Immerse yourself in the Hawkwood experience on one of our residential courses, or simply join us for a day. We have a huge range of creative and inspiring courses: focus on movement and creativity with yoga or an art workshop, get involved with social change, reconnect with nature, or join us for a poetry, storytelling, classical music, woodwork, blacksmithing or embroidery course.
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The Way of Kabbalah
Making Kabbalah relevant in our contemporary world
Facilitator: Kurt Browne and Joanna Lapage-Browne
The Kabbalah Summer School offers a great opportunity to learn about (and to find meaning in) the universal Kabbalistic Tree of Life. The four days incorporate illustrated talks, guided meditations, devotional practice and time in nature, combining to bring Kabbalistic…
Indian & Abrahamic Spiritual Teachings [online]
Spiritual Search: a public talk
Facilitator: Ravi Ravindra
Indian and Abrahamic Spiritual Teachings – a talk with Ravi Ravindra Spiritual scholar Ravi Ravindra was due to give this public talk on Self Inquiry & Transformation in the opening evening of his weekend retreat. Due to the COVID crisis…
Rest & Restore Yoga Retreat
Reclaim Your Right to Rest
Facilitator: Mel Skinner
Prepare to move from summer to autumn with deeply restful yoga. Rather than pushing ourselves into postures, this retreat will encourage you to let go of tension and worries. Using restorative yoga to reduce stress and tension and yoga nidra…
Japanese Embroidery
Exquisite Traditional Art
Facilitator: Jackie Hall
This unique art form originated in Buddhist temples and is used for the elaborate decoration of Kimonos. This rarely taught skill has been based at Hawkwood for over sixteen years. Using traditional methods and techniques you will produce truly stunning…
Spiritual Search
East & West
Facilitator: Ravi Ravindra
All serious teachings recommend the transformation of our whole being in order to come to the truth or to God. This retreat weekend explores the similarities and differences between the major religions of East and West.
Blacksmithing Day
Summer and Autumn at the Forge
Facilitator: Arian Leljak
During the Blacksmithing day workshop participants will have the opportunity to learn and experience the ancient elements of forge work: fire use and maintenance, heating the steel to around 1000 C, and hammering it on an anvil to produce graceful…
Blacksmithing Day
Summer and Autumn at the Forge
Facilitator: Arian Leljak
During the Blacksmithing day workshop participants will have the opportunity to learn and experience the ancient elements of forge work: fire use and maintenance, heating the steel to around 1000 C, and hammering it on an anvil to produce graceful…
Reconnecting to your inner guidance [online]
Breaking through to your heart’s wisdom: A live talk
Facilitator: Sabina Rademacher
So many of us have been living cut off from our heart’s wisdom due to cultural, educational and societal up-bringing. This cut-off has a tremendous impact on our ability for heart-connection, and in particular, our very own self-love. Self-love is…
Return of the Larder: Abundant Harvest [online]
A Late Summer Masterclass
Facilitator: Daphne Lambert
In this charming masterclass, expert Daphne Lambert will share her skill, technique and know-how in the art of preservation. We will make preserves to enliven dishes, from the abundant harvest that is our late summer gardens, nearby hedgerows, and the…
Essential Oils from the Garden [online]
Facilitator: Jonathan Code
This three session course is an introduction to sourcing and using essential oils from plants that grow in our gardens. We will be working with common aromatic plants that grow in the UK. The course is in three parts, part…
Reinventing Organisations XTRA I
Connected Leadership (Module 1)
Facilitator: Peter Baily & Paul Jackson
This is the first experiential workshop of an innovative training course that comprises three modules starting September 2020. It builds on the world-recognised organisational model Reinventing Organisations, devised by Frédéric Laloux. We are asked to imagine an organisation where people…
Yoga with Ruth White
Facilitator: Ruth White
Originally trained and certificated by B.K.S. Iyengar, today Ruth adapts her Karuna teaching to the ever-changing needs of the student. She has developed a unique style of teaching that unites pupil and teacher in an atmosphere of happiness and well-being.…
Weaving the Line
A practical art retreat
Facilitator: Gizella K Warburton
Develop the confidence to take risks with your ideas and nurture your own creative voice. This course is suitable for those new to drawing or making, or for experienced artists wanting to revisit or refresh their practice. In observing the…
