Women's Summer Solstice Sleepover June 22nd - 23rd

The Summer Solstice has always been a time of great celebration, where people join together in community and stay up all night from sunset to sunrise.

Our Ancestors built huge monuments, such as Stonehenge, to align with the sunrise on the Solstice. To honour and celebrate our Star, without whose light and heat life on Earth would not exist.

Do you celebrate the Solstice?

Would you like to come together in community to honour the Sun and the Earth and Life itself?

On Saturday through Sunday 22nd -23rd June we will be joining together to do just that.

We will gather on Saturday morning at 10 am in community at a beautiful location, around a hearth, by a river., in the shade of the trees and the cool of the meadow.

We will dance, sing, craft, meditate, feast and honour the Solstice through ceremony.

At a time that is know as “the quickening”, for good reason, the Solstice is a great opportunity to just stop and reflect and celebrate all that is happening around you and within you. To breathe deeply and enjoy each moment.

During the time we share together we will:

• Explore the liminal space betwixt and between the light and the dark halves of the year;

• Tap into the creative power of fire within ourselves, find our communal heart in the hearth and honour our life giving star

• Make, jump and use the power of fire to release into.

• Perform a ceremony where you say “I do” to you!

Buddha said - “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

• Forage and feast on the abundance of wild plants, creating teas, food and a healing balm whilst learning about their lore.

• Listen to storytelling around the fire.

• Stay up all night or awaken to the morning chorus.

• Co-create a Sunrise ceremony to welcome in the Sun’s energy and boost our personal power.

• Dance and sing.

• Finish with a relaxing gong sound bath and meditation.

This will be a wonderful celebration and honouring of this festival and ourselves.

The location is on the very edge of Norwich. It is back to Nature but with flushing toilets and running water and electricity. You can camp, sleep in your van, hang a hammock or sleep in the 6m bell tent, for a truly ‘sleepover” experience. Or if you live nearby, you may choose to go home.

We will feast on basic lunches of soup and bread, dinner of jacket potatoes baked in the fire, and salad and fillings and breakfast and cake, of course! All food will be vegan, you may wish to contribute extra for sharing or for your own needs.

As Nature is rich and vibrant all around us, so we can see the expansive growth of our own plans and actions bursting forth from the seeds we have planted.

Join us as we honour the Sun in all its glory. There is much to celebrate in this time of abundant growth.

I hope you will join us, Bright blessings, Suzanne x

Host or Publisher Suzanne Arnold