ritual
5pm Cha Dao Ceremony with Amie Roberts
7pm Autumn Feast
8.30pm Fire Ceremony / Hot Tub
Sunday
8am Chia Pot / Tea
8.30am Somatic Awakening
12pm Lunch
CHECK OUT
Visit to Glastonbury Tor & Chalice Well Gardens
Please contact erikatourellyoga@gmail.com for more info and booking.
Apothecary Rose Alembic Day
Apothecary Rose Alembic Day
We invite you to an inspiring journey through the Apothecary Garden with our Rose Alembic Day. Immerse yourself into the essence of the rose, deepen your connection to nature and your heart.
Richard Howard and Chloe Isidora, guide the sacred art of communing with the deva of the rose and crafting your own alembic rose hydrolat and botanical incense.
The day begins with the rising sun going through the process of collection as the rose petals unfold. Through meditation opening yourself to be guided by the spirit of the Rose.
Experience the alchemy of the alembic process in making your own hydrolat. Witness the transformation of rose petals into a fragrant water, capturing the essence of the rose’s purity and magnetic beauty.
Engage your senses in the art of incense crafting, blending fragrant botanicals to create a celebration of natures gifts.
Enjoy a Rose tea ritual grounding yourself in an embodiment practice, dancing with the beauty and wisdom of the rose.
We look forward to welcoming you to a day of connection, creation and celebration. With nature, your heart and the Rose.
You will leave with a your own Rose Hydrolat, botanical incense and new friends.
What is an ‘alembic still?’
Alembic stills are powered by heat and water to produce steam in a controlled copper environment to create distilled materials. This process delicately breaks down the plant matter, producing highly concentrated aromatic oils and waters.
Overview of the day
Plant spirit connection with the Rose
Alembic hydrolat making
Incense making
Rose tea ritual
Rose embodiment dancing
Sharing and connecting
What to bring
Journal, pen and curious heart to fully engage in this immersive experience.
Tea will be offered, please bring your own lunch.
Richard Howard
Perfumer, entrepreneur, visionary and influencer. Over 30 years in the evolving natural fragrance and authentic skincare market, working with some of the most progressive and respected brands. Founder of The Apothecary Garden and Arcania Apothecary Ltd.
Dedicated to connecting more deeply with his love of nature, the scent of flowers transported him, and the fragrance created within nature’s environments deepened this journey. Opening doors to ancient memory, triggering emotions, lifting inner harmony and outer flow.
“My first encounter with essential oils and their hydrolat was one of the most profound moments of my life.”
“Through our sense of smell, natural scents and perfumes are interacting with our subconscious; communicating through a language not defined by words.”
Having created therapeutic herb and flower cultivation within the harmonies of a strong ecosystem, a GMP accredited manufacturing facility with conscious organisation, and preparations delivering optimum potency, reaching millions of consumers.
It is with and through nurturing this, Richard’s onward journey is to share the message through action and education. Respect for our natural environment, our natural selves and our worldwide community.
Chloe Isidora
Author, teacher and creator dedicated to empowering women on their journey of self-discovery and healing.
Founder and creator of MYMOON Power, Chloe has created essences and rituals designed to support menstrual and cyclical harmony, providing women with holistic tools for cyclical and hormonal well-being.
Chloe is the author of “Sacred Self-care; Everyday Rituals for a More Joyful and Meaningful Life,” a guidebook that illuminates the path to self-nourishment and inner balance.
Chloe’s transformative work extends to facilitating one-to-one and group ceremonies focused on Sacred Womb Awakening and Tao Tantric Arts. With her innate gift for guiding women, she supports them to reconnect with their inner harmony to create a profound sense of self-awareness, self-love and empowerment.
Chloe Isidora’s mission is clear: to guide women back to the knowing of their hearts and wisdom of their wombs, empowering them to embrace their sacredness and live their life with purpose, joy and reverence. Through her teachings Chloe inspires individuals to live authentically, in alignment with their truth, whilst creating a profound connection to the natural world.
Useful Information
Address
Apothecary Garden, 2 Rood Cottage, Kingweston Rd, BA6 8TF
Transport
Free parking onsite. Nearest train stations: Castle Cary (20 mins away) and Yeovil (30 mins away)
Accommodation
Stay at the garden in one of our bespoke cabins , 18th century barn conversions or glamping tents. Our round tents are situated in the garden and are furnished and come with single beds and bed linen included. garden see our beautiful spaces here and email hello@apothecarygarden.co.uk for availability and booking.
Refunds
We do not offer refunds or cancellations for this event, if you know someone who would like to take your place please ask them to contact us with their name and who's place they will be taking.
The Blue Lions: Equinox Kirtan
Join us for the transcendent rhythms of the Blue Lions Equinox Kirtan at the Apothecary Garden.
Botanical Arts Workshop: The Language of Flowers
Join artist botanical artist Eleanor Darley for a mini workshop
Sold Out ~ Rose Medicine Making Day with Charlotte Pulver
Join us for an immersive day discovering powerful plant spirit connection practices and healing through alchemy and Rose medicine making with Charlotte Pulver.
Sold Out ~ Rose Medicine Making Day with Charlotte Pulver
Join us for an immersive day discovering powerful plant spirit connection practices and healing through alchemy and Rose medicine making with Charlotte Pulver.
Sold Out ~ Rose Medicine Making Day with Charlotte Pulver
Join us for an immersive day discovering powerful plant spirit connection practices and healing through alchemy and Rose medicine making with Charlotte Pulver.
Sold Out ~ Rose Medicine Making Day with Charlotte Pulver
Join us for an immersive day discovering powerful plant spirit connection practices and healing through alchemy and Rose medicine making with Charlotte Pulver.
Sold Out ~ Rose Medicine Making Day with Charlotte Pulver
Join us for an immersive day discovering powerful plant spirit connection practices and healing through alchemy and Rose medicine making with Charlotte Pulver.
Sold Out ~ Rose Medicine Making Day with Charlotte Pulver
Join us for an immersive day discovering powerful plant spirit connection practices and healing through alchemy and Rose medicine making with Charlotte Pulver.
Rekindling an Ancient Fire and Reawakening an old Ceremony with Andreas Kornevall
A day of Norse mythology, magic, ceremony and practice for those who have an interest in runes, alchemy, symbolism, Norse culture and Paganism.
The Blue Lions: An Evening of Kirtan and Sacred Mantra
Join The Blue Lions for an evening of kirtan and sacred mantra.