Sacred English Pilgrimage September 2025

A Journey of Remembrance and Healing: reconnecting with the sacred lands of South West England. On 19th - 26th September 2025, myself and Hannah Saunders from Fluidroots Wellness led an 8-day pilgrimage retreat to the sacred lands of South West England, walking in the footsteps of our ancestors to some of the most ancient and sacred landscapes of Britain.

This journey invited us into deep remembrance: of the land beneath our feet, of the ancestors who once walked these paths before us, and of our own pivotal past lives and roles we carried in these landscapes. The retreat was timed intentionally around the Autumn Equinox, to unfold in a powerful seasonal portal of the Celtic Wheel of The Year— a moment of balance between light and dark, harvest and release. This threshold space held us as we slowed down, listened, and reconnected with the living intelligence of the land.

Walking the Sacred Landscape

Throughout the retreat, we journeyed through ancient sacred sites, each one offering its own energetic activation and experience. We moved with reverence, allowing the land to speak first — not as visitors, but as participants in an ongoing relationship. We began in Bath Spa, visiting the ancient Roman Baths, Sulis Temple and Bath Abbey, working with the healing waters and Celtic-Romano Goddesses Sulis & Minerva. Next, we journeyed to Glastonbury, connecting with the Isle of Avalon, Glastonbury Tor, The White Spring Temple, and the Chalice Well. We had profound experiences connecting with Goddess Brigid, Yeshua, Mother Mary, fae and elementals.

At Stonehenge and Woodhenge we were honoured to experience these sites as living temples, including a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be inside the stones for the Autumn Equinox, attuning to solar activations, ancestral ritual, and the ancient ceremonial pathways of the land.

We continued to Avebury complex — Avebury Stone Circle, West Kennet Long Barrow, and the surrounding sacred landscape — where we worked deeply with the divine feminine fertility energies, death–rebirth symbolism, and land-based initiation.

The journey also carried us to Stanton Drew and the Rollright Stones, where we engaged with liminal magic, threshold energy, and the ancient guardians of the land. In the Cotswolds, Stow-on-the-Wold and Bourton-on-the-Water offered gentler integration, grounding the work through beauty, breath, and embodiment.

A profound highlight of the retreat was a once-in-a-lifetime experience at Stonehenge during the Autumn Equinox sunrise. Standing within this ancient temple at such a potent moment in the solar year was deeply moving. As the sun marked the turning of the seasons, we felt ourselves woven into a continuum far older than modern time — one shaped by ritual, sky-watching, and an intimate understanding of the Earth’s cycles.

Working with the Elements, Directions, and Old Ways

At the heart of the retreat was ceremonial work rooted in Celtic-Brittonic ritual, gnosis, and cosmology. Together, we consciously worked with the elements and the sacred directions, opening space for the wisdom of land, sky, and underworld to be felt and embodied.

We honoured and connected with the Celtic-Brittonic gods and goddesses, not as distant mythological figures, but as living presences intertwined with place, ancestry, and seasonal rhythm. Through ritual, meditation, and shared experience, participants were invited to receive personal insight and direct knowing — a remembering beyond books or belief systems.

This work also opened powerful pathways into ancestral connection. Many participants experienced a deep reconnection with their British lineage, sensing the presence of ancestors who once lived, worked, prayed, and loved upon this land. For some, this brought clarity; for others, healing; for many, a profound sense of belonging.

Plant Wisdom and Earth-Based Craft

The retreat was enriched by the presence of gifted external practitioners who deepened our relationship with the sacred plants of Britain.

We were honoured to work with Nicola Bradshaw, Medical Herbalist and Tinctures and Herbal Advisor for Neal’s Yard Remedies. Nicola led a deeply therapeutic herbal workshop, guiding us into relationship with Hawthorn and Rosemary — two powerful allies of the heart,

Through hands-on practice, we created hydrosols, balms, and teas, learning not only the medicinal properties of these plants, but how to listen to them, honour them, and work with them respectfully. This was a reminder that healing has always been relational — rooted in land, plant, and presence.

We also worked with Kubi May, who guided participants around a guided tour of Glastonbury's sacred sites, before leading participants through the sacred process of sourcing and crafting their own wands. This was more than a creative exercise; it was an ancient ritual. Each wand became a physical anchor for intention, sovereignty, and personal magic — crafted with care, purpose, and reverence.

A Living Thread of Continuity

What made the England Retreat 2025 so profound was not just the places we visited or the practices we shared, but the quality of presence we cultivated together. There was a deep listening — to the land, to the ancestors, to the unseen, and to one another.

This retreat reminded us that these old ways are not lost. They live in the hedgerows, the stones, the seasons — and in us. When we slow down enough to listen, we remember.

As we crossed the threshold of the Autumn Equinox, we left carrying not just memories, but threads of wisdom, belonging, and connection that will continue to unfold long after the journey ended.