In the first week of September, we gather at Erth, a historic riverside retreat sitting on its own private peninsula in Cornwall. A truly incredible place that has been featured in Conde Nast Traveller, The Guardian and House & Garden for UK Best Wellness Retreats 2026. Around the house there are 300 acres of regenerative farm and wild oak woodland holding the place in proper quiet with wild flowers, buzzards, skylarks, swallows, geese, fallow deer and owls in the trees at night. The River Lynher curves around both sides of the land and breathes in and out twice a day with the tide. As you drive onto the peninsula, it really feels like you enter another world. One of the best spots we have found for our training immersions.

We begin each morning with our feminine yoga sadhana (practice) in the 12th century chapel that is now the yoga space. The water element brings an undulating quality to our postures and the energy of the breath flows unhindered, making meditation a natural place of reflection. So much of modern yoga can be forcing and pushing with a competitive drive but here you will be asked to listen quietly and surrender to the fluidity of the feminine form. Interwoven with poetry, sutras and creativity, the practice takes you on a journey into the depths of yourself.

We gather at midday to explore the feminine more deeply through poetry, myths, sutras and our own shared experiences. We read what the mystical Bhakti Yoginis shared, alongside the modern day poetesses and we peek into the nectar of tantric philosophy.

These afternoons are also where we sit with the art of teaching, exploring different topics and questions around alignment, creative sequencing to more subtle aspects like the importance of transmission through a teacher’s voice.

There is a long break in the middle of the afternoon for you to do whatever you need. You might walk along the river, enjoy an afternoon snack, nap in the garden or simply lie on your back and find beauty in the art of doing nothing. All of it counts as this is where we actually get to bring yoga into daily life.

In the afternoon, Eliza will take us on a journey into transformational voice work. Toning, sounding, singing, bathing in harmonies and resting into the sweet echo of silence. There will be gentle movement and dance threading sound and the body together. This is a practice for women coming back to their own voices as living instruments after moments of being stifled, shut down or quietly silenced. We need our voices back and Eliza's work is one of the most honest ways to begin that return.

The evenings at Erth move a bit slower as we gently wind down for the day. We share food, we rest, we talk and there is quite often a fire under the stars to sit around. There is time to journal or to sit quietly with yourself, to read your book under the moon or share poetry with a friend. There is early to bed or time alone if you would rather and time with the other women if you would not. It’s completely up to you how you wish to end your day.

You will possibly leave with new ways of moving your body, a different relationship with your own voice and maybe some poetry has crept under your skin. You may also have found some lovely new friendships as these quite often form when women have been held in a good space together. Plus new inspiration for your yoga classes, personal practice and very possibly a deeper connection to nature and in particular, the element of water.