The SLOW retreats offer time and space to inspire and explore creativity and give a voice to women. We encourage women to re-define themselves, their careers and lives through creative expression, sharing, offering and participating. (Occasionally there may be mixed gender creative retreats.  Please enquire if interested) .

Inspired by the book 'In Praise of Slow', by Carl Honore, Bordello Banquets runs 3 day, 2 night mid-week retreats. These include a room in 4 star accommodation, to suit personal budget and preference, with use of spa facilities, hot tubs, outdoor wood-fired sauna cabin and indoor saunas too. White cotton bed linen and towels are provided.

There is a clear itinerary and overarching theme to each retreat, but guests can opt in or out of led sessions.  There are informal go-to creative spaces throughout the retreat. And finally, there are stacks of amazing transformational, slow, inspiring, creative, interior, gardening and art books and magazines on hand plus pencils and a small journal for your thoughts and doodles in every bedroom.

Meals are provided ready to serve, from a selection of local and wholesome artisan ingredients, with one shared cooking experience per day.  This is a communal event. During the retreat guests will cook, share and clear up together, and strip own beds on departure. We encourage you to leave your phone in your room to fully appreciate the retreat. Alcohol is allowed although we do not wish it to be the main focus of the retreats.

Please note ticket options give prices for retreat and rooms separately.
Please ensure that you a book your room and ticket.

If you have something you would like to offer or share during the SLOW retreats please do send me your ideas and in return you will pay for the retreat only if you offer an informal activity or room only if you offer a led session.

IN ADDITION: During the retreat it will be possible to book massage, reiki, reflexology, tarot and card readings. (for an additional cost, enquire via email liz@bordellobanquets.co.uk, in advance)

The theme for May singing, voice, choir with Suzy Condrad though other creative activities will be available too.

TUESDAY

13.00 Lunch
15.00 An informal sharing of where we are at in life - professionally or creatively
Bring something symbolic which represents who you are, where you are at creatively or what you do. Choose a colour which represents how you feel today about your creative life on arrival
17.00 Free time to explore the local area or use spa/sauna facilities
17.00 An informal session with a practitioner, writer, poet, artist
17.00 Time for reiki, reflexology, massage or readings
19.00 Dinner  
20.00 Reading by the fire, hot tub, spa facilities  
20.00 A guest reading their work or demonstrating a skill in an informal way

WEDNESDAY

10.00 Breakfast
11.00 Free time: walk up onto May Hill - Offa's Dyke section of ancient woodland or use spa/sauna facilities OR
11.00 Raw Food session - talk & taste
13.00 Lunch
15.00 A led workshop/activity/session
17.00 Time for reiki, reflexology, massage or readings
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Reading by the fire, hot tub, spa facilities
20.00  A guest reading their work or demonstrating a skill in an informal way

THURSDAY

10.00 Breakfast
11.00 Final session - read a quote or share an idea on the subject of SLOW and mindful living.
Re-choose a colour which represents how you feel today about your creative life on departure.
How does your creative journey feel now? What will you take away from the retreat?.
Write postcards to yourself and a friend with SLOW invitations and intentions.

Please email me on liz@bordellobanquets.co.uk for info

The SLOW retreats offer time and space to inspire and explore creativity and give a voice to women. We encourage women to re-define themselves, their careers and lives through creative expression, sharing, offering and participating. (Occasionally there may be mixed gender creative retreats.  Please enquire if interested) .

Inspired by the book 'In Praise of Slow', by Carl Honore, Bordello Banquets runs 3 day, 2 night mid-week retreats. These include a room in 4 star accommodation, to suit personal budget and preference, with use of spa facilities, hot tubs, outdoor wood-fired sauna cabin and indoor saunas too. White cotton bed linen and towels are provided.

There is a clear itinerary and overarching theme to each retreat, but guests can opt in or out of led sessions.  There are informal go-to creative spaces throughout the retreat. And finally, there are stacks of amazing transformational, slow, inspiring, creative, interior, gardening and art books and magazines on hand plus pencils and a small journal for your thoughts and doodles in every bedroom.

Meals are provided ready to serve, from a selection of local and wholesome artisan ingredients, with one shared cooking experience per day.  This is a communal event. During the retreat guests will cook, share and clear up together, and strip own beds on departure. We encourage you to leave your phone in your room to fully appreciate the retreat. Alcohol is allowed although we do not wish it to be the main focus of the retreats.

Please note ticket options give prices for retreat and rooms separately.
Please ensure that you a book your room and ticket.

If you have something you would like to offer or share during the SLOW retreats please do send me your ideas and in return you will pay for the retreat only if you offer an informal activity or room only if you offer a led session.

IN ADDITION: During the retreat it will be possible to book massage, reiki, reflexology, tarot and card readings. (for an additional cost, enquire via email liz@bordellobanquets.co.uk, in advance)

The theme for March is Art, Drawing and Craft though other creative activities will be available too.

TUESDAY

13.00 Lunch
15.00 An informal sharing of where we are at in life - professionally or creatively
Bring something symbolic which represents who you are, where you are at creatively or what you do. Choose a colour which represents how you feel today about your creative life on arrival
17.00 Free time to explore the local area or use spa/sauna facilities
17.00 An informal session with a practitioner, writer, poet, artist
17.00 Time for reiki, reflexology, massage or readings
19.00 Dinner  
20.00 Reading by the fire, hot tub, spa facilities  
20.00 A guest reading their work or demonstrating a skill in an informal way

WEDNESDAY

10.00 Breakfast
11.00 Free time: walk up onto May Hill - Offa's Dyke section of ancient woodland or use spa/sauna facilities OR
11.00 Raw Food session - talk & taste
13.00 Lunch
15.00 A led workshop/activity/session
17.00 Time for reiki, reflexology, massage or readings
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Reading by the fire, hot tub, spa facilities
20.00  A guest reading their work or demonstrating a skill in an informal way

THURSDAY

10.00 Breakfast
11.00 Final session - read a quote or share an idea on the subject of SLOW and mindful living.
Re-choose a colour which represents how you feel today about your creative life on departure.
How does your creative journey feel now? What will you take away from the retreat?.
Write postcards to yourself and a friend with SLOW invitations and intentions.

BOOK TICKETS via EVENTBRITE

The SLOW retreats offer time and space to inspire and explore creativity and give a voice to women. We encourage women to re-define themselves, their careers and lives through creative expression, sharing, offering and participating. (Occasionally there may be mixed gender creative retreats.  Please enquire if interested) .

Inspired by the book 'In Praise of Slow', by Carl Honore, Bordello Banquets runs 3 day, 2 night mid-week retreats. These include a room in 4 star accommodation, to suit personal budget and preference, with use of spa facilities, hot tubs, outdoor wood-fired sauna cabin and indoor saunas too. White cotton bed linen and towels are provided.

There is a clear itinerary and overarching theme to each retreat, but guests can opt in or out of led sessions.  There are informal go-to creative spaces throughout the retreat. And finally, there are stacks of amazing transformational, slow, inspiring, creative, interior, gardening and art books and magazines on hand plus pencils and a small journal for your thoughts and doodles in every bedroom.

Meals are provided ready to serve, from a selection of local and wholesome artisan ingredients, with one shared cooking experience per day.  This is a communal event. During the retreat guests will cook, share and clear up together, and strip own beds on departure. We encourage you to leave your phone in your room to fully appreciate the retreat. Alcohol is allowed although we do not wish it to be the main focus of the retreats.

Please note ticket options give prices for retreat and rooms separately.
Please ensure that you a book your room and ticket.

If you have something you would like to offer or share during the SLOW retreats please do send me your ideas and in return you will pay for the retreat only if you offer an informal activity or room only if you offer a led session.

IN ADDITION: During the retreat it will be possible to book massage, reiki, reflexology, tarot and card readings. (for an additional cost, enquire via email liz@bordellobanquets.co.uk, in advance)

The theme for January is reading, writing and poetry, though other creative activities will be available too.

TUESDAY

13.00 Lunch
15.00 An informal sharing of where we are at in life - professionally or creatively
Bring something symbolic which represents who you are, where you are at creatively or what you do. Choose a colour which represents how you feel today about your creative life on arrival
17.00 Free time to explore the local area or use spa/sauna facilities
17.00 An informal session with a practitioner, writer, poet, artist
17.00 Time for reiki, reflexology, massage or readings
19.00 Dinner  
20.00 Reading by the fire, hot tub, spa facilities  
20.00 A guest reading their work or demonstrating a skill in an informal way

WEDNESDAY

10.00 Breakfast
11.00 Free time: walk up onto May Hill - Offa's Dyke section of ancient woodland or use spa/sauna facilities OR
11.00 Raw Food session - talk & taste
13.00 Lunch
15.00 A led workshop/activity/session
17.00 Time for reiki, reflexology, massage or readings
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Reading by the fire, hot tub, spa facilities
20.00  A guest reading their work or demonstrating a skill in an informal way

THURSDAY

10.00 Breakfast
11.00 Final session - read a quote or share an idea on the subject of SLOW and mindful living.
Re-choose a colour which represents how you feel today about your creative life on departure.
How does your creative journey feel now? What will you take away from the retreat?.
Write postcards to yourself and a friend with SLOW invitations and intentions.

BOOK TICKETS via EVENTBRITE

Description

SLOW retreat Run by Bristol Creatives for Bristol Creatives.

Inspired by the book 'In Praise of Slow', by Carl Honore, Bordello Banquets is running a 3 day, 2 night retreat This will include your own room in 4 star accommodation with use of spa facilities, hot tubs, outdoor wood-fired sauna cabin and indoor saunas too. White cotton bed linen and towels provided.

And finally - a massive stack of amazing transformational, slow, inspiring, creative, interior, gardening and art books and magazines on hand plus pencils and a small journal for your thoughts and doodles in every bedroom. Wifi is good but guests will be encouraged to have their mobile phones on silent and leave them in their room

Price points as follows -

Small bunk room £250.00 - to include bedroom and all food

Twin room £400.00 - 2 to share - to include bedroom and all food

En-suite double - £300.00 single use, £450.00 couple

There are walks immediately up the hill into woodland, to the Beechenhurst Sculpture Trail nearby or Cannop Ponds or Mallard's Pike.

Tuesday lunch through to Thursday lunch will be provided (6 meals) with fresh, local, artisan ingredients provided in fridges for you to cook your own meals when you are ready. (One meat kitchen and one vegan/gluten free). There will be a pizza oven available or fresh pasta making kit and all the ingredients supplied for every meal from a plethora of artisan producers in the Forest of Dean and Herefordshire.

The aim is for the retreat to be a time away from life's stresses; to walk, read, relax, without a hectic schedule - but there will be add on groups if you feel you want a bit more - tuesday morning and thursday afternoon for the writing/creative sessions with the raw or nutritional food 'demo and dine' on the wednesday afternoon leading into dinner.

These are some of the writers, facilitators and creatives who will be contributing over the first retreat.

Tuesday morning - Sarah Thayer of Slow Coach Sarah - helping you work towards your authentic life - £30.00 per head for the morning workshop

Wednesday morning - Courtney Love - the chunky needle - arm knit blanket - £20.00

Wednesday afternoon -Sam Waterhouse - hormonal balancing through nutrition, demo and dine with this amazing Bristol celeb chef - £40.00 to include ingredients

Thursday afternoon - Anna Farthing - working around natural resources and the weather, and objects found on a walk in the nearby forest - £30.00 per head for the afternoon workshop

There can also be reflexology, reiki, massage, tarot and spiritual readings if required - £40.00 per session - from Louise Sprekensen and Aveena. These will need to be pre-booked and paid for.

Add -ons

Tuesday morning session - £30.00

Wednesday morning craft session - £20.00

Wednesday afternoon demo and dine - £30.00

Thursday afternoon session - £30.00

Therapy session - £40.00

Arrival by 10.00am for the Tuesday morning add-on workshop, 1.00 for lunch; departure after 1.00 lunch on the Thursday, 5.00pm if staying for add-on workshop.

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Please do share. Every share gets a reduction to the retreat. And please email me on liz@bordellobanquets.co.uk for info, more details or location and payment details.