Wiltshire – Residential

 Enter your Inner Village and deepen your access to inner resources — ground, strength, resilience, sensitivity — over 5 days in nature 

⭐️ What would it be like to feel more of yourself available
in moments that feel intense, alive, or uncertain? ⭐️

Open to those discovering Fool Expression and those wishing to deepen their practice

Some particiapants arrive to this work for the first time, curious about what lives within them and how to meet it. Others already have a relationship with their Inner Village and feel a pull to go further, to allow more of themselves to take space.

This retreat offers a space where both movements can unfold, where entering and deepening take place side by side, supported by time, attention, and the presence of others.

Entering the Inner Village

For those discovering Fool Expression, this is a space to begin experiencing how different parts of you are already active and moving within.

There is a way of learning how to notice these shifts, how to enter into them, express them, and then move out again, allowing something else to come forward.

Through the Fool Expression tools, this movement becomes more fluid. Parts can be met as living presences that you can step into, inhabit, and explore from the inside, feeling how they move, how they respond, and how they relate to other aspects of yourself.

Over time, this brings a different relationship to your inner world, where you are able to move between experiences with more awareness, rather than being held inside one state.

Deepening into resources

For those already familiar with the work, this retreat offers time to deepen your access to the resources that live within you.

Within each person lives a wide range of inner presences. Many of these remain only partially lived, waiting for the conditions that allow them to be felt, embodied, and expressed.

Ground, strength, sensitivity, precision, softness, wildness, clarity, steadiness…
Each of these can become an entry point.

As you stay with them in the body and give them space, they begin to unfold, revealing their own texture, vitality, and intelligence, and gradually finding their place in how you move through life.

What changes through this retreat

Over these five days, something begins to reorganise in how you inhabit yourself.

You may notice:
– a growing sense of inner ground in moments of intensity
– more access to strength and resilience as experiences unfold
– a sensitivity that remains connected and steady
– a clearer sense of boundary and choice
– more of your inner world present in how you respond to life

There is a sense of having more of yourself available, with different aspects participating rather than staying in the background.

The process

Over five days, there is time to discover these aspects, to build a relationship with them, and to allow them to unfold in your own rhythm.

For some, this begins with learning how to recognise and express different parts, how to enter this inner landscape with curiosity and support. For others, it becomes a deepening of what is already known, expanding range and allowing more subtle or powerful qualities to emerge.

We move between:
– Fool Expression processes
– embodied explorations
– relational exercises
– witnessing spaces
– integration and rest

Fool Expression offers a way to move between parts, to step into them fully and then step out again, allowing a fluidity to emerge in how you experience yourself.

It remains the ground practice throughout, offering a structure that is both steady and alive, where strength, vulnerability, precision, and wildness can move and interact. This retreat allows for depth and play continue to inform each other.

The relational field

Something happens in a group like this; as people begin to express and explore, others are touched and reflected in ways that bring forward what was previously quiet or in the background.

There is a shared space where expression becomes more natural, where being seen and seeing others allows something to unfold that would not arise in the same way alone.

Resources are felt in connection, and gradually become more familiar and accessible in your own experience.

Nervous system awareness

Nervous system awareness is woven throughout the retreat.

Activation, settling, contraction, and openness are approached as meaningful signals that guide the process and support depth.

Alongside Christie, Beth brings steadiness and relational precision, supporting the unfolding of the work with care and clarity.

What participants will develop

– A growing familiarity with their inner world and how to enter it
– A deepening access to inner resources such as ground, strength, sensitivity, and resilience
– The ability to stay with experience in the body and allow it to unfold
– Increased awareness of nervous system cues and how to move with them
– A wider emotional and relational range

Assisted by Beth Friedeberg

Beth has over a decade of experience facilitating groups in diverse settings, alongside her work as a Core Process Psychotherapist. Rooted in meditation, embodiment, and trauma-informed practice, she brings clarity, steadiness, and relational precision to the space.

Her presence supports a “safe enough” container in which meaningful depth can emerge.

Practical details

– Dates: 21st August at 7 pm — 26th August at 5 pm
– Location: Hazel Hill Wood, Wiltshire
– Accommodation: Residential rooms with shared and single options
– Facilities: Indoor and outdoor spaces, woodland, campfire

– Food: Each participant brings ingredients for a shared meal

– Group size: Limited to maintain depth of work

What is Fool Expression?

Fool Expression is a deeply embodied and transformational practice that allows you to access, express, and integrate the many parts within you — your Inner Village.

It is about stepping into different aspects of yourself with presence and curiosity, allowing them to be experienced, expressed, and explored in connection. Read more here: https://christieanimas.com/fool-expression/

The power of the Village

This retreat also holds a way of gathering where individual explorations begin to resonate across the group.

As each person moves through their process, others are touched, recognising something of themselves, and a shared sense of connection and understanding grows through the experience.

I’d love to share this space with you.

Christie

BOOKING*

Chooose your tier and reserve your place below

Tear 3: £450

* In response to the financial situation that is strongly affecting some of us, the fees of the workshop are now organised between 3 Tiers, depending on your financial situation. This is a system that works towards more equality, mutual trust and abundance. Do read carefully the details of the 3 Tiers at the bottom of the page, and thank you for choosing the Tier that applies to you with integrity.  Don’t hesitate getting in touch with me if you have any questions.

Once you have booked yourself, you will receive a payment confirmation and closer to the event you will receive some more practical information about the camp.

* the remaining of the payment needs to be paid by the 30th of June 26.

Terms & Conditions:  Deposit and full payment are non-refundable.  If you cancel over three weeks before the start of the camp the amount over and above the deposit is transferable to another workshop within the next 5 months. 

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