First Light — A Women's Day Retreat for Nervous System & Somatic Healing

First Light — A Women's Day Retreat for Nervous System & Somatic Healing

You're not broken. You're not weak. You're not failing.

Your nervous system is stuck. Your body is holding patterns that your mind can't think its way out of. And nobody has ever sat you down and explained what's actually happening — or shown you there's a way through.

That's what this day is for.

First Light is a one-day retreat for women who are exhausted by feeling stuck and ready to understand — properly, deeply — what's going on and what to do about it. Not theory. Not a pep talk. Actual tools, actual experience, actual shift.

This is the beginning. The first light of something new.

THE DAY

Morning — Come back into your body (from 9am) Donna opens the day with somatic movement and yoga — gentle, trauma-informed, accessible to all. No experience needed. This is the process of dropping out of your head and back into yourself, allowing your nervous system to settle and your body to become a safe place again.

Midday — Understand what's happening Paula guides you through the science of why you feel the way you do — the nervous system, the patterns, the loops. Then a group hypnosis session to begin clearing the subconscious blocks that have been running the show. Followed by journaling, integration, and a nourishing lunch — all food chosen intentionally to support your nervous system.

Afternoon — Find the way forward Using NLP and somatic tools, we work with what the morning uncovered. You leave not with a list of things to do — but with a felt sense of who you are underneath all of it, and clarity on your next step.

Evening — Be held (closing at 7pm) We close the day together with intuitive energy healing — held by both Paula and Donna. A settling, a landing, a chance to integrate everything the day has brought. A light evening meal is shared together, nourishing and unhurried, before you go home.

You will leave with a personal workbook — a simple, practical guide to take the tools of the day into your everyday life.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• Full day of somatic movement, hypnosis, NLP and nervous system work
• Intuitive energy healing to close — from both Paula and Donna
• Nourishing lunch and light evening meal — all designed to support your nervous system
• Personal workbook to take home
• 10 women maximum — a properly held space

ABOUT PAULA & DONNA

Paula Williams has spent 15 years facilitating retreats and transformation. Her work is grounded in NLP, clinical hypnosis and nervous system regulation — not as theory, but as tools she has used in the most extreme circumstances of her own life. She knows where the medicine is because she had to find it herself.

Donna is a yoga teacher and somatic practitioner whose approach is trauma-informed, intuitive and completely welcoming. She works with the body as the gateway — because the body holds what the mind can't yet process.

Together, they cover every layer: body, nervous system, subconscious, energy. It's a complete picture.

THIS DAY IS FOR YOU IF

• You've been stuck in the same loop and can't find the way out
• You've tried the surface-level approaches and know you need to go deeper
• You want to understand what's actually happening — not just be told to think positively
• You're ready to do the real work

TRAVELLING FROM FURTHER AFIELD?

If you'd like to make a proper thing of it, accommodation is available at Ecopsia at a reduced rate. Wake up the morning of the retreat already here, in the countryside, with nowhere to be but exactly where you are. Message us when you book and we'll sort something lovely.

£130 | 10 spaces | Saturday 16th May 2026 | Ecopsia, Shropshire

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